Published: February 12, 2025
“Retreat to the fifth defensive line! Retreat to the fifth defensive line!”
“All long-range units prepare! All long-range units prepare!”
“Zhong Ming, can you make the Armor Pressure Sky Cover launch that attack again?! A mane demon eagle has appeared in the sky and is rapidly approaching!”
“A-Tong, Ge Gui, you two clans take down the multi-armed wildman demon! We cannot let it get close to the fourth defensive line!”
“Attention, attention! Flying mutated lifeforms are charging in from the Half Abyss Demon Cave!”
“Attention, the Su Clan has also entered close combat, the support power of the Armor Pressure Sky Cover is weakening!”
“Order the third and fourth armies to stand by, the situation may be more serious than we imagined!”
“Fifteen kilometers away, a strong energy response point has appeared, quantity: three!”
“Logistics officer, prepare for emergency supplies in advance!”
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Countless orders and inquiries echoed in the communicator, confirming that this battle had already entered a heated stage.
The Alliance of Small Races occupied the terrain advantage, and had been on the offensive for a while. The narrow path was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Coupled with the ample preparations made earlier, nearly forty minutes into the battle, the mutated lifeforms still hadn't managed to break through the narrow path.
In fact, when they reached the latter half of the narrow path, they were met with attacks from the long-range units that had long been prepared above the desolate land.
These were not the few hundred people following Ye Zhongming, but thousands of powerful skill attack warriors. Their initial assault cleared out all mutated lifeforms within a hundred meters, achieving a kill count of over a thousand in an instant.
However, since the attack had begun, the mutated lifeforms would not stop. In their charge, they couldn't even keep track of how many companions had been pushed off the narrow path. But they didn’t care, as there were just too many of them.
Faced with the attacks from the All Races of the Universe, the mutated lifeforms were not without counterattacks, and their retaliation was quite powerful.
While the All Races of the Universe had long-range units, the mutated lifeforms also had many with long-range capabilities.
When the long-range units above the desolate land unleashed their might, the long-range units of the mutated lifeforms began their counterattacks.
Compared to the concentrated skills of the various races of the All Races of the Universe, the long-range units of the mutated lifeforms seemed a bit scattered.
Seemed scattered.
In fact, their number of long-range attack lifeforms far exceeded that of the All Races of the Universe.
At the same time, countless methods of attack arose.
There were dense black arrow rains, which were spines from unknown lifeforms. Various colored liquids, which were the bodily fluids of many lifeforms, most of which were toxic. Various elemental energies, as well as stones and trees, thrown by immensely strong lifeforms. Ye Zhongming even saw six glowing orbs like little suns rising from the forest at least five or six kilometers away from the Layered Water Desolation, slowly flying toward this side...
Due to the distance and height, the long-range attacks from the mutated lifeforms only had about one-fifth of them land within the desolate land's range; the rest targeted the narrow path.
The remaining defensive lines were constantly impacted and cleared by various attacks. The once thought solid fortifications would be destroyed within a few seconds, forcing the warriors above to come up with all sorts of means to survive.
Ye Zhongming led his people in retreat. They were fighting while falling back. There was no choice; the wave of attacks from the mutated lifeforms was too terrifying. Even though they had the advantage of terrain and could block the road with minimal forces, when it came down to close combat, they realized that sometimes advantages still required lives to defend.