The forest burned, thick smoke soaring into the sky. Flames dozens of meters high, whipped on by the wind, swept across dozens of square kilometers in an instant. The thousand-degree heat not only rapidly evaporated the moisture from the plants in the forest, which were on the verge of autumn, drawing them into the inferno, but also swallowed the wave of Horned Devils that had charged into the woods in no time at all.
Even ninth-rank warriors had little ability to resist flames exceeding a thousand degrees. Even Devil Race masters at the Battle Spirit level who had cultivated protective Battle Qi could not endure the blaze for long.
Burning Horned Devils, bursts of fire erupting from the ground at every moment—everything was an eyesore to the Devil Race knights in the sky, more or less spoiling their mood.
The Devil Race army was vast, numbering in the hundreds of millions, yet Spider Devils and Horned Devils were constantly being swallowed by the flashes of fire on the ground without any chance to resist. They were already suffering casualties before even reaching the human race.
The eyes of the Devil Race knight seated upon the throne of skulls flickered like ghostly flames as he looked at the two human knights standing before him somewhat timidly. A low, icy voice emerged from behind his mask, making the air tremble and causing the two human knights' bodies to shudder involuntarily.
"What is going on?"
"This... this is the Blastflame Land Mine that Great Xia has recently begun equipping..." One of the human knights stepped forward and said in a low voice.
This human knight was none other than Gao Zeping, one of the core members of the Heaven-Piercing Sect listed on Great Xia's Office of the Chief Justice wanted posters. He was