Chapter 1031

Of course, there would be some losses.

After all, it was a battle—equipment losses were bound to happen, and personnel losses were unavoidable as well.

But the losses were very small, entirely acceptable.

The other families followed the same pattern.

At the invitation of the World-Breaking Army, the lords of each family split into several batches, then attacked an enemy lord with overwhelming superiority.

So every family's battle was a victory—great victories and complete victories at that.

The four families of the entire Stream Village together defeated 1 commandery-level lord and 11 county-level lords.

Zhao Chi had no access to news from other villages, but he guessed the situation was the same elsewhere.

By that count, the remaining 192 enemy lords had already been wiped out.

And every one of them was taken down with overwhelming force—the battles ended very quickly.

A very good result.

At that moment, the system voice chimed in.

Zhao Qizong 【Come over, you four. No need to bring too many troops—finish off the captives and head back.】

Zhao Qizong hadn't called anyone by name, but Zhao Chi knew he was the one being addressed.

So he took 50 female soldiers and quickly headed north.

To the north lay Inoshita Yuumaru's territory.

This battle was the 11 lords on Zhao Chi's side linking up to Inoshita Yuumaru's territory.

He was attacked from all sides, struck from front and back.

Before even stepping into Inoshita Yuumaru's territory, Zhao Chi could smell a pungent stench.

Gunpowder smoke and the smell of blood.

The territory was vast—stepping inside felt endless, worthy of a county-level domain.

Even the white fog walls around it seemed far away, as if reaching the edge of the sky.

In the distance stood a stone city wall.

The wall was already in ruins, with more than ten large breaches and even more small ones.

Over a thousand soldiers were moving in and out through the breaches, continuously hauling supplies.

Several city gates had been smashed to pieces; horse carts shuttled through them transporting goods.

Every cart was loaded with a great deal of supplies.

More than half the buildings inside the wall had been destroyed; black smoke and white smoke kept rising, and many structures were still burning.

Many soldiers were fighting the fires.

But their purpose wasn't firefighting—it was rescuing loot and captives, since all of it counted as spoils and couldn't be burned.

Plenty more soldiers were going house to house, scavenging.

They dug up huge quantities of supplies and captives.

There were several thousand werewolf captives, already tightly bound, being escorted away by the soldiers.

Outside the city wall were several tens of thousands of soldiers, of different races.

Each group had claimed a patch of ground and stood by on the spot.

Dozens of griffins circled in the sky.

Responsible for vigilance and patrol.

Outside the wall stood several dozen giant stone-men and several dozen giant tree-men.

All of them nearly ten meters tall.

Those collapsed sections of the stone wall were probably smashed by their long-range rock throws.

They were helping with transport.

The tree-men looked like towering trees; branches from their palms kept growing, wrapping around huge quantities of basic resources.

In no time they bundled it all into a large resource package.

The stone-men were immensely strong, like small mountains; each carried two enormous resource packages on his shoulders, walking forward with a tremor at every step.

The soldiers nearby were terrified of being stepped on, and equally afraid the packages might fall and crush them, so they scrambled out of the way.

There were also a dozen or so giant nine-headed lizards standing around, idle.

And many other rare-to-see races besides.

The female soldiers watched all this in amazement.

It was Zhao Chi's first time seeing it too, and he couldn't help stealing a few extra glances.

Truly stunning.

None of these races had appeared in the battle information—they must have been summoned.

Probably similar to the titan Zhao Quan had summoned earlier?

Soon, Zhao Chi and his group arrived below the city wall.

Uncle Zhao Qizong, Aunt Jiang Qilan, as well as Zhao Hong, Zhao Jing, and several other clan brothers were all there.

The main general Sun Heng and the vice general Shen Shuang stood to one side.

Upon seeing Zhao Chi, they all looked him over with curiosity.

Zhao Qizong said: "Zhao Chi, this is Captain Sun and Captain Shen—hurry and pay your respects."

Sun Heng was a middle-aged man who looked quite young, with well-defined muscle lines.

Shen Shuang wore light makeup; Zhao Chi couldn't tell her age, but she probably wasn't young anymore.

Zhao Chi politely paid his respects.

The two of them also returned the greeting in a friendly manner.

Zhao Qizong pointed at a row of werewolf captives beside them and said, "Kill two and let's go. We still have a lot of matters here. Make it quick."

All the werewolves had reverted to human form, and they all had that slightly strange face.

Their armor had already been stripped off, and they were all bound naked on the ground, male and female alike.

Zhao Chi drew the steel saber at his waist.

He walked over to the nearest captive.

The werewolf let out a threatening low growl from its mouth, glaring viciously at Zhao Chi.

"Like watching, huh? Then I'll let you watch your fill."

Zhao Chi struck, thrusting in through the wolf's eye and out through the back of its skull.

One more slash, and the werewolf beside it was also cut dead.

So werewolves were this fragile too. Last time fighting with Yan Ping had left a shadow on him, and Zhao Chi had always felt some resistance about fighting werewolves.

He hadn't expected they were just ordinary flesh and blood.

The way to dispel fear is to understand it.

Zhao Chi wiped the blood from his blade clean on their bodies, then slid it back into the sheath.

Zhao Qizong looked at Sun Heng and Shen Shuang: "Is it alright?"

Sun Heng nodded: "It's fine."

Zhao Qizong said: "Alright, Zhao Chi, let's go."

Zhao Chi had originally wanted to wait for Su Qin, but seeing the situation, it wasn't going to work.

So he immediately took his leave, leading the female soldiers back to the territory.

Another hour passed, and all the fighting was over.

Although Zhao Chi had taken part in the battle, he had done nothing.

The two captives he killed didn't count as contribution either, and the system didn't count him as having any contribution. Zhao Chi gained no experience from this battle.

That was simply nonsense.

But family lords like Zhao Shizhang and Zhao Qizong, although they were considered the main force in the battle and the system rated their contribution as considerable, also gained quite a bit of experience.

Yet they had not obtained any spoils of war.

All supplies had to be handed over to the World-Breaking Army, including those foreign races' territories.

It wasn't that the World-Breaking Army was being domineering.

It was because these family lords were brought by the foreign races; their status was that of invaders.

Now it counted as a last-minute defection.

It counted as a pledge of allegiance.