Chapter 466

When humans on this side are at the limit of their endurance, the demon beasts that look fierce and seem to have seized all the initiative are actually not doing well either.

Having already launched the third wave of assault, yet still being outright defeated by the fierce human duke's fist technique, the three demon beast powerhouses could no longer remain idle.

Since when the number of demon beasts of the same kind in the same area reaches a certain level, a monarch-level entity responsible for leading everyone will be born from the group.

When a large number of monarch-level demon beasts gather together, in order to avoid everyone rushing into a Warring States era, a king of kings will naturally arise from among them.

But considering that this title would inevitably remind people of a certain sausage, while another translation, 'King of Kings,' has an extremely wide range of upper and lower limits.

Doing so would be insulting Cyrus II and Napoleon, while also promoting a human trash Colonel K.

So we'll still use a term that may sound a bit theatrical, but at least absolutely unique and easy to remember: Demon King.

In the royal hunting ground, a great pit that has been operating for five hundred years, myriad races from all directions have together given birth to four Demon Kings.

The reason only three are present now is that the fourth classmate already warned everyone with his own corpse, so from now on be obedient and listen more to the Demon Dragon Lord.

By coincidence, the remaining three happen to cover the three categories of demon beasts: flying creatures, land beasts, and scaled creatures.

As the leader of the flying creatures, the Falcon Demon King, whose size is comparable to a dragon, after circling the battlefield in the air, spoke first.

"Alas, Demon Dragon Lord, everyone followed your orders to come out of the mountains and rebel because they believed in you, but sending them up in batches like this is probably not appropriate!"

However, the ones suffering the most casualties in this battle are the land beasts, which belong to that enormous magic bear whose body is so huge it can sit leaning against a mountain wall, and whose qi and blood have even surpassed many giant bloodlines.

Seeing someone speak up, the Bear Demon King then said, following the Falcon Demon King's meaning.

"Yes, Big Sister Bird is right; it's not easy for these brothers of mine to survive until today, and watching them be sacrificed like this really pains me as their older brother."

Seeing these two siblings express their opinions, the quiet and reserved Lizard Demon King, who prefers to stay aside and silently observe, and whose size is the smallest among the three Demon Kings, also muttered a sentence.

"Hey, Demon Dragon Lord, no matter how we say it, we were personally recruited by the Demon Monarch, so if this battle incurs too many losses, I personally think you might not be pleased."

Honestly, if the imperial envoy sent by the emperor were a normal person, seeing these three local tyrants so anxious they're practically spitting venom, they'd certainly give them some face.

After all… we still need to keep coaxing all these fellow cultivators to go to their deaths.

But unfortunately, the Demon Dragon is not normal at all; they're a bunch of lunatics with problems from body to mind.

"You're teaching me how to do things!"

Thus, the Red Demon Dragon, who had already shifted from commander to supervisor, had no intention of reasoning with them; having already transformed into dragon form, she lunged and pressed the Falcon Demon King under her claws, loving him fiercely.

Falcon Demon King: "Ah! (mouth open, eyes closed)"

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"Spare my life, my lord! Spare my life, my lord!"

Seeing this, the Bear Demon King and the Lizard Demon King hurried to intervene, giving the Red Demon Dragon a way out, which allowed the Falcon Demon King to barely survive.

Moreover, the Red Demon Dragon, who updates 'Love Beast TV' at the slightest disagreement, gave them no face at all, continuing to shout and demand they reinforce their troops.

"I don't care how much you sacrifice; today we must take that damned stronghold, understand?!"

The three Demon Kings looked at each other helplessly, and had no choice but to submit to the supervisor's demonic might, deciding to personally take the field and fight these humans to the death.

However, the battlefield situation changes in an instant; although the Red Demon Dragon's deadly continuous urge is a bit neurotic, it is not without reason.

Because when they were about to set out for the battlefield, they suddenly noticed a large group of humanoid creatures appearing outside the encirclement out of nowhere.

"What… what kind of people are these?"

"I've heard that dragons like nothing better than to enslave weak races for their own use; could it be that they have other servants as well?"

In their low‑voiced discussion, while the other two Demon Kings were optimistic, the Lizard Demon King just kept shaking his head.

"Hey hey, I have a bad feeling again."

The fact proves that this scaly fellow might have the makings of a prophet, for in the very next second that group of humanoid creatures also launched an attack against them.

"Damn it, I knew I couldn't trust this bunch of damned upright bastards!"

As the lowest of the six races, in the eyes of demon beasts, humans, orcs, spirit people, and even some strange beings are all the same: extremely arrogant, two‑legged upright bastards.

It's bad enough that they routinely slaughter us for experience, but they even hypocritically raise us like livestock, wanting us to sustainably provide them with experience—what cruelty and shamelessness!

Thus the three Demon Kings are willing to launch this rebellion; besides the Demon Monarch's direct coercion, another reason is that they have been oppressed too harshly by humans.

On the contrary, those demi‑human races that are likewise despised in the civilized world, and even driven out of the Yangyue civilization sphere, can actually share a chamber pot with them, and even live together mixed in the mountains.

Thus, this so‑called beast horde actually contains a considerable portion of goblins, dog‑headed people, and even cave dwellers—semi‑intelligent demi‑human groups that serve as the traditional experience packs for human adventurers, and they have joined this rebellion.

Then they realized something was off: why are there goblins and dog‑headed people on the enemy side as well? Are we not attacking the Radiant People?

There's no way; players don't have that many convoluted thoughts—they can roll lucky non‑human races, and might even be envied by friends on the Player Forum.

After all, humans have limits; it's exhausting to be a person, and after finally launching a game, not being human is the proper way!

Therefore, following the pull of fate and bloodline, all the demi‑humans in the beast tide feel as if something is calling to them not far away.

"Is this… the aura of a god?"

"Exactly!"

That is the top among the non‑human players, the Heaven‑Mandated Protector of the Goblins, the Legendary Protector of the Dog‑Headed People, the Divine Guardian of the Dwarves, the leader revered by cave dwellers, the friend of the rat tribe, the Lord of the Mountains and Forests, the Green Mountain Range, the Fourth Heavenly God, the Yangyue Founding King, the Jade Emperor, the much‑watched star player 【Slaughter Goblin】 Your Excellency.

Perhaps because his title has grown even longer, the obviously idol‑burdened Sha Ge did not personally step onto the battlefield.

Instead, he stood on a war chariot of the same model as the Goblin Mad King that closed‑beta players would be very familiar with, gazing into the distance at the beast horde, heartbroken.

"Alas! How can there be so many laborers… so many of my kin standing against me?"

"I truly feel heartbroken; I can't wait any longer—I must go rescue them!"

But since he can sit in that same model luxury chariot, it shows that the Mad King consciousness residing in him has fully resigned itself, formally becoming a role similar to that of the Ring Old Grandfather.

Therefore, upon seeing Sha Ge utter such a lament, he immediately responded.

【Excellent, as a future ruler you should have this awareness; since you've already decided, go ahead and do it!】

……

So we absolutely cannot let two lunatics be alone together; otherwise, the more times it happens, the worse their condition will surely become!

And with the straight‑man's support, Sha Ge, who is responsible for the funny part, confidently crossed his arms.

"Hmph, these damned demon beasts dare to poison my subjects; I will now…… wait a moment."

He had been happily proclaiming his edgy declaration, but he himself interrupted his own chant.

He took out a war‑hammer‑sized staff, raised his bucket‑thick arms, trembled with his several‑ton body, and made a demonic motion resembling praising the sun.

"Oh, my loyal followers, you weak and pitiful divine beings need my protection!"

The next second, five fully armed goblin warriors sprang from behind the war chariot, three dwarf warriors wielding firearms, and two gnoll mages with eyes as clear as a tame house dog's appeared.

After a brief moment of confusion, they fervently paid homage to the Jade Emperor, then, after looking around, hurriedly ran back the way they came.

Behind them, an army of over a thousand demihumans had already assembled, standing ready and well‑trained.

It's obvious this isn't an ordinary summoning spell; it's a buffed summoning spell, a summoning spell infused with divine power.

Because as the fourth god of the player faction, Sha Ge, after accumulating enough incense, anchoring his authority, and officially advancing to minor god, chose his divine name as

——Team God!

……

Well, this title is indeed full of cringe.

Actually, Sha Ge originally wanted the authority of 【Unity】, 【Gathering】, or even the impressive‑sounding 【Covenant】.

But unfortunately, these concepts are too broad for his minor‑god form to bear; he simply couldn't choose them.

So as a fallback, even if dismissing 【Team】, 【Partner】, 【Companion】 etc. as too silly, we could actually just pick 【Team】.

But who knew that inscribing the concept would be such a crucial step—world law treats it as voice input, and you can't take it back?

Thus, after Sha Ge jokingly said to the Mad King, "How about we become the Team God?", it was immediately decided that he would be the Team God.

……

"What the f**k!!!"

As the Team God, Sha Ge's first divine authority is to summon his own fanatical followers to guard him at any time and place.

Although there are limits on the number of summons and cooldown time, if used well it's still a fairly powerful ability.

For example, right now he can't actually drag his goblin army across most of the Radiant Northern Expedition, but he can teleport himself near the Royal Capital and then spam summoning while waiting for cooldown.

Little by little he pulled together a thousand‑strong force, and with his other allies and guild members he instantly became one of the strongest combat teams among the players.

As for what to do next……

Eh, anyway he's also a farming‑style expert who can stay put for months on a skin drum, so worst case he can just slowly pull them back.

And after Sha Ge led his war band into the battlefield, he didn't just go all‑out against the magic beasts, but instead searched everywhere for larger demihuman fronts.

What to do next needs no further explanation—psychological warfare is still warfare, so he directly invoked the Timely Rain and gave this bunch of Little Kalami a Liang Shan‑style profit.

But the precondition for Sha Ge doing this is that the Mountain Demon King who rules the demihumans, having been overly eager for justice, was seized by the Demon Lord, who kindly grabbed him and instantly refined him.

The other magic beasts each have their own big bosses, and their intelligence is indeed low, so they can't communicate normally; thus they can only be beaten into a single mass physically.

And the standout among them is the third god of the player faction, who, relying on invincible stockings power, obtained the Cold Iron Divinity from the system mall—that Huaxia military expert.

Since the somewhat strange term "Cold Iron" can be broken down into the concepts "cold" and "iron," the powers it brings are naturally two‑fold.

The first is "cold": the big shot whose game ID is 【Eight Trigrams Wandering Body】 can continuously summon nearby a chill that swiftly steals temperature, even directly freezing people to death in a cold storm.

Unfortunately, a minor god is still a minor god—this so‑called cold storm's diameter doesn't even exceed an adult's armspan, so even if the effect is good, it barely qualifies as a decent AoE skill; for a god it's pretty shabby.

As for the second authority, "iron": he can transform his body into a frozen‑corpse‑like divine mode, gaining hardness akin to steel—immune to fire, unbreakable by hammer, undecaying for a thousand years, like the zombies of folk legend.

But don't just assume that mentioning a "steel body" makes him an invincible superman—after all……

Frozen corpse, frozen corpse—he's totally a frozen corpse, so he definitely can't move!

Once this skill is activated, it's basically "I'm not saying anything, I'm going AFK, folks!"

……No wonder this thing could become the earliest‑dying evil god—it really sets a new low for divinity.

But!

Where there's a will, there's a way—since the mountain is right here, someone will surely be able to climb over it.

These two seemingly useless junk cards actually only need one more card to become a deck capable of becoming the god of gods.

And this crucial turnaround trump card, the 【Eight Trigrams Wandering Body】 just happens to have it!

After all, since he was selected by Huaxia to become a user of the Cold Iron Divinity, it means he must be a strong player.

In fact, as the current brightest rookie of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, his power‑growth speed is even faster than that of Cang Lang during the internal test.

Therefore his True Qi Nurturing Body Technique has reached the third transformation, unlocking the ability to walk the Xun Wind—he can soar on thick True Qi as if riding clouds and mist.

So……

Low‑temperature brittle armor, steel body pierce, True Qi activation—when these three stack together, they're practically a magical little droplet of water!