[{"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-745":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},244765,518,"Chapter 745: Bloodier truth","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-745",745,"\u003Cp>Chapter 745: Bloodier truth\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slaughter continued. Orion and Leonidas’s forces had suffered vast losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To replenish their forces quickly and continue north, their only option was to summon a large undead army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Summoning an undead army required corpses—it required sacrifices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countless enemies before them were the designated offerings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, they had to die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Orion didn’t need to handle these matters personally. Once he gave the orders, his Legendary powerhouses could carry them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Orion needed to do now was to relocate suitable members of his Horde to the Emerald Dream Realm, one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If half the Dusk Continent was managed well, Orion could soon ascend to the Archlord level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This matter was both urgent and crucial for Orion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha, did you see that? Wherever the dragon passed, they all pissed their pants and fled in terror!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps having had his fill of fun, Leonidas reverted to his human form and rejoined Orion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, according to you, those two Archlords wouldn’t dare to intervene personally. Would they really be willing to let their kin and soldiers here be slaughtered by us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before relocating his people, Orion wanted to confirm a few more things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas understood the question behind Orion’s question. He pointed to the battlefield and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little bro, if the enemy wiped out all the people you and I brought, what would happen to us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’d suffer heavy losses, but our foundations would remain. We could still stage a comeback.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion answered without a second thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And indeed, it was true. Orion’s foundations were in the Valkorath Realm and the Titanion Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“See? You haven’t even advanced to Archlord, yet you have your own lines of retreat. Do you think those veteran Archlords wouldn’t?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To put it bluntly, before the war even broke out, they would have already transferred away important personnel and resources.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion had a sudden realization and nodded in deep agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, what if they are the native inhabitants of their original world?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion raised another question, wondering about the fate of native populations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A native’s home base generally doesn’t change, but that doesn’t stop them from sending their descendants to other worlds to spread and flourish.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you think the other races in your Horde’s world came to be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which races there are truly native?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When a new world is discovered, weak natives either submit immediately or are wiped out at the first opportunity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Leonidas, Orion learned an even crueler, bloodier truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the implications of this information made Orion even more expectant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, are you saying there are still undiscovered new worlds?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion gazed at Leonidas, hoping for the answer he envisioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s for sure. Think about it—wasn’t our old world vast?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even a universe that enormous could merge into this world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas’s voice suddenly became profound and ethereal, lending him an inscrutable air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, try to imagine: how big is this world really?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Endless? Or a world in a grain of sand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, there will be many more bizarre things in the future. Don’t be surprised by anything you see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What we need to do is lie low and endure. Lie low and endure until the very end.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when this final sentence was uttered did Leonidas emerge from that ethereal state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you for your guidance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little bro, let’s put aside those vague and ethereal matters for now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s talk about the current situation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion nodded, his expression one of respectful attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas pointed to the great northern mountain range, his tone grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The fact that the races over there can coexist with our enemies on this side, separated by mountains, indicates only one thing: their strength is no less than that of those here—possibly even greater.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used “enemies” to describe both factions because when Orion and Leonidas invaded the factions on this side, those from the north sent no aid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, the fact that your Shadow Paper Figure was destroyed means the races over there are very wary of us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It will be very difficult to just steamroll your way through.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas concluded that a direct, overwhelming push was not viable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion agreed with this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, what do we do next?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion deferred to Leonidas, who had more experience invading large worlds. His understanding of such situations was, in most cases, deeper than Orion’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, rest and reorganize. Second, accumulate strength. Third, improve your own power.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rest and reorganization were for the wyvern and cave spider armies; both needed time to breed new generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, after this war, Orion and Leonidas would receive countless dark source crystals and corpses for food, giving them the resources to mass-produce cannon-fodder troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accumulating strength was for the undead armies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many undead would be summoned next, and these undead armies would need graveyards for the undead and skeletons to slumber in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would only be awakened when war began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without deadlands to sustain them, many undead and skeletons would naturally dissipate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With too many undead, Vexis and Rumbold simply couldn’t manage them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, building deadlands and graveyards became a necessity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, if war broke out with the northern enemies and the conflict once again reached a stalemate, having graveyards to fall back on would ensure the undead armies’ supply lines remained intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vexis and Rumbold would have an easier time then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The point about improving personal strength was mainly directed at Orion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little bro, if you can advance to Archlord before we go to war with those on the other side of the mountains, our subsequent battles will be much easier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A shift in top-tier combat power has a greater impact on the overall strategic situation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas said this very seriously, with utmost gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You saw it too: the avatars of those two Archlords weren’t weak. Their true bodies are likely even stronger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They might even be at peak Archlord strength. When they can no longer sit still and decide to enter the fray personally, the pressure on us will increase significantly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the truth, and a prediction for the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if it truly came to that, Leonidas’s true body would also descend; he wouldn’t fear his opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then again, as mentioned before, if he could avoid using his true body, Leonidas absolutely would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn’t it be far better for the true body to lie low and pull strings from the shadows?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion took Leonidas’s advice to heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their next steps were to recuperate while gathering intelligence on the northern half of the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little bro, to tell you the truth, I can vaguely sense that the number of Archlord powerhouses on the other side of those mountains will be greater than here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The next war will likely be even tougher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonidas’s tone was heavy, and his gaze towards the north was solemn.\u003C\u002Fp>",1138,"2026-05-29T15:49:30.653Z","2026-06-01T04:29:39.741Z",1,"novelbin.me","a29eb59c2a325fd5ee2f948e9370acb55a9b1980ae3999644408cdc13bb07d0c","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-746","titan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-chapter-744",1606,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftitan-king-ascension-of-the-giant-cover.jpg"]