Chapter 1586: Chapter 795: The Enemy at the Gates
The Withering Branch Monster that was thrown away dared not return to reason with the Demon Tree People; it followed the main army once again, charging forward to hunt new prey.
Their hunting pattern resembles an ant colony, as does their overall structure.
The Withering Branch Monster is at the bottom level of the entire ant colony, akin to worker ants; everything they have is given by the Ant Queen, and their born purpose is to serve her.
At least within the Demon Tree Army, this is the pattern presented.
And the Demon Tree People who snatched the food from their mouths just now weren’t soldier ants, but Ant Guards, the direct protectors of the Ant Queen. They didn’t enjoy a single bite of the food but worked together to drag it along the rumbling path the Demon Trees must traverse.
The moving Demon Tree doesn’t grow limbs like ordinary Treants, uprooting itself from the ground. Its lower half resembles a spider with eight legs, possessing a solid base, with eight thick roots supporting it in all directions, taking small steps to propel its robust upper body forward.
This situation is an inevitable choice.
Unlike ordinary Treants, the animate Seed Demon Tree People are an extrely important component that sustains its own survival, which ans even when entering a mobile state, they must maintain an extrely massive upper body, often laden with unripe fruits.
If it walked on two legs, standing firm would be problematic, let alone advancing.
The advantage of maintaining such a vast root system is that it doesn’t need to deliberately root itself to benefit from partial rooting.
As for arms, the blood-red vines hanging down from the crown are much more useful than arms, wrapping around the prey placed within its reach and gulping it down into its mouth. A crisp sound of heavy objects falling into a pond can be heard, accompanied by a strong sound of corrosion.
Without looking, one could guess that the prey is being corroded and decomposed at a pace visible to the naked eye by the strong acidic fluids within the Demon Tree’s body.
Their march is also their hunting process.
And there are as many as thirty such hunting circles.
Due to various monster speeds differing, the formation of the Demon Tree Withering Army stretches very long.
The Withering Branch Monsters have already driven the herd four or five kiloters out of the forest, while the large spider-like bodies of the Demon Trees have only just begun to clumsily erge.
By the ti the herd reaches the foot of the City of Usr, the Demon Tree Withering Army has already pulled out a ten-kiloter line.
“So many! The enemy forces are far stronger than we anticipated, and the number of Withering Ones is at least over thirty thousand!”
After clearly seeing the enemy, everyone couldn’t help but gasp.
The enemy looked disorganized, but in fact, it was distinctly divided into thirty hunting circles.
Each hunting circle centers around a Demon Tree, with twenty to thirty Demon Tree People wandering nearby, and further ahead, it’s a phalanx made of varying quantities of Withering Needle Monsters and Withered Vine Creatures, ranging from a hundred to two hundred.
In the forefront are the Withering Branch Monsters, with each hunting circle owning at least seven or eight hundred, even numbering in the thousands, scattered the most widely.
The Demon Tree People and the Demon Trees keep a distance of no more than one kiloter, while the Withering Needle Monsters and Withered Vine Creatures do not exceed three kiloters at the furthest.
“Tactics! Tactics! Tactics! Aren’t those Demon Trees supposed to be intelligent? Don’t they have any concept of tactics? By doing this, they are simply dispersing their own forces to die!” Ferrican, the third leader of the Brotherhood of Sword Spike, watched from the city tower, grinding his teeth in annoyance, sowhat suspicious that the enemy adopted this tactic deliberately to target them with poisonous plans.
If it were ordinary enemies adopting such a swarm tactic, they would absolutely be delighted, relying on the city wall to gradually deplete their living forces.
But they just planned a series of tactics like Invitation into the Trap, Blaze Burning City, and when faced with the enemy’s long line, it’s not so likable.
They can’t possibly pay a heavy toll to burn a horde of cannon-fodder-like Withering Needle Monsters.
“Tactics are dead, people are alive. Even soldiers who have undergone rigorous training cannot completely execute tactics according to our Will, let alone the enemy; they couldn’t possibly cooperate with us completely, we must use our Strength to make them follow our Will, step by step, luring them into Traps.” Gaven, the planner of this tactic, wasn’t at all surprised, his face still brimming with confident assurance.
War isn’t hunting; how could several traps be expected to win the ultimate victory of a war? Initially, at the Goblin Margins, even during the Ascension War of the Goddess of Strategy, when a True God stood by their side, they still exhausted every effort to win the final war victory.
This ti is no different; Blaze Burning City is just the final step. If they could rely on the city defense facilities of the City of Usr to annihilate the enemy outside the city, he wouldn’t mind doing so.
“The Commander, worthy of being the Goddess of Strategy’s God’s Chosen, has such a grasp and understanding of tactics that is beyond us,” praised Duis, the chief leader of the Brotherhood of Sword Spike, regarding Gaven.
As the enemy approaches the city, their last doubt completely dissipates, recognizing that the opponent had no deliberate intention to set traps against them.
As for the reason why this monster army attacked the City of Usr has beco unimportant; what’s important is that both parties have beco like grasshoppers tied to the sa rope, sharing the sa interest in defending the City of Usr.
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