Chapter 535: The Beast Race Battles the Demons

The Beast Race's rear Base Camp.

"Dongnuowu, has the Demon General-level demon from the demon side not appeared yet?"

Wali sat on a chair made of Two-legged Sheep skin, looking at Dongnuowu standing before him, and asked in a low tone.

"That Demon General on the opposite side, apart from appearing once at the very beginning, has since only been sending those low-tier Lesser Demons and some elite-level demons to exhaust us. No matter how valiant our warriors are in battle, they feel tired and exhausted when facing those demons."

"Then what about our Rune cannons?"

Hearing Dongnuowu's report, Wali could not help but narrow his eyes. He had already been here for several days; when he first arrived at this battlefield, he discovered that those demons were suppressing the Beast Race.

It was not until he arrived with 20 ten-thousand-man squads of the Beast Race and a unit of Rune warriors, coordinating with the firepower of the automatic cannons, that they were barely able to hold the front line.

Dongnuowu revealed a bitter smile on his face and said to Wali.

"High Priest, you know that there are not many Rune cannons in these border Buluo, and the Rune cannonballs were consumed as soon as the war began."

Wali nodded, his gaze turning to the sand table inside the tent, and he spoke.

"The Rune warriors have already played a role on the battlefield and begun to stabilize the position; we must at least lure this Demon General out."

On the battlefield.

A scarlet blood wind blew across the battlefield; ordinary Beast Race warriors could not react in time before being swept into the blood wind, letting out brief screams.

An Orc Centurion held a Rune Battle Axe and slashed toward the blood wind. His Rune Battle Axe split the blood mist, and the skull at the end of the axe handle lit up with a pale blue Rune light.

"It's the Dog Demon's blood wind!"

The Priest Apprentice's warning was drowned out by the sound of flesh bursting. The Orc Centurion's Rune Battle Axe shattered inch by inch, and in the end, he too was swept into the blood wind. A demon with a dog's head and a human body walked out of the blood wind, with blood-colored flames burning around its body.

The Dog Demon was still clutching the Orc Centurion's head in its hand, and bright red blood dripped from the severed end.

A Beast Race Rune warrior holding a Biting Battle Axe charged toward this Dog Demon.

The blood-colored flames scorched the Rune Armor, and the Runes etched on the Rune warrior's breastplate lit up with a blinding white light, dispelling those blood-colored flames.

The Dog Demon whipped out a Flame Chain, binding this Orc Rune warrior, and the blood-colored flames continuously gathered onto the Orc Rune warrior along the chain.

It was consuming the Rune Power on the Rune Armor.

"Lightning Totem!"

From behind the front line came the totem blessing cast by the Priest Apprentice.

A Totem Pillar rose from the scorched earth, and the Lightning Rune Power poured into the Orc Rune warrior bound by the chain.

The blood-colored Flame Chain was shattered by the Orc Rune warrior. The Rune warrior, surrounded by lightning, raised the Biting Battle Axe—also wrapped in lightning Runes—and slashed at the Dog Demon.

Any attack unleashed by the Dog Demon was instantly dispelled in the face of the Lightning Runes.

As the Biting Battle Axe swung down, a lightning trajectory also appeared in the air.

The Dog Demon turned into Black Qi and vanished, but the next second, a five-meter-tall demon covered in lava appeared on the battlefield where the Dog Demon had been.

The Orc Rune warrior roared and swung the Biting Battle Axe; the axe blade cut into the Lava Demon's armor, but was deflected by a scorching aura upon touching the lava chest.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Lava Demon's whispers echoed inside every Orc's skull.

The Lava Demon erupted with a burst of Black Qi, stripping the flesh from the Beast Race warriors it enveloped, their corpses turning into low-tier Lesser Demons.

"Beat the war drums!"

The Priest Apprentice, covered in a Blood Bath, raised the staff in his hand. Emerald-colored Runes flew from the tip of the staff, blocking the Black Qi that had not yet approached.

The Lava Demon clapped its hands, and scorching lava appeared within the Black Qi. Upon colliding with the emerald-colored Runes, the bursting energy ripples shook the warriors of both races within a hundred-meter radius into blood mist and Black Qi.

Blood rain poured down, and the warring demons and Beast Race continued to slaughter each other in the pools of blood.

"Demon Skull-Eater!"

One Beast Race Rune warrior's fully enclosed Rune Helmet had shattered halfway, revealing the ugly face inside.

Watching the Demon Skull-Eater that had just eaten the head of his own kin, he struggled to crawl up from the blood-stained ground and picked up his Biting Battle Axe that had fallen to the side.

Roaring, he raised the Biting Battle Axe and slashed toward that Skull-Eater.

When he charged at the demon, the wings behind the Skull-Eater spread, dodging the Rune warrior's attack.

The trajectory of the Biting Battle Axe's fall left a red afterimage in the air. Seeing his attack dodged, the Rune warrior quickly changed the direction of the Biting Battle Axe, this time hacking into the gap in the demon's left shoulder bone armor.

The Skull-Eater let out a shrill cry like a wailing infant, and a puff of Black Qi sprayed from the severed wound.

But in the blink of an eye, that Black Qi condensed into hundreds of winged poisonous insects, which swarmed toward the Orc Rune warrior like a black cloud.

A red light lit up on the Rune warrior's Rune Armor, dispelling the poisonous insects formed by the Black Qi, but his right cheek was already covered in festering purple spots.

Poisonous insects had indeed attacked his cheek just now. The Rune warrior only felt his vision blur; the poison was invading his entire body. The next second, the Rune warrior's head was already in the Skull-Eater's hand.

The Skull-Eater threw the now-purple head in its hand to the side; it used the Claw in its hand to slice open the Rune warrior's chest, pulled out the opponent's heart, and crushed it.

The blood within a hundred-meter radius immediately boiled, condensing into countless blood spears that shot into the sky, only to turn into a deathly rain under the pull of gravity.

Countless Orc warriors were pinned to the ground, their blood flowing backward along the blood spears, gathering into a rotating blood sphere at the demon's feet.

"Do not be afraid! We will surely be victorious!"

The Beast Race Myriarch, covered in a Blood Bath, arrived at the Skull-Eater's side. His Rune Battle Axe was wrapped in clusters of Black Qi; the demon Black Qi, imprisoned by the Beast Race's Rune Power, made the Myriarch's Rune Battle Axe even more powerful.

The Beast Race Myriarch's scarred body suddenly expanded, and deep black Runes appeared on the surface of his skin—this was the Orc's life-burning Rune.

When the Rune Battle Axe slashed toward the Skull-Eater, the self-destruction containing the deep black Rune Power blew the Skull-Eater into nothing but half a mangled torso.

The Beast Race invested a large number of troops and weapons, finally managing to stabilize the front line that was being eroded, and the war between the two sides entered a stalemate.

Watching the Beast Race warriors who fought the demons one after another, Dongnuowu's gaze turned toward the Demon Territory shrouded in Black Qi, waiting for the Demon General-level demon to appear.

Just at this moment, the overcast sky suddenly split open a Rift, and the Black Qi on the battlefield began to surge into the Rift.

Dongnuowu saw that the corpses of the dead Orcs were melting—the demons were reclaiming the souls of the war dead.

A powerful pressure appeared in the Black Fog in the distance, making even Dongnuowu, who was far from the battlefield, feel danger.

A pitch-black figure walked out from the Rift, and as he walked out, the Rift gradually closed.