The ghostly crows, their beaks brimming with ghostly fire bombs, soared upwards with the force of a hurricane. Finally, they transformed into a vast expanse of dark clouds, crashing down upon the land.
Leading the flock was a beautiful ghost crow with clearly visible feathers. Its eyes burned with vibrant green flames. It led countless ghost crows, circling in the sky for a few moments before finally hovering in mid-air.
In the shadows covered by dark clouds, the zombie bear followed closely behind, emerging from the portal.
As they walked, rotting fur oozed a foul-smelling liquid, and even though their eyeballs were dry and fallen out, it didn't affect their direction of movement.
They let out a "roaring" sound, their broken vocal cords overlapping, sounding as mournful as if they were leaking air.
At the very front of the bears was a massive bear, four meters tall at the shoulder even without any blessings applied, and with all six limbs on the ground.
When it stands up, it can reach a height of over ten meters.
One can imagine how terrifying its size would be if it were blessed!
This was the elite bear. Unlike the "Anal-Cleaning Brother," this bear didn't need more elite members of its tribe to raise its rank.
From the day it was recruited, it seemed to be feeding on Wei Huan's death fire, growing every day. Before Wei Huan knew it, more than a month had passed. When Wei Huan saw it again one day, it already had a hero panel.
Elite stats are 1 to 2 times higher than those of their own kind.
The hero panel is 3 to 5 times larger than that of their own race.
The walking corpse bear, with attributes more than three times that of its kind, now has an stamina of 1800 points.
This attribute already makes him the most resilient member of Wei Huan's team, besides himself and Xu Qingqiang.
They take on the role of powerful "tanks" in siege warfare without hesitation, and are fearless of death, able to respawn countless times. Such "meat tanks" are simply the enemy's nightmare.
It walked at the very front of the procession, swaying its head and looking majestic.
"Roar roar roar!"
Following Wei Huan's command, they charged without hesitation to the forefront of the battle formation, heading towards the territory.
This is just the edge of the territory.
A level 4 territory will define its own area within a 30-kilometer radius centered on the city wall, and will be able to mine all resources within that area.
There was a forest farm right in front of the charging undead army.
The gathering units in the forest had clearly not been notified to return to their posts, and the lord had not built any watchtowers or walls for them. They could only tremble and hide in the lumberjack huts when the battle came, completely powerless to resist.
They're like a pile of garbage, dumped here.
The undead army rushing through the forest was enormous; the walking bear was the size of four humans, comparable to a minivan.
The thunderous roar echoed across the land, snapping trees along the way. Even tree trunks as thick as a human body could not withstand the impact of the bear's massive body, turning everything in its path into ruins.
Despair filled the trembling lumberjack's eyes, but fortunately, the undead army was not interested in those gathering units.
They surged forward with earth-shaking force, their massive bodies nimbly dodging the logging huts, like river water avoiding boulders in a river, and then...
They gathered together and set off again for distant places.
Is it because there's going to be war, and they can't care about these civilian units anymore?
Obviously not.
Before the loggers could even catch their breath, a new wave of black logging began.
They were a group of Shura people with strong bodies, three heads and six arms, and horse bodies and human heads.
Even in the Dark Beast World, the Shuro race is a warrior race born for battle; every inch of their bodies, even the tips of their fingernails, exists to kill their targets.
They are frenzied, bloodthirsty, cruel, and bloodthirsty. All their nutrients seem to be poured into their muscles, leaving no room for their brains to develop. Therefore, they are the best weapons for high-level dark beasts. Wherever their arms point, the black iron torrent will engulf them.
The Shura went straight for the logging hut, its four legs like the claws of a beast, hanging from the roof, while its six upper arms clawed wildly. With its terrifying attack speed and damage, the three-headed Shura destroyed the logging hut in just half a minute.
In the collapsed logging hut, loggers scattered frantically as they fled.
The Roma army was like a heartless harvester, chasing after them and wiping out each resource point in less than two minutes.
With the death of the last lumberjack, the Dark Beast Lord also lost sight of this area.
This was precisely Wei Huan's objective.
He could spare these incapable lumberjacks, but he couldn't give the Dark Beast Lord any information.
Moreover, once the Dark Beast Lord is given vision, it can transform the "lumberjacks" into "construction workers," building barracks and other structures in the rear, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from both sides.
He won't leave himself with this problem.
With that line of sight removed, the undead army pressed forward once more.
As they continued onward, all the resources along the way had been exhausted, leaving the land desolate with only sparse, half-dead weeds struggling to survive underfoot.
And faintly, one can see the city that seems to be built in the sky.
That was a mountain.
It is a rare hill on the map of a hilly area that can be called a mountain.
This dark beast lord made good use of the terrain, placing its lord core on the mountaintop to build this easily defensible territory.
At this moment, the city gate facing their direction opened, and a large number of combat troops walked out of the city gate, forming battle formations.
There was the "Tank Rhino Formation," known for its high cost-performance ratio; the "Jana Serpent Formation," known for its killing prowess; and even a "Heavy Cavalry Formation" riding on tall black horses, with humans riding on top of them.
The three formations revealed the unique nature of this Dark Beast Lord.
"These are all military units used in foreign operations, and they are very expensive," Brother Mu said.
Mu nodded: "But if the lord in the city is a member of the Dark Beast Royal Family, then it makes sense. A royal lord can obtain all the resources of the Dark Beasts with a single order, enough to recruit any high-value troops."
And they really like to take the initiative.
Yes, that's right. All three of these troop types are offensive combat troops used against external enemies.
Unlike other dark beasts, the royal family often chooses to send troops out of the city to fight and intercept their opponents outside the city.
This is quite different from the fighting style of other lords who attempt to use watchtowers for attacks and city walls for defense.
This point has already been made clear during the seven-year war between humans and dark beasts.
It has been confirmed.
And it's been included in Challenger University's textbooks.
Therefore, the appearance of these troops not only proved once again that this territory was indeed the "valuable" territory they had been searching for.
But at the same time, it is definitely a tough nut to crack, and it cannot be cracked without paying a price.
Mu Zhong looked at Wei Huan and reached out to touch the emerald green earring.
Wei Huan nodded: "I wish you all the best."
Even if he was 100% confident, he still wanted a 200% chance of winning against the Dark Beast Royal Family.
Challenging the world is not a game; defeat means death.
He wanted to be the one who survived, he wanted to win, so when facing a strong enemy, he had to go all out from the very beginning!
"Roar!!"
"Hohoho!!"
"Quack quack quack!!"
The roars of the undead army mingled with the equally loud howls from the opposite side, almost shaking the clouds in the sky.
This massive positional battle is the first of its kind to occur in a randomly generated territory challenge world.
After all, in the past, no profession had ever been able to have so many summoned creatures.
Wei Huan, whose summoning abilities were already very powerful, not only accumulated a terrifying number of summons after staying in this world for a month, but also unsealed a portion of his previously sealed power.
The forces he has deployed so far are three to five times the size of the opposing army group.
More than four thousand zombie bears and ghouls combined to become a black killing blade on the battlefield.
As billowing smoke clashed, dark clouds loomed down from the sky, and the inescapable shrieks of the undead echoed continuously in the heads of these rhinoceroses and heavy cavalry.
The claws of the Roman Empire were about to sever the head of a heavy cavalryman.
But in the very next second!
Those bewildered eyes, now under "hard control," suddenly bulged with thick blood vessels, and a murderous intent surged forth like a tangible black mist.
His entire demeanor suddenly changed, becoming violent.
The body, which had been under "hard control," easily broke free from the crow's grasp. The spear slashed down from the sky, colliding with the claws of the Shura.
"clang!"
Amidst the clang of swords and the clashing of spears, the chaotic battle officially began.
Liu Chengzhi, who saw this scene from afar, was shocked and muttered to himself, "Huh, why didn't Sister Ya's hard control work?"
Yes, in past wars, the presence of ghost crows made fighting much easier.
Even fourth-tier hero units will be momentarily stunned when faced with the Ghost Raven's Soul Cry, which can lead to a shift in the course of the battle.
Liu Chengzhi had become accustomed to seeing the template-like combat style of [Ghost Crow Control] + [Shura Roman Slaughter], and even thought that this was how to fight the Dark Beast Lord.
But clearly, this battle is different.
If Liu Chengzhi could calm down and think things through, he would realize that there is now more than one Jisi Beast in this territory.
Summoned by the King of Dark Beasts, even the royal beast Jisi had to serve him faithfully.
Suppressed by their bloodline, they gathered together and became invisible weapons that ordinary people could not comprehend.
It can transmit information,
In the hands of the Dark Beast King, the cursed Spirit Beast is essentially a form of mental attack.
These spirit beasts, when gathered together, can launch a mental attack on their opponents, and of course, can also stimulate their own units to break free from the mental control of the ghost crows.
Liu Chengzhi didn't understand because he was a poor student.
Wei Huan, Mu Zhong, and the others had already learned a great deal about the Dark Beast King's war knowledge at Challenger University.
After all, compared to the Sisi Beasts that always disappear on the battlefield, humans know much more about the Dark Beast King.
One of them is that the King of Dark Beasts possesses mental attacks, and can also neutralize mental attacks.
However, this knowledge will be overturned in two years.
It was then that everyone realized that the one who possessed this attack was not the Dark Beast King, but the eight-star Jisi Beast.
The Sisi Beasts, which obey only the Dark Beast King, also possess the Dark Beast King's attack methods, which is not wrong.
Wei Huan was not surprised that Ghost Crow's hard control was lifted.
He knew from the beginning that this move would not work, and he was only using it to block the soul attack that the Dark Beast King was using on them.
Every move, whether offensive or defensive, is calculated.
Wei Huan couldn't afford to fall behind, so he had to keep calculating ahead.
The crows continued to flit over the heads of the combat troops, cawing wildly.
The Spirit Beasts could only follow behind and remove the control one by one. This was a calculated move; the Spirit Beasts had to follow the rhythm of his war, otherwise, it would be very difficult to remove the mental attacks that landed on them.
The fighting in the open area ahead was also extremely fierce.
Tank Rhinos are certainly not animals from Earth; they come from a certain orc civilization and are extremely powerful, each possessing over 1200 points of stamina.
This value is equivalent to the durability of a level 3 territory's "walls".
Here, however, there are more than two hundred tank rhinos charging into battle.
The claws of the Shura can't kill them easily, but the single horn on their noses and their immense strength can lift and throw the zombie bears, causing considerable damage.
If we only consider tank units, Wei Huan's zombie bears are indeed insufficient in strength.
Of course, if we don't consider that they can be resurrected at any time and return to the battlefield, the undead army is at a great disadvantage in 1v1 most of the time.
Three or four of the zombie bears died, and finally the ferocious tank rhinoceros also let out a whimper and fell into a pool of blood, waiting for the war to end so that not a single drop of blood would remain.
But the dead walking corpse bear emerged from the portal and returned to the battlefield.
Also emerging were some skeleton bears and skeleton hidden cats.
These units are now dispensable to Wei Huan, but they are still combat units. In this chaotic battle, if an opportunity arises, he can still manage to grab a piece of the action.
A hidden cat landed in the corner, looking for an opportunity.
Until a cavalryman galloped up and stopped not far in front of it, it watched as the heavy cavalry unit brandished its iron spear and pierced through the heart of the Shura Empire with a single thrust.
If you stabbed a living person, their heart would rupture and they would be dead.
Rome, however, has no heart.
As a type of zombie, it
Its internal organs had long since rotted; only by cutting off its three heads could it be killed.
So, the spear that pierced through the chest was tightly grabbed by the arm of the Shura in the next second, while several other arms came grabbing and scratching at him at the same time.
Just then, the heavy cavalryman felt a chill on the back of his neck. The next second, sharp nails dug into the gaps in his armor, cutting through his head, shoulders, and most vulnerable part of his neck.
"Pfft!"
The attack from the Shura army tore through the heavy cavalry's armor, but the stealthy cat, who had been waiting for an opportunity, secured the first kill.
The heavy cavalryman, his head severed from his horse, slid off his horse and fell heavily to the ground, where he remained motionless.
The startled warhorse galloped away in the blink of an eye.
Turning back again, the skeletal cat had vanished, and the Shura, with a gaping hole in its heart, roared "Ho ho ho!" again, full of fighting spirit, and charged toward the next battlefield.
But if we're talking about the most boring combat unit in this positional warfare, it has to be the "Jana Serpent People" who crawl underground.
They are ugly. Cobras have flat heads, two front claws, and long tails. They like to crawl on the ground, but can also stand up by leaning on their tails.
This is an extremely vicious unit with incredibly high attack power and poisonous properties. It doesn't cost much to recruit, so it appears in large numbers every time.
A single Janna Serpent-Man's attack power is approaching that of a Dark Beast Noble like the Two-Headed Hidden Demon.
So far, any human being who gets scratched by it would lose half their life.
At the same time, what they hate most is that they will burrow underground and ambush.
These Gana snake people have high attack power but low defense. Many of them died directly on the battlefield, but some of them have been hiding in the soil at some unknown time and are slowly moving towards the direction where Wei Huan and the others are.
They thought they were well hidden, but before they could get far, something suddenly grabbed their bodies.
Then, a tremendous pain shot through the area where she was being held tightly.
They uncontrollably surged out of the ground, hissing as they did so.
One, two, three... more and more Janna serpent people emerged from the soil, numbering as many as a hundred.
The creatures that were grabbing and biting them were actually facehuggers.
If the Dark Beast Lord's vision could see to the rear of the battlefield, he would see that beneath the bellies of those cave beast mothers who had not yet joined the battle, huge, deep pits had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.
If the Dark Beast Lord were a little more vigilant, he would have noticed that the facehuggers, which were usually more numerous and annoying than flies, were nowhere to be seen today, making the battlefield exceptionally clean.
This was because, under Wei Huan's orders, these facehuggers had either spread out or lurked deep underground, protecting them all.
The King-level Dark Beast Lord should not be underestimated.
As the highest leaders of the Dark Beast Clan, they possess a multitude of methods.
However, in these back-and-forth battles, Wei Huan was indeed ahead of the Dark Beast Lord.
All the tactics that have been revealed so far have been blocked or buried by Wei Huan, and all have been blocked.
Once the final sneak attack failed, the rolling Janna snake-man was quickly and completely eliminated by the ranged attacks of the facehugger, Ding Qi, the twins, and others.
This occurred outside the territory's city walls
The positional warfare thus came to a complete end.
The last tank rhinoceros was torn to pieces amidst its mournful cries, bringing the brutal war to an end.
The victorious undead army, undiminished in both momentum and numbers, marched once more toward their territory.
They pressed forward step by step, almost aggressively.
Just then, a chilling sense of crisis arose.
Before even determining what it was, Wei Huan gave the order.
Around him, more than five hundred cave beast mothers appeared on their backs at his command, and then quickly formed a net on their bodies.
Just as they finished, terrifying plumes of white smoke shot into the sky from the territory ahead.
A quick glance revealed that there were at least a hundred of them.
What's this?
Humans on Earth will find this familiar.
This is the trajectory of a missile after launch!
Missiles from human civilization were launched into the sky, and then flew towards the area where Wei Huan and the undead army were located, like sky battle axes.
Before the sound reached their ears, what they heard most was the approaching bullet.
The first bullet fell from the sky, exploding right in the middle of the undead army that was charging towards the city walls.
The missiles are very damaging, but in the current context of bloodline evolution, they are not excessively so.
A missile exploded amidst the undead, wiping out a tenth of their blood.
This damage is still quite astonishing, considering that these undead have not only reached the third tier, but have also received Mu Zhong's blessing of endurance.
"Boom! Boom!"
Missiles bombarded the ground, leaving behind a trail of smoke.
More missiles flew toward Wei Huan and the others' location and fell straight down.
If this were to explode in the middle of a crowd, given the current level of evolution, most people wouldn't be able to withstand more than a few hits before they were gone.
At that moment, the sight of missiles raining down on us was truly terrifying.
However, it doesn't seem like I'm particularly afraid.
Liu Chengzhi looked at the missile, then quickly scanned the surrounding area, where the underground beast mother beast, whose back shell was emitting green light, was located.
The green netting, poised to be launched, suddenly shot into the sky with a "whoosh."
The green net was like a giant mouth, swallowing the missile whole and simultaneously blocking the force of the explosion.
The rumbling sound kept ringing overhead. Liu Chengzhi covered his ears and hunched his shoulders, enduring it for a few seconds, only to find that he was truly unharmed.
As expected of the boss, except for being a little noisy.
"Boom! Boom!"
Wait a minute! Weren't the ones above our heads already blown up? How come there are still some left?
Liu Chengzhi looked around and realized that the explosion was coming from a more distant place.
The ghost crow, carrying the ghost fire, ultimately undertook the most important task in every siege battle.
"Bomber mission".
Moreover, the timing was precise, as if they had been waiting for this moment.
As the enemy missiles were launched, the protective shield was briefly activated, and the skies above the city lost their protection.
At Wei Huan's command, the ghost crows, poised to pounce, carried ghost fire in their beaks and instantly flew over the territory. In those brief few seconds, they dropped down fragile, green seeds that seemed to scatter with the slightest breeze.
The green flame will then go out.
The green flames passed through the territory without encountering any obstacles and landed within it.
"Boom!"
A series of explosions ignited the flames of war, and several kill notifications for the Dark Beast Lords popped up right before everyone's eyes.
"This territory is really fertile," Xu Qingqiang said, his mouth watering.
A scarlet tongue licked the corner of his mouth, and sharp teeth protruded from his gaping maw. Serrated demonic markings twisted on his face, and his strangely long limbs were bent over the ground in a demonic posture, but his eyes were surprisingly clear.
He said to Wei Huan beside him, "Just throw in a couple of fireballs and you can kill more than a dozen Dark Beast Lords. Are all the people farming in this territory Dark Beast Lords?"
Wei Huan thought it was very likely; this was a good opportunity to reap the rewards and complete the mission.
Unfortunately, after the last missile was launched, the shield automatically regained its function and covered the airspace over the territory once again.
Many of the ghostly flames that didn't have time to land were blocked by the protective shield, causing the shield to flash and consume a lot of energy.
But at the same time, streaks of electric current struck the ghost crow.
The ghost crows, completely immune to physical attacks, could not avoid the electric current and died in droves amidst crackling sounds.
In a Tier 4 top-tier territory, apart from the Lord's Hall, probably all the buildings are Tier 5.
The natural protective shield has also been upgraded to level five, transforming from a simple defensive shield into one with considerable offensive capabilities.
The ghost crows that flew over the territory were all wiped out in the blink of an eye, but the lord on the other side also seemed to no longer dare to launch missiles recklessly.
This round of battle can be considered a draw.
Without further fire support, the undead army continued its charge toward the territory.
On the city wall, three human archmage heroes emerged, brandishing their staffs and unleashing a barrage of magical attacks.
Hundreds of kobolds on the city wall opened their mouths and spat out round boulders that rolled down the wall.
And when the Demon Eye Lord took flight, the countless eyeballs flying on the city wall numbered in the thousands, making Wei Huan's scalp tingle.
As expected of a king-level dark beast, too many dark beast lords responded to the summons.
Hundreds and thousands of two-headed demons flew into the air and pounced on the undead army, weaving through the skeletons and corpses like reaping sickles, sending them back to the great tomb piece by piece.
For a moment, Wei Huan was even a little overwhelmed by the situation.
It's easy to imagine how many mid-level or low-level Dark Beast Lords there are in this city.
It's a tough nut to crack.
Yet its irresistible aroma makes it impossible to stop eating.
If we could raze this city to the ground, the Dark Beasts would be heartbroken and go crazy with regret, right?
If I could also do a quest and get a treasure chest while I'm at it, that would be even better.
This territory is too tempting; he'll fight to the bitter end and not let any point slip by!
"Hehehe!!"
A strange, drooling laugh came from beside him.
Then it transformed into a black shadow and rushed out!