Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three...
The stars in the sky of the Infinite Battle Hall slowly changed numbers.
The number of Demon Marquises kept increasing, yet they still could not overcome the power of Break Loulan.
It was not that they were too weak, but that Break Loulan was too strong. This war poem had already shone brilliantly on battlefields throughout human lands. In any battle where no Demon King or Great Demon King took part, the humans had begun gaining the upper hand.
In battles between Academy Students and Demon Soldiers, just a few archers supported by Strong Bow Poem could secure an enormous advantage.
With Wind-and-Rain Dream Battle, Provincial Graduates created broad expanses of smooth ice while infusing the attacks of War-Poem Knights with the power of their literary guts, making Demon Generals suffer bitterly.
In battles between Metropolitan Graduates and Demon Marshals, whether it was Sword Chant, Dragon Sword Poem, Jade Gate Pass, or Red Dust Kill, these poems greatly improved the Metropolitan Graduates' ability to survive and vastly strengthened their Lip Spear and Tongue Sword.
Only a few years earlier, just a handful of elite human troops could defeat an equal number of Demon Barbarians. Now, humans won more often than they lost even in head-on battles. Since most battles were defensive engagements fought behind city walls, the ratio of human losses to Demon Barbarian losses kept shrinking.
Regardless of how the Zong Family or other factions treated Fang Yun, the scholars on the very front lines had never attacked him.
In a sense, the war poetry Fang Yun had brought them had advanced humanity's war poetry by at least two hundred years.
The Demon Barbarians had not grown weaker. Humanity had grown stronger!
The Demon Marquises of the Infinite Battle Hall were just as difficult to handle