A few minutes later, the black beetle floated out of the deep ravine and returned to its original spot. It watched the distant battlefield, then half a minute later, the black beetle stirred and skimmed along the ground toward the distance...
In a stretch of air far from where the two great formations collided, two Battle Qi tornadoes shot into the heavens. Those two Battle Qi tornadoes signaled that two Earth Knights were fighting there.
Based on his observations over the past month, Zhang Tie had discovered that although battles between Earth Knights on the human and Devil Race sides occurred every day within the core combat zone of Iron Enclosure Mountain, more than ninety percent of those battles ended in routs rather than annihilation. Whenever the weaker side felt unable to hold on, or sensed from the start that the opponent possessed overwhelming strength, they would swiftly retreat into the sphere of influence of their own battle fort, making it difficult for the opposing knight to kill them in a short time.
The ones who truly became locked in prolonged, bitter battles were Earth Knights whose strength was not too far apart. Such one-on-one battles between Earth Knights could be fierce—one might even call them spectacular—but because their strengths were close, it became all the more difficult for either side to kill the other in battle.
Over the past month, Zhang Tie had fought Devil Race Earth Knights five times. He had only found opportunities to kill two of them. The other three had slipped away the moment they sensed trouble; two of them had not even given Zhang Tie the chance to engage in close combat. The instant they saw Zhang Tie trying to close in, they feinted and fled at speed. Even Zhang Tie had no solution