In the sky, two griffin riders circled.
Their anchor-like claws curled at their abdon, exuding a sinister chill, the blood-colored riding spears like blood-stained dragon teeth!
In contrast, from the nearby forest, a group of about five hundred monsters was crowding out of the shadows.
Among them were emaciated skeleton soldiers, foul-slling corpse ghosts, wriggling slis, and snarling magic wolves...
So were newbies who had just entered the ga, while others were monsters summoned from the core of the maze—those that would turn into Demon Crystals when killed.
In the center of that monster crowd, a boy with a nervous expression and a handso face was tightly gripping a short sword, his silver hair wildly fluttering in the wind.
It seed this guy wasn't new to the battlefield, but clearly, it was his first ti standing in the commander's position.
"Hey! You guys... go to the front! Don't all crowd next to !"
"Hehe... hehe... slls so good..."
"Good brother, let sll too!"
"You skeleton soldiers don't even have noses!"
"Damn! Do you slis have noses?!"
Egger: "???"
Watching that tightly packed group of monsters, Hamrdon's expression grew increasingly strange.
Indeed, these monsters radiated an aura of Hell, but the manner and montum of their march seed totally disorganized, like rookies.
Had they really undergone any training?
What surprised him even more was the one standing at the front—
"...Enchanting Demon?"
His eyebrows instinctively raised, and then his mouth twisted into a mocking smile.
It wasn't just an Enchanting Demon.
Judging by those monsters obviously from a maze, this guy seed to be a Demon King?
Nowadays, has Hell's Demon King beco so commonplace? How co any random cat or dog gets to join...
Despite his disdain for these little fish and shrimp, Hamrdon nonetheless cautiously raised his right hand, signaling the soldiers behind him to halt their march while issuing the order for artillery bombardnt.
"Fire the signal flare! Fire three rounds of ship artillery!"
"Yes, sir!"
The adjutant behind him responded and swiftly relayed the order.
Almost simultaneously, a crossbowman stepped forward, setting up a heavy crossbow aid at the sky, igniting the flare attached to the crossbow arrow, and pulling the trigger.
"Whoosh—!"
A fiery red signal flare streaked skyward with a long tail, exploding mid-air, marking the area where monsters gathered with its dazzling light.
The fleet waiting on the coastline had long been ready to fire.
Almost precisely when the signal flare ignited, a deafening rumble, like rolling thunder, echoed from the direction of the sea.
The players marching alongside Egger hadn't even processed what was happening when they saw countless black dots appearing in the sky.
Egger's face suddenly changed, shouting in alarm.
"Quick! Scatter!"
But it was too late!
"Boom—!!!"
Bombs rained down with devastating force, covering the edge of the forest, overturning vast sections of earth, gravel, and limbs, tearing apart the disheveled monster group along with the trees behind them into shreds!
The explosion had barely subsided when another thunderous sound bood again from the direction of the sea, and by this ti, half of the five hundred monsters were already wiped out!
"Damn—it's cowardly for NPCs not to fight fair!"
"Damn it! I knew any task involving newbies was bound to end badly!"
"I'm so dumb, how could I trust the Demon King..."
Newbie players let out wails of despair, having only gotten beta access for less than a month, this challenging ga had already taught them a harsh lesson.
However—
For them, this alone was an experience.
Having experienced death, they quickly realized that this seemingly nonsensical ga was terribly realistic.
Seeing his subordinates consistently diminish, Egger felt an icy chill across his limbs, his eyes filled with profound powerlessness and despair.
Though he had anticipated sothing like this might happen, Egger, who had only served in the central regions, underestimated the power of the Imperial navy guns.
True, those cannons were not accurate, but there were just too many of them!
So many that each monster beside him could receive at least one and there would still be leftovers...
The necklace around his neck emitted a soft pink glow, a shield erged by Egger's side, raising a vast barrier to block the blast waves.
Yet, bathing in the artillery fire, the deafening explosion left his head ringing, his mind blank.
If it were before, as a frontline soldier, he only needed to consider whether to charge or retreat, and often didn't even need to think about those.
But now—
He profoundly understood the weight behind the word "dilemma."
"Charge! Quickly, quickly!"
His voice slightly trembled as he frantically issued a charge order, yet the monsters had barely taken a few steps when the calm and collected Imperial soldiers had already leveled their guns.
"Ready for volley fire!"
"Fire—!"
As the commanding officer's sword sliced down, the aligned gun barrels instantly erupted in thick gunfire smoke aid at the front!
The dense hail of lead cut down the advancing monsters like mowing grass, skeletons and corpse ghosts fell under the whistling projectiles, and even slis burst apart into goo or transford into cold Demon Crystals.
The griffins overhead let out a piercing shriek, signaling the enemy's rear showed no ambush.
Seeing this, Hamrdon smiled coldly, drew the longsword at his waist, montarily followed by his cavalryn drawing their blades from their sheaths.
"Cavalry, charge!"
"Kill—!"
Under General Hamrdon's lead, the Imperial breastplate cavalry swept across the battlefield's flank like a thunderstorm.
The iron hooves of warhorses trampled through the collapsing monster formation. With the cavalry's flurry of cuts and stabs, the battlefield turned into a graveyard of scattered corpses and flowing blood!
Listening to the drumr's rhythm, the Imperial gunners calmly reloaded, waiting for the opportunity for another volley.
Watching the servants his senior lent him fall miserably, Egger's eyes turned red instantly, gripping his short sword tightly, letting out voice-straining roars.
"Hamrdon! I'll fight you—"
Before his words fell, a black shadow suddenly manifested from the air, landing stably behind him.
Before Egger could react, he felt a sharp pain behind his head, his vision going black as he fell unconscious.
Shadow Demon General Thanos easily caught the collapsing Egger, then cast one indifferent glance at the chaotic battlefield before becoming a wisp of dark smoke, vanishing silently.
At that mont, Hamrdon rode in hastily, only to find nothing.
He scanned his surroundings with furrowed brows, finding only remnants of debris and corpses, the boy who seed to be a Demon King had long disappeared.
"He actually got away."
Hamrdon chuckled coldly, though regretful, there was nothing more he could do, only silently committing the handso face to mory.
He raised his sword above his head and shouted with heroic fervor:
"Victory!"
The battlefield resounded with a chorus of echoing shouts—
"Victory!!!"
The clash between the Imperial and Hell on the Gana Continent ended once again in a total Imperial victory.
This ti, it was a military triumph.
Amidst the cheers, soldiers carried their firearms, joyfully heading back, chatting and laughing along the way, completely unfazed by the recent monster assault.
Too weak!
They couldn't even compare to the demons of the New Continent.
They even thought their deploynt was unnecessary, leaving everything to the brothers at sea and in the sky could settle it all.
Hamrdon waved to signal the soldiers to clear the battlefield, then turned his horse's head, galloping toward the fortress atop the mountain.
He had only eaten half of his dinner, it was just the right ti to continue it upon return.
The sun gradually set, its afterglow casting over the devastated battlefield.
Yet no one noticed the slender figure clad in a cloak quietly observing the curtain fall on this farce from the shadows of the forest, a knowingly smile appearing at the corners of its mouth.
"Next, it's Prince Colin's turn to appear."
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