"Something's terribly wrong with the atmosphere here. Have all the wild beasts in the nearby mountains gone mad?"
Li Chen had never seen a real demon calamity and had no way of imagining what it looked like. Yet after receiving Taiqiu Immortal City's warning, he heard frenzied howls and furious roars rising one after another through the forest, an endless chorus like the wailing of ghosts. Inside the Magic Cube Maze, his brows drew into a tight frown.
"Hold your post and be ready for battle at any moment!"
Mirage sent Li Chen his mission instructions. He had accepted a frontline garrison and combat assignment, so he had to stay driven into the forest like a nail, diverting the demon tide and dealing with newly mutated true demons.
Both posed threats that could easily damage the city. Drawing on these unaffiliated Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators would effectively ease the pressure on its defenses.
"Fine, I'll hold my post."
Li Chen felt that almost all the Detection Mechanism Devices he had launched had become useless.
It was not that they could not detect demons' auras. Rather, demons were everywhere, as though the entire mountain forest had suddenly become livelier than ever before.
He had originally set a detection threshold so that only beings above the true demon realm would trigger a report. Yet more than a dozen true demons seemed to have appeared in the forest all at once, while thousands of miles away, still more seemed to be pouring in without end.
There were also armies of hundreds or thousands of demons gathering. In several places, masses of beasts had assembled with demonic qi surging to the heavens, causing the devices to misidentify their energy levels as those of true demons.
He no longer expected those Detection Mechanism Devices to