Chapter 829: The Seventh Art of the God of Death (II) (2/2)

Although he did not imagine Samigina would be so difficult to deal with, he had finally reached his objective using a backup plan. He had killed the Demon God of Death. The only pity was that he failed to destroy his demon god pillar as well. However, with Samigina’s death and the demon god pillar heavily damaged, it would be impossible for the new Demon God of Death to reach his same level within the next century.

Why was Cai’er able to appear in the Southeastern Fort that was so distant from the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass? It was all because what the Temple Union had managed to accumulate over the past few millennia. There was a spatial treasure that they had saved up, called a Fixed Teleportation Scroll. It could only send a single person to a fixed location. There were only a total of three of these scrolls. Cai’er had used this scroll to reach the Southeastern Fort, allowing her to hold back the Demon God of Death.

She originally could have taken even more people with her through the Tower of Eternity, but Long Haochen decided in the end for her to go alone after taking into account the Southeastern Fort’s deployment and the tremendous pressure the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass was under from the Demon God Emperor.

Once Cai’er had recovered, she needed to use a second Fixed Teleportation Scroll to return. And, that was not all the missions Cai’er had to carry out.

The light magic arrays that had played a decisive role in the battle by massacring most of the Fiend army was the handiwork of the Eternal Heroes.

While the Eternal Heroes did slumber for thousands of years, they did not spend the entire time unconscious. After all, they still had a lifespan of a millennia as undead. Some of the mages spent a tremendous amount of time studying the elven magic the ancient elves had left behind. They actually managed to make out something. Their greatest gain was an existence called magical traps.

The logic behind magical traps was very simple. It was fixing magic to a certain location and setting up a way to trigger it. It could be immediately triggered when the enemy stepped into the trap, or it could be remotely triggered.

As long as there were sufficient materials, making the magical traps could even be easier than making magical scrolls. However, it required many secrets of ancient elven magic to do so, which had already become lost in the current age.

The Eternal Heroes had brought this esoteric magic back to humanity and also used it on the battlefield. However, there were only three mages who knew how to cast down magical traps. After considering everything, Long Haochen decided for them to cast all of their traps at the Southeastern Fort. Even though the Southeastern Fort already possessed people from all six vocations, the peak forces of each fort still originated from the temple responsible for the fort. The Warrior Temple and Spiritual Temple were relatively weaker on the battlefield. Coupled with how overly powerful the Fiend Clan under the Samigina’s command was, they would be better off concentrating the three mages’ abilities together to give the Demon God of Death a surprise instead of spreading out the traps. This also determined the outcome of the battle at the Southeastern Fort.

Although there were a few setbacks along the way, Long Haochen still managed to achieve his objective. With Yue Ye’s information ensured to be correct, he had to deal a heavy blow to the demons that they had never experienced before, basically to collapse the morale of the demon army completely, so it would be basically impossible for them to try take the Southeastern Fort again.

Within Long Haochen’s entire plan against the demons, the battle of the Southeastern Fort was utterly crucial. Only by winning that battle could he establish the foundations of all of his battle strategies. If it were not for the fact that the Demon God Emperor could take action at any time, he even wanted to visit the Southeastern Fort in person.

Night descended, but the Southeastern Fort remained brightly lit. Their celebratory spirit even lead to fireworks within the fort. Under Qiu Yonghao’s command, the soldiers even set up great pots on the walls and began cooking fragrant pieces of meat. Aside from forbidding alcohol, the soldiers protecting the fort had plenty of meat and food.

Yeah! After an unprecedented victory, how could he not reward the army with a feast?

As for the demons, they were much more miserable.

After a long journey, they fought for an entire day and night, while the only army that could be considered to be in perfect condition, the Fiends, had been annihilated. Even until now, the four Fiend Kings were still fighting over the demon god pillar. Although there were still over three hundred thousand soldiers left, all of them were utterly exhausted.

Most importantly, in order to travel at full speed and that Samigina was confident they could breach the Southeastern Fort as quickly as possible, the provisions of the army was quite limited.

Now that they had entered the rhythm of a drawn out battle, the demon gods were forced to carefully allocate the limited provisions after a discussion. When they sent someone to report to the Demon God Emperor, they also sent people to the Central Province to gather provisions. This would be a half a month to a month’s wait at the very least, while the provisions they brought could only last ten days at most. They were forced to ration their food.

As a result, even when the demon army was utterly exhausted, every single demon was only given the human equivalent of a steamed bun and a bowl of congee of food after setting up camp. Let alone meat, they did not even have meat stew.

After a battle like that, their morale had reached an all-time low and they could not even feed themselves. The various clans were all furious. However, a revolt did not happen. After all, there were over ten demon gods here watching over the situation and the demon army just too exhausted. As a result, after eating the food that barely filled their stomachs, a majority of the demons immediately fell asleep in their tents. Some of the demons did not even have camps. They just fell asleep in the wilderness.

Fortunately, this was the Southeastern Fort and not the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, or probably just the weather would have claimed lives.

The Demon God Emperor’s battle strategy was actually extremely thorough and effective. He had concentrated his strongest elite force at the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, but there was a small number of them. Using their strength that had reached the eighth step or higher, the environment was unable to affect them. Although Long Haochen had attracted the strongest powerhouses of the Demon race over to his side, the Demon God Emperor also believed he had drawn the ninth step human powerhouses to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass as well. He was not in a hurry to launch an attack. One of his objectives was to give Long Haochen to time to gather ninth step powerhouses. The Demon God Emperor was absolutely certain this would happen.