After murmuring to himself, the Demon God Emperor directly stood up. The light in his eyes flickered as they exuded with pride and confience.
“Kid, I’ll play these games with you. It’ll be just like what I said in the past. I will give you this honour.”
Just as Long Haochen and the Demon God Emperor engaged in a battle of wits and courage, the battles in the south were about to begin as well.
Both the Demon God of Death Samigina and the Hell Demon God Marbas had received strict orders from the Demon God Emperor. The Demon God Emperor’s request was very simple, which was to breach the forts and make it into the union to begin full-scale pillaging regardless of the consequences.
That’s right, only pillaging, not slaughter.
To the humans, the demons were a thorn in their side. They wanted to eliminate them as soon as possible. However, to the demons, every single human was an extremely important resource. If they were used properly, the work from a single human could support one or two demons. And while the demons looked down on how weak ordinary humans were, they could not help but recognise the creativity and craftsmanship of humans. The demons welcomed all tools created by humans. As a result, even bloodthirsty people like the Demon God of Death and the Hell Demon God would all make the same decision when faced with a group of powerless humans, which was to abduct them and not kill them.
Ever since he had become a demon god, Samigina had never received such an important order from the Demon God Emperor. He knew from the Demon God Emperor’s attitude when he issued the order that if he failed the mission this time, he would probably become a second Vassago, and without any chance of revival this time.
From another perspective, Samigina believed it was impossible for him to fail. At this same time, this was a great opportunity for him. With such a great mission to complete, he would not call himself the Demon God of Death if he did not personally benefit from it. He would obviously hand up the items pillaged from the mission, but keeping a portion for himself only made sense. Even the Demon God Emperor would not be fussed by this. What did the development of each demon clan require the most? It was resources! With these resources, the fiends would be able to make rapid progress. Through their advantage in numbers and strength, as long as they surpassed the Moon Demon Clan and Star Demon Clan overall, his rank would definitely increase in the future.
Just like what Samigina had told Marbas and Valefor, the Demon God Emperor would definitely deal with the Moon Demon God and Star Demon God for Ah’Bao’s ascension to the throne. He might even change these two demon gods. That moment would be the moment Samigina rose up. His personal cultivation was nowhere close to the Moon Demon God or Star Demon God, but that also meant he was unable to shake Ah’Bao’s grasp over the demons. When that happened, he would become the most trusted subordinate of the new Demon God Emperor.
Exactly because of these reasons, Samigina had basically mobilised all the elites the Fiend Clan had to offer. Coupled with the elites from the other clans, they rushed towards the Southeastern Fort as quickly as they could.
The million-strong demon army split into two. The group he commanded directly targeted the Southeastern Fort that was the closest to then, while Marbas and Valefor lead the other five hundred thousand troops to attack the Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass. Because the mountain pass was more difficult to breach, more demon gods gathered on their side.
However, this did not affect Samigina’s confidence. He had already made up his mind that he would use the advantage of distance to make it into the union’s territory before Marbas and Valefor no matter what. Not only would that present him with a better opportunity for pillaging, this meritorious service would also go to him, the fourth demon god.
Hurrying the army along the entire way, the Southeastern Fort finally appeared. The huge pass stood in the distance.
Samigina’s eyes shone with a vicious light as he shouted out, “Pass down the order that the army will rest for two hours, and then launch a full-scale attack.”
The four Demon Kings under his command could not help but be surprised by his order. They had travelled in such a hurry that even the demons found it rather difficult to maintain their speed. However, according to Samigina’s command, he wanted to attack the fort without giving his subordinates sufficient time to rest. Wasn’t just just too hurried? This would drastically increase their losses!
“Head, shouldn’t we let the people below rest up a little,” the Fiend King who ranked first asked to probe out Samigina’s thoughts.
Samigina glanced at him coldly. He asked, “Rest? Do you all feel tired?”
“No, of course not,” the Fiend King replied quickly in fright. Before Samigina, they behaved just like when Samigina himself was in front of the Demon God Emperor, “What I mean is the army has covered ground in such a hurry, so they must be extremely tired. If we attack now, our losses might be a little larger.”
Samigina said indifferently, “It’s not like we’re going to be losing any clansmen, so what are you worried about? If even you lot can’t guess my battle tactics, then how can the humans do so? Only by catching them off-guard can be breach the Southeastern Fort as quickly as possible and our target will become the Holy City. I can tell you that if we fall behind Marbas and Valefor’s side, not only will we embarrass ourselves, everything good will be taken by them as well. Pass down my order that once we breach the fort, feel free to pillage anything. Everything you obtain will belong to you. Do you understand what should happen now?”
The four Fiend Kings looked at each other and all became joyful. They could obviously understand what Samigina was getting at. The losses they suffer would not be members of their Fiend Clan. Out of the five hundred thousand troops, their Fiend Clan only formed a fifth of the army. They could let the other clans function as cannon fodder, while they, the fiends, would definitely be the ones who would complete this mission and earn all the merit. And, they had only brought demon elites this time, unlike what happened in the previous holy war. The Southeastern Fort was never the strongest mountain pass of the humans either.
The four Fiend Kings immediately left to set up the arrangements. With Samigina as their commander, even the other demon gods who had accompanied them would not be bold enough to directly state their displeasure. Who could help the fact that he was one of the five great demon gods?
The army lead by Samigina appeared and the Southeastern Fort obviously discovered them.
Qiu Yonghao lead the important members of the Warrior Temple, as well as the leaders of the armies from the five other temples, gathering atop the gates of the Southeastern Fort to gaze into the distance.
Nodding gently, Qiu Yonghao waved his fist about, “They’ve come, they really have come. The information’s completely correct. Demon God of Death Samigina, I’ll have you learn the power of my Southeastern Fort this time.”
During times of war, information was always the most important. A piece of correct information could turn the tides of war. Not only did Qiu Yonghao learn the exact time when his enemies would arrive, he even received detailed information on the number and rankings of the demon gods in the army, as well as the numbers from each demon clan. The information obviously came from Yue Ye’s organisation.
Three days ago, in order to deal with the demon army lead by Samigina, the Southeastern Fort had already made full-scale arrangements. Samigina obviously had no idea that the information about his army had already been sold out to the enemy. Traps upon traps lay before them for them to fall into.
Two hours came and went very quickly. It was impossible for the demon army to recover in just two hours. At most, they could eat those food and rest up slightly. However, even among the demons, military orders were absolute, and there was only one consequence for soldiers disobeying orders, which was death.
As a result, even though everyone voiced their discontent, the demon army still gathered under Samigina’s orders.
Samigina gazed at the Southeastern Fort in the distance and waved his right hand, “Attack. The first to make it into the Southeastern Fort will be rewarded a hundred human slaves.”
Among the demons, the best way to measure wealth was through resources, while human slaves were the most precious resource among demons. Even the demon gods valued human slaves.
The other demon gods who were originally discontent with Samigina arranging his Fiend clan to attack at the end immediately thought of the rich resources and wealth the human world possessed. In that moment, the demon leader forcefully ignored their exhaustion and lead their armies to attack the Southeastern Fort.
It was clearly impossible that Samigina would lead the entire army in a single attack on the fort. However, he had many years of experience in leading, so even if he was using the other clans as cannon fodder, he would not make it too obvious.
The first wave attacked. A total of fifty thousand demons entered the battle. The walls of the Southeastern Fort were not exactly wide, so fifty thousand was the most they could fit on the battlefield.
The ones that charged at the front were the Berserk Demons and Birdy Demons. Neither of the clans were protected by a demon god, so obviously not too many people cared about their fate. However, there was one fact that could not be disputed, which was their battle prowess was rather extraordinary. This time, the demon army of elites did not bring any useless troops. They did not even bring cannon fodder like Dual Bladed Demons.
Accompanying the Berserk Demons and Birdy Demons were the Demonic Eye Soldiers. With the three clans combined, they just about amounted to fifty thousand. As a thick blanket, they charged towards the Southeastern Fort.
It was possible to see from high above in the air that the demon army surged towards the Southeastern Fort like a large swathe of locusts.
Qiu Yonghao gazed at the army in the distance coldly and raised his right hand, “Begin.”
A murmur of magic chants rose up from the top of the walls of the Southeastern Mountain Pass. Dense ripples of elements filled the surroundings. Whether it were the mages, priests or summoners, every single one of them was assigned at least two magic crystals.
After confirming that this was one of the most crucial battles for the Temple Union against the demons in the holy war, or even one of the best opportunities to repel the demons, the Temple Union had gone as far as to use all of the resources it could get its hands on.
The Alliance’s Great Auction House had basically donated all of its equipment and magic crystals. They only asked the Temple Union to provide them with a promissory note detailed everything they had given out.
