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Chapter 789: Will You Continue Your Dig?

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The Class II warning in the demon's zone was not canceled off until March 12th. After almost 2 months of extensive search, even though the demon general himself attended the investigation and the soul-chasing butterfly died, they still failed to find that black-robe knight. Thus, the demons thought that the black-robe knight had already escaped far away by a secret method after killing Unther.

Cologne, the employed knight of Lukas Clan also returned to Salent City, the capital city of Bayon Kingdom on March 13th.

In March, the chilly winter had finally come to an end while the spring approached, which was featured by tender sprouts and grasses and melting ice. It was believed that the weird black-robe knight had already left together with winter. After over 2 months of search, it seemed to be the last small frustration facing demons and Three-eye Association before they completely conquered the north of Blackson Humans Corridor.

All the Three-eye Association clans understood that demon general had fixed the 896th year of Black Iron Calendar as the year when demons and Three-eye Association would completely conquer the north of Blackson Humans Corridor.

'Lord Demon General is ambitious. Although Lord Demon General's super demon corps faced a setback in the War of Upton City last year, it didn't damage the foundation of the entire demon corps. In front of the power of Three-eye Association, that was just a small failure in the entire holy war.'

All the Three-eye Association clans were dreaming for the moment when they completely conquered the north of Blackson Humans Corridor, including Lukas Clan.

Those humans and wealth which had not evacuated and transferred away from human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor would soon become the population and wealth of Three-eye Association clans. Therefore, the Three-eye Association clans across Blackson Humans Corridor would soon have an expansion for the second time.

On the evening of March 15th, namely, the 3rd day since Cologne came back, the king held a banquet to welcome the harvest in the coming spring in the harvest palace of the imperial palace. All the major members of Lukas Clan and advanced officials of Bayon Kingdom were invited to join the spring banquet.

Spring banquet was the tradition of Bayon Kingdom. It would be held in the harvest palace of the imperial palace for the coming harvest in each year. Due to that boring black-robe knight, this year's spring banquet was delayed for over 10 days. However, nobody would like to mention about it tonight.

Soon after the banquet started, the atmosphere gradually upsurged. Those members of Lukas Clan and the advanced officials of Bayon Kingdom, who had been depressed for over 2 months, cheered up with big smiles.

Adam, the head of Lukas Clan, who had usurped the throne as a health minister, was sitting high on the throne of the harvest palace and watching the boisterous scene in the palace with a big smile.

Nobody across Bayon Kingdom could have imagined that the health minister of this country belonged to Three-eye Association before the holy war. Right under the push of this former health minister, the entire medicare system of Bayon Kingdom deteriorated into the agency for the growth of the eggs of the parent worm and the entire Bayon Kingdom was collapsed at the fastest speed when the demon corps arrived. Even the former royal members of Bayon Kingdom had turned into demonized puppets.

"Prudden..."

The one on the throne opened his mouth as he implied Prudden with his eyes. Prudden who was serving in the palace instantly became spirited as he hurriedly cupped a tray being covered by a piece of red silk cloth and walked to the front of Cologne. He then slightly put the tray in front of Cologne.

After hearing the king's voice, all the others in the harvest palace became silent as they looked at Cologne.

"Elder Cologne, thank you for your hard work during the past 1 month, with Elder Cologne in Salent City, we feel much reassured. When we occupy the entire Blackson Humans Corridor, if Lukas Clan promoted to a higher stage, we will never forget about the great contribution made by Elder Cologne!" Adam said in an elegant, majestic tone just like a king.

After throwing a look at the tray, Cologne instantly knew that there were 4 earth-element crystals in the tray given the raised outline of the red silk cloth. It was one more than that in previous months, which meant that his treatment had increased by 33% at once. Elder Cologne became excited immediately as he got up and faintly bowed towards Adam. After that, he looked around and raised his jaw before saying firmly, "Trust me, Your Majesty, as long as I am here, nobody will dare to hurt Lukas Clan!"

After hearing this reply, the man on the throne nodded satisfactorily. After that, he slightly raised his glass, followed by all the others in the palace. They all proposed a toast to Elder Cologne at the same time, making the atmosphere boisterous once again...

At this moment, Prudden put his hand into that sleeve once again; however, he found that little, black beetle had disappeared once again...

Prudden then mumbled inside, 'Maybe that little thing went to eat something again!'

...

"Puff"...

With a faintly muffled sound, the dare-to-die corps member's head was shattered completely like falling onto the ground from above 20 floors, spraying the bloody brains onto the alloy wall and those operating arms beside that guy.

Zhang Tie hadn't imagined that Lukas Clan's backroom was so confidential until he came here.

The backroom was not in the imperial palace of Bayon Kingdom but in the underground of a common castle outside the imperial palace of Bayon Kingdom.

Who could imagine that Lukas Clan would put the most important objects in here; instead of the secret warehouse in the imperial palace.

This backroom was 100 m deep under the castle. People could only access to it by one tunnel. The walls were made of alloy which was as thick as 2 m. If a person inside the backroom locked the alloy door from the inside, even a knight could barely break it in from the outside.

People could only open this door by a key, code and facial recognition system...

The facial recognition system here was not the same one before the Catastrophe; instead, it was a more time-honored, more advanced and safer facial recognition system——A dare-to-death corps member of Lukas Clan who was controlled by a special medicine was in the room. When the key and code were right, this guy would check the look of the person outside the room through an imaging device like a periscope. If that person outside the door was Adam alone, this guy would manipulate the hydraulic device in the room to open the door.

As Zhang Tie knew that Lukas Clan would hold a spring banquet today, he came here with Adam, the head of Lukas Clan in the incarnation of the little, black beetle ahead of the spring banquet.

As Adam was just LV 9, he couldn't find Zhang Tie even though Zhang Tie was on the tail of his robe.

After Adam took 4 earth-element crystals and left out of here half an hour ago, Zhang Tie showed himself in the room and killed that dare-to-death corps member of Lukas Clan in a split second.

Looking at this backroom, Zhang Tie took a deep breath as he felt that his patience and efforts over the past over 1 month were worthwhile.

Zhang Tie dared say that he knew the secrets of Lukas Clan better than anyone else.

With the incarnation of a beetle and the power of the secret skill "soul capture skill", Zhang Tie, who had traveled between the deacon of Lukas Clan and many major clan members of Lukas Clan in the imperial palace these days, finally completed his "anatomy" of Lukas Clan.

'Although it is cool to chop off their heads, if I want to uproot a Three-eye Association clan and shake the ruling of demons in the demon's zone, I have to collect detailed intelligence and information. Otherwise, even being a knight, I could barely destroy a Three-eye Association clan and demons.'

Zhang Tie let out a sigh.

He would launch the fatal strike today.

He knew that he had made the right plan.

At this moment, Zhang Tie felt like falling into the barn as a hungry mouse.

Over 200 earth-element crystals were piled up tidily in the backroom. Of course, Lukas Clan was not the owner of these earth-element crystals. Zhang Tie estimated that these items might be used by demons to bribe Lukas Clan. Of course, they might be the previous stockpile of Bayon Kingdom.

'I don't care whom these objects belonged to. The key is that they belong to me now.'

Zhang Tie forcefully swallowed his saliva before walking over there. After waving his hand, he moved all the earth-element crystals into Castle of Black Iron.

Besides earth-element crystals, this backroom contained some crates and boxes.

Zhang Tie opened a box and found a pile of gold checks lying inside tidily. He then opened some crates and found jewelry, sorts of medicament and other precious items inside.

Those items lying here should not be common. Therefore, Zhang Tie moved all of them into Castle of Black Iron.

Additionally, Zhang Tie found 9 huge boxes in the backroom, each of them was as high as 0.8-0.9 m. Zhang Tie opened the boxes and found huge ostrich eggs with spiral, black and white decorative patterns on their smooth surface.

Zhang Tie seemed to have seen such objects before.

Heart racing, Zhang Tie injected some spiritual energy into one black and white ostrich egg.

——High-performance alchemist's bomb, TNT equivalent, 1000 kg.

——This bomb could be detonated in two modes. It supports time and collision detonation!

Followed by the usage of an alchemist's bomb...

'Alchemist's bomb? These are alchemist's bombs...'

Zhang Tie's eyes gleamed at once...

...

After 10 minutes, Zhang Tie came to the gate of the harvest palace of Bayon Kingdom.

Before the two rows of guards outside the gate of the harvest palace asked who this guy in black robe was, Zhang Tie had chopped off all of their heads by waving his hand...

Cologne instantly raised his head and threw a glance at the gate.

With a weird laughter, Zhang Tie rushed into the harvest palace as fast as a lightning bolt. Closely after that, the entire harvest palace was filled with dense roars and cracks of limbs...

In less than 1 minutes, the harvest palace had collapsed while two meteors shot to the sky from the ruins and started a fierce combat above the imperial palace. The entire city was shocked.

After over 20 minutes, with a miserable shriek of Cologne, his one arm was broken off by Zhang Tie.

In a split second, Cologne turned into a bloody rain.

After catching all the valuables of Cologne in the air, Zhang Tie rapidly flew away from the city.

Those grave tower demons couldn't even stand 5 minutes under Zhang Tie's fierce attack.

After turning those terrifying grave tower demons into smelly flesh, Zhang Tie disappeared in the night sky as a meteor...

...

After 1 hour, many meteors landed in Salent City while the entire Salent City reverberated with an extremely, terrifying roar.

Closely after that roar, a fiery figure rushed to the sky and accelerated towards where Zhang Tie headed for, hurriedly followed by all the other meteors...

The soul-chasing butterfly loomed in the sky ahead of them. When the soul-chasing butterfly stopped, a broken valley, which they had excavated severely, appeared in front of all the knights of Three-eye Association and demons...

This was where Zhang Tie left from, also the very valley that demon general's soul-chasing butterfly had reached last time.

Demon general became dumbfounded like having being stricken by a lightning bolt.

All the other knights who followed demon general here dared not see the extremely furious look of demon general...

'The same valley!'

Zhang Tie heavily slapped the demon general's face as if he was asking in a frivolous look——will you continue your dig?

Chapter 790: A Nightmare

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

On June 4th, the 898th year of Black Iron Calendar, in the demon's camp outside Tokei City, the capital city of Titanic Duchy...

It had been two and a half years since Zhang Tie left Huaiyuan Prefecture in the excuse of enclosed cultivation. During this period, the grasses and woods had withered twice. After each winter, the grasses and woods would recover vitality once again. However, for demons and Three-eye Association clans in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor, the demon's zone kept "withering" instead of recovering "vitality".

Since January 1st, the 896th year of Black Iron Calendar, the entire demon's zone in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor had been in a nightmare.

Neither demons nor Three-eye Association clans would like to face a such a nightmare——the most painful nightmare caused by a human knight called Gorath.

During the two and a half years, over 80% of grave tower demons were destroyed in the demon's zone. 7 of the 18 Three-eye Association clans in the demon's zone were cleared, while all the other 11 were severely struck. Numerous elites and bloodlines of Three-eye Association clans were killed by that human knight.

One demon knight and 3 knights of Three-eye Association clans were killed. Across the entire demon's zone, everybody was in a great danger. Even the demon general's super demon corps became that human knight's target 1 year ago. When the demon general and its subordinate knights were seeking for that human knight, that Gorath appeared in the super demon corps and made a killing spree, making them suffer the second major frustration since the Upton Battle. Almost the entire wing demon troop of the super demon corps was cleared by that human knight.

That loss was regarded as the extreme shame by the demon general.

For commoners, all the members of Three-eye Association were as terrifying as demons; however, for those members of Three-eye Association, that guy called Gorath, was the real demon.

Nobody could catch that devil's trace. However, that devil always jumped out of the dark hell and brought them a terrifying destruction and massacre before disappearing.

During the past two and a half years, many things were changed.

Except for the demon general, no other knights dared move alone across the entire demon's zone. The Three-eye Association clans which were bossy in the demon's zone also dared not show themselves in the public like a bird being startled by the mere twang of a bow-string. All the Three-eye Association clans had canceled off the large-scale party of clan members. Their clan members scattered around the demon's zone.

...

The demon general was standing in the main tent of the camp of the demon corps and watching one map and a drawing while his grim qi filled the tent like an icy, black cloud.

The map was the military map of Blackson Humans Corridor. In the demon's zone, dozens of cities were covered with black crosses, which meant that they had been severely destroyed during the past two and a half years. Starting from Glivec City, he moved to the capital city of Highcloud Empire, then Salent City, the capital city of Bayon Kingdom, then the Trisi City of Golan Empire, Malkalden City, Esener City, Democracy City, Delfo City, Eshwigen City, Milson City, Direnburg, Marmedi...

The black crosses covered the entire north of Blackson Humans Corridor. Some cities were even crossed twice, which meant they suffered two raids from that guy consecutively. Democracy City, the capital city of Verov Federation was attacked 3 times by Gorath. Although Arthur Clan, the ruling clan in Democracy City was not exterminated, it had been severely uprooted.

It seemed that Gorath was warning them to not think that he would not come here for the second time, even the third time in such an ironical method.

At the beginning, many people were studying Gorath's movement rules; however, they finally found that that guy's movement didn't have any rule at all. All the bases and key towns of Three-eye Association clans across the demon's zone were his knacker's yards.

Next to this military map was a drawing of Gorath, which was drawn according to the memory of those who had seen Gorath. With a black robe, raised insidious hooknose, weird flickering eyes, flying silver hair and ghost-like claws, the drawing was especially vivid.

A year ago, Gorath's drawing was fixed in the main tent of the demon general and had not been removed until now.

Watching the figure in the drawing, the demon general seemed wanting to devour this guy.

For others, Gorath was a demon; however, for the demon general, this guy was a ghost.

Demon general was not afraid of demons, because it was the prototype of a demon in human legends. As this ghost always stayed near the demon general and paid attention to its movements in the hidden place, the demon general tasted the real failure.

Over the past two and a half years, the demon area became completely chaotic. As the rear was unstable, the ruling foundation of demons and Three-eye Association was shaken by Gorath. In this state, the demon corps's movement towards the south became stagnated. Benefited from this, those human countries in the north of Kalay Mountain Range had a chance to move their population and materials to the south of Kalay Mountain Range during the past two and a half years. By now, humans had built a new defense line in Kalay Mountain Range. Across the north of Kalay Mountain Range, except for those increasingly active human paladins and demon hunting squads, demons and Three-eye Association were only left with destroyed empty cities and wild land. Additionally, thieves and brigands existed everywhere. Therefore, demons' strategic plan——to occupy the north of Blackson Humans Corridor and plunder a lot of humans and materials in the shortest period failed.

Over the past two and a half years, the demon's power in the demon area was not intensified; instead, it was weakened. Whenever that human knight attacked a city, he would uproot the forces of demons and Three-eye Association in that city. After his attack, those human slaves in the city would escape or arouse a riot, which was barely handled by demons and Three-eye Association clans.

In order to catch this guy, demons and Three-eye Association had tried every method that they could come up with such as setting traps and bribery at a high price in the public, etc.. They even hatched 7 soul-chasing butterflies and made them chase after Zhang Tie at the same time; however, they gained nothing. That guy was never taken in. He kept stabbing into the soft underbelly of demons and Three-eye Association, causing a great loss to demons and Three-eye Association physically and spiritually.

'That guy succeeded. Black-robe Gorath's name is well known across Blackson Humans Corridor. However, I became the poor foil of this guy.' The demon general sighed.

Watching the image of Gorath, the demon general became confused, 'Although this guy's image is hanging in front of me, I'm doubting whether this guy really exists or not.'

——Being proficient in the secret skills of Sacred Light Empire; being able to use some powerful battle skills and saber skills; being able to exterminate a Three-eye Association clan with poison in a split second; having rich experience in close combat; being brutal, cunning, witty, selfish and powerful; additionally, he mastered a secret skill which could help him get rid of the chase of soul-chasing butterfly; probably carrying an expensive, rare teleportation equipment.

The above information was all about Gorath that had been gathered over the past two and a half years. In order to find this guy's origin, demons had mobilized all the forces of Three-eye Association in humans; however, they still got no useful information. Among all the human knights, none of them could fit the traits of Gorath. This guy was like coming from the underground all of a sudden.

Generally, human knights could be divided into two camps, namely, human camp and Three-eye Association camp. According to the division method of humans, the two camps were hostile, one in public, one in dark. Besides, there was the 3rd knights camp, which was called evil or grey light knights. These knights were featured by always being alone. They cultivated and moved alone. They didn't join the party of Three-eye Association at the price of betraying humans or the human force even the Mountain of Brightness; instead, they chose a mediocre way which was free of restrictions. They had no bottom line in actions. They did everything for themselves. They were extremely selfish and dangerous.

According to the investigation of Three-eye Association, Gorath probably was a grey light knight who had been cultivating secretly in somewhere.

The demon general's dubious look gradually faded away; instead, a firm and berserk look appeared.

'I can't keep going like this. If I cannot have Blackson Humans Corridor, I will destroy it completely. I won't let humans recover their vitality; neither would the entire demon corps and Three-eye Association across Blackson Humans Corridor be mired in the trap set by a human knight, no matter whether he was righteous or evil...'

After watching the map and the drawing for half an hour, the demon general looked icier. Finally, he clenched his fist, filling the main tent with a berserk, decisive atmosphere.

A close guard entered the main tent meticulously and reported the latest message to the demon general.

"Lord Demon General, we've just received the intelligence. Two hours ago, Gorath raided Moorne City of Golan Empire. Timothy clan suffered a great loss in Moorne City. The second in line heir of the clan was killed. Besides, the grave tower demons outside Moorne City were destroyed by Gorath..."

This was not a good news. Therefore, that close guard was very meticulous when he reported it to the demon general. Although being intense, he tried to remain silent. Over the past two and a half years, the demon general was always berserk. As the close guards of demon general, they always risked their own lives to report any news about Gorath. Three months ago, a close guard was punched into powder when he reported the news about Gorath to demon general.

After reporting it, the close guard thought Lord Demon General would be angry. However, he had not imagined that Lord Demon General just replied calmly, "I know!" like having heard a trivial information.

The close guard dared not leave. He just stayed there, lowering his head, he waited for the order of Lord Demon General.

"Notice the heads of all the Three-eye Association clans and the directors of all the demonized puppets corps. Tell them to come to Tokei City 3 days later. I have an order to issue!"

"Yes, sir!"

Although the close guard became dubious inside, he just left silently.

After the close guard left, the demon general burned the military map and the drawing of Gorath into ashes...

...

Three days later, although the aftermath of Moorne City had not come to an end, the heads of all the Three-eye Association clans and directors of demonized puppets corps still arrived at Tokei City accompanied by a lot of clan powerhouses, including knights.

Compared to three years ago, none of them could imagine that they would not go out without having at least 2 knights on their side in the demon's area.

Compared to the boisterous scene in the main tent of the demon general, only small representatives of Three-eye Association clans could arrive here this time.

Watching the current situation, all the heads of Three-eye Association clans felt a bit embarrassed.

The black-robe Gorath was the real nightmare of all the Three-eye Association clans.

All of them believed that Lord Demon General fetched them here to talk about how to deal with Gorath.

However, none of them were optimistic about this. Because they had tried all the methods. However, none of the methods were effective. That guy seemed to know what they wanted to do in advance each time.

They just threw a glance at each other silently, causing an extremely depressed atmosphere in the main tent.

Being accompanied by another two demon knights, the demon general entered the main tent with a calm look. After that, he briefed his order in one word.

After hearing that order, all the heads of Three-eye Association became still as if they had lost their thinking abilities.

"This time, we will have no rear any longer. I will lead all of you all the way towards the south without any stop until our army reaches the coastline of Jinyun Country in the southernmost part of Blackson Humans Corridor!" The demon general's icy voice reverberated inside the tent, "Who disagrees?"

Everybody became silent. Some of them even quivered all over...

Chapter 791: The Changes

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After raiding Moorne City, Zhang Tie didn't leave right away.

After combating demons and Three-eye Association for over two years, Zhang Tie had experiences in responding to the investigation of demons and Three-eye Association.

Zhang Tie knew that if soul-chasing butterfly found that he was still in Moorne City, Timothy Clan would not dispatch major figures and elites to take over this city in the next three months.

They had learned about it at the price of a great loss.

Before Moorne City restored its order, many brave humans had enough time to escape.

This was the maximal effort that Zhang Tie could make.

Zhang Tie had been in this city for over 20 days. He made a harvest this time. Besides killing a major figure of Timothy Clan, he also gained a great amount of wealth that this clan had transferred to Moorne City and over 50 earth-element crystals.

Although there was no elements realm in Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie could directly absorb earth elements from earth-element crystals. It took him 2 weeks to consume all the 50-odd earth-element crystals.

On June 18, Zhang Tie opened his eyes under the small tree while the last earth-element crystal became as purely white as milk in his hand.

After standing up, Zhang Tie took out his knight's scale and found that 6 golden scales had been lit on it. It indicated that Zhang Tie had been a 6-scale black iron knight after over 2 years of practice.

It was an extremely high speed for Zhang Tie to advance to a 6-scale black iron knight in 2 years. All this was benefited from the earth-element crystals that he had collected from the Three-eye Association clans during the past two years.

Zhang Tie knew that it required him to consume 318 earth-element crystals before advancing to one more scale. If he wanted to light all the entire earth chakra, he needed to consume over 110,000 earth-element crystals.

If it was 110,000 gold coins, it was pretty easy for Zhang Tie. However, if it was 110,000 earth-element crystals, it would be an astronomical figure for any clan.

When he recalled his distant cultivation road, Zhang Tie forced a bitter smile. After that, he walked out of the palace of the palace tree.

The moment Zhang Tie walked out of the palace and took a deep breath of the fresh air, an oily, smooth 30-cm longer rat had jumped to Zhang Tie's side and looked up at Zhang Tie while uttering a sound "Tzi Tzi Tzi Tzi".

Zhang Tie lowered his body and stretched out his hand. That rat jumped onto his hand right away.

Zhang Tie cradled the rat and lightly fondled its head. The rat then narrowed its eyes satisfactorily.

It was a good weather in Castle of Black Iron, which also indicated a good weather outside.

This rat was the first animal that Zhang Tie applied his soul-based animal controlling skill to. It could be treated as Zhang Tie's "savior". It lived so well in Castle of Black Iron. It drank spiritual spring, mutated juicy fruits, flesh of a huge deep-sea monster and ran around everywhere every day. It was definitely living like an immortal being in rats. Sometimes, it would play cute in front of Zhang Tie.

However, this rat was a bit special today. Only after being fondled for a short while, it had already raised its head and uttered a sound "Tzi Tzi Tzi Tzi" towards Zhang Tie. It seemed wanting to tell something to Zhang Tie.

After being silent for a second, Zhang Tie had already known the rat's intention, "You want to leave out of here?"

The rat nodded like a man as it watched Zhang Tie with an eager look.

"But why?"

"Tzi...Tzi...Tzi...Tzi..."

"You want to find many female rats and have a lot of babies? You want to have a harem?"

That rat nodded seriously.

Zhang Tie laughed as he faintly patted his forehead, 'Oh, my god. I've almost forgotten about it. Although it lived well these years, I ignored its demands in some aspects. I forgot that a rat would also dream about having a clan and kingdom.'

"Alright. When I leave out of here, I will let you go to a proper place. But I have to warn you that the outside world is dangerous than here!"

The rat directly rolled backward twice on Zhang Tie's hand which looked difficult for rats. After that, he revealed its fangs and raised its claws. It seemed to tell Zhang Tie that it had already been ready for that. It was powerful enough.

Zhang Tie burst out into laughter...

Right then, the sound of flapping wings drifted from the sky. Hearing that sound, the "powerful" rat quivered all over and immediately jumped onto the ground from Zhang Tie's hand. Closely after that, it rushed into a hole of a phoenix tree and dared not come out anymore.

In a split second, a huge thunder hawk and four smaller thunder hawks landed in front of Zhang Tie while flapping their wings. Like puppies who saw their owner, they started to warble around Zhang Tie with their mouths widely opened like waiting for Zhang Tie to feed them.

The bigger thunder hawk then turned around and warbled towards the tree hole, scaring that rat's head back inside at once.

Watching these cute guys, Zhang Tie felt pretty good in a split second. With laughter, he squatted down and fondled those little thunder hawks' furry heads, "I'm sorry. I forgot to bring food for you. After a while, I will have Aziz bring you some tasty food!"

Those cute little thunder hawks seemed to have understood Zhang Tie's words as they all closed their mouths and started to rub their furry heads onto Zhang Tie's body.

During the past two and a half years, the male thunder hawk that Zhang Tie brought in Castle of Black Iron at the beginning had established a family and became a father of four babies.

The four cute thunder hawks were just a bit over one year old. Their feathers looked a bit tender. They had just learned how to fly. Compared to their father, although they had not been mature, they had already looked different than their father——brighter feathers, stronger bodies and sharper eyes.

Zhang Tie didn't know whether it was because these thunder hawk babies grew up by eating the flesh of the huge deep-sea monster or the special environment in Castle of Black Iron or both of them.

Aziz came here with a plate of the flesh of huge deep-sea monster.

Aziz fed these thunder hawk babies in a special method. He walked to the edge of the cliff and directly threw off the plate of the flesh of huge deep-sea monster so that those thunder hawk babies could dive sharply towards those falling flesh while competing with each other...

Watching Aziz taking care of these thunder hawk babies, Zhang Tie took a walk on the immortal mountain. He used to relieve his stress in this way.

At this moment, the immortal mountain and Castle of Black Iron had been lush all over. Taking a broad view, Zhang Tie saw huge trees, exotic flowers and fruits everywhere. A waterfall of melting snow flew off the peak of the 12,000 m high immortal mountain, which was extremely splendid.

Below that high waterfall was the place where Zhang Tie cultivated his battle skills and stimulated the production of iron-body fruits. Over the past two and a half years, Zhang Tie ate another 20-30 iron-body fruits.

When Zhang Tie appreciated the landscape on the hillside of the immortal mountain where the palace tree was, a team of hundreds of people arrived at the foot of the immortal mountain.

The team came from that human town far away from here. The team members carried a lot of items. At the foot of the immortal mountain, they started to kneel down and offer sacrifice to the immortal mountain.

Zhang Tie was attracted by these people's weird behaviors.

Heller had already been on Zhang Tie's side.

"What are they doing?" Zhang Tie turned around and asked Heller with a curious look.

"They are worshipping their God, you!" Heller watched downside there with a smile while his eyes were filled with endless mysteries, "They even brought you some sacrifices!"

"Sacrifices?" Zhang Tie became shocked. As he always set fires, plundered everywhere during the past two and a half years, he had been used to plunder the territory of Three-eye Association clans for what he needed. What he did was completely like the style of pirates. Therefore, when he heard that some people were offering sacrifice to him, he felt a bit weird. 'It is like how pirates feel when they are pushed onto the altar by people.' Zhang Tie mumbled as he touched his insidious, raised hooknose.

"They are the best items that those villagers could produce, such as cloths, drinks, fruits, grains and daily utensils."

Zhang Tie knew that their sacrifices indicated that they had settled down in Castle of Black Iron. When he recalled how he saved these people out of the miserable underground mountain cave of Misty Moon Woods in Selnes Theater of Operations a few years ago, Zhang Tie sighed with full moods. 'If possible, who the motherf*cker would not like to live a safe and sound life; instead of risking their lives every day?'

"Take their sacrifices!" Zhang Tie nodded towards Heller. After that, he added, "Erm, let them select some of the cultivation secret books and professional books that I've got from the demon area over the past two and a half years. If these guys have offsprings, they could pass some knowledge to their offsprings, which might be useful in the future!"

Zhang Tie had already moved numerous, inclusive secret books from Three-eye Association clans into Castle of Black Iron, which were even more than that he collected in Huaiyuan Palace. Many of these books were collections of the royal households or major clans in the former 17 human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. After the 17 human countries were collapsed, these items fell into the hand of Three-eye Association clans and finally entered Castle of Black Iron.

Those Three-eye Association clans robbed the 17 human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. Zhang Tie then robbed those Three-eye Association clans.

Zhang Tie had read some of those secret books. In Heller's words, as long as those secret books entered Castle of Black Iron, it was equal for them to enter Zhang Tie's private warehouse. Even if they were destroyed, they could still be recovered at any time.

Heller could not create or take out any secret book or professional book; however, as long as these secret books entered Castle of Black Iron, it was equal for them to enter Heller's head. Zhang Tie didn't need to worry about losing them at all.

Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't think too much about that, he just issued an order to Heller...

Chapter 792: A Disaster across the Blackson Humans Corridor

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When the colorful fog in Castle of Black Iron gradually faded away and the night fell, Zhang Tie left Castle of Black Iron and appeared in a pine forest on a hillside outside Moorne City.

Like before, he came out in the incarnation of the little, black beetle.

It was a good weather outside Moorne City. Two bright moons were hanging in the sky; plus the dense stars and clear air, the ground across Mourne City was covered with a silver light, with which, Zhang Tie could see far away.

Singing Bugs and the warm breeze made the whole hill especially tranquil.

The Moorne City in the distance was pitch-dark like falling asleep.

Zhang Tie felt a bit weird. Even if Timothy Clan and demons were preparing for preventing his second raid, Moorne City could not be so silent.

Zhang Tie flapped his wings and flew towards Moorne City together with some fireflies.

The black beetle moved very fast. It took it only 5 minutes to arrive at the city wall from the pine woods.

The city wall was wide open. However, nobody was on the city wall. At the sight of this scene, Zhang Tie felt strange.

He accelerated and flew into the city.

Only some stray dogs and cats were loitering on the broad avenues and sobbing in a low voice. Even stray dogs and cats might not be adapted to such a weird scene.

The black beetle ascended to over 200 m high and flew around Moorne City rapidly.

At the beginning, Zhang Tie thought it was another trap set by demons as he had experienced various traps during the past two and a half years. However, after flying around the city, he found that it was not a trap at all. Instead, the entire Moorne City had completely become an empty city.

All the humans had disappeared. This city seemed to have been deserted.

'What happened' Zhang Tie asked himself. The beetle instantly arrived at a hidden place. Closely after that, Zhang Tie incarnated into the male mature thunder hawk and rushed to the sky. He then flew towards the neighboring city.

Watching the empty city, Zhang Tie felt extremely restless and sorrowful.

It took Zhang Tie less than half an hour to reach Sessie City.

Hovering above Sessie City, Zhang Tie glanced over the ground with sharp eyes.

Like Moorne City, the entire Sessie City also became empty. The city gate was wide open while nobody was in the city.

All the demonized puppets in the city just disappeared, leaving no trace of massacre and riot.

Of course, these humans would not disappear out of no reason. A possibility occurred to Zhang Tie. However, Zhang Tie tried to not think about it as it was too miserable for the humans in the two cities.

'No way, no way. It should be some other reason...'

Zhang Tie warned himself repeatedly as he rushed to the sky and flew towards the south.

After a few hours, Zhang Tie saw more and more empty human cities like Moorne City, including Milvo City, Saint Paul City, Gofa City, Delus City, Wilisdon City and Conjiken City...

Zhang Tie became disappointed completely while the temporary, warm pleasure that he felt in Castle of Black Iron was shattered.

More and more empty cities made the possibility of which Zhang Tie was scared the most turn into a fact.

Zhang Tie continued to fly towards the south. After a few hours, he passed through the entire Golan Empire and the neighboring country Basas Kingdom and came to the Dicalo Plain in the north of Verov Federation.

With the starlight, Zhang Tie saw dense population walking towards the south on the Dicalo Plain. They were not humans but demonized puppets.

Wherever they passed by, they would gnaw everything, including grassroots, barks and animals such as rhinos, wild elephants, even mice and cockroaches.

Endless demonized puppets rolled over the entire Dicarlo Plain. Everywhere they passed by, they would leave nothing alive. Watching them from the sky, Zhang Tie felt they were surging worms in shit holes.

With bloody eyes, the demonized puppets walked and gnawed everything they could eat. Some wore simple protectives such as armors and held weapons such as sabers and swords; some held a kitchen knife or a manure fork...

There were over 20 million demonized puppets across Dicarlo Plain. All the demonized puppets were heading for the south!

The thunder hawk disappeared when Gorath appeared tens of thousands of meters high in the sky. Lowering his head, he watched those endless demonized puppets with widely opened, teary eyes.

For Zhang Tie, those walking deads were not demonized puppets but commoners who were killed by demons.

Zhang Tie finally understood that nobody was alive across the demon area. However, before this, there were almost 200 million humans under the ruling of demons and Three-eye Association in the demon area, who were striving to survive themselves.

This was the cruelest aspect of holy war.

After dropping off his tears with the wind, Zhang Tie roared towards the sky and disappeared into the sky.

...

Two hours later, in a hidden place outside Williamslack City in the south of Verov Federation, a subordinate member of Arthur Clan quivered under Zhang Tie's wrinkled claws. Rolling up his eyes, he seemed wanting to look at Zhang Tie's wrinkled claws...

In less than half a minute, Zhang Tie had already known everything that happened these days.

Zhang Tie intensified his battle qi and broke all the bones of that guy into powder at once. After that, he threw that guy's corpse into the Abyss of Chaos and disappeared once again...

...

Titanic Duchy...Selnes Plain...Symbian Republic...north of Norman Empire...

Endless demonized puppets poured towards Kalay Mountain Range. No human force could block such a destructive flood across Blackson Humans Corridor...

When his tears dried up, Zhang Tie's heart was full of fury and animosity.

'Demon general... Three-eye Association...'

Zhang Tie kept the two names deeply in his mind...

...

On the evening of June 19th, Zhang Tie finally returned to the encampment of Hurricane Corps of Huaiyuan Prefecture silently after two and a half years.

The black beetle drilled into the underground palace through that hidden air hole on the rockery in the temporary palace of the corps leader. Zhang Tie recovered to his original look.

The underground palace remained unchanged. Nobody had broken in during the past two and a half years. The emergency device which was used to wake him up in the underground palace had not been triggered either...

After taking a walk around the underground palace, Zhang Tie threw some daily goods that were stored in the underground palace into Castle of Black Iron, making it look like having been consumed during the past two and a half years.

After that, Zhang Tie stood still there with his eyes closed for a short while so as to recover his composure. Closely after that, he sat on the ground with crossed legs and started his cultivation in the elements realm.

Zhang Tie knew that the real test was coming.

'In the future war, as long as I'm a bit more powerful, I will have a greater possibility to kill enemies and survive myself.'

Zhang Tie had not been craving for power so much before.

In the elements realm...

After entering his meditation, the first spiritual hand appeared and started to capture those golden, polyhedral earth elements...

Soon, the second spiritual hand appeared...

Then the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, and the 7th...

Seven spiritual hands appeared in the elements realm in total. They were very agile like being controlled by 7 knights. Sometimes, the 7 spiritual hands worked independently; sometimes, they cooperated with each other so as to capture those golden earth crystals, throwing them into the rotating chakra and having them crushed into pieces. As a result, the complex geometric patterns on the second earth's chakra gradually became bright.

Zhang Tie's cultivation speed was 7 times more than that of common black iron knights.

...

In the process of cultivation, Zhang Tie could almost not sense the elapse of time. Not knowing how much time had passed, Zhang Tie heard a loud bell ring. He then opened his eyes.

The emergency awakening device in the underground palace was triggered from the outside. Besides the loud bell ring across the underground palace, red fluorescent lamps moved out of the top of those rooms in the underground palace, rendering the underground palace with amazing red color. Even his tiger-shaped command plate was vibrating due to the remote-sensing message.

The bell rung once again while the distant and silvery bell rings reverberated around the underground palace.

Zhang Tie looked at the clock on the wall and found it was already 7 am, June 21st. He then picked himself up from the bed. After that, he flicked his clothes and opened the gate of the underground palace calmly after two and a half years of 'cultivation'...

Chapter 793: Conference

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In the conference of Hurricane Corps, all the commissioned officers with ranks above colonel were sitting at the long desk with very solemn looks.

Everyone was silent except for the "rustle" sound between papers when one person flipped through bulletins.

The morning sunglow shone onto the excessive young face of the man in the main seat of the conference room through one window. Although over 2 years had passed, that man's face remained unchanged, his skin looked a bit white due to over 2 years of cultivation in the underground palace.

When he was browsing the bulletins of the corps over the past two years, all the commissioned officers in the conference room were stealthily throwing a glance at that man.

For many commissioned officers, it was the second time for them to see this guy since he came to Hurricane Corps about 3 years ago.

Compared to November 10th, the 895th year of Black Iron Calendar when this guy came to Hurricane Corps for the first time, his qi seemed to have changed. Last time, he felt aggressive and profound; however, after over 2 years of cultivation, his aggressive and profound qi had completely disappeared. Now, he looked like an extremely common juvenile. People could hardly feel any danger from him.

For those commissioned officers who had not promoted to knights, they didn't know what this change meant. Many people were amazed and puzzled about this. They even thought that Zhang Tie met some problem in the process of cultivation and degraded in battle force. However, if there was a clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace at present, he would definitely be shocked by Zhang Tie's change.

Those poor ones liked to show off their money; however, the real rich ones preferred to be low-key.

A new top quality sword couldn't wait to show off his sharp blade to the whole world; however, the real unrivaled blade would hide its sharpness inside the thick sheath.

The most agile state was like being clumsy. Such a state could not be reached by knights without experiencing life or death situation for numerous times. One had to constantly improve his battle force physically and spiritually. Without over 20 years of deep cultivation, many black iron knights could not even touch this state at all. However, it only took Zhang Tie two and a half years to reach this state. Although it was a long time for commoners, it was not long for knights as it was even shorter than 10 years.

The commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps didn't understand what Zhang Tie's current calm state meant. However, due to his invisible, powerful qi field, he could still influence the others although he just sat there and checked the bulletins silently.

It was a tranquil and detached temperament which would remain unchanged even when the Mountain Tai collapsed.

Although sun rose in the east and set in the west, moons waxed and waned, the sun and the moon didn't change their trajectories for foreign bodies.

Being influenced by Zhang Tie's calm, those anxious commissioned officers also gradually recovered their composure.

"Not bad!" Zhang Tie made a brief comment after browsing the bulletin, "You've done a good job during the past two and a half years!"

Some maneuver troops had gained more than 7 million gold coins in the mode of mercenary groups. The garrisons who were responsible for the military management and defense of the three cities didn't break out any major event of violating the military disciplines. All the three cities were running well. The taxations and number of immigrants broke records year after year. Even though last winter was the coldest winter during the past dozens of years in Blackson Humans Corridor, the three cities below Huaiyuan Prefecture still didn't find anyone being starved to death. Additionally, all the members of the special elite troops of Hurricane Corps had accomplished two rounds of training in Kalay Mountain Range. They had built 117 hidden materials supply points. Even if their supplies were cut off, they could still stick to over 2 years of fight in Kalay Mountain Range independently.

It could be said that the current situation of Hurricane Corps had gradually aligned with Zhang Tie's designing. That was what Zhang Tie demanded.

'Pitifully, if not the emergency, Hurricane Corps would have made more contributions across Blackson Humans Corridor. However, due to the decisive strike of the demon general and Three-eye Association, Hurricane Corps have to stop enjoying the brilliance in advance. Whereas, what Hurricane Corps have done is not useless. It's like a seed which would sprout sooner or later. Even if Hurricane Corps had to leave Waii Sub-continent in the end, they would also play a great role in the new place. They would be favored by all the honors and brilliance.' Zhang Tie told to himself.

Zhang Tie had already known why the commissioned officers woke him up from the underground palace; however, he still pretended to know nothing about it. After controlling his pain and grief, Zhang Tie asked in an indifferent tone, "Why did you wake me up?"

After hearing Zhang Tie's question, all the commissioned officers moved their eyes onto the chief of staff of Hurricane Corps.

The lieutenant general chief of staff of Hurricane Corps stood up. After taking a deep breath, he told Zhang Tie with a solemn look, "Because the major emergency in the north theater of operations of Waii Sub-continent has already posed a rudimentary influence to the overall situation of the holy war across Waii Sub-continent, we had to wake you up, Elder Mushen. We needed to report it to you!"

"Go ahead!"

"According to our intelligence, over half a month ago, namely between June 6 and June 10, with the request of demon general, all the 17 Three-eye Association clans across the north demon area had already killed all their human captives and slaves and converted them into demonized puppets. According to our estimation, 190 million to 210 million humans were killed across the north demon area. These demonized puppets were pouring towards Kalay Mountain Range ceaselessly..."

Closely after the chief of staff's report, the atmosphere in the conference room became gloomy...

Chapter 794: A Confidential Task

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

With the impact of about 200 million demonized puppets, Kalay Mountain Range would be broken through sooner or later.

The Three-eye Association clans across the demon rear had already given up the northern cities. The powerhouses including knights of those Three-eye Association clans were pouring southwards together with the demon corps and the over 200 million demonized puppets.

Nobody could block such a terrifying flood, not even knights.

Given the base force, the population of the demon corps was over 20 times more than that of the total population of human soldiers in the south of Kalay Mountain Range.

Due to the dauntless madness, common demonized puppets' battle force was greater than that of common human soldiers. Additionally, the number of LV 9 demon fighters in the demon corps was even more than the summation of LV 9 human fighters in southern human countries.

The only strength of humans on the battle force was that humans had slightly more knights than demons and Three-eye Association.

According to the intelligence of Hurricane Corps, demons and Three-eye Association had 17 knights in total; besides, the demon general had mastered the aiding strength, which could increase the battle force of all the other demons on the battlefield by 30% at once. By contrast, there were 21 human knights in the south of Kalay Mountain Range.

Although human knights slightly outnumbered the knights of demons and Three-eye Association, it was almost meaningless.

The 17 knights of demons and Three-eye Association could unite with each other and follow the rule of the demon general completely; however, human knights in the south of Kalay Mountain Range could barely unite with each other. Many human knights, especially those No. 1 human knights in a country had their own plans. Those human knights would fight demons; however, they would never risk their lives making confront combat with knights of demons and Three-eye Association.

Additionally, over the past two and a half years, many human knights had left Waii Sub-continent.

For many human knights, Waii Sub-continent was just a station, a scenery or a memorable place in their lives; therefore, they would never lose their lives here.

As many knights and powerhouses had already seen clearly the poor future of this Sub-continent and had already left one after another. The holy war had just started, it was very hard for many knights to determine to fight demons to the death on this remote sub-continent where humans were outnumbered by demons. Even major Hua clans such as Huaiyuan Palace would not make such a stupid choice; instead, they would return to Taixia Country. Nobody would like to put their whole lives in a hopeless place. Even experienced gamblers would not bet all their bets when they were unlucky, not to mention knights and major clans.

Even if someone bet all of his bets and made a victory for the time being here, it would just buffer the momentum of demons and consume a part of the strength of demons. However, it didn't mean that he could smile at the end. Because more and more demon knights and demon corps would constantly arrive at the Waii Sub-continent from the underground world. 'Although you were dauntless and admirable, it didn't mean that you could survive on and ensure your clan to be vigorous forever.'

Holy war was between demons and humans. In such a war, each one was balancing his interests, demons or humans, especially high-end knights. Nobody would like to be cannon fodder and die before the holy war.

Huaiyuan Palace and those knights who had left Waii Sub-continent were very realistic and selfish. Instead of shouting any battle calls, they were just striving for their own future in this holy war, major clans or knights.

Even Norman Empire, which was regarded as the most powerful country for defending demons in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor had deserted Blackson Humans Corridor and accomplished the evacuation and transfer from the north at once since the new tactic was adopted by demons. Norman Empire had moved most of its royal members and elites to the Western Continent. A small part of its royal members and elites headed for the Eastern Continent. Now, the remaining force of Norman Empire was restricted in the three cities of Benolisburg across Blackson Humans Corridor.

Compared to three years ago, Benolisburg had become as trivial as the remaining three cities of Huaiyuan Palace. It became the place where Norman Empire made money from.

Zhang Tie was thinking about something while listening to the report and situation analysis of the chief of staff of Hurricane Corps. He knew that the real large-scale evacuation and escape in the south of Blackson Humans Corridor would arrive. Everybody was involved in.

"According to the comprehensive intelligence, the Staff has made a deduction. We've got the following key points: after 10 days, namely, at the beginning of July, the vanguard troop of the corps of about 200 million demonized puppets would arrive at Kalay Mountain Range. It would take the vanguard of demonized puppets corps 2 months to penetrate through Kalay Mountain Range. That's to say, before October, the vanguard of demons would enter the south of Waii Sub-continent and move all the way towards the south. In next January, the vanguard of the demon corps would push to the north bank of Yuanjiang River. The demon corps would choose to break through Yuanjiang River from the northwest of Qilan Country due to the frozen river over there. Closely after that, they would attack Huaiyuan Prefecture!"

"Do you mean we only have half a year left?" Zhang Tie asked calmly. He didn't even ask how could the demonized puppets penetrate through Kalay Mountain Range so fast, which had carried high hopes from the southern countries.

No matter how many hopes did southern countries even Zhang Tie hold on Kalay Mountain Range, the so-called human defense line was as thin as a piece of paper facing 200 million demonized puppets. Only by surging forward ceaselessly could they destroy the human defense line in Kalay Mountain Range which was used to handle millions of demonized puppets. Actually, it would take most of the demonized puppets about 2 months to walk through Kalay Mountain Range.

The demon corps didn't even need to concern about their logistics and supply. They would eat everything on the way, including corpses. If there was no corpse, they would eat those weak or wounded demonized puppets. Each demonized puppet was a dauntless soldier and mobile dried humanoid rations. That was the sheer terror of the demonized puppets corps.

"I'm afraid...yes!" The chief of staff hesitated a bit, "Demons might have already considered the factors like season and climate. From July to September, demons could easily pass by Kalay Mountain. In winter, the frozen Yuanjiang River would provide convenience for demon corps to pass by. Given the emergency facing Waii Sub-continent, we especially invite corps leader to determine how to respond to the demons!"

Soon after the chief of staff finished his words, everybody in the conference room had moved their eyes onto Zhang Tie.

"From now on, the rotating operations of special elite troops is canceled off. All the special elite troops of Hurricane Corps should set out for Kalay Mountain Range. The evacuation time will be determined by the special elite troops themselves!"

As it would take demons less than 3 months to pass by Kalay Mountain Range. It became meaningless for the special elite troops of Hurricane Corps to execute rotating operations. As Hurricane Corps had already prepared in Kalay Mountain Range for a couple of years, they should have a real fight more or less so as to live up to their military uniforms.

All the commissioned officers in the conference room were shocked by Zhang Tie's first command.

However, Zhang Tie didn't stop.

"After the conference, you can arrange the camp families of Hurricane Corps to leave Waii Sub-continent for Taixia Country!"

The second command made many commissioned officers reassured as they watched Zhang Tie with appreciative looks. Because Hurricane Corps was still in Huaiyuan Prefecture, the camp families had not left here. Therefore, many people were reassured by Zhang Tie's command. At such a critical moment, as long as their family members could survive on, they would have no regret to fight demons to the death.

"The Staff of the corps, show me the evacuation plan of Hurricane Corps as soon as possible. I have three principles for this evacuation plan: first, orderly; second, by batches; third, prepare for emergencies. If there's no emergency, we need to ensure that Hurricane Corps evacuates completely from Waii Sub-continent by December 1st..."

A Hurricane Corps of over 400,000 soldiers would be fully digested by over 200 million demonized puppets for sure. Zhang Tie could fight demons to the death; however, he was not allowed to sacrifice the precious force of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of Huaiyuan Palace for his impulsion and the so-called heroic reputation. With the strength of Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Tie knew clearly that it was not his turn to be a hero in the holy war. In order to ensure the safe evacuation of Hurricane Corps, Zhang Tie could even give up the 'last piece of bloody flesh' 1 in the three cities of Huaiyuan Palace.

After hearing Zhang Tie's three commands, all the advanced commissioned officers in Hurricane Corps exchanged a glance with each other as they became completely reassured.

"Well, you can leave now. And, don't forget to report this conference to Long Wind Business Group!" Zhang Tie waved his hand. Long Wind Business Group was used by Huaiyuan Palace to make profits in Waii Sub-continent. All the current businesses of Huaiyuan Palace in Waii Sub-continent was managed by Long Wing Business Group.

When the commissioned officers stood up and walked towards the door, Zhang Tie opened his mouth once again.

"The chief commander of engineer troops, wait a moment..."

The moment a colonel officer was about to step out of the gate of the conference room, he stopped.

...

After two minutes, everybody left except for that colonel officer of the engineer troop, who was standing in front of Zhang Tie with a solemn look.

"I give you a class A confidential task. You're only responsible for me. You could allocate all the materials and personnel across Huaiyuan Prefecture. After accomplishing this task, all the personnels who had attended this task should leave Waii Sub-continent by sea at once!" Zhang Tie told the colonel.

After hearing this, the colonel straightened up immediately, "Please issue the order, corps leader!"

"Do you know how to make alchemist's bomb exert its utmost effect?"

Zhang Tie asked with an indifferent look while the colonel's eyes radiated a shrewd light at once...

Chapter 795: The Smell of Doomsday

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Walls had ears. In the holy war, nothing spread faster than gossips.

Only after one week since Zhang Tie came out of the underground palace, the news that demons slaughtered all the humans in the north Blackson Humans Corridor and almost 200 million demonized puppets and the super demon corps were approaching Kalay Mountain Range had spread over the southern human countries. Even commoners had already known about it.

All the human countries in the south of Kalay Mountain Range were in a panic.

It was paladins, demon hunting squads and bandits who brought the news to the south from the north battlefields. After escaping to the south, all the bandits became the "brave forces" who had resisted demons in the north demon area.

A few smart guys sniffed the smell of doomsday from those real rulers and major clans' movements in the southern countries.

For several consecutive days, the major clans even royal members of some countries being closest to the south edge of Kalay Mountain Range had evacuated to the south. People in the southern human cities found more and more airships flying towards the south in these days. However, very few airships flew towards the north.

The entire Blackson Humans Corridor was shocked.

...

On June 28th, Qihai City, Huaiyuan Prefecture...

The harbor of Qihai City had enlarged a lot after three years of expansion. However, compared to Yiyang Harbor, the largest harbor in Huaiyuan Prefecture, the harbor in Qihai City was still much smaller. Whereas, Qihai Harbor had been able to hold 50,000-ton ships.

Although having been in Huaiyuan Prefecture for many years, it was Zhang Tie's first time to come to Qihai City.

However, the name Qihai City had changed to Hellnar City by Norman Empire.

However, Zhang Tie had been used to call it Qihai City.

A 40,000-odd ton battleship with flying colorful flags anchored at a pier. A military band in tidy uniform was playing a cheerful fleet marching music on the pier.

Only a few people were on the pier. The soldiers of Norman Empire had already blocked the entire pier. Zhang Tie was one of them.

Zhang Tie came here to bid a farewell to Filis, the crown prince of Norman Empire. Even at such a critical moment, it was like holding a cheerful and solemn ceremony.

Filis was leaving in a very low-key manner. Besides some subordinates of Filis, Zhang Tie was the only one who came here to bid a farewell to him.

After knowing that 200 million demonized puppets were pouring towards the south, Filis, the crown prince of Norman Empire who was staying in Benolisburg finally received the command of the royal household of Norman Empire who requested him to leave Waii Sub-continent.

Donder once said that when one's enemy was powerful enough, one would always be collapsed without having to fight. Facing such a powerful enemy, those people outside the battlefield lost their confidence earlier than those soldiers on the frontline.

When there was no hope of winning the war, nobody would like to stick to it. When the decisive strike of demons and Three-eye Association completely overdraft the war potential across the demon area and the power and wealth of Three-eye Association clans, it also collapsed most southern countries' will to resist.

Through this decisive strike, 17 northern countries' strength was mobilized.

The number 200 million alone was already astonishing, not to mention that it was followed by extremely terrifying demonized puppets. Even if it was followed by fleas and mice, it would also be frightening enough.

What a decisive strike!

Filis was not the first important person who would leave out of here. Zhang Tie knew that two knights of southern countries had already left Waii Sub-continent in the past week. The human knights' advantage in number was reduced, which accelerated the mental collapse of more people. All the southern countries seemed to fall into a frustrating vicious circle.

It was meaningless for Filis to stay in Benolisburg.

Knight Leo, the teacher of Filis, would escort Filis out of here. Therefore, 3 of the 22 human knights had left Waii Sub-continent as of now.

Zhang Tie didn't make any comment about this. It was their personal choice. Although it was not a noble behavior, there was no ground to blame them.

As the last royal member of Norman Empire to leave Waii Sub-continent, Filis' performance today looked a bit sentimental. Facing Zhang Tie, the only one who came to bid a farewell to him, he revealed some true moods.

"I believe it now, good luck would always be used up whether for a person or a country!" Filis sighed with full emotions while watching the harbor in front of him, "Two years ago, when the black-robe Gorath appeared in the demon area and made big trouble over there, I thought that Norman Empire's good luck was coming. Due to the appearance of Gorath, the human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor and the Norman Empire won the most precious two and a half years to evacuate. Many people survived. There was a period when I even thought that we could confront with demons in this way with Kalay Mountain Range as our shield. We might gradually take advantages and restore the homeland of Norman Empire by the end of the holy war. However, I understand it now that no good luck could match genuine battle force. Even if there was one more Gorath, what's coming would still come. I heard that the special elite troops of Hurricane Corps had already driven into Kalay Mountain Range and prepared to fight demons. Will you jeer at me for my leave?"

"No!"

"Really?" Filis seemed to mind the opinion of the youngest Hua knight of Huaiyuan Palace about him.

"If I were in your position, I would have left even earlier than you. Additionally, the holy war would last for a long time. As long as we're alive, we will have a chance to win!" Zhang Tie said seriously.

With a faint smile, Filis continued, "I will go to the Western Continent, I wonder when will we see each other next time?"

"When we win the holy war, we can meet here again!"

After being silent for a second, Filis burst out into laughter, "Fine, we will meet here on the day we win the holy war!"

"That's the deal!"

"That's the deal!"

The two parties clapped.

"If you returned to the Eastern Continent one day, remember to take a look in Bloody Dragon City in Guizhou Province..." Filis said.

"Bloody Dragon City?"

"My two brothers are there. When they left, I had talked to them about you. Bloody Dragon City is built by Norman Empire in Taixia Country. You know, for our royal members, if we could maintain a branch of the bloodline in the Eastern Continent, our bloodline would not break off even if Western Continent was collapsed!"

"Alright, I know!" Zhang Tie nodded. Zhang Tie knew that Filis wanted him to look after his two brothers. After all, Norman Empire didn't have knights in the Eastern Continent, although they didn't lack money.

Eastern Continent was ruled by Hua people. With Zhang Tie's help, the royal members of Norman Empire who exiled to Taixia Country might face fewer troubles.

"Watch out the demon general!" Filis warned Zhang Tie as they embraced each other. After that, he boarded the battleship in the cheerful music.

Before leaving, Filis' teacher threw a deep, amazed look at Zhang Tie. Although he had met Zhang Tie twice in the past 3 years, he had sensed the change of Zhang Tie. For a young man who had just promoted to a knight 3 years ago, this was a very terrifying change.

...

The battleship soon left. Standing on the deck of the battleship, Filis and Knight Leo were watching the scene over the dock. They were clear that the Norman Empire had abandoned this place completely.

Norman Empire's royal members would leave their homeland and build their country in the Western Continent once again. Thankfully, the royal members of the Norman Empire had a deep root in the Western Continent. Just like Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Palace had a deep background in Taixia Country, Leminy Clan, also had a deep background in the Western Continent.

In each holy war, major human clans would have a chance to divide their clan forces once again. Some clans would fall, some would rise. Norman Empire's royal members had not fallen completely. They had a chance to rise again.

Remembering the appointment that he had made with Zhang Tie just now, Filis became a bit thrilled.

"Zhang Tie is very terrifying!" Knight Leo opened his mouth suddenly.

Filis turned around and watched his teacher with a bit dumbfounded look.

"Don't be hostile to such a person!" Knight Leo watched Filis with a solemn look.

"Ahh? Why do you say so, Mr. Leo? I feel that Zhang Tie became more genial after two and a half years. He lacks arrogance now compared to that in the Rotating Chakra Ceremony. I almost mistook him for another person. Perhaps, he has some problem in cultivation!" Filis replied with an amazed look.

'Genial? Some problem in cultivation?' Knight Leo revealed a bitter smile when he listened to such a description and recognization about Zhang Tie's change, "You're not a knight. I cannot explain things about knights to you. However, you need to believe in my judgment and feeling. The cultivation method grants me with a powerful perception of the unknown things, this guy is very terrifying. Perhaps, his name would be well known across Western Continent in the near future!"

Filis completely changed his face...

Chapter 796: The Unspoken Words

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that Knight Leo, the teacher of Filis, could speak highly of him. Seeing off the battleship, Zhang Tie recalled his friends and partners in Norman Empire who had separated with each other; therefore, he felt like he lost something.

This was common in holy war, numerous departures happened at each second. Some of the departures could not be sensed at the beginning; however, as time went by, it might become a farewell forever.

Zhang Tie didn't know whether he could see his friends anymore——Reinhardt, Guderian, Alice, Hanna and Pandora who had disappeared since he caught sight of her last time...

If he couldn't see them in the future, Zhang Tie only hoped them to live well, especially the three girls. As Hanna had already married, Zhang Tie hoped her to have a happy family; as for Alice, Zhang Tie hoped her to get her real love; as for Pandora...

When he thought about Pandora, Zhang Tie had complex moods. Zhang Tie always had three women in his heart, one of them was Pandora.

Compared to Hanna and Alice, who were common girls, Pandora had too many secrets. If he could return to the period before the holy war, Zhang Tie would definitely rush to Sacred Golden Orchid Empire to meet Pandora. However, due to the Abyan event, Zhang Tie might not see her for the rest of his life. Whenever he thought about this, he would feel a pain in his heart.

Zhang Tie would not forget that appointment he made with Pandora at the small bus station in the rainy night when he left Blackhot City for Kalur Theater of Operations——When I grow as beautiful as Miss Daina, could you marry me on behalf of her if you're still alive?

Zhang Tie remembered that he put the black seal ring on Pandora's middle finger while dropping tears...

Zhang Tie knew that he would not make the same appointment with another woman for the rest of his life. Because this appointment was exclusive to Pandora.

At that time, they were still young, passionate, pure and as nice as the wildflowers all over the hillside...

Time would not fly back.

Due to the cruel and chaotic holy war, the goodliness which could have lasted faded away earlier. Even animals had disappeared, not to mention humans...

"Motherf*cking demons; motherf*cking Three-eye Association; motherf*cking holy war!" Zhang Tie swore at the pier, arousing the attention of some commissioned officers of Norman Empire who came here together with him. They exchanged a glance with each other and didn't know why this youngest clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace was losing his temper.

"Elder Mushen..." A garrison commissioned officer moved close to Zhang Tie.

If he could sweet-talk a knight at this moment, his family members might be saved at a critical moment.

Zhang Tie didn't feel like saying anything at this moment. He even didn't want to put off that guy. Those who were left by Norman Empire to fight demons at this critical moment must be poor.

"Leave out of here before the start of this December. Save as more people as you can. Good luck to you!" Zhang Tie issued the order after throwing a glance at that commissioned officer and the surrounding guys. After that, he turned around and left.

After hearing Zhang Tie's warning, all the commissioned officers exchanged a glance with each other as they seemed to have understood something.

...

A wholly-new black Faerie-Dragon T9 sports car was parking in the dock. Zhang Tie entered the car and started it. With a roar, he drew a U-shaped line in the dock before turning around and leaving under the gaze of numerous soldiers of Norman Empire...

An elder who drove a sports car...

If not at the present, many people would not believe that there was such a knight, a clan elder in Huaiyuan Palace...

'Perhaps he's still too young and lacks experience. It's heard that this clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace has just promoted to a knight lately. He might not have killed any demon at all. ' At the sight of this, many commoners became more pessimistic about the future in Waii Sub-continent. Such a flirtatious knight and clan elder really made people restless.

...

The black Faerie-Dragon T9 soon entered the Qihai City-Yiyang City highway.

Although Huaiyuan Palace had sold Qihai City to Norman Empire, the two cities still maintained their usual traffic intercourse. Goods and personnels could access to each city for free.

Zhang Tie had guessed what those commoners thought about him. If he watched elders of Huaiyuan Palace driving such a sports car everywhere, he might also have the same thought. As sports cars belonged to young people, which didn't match the steady and respectable image of elders and knights.

However, Zhang Tie didn't care about that.

During the past two and a half years, Zhang Tie had killed more than one knight of demons and Three-eye Association in the demon area in the north of Kalay Mountain Range. Besides, he had exterminated at least 6 Three-eye Association clans, big or small. Of course, he would not care about his image in others' eyes.

As for the reason that he drove the sports car, it was simple. He had been tired of flying in the sky; therefore, he wanted to review the feeling of driving a car on the ground so as to relax himself.

After staying outside for so long, Zhang Tie had been used to enjoy such a free feeling.

'Filis has gone. However, I will stay here to respond to the toughest situation in the next half a year...'

In the next half a year, more and more humans would die and the overall situation across southern countries would deteriorate. Even Zhang Tie didn't know how bad the situation would be.

In the next half a year, not all the humans in the south of Kalay Mountain Range could evacuate from Waii Sub-continent safely. This was the source of the coming chaos. In such a critical moment, humans' dirtiest and most selfish side would be revealed. Therefore, Zhang Tie was not optimistic about this at all.

As Zhang Tie was considering something, he accelerated unconsciously. However, Zhang Tie had no sense about the increasing speed; because he could move much faster than this sports car in the sky, on the ground and underwater; especially in his knight's consciousness, he felt that this car was as slow as walking even if it had reached its highest speed.

The Qihai City-Yiyang City highway was built along the coastline. This road had the best scenery in Huaiyuan Prefecture. If not those tricky things in mind, Zhang Tie would definitely feel good on this road.

A red Faerie-Dragon T9 sports car gradually caught up with Zhang Tie and drove neck and neck with Zhang Tie's black Faerie-Dragon T9 sports car.

In the beginning, Zhang Tie just ignored it. As for young men, it might be stimulative to race cars; however, for Zhang Tie, it was extremely boring.

After driving neck and neck for about 8 miles, that red car started to provoke him. It moved ahead of Zhang Tie and started to shift to different lanes frequently. Zhang Tie ignored it and directly pressed the accelerator to surpass that red car...

However, that red car kept chasing after Zhang Tie. After maintaining the current situation for a few miles, they reached a turn. Closely after making a turn, Zhang Tie had seen a guy repairing a truck right in front. Of course, Zhang Tie could easily shift to another lane based on his responsiveness and driving skills. However, the driver behind him responded a bit slowly. The driver behind him didn't find that truck until Zhang Tie shift to a new lane. In an emergency, the driver's left hand used a bit more force; plus, she pressed the brake. As a result, the red Faerie-Dragon T9 lost its control and rushed towards the cliff...

With a powerful knight's consciousness, Zhang Tie had heard a familiar shriek from the red car the moment it lost its control.

'Sh*t!' Zhang Tie swore inside as he forcefully swiveled the steering wheel. His black Faerie-Dragon T9 then leaned against the red one so as to prevent it from diving into the cliff. However, the red car moved so fast; even though Zhang Tie tried to block it ahead of it, the red car still pushed Zhang Tie's black one towards the cliff. Realizing that this method didn't work, Zhang Tie directly broke the steel plate of the chassis and braked his car in a knight style by his foot together with the other red one.

When Zhang Tie pulled his feet out of the ground, there was a huge hole in the chassis of his black Faerie-Dragon T9. He opened the door and got off his car. After that, he walked to the side of the red one and pulled open the door on one side of the T9 car before pulling out that woman whose face had turned pale due to extreme panic.

"Are you crazy? If you wanna die, please don't involve me in it. Why not bump into a bean curd to commit a suicide? Why do you imitate others to race cars? Why did you disguise as a tomboy? Other women have breasts yet no brains; however, you neither have breasts nor brains. If you're free, why not marry a man and nurse some babies? By doing this, you could even make contributions to the holy war and stimulate your secondary physical growth. If you're lucky enough, you can directly enter the list of having plump breasts yet no brains..." Zhang Tie swore loudly.

Even having promoted to a knight and clan elder, Zhang Tie's words were still acrid yet contained no dirty words; however, he could always realize a good effect.

At this moment, if someone heard a clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace criticizing a woman in this way, he would definitely giggle out his eyes.

That woman was Wang Shina. After two and a half years, Wang Shina had recovered her hot dress——a sexy, black, leather skirt; a pair of crystal high-heeled shoes; short hair; a pair of red lips; a pair of eyes which were as large as that of panda's; a pair of ears with 4-5 colorful earrings on each...

Zhang Tie made a mistake, Wang Shina's breasts were not small. Being restricted by her white braces skirt, the two "white rabbits" looked like two ripe pawpaws which would fall off at any time.

Wang Shina had not imagined that it was Zhang Tie who pulled her out of the vehicle. As the two cars' windows were deep-colored, she didn't know that it was Zhang Tie whom she was racing with just now. She just watched Zhang Tie stupidly as her pale face gradually blushed. Her eyes seemed to be misty. All of a sudden, she put her arms around Zhang Tie's neck. Meanwhile, she stood on her toes and kissed Zhang Tie forcefully with her red, hot lips...

Zhang Tie became stunned as he watched Wang Shina with widely opened eyes.

It was his first time to be forced to kiss a woman...

Zhang Tie's spirit was shocked more than his body and senses.

Zhang Tie could sense that this woman had used all of her strength to kiss and embrace him.

Wang Shina also watched Zhang Tie with widely opened eyes, eyelashes against eyelashes and eyes against eyes.

They remained still for about 10 seconds.

After about 10 seconds, Wang Shina separated from Zhang Tie. After that, she moved back one step and faintly raised her face, "Your lips were a bit dry. I daubed some lipstick on them. You saved me and I daubed your lips with my lipstick, we're even now!"

Touching his lips, Zhang Tie watched this woman with a strange look. Zhang Tie knew that she was just pretending to be calm. With his knight's consciousness, Zhang Tie could clearly sense the woman's current state——her voice was quivering; her palms were oozing sweat; her face was red and hot; her ears were as red as being cooked; even her heart was pounding like beating a drum. Besides being forceful, her kissing skill was actually clumsy.

"Even?" Zhang Tie watched Wang Shina with a strange look, "I saved your life, you daubed your lipstick on my lips. We're even?"

"What do you want then?" Wang Shina asked as she raised her head.

Before Zhang Tie replied, the truck driver had already run towards here with a concerned look, "Are you alright?"

"We're okay!" Zhang Tie answered.

The truck driver was a short, fat man. Although running a short distance, he was already panting, "Thank God, you're safe; Thank God, you're safe. My truck had just broken down. I could only park there and repair it for the time being. Your cars..."

At the sight of the two beautiful sports cars, the truck driver's face turned pale. If he was held responsible for this accident, he could not afford it even if he sold his truck. Honestly, that second-hand truck was worth a bit more than 10 gold coins at most. However, a slave like him was not even valuable than that second-hand truck.

At the sight of the truck, Zhang Tie had already known what he was thinking about.

"Don't worry. This accident has nothing to do with you, you don't need to pay for that!" Zhang Tie comforted him. After hearing Zhang Tie's word, the truck driver became reassured at once. However, another surprise was waiting for him. Zhang Tie pointed at his black Faerie-Dragon T9 and told him, "Although that car has some problem; it could still work. After repairing it, you could still sell it at a high price. As we almost brought you big trouble just now, I gift that car to you as a compensation!"

The truck driver was shocked. 'Given the wholly new body of this black Faerie-Dragon T9. Although it had some problem, it would also worth a lot after being repaired. Why would that guy gift it to me?'

Zhang Tie didn't want to explain anything to him. Instead, he just watched Wang Shina as he pointed at her car,"Get in!"

The moment Wang Shina wanted to pull open the door next to the driver's seat, she had heard, "Sit on the back!"

After hearing this, Wang Shina pouted her mouth as she sat on the back of the red Faerie-Dragon T9. After sitting on the driver's seat, Zhang Tie waved his hand towards that truck driver who was still dumbfounded outside the car. After that, he drove away.

Although he drove far away, Zhang Tie could still see that truck driver being dumbfounded there.

Wang Shina, who was sitting on the back of the car, became silent...

Zhang Tie didn't speak; neither did Wang Shina. They just exchanged glances with each other through the same rearview mirror.

After 5-6 minutes, that woman finally asked, "What do you want?"

"Cut the crap! I saved you. According to the rules of street racers and tomboys, what do you think I want?" Zhang Tie couldn't stand to catch a glimpse of Wang Shina's big pawpaws and beautiful legs.

After realizing where Zhang Tie was looking at, Wang Shina's face blushed once again. However, she still acted in a mighty way, "So what? At most making love with you!"

Zhang Tie just replied with a smile. Wang Shina didn't say anything. Therefore, the atmosphere in the car became a bit weird.

The car soon arrived at Yiyang City. After Zhang Tie parked the car, he led her to a roadside luxurious hotel. Wang Shina then became completely frustrated. She had not imagined that Zhang Tie could bring her to such a place...

"What? You're afraid of that?" Zhang Tie watched her.

"No...no way!" Wang Shina watched Zhang Tie in a bashful way, "I...I have an apartment in Yiyang City...Can we...not...do it...here? I'm not used to this place..."

"Apartment? That's not sentimental. I'll show you a new place this time. I'm sure you will have a memorable experience!" Zhang Tie said with a glassy-eyed look.

"A memorable experience?" Wang Shina became still when she remembered Zhang Tie's terrifying "strength" as a knight. Actually, she didn't have any experience in making love.

"Will...will I...get pregnant?" Wang Shina lowered her voice as that hotel was close to her.

"Pregnant? As long as you're cooperative, you will not get pregnant!"

After thinking about those weird things that she had heard of, Wang Shina's face turned completely pale...

...

After half a minute, Zhang Tie handed Wang Shina to a team of soldiers of Hurricane Corps who were on duty near the luxurious hotel. After that, he showed his tiger-shaped plate to them.

"This woman drove on a highway at an excessively high speed. Hold her in custody and call Wang Clan to take her away!"

After being taken away by that team of soldiers of Hurricane Corps like a national treasure, Wang Shina suddenly turned around and shrieked, "B*stard, do you know that I will leave for Taixia Country with my family members next week? Do you know why I drove alone outside there? You know nothing about that. You bastard, you idiot..."

"Don't race car in this way when you come back to Taixia Country. Follow your parents' words. Additionally, thanks for your lipstick!" Zhang Tie replied with a smile. After that, he waved his hand towards her before turning around to leave...

Watching this man's back, Wang Shina burst out into tears...

Wang Shina finally understood one thing that Zhang Tie had understood well before——Many nice things were meant to be lost...