First Battle

Apart from Abian, this was Zhang Tie's first time seeing Devil Race warriors he had previously only encountered in textbooks and books.

This was the Devil Race's most famous—and most terrifying—mainstay unit: the Ironclad Devil.

To paint a vivid picture, an Ironclad Devil was a towering, burly monster with two arms and two legs, a terrifying crocodile-like head, sharp teeth jutting out from its mouth, blood-red eyes, a reptilian spine rising high along its back, a tail, and black scales covering its entire body.

Ironclad Devils generally stood over 2.2 meters tall. They were a Devil Race species with vigorous vitality and immense destructive power. The defensive strength of their black scales was like layer upon layer of thin iron plates; arrows fired by ordinary archers and some light crossbows could hardly harm them from beyond a hundred meters.

The moment Zhang Tie jumped out of the carriage, he saw Ironclad Devils wielding crescent-shaped Devil Race war blades, whipping up black whirlwinds of death and tearing apart the human soldiers who had just crawled out of the train cars.

Some Ironclad Devils had even burrowed into the overturned carriages, and great sprays of blood soon splashed out from within.

A dozen-odd Ironclad Devils slaughtered the human warriors aboard the entire train until they were almost incapable of resisting. The whole train was like prey dragged to a riverbank and besieged by a pack of savage crocodiles. Flesh and blood flew everywhere. The glow of Battle Qi Totems flickered now and then, but whether Black Spiders or Centipede Beasts, they always vanished in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Tie's feet had barely touched the ground when, just as he took in the scene before him, an Ironclad Devil covered in red gore leaped out from a shattered carriage ahead. It