The fifth Sea Nest had been breached, and the surviving Sea Race Warriors scattered in flight.
The second, third, fourth, and sixth Sea Nests broke apart in every direction, their forces collapsing into utter disarray.
Pursuing the fleeing and routing the defeated was precisely the best time to claim enemy heads. Decapitations on the Lost Realm battlefield could be counted as merit. A head of sufficient weight could completely change a person's life.
Yet not a single unit of the Human Race army was distracted by the pursuit of merit. Instead, all obeyed the Marquis of Wu'an's command and surrounded the first Sea Nest.
Having personally endured the rod, the Marquis of Wu'an had deeply carved military discipline into the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies.
They could not be considered some peerless army of the world, but under the Marquis of Wu'an's command, they possessed the confidence to break any enemy formation.
Ao Huangzhong saw the waxing of their forces and the waning of his with utter clarity.
When an army collapsed, it fell like a mountain. No matter how celebrated a general he was for the moment, he could no longer steady the various fronts. Not to mention Jiang Wang was still loudly proclaiming that he was dead.
Unable to contend on the path of hearing, unable even to send out his own voice, he felt truly stifled.
He could only use command flags to direct the various generals, unable to salvage the crumbling morale of the army.
Moreover, that Legalist School Divine Presence had already charged in and joined forces with Jiang Wang to assault the nest defenses. They battered the nest-protecting grand formation until it was on the verge of collapse, consuming most of his attention as well.
With the situation collapsing so abruptly,