Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Boom, boom, boom!
The Magma Island, which was several kilometers away from Dragon City, was also abound with flames.
However, the flames were burning amidst Tian Hu’s troops, who were supposed to be more powerful.
Same as those in Dragon City, the battle participants on the Magma Island had been surrounded by Tian Hu too.
However, Tian Hu, who had proclaimed himself to be King of Jin, only had bandits, rogues, and farmers under his command, and they couldn’t establish massive battle formations as the regular troops of Liao could!
Besides, even if they knew battle arrays similar to the Primordial Unity Chaos Phenomena Array, it was still impossible for them to march.
That was because, unlike Dragon City, which was in an open location, the positions on the Magma Island were based on the Demon Volcano where the Magma Monsters’ settlement core was located. The place was brimming with poisonous gas and suffocating sulfur!
The Twin Dragon Island had deployed more than seven hundred soldiers in Dragon City, but only four hundred on the Demon Volcano.
Because of the limitation of the environment, the soldiers here had to be those who were summoned by the offerings that the Magma Monsters dropped, and therefore resistant to heat and fire. They could endure for a long time with the antidotes An Daoquan gave them.
Taking advantage of the terrain, they were able to stall ten thousand soldiers in Tian Hu’s troops!
On the top of the Demon Volcano, a general who wore a red lion helmet roared, “Fire!”
In front of him, a black cannon that was more than three meters tall was standing, and it had altogether seven barrels.
On a closer look, it could be found that the general’s hands, legs, and even half torso were melted with the black cannon!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
After he opened his mouth, seven black cannonballs the size of human heads flew out of the barrels one after another and hit Tian Hu’s soldiers who were climbing the volcano.
Then, they exploded into areas of scorching magma. Also, a great amount of fire spread out of the magma and made a dozen of Tian Hu’s soldiers writhe and scream in pain. Seven of them were even directly burnt to death!
[Wei Dingguo]
[Level: Extraordinary Rank-7]
[Rarity: Commander]
[Description: Title: Earthly Valiant Star. Nickname: Divine Fire General. He was the commander of the firearm division on Liangshan!]
As the hero who arrived together with Zhang Qing and Qin Ming, the Divine Fire General was actually even better at commanding than the regular Heavenly Spirits, although he was listed as one of the Earthly Fiends on Liangshan.
It was because, just like Shan Tinggui, the Holy Water General who ranked eighth among the Earthly Fiends, he was recommended by the malicious Prime Minister Cai Jing to attack Liangshan.
In the first battle, he commanded five Black Armored Soldiers and five hundred Fire Soldiers and defeated Guan Sheng, the top of the Five Tigers. He even captured Xuan Zan and Hao Siwen, who ranked fourth and fifth among the Earthly Fiends respectively.
Even though he surrendered to Liangshan in the end, he was better at commanding than many unqualified Heavenly Spirits, or he couldn’t have ranked ninth when he came so late or receive the title as the Earthly Valiant Star.
For the Twin Dragon Island, the greatest significance of his arrival was that the man was good at firearms and strategies to attack with fire just like Ling Zhen!
Therefore, he had become a commander in this battle even though he had just arrived on the Twin Dragon Island.
Those who were under his command were the hundred cannons that were established in the magma on the top of the volcano!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A hundred Fire Soldiers, who had also absorbed the power of Fire Cores like Wei Dingguo did, shot out magma cannonballs in turns, which caused flames everywhere among Tian Hu’s troops!
Faced with the hundred cannons on the top of the volcano and the assorted firearms that the soldiers were holding, Tian Hu’s soldiers who were not Extraordinary were simply committing suicide by charging forward!
“Nobody retreats!”
“Whoever climbs to the top of the volcano will be given ten taels of silver and one golden pearl!”
“If you kill one person, you will be promoted by one level. If you kill ten, you’ll be named a general!”
“Whoever retreats will be executed!”
Faced with such a situation, the commander on Tian Hu’s side tried to motivate the soldiers with rewards.
However, it didn’t turn out very well.
Not only was it because gold and silver weren’t very valuable in this world, but it was also because the soldiers had to overcome the landmines as well as the falling cannonballs during their march!
“Ah!”
“Help!”
Some places looked absolutely normal, but when anyone passed, they would be caught in a pool of magma, and the path forward would be destroyed.
Under the blockage of cannonballs and landmines, even the soldiers who mastered Extraordinary power could hardly make it to the top of the volcano.
Of course, since Fang La had fifty Commanders and Liao had more than forty generals, Tian Hu naturally had a lot of Commanders too, and those people had weird abilities.
Boom!
While the Firearm Division was shooting nonstop, a general in Tian Hu’s troops who wore black clothes activated the extraordinary power in a pair of black shields that seemed to be made of the scales of a creature.
After it created a black creature that looked like a pangolin and could resist magma, fire, and heat around him, he simply dug into the ground and avoided all the attacks from the Twin Dragon Island, before he ascended to the volcano top.
“A pangolin?”
However, after the general who held two shields emerged next to the positions of cannons, he found a fiery shield in front of him that seemed to be made of the skull of an unknown demon beast!
Also, a lot of blood and wine seemed to have been poured on the shield, and the wine had been set ablaze.
“Look, my shield is twice as big as yours. Do you want to barter with me?”
A middle-aged fatty, who wore a white chef’s hat, winked at him with the fiery shield in one hand and a glittering cleaver in the other.
He was Hao Dahai, who was the “Director of Food” on the Twin Dragon Island and used to be a chef in a five-star hotel.
Because of the shortage of hands, he had to fight the battle too in order to pass the test, even though he belonged to the support personnel.
However, chefs and cooks must not be underestimated in the Land of Inheritance, because in order to grow fast here, one needed not just resources but also EXP!
Crafting different kinds of armor and weapons and cooking with different ingredients could continuously give them EXP and even Honor.
In particular, Hao Dahai had received an Excellent “Food Replenishment” talent after the Ten-Species Competition and reached Extraordinary Rank-8 before the level. With the cleavage technique that Wu Song had taught him, he was rated as a Commander and wouldn’t necessarily lose to Excellent heroes.
However, since the general of Tian Hu’s troops dared to break in on his own, he couldn’t be easy to deal with. He might be Excellent or even Superior.
It must be noted that in Water Margin, Tian Hu had the greatest number of top experts.
There were Sun An, who fought Lu Junyi for fifty rounds without losing; Bian Xiang, who fought Hua Rong and Shi Jing on his own for more than thirty rounds; Qiao Daoqing, who defeated tens of thousands of soldiers of Liangshan with his illusions; and Ma Ling, who hurt more than ten generals with his golden bricks and was as strong as Zhang Qing…
It was safe to say that the best of Tian Hu’s generals were really strong.
Therefore, Hao Dahai would not necessarily win in a battle against a general who could pass through a mountain.
Then why was he so calm?
It was because the monstrous skull on his ignited and bloodstained shield was already emitting the glow of aggressiveness.
“Hoooo!”
The mouth of the skull opened and roared like a beast.
Then, it swallowed all the flames on the shield into the dragon mouth.
Yes, the dragon mouth.
What Ji Ye was holding was exactly the Shield of Red Dragon, the Special equipment that the captain of Ghostship had dropped.
Because the shield belonged to the lizards and contained the power of western dragons, Ji Ye wasn’t interested in fusing it.
However, after it was studied before this battle, Hao Dahai, as the chef, found a way to activate some of the power in the shield. It was possible to unleash “dragon breath” that was even more powerful than magma by setting it ablaze with a mixture of lizard blood and Dragon Urine Wine!
Boom!
Although he didn’t recognize the western red dragon, the general from Tian Hu’s side instinctively sensed danger and closed the two shields in his hands.
All the extraordinary power in it was activated, and a black pangolin appeared and attempted to dig down.
“Hoooo!”
But it was already too late.
After absorbing a great amount of fiery energy, the red dragon opened its mouth again.
Then, it was another dragon roar, and the fiery dragon breath that carried enormous fiery magic energy drowned the black pangolin.
After the dragon breath disappeared ten seconds later, the ground had completely melted, and only two black shields that emitted the brilliance of spoils of war were left behind.
[Mountain Penetration Shield *2]
[Level: Extraordinary Rank-7]
[Rarity: Excellent Offering]
[Description: They are made of the scales of a fish that had a Transcendent bloodline. They allow you to move underground!]
