"Bedrock Shield!" "Hold them back!"
"Mountain Splitting Axe!" "Kill!"
On the snow-covered battlefield, Chi the Fourteenth led the Half-Dragonfolk warriors in forming a defensive line, struggling to hold back the charge of the Demon Tide's serpents. From time to time, he had to lead warriors in a counterattack, surrounding and killing the demonic serpents that broke through the shield formation.
In this Demon Tide's assault, the snowy battlefield they had prepared in advance, together with the defensive line formed from heaps of serpent corpses, kept the onrushing demonic serpents from immediately crashing into the shield wall formed by the Half-Dragonfolk Retainer.
The demonic serpents first had to break through the line of serpent corpses before they could reach the Half-Dragonfolk's defenses. By then, the force of their charge had already been greatly reduced.
As a result, they avoided the situation from the previous beast tide, when three lines of defense were immediately smashed through, leaving thousands of Half-Dragonfolk dead or wounded.
However, compared to the serpents in the beast tide, the serpents corrupted by the Demon Tide were much more savage, with greater combat strength and lethality.
More importantly, during the beast tide, the serpents had all been headed for the depths of the Demon Cave. They had not lingered to fight to the death against Liang Ji and Peng Yue's Vassal forces.
At the time, Liang Ji and Peng Yue's Vassal forces had been like a boulder in a surging tide, struck only because they happened to stand in the beast tide's path. That was why they had been caught up in the battle with the serpents.
But the serpents in the beast tide had not been intent on destroying that "boulder." When they saw they could not break through, many simply flowed around it, just as a tide