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Chapter 768 – Wave After Wave

However, these two volleys didn't hit the Divine Race, instead, they clashed with the spear attacks that the Divine Race sent out. Upon hitting the spears, an explosion suddenly happened as both spear and javelin disappeared in mid air.

Aiken didn't stop there, upon seeing this, he immediately commanded, "Shoot all ten javelins!" Then he swung his arms continuously as he threw javelin upon javelin towards the opposing army.

After emptying their ammo, Aiken commanded, "Retreat!" Then without any hesitation, he turned his horse around and escaped.

On the other hand, upon releasing their first attack, the Divine Race thought that they would get into close combat with Aiken's troop. They had already seen that Aiken and the others were only 9th rank, therefore, their attack shouldn't have been able to penetrate their Domain.

But they didn't expect that Aiken's side would only throw two javelins each in order to eliminate the attack that the Divine Race had sent out. Then just as the Divine Race were stunned, Aiken's next attacks came in. A wave of ten consecutive volleys were currently facing the Divine Race.

The Divine Race was already aware that the Ark Continent would use blood lightning beads. Because of this, they quickly established their Domains in order to defend themselves. However, they weren't expecting that the attack of the enemies would be this severe.

As they stared, the ten waves of javelins exploded. The first five waves eradicated their Domains, the latter five were for the Divine Race to take.

One must say that the region taken up by 10 thousand Domains weren't small. If average people were to throw the javelins, it would be impossible for them to even touch the Divine Race.

However, one shouldn't forget that Aiken and the others were 9th rank experts. 9th ranks used to be the strongest people in the Ark Continent. The javelins that they threw out could easily reach 1 kilometer away. Even if the Divine Race were God-ranked, they still wouldn't be able to quickly dodge the javelins given how close the two parties were.

Both sides were 200 meters apart and had attacked virtually the same time. It can be said that when the attacks happened, both were already quite close. Fortunately, Aiken's horses were very agile and were able to turn corners immediately, conveniently dodging the attacks from the Divine Race.

When the Divine Race reacted, and sent people to pursue Aiken's troops, they were already too late to catch up.

Thunder Yun didn't care too much about small engagements like these. In his opinion, a ten thousand man troop was pretty insignificant in front of a twenty million man army. Let along those troops being 9th ranks, he can just send out an army to swiftly kill them.

However, he didn’t think that this underestimation would make him suffer a loss. Of the ten thousand people he had sent out, nobody came back. Moreover, none of them were critically injured, not even corpses remained. All of them were directly vaporized by the blood lightning beads.

Thunder Yun looked at where Aiken clashed with the ten thousand Divine Race infantry. He couldn't help but say, "Fei'er, send an order out. Tell them to make use of ranged attacks whenever they come in contact with the people from the Ark Continent. Don't make them go too near."

Fei'er nodded then relayed the orders. The faces of the Divine Race wasn't too good. They had just left the Radiant Empire in a great mood, but they had already lost ten thousand people. It can be said that losing people this early wasn't a good sign.

At this moment, on the Divine Race's right side, another cavalry unit from the Ark Continent came out. This unit did the same, they were riding the same horses and had brought javelins. However, these people had received orders from Zhao Hai to fire at a safe distance before retreating immediately.

Zhao Hai was aware that although Domains can attack at a long distance, it was impossible for it to reach one kilometer. On the other hand, 9th ranks can confidently throw javelins at this distance. Because of this, after seeing that Aiken had caused severe losses, he instructed the others to take it easy and attack at a safe range.

This tactic was just like how mounted archers fought against infantry in the battlefield. They would pepper you with arrows in the distance and retreating when you decide to chase them.

The Divine Race rarely encountered such a thing. In the past, when the Divine Race conquers a plane, they would just saturate the place with experts, overwhelming the local residence with strength.

This would be even easier if the invaded plane didn't have any God ranks. Without any way to resist the Divine Race, the plane would fall quite soon.

Before the Ark Continent, the Divine Race's hardest conquest was in God of Thunder's plane. To conquer the plane, the Divine Race had to expend a lot of resources. This was because there were a lot of God ranks in that plane. Moreover, their subordinates were also quite numerous. But even with this, they still managed to take control of the plane, despite the losses of several million lives.

That was the most dangerous situation the Divine Race had faced. But even then, they hadn't experienced the same methods that Zhao Hai used.

It was obvious that the Ark Continent didn't have any God-rank divisions. One can say that there were only very few God ranks among the Ark Continent's residents. But the strange thing was, despite having low amounts of God ranks, the continent was still able to produce blood lightning beads in a quantity enough to threaten the Divine Race's God ranks.

Although there were a lot of God ranks among the Divine Race, it would still be impossible for them to have an endless supply of blood lightning beads like the Ark Continent. In fact, blood lightning beads weren't conventional weapons in the Divine Realm. This was because the method of making these beads was very troublesome. If a God rank made one, the damage on their vitality would be enormous. Because of this, it would be impossible for the Divine Race to use blood lightning beads the same way as Zhao Hai had.

But nobody could blame the Divine Race, even they wouldn't have expected Zhao Hai to have an ultimate weapon such as the Space. It can be said that the blood lightning beads were just an amalgamation of two energies, of which the Space had unlimited amounts of. Zhao Hai already had the Blood Pond for the blood of a God rank expert, at the same time, he also had the Dao lotus to provide the lightning element. These two allowed the Ark Continent to have an endless amount of blood lightning beads, making them a standard weapon for the Ark Continent.

After the cavalry unleashed their 12 javelins, they immediately retreated. Even if the Divine Race wanted to chase after them, they were still unable to do so. This time, the Divine Race lost 1000 men. This amount was still insignificant compared to the 20 million that were currently here.

However, Thunder Yun didn't feel good about it. The current situation made him frown, the other party was starting to prove to be a headache.

While Thunder Yun was thinking, another wave of attack came in. It was still the same javelin attack from a different cavalry unit. They were also firing from afar before retreating. They provided zero chance for a direct confrontation.

The brows of Thunder Yun crunched up, he turned to Fei'er and said, "Fei'er, transmit these orders. Have the quickest long ranged attackers stationed out front. Once the enemy comes, immediately attack them. We can't have these cavalry units continuously chip at our troops."

Fei'er nodded, then relayed the orders to the army. Before long, a disturbance happened in the army. The soldiers made way as groups of people bearing bows and arrows came forward. Not only were their attacks far reaching, they were also quick in moving around.

Just as the changes in the Divine Race's troops finished, the fourth wave of cavalry came in. Seeing them approaching, the Divine Race's archers immediately established their bow and arrow Domain. Naturally, they wanted to have the initiative and fire attacks towards the Ark Continent's cavalry.

However, the Ark Continent's cavalry unit weren't fools. After seeing the Divine Race's actions, they immediately turned around and ran, abandoning their plan to attack.

The archer units tried to pursue, but they just weren't fast enough. When they came back, the same cavalry unit went forward. This caused the archer unit to attack once more, only to find that they really couldn't catch up.

This exchanged happened several times. Finally, the archer troop soldiers became enraged. This time, after seeing the enemy retreat, they didn't return to their army. Instead, they went forward and went all out in pursuing the enemy.

Thunder Yun also saw the actions of the cavalry unit, he was quite enraged as well. The Ark Continent's actions were just too insulting. It was quite obvious that they weren't intending on fighting full on combat. They seem to be intent on chipping away at the Divine Race Army.

Because of these actions, the archer troop couldn't help but pursue. Thunder Yun didn't prevent them. He wanted to see where these cavalry units retreat to.

However, Thunder Yun was quick to regret his decision. Not long after the archer troop decided to pursue, they were suddenly surrounded by huge undead. Although they were huge and skeletal, the undead were fairly quick as well. They didn't follow the cavalry units, instead, they faced the archer troop. This made the archers stop, then they formed their formations, ready to meet the enemy's attack. But at this time, a drastic event happened.

Chapter 769 – Completely Empty

Just  as the Divine Race was done with their formation, the undead opened their mouths as a sudden burst of blue and red rays came out. These rays were shot directly into the formation of the Divine Race. Upon getting hit, the archers couldn't help but be scrunched up with each other. One by one, dead bodies started to fall down. But something strange happened, those dead bodies disappeared as they fell down. Before long, the archer troops were being one sidedly slaughtered .

Thunder Yun quietly looked at the battle. The Ark Continent's move was done beautifully. The ambush was not too far nor was it too close. It was just at the point that the Divine Race was able to see them but not too close for them to catch up. The action was just like a demonstration of the continent's methods.

Thunder Yun was actually not enraged, he just calmly looked at what happened. To be honest, after the succeeding attacks, Thunder Yun understood what the Ark Continent was doing. They probably wanted to delay their advance as much as possible, thus the constant small attacks on the Divine Race army.

In his past wars, Thunder Yun had also encountered similar situations. But the lethality of the Ark Continent far surpassed those in the past. The attacks of the Ark Continent's residents can actually cause casualties numbering from a hundred to over a thousand.

These scattered attacks might not look eye-catching. But it was actually a huge blow to the power and efficiency of the Divine Race army.

Thunder Yun might be calm, but his internal thoughts weren't. The Ark Continent's poking was truly different than the ones he encountered before. Although they were only attacked four times, they had already lost more than 10 thousand people. This might look small, but in the long run, this number would continually increase.

Moreover, those attacking them made Thunder Yun worry. Most importantly, Thunder Yun and the others weren't actually aware of the true strength of the Ark Continent. There were two points of interest in what Thunder Yun just witnessed.

First was their mounts. Thunder Yun was a veteran in the battlefield, so he was clear about how strong 9th ranks were. It would be impossible for 9th rank experts to be that quick. The only explanation was their mount. Moreover, it seems like these mounts were something that had never been seen in the Ark Continent before.

The second were their cannons. Thunder Yun had already heard about the continent's magic cannons. At that time, he didn't really take it to heart. He knew how strong the magic cannons could be. Not to mention, the magic cannons of the Divine Race, even if they were meticulously made, were still quite weak in Thunder Yun's eyes. Because of this, he really didn’t think too much about them.

But in this war, Thunder Yun's knowledge had actually been overturned. He didn't think that a common magic cannon in the Ark Continent would have this much might. This actually made him surprised.

Thunder Yun cannot just leave his people be slaughtered in front of him. He immediately sent people out to assist. But when they arrived at the site, the cavalry and undead had already retreated. Nobody was left.

Thunder Yun wasn't very happy with this battle. He had just sent out 10 thousand troops, but when they returned, only about four thousand returned. This meant that the people of the Ark Continent had killed more than 5,000 people. This casualty wasn't very small.

Thunder Yun frowned as he massaged his head. If they couldn't deal with these attacks, then the 20 million man army wouldn't be able to survive. They haven't even gone far into the Buddha Empire, but they already lost 20 thousand people. Although it wasn't relatively significant compared to the 20 million, one shouldn' forget that all of these losses were incurred in just one day.

After some time, Thunder Yun turned to Fei'er and said, "Fei'er, what do you think we need to do?"

Fei'er's deep voice answered, "Master, we truly haven’t encountered this situation before. Although the Ark Continent's people have powerful weapons, this is the extent of what they can do."

Thunder Yun smiled and said, "Good. Give the order to march. If they want to play around, then we'll just hammer on. Swiftly take their homes. And once they decide to go all out, we'll wipe them out in one go."

Fei'er nodded and then spread the order as the army sped up their advance. However, it was a pity that their advance couldn't become so fast. After all, this was a 20 million man army. If they wanted to speed up, it would be very hard for them to keep their formation.

If they want to maintain their formation, then they would have to carefully advance. But if they don't, they will become separated groups, making it easy for the Ark Continent's forces to poke them.

This was hard to deal with, and Thunder Yun knew that there was no solution. He only hoped then they would find the Ark Continent's camp soon, then they would take their revenge.

The Radiant Empire wasn't very far from Upper Bank City. If one were to fly fast, they would reach it in half a day. However, since Thunder Yun's army was advancing, their march was slow. When they came to the city, it was already the afternoon two days later.

Thunder Yun knew that they cannot camp outside for too long. They weren't in the Radiant Empire, where there were magic cannons protecting them. Here, in the Buddha Empire, they had nothing in terms of defense. If they decide to make camp, they would certainly be under attack by the Ark Continent's cavalry units, and their casualties would only increase.

Because of this, they needed to reach Upper Bank city as soon as possible. When the army saw the city, their advance became quicker, they wanted to be behind the walls of a city as soon as possible.

However, Upper Bank city actually gave them a scare. Nobody was actually in it, it was completely empty, not even one mouse can be seen.

When Thunder Yun saw this, his expression couldn't help but sink. He was already aware of Zhao Hai's plan. Zhao Hai wanted to use the entire Buddha Empire to hamper the advancing armies in every step they take. From the moment they left up until now, the Divine Race army had already suffered 24 different attacks from the Ark Continent's cavalry units. By now, the Divine Race's losses has reached more than 30 thousand.

They had already lost 30 thousand troops but they were yet to touch even the hair of the enemy. This fact made Thunder Yun's face ugly. Originally, he thought that the enemy would be in Upper Bank City and would fight with them when the army arrive. This way, the Divine Race would be able to let out a breath of relief.

Who would've thought that the enemy would never give them the opportunity to blow off steam. Thunder Yun looked at the empty city and breathed out a cold air. Just by seeing how swift the other party was, Thunder Yun could understand that they were formidable enemies.

Naturally, the Divine Race also had divine sense. Thunder Yun had repeatedly scanned the surrounding area, looking for something. Not only was the layout of the city good, even the area outside had criss crossing tunnels. This showed how important Zhao Hai regarded this city.

However, as soon as the Divine Race army came, they actually abandoned it. Such a move was something that ordinary people wouldn't be able to do.

Actually, Thunder Yun was misinformed about the situation with the Ark Continent's commoners. Except for the army, there were no commoners left in the Buddha Empire. This way, Zhao Hai had more flexibility in making his plans, just like abandoning a city. Since there were no civilians inside, then why would he go and defend it?

Thunder Yun didn't know about this, so he was quite surprised when he saw the empty city. But after his initial surprise, his expression turned ugly. He knew that if he cannot eradicate the enemy camp, the sneak attacks wouldn't stop. Whether it be day or night, the army wouldn't have a single moment of peace.

Everyone looked at the city and didn't know what to do next. All of them were very eager to rush into the city and kill all those cavalry units that were poking them. However, they found nobody, increasing the frustration that they currently felt.

After looking at the state of the city, Thunder Yun said with clenched teeth, "Enter the city and take a rest. Tomorrow we'll charge through to the Ark Continent. I don't believe those cavalry units would abandon the entire Buddha Empire. Also, arrange for night guards and patrols."

Those who heard him gave a nod before arranging everything. However, the people that Thunder Yun had brought over were too many, they simply were unable to fit inside the city. Because of this, some of them can only stay outside. They made some houses with earth element magic and settled inside.

What made the Divine Race feel strange was the fact that since they entered the city, the attacks actually stopped.

But since the prior attacks gave them a headache, they still chose to continue being on alert. The army had sent forth 1 million troops in order to patrol the surrounding areas.

Bit by bit, the skies turned dark. Most of the Divine Race soldiers had already taken their rest. Although it wouldn't be a problem for them to stay awake for several days, Thunder Yun was also aware of the effects towards their performance if they didn't rest. When facing a sly enemy like the Ark Continent's people, the Divine Race army would need as much rest as possible. Otherwise, they would just be courting death and humiliation.

Chapter 770 – Zhao Wen Returns

Although it was already dark, the Divine Race were yet to experience an attack. However, Thunder Yun's heart was still restless. He didn't believe that the enemy would just do nothing. Seeing how they acted, it would be foolish for them to let go of this opportunity.

However, it was already dark, and the alarms outside were yet to sound out. Nothing came. What was the enemy doing?

If Zhao Hai was still harassing Thunder Yun's army during the day, then Thunder Yun might not have been worried. After all, there was nothing notable about Zhao Hai's tactics.

Now that Zhao Hai stopped, Thunder Yun couldn't help but worry. Not understanding what the other party would do, plunging yourself in doubt was something that was dangerous to do.

Then suddenly, Thunder Yun became startled, he could hear a faint humming sound. In this silent night, the noise was quite distinct. Thunder Yun sat upright and concentrated on his ears. From what he can deduce, it was a sound of a mosquito. Mosquitoes, in majority of planes that he'd been in, were not very terrifying creatures, one could just kill them without even thinking about it. After being certain that it was a mosquito, Thunder Yun stopped caring about it and just continued sleeping.

However, this humming noise got louder and louder. Thunder Yun couldn't help but sit still once more. He stood and loudly shouted, "Fei'er, what's going on? Why are there so many mosquitoes in this city. Go and take a look."

Fei'er, who was resting just outside Thunder Yun's room, immediately stood up upon hearing his superior. Then he promptly went outside to take a look.

And just as Fei'er opened the door, he couldn't help but breath in cold air. He was a God rank expert, but this was the first time that he witnessed the current situation.

In the skies above the city were large clumps of dark clouds. These groups of clouds were massive. Moreover, their shapes kept changing. What made him surprised was the fact that the sounds of humming were actually coming from these clouds.

Fei'er's body immediately flew up towards the dark clouds. But when he was a hundred meters away, he stopped. He felt the hairs on his back stand up, the dark clouds were actually groups of mosquitoes, countless amounts of mosquitoes.

This was the first time that Fei'er had seen this many mosquitoes. And the most fearful thing about these mosquitoes was their size, they were too big. Each of these mosquitoes were the size of a human palm. Their bloody red color made those looking at them feel numb.

Most important of all, Fei'er recognized these mosquitoes. They were blood devouring mosquitoes, Divine Realm's blood devouring mosquitoes. Even in the Divine Realm, these mosquitoes were fearful creatures. Naturally, a couple of mosquitoes weren't a threat. But large clumps of them were a definite disaster in the Divine Realm.

Fei'er slowly retreated, afraid that he would agitate the mosquitoes. Because he was too scared of the mosquitoes, Fei'er wasn't able to spot the spatial rift right in the middle of the clumps. The blood devouring mosquitoes were going out of this spatial rift in large quantities, further increasing the dark clumps in the skies.

When Fei'er was about a kilometer away from the mosquitoes, he immediately flew towards the city lord's mansion. Thunder Yun was currently using the mansion as his personal quarters.

Thunder Yun was already up by now, standing outside looking at the sky. His face was drained of color as Fei'er gave his report, "Master, its the disaster mosquitoes. Everyone, wake up! Dangerous mosquitoes are coming!"

After hearing the two words, disaster mosquito, Thunder Yun's face paled. He immediately turned to the sentries and bellowed, "Sound the alarm, quick!" Fei'er and the others immediately went towards the walls where the alarms were and sounded it with anxiety.

Dang, dang, dang. The sound permeated all throughout the Divine Race army. The soldiers immediately woke up and wore their armors as they went out of their residences. At this time, light mages simultaneously illuminated the skies of the city.

It didn't take long before the army witnessed the large clump of blood devouring mosquitoes. All of the blood on their faces quickly receded.

Blood devouring mosquitoes were completely troublesome magic beasts in the Divine Realm. They didn't expect that they would see these creatures in the Ark Continent, they couldn't help but get scared.

At this moment, as though under command, the clump of blood devouring mosquitoes dispersed. Then all of the mosquitoes started to flood the city and its surroundings. The Divine Race couldn't help but change their expressions upon seeing the incoming attack. They immediately established their Domains, hoping to block the attack of the blood devouring mosquitoes.

However, there were just too many mosquitoes, nobody can estimate how much. Just as the first wave were eliminated, the second wave replaced them and continued the attack.

These blood devouring mosquitoes seem to target certain people. There were some who only had few mosquitoes going after them while some were completely flooded. After some time, the overwhelmed soldiers found their Domains slowly crumbling.

As large amounts of mosquitoes hammer the Domains, the Divine Race soldiers couldn't help but go pale. They immediately sent more energy to their Domains. They knew that once their Domains crumbled, the only fate waiting for them would be death!

Thunder Yun's expression was quite ugly after seeing the mosquitoes. This quantity of blood devouring mosquitoes couldn't be seen even in the Divine Realm. If these were to appear there, then they would surely be classified as a disaster.

Whether inside the city or outside, everybody was doing their best to kill the mosquitoes. The war between insect and people continued to wage on.

At this time, Zhao Hai was calmly sitting inside the Space while spectating the situation. Naturally, these mosquitoes were released by him. He had actually forgotten about the Space's mosquitoes. Only when Zhao Wen returned after reaching God rank did Zhao Hai remember.

Actually, Zhao Hai didn't expect Zhao Wen to get promoted this early. She was one of the bottom in terms of power among the carrions swamp's beasts. The other 9th rank beasts have been cultivating for much longer than she did.

When Cai'er informed him that Zhao Wen had become 9th rank, Zhao Hai couldn't help but be surprised.

As Zhao Hai summoned Zhao Wen back to the Space, he saw that nothing changed too much from Zhao Wen's appearance. However, her strength had indeed reached God rank. This made Zhao Hai puzzled, as for Zhao Wen, she also said that she wasn't very clear about it.

In the end, Zhao Hai reckoned that it might be because of the drop of blood that Zhao Wen drank. In the past, he deduced that the blood that Zhao Wen had drank might have come from the Divine Race. And since the blood contained great energy, Zhao Wen managed to reach 9th rank.

At the same time, upon taking Zhao Wen into the Space, she also gained benefits from its environment. Zhao Wen was the one who stayed in the Space the longest among the carrion swamp's magic beasts.

With the Space's environment and the blood of a God rank expert, not only could Zhao Wen reach 9th rank, she would only need time in order to get promoted to God rank.

Among the magic beasts of the carrion swamp, Zhao Wen was the closest one to Zhao Hai. She didn't want to leave the Space, but for Zhao Hai, she decided to settle her heart and leave along with the other beasts. She wanted to return to Zhao Hai's side as soon as possible. She wasn't stupid, and she knew that as long as one becomes God rank, they would be able to go and stay by Zhao Hai. Therefore, she eagerly cultivated outside. Because of her persistence, she succeeded and became the first God rank among the magic beasts in the Carrion Swamp.

Sure enough, as soon as she broke through God rank, Cai'er immediately invited her back to the Space. If others were to be promoted, they might not have been able to do this. However, Zhao Wen wasn't the same as the others, because of her relationship with Zhao Hai, she was immediately picked up and sent to the Space.

As Zhao Wen came back, Zhao Hai suddenly remembered a weapon that he had not used, the blood devouring mosquitoes. The Space can release an uncountable amount of them, it was a pity that they haven't been used lately.

In the past, Zhao Hai was not able to use the blood devouring mosquitoes because he was fighting with the people in the Ark Continent. There really wasn't any need, the undead were enough. After using them in the Prairie, the blood devouring mosquitoes haven't been used later on.

However, they were now fighting the Divine Race, and the undead were proving to be insufficient against them. So when Zhao Hai saw Zhao Wen he immediately thought about the blood devouring mosquitoes. But he didn't immediately make a move, he waited until night before launching an attack.

Zhao Hai was also unaware about how much mosquitoes he had sent out. He just knew that they were several times more than the Divine Race army. These blood devouring mosquitoes weren't high ranked, and their attacks were weak. So even if they outnumber the Divine Race, they were still unable to completely wipe them out.

However, what confused Zhao Hai was the fact that when he released the blood devouring mosquitoes, the Divine Race actually identified them.

In Zhao Hai's mind, the Divine Race shouldn't be familiar with these mosquitoes. But after seeing their expressions, it seems like they were quite afraid of them.

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