The northern stretch of the city wall remained the most brutal battlefield in the entire Second War Against the Heavenly Demons. The reason was simple: it faced the Demons pouring in from beyond the Seventh Great Wall.
Everyone stationed here was a Demon Race soldier. Di Yi Yun had once suggested sending Humankind to help defend the northern section, but Cheng Yu had brushed him off with, "I have my own arrangements."
Once again, it seemed, the Demon Race had become the main force facing the Heavenly Demons. Most of them were not particularly bright. They did not understand why they had to face the Heavenly Demons again, nor did they know whether reinforcements were coming.
The rank-and-file Demon Soldiers, never especially clever to begin with, knew only one thing: they had to obey their Squad Leader. But if their Section Leader gave an order, they could disregard the Squad Leader. If their Centurion spoke, they could disregard the Section Leader, and so on. Above all, they knew that the Son of Heaven's word carried more weight than anyone else's.
And now, the Marshal wanted them to kill Heavenly Demons and keep them outside. So they would kill Heavenly Demons and keep them outside.
The armor worn by the vast majority of the Demon Soldiers was already battered and scarred, and their once gleaming, silvery blades were chipped and broken.
Even when troops rotated out, the Demon Race soldiers replacing them were in the same state. Nor was it just the soldiers. Many parts of Beijing City's northern wall were badly damaged, yet it still stood.
Another enormous Demon appeared among the Demons. Simply standing upright, he was as tall as Beijing City's Outer City Wall. The defenders on the wall gave the giant Demon no chance to attack it.