Chapter 64: I Expected This All Along

The Wolf King gave a new command, and the wolves in the front row immediately stepped back, crowding together in a tight bunch.

A hundred giant wolves rushed out from behind, charging forward hard to reach the front group. They stamped their four hooves heavily and jumped six or seven meters high by using their comrades’ bodies as stepping stones.

“Listen to my orders!”

“Thrust your spears!”

The wolves changed their tactics, and He Chun changed his response. Dozens of Village Soldiers raised their long spears and thrust forward. This was an action they practiced all day long.

But the giant wolves weighed no less than three hundred jin. Not every Village Soldier could lift them off the ground. Some Village Soldiers did strike the giant wolves, but the beasts still managed to leap onto the wall.

“You want to die!”

He Chun, who had not moved until now, acted quickly. He stuck his bright silver spear into the ground, lifted a giant wolf that was just about to grab a Village Soldier with its paw, and flung it away.

Then he took two big steps forward and stabbed his spear hard downwards. The spear tip went straight through the giant wolf’s body.

Thanks to the boost from Mo Xiaobai’s Talent, He Chun’s combat power had already reached 87. Later, he received the blessing of the Martial Temple, and now his combat power value was an impressive 92. In terms of this single number, he was no less than an average SS-level General.

Killing a giant wolf with one strike was truly easy for him.

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While fierce fighting was raging on the east and west sides, the defense and attack on the north and south sides of the Territory also began.

Mo Xiaobai was still behind the Territory lines and had not left yet. He held a long spear in his hand and looked steadily at the snake group that had already fallen into the deep pit trap.

The fire inside the pit was very fierce, but many giant pythons successfully passed through the fire pit and jumped out onto the sand. Mo Xiaobai watched a long python getting closer and closer to him. His ten fingers gripping the spear involuntarily tightened.

“It’s just a small monster at level thirty to forty. It should not be hard to deal with using my own strength.” He cheered himself up in his heart. Mo Xiaobai waited for the right moment, took a step forward, and attacked.

In his past life, because he did not do well in life, he never became the romantic and handsome swordsman he dreamed of. Instead, he mastered a very skilled and practical spear technique.

Now facing a seemingly fierce giant python that was ten to twenty meters long, Mo Xiaobai, with a spear in hand, was not afraid at all.

He had added another five precious Attribute Points to his combat power. Although his combat power value was not as high as He Chun’s, it was still over forty.

It was just enough, and he was no longer a weakling with a combat power of five.

Relying on fifteen years of monster-slaying experience from his past life, Mo Xiaobai could basically bring his forty-plus combat power points to the extreme.

He swung the spear horizontally and accurately hit the python’s vital spot. Then he took a step forward, flipped his wrist, and delivered a thrust. Mo Xiaobai did not aim to pierce the python. As soon as he made a hole, he immediately stepped back.

On his side, a Rattan Armor Soldier saw this opportunity, jumped out, swung his knife heavily, and sliced the giant python into two halves in one go.

“Even though the Intellect Brain made things hard for me and did not let me have a good day, the equipment of the Rattan Armor Barracks was not fake junk. Every Special Unit Type that successfully upgraded still got a standard set of gear just like in my past life.”

“Judging by the style of that short knife, it is not worse than my Baron’s Sword.”

Mo Xiaobai had no trouble dealing with the level thirty snake monsters. He even had time to scan the surrounding situation. He saw dozens of Rattan Armor Soldiers working in pairs, firmly holding the defense line below them. He nodded to himself with satisfaction.

He just needed to wait for Li Guang to kill his way out, and the crisis on the south side of the Territory could be broken at any moment.

Unlike the fierce battles at the other three locations, the pressure faced by Liu Han and the remaining Village Soldiers at the north entrance of the valley was far smaller.

A row of giant crocodiles crawling toward them looked very scary, but because of their size, they posed little threat to the camp gate. Liu Han and the others waved their long spears to drive them off. They did not need to kill them; they just needed to hold the camp gate steady.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.

A quarter of an hour.

As the fighting on all four sides of the Territory became fiercer, the scale of the battle began to tilt clearly.

First to act was Maogong. Li Ji swept alone around the hundred or thousand traps, dealing with Evil Beasts. Whether it was fierce jackals, leopards, or larger wild boars, there were almost no enemies who could last one move against Li Ji’s sword.

The hundred beasts, which had already been largely killed by the traps, continued to die one after another under Li Ji’s full effort.

Half an hour later, when no Evil Beast remained standing on the entire east side, the refined iron sword in Li Ji’s hand was already dyed blood red.

However, for every thousand enemies killed, a thousand friends were lost.

Li Ji forced his way out into the fire, and he was badly choked by the toxic smoke. If his attributes were not high enough, he would have collapsed along with the hundred beasts by now.

“The east side battle is over. I must go support My Lord.”

After exiting the fire and taking a deep breath, Li Ji still chose to force himself. When he ran quickly to the inner part of the valley, a piercing scream was heard in the distance.

“My Lord.”

Coming to Mo Xiaobai’s side, who had already withdrawn from the sand defense line, Li Ji looked up toward the distance. “Did the Flying General succeed?”

“Yes. Has the situation at Maogong also ended?”

After half an hour of continuous fighting, Mo Xiaobai was not injured, but he was exhausted. He replied with a forced smile, then turned his head and saw that Li Ji’s entire face was purple.

He was clearly poisoned!

At this moment, two sound notifications for gaining experience and leveling up rang out, but Mo Xiaobai did not notice them. He was worriedly staring at Li Ji. “Why are you like this, Maogong? I will take you to Physician Dong to treat the poison.”

“This subordinate is fine. I only inhaled some smoke.”

“How is this fine? I do not want to lose a right-hand man like Maogong just because of one Territory upgrade. Li Guang is holding the fort here. I will take you back to get the poison treated.”

It was absolutely not what Mo Xiaobai wanted to see if Li Ji was poisoned. He could not bear to lose a versatile subordinate like Li Ji just for a minor Village-level upgrade.

Mo Xiaobai dragged Li Guang’s counterpart along towards the interior of the Territory. He knew that the Chaos of the Hundred Beasts could hardly cause any more trouble at this moment, so his attention was focused entirely on Li Ji.

When Mo Xiaobai brought Li Ji back to the Baron’s Manor, Dong Zhen saw Li Ji’s face and immediately took out her medicine box. “This time, to defend the Territory, you used the fire pit traps too densely. I expected someone in your group would get poisoned, so I prepared in advance. Please take these three anti-poison pills. Then, could you please ask someone to boil a basin of water? I need to prepare a medicinal bath for General Li.”

“Alright, I will have someone boil water right away.”

Mo Xiaobai did not have time to praise Dong Zhen’s intelligence. He immediately found the only “chef” in the manor, ordered Cheng Liya to boil water to assist Physician Dong. After confirming that Li Ji was not in danger of death, he turned and walked out of the Baron’s Manor.

He still needed to check the situation at the Stone Wall on the west side and the valley entrance on the north side. Unless he saw with his own eyes that the Hundred Beasts were driven back by his soldiers and officers, Mo Xiaobai would never feel fully at ease.

When Mo Xiaobai arrived at the valley entrance, seven or eight giant crocodiles had already been driven back by rolling stones. When Liu Han saw Mo Xiaobai arrive, he immediately clasped his fist and bowed. “My Lord.”

“Uncle Liu, how is the situation here?”

“To report to My Lord, no large-scale attack by the Hundred Beasts was launched at the valley entrance of the Territory. There was only some commotion when those few giant crocodiles appeared in the distance. If My Lord had not ordered us to only defend the pass, we could have swarmed in and slaughtered these crocodile beasts.”

Hearing Liu Han say this, Mo Xiaobai also sighed with relief. He guessed that the Beast King of Daye Marsh must not be able to leave the water, which is why it did not invade Daming Village on a large scale.