Splash! Splash!
The bamboo rafts had all fallen apart, reduced to logs, and the soldiers of the War Legion atop them naturally fared no better.
Amid one splash after another, many of them, caught completely unprepared, fell straight into the rushing river.
A few clever War Legion soldiers, however, leapt with all their strength before the rafts came apart. They immediately circulated their Battle Qi, rising from the river's surface and flying into the air.
Seeing this, the other soldiers who had not yet sunk to the riverbed hurriedly followed suit, trying to circulate their Battle Qi and fly into the sky.
But for those soldiers whose reactions had been a beat too slow, there was no hope of escape left.
Because the Skeleton Soldiers below had long been prepared.
The moment those soldiers who had fallen onto the water tried to leap up, several skeletons shot out from below and seized their ankles.
"Ah! Help!"
Amid their cries of alarm, the soldiers were dragged completely beneath the river in the next instant.
Only after falling to the riverbed did they discover in even greater horror that the bottom of the river had long been occupied by Dark Creatures.
Dense masses of Dark Skeletons had actually carpeted the entire riverbed.
The beings, averaging only around one point eight or one point nine meters tall, were able to reach so easily above the water because they had stacked themselves together like a human pyramid.
So many Dark Creatures were enough to make one's hair stand on end with a single glance.
Of course, that glance lasted only an instant. Soon afterward, from lack of oxygen and the attacks of the Dark Creatures, the War Legion soldiers dragged beneath the river rapidly lost their lives.
And at this moment, such scenes were