Chapter 59 (1/2)

“Attack!!!”

Xeron held the demon scythe in his hand and shouted at the same time. The Stone Skin spell activated to protect the demon army from the rain of arrows.

Xeron knew that the elves might have grabbed the chance because he advanced prematurely, but he did not panic at all. He had his pride as a high-rank demon. He had fought many wars for Lucifer Kreegan in this world, and a simple ambush was not going to defeat him.

Demons loved to fight by nature, and their instinct for combat was almost inscribed into their bones. The demon army adjusted quickly from the chaos, and the gog unit started their retaliation. They threw a large number of fireballs toward the forest.

The camp of the demon army was originally in the forest, but Xeron knew that he could not battle the elves in the forest terrain. Therefore, he had gotten the demon army to set fire to the forest, and a large area around them had become scorched earth. The first wave of arrows by the elves landed mostly between the barren area and the forest. When the large number of explosives ignited the area again, the elves were forced to reveal themselves.

The tall dendroid guards were the first to appear. These slow-moving treants walked out with heavy steps. Some of them were still on fire and seemed to be in a bind. However, Xeron felt something was wrong when they appeared. There were too many dendroid guards. More than two hundred of them arranged themselves into a thick shield wall in front to protect the fragile elves behind them.

Thousands of wood elf archers appeared next. Sharpshooters were among them as well. These sharpshooters were superb ace archers, and every arrow they shot was a huge threat. The arrow that pinned the little demon onto the tree with the first wave of arrows was the handiwork of a sharpshooter.

The AvLee elves’ warriors—dwarfs, silver pegasus knights, centaur captains, unicorns—appeared one after another. Although these troops were not elves, they lived in the elves’ domain. Their fates were bound together, which was why they were in the elven army.

Moreover, all of them were massive in numbers without exception. They appeared together and almost completely surrounded Xeron’s demon army.

Three heroes leading the elves also appeared. Two of them were elven druids donning deer helmets, and the other was a male human. Although his face and chest had elven tattoos, he did not have long pointed ears and was a typical human.

Xeron recognized at a glance that this human elven hero was Ryland! He was the famous ranger in the kingdom of Erathia and the elven kingdom. It was said that he was the first human ever recognized by the elves, and the tattoos on his body were carved personally by an elder of the elves.

Three heroes with a huge army of about four thousand… When he saw so many troops, Xeron was inwardly shocked. Isn’t this difference too big?!

However, this was not all. High-pitched dragon roars rumbled from the sky. Huge shadows covered the ground, and a group of gigantic creatures with wings appeared. The dragons really came!

They were not many, only about a dozen of them, and there were three types of dragons—green dragons, emerald dragons, and gold dragons. The green and emerald dragons liked to live in the forest and could be said to be interdependent with the elves. The gold dragons liked to live on high mountains. However, they were also allies of the elves because of the existence of the Gold Dragon Queen.

The bodies of these dragons were simply too enormous. A mere dozen of them seemed to swallow the sun. They hovered over the battlefield, blocking the sunlight, leaving shadows where they passed. After hearing the dragons roar, these little demons were trembling with fear.

Right at the moment the dragons appeared, Xeron’s whole being did not feel good. Although he had high-level demons in his camp, he had summoned them at the cost of his magic power, and they were too few in number.

Xeron was not at all surprised that the dragons were here. After all, their plan was to deal with the Gold Dragon Queen in the first place. However, that was after he joined with Rashka and Ignatius and their troops of high-level demons. Now Rashka was pursuing that traitor Zydar, while Ignatius and his troops were far apart. This was equivalent to asking Xeron to face the attacks of these elves and dragons alone. How could he possibly be happy?

He still could not figure out even now. Fine, they ambushed me, but why did they dispatch three heroes and so many troops at the same time? This is akin to treating my troops as the main force! Why did the elves go so far?

Indeed, were it not for Roy’s letter of challenge, the elves might still attack Xeron, but not at this scale. At this time, there were two demon armies constantly attacking the elves, one was Xeron’s troop, and the other was Rashka’s. The elves were sparse in numbers and had limited troops. They would generally distribute their forces equally to defend against these two forces. However, Roy’s letter of challenge changed everything.

It was like you meeting two bad guys. One of them did bad things silently, but the other was spitting out vulgarities on top of doing bad things. Who would you hate more?

The elves planned to teach this arrogant Xeron a good lesson now. They dispatched more than half of their main force all at once to express their determination and to dispel the demon’s arrogance!