Chapter 796: A God-slaying Strike (I) (2/2)
As they drew closer and closer to the camps of the demons, Long Haochen raised his hand to signal the army to stop.
“Follow my command. Dismount and leave five hundred warriors to watch the horses. Everyone else, maintain your formations and attack with me.”
They really were people with vocations. Long Haochen’s command reached the entire army very quickly and aside from the knights, all the other members had dismounted, leaving their horses where they were without creating any noise at all. Aside from the knights, the other vocations were not particularly skilled in battle on horseback. The horses were just for travelling. In actual battle, they would be more familiar with fighting on foot.
Two thousand knights stood at the front, with the priests behind them. The mages and summoners were slightly further back. They were surrounded by warriors to the left, right and back. Assassins moved about outside the army. They slowly advanced while maintaining this perfect formation.
Long Haochen specially had Han Yu stay behind. Of course it was not to watch the horses. Instead, it was to use the mental force of the Demonic Eye Tyrant to disturb the scouting magic from the demons, to prevent these horses and the warriors from being discovered. At the same time, they could avoid any accidents as Han Yu would be there.
There were over two hundred thousand demons stationed outside the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass. During the holy war five years ago, it had even reached as much as a million. However, the environment there was horrible, so in the end, only the defined demons stayed behind. It was very difficult for weaker demons to survive there.
As a result, the demon army outside the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass could be described as the strongest for any of the size forts. They were all above the fourth step.
That demonstrated how powerful the demons were. It would take the entire union to gather two hundred thousand powerhouses above the fourth step. This was also the important reason why the Temple Union had always been afraid of open battles against the demons.
However, with the addition of the Eternal Heroes, the peak strength of the Temple Union no longer paled in comparison to the demons. They were launching a sneak attack as well under the lead of Long Haochen and the other peak powerhouses, which was they they were confident in dealing with a demon army that mounted to two hundred thousand people with just a little more than ten thousand people.
They grew closer and closer to the demon army. They could already see the camps of the army.
They could not get any closer. Although it was cold near the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass and the visibility at night time was very low, the demon watchtowers would be able to spot them getting closer.
Long Haochen said sternly, “Stop. Everyone prepare for battle. Lin Xin.”
“Boss,” Lin Xin arrived next to Long Haochen quickly.
Long Haochen asked, “with the overall strength of the mages, how much closer do we need to get before they can fight?”
Lin Xin answered immediately, “We’re around for kilometers from the demons. We need to be at least one and a half kilometers from them for the mages to use large scale magic. If you want to maximize the damage, then we need to be five hundred meters away.”
Long Haochen nodded, “Alright, I understand. Everyone gather over.”
The Bright Glimmer of Hope were the commanders of this penetration army. They controlled an army of a vocation corresponding to their personal vocation. They quickly gathered near Long Haochen. of course, the eighteen Heroes of Eternity had come too.
Long Haochen whispered, “there’s roughly two hundred thousand enemies. According to the information gathered by the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, there’s only one demon god stationed here, which is the demon god of the twentieth pillar, Purson. His cultivation definitely don’t be weak to be able to rank twentieth. His Demon God Pillar is present as well. Originally, there were there demon gods stationed here, but according to my Intel, the other two have returned to Modu.”
The Eternal Heroes did not give any opinions. Back at the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, Shu Yongxiao and Xiao Huo had already made it clear. During the war, they would not take part in any of the decision-making. They would follow their commands and just fight.
Their decision was clearly very clever, because they had slept for several thousand years after all. They did not understand the situation of the outside world. The current war between the humans and demons definitely would not be based off the situation several thousand years ago. Coupled with their seniority, if they really did give their opinion, wouldn’t everyone listen to them?