Chapter 2258

Generally speaking, giant magical beasts are very hard to tame.

Unless one gets incredibly lucky.

Otherwise, it takes the right time and the right place together, and even then the odds of taming one are very low.

The Zhao family's dragon — that was pure dumb luck.

That's why Zhao Shizhang's strength leapt to the front ranks among the several families, and the Zhao family's overall power also jumped several places.

But cases like that are rare.

More often, it's a matter of slowly raising and breeding them.

If you want a giant dragon, you first have to raise a dragon egg, then a hatchling.

If you want a Nine-Headed Hell Lizard, you first have to breed a single-headed lizard.

If you want a Mountain Giant, you first have to raise a small stone person.

But these giant creatures have an extremely long raising cycle — losing even one is like losing sinew and bone, and your strength drops sharply.

There's another method.

Using a 【Token】.

It's a bit like a scroll — once activated, you can directly summon an adult magical beast.

And the magical beast is absolutely loyal.

The giant boulder the Mountain Giant hauled out for Guan Zhiyong, the seed the Ancient Tree tossed for Ren Yunchuan, the giant egg the Nine-Headed Hell Lizard dropped for Jiang Chen, and the phoenix feather the Blazing Phoenix lit for Shen Jiyun — all of those are tokens.

Tokens are powerful, expensive, and very effective.

Their only flaw is that they have a duration.

The summoned giant magical beasts are all temporary, not permanent.

But that's still plenty good.

However, tokens are very hard to come by.

Right now, only the two vice leaders and the two team captains have them.

Everyone else shook their heads.

Vice leader Ren Yunchuan sighed: "Then forget it, no more running back and forth. Looks like we've already been surrounded by werewolves — there might already be a large number of werewolves hiding nearby, playing with us!"

Hearing this, the lords couldn't help but glance left and right.

Zhao Chi also immediately scanned the surroundings.

But there was absolutely no sign of any werewolves.

Of course there wasn't.

Werewolves are an intelligent species too — if they're hiding nearby, they'll certainly erase their own scent and sound. How could they possibly be detected so easily?

Unless the skill's duration runs out.

Guan Zhiyong clenched his fist: "Too bad Lu Yibing isn't here… otherwise she could scout them out."

At the mention of Lu Yibing, the lords all looked ahead.

There was nothing there.

It seemed she really had run into trouble while on early warning.

"Doesn't matter, let's fight! Battle is unavoidable." Ren Yunchuan waved his hand, and 1,000 Tier-6 Elven Windriders appeared once more.

"I'll join in too." Li Yanhui summoned 200 high-elven Legendary Archmages.

Li Ruanyu asked: "Should we go support the Ancient Tree first?"

Ren Yunchuan nodded: "Sure. Those 7 Bone Dragons, leave them to me and Yanhui. Ruanyu, help me by splitting off 4 Archangels."

"Alright. Can your elves ride griffins?" Li Ruanyu called out to them.

Li Yanhui shook her head: "They can't sit steady. Forget it, let's get up the tree."

Ren Yunchuan also shook his head: "Mine can't either. But you can send some griffins to harass the Bone Dragons."

"Got it."

Li Ruanyu clicked to summon.

31 Holy-Winged Griffins appeared in the sky, their golden wings gleaming, overlapping with the radiance on the 9 Archangels.

At the same time, 50 Radiant Holy Knights appeared beside them.

These were Li Ruanyu's most elite soldiers.

Against giant magical beasts, ordinary soldiers are useless.

You can only field these top-tier soldiers.

Guan Zhiyong said: "Ruanyu, the ground troops come with us. Let's go, Gu Zhan."

150 Iron-Armored Giants appeared beside them.

Gu Zhan nodded: "I'll charge first. My golems aren't afraid of heat. The other lords, circle around to the north!"

30 Giant Iron Golems appeared at the very front of the formation.

"Go!" Gu Zhan charged out.

"Move!" Guan Zhiyong followed right behind.

"We're going too." Ren Yunchuan called to Li Yanhui.

Li Ruanyu nodded to the Archangels, and 4 Archangels with 30 Holy-Winged Griffins closely followed Ren Yunchuan as he left.

And Li Ruanyu leapt onto the back of the largest griffin, closely following Guan Zhiyong's figure, and charged out with her soldiers.

The soldiers they summoned weren't numerous, but every single one was the elite of their own territory.

Combined with the Ancient Tree, dealing with those 7 Bone Dragons and 3 Hellhounds was still more than enough.

If they coordinated well, they could even do it without taking a scratch.

Neither Vice Commander Jiang Chen nor Shen Jiyun made a move.

They had their own tasks.

Jiang Chen said, "The other lords follow me, each squadron commander spread out on both sides of the formation, Commander Shen covers the rear — we'll loop around and withdraw!"

"Yes!"

Seeing several chief commanders charge forward, the lords all breathed a sigh of relief.

This kind of giant magical beast was actually something Gao Jie lords faced all the time.

They were far more composed.

But for lords below the county level, the pressure was enormous.

At this moment, they finally felt that having the territory connection point on themselves was a good thing.

If it were all concentrated on the strongest few captains, they'd still have to wait for them to finish fighting before they could leave.

The lords followed closely behind Jiang Chen and Shen Jiyun, taking a detour around the side.

But suddenly, the lords sensed something was off.

It seemed like a lot of footsteps had appeared around them.

The sound was quite distinct.

It definitely wasn't coming from the World-Breaking Army lords.

Besides that, there were also plenty of whispering voices.

The World-Breaking Army lords were all advancing while gasping for breath — when would they have time to whisper?

And besides…

There was also a faint, elusive stench of blood.

Everyone had smelled it before.

It was the stench on werewolves!

The werewolves had come!?

The lords looked around in terror, but saw nothing.

But those whispers suddenly grew louder.

"Oh? They've spotted us?"

"Can't be helped, the sound-isolation technique and the other few spiritual techniques have all timed out — it's no surprise they noticed."

"Hehehehehe~"

"Hahaha, they're already at death's door and still thinking about running."

"Hilarious — can they actually get away?"

The whispers had turned into cold, sinister snickers.