Chapter 829: The Seventh Art of the God of Death (II)
Someone as powerful as the Demon God of Death had actually been slain on the battlefield, and this was after he had used the demon god transformation and the Demonic Collapse Technique. This was just far, far too shocking to all the demon gods.
The Fiends who had been attacking crazily seemed to be on some sort of drug and its effects immediately seemed to have worn off then. The four Fiend Kings immediately stopped their attacks and flew back first. Their target was the Demon God of Death’s demon god pillar.
Samigina was dead, so the new Demon God of Death would definitely be born from the four of them. It was very likely that this would be their only opportunity in their lives, so who could still be bothered to fight against the humans?
With their retreat, did the remaining Fiends still have any capacity to battle under the Holy Rain? Their forces immediately collapsed and the remaining Fiends, amounting to less than five thousand, rapidly retreated. They flapped their wings and flew back towards the demon encampment.
The powerhouses of the Southeastern Fort pursued for several kilometers and finished off almost another thousand Fiends, before returning to the Southeastern Fort.
Cai’er did not return to the Southeastern Fort. After using the last art of the God of Death, she directly fell down from the sky, landing on the Tower of Eternity and vanishing. The Tower of Eternity just landed before the Southeastern Fort. The huge tower that stood a hundred meters tall shone with a gentle glow, purifying the souls that had died on the battlefield and also channeling this power of purification into the tower for Cai’er to use to heal and recover.
“Retreat and set up camp.” In the distance, the remaining demon gods basically gave an order to the various clans in the army at the same time. They retreated ten kilometers and set up camp there.
After their shock had dissipated, they all various calculations in their heads.
They had lost this battle and it was a great loss. The Fiends suffered the greatest losses, almost completely annihilated. Even the commander of this army, Samigina, had fallen in battle. The fault for this defeat obviously fell on the shoulders on this Demon God of Death.
Clearly, the Southeastern Fort was an extremely tough bone to pick. They had all witnessed the terrifying magic arrays! Were there still anyone who was bold enough to continue leading the charge? Moreover, the demon army was utterly exhausted now and their morale had become so low that they were close to revolting. The demon gods could only regroup the army and continue after they had rested up.
What they could do right now was to report the results of the battle to the Demon God Emperor as quickly as possible and ask the Demon God Emperor to decide what to do next. At the same time, they knew that they probably would not be able to take the Southeastern Fort.
Compared to the demons, the Southeastern Fort had become a sea of joy. Basically every single human cheered Long Haochen and Cai’er’s names. Their heroes had saved the Southeastern Fort and killed the Demon God of Death. In that moment, the chairman and vice-chairman had almost become the symbols of humanity in their hearts.
Although the Southeastern Fort had suffered rather heavy losses in this battle, they did not lose much of their strongest force, while the morale of the demons had reached an all-time low. It would not be easy for them to be able to repeat what happened today.
Qiu Yonghao’s face was flushed with joy as his eyes were teary. The victory allowed them to see the hope of humanity breaking out of the darkness.
The eyes of the Eternal Heroes shone as well. The victory also allowed them to see the light of dawn in the darkness.
The Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.
With a grunt, Long Haochen roused from his thoughts. The Armour of Eternity on him turned into thirteen streaks of light, merging into his body. With a flash, Long Yating had turned back into human form from the King’s Sword.
Before, Long Hoachen had used the Sword of Eternity and Yating’s King’s Sword to use the Eye of Brahm?. Coupled with the fusion of the Domain of Eternity and Light God Domain, he was able to block the final attack from Samigina.
With a rather pale face, Long Haochen closed his eyes once again. He immediately entered a state of cultivation.
Yating sat down behind him and pressed her hands on the centre of his back, pouring her pure light attribute into his body to assist his healing.
Traveling through space and consecutively casting the Eye of Brahm? and the Holy Rain took quite a large toll on Long Haochen,
Although he did not imagine Samigina would be so difficult to deal with, he had finally reached his objective using a backup plan. He had killed the Demon God of Death. The only pity was that he failed to destroy his demon god pillar as well. However, with Samigina’s death and the demon god pillar heavily damaged, it would be impossible for the new Demon God of Death to reach his same level within the next century.
Why was Cai’er able to appear in the Southeastern Fort that was so distant from the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass? It was all because what the Temple Union had managed to accumulate over the past few millennia. There was a spatial treasure that they had saved up, called a Fixed Teleportation Scroll. It could only send a single person to a fixed location. There were only a total of three of these scrolls. Cai’er had used this scroll to reach the Southeastern Fort, allowing her to hold back the Demon God of Death.
She originally could have taken even more people with her through the Tower of Eternity, but Long Haochen decided in the end for her to go alone after taking into account the Southeastern Fort’s deployment and the tremendous pressure the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass was under from the Demon God Emperor.
Once Cai’er had recovered, she needed to use a second Fixed Teleportation Scroll to return. And, that was not all the missions Cai’er had to carry out.
The light magic arrays that had played a decisive role in the battle by massacring most of the Fiend army was the handiwork of the Eternal Heroes.
While the Eternal Heroes did slumber for thousands of years, they did not spend the entire time unconscious. After all, they still had a lifespan of a millennia as undead. Some of the mages spent a tremendous amount of time studying the elven magic the ancient elves had left behind. They actually managed to make out something. Their greatest gain was an existence called magical traps.
The logic behind magical traps was very simple. It was fixing magic to a certain location and setting up a way to trigger it. It could be immediately triggered when the enemy stepped into the trap, or it could be remotely triggered.
As long as there were sufficient materials, making the magical traps could even be easier than making magical scrolls. However, it required many secrets of ancient elven magic to do so, which had already become lost in the current age.
The Eternal Heroes had brought this esoteric magic back to humanity and also used it on the battlefield. However, there were only three mages who knew how to cast down magical traps. After considering everything, Long Haochen decided for them to cast all of their traps at the Southeastern Fort. Even though the Southeastern Fort already possessed people from all six vocations, the peak forces of each fort still originated from the temple responsible for the fort. The Warrior Temple and Spiritual Temple were relatively weaker on the battlefield. Coupled with how overly powerful the Fiend Clan under the Samigina’s command was, they would be better off concentrating the three mages’ abilities together to give the Demon God of Death a surprise instead of spreading out the traps. This also determined the outcome of the battle at the Southeastern Fort.
Although there were a few setbacks along the way, Long Haochen still managed to achieve his objective. With Yue Ye’s information ensured to be correct, he had to deal a heavy blow to the demons that they had never experienced before, basically to collapse the morale of the demon army completely, so it would be basically impossible for them to try take the Southeastern Fort again.
Within Long Haochen’s entire plan against the demons, the battle of the Southeastern Fort was utterly crucial. Only by winning that battle could he establish the foundations of all of his battle strategies. If it were not for the fact that the Demon God Emperor could take action at any time, he even wanted to visit the Southeastern Fort in person.
Night descended, but the Southeastern Fort remained brightly lit. Their celebratory spirit even lead to fireworks within the fort. Under Qiu Yonghao’s command, the soldiers even set up great pots on the walls and began cooking fragrant pieces of meat. Aside from forbidding alcohol, the soldiers protecting the fort had plenty of meat and food.
Yeah! After an unprecedented victory, how could he not reward the army with a feast?
As for the demons, they were much more miserable.
After a long journey, they fought for an entire day and night, while the only army that could be considered to be in perfect condition, the Fiends, had been annihilated. Even until now, the four Fiend Kings were still fighting over the demon god pillar. Although there were still over three hundred thousand soldiers left, all of them were utterly exhausted.
Most importantly, in order to travel at full speed and that Samigina was confident they could breach the Southeastern Fort as quickly as possible, the provisions of the army was quite limited.
Now that they had entered the rhythm of a drawn out battle, the demon gods were forced to carefully allocate the limited provisions after a discussion. When they sent someone to report to the Demon God Emperor, they also sent people to the Central Province to gather provisions. This would be a half a month to a month’s wait at the very least, while the provisions they brought could only last ten days at most. They were forced to ration their food.
As a result, even when the demon army was utterly exhausted, every single demon was only given the human equivalent of a steamed bun and a bowl of congee of food after setting up camp. Let alone meat, they did not even have meat stew.
After a battle like that, their morale had reached an all-time low and they could not even feed themselves. The various clans were all furious. However, a revolt did not happen. After all, there were over ten demon gods here watching over the situation and the demon army just too exhausted. As a result, after eating the food that barely filled their stomachs, a majority of the demons immediately fell asleep in their tents. Some of the demons did not even have camps. They just fell asleep in the wilderness.
Fortunately, this was the Southeastern Fort and not the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, or probably just the weather would have claimed lives.
The Demon God Emperor’s battle strategy was actually extremely thorough and effective. He had concentrated his strongest elite force at the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, but there was a small number of them. Using their strength that had reached the eighth step or higher, the environment was unable to affect them. Although Long Haochen had attracted the strongest powerhouses of the Demon race over to his side, the Demon God Emperor also believed he had drawn the ninth step human powerhouses to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass as well. He was not in a hurry to launch an attack. One of his objectives was to give Long Haochen to time to gather ninth step powerhouses. The Demon God Emperor was absolutely certain this would happen.