CHAPTER 528: START OF THE BATTLE (1/2)
In order to avoid being skewered, the overlord death had no choice but to evacuate from the giant’s arm. However, the moment he tried to take a single jump forward, the spikes immediately dived at him, cutting him off. Still mid-air, he had no choice but to make the difficult sacrifice of abandoning his steed to protect himself. Using the skeletal horse as a springboard and shield, he leaped off its back, finally pulling himself away from the giant.
Unfortunately, his horse wasn’t so lucky. Not even given the chance to neigh, it was summarily turned to dust by the numerous spikes…
Yet just because he had avoided the wave of ground spikes, his troubles weren’t over either. Immediately after the ground spikes ended, the next attack came crashing down from the heavens!
The skies turned dark above him, but by the time he noticed this, his fate was sealed. With no way to maneuver mid-air, there was no avoiding the massive palm flying down on him…
“Boom…”
Every action the Demonic Fire Igneous Giant took elicited a deafening groan from the earth. As the giant palm slammed down on the overlord death knight, both the skies and the earth shook from the massive shockwave. The surrounding lower-starred Purgatory creatures were all thrown off balance as well.
By the time the giant lifted up his palm, the overlord death knight beneath was an unrecognisable mess…
“ROOARR!!”
Victorious, the giant howled into the heavens. Around him, the other Purgatory creatures joined him in his howling, morale boosted by the easy defeat of one of the enemy’s generals.
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With their leader dead, the death knight unit was like a toothless tiger. The overlord giant boldly strode forward, closing the gap between himself and the knights in a few steps. Like an elephant running rampant on the battlefield, wherever the giant went, a death knight would be found flattened beneath its feet…
As of right now, the remaining death knights numbered in the hundreds. Members of this elite cavalry unit were at least Seven-star, meaning that if the various clan leaders wanted to reduce their casualties, they had to at least send out Eight-stars. In just the span of a few seconds, a plethora of dazzling long-ranged attacks were thrown their way, swiftly backing the death knights into a corner to be harvested.
This entire opening phase barely lasted half an hour. Barring the scant survivors who managed to escape during the chaos, the vanguard of the Undead were completely wiped out.
Naturally, she wasn’t one to stand on ceremony. She gulped down the majority of the souls in one go, leaving a small portion leftover sealed up in a soulstone. She then quietly stuffed it into Mo Na’s little backpack while she was still concentrating on mastering that new technique.
Ferti’nier required a massive amount of souls to upkeep herself due to the lack of her own body. Yet no matter how much she ate, she would never rise to the level of Demigod. As long as she stayed within Mo Ke’s body, the best she could achieve was the peak of the Overlord tier. A step might have separated the two levels, but that step was the difference between heaven and earth. When one entered the Demigod tier, they had transcended the mortal realm, they were truly in the realm of the divine at that point.
The most practical benefit of such an evolution was the lifespan of such individuals. A human overlord, even at its peak, only had a lifespan of five hundred to eight hundred years. Human demigods, however, could live over two thousand years!
Right this very instant, Karlston’s main army was about fifty kilometers away from the frontlines. The survivors from the death knight unit had just reported in, bringing with them news of their utter defeat. The sheer anger of learning about their disgrace was enough to send the soul flames in his eye sockets blazing. The news had also stirred up a wave of debate amongst the rest of the overlords gathered. Normally, the Undead would never consider matters such as morale, making them perfect soldiers of war. However, that was only for the mindless ones. Once an Undead gained intelligence, things weren’t so simple any longer.
For this expedition, Karlston had brought around twenty overlords with him, every one of them a proficient fighter with at least thirty meters to their Territories. Yet the moment they heard that their opponent was a massive giant with a seventy meter Territory, they were spooked.