Barrel and the giant dragon quickly struck a deal. Barrel gladly pocketed five hundred thousand gold coins, while the dragon happily locked the elf girl inside an enormous chest of pure gold. He smugly twisted his massive body, his heavy dragon tail lashing the ground until the earth trembled and the mountains shook—he had noticed the greedy looks in the eyes of the dragons around him, but he was not afraid they would dare rob him. This was Emperor Lin Qi's order; everything they plundered today belonged to them!
With a BOOM, a boulder over twenty meters in diameter came smashing down from a giant catapult. Several elven mages whose magic power had been exhausted wailed as they were crushed into a splattering mass of blood and pulp beneath it. The jagged boulder rolled forward for a long distance, grinding at least three hundred elves in its path into mangled flesh.
Warriors of the Dragon Mountain Empire's Flying Dragon Legion appeared in the skies. Great flocks of flying dragons circled overhead as half-orc archers wielding specially made powerful bows launched deadly attacks on the elven warriors below. Special long arrows nearly two meters in length howled down from the heights, nailing one stubbornly resisting elven warrior after another firmly to the ground.
These half-orc archers were not particularly accurate; their arrows often flew wide. But on such a chaotic battlefield, a group of half-orc archers with appalling marksmanship posed several times more of a threat than a large number of elven archers with flawless aim. Amid the strange shrieking whistles of the special arrows tearing through the air, many elves were inexplicably nailed dead to the ground.
Many powerful elven warriors were likewise inexplicably struck by these sudden arrows. The elves' sixth sense was extremely sharp—if an enemy used a