Chapter Ten: Fighting to the Death

  Although the surrounding Bimon could not understand Malan's idea, as the highest official who had accumulated prestige for many years, several other Bimon guards still chose to obey and immediately someone went to pass on the order.

  Liu Yu saw Ma Lan's serious expression and also turned around to fetch his weapon and informed his companions.

  Soon all the beastmen gathered in front of Malan. Kicking the ground mouse at his feet, looking at the crowd with a bewildered face, Malan's expression was rarely solemn.

  "It's simple, the cannibal tribes in the Deza Mountains often use their ability to control beasts to let some beasts come to our side and hunt us down. Of course, before they come to us, they must have gone to provoke some beast groups, so when we kill these beasts, there will inevitably be beast groups chasing them from behind."

  "Now that you've killed these groundhogs, who knows what's coming next. Just be prepared for battle, we can't outrun the monsters. Don't doubt it, this kind of thing has only happened in the past two years. Last time, another training camp's team was almost wiped out by a group of monsters they attracted due to carelessness. They were even besieged by the cannibal demon tribe afterwards. If they hadn't been close to the Blood Refining Camp and received support in time, that team would have probably ended up in the cannibal demons' bellies." Marlan quickly explained the cause and effect of the situation, not keeping the Bimons waiting for long.

  Without giving the crowd time to react, Marlan began to arrange the task. "The mouse people will take all the horses and luggage to the center, then you will be responsible for defending both sides and the rear of the troops; all warriors prepare long spears and shields standing in the front row ready for close combat..."

  Facing the western direction where the groundhog was killed, Bimon formed the first layer of defense. Behind him, Feite and other boys with higher Dou Qi cultivation prepared to support and supplement them. Liu Yu and several other boys with higher magical cultivation than Bimon formed the third layer of defense, responsible for long-range magic support and archery support. The mouse people were in charge of taking care of the logistics.

  From Marlan's deployment, Liu Yu inferred that the demonic beast group attack should only come from one direction in the west. "Won't they surround us on both sides?" Liu Yu couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

  At this time, the rumbling sound of the ground shaking came from afar, getting louder and louder. A group of brown magical beasts with sharp spikes all over their bodies, resembling lizards, charged over like an unstoppable flood.

  "The Four-Stage Magic Beast, Lizard Beast" flashed through the mind of the Dominating Instructor's explanation about them. The sturdy earth-type magic beast had a tough back, lived in groups, was omnivorous, and had extremely poor magical abilities, but its strong point was its thick skin.

  The beast group had not approached, but a sense of oppression came head-on. Once again gripping the longbow in his hand, suppressing the tension in his heart, Liu Yu looked at the front guard commander Ma Lan, waiting for his command.

  Malan at the forefront also recognized it as a Fissure Beast, and a hint of joy appeared in her eyes.

  "Warriors, raise your shields! Archers, fire at will! Remember, this is the beast that gutted them!" Marlan's command was like a thunderclap on a calm day, jolting all the beastmen out of their trance-like state induced by the Splitter Beast.

  The front row of Bimon warriors immediately raised their shields to chest level, took a step forward, and the young Bimon holding long spears stuck close to their bodies. The first two rows of Bimon formed a wall of flesh to directly resist the impact of these earth-splitting beasts.

  On this side, Liu Yu and his men raised their longbows to the sky, quickly drawing them into a full moon shape. "Whoosh, whoosh" dozens of arrows flew out from the formation, falling in an arc towards the beast group. The Bi Mong archers would always infuse their own aura when shooting arrows, so although these arrows were only made of ordinary iron, they still had extraordinary power. The beast group at the front was momentarily stunned. But at this moment, they charged to the last moment, and the next moment the beast group heavily crashed into the shields of the Bi Mong guards in the front row. Liu Yu saw the young Bi Mong boy in front of him struggling to hold up the front line, but the entire wall of people still retreated backwards.

  "Everyone, hold your ground! The wizard is launching a flame attack." Malan ordered while firmly holding the shield against the beast horde.

  At the same time, Liu Yu and Ivan's mouths were chanting words, with a faint red glow appearing around them, and the temperature rapidly rising. In the next moment, several huge fireballs formed above their heads, swiftly pouncing towards the beast group. A few loud explosion sounds immediately followed, stirring up layers of smoke dust in the forest. Although it was unclear what exactly happened, the wails of agony were incessant. This was the strongest fire magic Liu Yu and his companions had learned in three years - the third-tier magic Fire Explosion Technique. Due to being a joint effort, its power was much greater than usual. However, this also completely exhausted their spiritual energy, rendering them unable to launch another wave of magical attacks for a short period of time.

  "Everyone, push forward!" All the soldiers pushed forward together, and immediately the beast group began to retreat. Soon the dust settled, and Liu Yu finally saw the situation in front of him clearly. The Lidi Beast was about 1.5 meters high, just reaching the chest of the Bimeng guards, who lowered their heads and used their hard backs to support the shields.

  The Earthshaker Beast has a very poor resistance to fire magic, so the previous blow caused them great harm. Many of the Earthshaker Beasts in the back of the group were already lying on the ground, so the ones in front had lost their rear guard and were immediately forced to retreat step by step, and their formation quickly dispersed.

  At this moment, a loud and angry cry came from the back of the beast group, as if there was a great magical power, and the scattered beast group surrounded again.

  "Rift beast king, Galin I'm going to kill it, you guys stay and kill these guys." Malan heard this shout and was overjoyed instead of angry.

  "It's Captain School." The team's second-in-command, Daichi Himuro, immediately took over command of the team.

  At the forefront, Malan casually drew out the long sword from his waist and slashed it down on the back of the beast in front of him. The long sword quickly turned into a pure golden color, and with a "hiss" sound, the beast was cut in two from its head, with blood splashing everywhere. Without stopping, Malan snatched the long spear from the nearby Bi Meng guard and let out a loud shout: "Kill!"

  "All" of the Mongwai warriors let out a loud shout, grasping their long spears and shields as they charged into the beastly horde for close combat. Soon enough, the beasts and beastmen became intertwined, even the usually timid mouse people joined in on this melee.

  Liu Yu in the rear was no exception, as it was very inconvenient to mix together, so he abandoned his long spear and switched to using the hand axe at his waist. However, these young men didn't have too many opportunities to show off compared to Meng. The front row of Meng's guards were indeed warriors who had just come down from the front line, having experienced many battles, their strength was originally higher than that of these demon beasts by a level, three people formed a triangular formation, quickly reaping the lives of these rift beasts, and the few remaining ones were also taken care of by Liu Yu and others in the rear.

  When Liu Yu discovered a still active Fissure Beast, he and Ivan immediately took their axes and struck its abdomen with all their might. The axe, infused with internal energy, made the Fissure Beast's weak belly look like it couldn't withstand a single blow, and fresh blood splattered all over Liu Yu.

  "Boom" Liu Yu only felt that something in his brain had exploded, and his whole body trembled. "Is this the feeling of killing?" Liu Yu asked himself.

  The scene at the forefront of the team had firmly caught Liu Yu's attention before he could think of anything else.

  A brown, two-meter-tall and five-meter-long earth-splitting beast covered in sharp spikes stood before Marlan. Most of the other earth-splitting beasts around it had been killed, with only a few remaining. Without asking, Liu Yu also realized that this was the Earth-Splitting Beast King. Liu Yu noticed that the scales on the Earth-Splitting Beast King's head were supposed to be brown but were instead purple, and he secretly felt shocked - a sixth-stage Earth-Splitting Beast King. Generally, as the king of fourth-stage magical beasts, they would at most be fifth-stage, but this one was actually sixth-stage, indicating that it had existed for quite some time.

  "Huffing" and puffing, the Earthshaker King was taking deep breaths, seemingly making its final preparations. Demons were intelligent creatures, with higher-level demons possessing intelligence rivaling that of any intelligent species. This Earthshaker King was no exception. It understood that if it didn't defeat this powerful being before it today, its entire tribe would perish here.

  Suddenly, the Earthsplitting Beast King charged towards Malan, its massive body of several thousand kilograms exuding a natural aura of dominance in its charge. On Malan's side, he had taken a horse stance, but what was seen was him clenching his fists tightly, with golden battle qi and golden fur combining to make it impossible for people to look straight at him. With a "Ha", he took a forward bow step, and Malan's right fist heavily struck the Earthsplitting Beast King's strongest backbone, followed by a scene that left Liu Yue stunned - Malan hadn't retreated a single step, but the gigantic Earthsplitting Beast King had directly flown out, landing over ten meters away, already dead beyond dead without needing to be looked at.

  "This is the strength of a Seventh-Order Dou Wang." Liu Yu was shocked in his heart, although Ma Lan was also a giant two meters tall, but compared to Lie Di Beast King, he was at least one level lower in terms of physique. And yet, Lie Di Beast King was so vulnerable in front of him, which was naturally the credit of "Broken Hu Dou Qi".