Ten kilometers away, high in the sky.
Cho'Gath's enormous demonic body hovered above the gray-white wasteland, his scarlet slit pupils fixed on Great Xia's positions.
When the three Burrowing Earth Dragons had successfully broken through the ground, the six Seventh-Order Demon Venerables had visibly grown excited.
A Bonehorn Demon Venerable grinned viciously.
"Your wisdom is unmatched, my lord! However sturdy those steel creations are, they can't stop an attack from underground."
Another Demon Venerable with bone spurs on its back growled in agreement.
"Once we tear their positions open, our army can charge in and rip every one of those iron lumps apart!"
Cho'Gath said nothing.
But he could no longer suppress the smugness at the corners of his mouth and in his eyes.
Great Xia could bomb the ground into a sea of fire, so I'd tear open a breach from below. I'm brilliant. Just what I'd expect of myself!
He would make these Blue Star bipeds understand that numbers alone had never been what carried the Demon Clan this far.
But as Cho'Gath watched, the smugness in his eyes gradually froze.
Because only three Burrowing Earth Dragons had emerged.
Those three Burrowing Earth Dragons had indeed caused chaos within the positions, overturning combat vehicles, knocking down robots, and briefly diverting the outer line of fire.
But that was as far as it went.
The Burrowing Earth Dragons that should have followed them out of the ground never appeared again, as though someone had pressed pause.
At the center of Great Xia's positions, two glows of elven magic stood out.
Earthen-yellow magic power seeped into the rock strata, compressing the loose, shattered earth back into one solid mass of stone.
Gray-green roots grew wildly along the cracks, spreading across the surface and underground like countless living chains, constricting and