An hour later, the map before Liu Zhi had become unrecognizable. The nearby creature gathering points recorded on it had been picked off one by one.
Liu Zhi's various units had all stopped at those gathering points, waiting for their next orders.
Meanwhile, the Deathbone Legion had finally reached the edge of the Mind-Flayers' territory.
The Mind-Flayers, who had long since spotted the Deathbone Legion's direction of advance, had already made their preparations for battle.
Before the Mind-Flayers' astral warships, groups of snow-dwelling creatures emerged from the surrounding area, one after another.
They looked much like ordinary snow-dwelling creatures, but their expressions were somewhat vacant. They didn't look like the sort of beings with much intelligence.
If Liu Zhi had been there, he would have noticed that these creatures resembled those at the gathering points his subordinates had wiped out. They were also all among the strongest members of their respective species.
Unlike Liu Zhi's troops, they weren't arranged by unit type. Their positions looked quite chaotic, but a closer look revealed that their formation followed a certain pattern.
Liu Zhi wasn't there. If he had been, he would have seen that the creatures' positions weren't determined by their individual sizes, but by their souls.
Among every ten to fifteen creatures was one Mind-Flayer, controlling some of the nearby creatures in battle.
Which creatures the Mind-Flayers preferred as their underlings was up to each Mind-Flayer. Even their leader couldn't interfere.
But Liu Zhi wasn't there, and the Deathbone Legion's commander hadn't noticed any of this.
The order he had received was to kill the Mind-Flayers and all their enemies.
How he did it was up to him.
When he encountered the Mind-Flayers' forces blocking their advance, the Deathbone Legion's commander immediately assigned troops to each of his nine heroes.
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