Chapter 267

The Xiong Zu warriors are actually very powerful.

Purely in terms of strength, even Third Rank knights aren't necessarily a match for them.

After all, their bodies alone weigh nearly a thousand jin.

Once they don heavy armor and wield a heavy shield, they don't need any other weapons at all.

They can just charge straight into the enemy formation and smash through it; even a casual roll crushes a swath of people.

Still, the dwarves designed a kind of gauntlet for them—one that lets them grip a heavy shield with both hands while charging, and when attacking, they can clench their fists and trade blows against enemy blades and spears!

After continuous consolidation, the Winged Race also expanded its aerial warriors to two thousand.

With this, the combined warrior count of just these few races alone reached seventy-nine thousand!

At the very least, the warriors of the other, somewhat weaker races have all been disbanded.

The Elk Race, for instance.

Sister Qing Ling of the Fox Women discovered that it was better to have them clear land and plant crops than to send them into battle!

Apart from that, the Wolf Race reorganized fifty thousand wolf-man warriors.

Wolf-men, male or female, are all excellent warriors; their speed is very fast, their individual combat power on par with the old centaurs, just a touch weaker than the Lion Race.

Their mobility on the battlefield is especially outstanding.

The Serpent Race likewise mustered fifty thousand Serpent Race warriors.

The combined warrior count of these two races reached one hundred thousand.

However, compared with the other warriors, these latest recruits still don't have very good equipment; the combat power these two races' hundred thousand can bring to bear is probably not even half of what the earlier races can!

But the numbers are there, and it's only a matter of time before their gear is gradually replenished.

In other words, the Nation of Flame now possesses an army of nearly one hundred and eighty thousand!

(Note on bow range: medieval longbows could reach over 160 meters; modern-made longbows using light arrows can reach 300 meters; enchanted bows reaching 500 meters is not difficult!)