The surrounding Divine Guards were stunned by the formidable strength Han Shuo displayed and stood frozen, not knowing to attack. Only Lolth rushed into the fray after a glance, attacking one of the assailants entangled by the Demon Heads and joining forces with them to block his retreat.
"What are you standing around for? Help our lord kill these shameless ambushers!" Bolands barked coldly. The slender flying sword Han Shuo had personally forged for him shot out along an unpredictable path, aimed straight at another assailant.
Bolands's shout snapped the horrified Divine Guards out of their stupor. In an instant, all manner of strange powers flew toward the other three ambushers. Light flashed across the battlefield as divine artifacts and divine power filled the air, raining down on the assailants entangled by the Demon Heads.
The Divine Guards all knew those masked men possessed the strength of Upper Gods, so none approached to fight them at close quarters. Instead, they attacked from a distance. Individually, the Divine Guards were indeed weaker than any one of them, but when dozens joined forces against a single target, the dense barrage was enough to leave these men scrambling.
Things had reached the point where the ambushers had failed to kill Han Shuo swiftly and cleanly and had instead become surrounded. Han Shuo himself, Lolth, and nearly a hundred Divine Guards attacked together, while a dark mass of Demon Heads swarmed around them. Even five Upper Gods found it somewhat more than they could handle.
Each of the five treated the main attacks from Han Shuo and Lolth as a formidable threat, leaving them unable to cope with the Divine Guards' rainlike barrage. Three of them were struck by various divine artifacts and blasts of divine power, rapidly depleting the divine power within their