Published: March 12, 2025
The formation of the divine race was just set up when beams of blue and red light suddenly shot out from the bodies of the undead beings.
As these beams entered the divine race's formation, the divine race members fell like dumplings, dropping in large groups. Those who fell, however, astonishingly remained suspended in mid-air. To make matters worse, the blue and red lights from the undead beings continued to flash intermittently; as long as they hit a divine race member, that person would be finished.
Yun Tianlei watched the ongoing battle quietly. The territory chosen for the Pagoda Empire's attack was quite peculiar. The distance from their divine race continent was neither far nor near; they could see it, but it would be difficult to catch up at such a moment. It was almost like the Pagoda Empire was demonstrating their strength to Yun Tianlei.
Yet, Yun Tianlei was not angry. He simply observed the situation calmly. To be honest, after several days of attacks, Yun Tianlei had roughly understood the Pagoda Empire's strategy. They aimed to delay their advance and eliminate the living forces of the divine race in this manner.
In previous battles, Yun Tianlei had encountered similar situations, but the lethality of those attacks could not be compared to the Pagoda Empire’s. Each attack from the Pagoda Empire could cause significant casualties among the human race, at least several hundred and potentially over a thousand.
Although such scattered attacks seemed inconspicuous, they posed a tremendous blow to the morale and living forces of the divine race.
Yun Tianlei appeared calm on the surface, but inside, he was far from peaceful. The Pagoda Empire's method of attack was completely different from before. In such a short period, he had already faced four attacks. Although the number of attackers was not large, one thousand was still considerable. It was neither too many nor too few.
Moreover, he was unsure how many more would come to attack them, which made Yun Tianlei increasingly worried. Most importantly, he could no longer underestimate the strength of the Pagoda Empire's forces.
The first factor was the mounts of the Pagoda Empire troops. Yun Tianlei, as a seasoned veteran of the battlefield, was very aware of the strength of a ninth-level expert. One ninth-level expert could not possibly have such speed. The reason they had such speed now was undoubtedly due to their mounts, which he had not seen before in the Ark Continent 6.
The second factor was their firepower. Yun Tianlei had heard about the magic cannons from Cloud Shadow. At that time, he didn’t take it seriously. He was aware of the capabilities of magic cannons, even in the God Realm, it took considerable effort to manufacture those large magic cannons. However, to be honest, Yun Tianlei was not very impressed with the power of those large magic cannons, so he believed that the Pagoda Empire would not possess particularly powerful magic cannons either.
But the recent battle had definitely taught Yun Tianlei a lesson. He hadn’t expected the seemingly inconspicuous magic cannons of the Pagoda Empire to have such great power. This was truly unexpected.
However, Yun Tianlei could not just stand by and watch the Pagoda Empire’s forces slaughter his subordinates. He quickly dispatched people for support. As soon as there was movement on their side, the undead beings and cavalry from the Pagoda Empire retreated immediately, leaving without a trace.
But when he tallied the battle results, Yun Tianlei couldn’t feel the slightest joy. The team he had just dispatched was also a ten-thousand-man unit, and this unit returned with barely four thousand intact. In just one encounter, over five thousand of them had been wiped out by the Pagoda Empire's forces. Such casualties were truly significant.
Yun Tianlei frowned; he felt a headache coming on. If the Pagoda Empire continued to use this method against them, it would become troublesome. Despite having a twenty million-strong army, sustaining this type of battle would eventually wear them down. They had already lost nearly twenty thousand men just getting close to the territory of the kingdom of light. While twenty thousand seemed insignificant compared to twenty million, one must not forget that this had happened in less than a day. Such high casualties in such a short time was something Yun Tianlei could not accept.