Desperate Struggle
In the great battle raging in the dark, night posed no restrictions for Jiang Yue. Once he used Dark Elegy, the night was no different from day.
Under the control of the Great Puppet Art, the creatures he summoned became more orderly, even displaying some semblance of tactics.
This was something creature control had always lacked, and something Dark Elegy could not provide. Only the Great Puppet Art, one of the Nine Arts of Stealing Heaven, had this function.
Dark Elegy merely gave the evil spirits the instinct to fight and let them know who their enemies were. They won through sheer numbers.
The Great Puppet Art, however, gave these evil spirits some tactical and coordination skills. With their overwhelming numerical advantage, the evil spirits could now use tactics and work together, making it even harder for the Underground Race to withstand them.
General Wang could only watch helplessly as his men fell one by one, then were devoured by the evil spirits. These creatures seemed never to tire.
Even a well-traveled scholar like General Wang was stunned by the sight.
If anything, the war of numbers should have been the Underground World's advantage. Who could have imagined that, on the Surface World, so many Surface World monsters would appear at this hidden outpost?
On the face of it, Surface World monsters were natural enemies of Surface Humans. They might not be close to the Underground World, but shouldn't the enemy of my enemy be my friend?
Why were these monsters attacking the Underground Race so relentlessly?
Watching his men get devoured one by one, General Wang shouted, "Mido, Qikai, find whoever's controlling these evil creatures, and fast! Otherwise, the more we fight, the more of them there'll be. We'll never kill them all!"
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