2:00 a.m.
In the dead of night, eight massive searchlights illuminated a vast stretch of wilderness.
Streams of dazzling steel poured madly into the beast horde like an inverted Milky Way.
Explosions, gunfire, roars, and wails intertwined into a grand symphony that rang ceaselessly across the wasteland.
At the highest point of the position, atop a watchtower built long ago.
Scout soldiers held Infrared Binoculars, observing the battlefield with rapt attention and reporting in real time.
"Tell the snipers to prepare specially made Alloy Armor-Piercing Bullets. Prioritize the High-level Beast Soldiers and Primary Beast Generals."
A middle-aged man who looked like an officer watched the surging Beast Tide charging forward without end, his brow furrowing slightly.
He lowered his binoculars and calmly issued orders to the soldier beside him.
Even in the face of a Beast Tide charge numbering in the thousands, this Independent Regiment's Regiment Commander remained composed.
Yet the fleeting sparks flashing in his deep eyes revealed that he was far from as calm as he appeared.
"A Beast Tide on this scale will disperse on its own after three or four waves at most."
"Remember, have the regiment's forty-five Martial Artists guard the weak points of the secondary defensive positions. Do not let the monsters break through the line and penetrate deep into the position."
"Yes, Regiment Commander!"
Looking at those gigantic monsters, each resembling a heavy tank, the middle-aged officer's face was filled with gravity.
In the year since the monsters appeared, humanity had fought the beast hordes countless times, suffering more defeats than victories.
As a result, the military had accumulated extensive combat experience against beast horde assaults and could swiftly adopt countermeasures.
But the endlessly increasing monster population, whose strength was rising rapidly, remained a huge problem.
Although heavy firepower could eliminate some low-level monsters.
It seemed utterly inadequate when facing stronger monster hordes growing explosively in number.
Not to mention Beast General-level monsters and those even stronger; heavy weapons were like a scratch against them and posed no threat to their lives.
Only elite Martial Artists could contend with high-level monsters.
Yet elite Martial Artists were scarce within the military.
Aside from the main forces of Great Xia's seven secret units, the other troops possessed only a pitiful number of Martial Artists...
The searchlights swept alternately across the wilderness ahead as tens of thousands of Gray Wolf Monsters continuously burst from the distant woods, charging toward the fireline that gleamed like the Milky Way.
When will an entire battalion be made up of Martial Artists? How wonderful would that be...
With a silent sigh, the middle-aged officer looked ahead.
At the defensive works along the very front of the position, all the Martial Artists stood ready, waiting for the moment the monsters broke through.
And that moment came in only two short minutes.
Awoo!!
As large numbers of ordinary monsters died, the first High-level Beast Soldier Red-eyed Wolf finally broke through the fire blockade and charged toward the defensive line with a roar.
At that moment, the three nearest Martial Artists exchanged glances and simultaneously placed their hands on their sword hilts.
Their battle sabers slowly slid from their sheaths, icy glints flowing over the blades.
Then, all three charged out at once.
The battle between Martial Artists and monsters was about to begin!
Across the smoke-filled battlefield, the howls of countless monsters intertwined into a resounding march of attack.
Monster after monster desperately rushed the fireline, seeking to break through humanity's defenses and slaughter freely.
Yet after leaving behind corpse after corpse, only a tiny number of monsters survived long enough to reach the position.
However, when the first monster rushed onto the defensive position, it was met by the sharp battle sabers of three Intermediate Warriors.
A fierce battle was about to erupt.
Two human warriors darted forward, attacking from both sides and using tactics to restrain the High-level Beast Soldier.
It could not be helped. Even High-level Warriors of the same rank had to avoid the edge of a High-level Beast Soldier's frontal charge.
Much less ordinary Intermediate Warriors, so the two Intermediate Warriors could only join forces to attack.
As for the remaining man, he took the opportunity to search for the monster's weak point and kill it.
At the same time.
At two weak points along the defensive line not far away, a High-level Beast Soldier broke into the human soldiers' position at each location.
Bang!!
A deep, powerful sound suddenly rang out.
Pfft!!
One of the Giant Wolf Monsters had just set foot on the position when its body stiffened and it fell straight backward.
The Martial Artists who had been about to rush forward and fight for their lives froze briefly. When they saw the fist-sized hole in the giant wolf's head, they immediately understood.
An Alloy Armor-Piercing Bullet had pierced its tough skull, killing it in a single strike.
Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the High-level Beast Soldier at the other location had already begun wreaking havoc.
Since there were no Martial Artists defending that area, the nearest soldiers had no choice but to charge forward.
The four Iron Dragon Army soldiers exchanged glances and saw the determination in one another's eyes.
Then they all stepped forward, intending to stop the Wolf-like Monster charging wildly about.
Though they possessed strength enough to fight ten men apiece and worked together with considerable coordination.
Before the rampaging Giant Wolf Monster, they were like mantises trying to stop a chariot. Three soldiers were sent flying in an instant.
The remaining soldier had his combat suit pierced by its dagger-like claws, which tore through his chest, extinguishing his life in an instant.
Thud!
After viciously flinging down the blood-soaked Iron Dragon Army soldier, the enormous Gray Wolf fixed its savage eyes on the three soldiers it had knocked away and charged forward with a roar.
"Get... get out of the way!!"
A soldier who witnessed the scene saw his eyes crack with rage and shouted.
But his warning came too late.
Crack!!
With only a few piercing snaps.
The Gray Wolf's claws directly tore apart one soldier's body as easily as a blade cutting through tofu.
Splat!
Blood burst forth, mixed with shattered internal organs that scattered everywhere.
Ordinary soldiers had no chance of resisting a High-level Beast Soldier.
The only thing they could do was use their lives to delay the monster and buy time for the Martial Artists.
In fewer than five breaths, four soldiers died one after another beneath this High-level Beast Soldier's assault.
"Crunch!!"
The giant Gray Wolf opened its blood-filled jaws and bit down on one of the corpses, chewing with loud crunches as dark red blood seeped between its teeth. It looked utterly ferocious.
Around it, several ordinary soldiers erupted in fury at the sight.
They threw themselves forward without regard for their lives, trying to deal with the High-level Beast Soldier.
Bang bang bang!!!
Sparks burst across its fur, but ordinary bullets could not penetrate its steel-hard pelt and ricocheted away.
After swallowing one soldier's body in just a few bites, the terrifying giant wolf, whose body was as large as a rhinoceros, knocked aside the two soldiers blocking its path and charged toward the soldiers firing at it.
Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately closed in and opened fire on it together.
However, the vast disparity between a High-level Beast Soldier and ordinary soldiers.
Was not something numbers could make up for.
Very quickly, the soldiers swarming forward were defeated one by one.
Some were smashed to pieces by its charge, while others were trampled to death.
Others still were bitten around the waist by the Giant Wolf Monster and swallowed alive.
Amid the battle of blood and fire, soldiers charged forward one after another, hoping to hold it back for even one more second...
This section of the position was soon stained red with blood, its ground littered with severed limbs and broken corpses...
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