He muttered as he led his soldiers to rest.
2 hours & 22 minutes later, a notification woke Zhou Zhou up.
[Supreme Challenge: The fourth round of the supreme challenge has begun. Lord, please be prepared!]
Stepping out of one of the apartments in the military base, he saw Sun Can moving from one apartment to another to wake up the other soldiers.
Having everyone in front of the city's barrier in 30 seconds, they watched as over 20,000 fire demon rushed towards them.
"I hope the energy potions would be enough."
Hui Teng said as his view was covered with fire demons rushing towards him and his city.
"I finally see the purpose for our giant form."
"A giant would require way less attacks to deal with such crowd than a human sized warrior ever could."
Qin We said while watching the sea of fire demons sweeping towards him.
"And also the purpose for our training to take on multiple opponents and having combat skills way above our strength ranks."
Bai Yung added with his eyes on the fire demons.
"They're all in preparation for battles like this."
Huang Sai said while staring at the young man sitting on his throne behind them.
"And we're ready!"
Lu Chong said as he stomped the bottom of his spear on the ground.
"We're indeed! Attack!!"
Pointing his spear at the approaching sea of fire demons, Bai Yung commanded.
"Let's go."
Getting better in being a mage, Hui Teng created a foot-stand before inviting the archery duo.
Smashing his shield on the fire demons as he descended, Qin We looked up to see 4 White silver-tier fire demons staring at him.
"I couldn't see them."
He chuckled as he said to them.
Bam!!
Raising his shield to block their attacks, he quickly followed with a thrust with his sword.
Creating a path through the sea of fire demons, Lu Chong's eyes never left the 10 Yellow-gold tier demons at the rear of the sea.
8 at the elementary grade and 2 at the intermediate grade.
Help me step into the special-tier.
He mused as his eyes sparkled for a more powerful spear skill.
Hovering above the sea of fire demons, Hui Teng wore his mask as the strength of his consciousness reached the peak of the advance grade of white silver-tier.
"I am death!"
He proclaimed as over 3,000 fire demons at the Black iron-tier tore out their throat with their claws.
"How did they come across such powerful large scale attacks?"
Artena wasn't looking happy at the battle situation.
Relying on the strength and speed of his giant form and his higher strength grade, Bai Yung was barely able to match Lu Chong's killing speed.
He made sure to avoid any fire demon that could delay the rate at which he killed.
I just broke through today, pressuring myself won't make me have another breakthrough.
He convinced himself as he ran towards every location in the battlefield.
Arriving in front of the Yellow gold-tier fire demons, Lu Chong sensed something different.
He's different from the rest of them.
He thought while looking at the intermediate grade fire demon standing a step ahead of the other Yellow gold-tier fire demons.
The self-proclaimed king didn't bother to hide his strength so we could sense his entire might, but this demon is on the same combat tier as he is.
A kingdom-tier combatant!
This will be fun!
Getting excited the more he reasoned, the spear genius sped up rather than doing the opposite.
Obeying the command of their vice commander, the fire demons immediately rushed towards the charging giant.
Making sure to avoid the attack of the intermediate grade fire demon, Lu Chong moved smoothly as he performed every thought that came to his mind.
A couple of minutes later, he smiled as he felt his body becoming free.
'Advancing is intoxicating.'
Experiencing an upgrade to his skill once again, he deflected an attack from the fire demons before thrusting 3 times in a flash.
Purch! Purch!! Purch!!!
Blood spurted out of the neck of 3 fire demons as the other 6 halted their attacks in fear.
Taking advantage of the delay of the fire demons, Lu Chong thrust out his spear a couple of times in the twinkle of an eye.
Purch! [x6]
Thud! Thud!! Thud!!! [x2]
Dropping dead on the ground, blood flowed from the hole on the necks of the fire demons.
"You're next."
Pointing his spear at the intermediate grade fire demon, Lu Chong said.
Whoosh!!
Boom!!
"Watch out!"
Qin We shouted as Lu Chong shot backwards, smashing everything in his path.
Slamming trice on the ground before coming to a stop, Lu Chong stared at his left hand in shock.
"He broke my hand in a single attack!"
"Lu Chong!"
Bai Yung rushed forward as he saw the terrifying fire demon hacking his battle-axe towards Lu Chong's head.
"Stay back!"
Lu Chong shouted as he caught a glance of Bai Yung in his view.
Boom!!
Smashing down Bai Yung's spear, the fire demon quickly followed up with an upward swing towards Bai Yung's chest.
Boom!!
Sliding backwards after blocking the fire demon's attack with his shield, Qin We coughed up blood as he struggled to hold up his shield.
Whoosh!!
A water spear burst forth as it flew straight towards the head of the fire demon.
Tilting his head, the fire demon easily dodged the water spear.
Whoosh!!
Making his second run of the day, the fire demon suddenly appeared beside Qin We with his battle-axe descending on the back of his head.
Qsllch!!
Ahhh!!
Lu Chong cried in pain as the fire demon's spear cleaved out his right shoulder while deflecting his battle-axe from Qin We's head.
Swinging his battle-axe upward rather the other way around, the fire demon parried Bai Yung's thrust before hurling himself at his giant head.
He's going to die!
Lu Chong felt horror as he saw the battle-axe of the kingdom-tier fire demon falling towards Bai Yung's forehead.
!!
Quassh!!
The battlefield went silent as every movement of the 20 meters giant came to stop.
"Bai Yung!!!"
Qin We cried out in fury as he slashed his sword towards the fire demon falling together with the 20 meters corpse.
Sllch!!
His movement came to a stop as a third of his neck was ruthlessly severed.
Still in shock at the different between the special-tier and the kingdom-tier, even though the fire demon's kingdom-tier status wasn't due to his battle-axe skill but his bloodline, Lu Chong could only watch as Qin We collapsed on the ground.
Dropping his head down to look at his severed hand holding his spear, he turned towards his lord.
"Forgive me, my lord."
"I failed you."
He muttered, unable to speak out due to shame.
Watching the battle and seeing the way his soldiers were killed, Zhou Zhou was pained.
"They had less than 7 days to forge themselves into weapons of mass destruction that needed one of the captains of a Prince of the Abyss to put a stop to their destruction."
"I'm proud of their progress."
He muttered as he watched Hui Teng, Huang Sai, Sun Can and Man Nao getting torn apart by the White silver-tier advance grade fire demons.
Bai Yung and Qin We were in charge of dealing with them, but after their absence, they had the opportunity to go after the archers, the mage and the pudao soldier.
"Lord from the Supreme Will, I told you I will use you to shine."
"Look at your soldiers; it only took just one of my soldiers to put an end to their slaughter."
"A pity, I will say. You should have told me your name, now you will never have the chance to be remembered."
Artena's voice resounded around the battlefield as the kingdom-tier fire demon stood in front of Lu Chong with his axe raised like an executioner.
"Any last word before your strongest warrior is killed?"
He asked Zhou Zhou.
"Lu Chong, never forget my ambition for you all and for myself!"
Standing up from his throne in the midst of battle for the first time, Zhou Zhou said.
"No."
Qian Du had tears in his eyes as he heard the words of his lord towards the brave and powerful soldier.
My lord, please summon the guardian beast.
He made a wish as he turned towards Zhou Zhou.
"I will never forget, my lord!"
Lu Chong swore as he grabbed his spear with his left hand before thrusting at the fire demon.
Sllch!!
His head shot into the sky as his spear stopped inches away from the neck of the fire demon.
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