Chapter 247: The Invasion Was Never Going to Succeed in the First Place

A sound of hoofbeats interrupted Heertui's thoughts; he saw a group of burly men in the distance wearing wool robes, their hair in braids, their faces scarred, charging toward them on warhorses while holding spears and shouting something incessantly.

Most importantly, Heertui's nose caught a pungent stench that grew stronger and stronger; it seemed to be the smell coming from their bodies.

"A bunch of savages, actually thinking of using obsolete cavalry to deal with us? Ji Bu, are you trying to humiliate me? Heh, what use is this?"

Heertui looked on with disdain as those cavalrymen drew closer, riding their warhorses around the trenches dug by the masked soldiers to engage the Hou warriors on his side.

"Boom... boom... boom..."

After the spears in the cavalrymen's hands pierced the bodies of the Hou warriors, they unleashed powerful explosions, blowing the pierced Hou warriors to pieces, while others were burned directly into piles of charred remains.

"What kind of weapon are those spears in their hands? How could they have such power?" Heertui's originally disdainful expression turned to disbelief.

These cavalrymen brought only a minor shock to Heertui; what followed was a torrent of steel composed of Chimera Armored Vehicles and Leman Russ Tanks driven by the Modian Iron Guard, with the armored units of the Human Alliance 312th Regiment following behind.

The 120mm Battle Cannon shells shattered swaths of Alien Race with every shot, and the Heavy Bolters continuously tore apart one Alien Race after another; the addition of these two forces to the battlefield caused the Hou warriors, who had previously held the advantage, to fall into a stalemate.

Green Energy Bombs flew wildly across the battlefield, attacking the Attila Barbarian Cavalry riding warhorses and the Modian Iron Guard disembarking from the Chimera Armored Vehicles.

The sounds of explosions and slaughter were incessant on the battlefield; blood and wreckage were everywhere.

Heertui regained his senses and used a hand blade to cleave an Attila warrior who had charged over into two halves; the Spiritual Power Force Field he had opened was now ineffective. The original plan had been to resolve the battle quickly, but the battlefield here had turned into a meat grinder, with both sides continuously pouring in troops.

"Damn it, these soldiers have no Spiritual Power; why are they fighting so desperately? Don't you see the soldiers who possess Spiritual Power are still behind you? You should let them charge in front of you!"

Heertui once again used a hand blade to pierce the body of a Krieg soldier charging at him, but the Krieg soldier was holding a Hand Grenade.

"Boom..."

Upon seeing the Hand Grenade in the soldier's hand, Heertui immediately opened a Spiritual Power Shield, which offset quite a bit of damage, but his appearance was now that of a spent force, lacking the high spirits he had at the start.

In the crowd, Heertui suddenly saw a 2.8-meter-tall burly man, holding a Chainsword, sprinting toward him.

A group of muscular men with red headbands and knotted muscles had joined the battlefield; their arrival intensified the casualties on the Hou side, and their formidable physical fitness allowed them to kill Hou warriors faster.

Heertui even had the illusion that after that 2.8-meter-tall burly man joined the battlefield, these soldiers without Spiritual Power seemed to become even more excited; that phrase was everywhere on the battlefield.

"For the Emperor!"

Heertui could not help but feel a sense of fear in his heart; the will erupted by these Human soldiers at this moment changed his impression that Humans were weak and disunited.

Watching the 2.8-meter burly man who had already rushed before him, he raised his hand blade to stab at the other's body.

Seeing that this lead Alien Race was already covered in wounds yet still insisted on attacking him, Yingzhou did not hesitate to raise the Chainsword in his hand and decapitate the Alien Race. To prevent the opponent from faking death, he prepared to use the Chainsword to sever the limbs.

But when Yingzhou had dismembered the Alien Race before him halfway, he felt that the body had no movement, no longer struggling as desperately as before.

It was just as if he had disconnected from a game in his past life.

"An illusion?"

Yingzhou looked at the half-dismembered Alien Race corpse on the ground, muttered a word, and cleaved an Alien Race trying to ambush him into two halves with one sword strike.

Following Heertui's death, this Rift also began to gradually close, finally shutting.

The Alien Race remaining outside were quickly wiped out. Yingzhou came before Ji Bu, who was still in a half-kneeling state, crouched down to close Ji Bu's eyes, which had not yet shut, and said in a low voice.

"I will not judge what you did before, but in this battle against the Alien Race, you fought with the strength of a Human; you are worthy of your identity as a Human."

The soldiers of the 312th Regiment, who had also slaughtered many Alien Race on the battlefield, saw Ji Bu before Yingzhou, and the joy of victory was dispersed; in this battle against the Alien Race, the Military District Chief had also died at the hands of the Alien Race.

Fang Manbin came before Ji Bu, took off his helmet, and saluted Ji Bu's corpse; the 312th Regiment soldiers in the distance, seeing this, also saluted Ji Bu one after another.

Sixth Defense Zone Inner City.

Heertui awoke from one of his Puppets, touched his neck in a state of lingering fear, and discovered that the body he had sent to the Ninth Defense Zone had lost connection; he said with a trembling tone.

"That Yingzhou's power is truly too bizarre. Could he be the controller of flames that the Diviner spoke of? But I remember Ji Bu mentioning before that Yingzhou's ability was summoning soldiers. Is the controller of flames someone else?"

Just then, a man in a white robe found Heertui and said in a calm tone.

"Heertui, you failed; I need an explanation."

The pupils of Heertui's body shrank slightly; he immediately stood straight and said to the white-robed man.

"Bishop, I admit this was my negligence, which led to the failure of the operation to invade the Ninth Defense Zone. I didn't expect that Ji Bu would make so many preparations; when I did this to the Military District Chief of the Sixth Defense Zone before, this situation never occurred. Please..."

"Enough, this invasion was never going to succeed in the first place; your actions were merely a part of the Master's plan, it's just that you are not worthy of knowing the Master's plan."

The white-robed man impatiently interrupted Heertui's words, light blue scales covering his right arm, one eye constantly sizing up Heertui.

"What, my operation this time was never going to succeed from the start? Then what was the Master's purpose in having me attack there?"

After hearing what the white-robed man said, Heertui was stunned for a few seconds, then asked.

"Did you encounter the Human that the Diviner of our race spoke of who controls flames to destroy our race? His weapon is a Greatsword that burns with flames."

After pondering for a moment, Heertui shook his head and replied, "No, most of the soldiers I encountered this time had no Spiritual Power; only a few Humans possessed Spiritual Power, but none of them held a Greatsword burning with flames."