Chapter 431: Evenly Matched

At the very moment the battle began, Zhao Chi led sixty people to meet Zhou Qian head-on.

He knew that taking sixty people with him would put even greater pressure on Tang Ruan.

But it had to be done.

Right now, they were outnumbered.

So he had to form a local advantage, had to quickly devour the enemy's small detachments.

Only then would there be a chance of victory.

He wasn't sure whether Tang Ruan could hold out either.

But if he brought too few people, it would likely turn into a grinding war of attrition.

That way, defeat was certain.

He could only ask Tang Ruan to tough it out.

The Blood Clan.

In truth, they were vampires.

But the Blood Clan of this world feared neither sunlight nor any crucifix.

They were only somewhat weaker in their resistance to fire.

Moreover, the Blood Clan possessed the racial trait "Dark Affinity," granting all attributes +1 at night.

The Blood Clan were perfectly suited to lying low by day and moving by night.

Zhao Chi had just been piloting Qi Yue, taking Gu Qing along to scout.

Upon discovering they were the Blood Clan, he immediately pulled back.

Gu Qing had left a large amount of silk threads on the nearby trees.

But those threads were not independent; they were interconnected.

The ends of the threads were connected to Gu Qing's two palms.

Once an enemy passed through the range of the threads, she could sense them.

Right now this function was still very rudimentary; she could only roughly judge the enemy's numbers.

But that was enough.

Four hundred Blood Clan warriors against two hundred twenty Taoyuan humans.

On the surface it looked roughly like two to one, but in reality the Blood Clan's equipment was a bit more lavish.

They wore iron-black armor — real iron armor.

Without using combat techniques, it was very hard to pierce.

And although the women soldiers had full sets of fashion gear, the outermost layer was still leather armor, which could still be pierced by ordinary attacks.

The hardest part to endure was the early stage.

But as long as these women held on and wore down the durability of the enemy's iron armor.

Once neither side had equipment durability left, they could only clash with their physical defenses.

At that point, the stat boosts from those women's fashion gear, along with their enhanced defensive attributes, would show their advantage.

Because these enhancements could strengthen armor, and likewise strengthen their flesh.

Although they looked delicate-skinned and soft-muscled.

A single sword strike wouldn't necessarily do much damage to them.

But if a Blood Clan warrior took a slash, that would be real, solid damage.

The prerequisite was being able to hold out until that moment.

Light blazed from Zhao Chi's hands.

Several beams of different-colored light intertwined and shot into the bodies of the sixty women, Qi Yue included.

In an instant, those women felt their scalps tingle and wind spring up beneath their feet.