Chapter 779 – Thunder Yun's Discovery
Naturally, Zhao Hai didn't know about Thunder Yun's plan to withdraw their troops. But even if he did know, he still wouldn't let Thunder Yun off. After all, his hatred for the Divine Race was too deep, as long as he gets to kill them, then he would do it.
Therefore, after darkness comes, he would immediately release the blood devouring mosquitoes; half to the Divine Race and half to the Demons. At the same time, he also had the cavalry and undead prepared for another wave of attacks
.Zhao Hai looked at the sky, the Divine Race have pitched camp and their officers met up. It was time, Zhao Hai immediately sent the mosquitoes towards the Divine Race camp.
Thunder Yun and the others were currently discussing about their retreat when suddenly Fei'er came in from the outside. His face was ugly as he reported, "Master, the blood devouring mosquitoes have appeared."
After hearing Fei'er, Thunder Yun's expression changed. What he was worried about came true, the blood devouring mosquitoes were indeed under the enemy's control. Moreover, their numbers are quite large.
However, this wasn't the time to think about these, he immediately said, "Give the orders, do what I said earlier. Three people will form one group. Tell them not to panic. It's possible that the enemy would use his undead to attack. Everyone, return to your divisions."
Although they were just laughing earlier, at this time, orders were orders. Everyone immediately gave a shot before turning around and leaving.
After seeing the group walk out, Thunder Yun stood up as well. He took his wooden pole and then turned around to Fei'er and said, "Fei'er, gather your people. We'll make the Ark Continent's people experience how powerful our lightning abilities are." Fei'er nodded, then he took up his own wooden pole and followed Thunder Yun outward.
When they reached outside, the immediately saw a scene similar to yesterday. The blood devouring mosquitoes were constantly shooting down from the skies and attacking the camp. Thunder Yun snorted as he waved his pole, a flash of light came and a bunch of mosquitoes in front of him disappeared into ash. What Thunder Yun didn't notice was the same mosquitoes reappearing in the sky above him and continued on their attack.
At this time, Fei'er had also gathered the other giants. All of them had their poles with them as they lined up and muttered incantations. Tiny sparks of lightning started to appear on their bodies, the sparks got stronger and stronger before each giant was covered in lightning. It was at this moment when Fei'er said, "Attack!"
And just as his voice fell, the lightning on each Giant arched towards the mosquitoes, jumping from one mosquito to another. Those who were hit by the attack were instantaneously turned to ash.
With Fei'er and the other giants controlling the lightning, it meandered all throughout the Divine Race camp, killing a large number of mosquitoes with each go. However, just as soon as they died, the mosquitoes reappeared and then continued on with their attack.
Naturally, it was impossible for the giants to control their lightning for a long time. Soon enough, the net of lightning vanished in mid ark. On the other hand, it seemed like the number of mosquitoes remained unaffected.
While Fei'er and the others were doing their attack, Thunder Yun took the time to observe the blood devouring mosquitoes. He always had this strange feeling. He led his 20 million army yesterday and eliminated all of the blood devouring mosquitoes. They worked very hard, and even if they suffered casualties, they removed all of the mosquitoes that came. However, the disappearance of the mosquitoes' corpses seemed to nag him in the back of his mind.
Because of this, he decided to focus on the blood devouring mosquitoes, he wanted to see some clues. Just as the giants' lightning net eliminated a swathe of mosquitoes, another large clump appeared in the air.
Thunder Yun couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this. In order to make sure that he wasn't seeing things, he concentrated on the lightning net. After the net eradicated the mosquitoes, a blood devouring mosquito suddenly appeared from where it vanished. It looks as if they weren't killed at all.
This startled Thunder Yun, his forehead dropping a cold sweat. He knew that this situation would only happen in two occasions; First, when a mosquito has a spatial teleportation ability. However, Thunder Yun couldn't detect any spatial fluctuations, so this possibility is void.
Another possibility was that these blood devouring mosquitoes can actually resurrect!
Resurrection! This isn't a strange name in the Divine Realm. There were several magic beasts with this ability. If one wanted to kill these creatures, then one needed to ensure that every single part of it was gone, including each drop of blood. Otherwise, any of their parts would be able to attach to another magic beast, absorbing their life force before completely resurrecting themselves. Although their strengths would be affected, nobody in the Divine Realm would want to offend any beast that had this ability. With no way to completely eliminate them, stirring trouble with these creatures would be a very bad idea.
But from the looks of it, these blood devouring mosquitoes seem to have more than just resurrection. Thunder Yun can see that the blood devouring mosquitoes today were stronger than those yesterday, at least twice as strong. And if they can regenerate, then it meant that these weren't blood devouring mosquitoes.
After thinking about it,, Thunder Yun observed the mosquitoes more carefully. He wanted to see if the attacks of these mosquitoes were the same as those he had seen in the Divine Realm.
However, after looking for a long time, he couldn't find any differences on these blood devouring mosquitoes. Therefore, there is only one explanation for this, these mosquitoes were a variant species of the blood devouring mosquitoes.
At the thought of this, Thunder Yun let out a sigh of relief. He wasn't afraid of these regenerating mosquitoes. Since these mosquitoes can regenerate, then it meant that those yesterday could regenerate as well. No wonder those mosquitoes were very hard to deal with, they actually had the ability to regenerate.
But in the end, the mosquitoes yesterday were still eliminated. This means that the number of times these mosquitoes gets resurrected was not endless.
Thunder Yun felt relieved, however, he didn't spread the information about the resurrecting abilities of the mosquitoes. One must know that the mere thought of a resurrecting beast would cause anxiety on any Divine Realm resident. If he spread the word out, then he would be causing unnecessary decrease in troop morale.
After Fei'er and the other Giants ran out of energy to do their attacks, Fei'er returned to Thunder Yun's side. Fei'er didn't follow Thunder Yun for a day or two, so when he saw Thunder Yun standing there, he knew that his Master was observing the blood devouring mosquitoes. Naturally, he wouldn't disturb Thunder Yun and so he gave him time to analyze their enemy.
At this time, an explosion was suddenly heard in the distance. This sound sobered Thunder Yun, he looked at the direction of the sound as he said, "As I expected, this Zhao Hai is really difficult to deal with."
Fei'er naturally understood Thunder Yun. Not only was Zhao Hai using the blood devouring mosquitoes, he also took the time to add the undead as well.
Fei'er turned to Thunder Yun and said, "Master, what do we do now?"
Thunder Yun sighed and said, "We endure, we have no other ways to deal with them right now. This is also the reason why I decided to make a retreat. The enemy just has too many things to use against us, way more than I expected. We have to go back and rethink about how to deal with them."
Fei'er turned silent. After being with Thunder Yun for all these years, this was the first time that he heard Thunder Yun say this. From Thunder Yun's tone was a hint of helplessness. This aspect had always been absent on Thunder Yun,before, yet it appeared right now.
This made Fei'er even more curious about Zhao Hai. He wanted to know what kind of person this Zhao Hai really was. How could he be this consistent that he even had Thunder Yun retreat? This person was just too strong, can one man really do all of these?
Although Fei'er was thinking about these, he didn't stop and stare. If Thunder Yun were to see Fei'er's face right now, he would be surprised. Fei'er's eyes were so bright that he must have been thinking about great things. The first time Fei'er was like this was when he was going all out against the invading Divine Race army.
The attacks from the mosquitoes and undead kept coming. Although they had already thought about ways to deal with the mosquitoes, they were yet to think about how to deal with the undead. The attacks of the undead were really fast. Moreover, with the attacks from the mosquitoes, those in the outskirts of the army had their consciousness split into two. They were keeping eyes on the mosquitoes while also taking note of the constant wave of javelin attacks coming towards them.
Because of the method that Thunder Yun made yesterday, the lethality of the mosquitoes has been greatly reduced. Although the blood devouring mosquitoes were promoted, the casualties that they caused had become smaller. While the mosquitoes were attacking, one Divine Race soldier would support his Domain, one would focus on killing the mosquitoes, and one would rest and get ready to rotate.
But even so, casualties couldn't be avoided. The coordination between the javelins of the undead and the mosquitoes caused more deaths compared to last night.
Chapter 780 – Demon Dragon King's Worry
The Demon Dragon King looked at Rising Sun City and thought of all the Demons that had died. After seeing Zhao Hai's move, the Demon Dragon King already knew about its purpose. To be honest, Zhao Hai's harassment tactics really gave the Demon Dragon King a headache.
Although Zhao Hai's harassment didn't take too much off of their numbers, he did greatly slow their advance. When the Demon Dragon King arrived at Rising Sun City, it was already late afternoon, the skies were proceeding to turn dark. However, nobody was in Rising Sun City.
The most troublesome thing for the Demon Dragon King right now was that he was afraid of splitting his troops. From what he had counted, Zhao Hai had sent a couple million cavalry units to harass them today. If the Demon Dragon King split his troops, then the only outcome that would happen is them being dominated by Zhao Hai.
Because of this, the Demon Dragon King decided to stay in a single clump. And since Zhao Hai only used his undead in their previous battle, the Demon Dragon King didn't know about the general strength of the Ark Continent's troops. The information that they had collected in the past stated that the people of the Ark Continent were quite weak, they were not an opponent for the Demon Race.
But in the recent time, the Demon Dragon King received information that Zhao Hai had potions that can make anyone into a 9th rank expert in short time. The Demon Dragon King was quite doubtful of this report. But after seeing the cavalry units, the Demon Dragon King finally believed that Zhao Hai really did have a way to drastically improve one's strength.
This made the Demon Dragon King worried. The reason why the Demons were confident in conquering the Ark Continent was because their soldiers were far stronger compared to those in the continent. Additionally, the Demons also had large amounts of God rank experts. But now that the Ark Continent can promote their strength, the advantage of the Demon Army has been nullified. Additionally, Zhao Hai had items that can injure God-rank experts. Because of these reasons, it would be difficult for the Demon Race to conquer the Ark Continent in a short period of time. Being in competition with the Divine Race didn't help either.
The Demon Dragon King couldn't help but feel his confidence drop after being faced with the cavalry attacks. He didn't know how Zhao Hai managed to make his potions. After all, these potions weren't only good for the Ark Continent, it was good for the Demon Race as well.
The Demon Dragon King even had Demon researchers study the two potions. However, the answers that they gave him was disappointing. The researchers told him that the 8th rank potion was just a bottle of water while the 9th rank potion was the blood of an unknown magic beast. The 9th rank potion wasn't a potion at all!
Upon receiving the result, the Demon Dragon King couldn't help but frown. He hadn't heard of a water that can make someone 8th rank, even the Elves' life liquid couldn't do this. The blood that can make people 9th rank was even more mysterious. If a magic beast who had blood like that existed, there would be no way for Zhao Hai to tame it. More importantly, it would be impossible for that creature to have enough blood to feed the Ark Continent's army.
As the matter stands, the Demon Dragon King gained nothing in this study. He was still stuck in looking for ways to deal with Zhao Hai.
After looking at Rising Sun City, the Demon Dragon King sighed and said, "We rest here tonight. Inform everyone to set up camp." Those around him gave a nod and proceeded to spread the order.
The efficiency of the Demon Race wasn't any slower than the Divine Race. Additionally, they were using the same methods as the Divine Race. Because of this, it didn't take too long before the Demons had finished making their camp.
After the camps were set up, the Demon Dragon King went to his own room and met with other God rank experts from different clans. The Demon Dragon King looked at those present and said, "We have finally arrived at Rising Sun City. However, Zhao Hai's methods are giving us huge problems. Moreover, their soldiers had underwent a huge promotion of strength. Conquering the Ark Continent in a short time is proving to be difficult. I have already reported this matter to the Great Demon King. What we need to do right now is to wait for some clashes between Zhao Hai and the Divine Race, when that happens, we'll go out and capture some important places for ourselves. Then we'll hold those places and wait for the Great Demon King's arrival."
The group didn't have anything to say, they were also annoyed by the constant attacks that they went through today. They couldn’t' do anything, their cavalry units weren't as quick as the enemy. Even God-rank experts couldn't catch up. In this case, the Demon Dragon King's method was the best plan for them.
Seeing that nobody gave their own ideas, the Demon Dragon King continued, "Zhao Hai has changed his tactics, and their strength is no weaker than us. The only thing we could do is to steadily advance while capturing more cities. However, I expect Zhao Hai to make it harder for us to advance. Make sure to have your men be alert at all times, we can't be careless at this time."
The group loudly accepted the Demon Dragon King's command before then turned around to leave. However, what the Demon Dragon King didn't expect was the cavalry attacks stopping when evening came.
The Demon Dragon King became more relieved as the skies turned darker. This was because the skies of the Demon Realm were darker than the Ark Continent. The Demons were more suited to fight in the dark, so the Demon Dragon King wasn't afraid of anything.
After establishing their defense, the Demon Dragon King went on to take a rest. Him and Thunder Yun had similar methods. At the same time, the Demon Dragon King also came to encounter the same scenario that Thunder Yun had.
A humming sound awakened the Demon Dragon King. He stared for a moment before he quickly sat up. This was because he felt that this sound was quite familiar. However, even though he felt it familiar, he still couldn't remember what it was.
The Demon Dragon King was a very cautious person, he immediately gave an order, "What is that humming noise? Go and check!" The guard outside immediately responded, footsteps were heard as the guard went away.
Before long, that same guard came running back, and with a panicked voice he said, "Your Highness, large quantities of devil mosquitoes are outside. It looks like an enormous swarm!"
The Demon Dragon King's expression completely melted. He finally remembered where he heard this humming noise. It was an experience he didn't want to remember. Before the Demon Dragon King became God-rank, he was just an ordinary person among the Vile Demon Race. He wandered all throughout the Demon Realm, wanting to quickly improve his strength. At that time, he had several friends travelling with him. They entered a famed dangerous area in the Demon Realm, wanting to explore it. However, they didn't expect to see a mosquito swarm living there. The Demon Dragon King only escaped because of his luck, all of his friends weren't as fortunate.
He could clearly remember the clump of mosquitoes that was enough to blot out the entire sky. At that time, he was extremely terrified as he ran for his pitiful life. All those friends that he had tried to fight their way out, but in the end, they were swallowed by the mosquito swarm. The Demon Dragon King still had nightmares about that event up to this day.
The Demon Dragon King immediately ran out of the door before he shouted loudly. "How can there be devil mosquitoes here? How can those mosquitoes appear in the Ark Continent? Quick, ring the alarm!!" With his order, the alarm quickly rang out. The melodious ring of the bell seemed very alarming in this dark night. The entire Demon Army immediately sprang out, ready to take action.
The Demon Dragon King looked at the blood devouring mosquitoes in the sky. His expression was very difficult to describe, he didn't expect devil mosquitoes to appear in the Ark Continent.
At this time, experts from different clans arrived by the Demon Dragon King's side. Their expression were quite ugly as well, they didn't know what to say. After a short while, a Demon opened his mouth, "How can devil mosquitoes appear here? If they existed, how can the Ark Continent still survive?"
The Demon Dragon King had already calmed himself, he replied, "I recall reading something from our information of the Ark Continent. There is a record about mosquitoes called blood devouring mosquitoes. At that time, there was a small flock of them in the Ark Continent. In order to suppress them, a lot of 9th rank experts went on to drive them away from the mainland. But I didn't think that those blood devouring mosquitoes would be the Devil Mosquitoes that we now of. Let everyone be extra careful. Everyone should know about devil mosquitoes and how terrifying they are."
The group nodded before they turned and left. Just as the meeting was finished, the blood devouring mosquitoes started their attack, plunging the whole Demon Army into chaos.
However, this was also the time where the Demons have shown how relsolute they were. The Demons went on and killed the mosquitoes wave by wave. And once a Demon knew that he would not survive, he would fly up to the distance and blow himself up, taking a huge clump of mosquitoes from the surroundings.
The Demon Dragon King looked at these explosions in pain. As the first explosion sounded out, more and more Demons started to blow themselves up.
At this time, a different kind of explosion was heard. The Demon Dragon King stared for a moment before his expression turned ugly. He knew what this explosion was, this was from the Ark Continent's javelins.
After hearing the explosions, the Demon Dragon King knew that the Ark Continent's people had used this opportunity to attack. What made the Demon Dragon King worried wasn't this attack, but instead the fact that the people from the Ark Continent weren't worried about the mosquitoes.
If they weren't scared, then this only meant one thing, the devil mosquitoes wouldn't attack them. And the reason for this was because the mosquitoes were under their control.
The Demon Dragon King knew about how terrifying these devil mosquitoes were, if the Ark Continent can indeed control them, then this wouldn't be good news for the Demon Race.
Another thing that worried the Demon Dragon King was the strength of the devil mosquitoes. They weren't weaker than the ones he encountered in the Demon Realm. The Demon Army was in a very dangerous position!