Warwick's heart sank. Without even running, he instantly appeared beside the soldier. The civilians jostling nearby hadn't even reached him before the violent battle aura around him hurled them aside!
Warwick grabbed the soldier by the front of his Battle Armor. "Calm down and explain clearly. Apart from the northern wall, have you spotted Demon Beasts anywhere else?"
"N-no..." The soldier nervously straightened the hat the crowd had knocked askew and stammered, "O-only at the northern wall. There are at least... at least a hundred thousand of them!"
"All soldiers, assemble at the northern wall and prepare to repel the enemy!" Warwick roared. His voice drowned out everything else and rang across the entire city of Morton. Then his body became a series of afterimages as he shot toward the northern wall.
The soldiers who received the order immediately formed ranks and rushed toward the wall. Meanwhile, some quick-thinking civilians charged the gallows and freed the four people. The executioner behind the gallows watched, shouting threats, but thousands of people had gathered. When everyone stood together, he could hardly punish them all, so they simply ignored him...
The warning bells rang throughout Morton's main city. When Warwick reached the wall, his eyes suddenly narrowed.
Five hundred meters beyond the northern wall stretched a vast, dark sea of Zerglings. The key thing was that Demon Beasts were demonized animals, and animals were the very opposite of discipline and order. Yet every Zergling before Warwick marched in perfect unison, placing its left foot down, then its right, then its left... Of course, he was confident his own troops could march just as flawlessly in formation. But... these Zerglings were running.
"Are these... really Demon Beasts?" The adjutant at Warwick's right stared at the scene, dumbstruck.
Warwick snorted. "Shut your mouth. Don't let me see you do anything else that damages the reputation of the Third Legion. Demon Beasts are still Demon Beasts. No matter how well trained they are, without siege equipment, even a million of them are nothing but a tally of achievements for the Third Legion!"
As Ye Luo faced the fifteen-meter-high wall again, his feelings were completely different. In front of a wall as tall as a five-story building, any attacking force without siege equipment would feel small and helpless.
In just ten days, under Ye Meng's merciless slaughter, the Iron-Pincer Green-Spine Shrimp had been wiped from the coast. Ye Luo then placed nearly a hundred Zerg Hives in their territory. But that wasn't even what gave him the greatest confidence. His biggest trump card right now was the Level 3 Base!
A Level 3 Base could provide a thousand Larvae for free each day. With a hundred bases, that meant a hundred thousand Larvae a day!
On top of that, the Level 3 Zerg Hive had unlocked three new types of units. This war would be the perfect test for them!
"Ye Meng, begin the attack!" Ye Luo ordered coldly from behind the hundred thousand Zerglings!
"Roar!" Ye Meng transformed into an exceptionally enormous Zergling and let out a skyward roar. The Zerglings behind him immediately charged toward the city gate!
"Archers, prepare!" On the wall, four thousand archers stood in two rows. At the command, they immediately drew their bows and nocked their arrows!
"Fire!" The adjutant's arm dropped sharply. Two thousand arrows, some imbued with battle aura, shot forth from the front row like a swarm of locusts!
"Fire!" Without even looking at the results, the adjutant raised his arm and brought it down again!
The first row of archers immediately retreated while drawing an arrow from the quiver on their backs and nocking it. The second row had already advanced one step, their arrows drawn and ready. Without taking aim, they fired at once.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Fire!" The adjutant kept his arm moving, while the two rows of archers alternated their preparations, sending wave after wave of arrows through the sky without pause!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." The first volley flew toward them. The charging Zerglings paid no heed, merely lowering their heads when necessary to keep the arrows from striking vital spots!
"Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!" The two thousand arrows arrived first, catching at least fifteen hundred Zerglings in their path! The arrows, some tipped with black battle aura, punched hard into the Zerglings' armor. Their tough hides could not fully shield them from these deadly attacks. Two hundred unlucky Zerglings were struck squarely in the head. The force pinned them to the ground, where the creatures behind them trampled them into a pulp!
The other arrows, though, were nowhere near as effective!
One Zergling cleverly lowered its head just before the arrows arrived. Two arrows whistled into either side of its back, and the instant they pierced its body, the Zergling tensed every muscle!
The eighteen-inch arrows sank less than four inches into its flesh before its muscles clamped around them! Yet the Zergling seemed unable to feel pain and kept running at full speed. It had taken two arrows, but not only was it still alive, its speed had barely slowed!
Even as Zerglings kept falling beneath the rain of arrows, strangely, none of them let out a cry of pain!
"God of Light above, can these Demon Beasts not feel pain? Or are they just mute?!" One archer watched a Zergling with five arrows stuck in it continue charging as if nothing had happened. His heart trembled as he muttered in disbelief. They attacked like mad, and died in silence.
From five hundred meters away, Ye Luo watched the entire battlefield through Ye Wang's eyes. Thanks to battle aura, the people on this planet were far stronger than people in ancient times on Earth. Firing from above gave the arrows maximum killing power at a distance of five hundred meters!
But to a Zergling, covering five hundred meters took only thirty seconds. By the time the tenth volley fell, the Zerglings at the front had nearly reached the city gate!
"Barrit, let these Demon Beasts witness the power of human magic!" Warwick had been watching the battle just as intently. The moment he saw the Zerglings approaching, he immediately gave the order!
Behind the archers, Barrit, who had been ready for some time, stepped forward. Looking at the Zerglings fifty meters from the wall, he raised his staff sharply. "Prepare the war magic, Path of Thorns!"
Although Barrit was a fire mage, that didn't stop him from leading an earth-element war spell!
"Elemental spirits of earth, mighty and forgiving, your dignity has been challenged. Wanton violence solves nothing; it only brings forth your most terrible wrath. Show our enemies your formidable power, and let them understand that to oppose us is to set foot upon the Path of Thorns!" Barrit's chant rang out loudly, joined by the voices of the two hundred and fifty mages behind him. Above them, orange-yellow earth elements gathered ceaselessly. When Barrit spoke the four words "Path of Thorns," the earth elements suddenly condensed into a gigantic magic rune. It vanished from the sky and flashed into existence beneath the Zerglings' feet!
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