Chapter 428 (2/2)

Hao Ren looked up and saw the Allied Army and the demonic army was figthing not far ahead.

The battle was taking place in a wide open area without without any natural cover. A vast area seemed to have been bombed as pits and craters were left behind by the magic explosions and bullet marks were everywhere. Countless dead bodies of the Allied Army and Banuklaak army, broken armours, weapons and flags strewn all over the place. Blood of the fallen armies had dried by the scorching heat, the air was filled with a turbid, strange smell—the smell of human and demonic blood mixture.

The knight officer commanded. “Team Three, guard the surrounding. Team Four, scout out the rocky hills on the east carefully. The rest, check the battlefield, collect the dead, and take their weapons. We need every weapon we could salvage, they might need them later!”

Hao Ren and his men pretended to be busy like other mercenaries but they were actually examining the dead bodies of the demons and humans—finding out their cause of death.

With just a glance, Lanina knew something was amiss at the scene: though most of the dead appeared to have died from the brutal battle, evidence showed that many of the dead lying on the edge of the battlefield were clearly fleeing the scene and suffering great horror before they were killed. Horror could still be seen on their faces. But comparing to the human, the horror was harder to observe on dead demons as their faces were more rigid.

But upon closer inspection, Lanina could still tell that these demons had also struck by horror before they died.

Both the humans and the demonic soldiers must have been fleeing from a ferocious third force which had appeared during the last battle—the identity of the third force was obvious.

Lanina ripped open a broken piece of armour of a dead body, revealing the scorched wound underneath which was probably the cause of death. The wound was through and through. “It was caused by a rocket-propelled osidian arrow.”

Not far away, Y’zaks found some rock-like residue on a dead demon which had been smashed into patty. “It’s osidian.”

“A typical signature of the First Batallion of demon king’s army.” Lanina sounded serious. “This weapon is unique to us.”

“Looks like some soldiers of the demon king survive.” Hao Ren got to his feet and gazed at the empty Broken Plain. “They have a new king which looks exactly like Y’zaks… but where are they now?”

“They shouldn’t be far away. There is no place to…”

Before Lanina could finish her sentence, a loud noise like the sound of earth crumbling was heard.

Hao Ren looked up and saw a small group of soldiers running back in their direction. These were the recce force they had send out earlier. The leading soldier shouted in fear. “The demon king’s army! Helcrown! Fall back! Fall back!”

The soldiers ran back frantically as a dozen dark colossi of seventy-metre-tall came out from behind the rocks. The colossi had the figure of a human, their bodies glittered with green runes which aided to lessen their weight and propelled their movement. The earth trembled as the colossi ran. The single-eyed colossi gave chase as their singe eyes emitted a light and detected the presence of enemies.

Following the colossi were a group of dark-skinned dwarfs covered in strange body armours, and also the demons which were soldiers of Y’zaks!

The earth-shattering noise and the violent shaking of the earth were just the beginning as Hao Ren saw the earth behind the rocky hills was rising slowly.

It was a city!