Wang Yu
Chapter 554 The First War Drum Beat
"The Gold Mantis Clan... is there a problem?" Han Li seemed to hear the abnormality in her tone.
"The Gold Mantis Clan is also a major clan of the Insect Race, somewhat like our Beast Race's Eight Great Sacred Clans. They were originally quite far from us, bordering the Divine Elephant Clan and the Falcon Wing Clan. Those Mang Bone Insect Nests are also very far from here... and this attack is on a much larger scale than before. Otherwise, we wouldn't need to summon so many clans to come here," Nuo Yifan explained.
"You mean, the Insect Race's actions are a bit abnormal this time?" Han Li's heart stirred, but his expression remained unchanged as he asked.
"Indeed. Although our Beast Race and the Insect Race have always had deep-seated grievances, and we've been constantly at war recently, most of our clashes are scattered in various areas. A large-scale attack on one place like today has never happened before," Nuo Yifan nodded slightly, but a look of worry still appeared on her face.
"It seems very abnormal indeed. Fortunately, you were prepared, otherwise this place would have probably fallen," Han Li said thoughtfully.
At this moment, the two armies below finally clashed and engaged in a complete melee.
The Berserk Bear Clan were tall and large, charging at the front. Blood marks appeared on the surface of their burly bodies, and their size was three points larger than before. Coupled with the giant axes in their hands, which were almost as large as their bodies, they swung them, and huge blood-red axe lights flew out.
Although the Insect Race army had the advantage of a large number, they couldn't resist the charge of these giant god-like Berserk Bears and suffered heavy casualties.
The Berserk Bears led the rest of the Beast Race behind them, constantly breaking through the openings torn in the Insect Race army, unstoppable.
On the other side, the Unicorn Clan's body surface flickered with green light, and a thick layer of keratin appeared, and their size also increased by a circle. The horn on their head became twice as thick, and a circle of green patterns appeared on it.
Accompanied by bursts of "chi chi" sounds, strands of green light emitting a cold feeling flew out from the horns, sweeping towards the Insect Race army in front.
These green lights had extremely strong penetrating power. A single green light often penetrated seven or eight Insect Race members before disappearing.
The bodies of the Insect Race members who were penetrated by the green light stiffened, as if they were frozen. They stood stiffly there, motionless.
The Unicorn Clan warriors wielded their weapons and easily beheaded these immobile Insect Race members.
Although this clan's method of killing enemies didn't have the mighty momentum of the Berserk Bear Clan, their speed of advance was no slower than the Berserk Bear Clan's.
The Beast Race army, with the Berserk Bear Clan and Unicorn Clan as arrowheads, quickly plunged into the Insect Race army.
At this moment, a strange squeak sounded in the Insect Race army. The Insect Race in front of the Berserk Bears suddenly retreated like a tide. Countless black giant ants appeared from nowhere and swarmed towards the Berserk Bears.
Each of these giant ants was the size of a millstone, and their bodies were as black and shiny as if they were cast from fine iron. Their slender eyes flickered with a ghostly green light, densely packed, making people's hearts chill.
The Berserk Bears roared again and again, and the giant axes in their hands flew, and the axe shadows were even more swift than before, slashing at these giant ants.
In a series of sounds like raindrops falling, the black giant ants were chopped and flew out. However, these giant ants had extremely hard bodies. Although they were chopped and flew out, not many were killed. The injured giant ants were provoked, and they charged up again.
Countless black giant ants were like waves of black tides, rushing forward one after another, blocking in front of the Berserk Bears, surrounding them more and more. At the same time, giant ants also began to appear on both sides.
The Berserk Bears roared again and again, but their offensive was blocked by these fearless black giant ants, and their speed of advance was greatly reduced.
At the same time, the ground in front of the Unicorn Clan churned, and scorpions with earthen yellow bodies emerged from the ground.
These scorpions were huge, more than one person tall, and their entire bodies were scarlet red. What was especially strange was that their faces actually presented a human face shape, which was extremely strange.
The green light shot from the Unicorn Clan's heads hit these human-faced giant scorpions, and the penetrating power was greatly reduced, only penetrating one giant scorpion before disappearing without a trace.
Moreover, the human-faced giant scorpion that was pierced by the green light only stiffened for a moment, and then continued to rush towards the Unicorn Clan as if nothing had happened.
The Unicorn Clan's green light attack was greatly reduced in power, and the offensive was immediately frustrated.
In mid-air, the Youchen Clan was entangled by the Gold Mantis Clan and couldn't free up their hands to help below.
The Beast Race army was originally in high spirits, but after the offensive of the leading Berserk Bear, Unicorn, and Youchen clans was blocked, they gradually fell into a dilemma.
The Insect Race army's numerical advantage began to slowly show, and the situation on the battlefield gradually tilted towards the Insect Race.
On the black platform, the faces of a group of Beast Race clan leaders were a little ugly.
"Send a message to Clan Leader Sa Han to take action," Nuo Qinglin frowned and ordered in a deep voice.
A member of the Youchen Clan next to him agreed, and his figure disappeared in place.
Not long after, somewhere on the front line of the Beast Race, a figure wrapped in a red robe shot out from it. With a wave of both hands, three gray light spheres shot out from his hands and flashed into the sky above the Insect Race army.
As he chanted, the gray light spheres shattered in a flash.
"Dong, dong, dong"
Accompanied by three huge rumbling sounds, the entire battlefield shook violently. Three huge burly figures, as large as mountains, suddenly descended from the sky and smashed into the center of the Insect Race army.
Countless black giant ants and human-faced giant scorpions were smashed by them, and their bodies shattered into puddles of mud.
Han Li looked up and saw three gray-skinned giants with a height of thousands of feet appearing there. Their upper bodies were naked, and their lower bodies were wrapped in a short skirt pieced together from countless animal skins. They held a huge mace in their hands and waved it back and forth towards the Beast Race army.
These gray-skinned giants were all ugly in appearance. There were almost no facial features on their huge faces. Only a huge vertical eye grew on their foreheads. There was no nose on their faces, only two round holes as nostrils.
Below the nostrils was even more empty, and there was no mouth for eating at all.
The mace, which seemed to be made of mountain peaks, was waved in their hands, just like a huge stone mill, rolling over the Insect Race army's position. Whether it was mountain rocks, trees, or Insect Race giant ants, they were all shattered and turned into powder.
After the giant ants' bodies shattered, a large amount of green fluorescent liquid flowed out, flowing all over the ground, gathering together like trickling streams spreading on the earth. Wherever they passed, the earth was corroded, and bursts of white smoke rose.
After a commotion, the black giant ants, which had slightly recovered, reorganized their offensive and continued to swarm up frantically, quickly surrounding the three one-eyed giants.
A large number of giant ants climbed up in layers, quickly covering half of the one-eyed giants' bodies. They all showed their ferocity, opening their serrated mouths and biting up, with fluorescent green liquid seeping out from the corners of their mouths, cooperating with the sharp saw teeth, corroding and cutting the skin of the one-eyed giants at the same time.
The one-eyed giants shook their bodies violently, while patting with their hands, trying to get the giant ants off their bodies, but these little things were very stubborn and could not be shaken off at all.
At this moment, as a loud bugle call sounded, followed by a earth-shattering shout!
Rows of centaur warriors, with upper bodies similar to the Human Race and lower bodies like zebras, appeared behind the entire Beast Race army. Each held a green rattan bow and drew a blue arrow half a foot long from the quiver hanging from their side, and placed it on the bowstring.
Their movements were unusually unified, and they all aimed at the sky at the same time. When the bowstring was pulled, bursts of green light gathered from all directions on the arrow, condensing into a blue vortex on the arrowhead.
"Shoo shoo shoo"
A burst of piercing sounds rang out at the same time, and dense blue arrows flew into the sky at the same time, turning into a blue rain of arrows, splashing towards the Beast Race army.
The one-eyed giants' skin was innately thick and unparalleled. After being tossed by the giant ants with corrosive green liquid for a long time, they only revealed a few red spots. When the arrows landed on them, they only made bursts of clanging sounds and did not suffer any damage.
But the bodies of those black giant ants attached to them were not so strong. One by one, they were shot by the arrows and burst open.
On the other side, more than a thousand Beast Race monsters with a height of hundreds of feet, covered with thick earthen yellow heavy armor, each had two thick and huge sharp cones on both sides of their heads that pierced straight ahead, shining with a cold light, charging into the Insect Race army with an extremely brute force.
The Insect Race's physique and strength were clearly at a disadvantage. A large portion of the human-faced scorpion army at the forefront was directly trampled into powder, and the battle line was directly pushed back dozens of miles.
But before long, the Vajra Spider and Gray Toad Race armies in the rear supplemented it and stalemated with the Beast Race army.
"As the saying goes, 'One effort, then weaken, three times exhausted.' Your Beast Race seems to have a greater momentum, but it is ultimately difficult to sustain. The number of the Insect Race army is far greater than your Beast Race. If the current situation continues, you will lose," Han Li said slowly, looking at the trend of the battlefield.
"It's a little too early to say that, Senior Li. Our Beast Race's first war drum hasn't sounded yet," Nuo Yifan said with an unchanged expression.
"Dong dong... dong dong..."
As soon as she finished speaking, bursts of muffled drum sounds, as if beating on people's hearts, sounded.
Immediately afterwards, bursts of strange chanting sounds began to come from all over the battlefield.
The words in the chanting were not the Beast Race's common language, let alone the Immortal Domain's common language, but Han Li vaguely felt that they were somewhat familiar.
"This seems to be the language of some True Spirit..." After listening for a while, he suddenly understood.
Han Li looked up and saw that in all parts of the battlefield, whether it was the Berserk Bear Clan, the Unicorn Clan, or the Youchen Clan, there were several special beings wearing gray robes in their armies.
Their body shapes were different, but their outfits were almost identical. They each held a black wooden staff of unknown material and were being guarded by many Beast Race warriors in the center, dancing and gesticulating.
Those strange True Spirit language chants came from their mouths.
Although it was only the voices of a small number of people, it carried a strange penetrating power, resounding throughout the battlefield, causing a strange atmosphere that was difficult to describe to permeate the surroundings.