"Let's go! Get out of here."
Below No. 1 Base, after slaughtering 30,000 Devil Race heavy cavalry, the Hegemon Cavalry Soldiers turned around without hesitation and retreated into the woods towards the Demon-Defending City.
Although the Devil Race's heavy cavalry was reduced to less than one-tenth of its original strength due to multiple factors, the Hegemon Cavalry had also lost nearly two thousand men in the recent battle, and their Spiritual Power was severely depleted, requiring them to rest for a period of time before they could participate in the battle again.
The Devil Race army, braving attacks from numerous weapons within No. 1 Base, was now only three or four hundred meters away from the Hegemon Cavalry. They glared at the fleeing Hegemon Cavalry Soldiers with gritted teeth, wishing they could tear them to pieces.
However, they all knew that chasing the cavalry was pointless now. Not only were the cavalry fast, but the gravity runes on the ground had not been completely cleared. Even if they used ranged attacks now, the damage they could inflict would be very low. They could only watch helplessly as the cavalry left.
"Keep moving! We can take down this camp first, then kill these cunning insects."
The leader of the Black Demon Army had a grim expression as he directed his subordinates to take turns casting magical barriers to block the attacks from the front.
As they figured out the patterns of the gravity runes' locations, their pace quickened. The steel walls of No. 1 Base, reflecting a silvery-white light, drew ever closer, and the weapons attacking them became increasingly powerful as the distance closed.
In particular, weapons such as beam blades, electromagnetic cannons, pulse cannons, and sonic cannons become more than ten times more powerful when the distance is closed. The Black Demon Army had to go all out and consume a lot of magic power to withstand the weapon attacks from No. 1 Base.
"How many Spirit Stone did they use to build this camp? So many powerful Rune Artifacts and energy sources... Even when they fought against the Celestial Person Race, they never went this far!"
The leader of the Black Demon Army used magic to resist the attack while secretly cursing to himself.
When he attacked the cities of Central Land, even in capital cities, there were generally no more than ten large-scale Rune Artifacts capable of dealing with King Level enemies. However, in this No. 1 Base, there were at least a hundred talismanic artifacts capable of threatening King Level Rune Artifacts.
If it were just a hundred or so King Level Rune Artifacts, that would be one thing, but among the numerous buildings scattered around, there are at least ten thousand Rune Artifacts below the King Level.
With over ten thousand attack Rune Artifacts, the Black Demon Army leader doubted whether all the attack Rune Artifacts in all the cities of the entire West Ge Province combined at the beginning of the war even amounted to that many.
Although attacks from low-level cultivators pose no threat to experts, quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes. If ten Qi Nourishing Realm attack a True Spirit Realm simultaneously, the True Spirit Realm must take it seriously, otherwise they might accidentally capsize in an unexpected way.
What terrified the leader of the Black Demon Army even more was that the Rune Artifacts at No. 1 Base had been fighting for nearly half an hour since the beginning. The durability of these Rune Artifacts was astonishing, and their energy seemed to be inexhaustible.
According to his understanding, the cost required for Rune Artifacts to achieve this effect is astonishing, including the manpower of the talisman master, the materials of the Rune Artifacts, the loss of Spirit Stone, and so on, all of which are huge expenses.
Chen Kingdom is clearly a newly emerging force, located in Wilderness with scarce Spiritual Power. When did he become so wealthy?
The leader of the Black Demon Army couldn't understand this problem at all, but he could only continue his all-out attack on Military Base No. 1 with doubt in mind.
Not long after, the Devil Race army finally arrived at the walls of No. 1 Base.
Under the protection of the Black Demon Army, a Devil Race general wielded a demonic hammer and struck the steel city wall heavily, producing a loud, dull thud. A hole the size of a human head then appeared in the wall.
"Such a hard metal! But it's alright, it'll just take some time!"
He had anticipated that the city walls here would be difficult to deal with, but their sturdiness was still within his acceptable range.
No. 1 Base doesn't have any city gates. Previously, the Hegemon Cavalry jumped down from the city walls to join the battle, so if they wanted to rush into No. 1 Base, they either had to climb to the top of the wall or blow it down.
Some of the agile Devil Race soldiers had already climbed up the city wall, but once they reached more than fifty meters, they would trigger a mechanism, causing sharp blades to extend from the wall and attack them.
The higher you climb, the more dangerous it becomes, because the roof of No. 1 Base is elliptical, and the higher you climb, the more attacks you will encounter from Rune Artifacts.
After losing many Devil Race soldiers during the climb, the leader of the Black Demon Army decided that they should still smash the city walls, otherwise many ground troops would not be able to get in.
Behind them followed elite Giant Demon skilled in siege warfare. These Giant Demon were at least ten meters tall, and some even reached forty or fifty meters. They wielded heavy Giant Demon weapons designed specifically for breaching city walls.
Boom! Thump thump...!
Hundreds of thousands of elite demon troops surrounded Military Base No. 1. After the Giant Demon bombarded the city walls for a while, they discovered that the city walls were much thicker than they had imagined.
"I'm Devil Race! Where can I find a city wall that's three or four zhang (over ten meters) thick and completely solid?"
Even the leader of the Black Demon Army, who always considered himself a nobleman of the Devil Realm realm, couldn't help but utter a curse.
Many of the Giant Demon were exhausted from trying to break through the walls, but the Devil Race army was ultimately powerful. After the Giant Demon worked together to create several large holes, the Devil Race soldiers swarmed into the base.
"Beware of traps. Ground troops only need to advance a quarter of the way."
Katelin, in the air, deliberately sent a telepathic message to the leader of the Black Demon Army, warning him to be wary of a trap.
Just then, a small squad of about a thousand people climbed out from the center of the roof of No. 1 Base, formed a battle formation, and pointed their swords at the Black Demon Army.
"It is the strongest battle formation legion in the Chen Kingdom, the Demon-Slaying Sword!"
The leader of the Black Demon Army recognized the origin of this thousand-man squad at a glance, because he knew that only this legion in the entire Chen Kingdom could bring him such a sense of oppression.
It wasn't until he faced the Demon-Slaying Sword head-on for the first time that the leader of the Black Demon Army realized he had underestimated his opponent. Although the Demon-Slaying Sword was outnumbered by the Black Demon Army, its members were definitely no less skilled than himself.
Moreover, battle formations, which are only possessed by Spiritual Power cultivators, do not exist among the Abyss Devil Race. This is because battle formations are, to some extent, dynamic arrays, and the Devil Race cannot even master arrays, let alone battle formations.
According to the Black Demon Army leader's estimate, the enemy's 1,000 members of the Demon-Slaying Sword were roughly equivalent to the Black Demon Army's 3,000. In addition, given the large number of powerful Rune Artifacts present at No. 1 Base, his Black Demon Army would likely suffer heavy casualties if the two sides were to clash.