[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant":3,"chapter-titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-707":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Titan King: Ascension of the Giant",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},244727,518,"Chapter 707: Death spider","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-707",707,"\u003Cp>Chapter 707: Death spider\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For the Horde! For the Lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For Master! For Lorelia! Charge! Charge! Charge!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the forest battlefield, a clear cry rang out. It was Lorelia, crossbow raised, urging her kinsfolk to charge relentlessly forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorelia’s small face was flushed, radiating excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the young girl wasn’t excited by the battle itself, but rather by the thrill of shouting encouragement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Dirtclaw, who, despite also enjoying riling up his subordinates and cannon fodder, always led the charge into the fray himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Lorelia, she was surrounded by four powerful spider guards; charging was out of the question—she had no intention of even joining the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, not far from Lorelia stood a calm-faced Vexis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorelia had her own agenda; she never strayed far from Vexis’s line of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorelia was merely enjoying the thrill of shouting commands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, deeper in Gloomwood Forest, various skirmishes were constantly erupting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gnawing, tearing, biting, and grappling—in battles between beasts, these were all too natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The losing side, in the vast majority of cases, would become the other’s food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With cave spiders giving chase on the ground and wyverns circling covetously from above, the dark fiends in the forest were plunged into despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From time to time, small groups of dark fiends would rally to counter-attack the invaders, but their assaults were quickly swallowed by the tide of cave spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very front line of the battlefield, on a patch of flat ground, Thundar, mounted on a dark fiend and leading a troop of cavalry, had a group of dark fiends completely surrounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring the dark fiends’ furious roars, Thundar, his face cold and indifferent, slowly raised the greatsword in his hand and gave the order to annihilate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Howls and roars echoed, a cacophony of rage and pain. Many dark fiends couldn’t understand why the dark fiend Thundar rode would lead enemies to slaughter its own kin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish, swish—bolts flew out; these were the Stoneheart Horde’s unique enchanted arrows, imbued with magical effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These enchanted arrows were crafted by the Garland Tribe and the serpentfolk. Though designed for production in numbers, their quantity was limited as each was handmade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few volleys, dark fiends died one after another, or were paralyzed by the petrification spell on the bolts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who didn’t die merely awaited the cavalry regiment’s finishing blows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Elder, we’re running low on enchanted arrows!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, from now on, we will only be responsible for surrounding them. Leave the task of killing the dark fiends to those cave spiders and wyverns.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both cave spiders and wyverns could attack with venom. Although dark fiends were largely immune to physical attacks, they were not immune to venom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, their venom was potent; any dark fiend poisoned would essentially be paralyzed on the spot, unable to move, eventually becoming food for the young spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Commander, Elder Dirtclaw and Elder Fergus are in trouble! They’ve been surrounded and are under attack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Thundar was observing his subordinates deliver the finishing blows to this group of dark fiends, a member of the cavalry regiment charged out from the forest ahead, seeking reinforcements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which direction are they in?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In the dense forest about a mile ahead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leave some men behind. The rest of you, with me, to reinforce them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thundar called out. The dark fiend beneath him let out a low roar and was the first to charge into the dense forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dirtclaw and Fergus had charged too aggressively; they were the first wave of combatants to rush out, and also the fastest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hardly surprising for them to be surrounded by a swarm of dark fiends after becoming separated from the main force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To survive, the best tactic for the dark fiends was to split off a portion of their forces to entangle, or even kill, the pursuing enemy—and that’s exactly what the dark fiends had chosen to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dirtclaw and Fergus found themselves caught in the trap laid by the dark fiend horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehe, Bro, what do you think of the wyverns I brought?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the forest, after killing the dark fiend lord, Orion and Leonidas stood high in the air, surveying the battles unfolding within and around Gloomwood Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent the dark fiend clans from escaping, Leonidas had specifically mobilized a group of wyverns to circle around to their front, herding back those dark fiends scattering in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, these dark fiends would ultimately fall prey to the invading cave spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Very agile, highly mobile, and very obedient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion had a high opinion of the wyvern armies. Only these intelligent drakes could accomplish tasks requiring such flexibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Aarakocra converted by Vexis, which could only execute simple, rigid commands, such as mindlessly attacking the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, if they moved out of Vexis’s control range, those Aarakocra would fall into chaos and attack indiscriminately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was one of the few drawbacks of undead summoning: separated from Vexis, who acted as their soul core, their combat effectiveness would be greatly diminished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your little spiders are pretty effective too,” Leonidas remarked. “Their individual combat power isn’t much, but their strength lies in their numbers.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With Lich Vexis coordinating them, they’re practically unstoppable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion smiled without speaking. This combat style had first taken shape when he was helping Arthas and Leonidas invade the Godforsaken Land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthas had a very sharp eye; upon seeing the troops Orion had brought, he immediately dispatched Skeleton General Rumbold to assist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In subsequent battles, Orion relied on this combat style to sweep through various territories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to be said, by this point in their development, Orion’s invading armies had become inseparable from Arthas’s undead forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also because of this that Orion deeply understood why individuals like Leonidas, Alexander, Arthas, and Kraken had come together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by coordinating armies of various types and different styles could one avoid being easily countered and potentially create even more powerful invading forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The combination of different troop types was an art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as one had enough diverse troop types, one could assemble mixed forces adaptable to various environments, ensuring the army’s combat effectiveness and survival rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m planning to convert all these cave spiders into death spiders. What do you think?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion voiced his plans for the cave spider armies. The death and dark auras in the Emerald Dream Realm were very dense, well-suited for cave spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the cave spiders were converted into death spiders, their talents and strength would be enhanced, and their overall combat power would increase significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas’s judgment and experience were undoubtedly superior to Orion’s; by mentioning it now, Orion was seeking Leonidas’s opinion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, you want to build an army similar to the undead?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, I can’t always rely on Arthas. Vexis and Rumbold can’t possibly assist me indefinitely; they’ll have to return to their own affairs eventually.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That makes sense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas strongly agreed with Orion’s line of thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Leonidas himself had once had similar ideas, though his solution had differed from Orion’s.\u003C\u002Fp>",1167,"2026-05-29T15:49:30.653Z","2026-06-01T04:29:39.741Z",1,"novelbin.me","ba67c3352b975a49aa81e322c599fd36068b4dcf65b8b3fa5fcb5c21aa9f8393","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-708","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-706",1606,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftitan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-cover.jpg"]