Two hundred thousand Ironclad Devils had raced over two hundred kilometers. By the time they reached the Wei River, fewer than one hundred thousand remained alive...
Such losses left even Sagus, the Devil Race's Abyssal Lord, stunned beyond belief.
Ever since the Devil Race's armies had emerged from the outskirts of the Calamity Realm, they had swept through cities and seized territory for the past two years. The Devil Race's Knights and Winged Devil vanguards might have suffered some losses, but their ground legions had always been unstoppable, crushing everything in their path. Great Xia's armies had retreated again and again, and the two sides had rarely even clashed on the main battlefield. Within Great Xia's three provinces of Martial Prefecture, Blessing Province, and Silver Province, there had been only a handful of real battles between the Devil Race's ground legions and Great Xia's troops. Even when they had fought, the engagements had been small in scale, and every force that had confronted the Devil Race legions on the ground had been effortlessly ground into dust.
A Devil Race legion composed entirely of Level 9 Warriors had, in terms of raw combat strength alone, completely surpassed every existing legion in Great Xia. Not even the legions of Great Xia's Four Upper Armies could assemble a force so formidable.
This had left Sagus, the Devil Race's Abyssal Lord, brimming with confidence throughout his advance. In Sagus's eyes, aside from Knights, Great Xia no longer possessed any force capable of halting the Devil Race army's offensive in this Holy War. And once the Devil Race army gained an absolute advantage in the ground war, then even if Great Xia's Knights could temporarily withstand the Devil Race's attacks, as Great Xia's ground forces suffered defeat and vast populations and cities were conquered and