County Commandant Ma was blasted apart outright, right in front of so many people. It sent a chill through everyone present.
"Lord Ma!"
The trusted subordinate who had been threatening Xue Cheng in a low voice beside him could scarcely believe his eyes. He cried out involuntarily.
"Hm? Another one?"
Lin Hao's gaze shifted, and he closed in on him in an instant.
The squad leader finally seemed to realize something and hurriedly said, "You misunderstand, sir! I'm human! Attack my shadow, my shadow!"
But as he spoke, Lin Hao sent him flying into the crowd of shadow fiends with a single strike of his staff. After smashing through several shadow fiends, he was hacked to death by their flurry of blades.
"Quite a convincing act."
Lin Hao curled his lip, then surveyed his surroundings.
There should originally have been two groups here. The first had been almost completely wiped out. The County City martial artists led by the second group of County Soldiers were in imminent danger, besieged by the first batch of shadow fiends and the shadow fiends constantly being born from themselves.
But Lin Hao had keenly noticed a problem. Although the shadow fiends had an overwhelming numerical advantage, the number of experts leading their attacks had barely changed.
There were only fifteen or sixteen experts leading a group of lesser shadow fiends in the assault. Those lesser shadow fiends attacked rigidly and had nothing but strength. They posed far less of a threat than the experts.
And whenever an expert was defeated, another immediately stepped up from behind to replace them.
With experts breaking through defenses and shadow fiends that had no fear of death, they could inflict devastating losses on a force of equal size!
And here, they even had the numerical advantage!
"As expected,