Chapter 674: Void Storm

The surrounding void produced rippling waves, covering a vast area, almost enveloping the entire Abyss dwarf village.

This is a sign that a large number of enemies are being teleported in.

Reslin's words shocked the teammates; Axina halted her charge and stood before everyone, assuming a defensive stance.

Yizite hurriedly asked, "Has Dima'etu arrived?"

"No." Reslin's gaze pierced the distant void, seeing a massive group of Demons; the Abyss's evil aura burned like fire, yet there was no Baro Flame Demon among them.

He instantly identified those Demons, "They are the demon army under its command."

"It finally can't hold back!" Belak's face grew solemn yet with a hint of joy; he isn't afraid to fight a Demon Lord, but the vigilance and waiting before battle are irritating.

All of them were clear‑minded.

Baro Flame Demon's scheme is easy to guess; he left a communication spell item in this Abyss dwarf's lair, so that when our squad appears, the Abyss dwarves immediately notify the Demon Lord. This method can only be carried out by a creature with higher intelligence; the quick‑witted Abyss dwarves are the most suitable.

The Demon Lord indeed was very cautious, not coming himself.

As expected, he teleported the demon army to probe the enemy, while also draining his own stamina and soul force; he himself watched from the shadows.

If the timing is right, Baro Flame Demon will join the fight!

"Prepare for battle!"

Through Mind Link, Yizite said, "Maintain an appropriate combat intensity, conserve strength for Dima'etu, and don't appear overly powerful, lest you scare it into staying hidden."

The teammates all understood implicitly; they had previously discussed this situation and made contingency plans.

The next second.

Hundreds of Demons were teleported from the void, tall, short, fat, thin, all varied in form; a massive evil energy aura enveloped a radius of a kilometer. Dima'etu's teleportation technique was extremely exquisite, apparently leveraging the power of the Abyssal Gate; the leading demon vanguard surrounded the entire Abyss dwarf village, encircling Reslin's five‑person squad.

The void ripples did not cease; this was only the first batch of Demons, the second batch was still being teleported.

In fact, Reslin could, while the enemies were still teleporting, cause a teleport mishap with a single Rift Technique, or an Arcane interference to trigger a void tremor, sending the Demons directly to be buried in the void.

But that would alert Baro Flame Demon, so he did not act.

Soon, the second and third batches of Demons also arrived, numbering over three hundred, squeezing the Abyss dwarf village to a standstill.

So many powerful Demons gathered together, a terrifying aura rose skyward.

The dwarves' magic nest resonated, the evil energy smoke flared like fire, continuously supplying power to the demon army; the sky grew dark with rolling clouds, the ground dimmed, yet the temperature suddenly surged as if in a furnace—any ordinary person here would suffocate in less than a second.

The five‑member squad formed a defensive formation, observing the surrounding enemies.

The most eye‑catching were two massive Demons.

"Mortal!"

One of the massive Demons spoke.

Its upper body resembled a human, but its lower half was a huge serpentine tail covered in fiery red scales, standing over five meters tall, like an upright cobra; its features were complete and ferocious, its head bore a pair of upward‑pointing black horns, its stout arms grasped a massive trident, flames flowed beneath its skin, radiating terrifying heat.

It was a fire demon, and a fire‑demon lord who had evolved to the pinnacle of the fire‑demon race.

Most of the surrounding Demons were fire demons; none were ordinary fire demons, each had evolved two or three times, including fire‑demon priests skilled in flame spells, robust fire‑demon commanders, fire‑demon hunters who controlled molten‑fire hell hounds, forming a massive fire‑demon army.

They all obeyed the fire‑demon lord.

"Mortal!" the fire‑demon lord raised his black trident, over three meters long, pointed at Reslin and the others, and shouted in Abyssal Language, "The great Dima'etu has commanded me, Shan Nuo Si of the fire‑demon clan, to pronounce your death sentence!"

The surrounding fire demons roared in unison, flames blazing upon their bodies.

"Who gave you the nerve to breach Danmof?" another massive Demon asked angrily.

It stood behind Reslin and the others, its towering body like a small mountain, entirely composed of crimson rock, its skin cracked, magma constantly flowing down, its massive hand gripping a rough great hammer, six to seven meters long, the hammerhead a scorching giant stone.

A Legendary High-rank Purgatory Giant!

Both massive Demons have the potential to ascend to Demon Lord, they are Baro Flame Demon's capable assistants.

Yizite had once infiltrated near the Abyssal Gate, knowing of these two massive Demons; the Purgatory Giant's name is "Olis."

The Purgatory Giant also brought a squad of elite Demons, but unlike the fire demons they were less orderly, focusing on destruction: Horn Demons, Baragu Mo, Kuangzhan Mo, Liubi She Mo, Mi You Mo, etc., crowding around him, eager to rush forward and tear the enemy apart.

Besides the two leading massive Demons, there were more than ten other Legendary‑realm Demons.

Baro Flame Demon dispatched half of his elite Demons from his domain.

The Abyss dwarves also formed an offensive formation on the outskirts.

If an ordinary transcendent squad were surrounded by so many powerful Demons, they would be nine‑to‑one dead, with almost no chance to escape.

However, Reslin's five did not panic.

The fire‑demon lord and the Purgatory Giant seemed to have received Baro Flame Demon's orders, and did not rush to attack.

But Baro Flame Demon's teleportation did not cease; Demons kept arriving, not as strong as the vanguard, mainly Mid-stage Fuluo Niao Mo and Kas Mo, numerous, each batch exceeding two hundred, and within half a minute they swarmed the sky.

The demon teleportation finally stopped.

The Abyss dwarf village was occupied by over two thousand Demons, ground and sky blackened like endless waves, laying a net of heaven and earth.

Baro Flame Demon still did not appear.

"It won't come."

Yizite thought to himself.

"Then let's first eliminate these filthy things!" Belak already raised two Bolt Guns, his face eager for action.

Doensosu lifted a hammer with a nail head and said lowly in his heart, "Kill the small ones, the big ones will naturally come."

"Attack!"

Reslin simply said one word.

Almost as they made the decision, the demon army also moved. The fire‑demon lord shouted, "For the master, kill them!"

Hundreds of Demons surged forward like a tide from all directions.

Demons in the sky also dived down.

Bang bang bang……

First came the roaring gunfire; Belak dual‑wielded Bolt Guns, their muzzles spitting two tongues of flame, bullets shot out at invisible speed like unseen blades, meeting the surging demon army.

The Holy Spear ranger swept the Bolt Gun in a half circle; demons in its line were blown into fragments.

Axi Na lunged with a thunderous charge toward the Purgatory Giant.

Boom!

The Purgatory Giant raised a stone hammer to smash, but struck the ground empty. When Axi Na was halfway through her charge, she turned into lightning and rushed to its feet, letting out a roar; her round shield slammed onto the giant's knee, instantly sounding the crack of breaking rock.

Ah…

The Purgatory Giant Aolisi cried out in pain and involuntarily staggered backward.

Axi Na sprang up, sprinting across its ten‑meter‑tall body, ignoring the scorching magma beneath her feet; in a few strides she surged from the giant's leg to its chest and drove down a full‑force kick.

Boom.

The Purgatory Giant could not bear it any longer; its tilted body was trampled down.

Countless lightning bolts erupted, engulfing it, and nearby Destruction Demons were also struck to ash; a large area was instantly cleared, leaving only a few high‑rank Demons alive. The wounded Purgatory Giant roared, its crushed chest spewing superheated magma; Axi Na dared not stand her ground and withdrew.

The giant seized the chance to rise, and the injuries to its knee and chest healed in an instant.

It had just raised the massive hammer when Axi Na charged again.

Elsewhere, the Flame Demon Lord was entangled by Yizite. A dark elf transformed into a Demon, sprouting a pair of massive bat wings, curved black horns on its head, wielding two green war blades; its figure moved like lightning, leaving streaks of black afterimages, speed so great even the eye could not follow.

The Flame Demon Lord practiced both melee and fire spells, its scale armor was formidable, reaction only slightly slower than the Demonic Hunter; a casual swing of its trident ignited high‑temperature flames, but failed to hit the enemy.

Yizite's war blade cut a wound on it; it was non‑lethal and would heal within seconds.

He periodically widened the gap, leapt into the Demon crowd, and swung his double‑edged blade, emitting green light as fine as a hair, slicing the surrounding Demons into fragments.

Demonic Hunter!

"Today is your death day!" The Flame Demon Lord writhed its serpentine tail, chasing while casting, shouting, "To die at the hands of Shan En Nuo Si is your honor!"

Yizite only tangled with it, offering no reply.

In the center of the encirclement, Dao En Suosi opened a Seven‑Ring Divine Technique—a holy protective barrier—shaped like an inverted dome on the ground, about five meters in diameter; the golden light barrier shielded himself, Beilake and Reslin.

Some Demons breached Beilake's fire defense line, diving from the sky onto the barrier in a frenzied assault, instantly ignited by holy energy and burned to ash in an instant.

More flying Demons poured in one after another, flooding the entire barrier.

In just a few seconds, Dao En Suosi expended a great amount of soul‑energy, his breathing grew rapid, and the holy protective barrier began to wobble.

At that moment, Reslin calmly completed his first spell.

Eight‑Ring—Void Storm!

Within a radius of several hundred meters, black fissures opened in the air, the purest mysterious energy gushed out like seawater, instantly forming tens of thousands of Arcane blades.

Each Arcane blade was as thin as a cicada wing, about a meter long and half a finger wide, weightless like a floating translucent ribbon. Yet their sharpness was beyond imagination; a gentle slash cleaved a Demon's body, the cut smooth as a mirror, blood spraying.

Countless Arcane blades sliced at high speed, forming a terrifying magical storm.

Reslin's Void Storm covered a larger area than a normal spell, encompassing the whole village; from sky to ground, almost every inch of space was swept by Arcane blades, its lethality greater.

He raised his staff to channel the spell.

The flying Demons in the sky screamed, desperately dodging, but while they could evade one Arcane blade, they could not escape the second and the countless surrounding deadly blades.

In a few breaths, hundreds of flying Demons were slain cleanly.

Fragments of corpses and blood rained down from the sky.

The Void Storm not only cleared the aerial foes, but ground Demons also could not escape; the Abyss Dwarves' houses collapsed with a roar, and the village quickly turned to ruins.

The Abyss Dwarves farther from the battlefield, faces full of terror, turned and fled.

Yet no matter how fast they ran, they could not outrun the spell; within a few meters they were engulfed by the Void Storm, Arcane blades slicing through their armor and bodies as if struck by dozens of swords, leaving only piles of shredded flesh on the ground.

Any large‑scale channeling spell consumes a massive amount of mana and soul‑energy.

The Void Storm is no exception.

In less than ten seconds, Reslin's mana was halved. For another caster it would be hard to continue, but he remained unfazed, pouring the newly absorbed fifteen‑hundred‑plus units of electricity into a tiny fraction, instantly replenishing his mana.

To lure the Baro Flame Demon into appearing, he halted his casting, pretended his mana was overly drained, and his complexion grew even paler.

When the Void Storm subsided, over ninety percent of the Demon army had been slain.

Because of concern for Axi Na and Yizite, Reslin deliberately steered the Void Storm away from their positions, and the two great Demons escaped the Arcane blades.

Some clever Demons noticed this, approached them, and escaped a fate within the Void Storm.

They can evade for a moment, but not forever.

Beilake immediately aimed his barrel at them; bullets roared out, and in a dozen seconds he easily cleared those Demon remnants.

Reslin did not act, pretending to recover his mana.

"You all will die!"

The Flame Demon Lord was still tangled with Yizite, but its minions were slain in an instant, leaving it lacking confidence. It kept roaring, fiercely attacking the Demonic Hunter, yet its crimson, wicked eyes showed fear, clearly having developed a desire to retreat.

Beilake glanced at Axi Na's condition.

She had once again knocked the Purgatory Giant to the ground; its body was riddled with pits, a half‑meter‑deep wound on its neck, spewing a torrent of magma‑like blood, on the brink of death.

Thus, the Holy Spear ranger turned his barrel to aid Yizite.

He kept firing a Bolt Gun to suppress the Flame Demon Lord, while his other hand readied his "Holy Light Verdict", charging for three seconds before launching an Armor Penetration projectile imbued with holy light.

Boom!

Yizite, in perfect sync, launched a frenzied assault on the Flame Demon Lord, while Dao En Suosi released a Five‑Ring Exorcism technique onto its head, causing its spirit to stall.

The two combined forces, forcing the Flame Demon Lord to have no time to dodge.

The dazzling holy light Armor Penetration projectile pierced the Flame Demon Lord's scaly neck armor; the Bolt Gun's bullets slipped in, detonating inside in rapid succession, nearly blowing half its neck apart, eliciting a painful scream.

The Demonic Hunter's war blade flashed, cleaving off its head.

Elsewhere, Axi Na's shield strike knocked the blood‑loss‑ridden Purgatory Giant completely unconscious.

She leapt onto the giant's head; a blue dragon's fang pierced its eye, straight into the brain. The lightning strike from her longsword burned the giant's brain matter to charcoal; the massive body turned into a rigid corpse, unable to rise.

In less than a minute, the battle ended.

The two of them rushed back to their teammate, and the pale‑faced Reslin suddenly felt his heart flutter as another ripple rose in the void.

He lifted his eyelid and saw more demons in the distant void being teleported over.

Among them was an extremely terrifying figure.

"It's coming!"

(End of chapter)