Chapter 536: The Possibility is Very Low

"Ants."

After that black shadow spat out these two words, the area within a thousand meters suddenly plunged into absolute darkness.

The Orc warriors currently in battle suddenly froze; their shadows came to life, entangled their bodies, and dragged their masters into the Rift of the Shadow Realm, while the bodies, aside from letting out unwilling roars, did not even have the power to struggle.

After seeing the Demon General appear, Dongnuowu immediately raised the staff in his hand, and one by one, various colored Runes flew out from the staff.

Behind him, Wali also walked out from the camp tent, wearing a luxurious Priest Changpao, with streaks of Runes circling around him.

A dark purple Rune was the first to collide with the dark curtain, tearing open spiderweb-like cracks in the viscous darkness.

High Priest Wali's robe moved without wind, nine Runes of different colors circled above his head, and the powerful Rune Power intercepted the expanding darkness.

"Wind!"

Dongnuowu's staff struck the ground heavily.

A verdant green Rune spiraled into the sky, carrying a tornado to tear open the Demon General's Dark Domain.

That black shadow revealed its true form—it was a body pieced together from countless painful faces, each face emitting a silent shriek.

"That is... the Demon General's Puppet!"

After seeing the true form of the black shadow, Wali quickly identified the opponent's method, a Teleportation Rune quickly appeared beside Wali, and the next second, Wali appeared beside Dongnuowu.

"High Priest Wali!"

When Dongnuowu saw High Priest Wali appear by his side, his heart settled; with High Priest Wali here, this Demon General's attack should be blocked.

The Demon General raised his right arm, which was condensed from shadows, and the ground immediately boiled with a black tide.

Hundreds of Shadow Demons manifested from the shadows, with their flowing bodies and sharp claws and teeth.

"Dongnuowu, block the Demon's attack, I will deal with him!"

The staff in Wali's hand hovered in mid-air, a golden Rune appeared in front of him, and the massive Rune Power made the surrounding aura become chaotic.

"As you command, High Priest!"

Dongnuowu bit his fingertip, and a bead of blood hovered in front of his chest, condensing into a Cinnabar Rune Seal.

The ground trembled and rose into a Giant Wall of granite, golden patterns emerged on the surface of the rock layer, and a Rune barrier blocked the invasion of darkness.

The moment the Shadow Beasts hit the rock wall, the Geng Metal Qi shot out from the Runes ground them into Black Fog.

Wali flipped his staff, and the golden Runes converged into an arrow of golden light, which transformed into a streak of gold that pierced through the Demon General's Puppet.

"Damn it, this Demon General has hidden in the darkness again!"

A feeling of unreality surged into Wali's heart, and crimson Runes appeared on his staff once more.

The Demon General's Puppet turned into a phantom and disappeared, emitting laughter like sandpaper rubbing together, and a gravitational force began to appear in the Dark Domain.

The gravitational force tore at the Rune barrier, which Dongnuowu continuously maintained.

Countless pitch-black arms reached out from the darkness, grabbing those frozen Orc warriors and dragging them toward the Shenyuan.

Amber patterns appeared in Dongnuowu's pupils, and his aged palms pressed onto the Totem Gem at the top of the staff.

"High Priest Wali, I will gather a Rune Vortex to crush the Demon General's shadow!"

"Good, let's do that!"

The gem shattered in response, and massive Rune Power surged into the sky.

A hurricane swirled with the Rune Power, forming a Rune Vortex.

Wali took the opportunity to condense a blue Rune and threw it high into the sky, where it transformed into a screen covering the sky.

After the blue Rune entered the Rune Vortex, streaks of blue light arrows flew out, precisely pinning down a dark arm.

The two Priests' Runes intertwined in the sky, blocking the Demon General's attack.

The Demon General's body began to crack, and the Black Qi on his body was dissipating.

The Demon General's Puppet suddenly stopped attacking, and all the shadows suddenly collapsed into a black dot the size of a needle tip.

After the extreme silence, a darkness thicker than the night exploded with a boom.

"He is going to detonate the entire dark barrier!"

Wali flicked out a Star Brilliance Rune, which instantly dissipated and converged into a shield wall.

Just as the Star Brilliance Shield Wall formed, the energy from the dark barrier's explosion surged over.

The surface of the earth was as if gnawed by an invisible giant beast, and the entire battlefield collapsed ten meters downward.

When the smoke and dust cleared, the Demon General's Puppet was nowhere to be seen.

The remaining shadows squirmed on the ground, like the tentacles of some dying creature.

"The Demon's attack has stopped."

Wali's staff returned to his hand, and looking at the devastated battlefield, he said to Dongnuowu in a low tone.

"High Priest Wali, the Demon's offensive is much fiercer than we imagined. We need the other Priests to come here to resist the Demon's attack. Before the Demon's top combat power appears, you must not make a move, so as not to be ambushed by the Demons."

Wali had not used much of his strength in this battle; the Demon General was not the strongest combat power of the Demon Race, and what he had to guard against was the Great Demon!

"Hmm, let the other Priests also come to this battlefield, and at the same time continue to send more troops here. The Demons will not give up just like this."

"As you command!"

Sixth Defense Zone Inner City.

"What do you think the message sent by the Ninth Defense Zone means? Ever since Ji Bu died, our intelligence on the Ninth Defense Zone has been cut off."

In a building, several humanoid creatures were sitting together discussing the message sent by the Ninth Defense Zone some time ago.

"Heertui, you understand the Ninth Defense Zone the best. Do you think there might be a trick in the Ninth Defense Zone suddenly sending this message after several years?"

A creature with pustules on its body, from which yellow liquid squeezed out from time to time, and whose figure was several times larger than a normal Human, looked at Heertui and said.

"According to my understanding of the Ninth Defense Zone, there are still traces of Demons and Zerg in the Inner City. Although Ji Bu did not trust me in the end, based on the situation of the Ninth Defense Zone at that time, I believe that the current Ninth Defense Zone is very likely occupied by Demons; this is the most likely possibility."

Hearing Heertui's words, the other Hou people present nodded one after another.

"If the possibility is low, what else is there?"

Upon hearing the words of Heertui, the white-robed man sitting at the head of the table extended his right hand, which was covered in pale blue scales, and the eye on his palm stared straight at Heertui.

"Lord Bishop, there is another possibility: that the Ninth Defense Zone survived the Demon invasion. To have survived the Demon invasion, the Ninth Defense Zone must have had a backbone, and at the time of the invasion, its strength must have already been sufficient to withstand the Demon incursion.

However, based on the data and information I currently have on the Ninth Defense Zone, the most likely candidate is that person named Yingzhou; he possesses the ability to summon soldiers, and at the time, Ji Bu had already regarded him as the hope of the Ninth Defense Zone."

Heertui hesitated for a moment after saying this, then continued.

"But the soldiers he summoned at that time could not have played a key role in resisting the Demon invasion when the Demons appeared, and with the Zerg constantly attacking from the outside of the Ninth Defense Zone as well, he should not have been able to grow that quickly.

Therefore, that is why I say this possibility is very low.

Of course, I cannot rule out that he might have been able to summon other types of troops subsequently, because Ji Bu's memories at the time mentioned Yingzhou's abilities; the types of soldiers he summoned seemed to be gradually increasing, and perhaps in these few years, the types of Legion he can summon have become even more numerous."