Chapter 482: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind_2
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The Lord of Zhenhai City and his trusted corps!
Running away such an important figure was really a headache.
At this moment, the Lord of Zhenhai City, seeing the orcs behind him did not continue the pursuit, secretly breathed a sigh of relief while beginning to check the Eight Trigrams Mirror.
Now, the number of troops still following him had dropped to three hundred, but fortunately, a few trusted house slaves had broken through with him.
The losses were significant, but at least he still had usable people in his hands and did not need to start cultivating his team from scratch.
"Hey, what's going on? We've already escaped at least ten kilometers from the city, so why haven't we exited the blockade area yet?"
They fled along the way. Even though there were no more orcs chasing them, they didn't dare to relax even slightly.
Only they had run such a long distance, yet they still hadn't escaped the blockade zone, which was too abnormal.
"Master, perhaps the orcs initially expanded the blockade area a bit to prevent anyone from escaping."
"I hope so. Once we're out of the blockade, use the spatial shift scroll immediately; remember to regroup in Tianxiang City."
As he instructed, he didn't pause at all; being on the battlefield, even a slight problem could lead to irreversible doom.
Therefore, before truly escaping the blockade zone, the Lord of Zhenhai City remained highly vigilant.
They failed to notice that a layer of pale red liquid was seeping on the ground.
In the pitch black night, a light black mist had risen at some point.
And as they advance, the black mist grew thicker, while the red liquid started to float gradually, gathering into small streams of blood.
Just as the Lord of Zhenhai City and his group ventured a thousand meters into the mist, shadows appeared in front of them, densely packed, exuding a suffocating and eerie aura.
"Heh heh... you all smell so good... heh heh..."
Amidst the sinister voice, there was a tinge of excitement and greed.
One by one, the evil ghosts, with strange laughter, flew out from the ghostly entities.
Their sharp claws mercilessly grabbed at these intruding human soldiers.
"Damn evil practitioners! I am the Lord of Zhenhai City, do you want to be hunted down by the court? Get lost quickly!"
Damn it, just escaped the tiger's den and immediately entered the wolf's lair.
No wonder the Lord of Zhenhai City would curse out loud.
Often near battlefields, evil practitioners would gather, lurking on the edges, using vile methods to harm the spirits of dead warriors.
Yet, what the Lord of Zhenhai City hadn't anticipated was that these evil practitioners would target them, the officers and soldiers.
Audacious; it was simply courting death!
Furious, the Lord of Zhenhai City slashed out with his longsword, emitting a cold light.
The sword light swept through a group of encroaching evil ghosts.
It seemed invincible, but even as the sword light cut through them, it only passed through without causing any substantial harm.
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At that moment, the eerie laughter didn't diminish in the slightest but grew louder, seemingly mocking their overestimation of their capabilities.
From all directions, shadows emerged densely, surrounding them completely.
The next moment, a turbulent wave of ghostly energy swept across the entire area, and the chilling aura immediately made everyone feel cold and numb.
"Fifth tier evil ghosts? How is that possible?!"
Feeling the aura of these evil ghosts, the Lord of Zhenhai City's face changed drastically, filled with shock.
The evil ghosts surrounding them numbered at least eight to ten thousand, and each one exuded ghostly energy of the fifth tier level.
Even if two or thirty fifth tier evil ghosts appeared, he might not have lost his composure.
But now, seven or eight thousand evil ghosts, each with fifth tier aura—how could he not be terrified?
"Kill everyone except the Lord and the Array Master."
A cold female voice sounded within the ghost fog.
All the evil ghosts rushed forth, charging directly into the human formation.
There was no tactic, only brutal slaughter.
In absolute numerical superiority, they just charged without any concern.
The screams, cries, and curses reverberated one after another in this ghost fiend realm.
Even though the Lord of Zhenhai City exhausted all his life-saving methods, he eventually found himself strangled by evil ghosts, hanging mid-air, with ghostly chains tightly binding him from head to toe.
Let alone moving; even the operation of his inner spiritual power was sealed, unable to use any strength.
The house slave Array Master who closely followed the Lord, frantically pulled out several life-saving array plates, which were quickly shattered by hundreds of evil ghosts in a short span.
Then, he received the same treatment as the Lord, being suspended mid-air.
As for the nearly three hundred human soldiers, they were torn apart and devoured by the evil ghosts.
Blood became the nourishment for the Blood River.
Flesh became the evil ghosts' blood food.
Spirit became a member of the Demon Souls.
In just a few minutes, this team that had painstakingly managed to escape from the city was blood-washed and completely annihilated.
The Blood River receded, the ghost fiend scattered, and in the night, everything returned to normal.
Besides some broken armor and weapons left on the ground, no one knew that a few hundred strong corps had been wiped out here.
Zi Liyuan casually waved his hand, and the power of the Underworld Emperor swept across the land like a torrent.
The soil churned as if an earth dragon was turning over.
The remnants on the ground vanished completely, as if nothing had ever happened here.
"Let's move, back to the spaceship."
The capture of the Lord of Zhenhai City was, of course, to obtain intelligence about the Wild Boar Skin Dynasty from him.
As for capturing the Array Master, it was done under Mo Yi's command.
It was rare to encounter a formidable Array Master, having captured him, they naturally intended to extract all the array knowledge from his mind.
In fact, from the start, when the orcs launched their attack, Xiao Guang had brought Zi Liyuan and Mo Yi to nearby hiding.
It could be said that from when the Lord hid under the courtyard in the western corner of the city, their every move hadn't escaped Zi Liyuan's eyes.
Triggering the formation, obliterating the western corner area.
Decisively breaking through, facing the shaman's joint spellcasting of thunderous bombardments, followed by the pursuit of the orcs.
Everything that happened was observed by Zi Liyuan.
When they escaped the orcs' blockade, Mo Yi had already set up the Blood River Demon Soul Formation ahead, waiting for them to charge into it and meet their end.
"Let's go, we need to start clearing the outermost orcs."
Imprisoning the Lord of Zhenhai City and the Array Master into two separate cells,
Zi Liyuan, accompanied by Mo Yi, turned and left.
Inquiring about intelligence wasn't urgent at the moment, for they had more important matters to attend to.
"Xiao Guang, once those orcs slaughter all the city's life and dismantle all military formations, immediately bombard the city with your full strength!"
By using a borrowed knife, they would annihilate the old witch's million troops of Professionals and ten thousand Epic Corps.
Since the people were annihilated, the next target was, of course, the borrowed knife itself.
No matter what, after this massive battle, even if the orcs didn't suffer heavy losses, they would have consumed significantly.
Striking while the enemy was weary would better achieve the strategic goals.
Xiao Guang's Magic Crystal Cannon was even more terrifying than nuclear weapons.
Ten cannons fired simultaneously, and the entire Zhenhai City would be blasted into a huge pit, with no stone left unturned.
As for the unprepared orcs army, possibly celebrating their victory,
Facing Xiao Guang's surprise cannon fire at their most relaxed moment, massive casualties were inevitable.
Following that, naturally, the Blood River Demon Soul Formation would seal the space, unleashing endless Demon Souls to hunt and kill.
As for the Legendary Orcs, they were left to Zi Liyuan and a group of super-hitters due to arrive soon.
In order to wipe out this group of orcs, he had long made various preparations.
Through the Naga, through surveillance and other channels, he had found out the true state of this invasion of millions of orcs.
He knew exactly how many Legendary Orcs were among them.
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