"Hold them!"
"Stand firm! Don't break ranks!"
Chi the Fourteenth led the Half-Dragonfolk Retainers, raising rune shields to form a wall as he shouted, holding back the demon snakes' charge.
Liang Ji and Peng Yue's retainer forces had been searching for demon snakes to hunt along the way. At last, they'd run into a tough one.
It was a black iron demon snake more than thirty zhang long. By the Star Alliance's classification of demon races by size, it was only a mid-first-tier Void Demon Race creature, and far smaller than the forty-zhang Spotted Demon Snake they had hunted earlier.
Yet this black iron demon snake, just over thirty zhang long, was far stronger and harder to deal with than that forty-zhang Spotted Demon Snake.
Black iron demon snakes were especially renowned for their defenses. Even after withstanding three volleys from a hundred thousand Ice Soul Serpentfolk, it hadn't been killed—or even seriously wounded.
The black iron demon snake barreled through the arrowstorm, charging straight at the two retainer forces.
The Half-Dragonfolk force hurled two volleys of Flying Snake Spears, but still couldn't seriously wound it. All they could do was brace themselves and hold up their shield wall against its charge.
Black iron demon snakes were famed for their defenses, not their strength. But at more than thirty zhang long, even the impact of their sheer weight was formidable—let alone a frenzied charge after being attacked.
Even the iron wall of shields formed by Liang Ji's Half-Dragonfolk Retainers, whose Hegemonic Body granted them peerless strength, was knocked aside in an instant. More than a dozen Half-Dragonfolk Retainers were crushed to death on the spot.
For the first time in the Second Mock Exam, Liang Ji's Half-Dragonfolk Retainers had suffered casualties!
At the critical moment, the warrior chief, Chi the