Chapter 429 (1/2)

Thunderous roar came in all directions, and the earth was trembling. Black smoke rising from the rocky hills had almost blocked the sky like the end of the world. Amid all these a city was rising.

The osidian-built city had a hundred-yard-tall, sort of black-gold casting wall. The wall had a series of solid vertical lines and on the top of each line had carving of evil dragon head; the city was encircled by six-hundred-sixty-six osidian stepples and each stepple had a huge floating illusory eye reflecting the image of every corner of Demonic Plane; above the osidian city was a massive floating obelisk which emitting a faint red light as it spun, supporting the shielding system of the city.

The black city had risen above the rocky hills and was still rising even if it had reached the height of several hundred metres in the air. It had become a city in the sky sitting on an upside down cone-shaped floating island. On the underside of the floating island were rugged rocks filled with runes glowing with dim light, and web of intertwined pipes which together formed a massive antigravity field keeping the entire city afloat!

Soldiers on Broken Plain looked up and were all stunned in awe at the city which was supposed to have been buried in the space storm. A mercenary finally screamed in fear after a long while. “It’s Helcrown!”

A loud bang was heard from not afar as the colossi which came out from behind the rocky hills began to attack the knights. Flame was shot out of the eyes of the colossi and burned a ten-metre-radius pit in the ground. The knights were still in awe at Helcrown and totally forgot that the lethal colossi had come under their nose. A few knights were blown away before the rest came to their senses and retreated.

Seeing the knights in chaos, the dark dwarfs behind the colossi saw the knights immediately squatted down and took out a strangely-shaped rectangular parallelepiped weapon from their backs, aimed at the enemies, and pulled the trigger. A rocket-like stuff—must be the so-called rocket-propelled osidian arrow—was fired. The heavily armoured demons behind the dark dwarfs had flanked the convoy to intercept the fleeing enemies.

As brave as the mercenaries and knights were, those with a bit intelligence would be able to figure out that they were no match for the hybrid demonic forces. They decided to retreat. But just when they were about to do it, a sound like a rolling thunder suddenly was heard from the sku. “Since you’re here, why not just stay.”

The voice sounded familiar to Hao Ren. He looked up and was shocked to see a tall figure appeared on the wall of Helcown. It was five-metre tall, body was almost in flame as his skin was flowing with hot lava, and there was a horn on its head—that looked exactly like Y’zaks.

Lanina was dumbfounded. The soldiers almost went hysterical screaming in fear. “The mad demon king is alive!””Fall back! Everyone fall back!””Abandon baggage. Report back to base.””Carly, I think I’m not going to make it back to marry you…””You f**king don’t a girlfriend!””I’m about to die. Couldn’t you just let me say whatever i want?”

Y’zaks suddenly patted on Hao Ren’s shoulder. The two exchanged a look, then Hao Ren nodded and ran toward the demonic soldiers as he shouted. “Brothers, fall back. We’ll hold them back!”

Before Hao Ren knew it, Lily and Vivian had lunged out. Lily had been wolfing down spicy sticks when she saw the colossi earlier, she had garnered enough energy to transform into a giant husky. The brute strength of the husky smashed a colossus into pieces while Vivian summoned a large swarm of bats creating a thundercloud before striking its lightning strike around the dark dwarfs just to create distraction, preventing the dwarfs from aiming their weapons.

An officer of the Allied Army saw all of these and was touched. He immediately led a team of his men and came to help. “Warriors! We’re coming to help!”

Hao Ren’s stomach churned; while he was helping them to flee, they instead came back. “Just go!”

The knight officer slid his sword out of the sheath, looked into the sky and exclaimed, “Hahaha, warrior! Your lionheart deserves the respect as an Allied soldier! Today, you and I will go to…”

Still hovering in the air, Vivian threw a bat down and hit the officer on the head and he passed out. “Load of crap!”

While the returning knights were dumbstruck at what happened, Hao Ren pointed his long spear and motioned. “Go quickly! You guys are bogging us down!”

The knights quickly carried the fainted officer and left the battlefield in a hurry. Hao Ren let out a sigh of relief as the bunch of screwballs left.

Then he turned his head around and looked at the demon-colossus-dwarf hybrid army, thinking way to deal with yet another bunch of screwballs.