Each fruit exploded, and within a radius of two hundred meters, blood and gore filled the air. Not a single Nightmare Knight could survive the dense volley of wooden spikes. Amid hysterical cries, a hundred thousand Nightmare Knights' charging formation was smashed into utter disarray by merely dozens of war treants. Countless Nightmare Knights who tumbled from their mounts became the greatest obstacle to their own comrades, and many Nightmare Knights' mounts were tripped by the bodies rolling across the ground.
The momentum of the Nightmare Knights' charge stalled. Before they could recover from this sudden, frenzied blow, Lin Qi gave a low shout, and the magic repeating crossbows in the Black Spirit People's hands let out dull roars. Wave after wave of bolts shot forth without end. Two feet long, as thick as thumbs, and cast from alloy, the tri-edged armor-piercing magic bolts screamed through the air like swarms of maddened hornets.
Nearly ten thousand bolts flew in each volley, and every volley struck at least one or two thousand Nightmare Knights. The immensely powerful bolts tore open their armor, pierced their bodies, and ripped arms and thighs from their torsos. The deadly poison, "Black Serpent Vine Sap," compounded by abyssal dark elves and smeared on the bolts, killed anyone struck within the blink of an eye—and killed them painlessly.
After three volleys, this batch of Black Spirit warriors swiftly withdrew. Then another ten thousand Black Spirit warriors strode forward, magic repeating crossbows in hand. Their formation was still somewhat disorderly, and the two groups of Black Spirit warriors bumped and jostled as they passed each other, but that did not prevent them from covering the Nightmare Knights' ranks with fresh bolts in the shortest possible time.
Several thousand more Nightmare Knights were shot from their mounts and sent