Chapter 823: A Critical Attack (II)
Long Haochen said, “There’s less than two days left until the three days that the Demon God Emperor gave us is up. I think he’s also paying attention to the battles there. Even if the news doesn’t get to him as quickly as us, the difference in speed will be negligent. Let’s leave him happy for a while. He’ll probably think we don’t know about the situations there and we’ll be completely bewildered by the attacks on the Southeastern Fort and Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass.”
Long Tianyin sighed, “It’s a pity that we’ve used up far too many resources this time. However, as long as we can turn the tides with this war and defeat the humans, anything is worth it. I’m not worried about the Southeastern Fort and Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass. The most crucial aspect is still the Demon God Emperor. Haochen, are you really confident that you can deal with the Demon God Emperor’s attacks?”
Long Haochen smiled, but he did not answer his grandfather. Was he really confident? Of course he had confidence, but how could he know whether he actually could before they had fought? According to Ye Xiaolei’s analysis of the Demon God Emperor, he had no chance at all. Of course, that was not accounting for Haoyue. Haoyue was his greatest trump card. Long Haochen would not play this card unless he had completely run out of choices, because Haoyue’s appearance would definitely make the Demon God Emperor go crazy.”
“Cai’er, do be careful,” Long Haochen patted Cai’er’s hands. Cai’er smiled, “Don’t worry, I’ll be right back.”
With that, she turned around a left silently.
Wang Yuanyuan smiled bitterly, “If it weren’t for the limited quota, I should have gone as well. I’m just too unqualified to be the temple head of the Warrior Temple.”
Long Haochen chuckled, “Don’t say that. The final, decisive battle will happen where. What we are facing is the most terrifying force of the demons. There’ll be plenty of opportunities for you to come into play.
Outside the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, the demon encampment.
“Your majesty, Samigina’s already reached the Southeastern Fort with his army. He has immediately launched an attack on the Southeastern Fort,” the Moon Demon God Agares reported the most recent news to the Demon God Emperor.
The Moon Demon God lay on his side on his bed and smiled indifferently, “He sure is in a hurry! Though, it’s not an issue that we suffer slightly larger losses.”
Agares obviously understood the Demon God Emperor, “Your majesty, should we increase the pressure on the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass?”
The Demon God Emperor shook his head as he smiled, “There’s no hurry. The ones that should be in a hurry should be the humans. I want to play a game with Long Haochen. Only a slow conquest is interesting. If I don’t obliterate his confidence and belief, he won’t yield to me. The humans have already been building up for six thousand years, so it’s time for them to hand over a few things. Pass on my order to Samigina and Marbas. No matter what they do, they have to charge into the Temple Union as quickly as possible and attack the Holy City.”
“Yes.”
Agares answered politely, before turning around and leaving the camp quickly.
Outside the Demon God Emperor’s tent, Agares frowned and thought to himself, this time, the humans really might have no chance. His majesty is using a thorough plan.
A day later, the Southeastern Fort.
All of the walls of the Southeastern Fort had basically been dyed different colours by blood. There were many traces of destruction on the walls. Fortunately, the walls were still sturdy enough and protected by magic arrays. While it was covered within thousands of holes on the surface, its interior was still sturdy.
The battle had already lasted a day and a night. Samigina had mobilised his demon army like a madman, sending waves after waves of attacks. He did not give the Southeastern Fort a single moment to catch their breaths.
The army of five hundred thousand rotated through battle. After the attacks of the first wave ended, the second wave would immediately follow up. During the past twenty-four hours, apart from the slip up which dealt a heavy blow to the Demonic Eye Soldiers and Berserk Demons, the demons still seemed to possess a crushing advantage. Although they were constantly repelled by the Southeastern Fort, the fort suffer many losses as well, while its resistance seemed to grow weaker. If it were not for the army of knights that had charged out of the city numerous times, their losses probably would have been greater.
However, the demons suffered tremendous losses as well. They did not bring any cannon fodder in their attack this time, as they were all elites. According to their data, sixty thousand demons had died in battle, which only demonstrated how fierce their attacks had been. Although the humans did not suffer as great a loss as the demons, they still lost around half that number.
The most that died were actually the shield warriors that possessed the strongest defence. Most of them had died when they protected the mages, summoners and priests.
The shield warriors used their shields and their lives to protect the magic users. As a result, while the eight thousand magic users did suffer some wounds, very few died in battle, only three hundred at most. On such a vicious battlefield, this was nothing short of a miracle!
The eyes of the mages, summoners and priests had become bloodshot as they fought without regard for anything else. After a day and night of battle, they actually had not left the walls to rest at all despite being magic users. It was not because Qiu Yonghao forbid them, but that they refused to. When they saw their partners fall in battle to protect them, all of them were furious. At least half of the three hundred magic users that fell in battle had died from burning their lives in order to cast spells above what they were capable of.
The powerhouses of all the temples were blinded by slaughter, constantly repelling the vicious attacks of the demons. They were basically even more insane than the Berserk Demons.
Having reached this point, willpower and fighting spirit became much more important than strength. Corpses had already piled up below the walls like mountains.
“F*cking hell, Samigina’s basically insane,” Qiu Yonghao stood on the walls in exhaustion and cursed.
A whole day and night had passed. It was already noon on the second day, but the attacks from the demons still did not weaken at all. And, Qiu Yonghao could tell that the demon army had already become utterly exhausted. They probably could not even use eighty percent of their strength. However, despite this, Samigina still refused to let up, constantly ordering them to attack the walls.
It had to be mentioned that the demon army of five hundred thousand had not rested ever since they began travelling! They had been fighting on the battlefield the entire time. There was not a single human commander who would order his army to fight like this, but that was exactly what Samigina did.
And, he had already executed four leaders of other clans who had objected.
Apart from Gaap who died first, the other dozen or so demon gods rotated through battle as well. Although they were stopped, they pinned down the forces of the Southeastern Fort as well.
“How much longer can we last with our arrangements?” Qiu Yonghao asked the Eternal Hero wrapped in a cloak beside him. The thick light element was poured into Qiu Yonghao’s body by the Eternal Hero who was clearly a mage. These Eternal Heroes had all been sent over from the Assassin Temple.
“There shouldn’t be any issues in the next two days. Our arrangements can last five days at most. If you exclude the preparation time, we still have two days at the very least.”
“Alright.” Qiu Yonghao gritted his teeth, “I refuse to believe that Samigina won’t fall for it after another two days of attacks. Even if I have to throw my life away, I have to last until then.”
A tremendous amount of soldiers and resources were gathered within the Southeastern Fort. As long as the battle of the powerhouses did not become one-sided, the battlefield would not collapse despite their defences seemingly weakening.
Samigina had now become rather anxious. It had already been a day and night, but the humans defended very stubbornly. What surprised him the most was that powerhouses from all six temples were actually gathered in the Southeastern Fort, and the Southeastern Fort had gained an additional five or six domain wielding warriors, with the powerhouse wielding the divine tool bow surprising him the most. It was exactly because of the threat he posed that the demon gods on the battlefield were afraid of using their full strength. They had to maintain their vigilance against his attacks at all times.
The morale of the demons began to waver. Aside from the Fiend army of a hundred thousand, the other clans had all fought in battle already and sustained losses of different degrees. Most importantly, the demon army was extremely exhausted after a day and night of fighting. The voices of discontent became louder and louder and even the demon gods looked at Samigina with more and more displeased gazes. Even an idiot could tell what Samigina was scheming. His Fiend army had managed to rest up for an entire day and night, so they were in their prime condition, but Samigina forbid them from stepping onto the battlefield, just because he was afraid that would suffer losses.
If it were not for the fact that Samigina and his four Demon Kings were too powerful, the demon gods probably would have voiced their discontent already.
There was a limit to patience. After Samigina, the demon god that ranked the highest was the eleventh. If this continued, there was a possibility that Samigina would lose control of the situation as well. After all, he had already angered them slightly.
“Let’s go talk to the Demon God of Death.” A demon god finally could not stand it anymore and suddenly stood up. Out of the sixteen demon gods, twelve followed his appeal, going with him to meet Samigina.
Just at this moment, Samigina slowly stood up from his commander’s seat and said seriously, “Pass down the orders to withdraw the troops. Send out the entire Fiend army. I will personally enter the battlefield against the enemy.” As he said that, a pair of huge wings slowly unfurled on his back. He looked back and glanced at the dozen demon gods making their way over coldly. Immediately, the demon gods stopped where they were.
The demon army retreated like the receding tide and the Fiend army, a hundred thousand strong, slowly advanced.
The Grand Fiends of the sixth step and higher all flew in the air, while those below the sixth step were either infantry or cavalry, slowly advancing towards the Southeastern Fort in a neat formation.
Samigina had finally used his strongest army under his direct command, the Fiend Clan.
The perpetuating battle had caused a huge pressure on the Southeastern Fort. While the demons had suffered tremendous losses, the Southeastern Fort was the same. The powerhouses were exhausted, the warriors’ performance had fallen and the mages had used too much magic. They were currently in their weakest state.
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