These humans had not been afraid; they had been worried that raining down their Soul Cannon Shells would blow up the Soul Tools they had hidden underground!
The beast tide retreated. More precisely, the first wave of the beast tide retreated.
Beneath Shrek City, the densely packed ground traps-Low-Level Soul Tools whose total cost might have been no more than a few million Gold Soul Coins-had brought death to nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts in this meat grinder of a war. The injured Soul Beasts were beyond counting.
The beast tide army abandoned vast numbers of corpses, leaving them beneath the city walls.
These dead Soul Beasts had all been poisoned and were completely unsuitable to take back as food, unless some Soul Beast believed it could withstand the terrifying toxicity of the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower.
Thus, the rout of the first wave instantly sent the Soul Beasts' morale plummeting. What they faced were not enemies in the true sense, but cold steel and all manner of terrifying elemental reactions.
This was utterly different from the law of the jungle, where the weak were meat for the strong. This way of fighting an unseen enemy made many Soul Beasts want to retreat.
In contrast to the gloom on the Soul Beasts' side was Shrek's side.
At that moment, if Shi Xing's military orders had not firmly restrained them, the Shrek City Guards would have already begun celebrating wildly.
From the beast tide's beginning to its end, the entire Shrek City Guards had repelled a beast tide that had once inflicted incomparably grievous losses on humanity without firing a single shot or shell!
Nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts had spilled their blood here, and countless Soul Rings floated beneath Shrek City. Such a sight was probably a first in the