1015: Chapter 324: The Bull and the Scorpion of the Abyss (Part 2) 1015: Chapter 324: The Bull and the Scorpion of the Abyss (Part 2) Dark shadows appeared among the ranks of the Abyssal Creatures, their advance was swift, and in a short while, they reached the forefront.
They resembled the Abyss Demon Masters and Shadow Demons that Ye Yinzhu had previously seen, but were smaller in stature and clearly low-ranking Shadow Demons, akin to the usual Demon Mothers.
The Abyss Army pressed on but paused without launching a direct attack when they reached the position where the destruction in the air and Sky Demons were located.
They slowly dispersed but still pletely surrounded Ryuzakinus Fortress.
pared to before, their encirclement had bee much denser.
At this moment, all the Abyssal Creatures had bee visible to the warriors of the Ryuzakinus Alliance Army.
The Demon Spiders and the Sky Demons in the air were the most numerous among the Abyssal Creatures.
There were over five million Demon Spiders and at least four million Sky Demons.
In addition, there were more than two million Usual Disgusts, and several hundred thousand Two-headed Abominations.
Coupled with the remaining Ghouls and Wicked Scythes, just these forces alone amounted to nearly twenty million.
Aside from these, an extremely large army appeared before the Alliance.
They had always been at the rear of the Abyss Army and seemed to emerge from underground during the recent surge, their numbers an astonishing ten million.
They looked somewhat peculiar, roughly two meters tall, without limbs and somewhat snake-like but much thicker, supported entirely by their tails.
Ye Yinzhu had not seen these Abyssal Creatures when he first arrived at the Abyssal Plane, but he had noticed them during a later reconnaissance.
Using a certain method, Ye Yinzhu learned their name—Thorn Snake.
They were low-rank Abyss Beings with a status slightly above Ghouls and Wicked Scythes, but below Demon Spiders.
The Thorn Snakes only had a simple attack method: spraying a corrosive venom.
Their defensive power was about the same as the Wicked Scythes, making them extremely frail.
Even a single Ghoul could easily kill more than five Thorn Snakes at close range.
Therefore, Ye Yinzhu had not paid much attention to them initially.
In the Black Demon Country, the number of these creatures was also quite limited.
Unexpectedly, they now became one of the main forces on the battlefield, but still remained at the rear of the Abyss Army without advancing.
These several main Abyssal Creatures, together with the high-rank Abyss Beings, now placed Ryuzakinus Fortress against enemies whose total number still exceeded thirty million.
Ye Yinzhu clearly saw that some Abyssal Lord rank creatures had already appeared within the enemy ranks; it was evident that their next attack would not be a mere probe.
In fact, while Ye Yinzhu was astonished in his heart, the Abyss Army was equally stunned.
They never imagined that the alliance of Ghouls and Wicked Scythes, totaling over twenty-five million, would be destroyed so quickly.
The shock brought by Glacis had made these Abyssal Creatures unable to hold back any longer, ready to launch their final assault.
“e on,” a cold light flickered in Ye Yinzhu’s eyes, “this moment was bound to arrive sooner or later.
As long as we can withstand this wave of attack from the Abyss Army, then the final victors of this holy war can only be us.”
Inside Ryuzakinus Fortress, all the armies were closely watching the enemies before them, each warrior prepared for the final confrontation.
The warriors who continued to emerge from the tunnels directly entered their battle positions, ready to replace the front-line batants at any moment.
The Abyss Army did not immediately launch an attack.
The Demon Bull army that Ye Yinzhu had previously noted suddenly moved.
Instead of charging towards the Fortress, the massive Demon Bulls dispersed, carrying the strange scorpions and gradually spreading to the outskirts of the battlefield, evenly distributing among all the bat sequences of the enemy.
“What are they doing?” Ye Yinzhu wondered, but he didn’t make a move.
Any delay was advantageous for them: the elite legions that had previously fought needed time to rest and recover from the plague effects they had endured.
A Messenger had just reported the approximate numbers of casualties.
After the previous battle, except for the Legion of Behemoth Beasts and Death Dragon Wolf Knight Group, which had no losses, all other legions had suffered damages to varying degrees.
The Dragon Cavalry Corps, Qin City Four Great Foot bat Legions, and Qin City Long-distance Corps suffered the most significant losses, with casualties exceeding one-tenth of their forces.
And these were only the death toll.
Ye Yinzhu’s expression was very cold; now was not the time for grief, as an even more brutal war awaited them.
When the Abyssal Plane had shown no signs of activity for several months, he had already anticipated the difficulty of this battle.
The enemy had been amassing power for a long time, consolidating the entire Abyssal Plane.
These tens of millions of Abyssal Creatures converging together aimed not only to destroy the alliance army but likely also to directly invade the Ryuzakinus Continent and pletely occupy Ryuzakinus.
That was their true goal.
And judging from the current situation, this integrated Abyss Army was indeed powerful.
From the first day of the battle until now, the overall losses of the Abyss Army should have exceeded twenty million, between twenty and thirty million.
The number sounded terrifying, but those who died were mostly Cannon Fodder Troops.
The real elite had not suffered any significant damage.
Only the male and female witches killed by the Horned Hawk Knights on the first day could be considered somewhat higher-ranking.
During this time, the Ryuzakinus Alliance Army had also incurred a total of more than five hundred thousand casualties.
This was the result of properly applied tactics; utilizing the advantage of the strong against the weak in the previous battle, they had achieved significant results.
Without the full strength of the elites, it would have been impossible to destroy so many Cannon Fodder Troops.
Although the Amethyst Legion had not yet returned, Ye Yinzhu knew that they still had a certain level of assurance.
With the fortress to hold them back, once the Abyss Army failed to break through the fortress’s defenses, then they would no longer have any chance.
The death energy recovery of Abyssal Creatures relied on consumption, and with so many lower-ranking Abyssal Beings already destroyed, what could they rely on for recovery?
From this point of view, the Alliance, even though battling on another plane, clearly had a superior capacity for recovery.
Just as Ye Yinzhu came to this realization, his expression suddenly changed because the strange scorpions on the backs of the Demon Bulls had started to move.
Huge puffs of yellow fog billowed out from the mouths of the scorpions.
The rich yellow fog slowly rose and condensed in the air before spreading, enveloping the ground in a giant fog cover, gradually shrouding the entire Abyss Army beneath it—only the aerial forces were not affected.
What was this?
Magic?
Or was it poisonous gas?
Ye Yinzhu’s pupils suddenly contracted, and he quickly found the answer.
His vision, enhanced by Life Energy, was even stronger than that of the Elves.
Despite the obstruction of the yellow fog, he could clearly see that after the scorpions expelled several puffs of yellow fog, a group of Wicked Scythe and Ghouls would immediately e to the sides of the huge Demon Bulls.
Then, a beam of yellow light shot out from the scorpions and fell upon the Wicked Scythes and Ghouls.
These lower-ranking Abyssal Creatures immediately turned to flying ash, or rather, turned into death energy, which was directly sucked into the bellies of the scorpions.
Consuming death energy directly, these scorpions were undoubtedly high-rank Abyssal Beings, yet they were not humanoid.
The peculiar Demon Scorpions, after devouring the death energy of the Wicked Scythes and Ghouls, sprayed fog again.
In such a cycle, after a short while, the entire Abyss Army was enveloped in the dense yellow fog.
Although the function of this yellow fog was still unknown, it was obviously an energy form expelled by the scorpions after converting death energy, rather than a toxin.
But what was their purpose?
Very soon, Ye Yinzhu understood the purpose behind the expulsion of the yellow fog and why the Abyss Army had not directly attacked.
When the yellow fog spread and enveloped the ground forces of the Abyss below, all the Abyssal Creatures began to consume the corpses on the ground.
These numerous lower-ranking Abyssal Creatures’ bodies were continuously absorbed through direct consumption.
In the previous battle, although many Abyssal Creatures were directly destroyed by Glacis’s War Trample and their death energy dispersed by the Power of Divine Judgement, the majority of the dead Abyssal Beings had left their bodies behind, many of them fragmented, holding only residual death energy.
But less did not mean none.
Every bit of death energy was precious to Abyssal Creatures.
Ye Yinzhu’s heart turned cold.
If killing twenty million lower-ranking Abyssal Beings was considered a tremendous victory, then the current consumption by the Abyssal Beings reduced that victory to its smallest extent.
Watching the fruits of victory being slowly consumed by the Abyss Army, Ye Yinzhu closed his eyes, and through deep breathing and adjusting his spiritual power, he did his best to calm himself down.
He knew that at this moment, he must remain calm; otherwise, he would only fall prey to the enemy.
Last time, they had managed to prevent the consumption by destroying the bodies of Abyssal Creatures with the Ice Storm and the Wind and Residual Clouds.
This time, the Abyss Army was employing the same strategy, but the entire force was advancing.
One could imagine that they had e prepared.
This was evident from the yellow fog expelled by the Demon Scorpions.
If he were to rashly send troops to attack or have mages cast magic, it was very likely that they would fall into the enemy’s trap.
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