Surprise Attack

"Fire! Enemy attack!"

The supply area erupted into chaos in an instant!

The guards jolted awake from their sleep and rushed into battle, only to be caught completely off guard. Casualties were devastating.

At the same time, shouts of battle and explosions rang out from the south!

The other force led by Gu Mingxuan launched its attack at the same time, swiftly and cleanly wiping out the southern patrols. They began setting the grain stacks ablaze, cutting off any reinforcements that might come from the central camp.

The entire rear-camp supply area was plunged into a sea of fire and chaos!

At the northeastern corner stood that black tent.

Its flap stirred without wind, and a figure wrapped in a heavy black robe slowly stepped out.

His face was withered, his skin deathly pale like an old corpse. His eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his pupils were a pure ash-gray, utterly devoid of life.

Visible gray death qi curled around him. Wherever he passed, the grass and plants on the ground rapidly withered away.

He looked toward the flames soaring into the sky in the west and south. His ash-gray eyes showed not the slightest ripple, as though the burning supplies and dead soldiers had nothing to do with him.

"So, they came after all." His voice was hoarse and dry, like two sheets of sandpaper rubbing together. "The Venerable truly sees all. Lu Chen... where are you?"

He suddenly turned toward a patch of shadow at the edge of the supply area. "Since you have come, why hide your head and show your tail?"

Lu Chen slowly emerged from the shadows, followed by one hundred Evil-Quelling Guard elites whose auras were the most concentrated.

"Under the Undead Monarch, there truly is no shortage of talent." Lu Chen studied