Without absolute power to clear a vast area in an instant, all attacks are futile struggles.
4 seconds
Within fifty meters, the entire army of Eyeless Spider underwent another change. Some became stiff and motionless, some were covered in frost, and some had all eight legs broken as if they were being crushed by an unimaginable weight.
One terrifying area-of-effect spell after another rained down, clearing the area within fifty meters once more.
The ten-person team advanced another thirty meters.
"3 seconds"
"2 seconds"
"1 second"
Once the nine wizards had unleashed all their area-of-effect spells, the Eyeless Spider within a fifty-meter radius were once again wiped out.
This time, the ten-person team retreated forty meters. What they faced was no longer a vast army of Eyeless Spider, but rather a few scattered Eyeless Spider.
At that moment, they all knew they had broken through the Eyeless Spider breakout army and reached the edge. If they were careful, they could survive this certain death battle.
Without the onslaught of the Eyeless Spider army, they easily escaped to a farther and safer location.
Thankfully, the army of Eyeless Spider wasn't focused on killing many wizards, but only on breaking through enemy lines to escape. Otherwise, even if Leo could unleash unlimited firepower, he wouldn't have been able to withstand the onslaught of so many Eyeless Spider.
It can instantly attack eight shadows in any location within 500 meters, but due to the sheer number of Eyeless Spider, it is suppressed to a range of 50 meters.
Even in order to prolong the time, Leo could only activate the rune array on the shadow at 50% power; otherwise, it would have taken at most two and a half seconds, let alone five seconds.
Leo Leo had already deactivated his Hunter form and reverted to his human form. His face was pale and he was panting heavily, a side effect of severely depleting his magical power.
He originally thought five seconds would be no problem, but in reality, five seconds was exactly his limit, and he had to grit his teeth and persevere to the end.
After drinking a bottle of Black Pearl Potion and feeling the gentle magical power it brought, Leo felt much better.
They then took out several more bottles of medicine and poured them into Benji's mouth. If it weren't for Benji's initial display of power, they wouldn't have been able to wait for Leo to enter his five-second War God state.
"Thank you very much. I will report your life-saving grace to the command center truthfully," April said solemnly to Leo.
"We can all provide evidence to ensure that not a single merit will be lost." The others echoed this sentiment.
Merit can be earned not only by killing enemies, but also by saving wizards.
The greater the risk for Leo in saving the ten-person team, the greater the reward!
After all, if Leo hadn't intervened at the crucial moment today, none of them would have escaped.
Even so, despite Leo's miraculous turn of events and the fact that none of the ten wizards were injured, only a dozen or so of the more than three hundred slaves survived. This included Leo's level three Benji and Alice's five Level Two Fire Elemental Spirit.
During the escape, another Level Two Fire Elemental Spirit died protecting Alice!
Even so, all the surviving slaves were wounded; if the fighting had continued any longer, none of them would have survived.
The army of Eyeless Spider was fleeing out of the breach, pursued by tens of thousands of wizards and hundreds of thousands of slaves.
Every moment, tens of thousands of Eyeless Spider died, their shattered corpses and limbs falling like raindrops.
But now these Eyeless Spider seem to have a specific goal in mind; they just keep running outwards, killing as many as they can, regardless of how many attacks follow.
As for the other wizard teams that were originally blocking the gap like Li Xi and Leo group, they could no longer sense the presence of any wizards. Either they escaped like Leo and his group, or they all died inside.
It's more likely the latter!
Leo didn't care about the other wizards; he only wanted to see how the three Level Three Great Wizard were doing.
At a glance, you can see that they are completely unharmed, even better off than Leo and the others.
Even when it was on the route of the fleeing Eyeless Spider army, it remained as immovable as a mountain.
They ignored the level one and two Eyeless Spider and instead focused on the elite squad that had originally tried to sneak away.
Two Level Three Body-Refining Great Wizard grabbed the Level Three Eyeless Spider and beat it mercilessly. One of them wielded a giant axe that was nearly sixty meters long, which looked like a heaven-opening axe. With a few blows, he cut the Level Three Eyeless Spider into eight pieces.
Another Level Three Body-Refining Great Wizard named Jinnajia had no weapon, but his terrifying hands were his best weapons. With a single grab, he directly seized a Level Three Eyeless Spider from the army of Eyeless Spider.
With a simple punch and a kick, the Eyeless Spider, also at level three, was reduced to dust.
Their pure physical strength seemed to have reached its peak; every move they made could stir up a bloodbath, and countless low-level Eyeless Spider were killed by the aftershocks.
Don't be fooled by the fact that Leo and his team killed nearly ten thousand Eyeless Spider in five seconds; that number wouldn't even be enough for those two Level Three Body-Refining Great Wizard to defeat in two moves.
They are like reefs in the middle of a turbulent river, standing tall and unmoved no matter the storms or the rushing currents.
As for the army of Eyeless Spider that overwhelmed them, they didn't even glance at them, letting the Eyeless Spider attack them at will.
Even if they were covered in these ornaments, stacked three or four layers high like a human pyramid, the powerful vibrations from a single tremor from these ornaments would shatter all the low-level Eyeless Spider.
As for the attacks he suffered, they left not a single mark.
That's too strong!
Leo estimated that their defense was at least over 5000 points. Only those Level Three Eyeless Spider could achieve such a terrifying number; others could exhaust themselves without harming them in the slightest.
As for the Level Three Elemental Great Wizard, Luonaduo, he appeared even more nonchalant amidst the onslaught of the Eyeless Spider army.
He seemed to be casting some kind of witchcraft, because all the Eyeless Spider attacking him, despite aiming precisely, couldn't hit him.
As long as someone gets within ten meters of Luonaduo, all attacks turn away without exception.
Unable to sense any elemental aura, Leo suspected it was a spatial displacement spell.
From time to time, Luonaduo would wave his staff, and the surrounding army of Eyeless Spider would fold into various shapes.
As expected of Level Three Great Wizard, each one of them is not easy to deal with. Just look at how easily they moved through the army of hundreds of thousands of Eyeless Spider, and you can tell that they probably didn't even use half of their strength.
"Little cutie, come out quickly, we've been looking for you for years." Jinnajia grinned wickedly, her two hands, each over five meters long, grabbing handfuls of Eyeless Spider with each grab.
But realizing he hadn't grabbed the right target, he clenched his fists, then released them, leaving behind a pile of severed limbs.
"Squeak squeak squeak"
The piercing screams continued, and the army of Eyeless Spider went into a berserk frenzy. This time, they were no longer trying to break through, but instead launched a series of suicidal attacks on the three Level Three Great Wizard.
The wizard army in the rear completely closed in, and the hundreds of thousands of Eyeless Spider were dwindling. Before long, the army had dwindled from over 600,000 to less than 100,000.
This number is not enough to withstand a single attack from these wizards and their army of slaves.
"Damn it, where did it go?"
The furious roar shattered a swarm of low-level Eyeless Spider.
It is Jinnajia.
It's unclear what caused his fury.
With a tail over fifty meters long, it whipped up, carving an empty corridor through the army of Eyeless Spider.
The Eyeless Spider in this corridor were all shattered, their severed limbs falling like rain.
Another Level Three Body-Refining Great Wizard was also enraged, unleashing a merciless sweeping attack. With a few swift strokes of his giant axe, he wiped out the entire army of Eyeless Spider within a few hundred meters.
The two Level Three Body-Refining Great Wizard went on a killing spree, but they could not vent their anger in the slightest.
Only the Level Three Elemental Great Wizard, Luonaduo, remained calm. He first landed on the ground, raised his hand to scatter all the Eyeless Spider around him, then quickly walked to a spot, looked around for a while, and after discovering something, turned around and left. With one step, his figure vanished instantly.
For some unknown reason, the two body-refining Great Wizard leaped into the air the instant Luonaduo left, creating cracks dozens of meters in the ground before crashing through multiple sound barriers like cannon fire and disappearing from sight.
The three body-refining Great Wizard left, and the remaining battlefield was quickly cleared. Apart from the tens of thousands of Eyeless Spider that had fled at the beginning, the rest were all destroyed.
"They're probably hunting a living creature, most likely Eyeless Spider, but it could be something else, though this creature can command an army of Eyeless Spider."
All the wizards realized the change in events; the so-called mission to annihilate the million-strong army of Eyeless Spider was actually to annihilate that living creature.
In the end, no one ever saw what the living creature looked like.
This was the first living creature I saw in the Black Tomb World; it turns out the Black Tomb World isn't just full of undead.
"I'll go ask what happened."
April was also a little angry. He wasn't angry that he almost died, but angry that he had been used as a pawn. This mission wasn't about annihilating a million Eyeless Spider at all; they were all just providing cover for these few Level Three Wizard.
The other nine people all looked at April, but after a while, April returned with a face as black as a coal miner.
Everyone in the squad could tell that April hadn't obtained the hidden information about this mission.
Since there was no result, no one brought it up again, and they simply stayed there to rest.
After a narrow escape from death, everyone's magical power was severely depleted and they urgently needed to recover.
Leo made up an excuse to leave the group, and no one paid any attention. Only Alice watched Leo's departing figure thoughtfully.