The Era of Gods

Chapter 497: Chapter 497: Attacking the Demon Camp

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At this stage, he didn’t think it necessary; boss templates like these were already pretty dope, and he could just get a bunch of them and surround and kill even Lords as well.

With careful cultivation, raising their level to above 80 would make them quite formidable.

He didn’t need to achieve much in this world, just being stronger than the other players was enough.

Twenty minutes later, the last demon fell beneath a hexagonal ice crystal, and his girlfriend cheered as she flew over to collect the loot.

The value of the items wasn’t the point; the point was she enjoyed the feeling of harvesting.

Seven to eight hundred demons, most of their corpses glowed, indicating loot could be picked up.

As usual, most of it was junk like venom and innards that could only be sold for money, but there was a chance to get demon claws, demon teeth, scales, tails, and other white materials that could be used to create arrows, weapons, and armor, which could be accumulated and traded to the Expedition Army Quartermaster for reputation and merits.

Only an extremely small chance to drop equipment or potions and the like, with the most valuable being the Demon Marks.

Ordinary Demon Marks could be exchanged for a regular NPC, Green Demon marks for elite NPCs, Blue Demon Marks for enhanced elite NPCs, and Purple Epic quality Demon Marks for boss template NPCs.

Unfortunately, until now, he hadn’t even seen a Blue Demon Mark, let alone a Purple one.

This Demon Centurion only dropped a Purple piece of equipment equivalent to T3 and two Green Demon marks, without any Blue quality Demon Marks.

“Green is green, at least it’s for an elite; it’s not bad for a grunt, and I’m not lacking strong subordinates.”

In fact, there were many Demon Marks in the Auction House of the Expeditionary Army Fortress, including Blue Demon Marks. As for the Purple Demon Marks, none had yet appeared; no one had yet looted a Purple Demon Mark.

And if someone did, they would have used it for themselves rather than selling it.

These were looted by solo players while grinding, but the prices were scary high; just one Blue Demon Mark could go for tens of thousands of gold, and it was a case of “price without market”; as soon as it was listed, it was snatched up by large guilds at a fixed price.

Lin Xiao had a fair amount of money, even with significant spending in the Outland, he still had tens of thousands left, but without any trusted subordinates, he couldn’t have his girlfriend camp out at the auction house every day, could he?

Speaking of which, Radiance did have a few acquaintances, like Senior Sister Xiong Chumo, along with his uncle Lin Xu in Dark Moon.

However, Lin Xiao felt that now that he had a girlfriend, getting too close to Senior Chumo wouldn’t be appropriate.

As for Lin Xu, he had contacted him upon first entering the Outland, but at this point, Lin Xu was doing very well at the Dark Moon Higher Education Institution; with the support of his girlfriend and father-in-law, he had already become a well-known figure in the freshmen class at Dark Moon, with a bunch of friends and underlings, and he was preparing to take the army route, which certainly wouldn’t work for playing together.

After gathering all the loot, they immediately retreated several kilometers and took a big detour to another exit of the Demon Fortress, waiting under a low slope three kilometers away.

More than forty minutes later, no demons had left the camp. Instead, they encountered a Demon Centurion leading another patrol of about a thousand demons coming back; the two forces met head-on, and a grand battle ensued.

Just like the previous grand battle, two boss warriors transformed into Supreme Nagas and brutally broke through the demon army to confront the Demon Centurion; Shooter Hills fired a concussion arrow, and the two Supreme Nagas took the opportunity to press forward aggressively. The Mage began their ultimate, one Ice God’s Spear and 170,000 health disappeared…

Then freeze in place, focus fire, and down goes the enemy!

And then cleanup!

Eliminating the remaining forces!

Clearing the battlefield!

And then leave…

The whole process was executed smoothly, as if it had been practiced many times before.

In the following two days, they ambushed three more patrols, adding to the two from before, tallying up to five patrols, altogether slaying five Demon Centurions, and over forty Level 73 Enhanced Elite Demon Captains and Demon Warriors. They collected a total of 32 Green Demon Marks to exchange for elite subordinates and one Blue Demon Mark from one of the Demon Centurions.

This dispelled his previous suspicion that Blue Demon Marks could only be looted from Military Governors.

It turned out that Demon Centurions could drop them, only the drop rate was quite touching.

After five patrols were dead and half the Demon Camp destroyed, the Demon Overlord could no longer ignore the situation and had to take notice.

So, on the fourth day of their ambush, while they were halfway through an attack on a group that had just emerged from the Demon Camp, a roar of fury came from a distance, and a dense demon army charged over, with a familiar tall demon in the center, the Demon Overlord himself.

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“Just in time!”

The Demon Overlord tried to lure him with his subordinates, unaware that Lin Xiao was precisely hoping for the Overlord to leave the camp. Now was when the Demon Camp was at its weakest; after a while, more demon soldiers would keep refreshing, and the battle would get increasingly difficult.

This time the previous tactics wouldn’t work. Accompanying the Demon Overlord were two Centurions, plus the three used as bait, and about a dozen Enhanced Elite demons, including Captains and Warriors, seventeen or eighteen elite Magicians and Wizards. All elites, some probably Enhanced Elites. They were a lineup that his two Leader Shooters couldn’t break into and come out of in one piece.

The tactics were straightforward: clash, form a conventional battle array and clash.

Though outnumbered, his side boasted extremely powerful Mages, Shooters, and most importantly, Leader Priests.

Demons admire destruction and don’t have priests as a profession. They might have seen BOSS-level healers with boss-level abilities, but they have never encountered a BOSS-level healer with the Star Spirit Talent.

Why can players challenge dungeons filled with elite monsters and bosses with millions of hit points? Because they have tanks and healers.

“Boom!”

A huge fireball summoned by Demon Magicians, burning with green flames like meteorites, fell from the sky into the crowd. After stunning the soldiers within range, the burning flames converged into a Hellfire oozing with green fel energy. The five-meter-tall Hellfire swung its fiery fists, smashing them down on the shield-bearing soldiers below, officially kicking off the chaotic battle.

Priest Star Month quickly cast a wide-reaching Psychic Scream. Seven or eight Hellfires were all feared and scattered in a panic, and Leader Shooter Hills rapidly took them down with her bow.

“Raise your shields!”

The front row of elite warriors raised their shields, eyeing the slowly advancing demon army through the Blizzard and Rain of Fire, and in an instant, the two armies were entangled in a messy fight.

Starfire, the Ice Mage, did not cast Blizzard. Five Enhanced Elite Demon Wizards all shot out a green beam converging in front of him, forming a green Ice Shield as a mental clash began even before the front rows closed in. Alone against five demons of over Level 70 of Enhanced Elite status, even as a Leader Template, he couldn’t spare a hand.

Lin Xiao was also busy, constantly summoning Thunderclouds and striking down demons with lightning.

Although it was a basic Spell, its magical damage, after talent enhancements, ignited the power equivalent to Enhanced Elite spells and prowess. Coupled with his Lightning Specialization’s high burst damage, his achievements on the battlefield were quite spectacular for a time.

But as more and more demons arrived, especially after many front-row Cannon Fodder demons perished and the elite demons closed in, he couldn’t kill them fast enough. Soon, his front-line warriors began to fall, despite the abundant healing, unable to manage so many subordinates.

However, when compared to the casualties of the demons, his own were considerably fewer and still within acceptable limits.

As the Cannon Fodder continued to fall, the Demon Overlord in the back began to grow restless. Lin Xiao, who had been keeping an eye on this major boss, shouted as soon as it moved:

“Mars, get ready!”

Mars, who had just struck down a demon with a swipe, looked up and roared defiantly at the Demon Overlord, who immediately took the challenge. Roaring, the Overlord brushed past its subordinates and charged at him, and the two powerful leaders collided fiercely into the fray.

Demons revel in slaughter and battle. If an enemy, especially a strong one, challenges them, they will definitely accept, much like inviting an old drunkard to drink Maotai; the drunkard would definitely drop everything and run off to drink happily.

With their strongest Overlord tied up, the rest would be much easier to handle.

Another Leader warrior took on the two Demon Centurions. The remaining Demon Centurion and many Demon Captains or Warriors could only be resisted at first by his subordinates, and even though casualties were stacking up, making Lin Xiao’s eyelids twitch, there was nothing to be done. All other leaders had important tasks at hand.

After Hills finished sniping Hellfires summoned by the Demon Magicians, she began picking off Demon Wizards from a distance, freeing Starfire, whose potent spells were a key to winning the battle.

The Demon Wizards who were restraining Starfire might have been Enhanced Elite Template, but they couldn’t withstand the focused fire from a Leader Template Shooter.

With just one fully charged shot, the Demon Wizard couldn’t resist and had to release the mental link.

The wizard had no choice; the longer the charge, the greater the impact. A fully charged arrow would nearly cripple the target. The power was not much less than Starfire’s previous Ice God’s Spear. They were both Magic based, getting hit would at least cripple, if not kill.

Threatened by several fully charged shots, two Demon Wizards released the mental link. One disbeliever took a fully charged arrow that dealt eighty thousand damage, severely depleting its just over 100,000 health. The massive damage broke its mental link for good.

Three out of five links were disrupted, and the last two Demon Wizards could no longer suppress Starfire and were forcibly disconnected.

Once free, Starfire cast an Ice Shield to resist damage on himself and began chanting with his Magic Wand in front of him.

As a Leader Template who had reached Level 70 max level, Lin Xiao had spent a great deal of merit at the Expeditionary Army Fortress to exchange for several powerful Spells suitable for him—the Ice God’s Spear was just one of them.

Cold terror quickly converged in the air. Several Demon Wizards and Magicians tried to cast spells to interrupt him, but they were blocked by the Ice Shield.

Five seconds later, before the Ice Shield could collapse, the casting was complete. The terror of coldness that had gathered in the air suddenly expanded, turning into a dazzling blue column of light that crashed down. An ice ring exploded from the impact point, spreading lightning-fast up to one hundred and fifty yards. All demons within the ring were frozen solid, unable to move.

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