Chapter 427

Chapter 427: Easily Crushed

“Lord Manos, the Nika Tribe’s army has already arrived at our base.”

Inside the second line of defense at the Lisi Tribe, Manos was personally directing his troops and tribesmen to transport materials, reinforcing and increasing the defenses.

A scout rushed over in a panic.

“They’ve already arrived?”

Manos found it hard to believe.

How could this be happening so soon? The personnel and materials weren’t even fully gathered, and yet the enemy had already reached them?

Five hundred kilometers isn’t far.

The Black Tiger Tribe moves slowly, but at over ninety, they could arrive in just a few minutes.

However, that was just for one single Black Tiger warrior rushing at full speed.

With over a million troops, it was impossible for them to all move in unison at full speed.

No chance of that happening within a few hours.

In an hour, they could reach the Lisi Tribe’s base, which explained how they managed to approach quietly and suddenly arrive at the Lisi Tribe’s location.

Manos realized he had underestimated the Nika Tribe army’s speed.

He gritted his teeth and said, “Immediately order all tribesmen to abandon the supplies and withdraw to the second line of defense. Use long-range attacks to intercept and slow down the Nika Tribe army!”

“Yes!”

The messenger quickly left to convey the orders.

Manos also rushed toward the area of the first line of defense.

By the time he arrived, his powerful Perception Ability allowed him to sense the advanced team of the expeditionary army.

The formation was neat and filled with an intimidating killing intent.

Inside the first line of defense, which was made of low-grade spirit mines and only about ten meters high, more than twenty million troops from the Lisi Tribe were assembled.

Everyone held dark long spears, ready for battle.

Over twenty million against one hundred sixty thousand.

Yet, Manos felt uneasy.

He knew that the army before him was the elite of the Nika Tribe.

Half of them were powerful long-range attackers from unknown races.

On the other hand, most of the strong and high-end combatants from the Lisi Tribe had been sent to support the Karter Tribe.

The troops left behind, though numerous, lacked strength.

What saddened him even more was that the long-range attack team had also been drafted into the reinforcements and had gone with Chief Lisi to the Karter Tribe.

The Black Tiger Tribe lacked long-range attacks, but the Lisi Tribe had fortuitously acquired low-grade immortal ores that could trigger water laws using energy.

Thus, they gathered over ten thousand Black Tiger warriors with levels between eighty and ninety to form a long-range attack squad.

Their power was still quite formidable.

Manos felt that if the long-range attack team of ten thousand remained in the tribe, they could stand their ground against the unknown races in a short term.

This would greatly alleviate the pressure.

As he closely monitored the movements of the army, he ordered the gathering of troops and prepared for battle at any moment.

Hunkering down at the base had the biggest advantage of using the defenses to withstand enemy attacks.

However, the downside was that with such a significant force advantage, it could not be fully utilized.

In the Lisi Tribe, the number of troops stationed was over one hundred million.

Yet, only about twenty million could fit on the Defense Line facing the eastern human army.

The rest of the troops had to be dispersed along various Defense Lines to guard against sudden attacks from the enemy.

This was also the reason why Manos consistently regarded the second line of defense as the main defensive area from the beginning to the end.

The first line of defense not only had weak defenses but also stretched too far, making it difficult to defend.

“Human Wall Formation!”

With a commanding voice, Tai Shi ordered the eastern human army.

Eight hundred thousand soldiers quickly gathered, and to Manos’s surprise, they continuously shrank to form a wall of humans measuring five kilometers long and over two hundred meters high.

The top geniuses did not join the human wall this time.

They, along with the strong from various tribes and the high-end combatants of the Black Tiger Tribe, stood ready on the sides and in the rear to guard against a heavy attack from the Lisi Tribe.

“Attack!”

Once the Giant Human Wall was established, Tai Shi commanded.

The wall began to advance forward.

“Attack, attack!”

When the Giant Human Wall was within ten kilometers, Manos was the first to issue the order for a long-range attack.

Whoosh…

In an instant, millions of long spears shot toward the Giant Human Wall like a rain of arrows.

“Alternate attacks, at thirty percent power, maintain the advance!”

Seeing the rain of arrows approach, Tai Shi’s expression remained calm.

With prior experience in building the Giant Human Wall and after defeating the Bone Spike Tribe, the eastern human army had also set aside time to train, despite many of them going in batches to the Cave Paradise to cultivate.

The high-ranking leaders of humanity, therefore, designed many new tactics based on the Giant Human Wall and practiced them for some time.

As Tai Shi’s command was given, the Giant Human Wall continued to advance.

Only the top ten rows came to a halt.

The entire wall was divided into one hundred rows, each containing eight thousand soldiers.

The soldiers in the lower ninety rows didn’t even glance at the overwhelming long spears and continued to maintain their formation while pushing forward.

The top ten rows, made up of eighty thousand soldiers, raised their arms confidently.

In an instant, walls of fire surged toward the dense long spears, intercepting them.

Though these fire walls had no physical form and were a wide-range attack, they easily scattered the flying long spears in all directions.

In just a blink, there were no long spears visible within a five-kilometer radius ahead.

Behind the first line of defense, Manos looked on, dumbfounded.

Wasn’t it said that this unknown race could only attack with fire dragons?

How could they also use fire walls that cover such a vast area?

Moreover, the power was equally astonishing.

He was sure that even with his level 110 strength realm, it would be difficult for him to get his thrown long spears within two kilometers of the Giant Human Wall, even at full effort and from over ten kilometers away.

On the other side, Tai Shi was not satisfied with the results of this round of attacks.

He could clearly sense the massive internal consumption as the fire walls stacked on top of each other.

If they worked in harmony, even with just thirty percent of their attack power, only one or two thousand warriors would be necessary to easily block this endless stream of long spears, which were not particularly powerful, with layered fire walls.

Fortunately, this could gradually improve and strengthen through constant training.

“Attack, attack, change to sustained attack!”

Manos shouted frantically.

Once again, batches of long spears shot from the first line of defense toward the Giant Human Wall.

The numbers were no longer in the millions, but they came in a continuous flow.

The Giant Human Wall ignored whether the incoming long spears were many or few.

The soldiers in the first to tenth rows, after executing the fire wall attack, began to maintain their speed and pushed forward.

The soldiers in the eleventh to twentieth rows then stopped and cast layer upon layer of fire walls ahead.

Next came the twenty-first to thirtieth rows, followed by the thirty-first and fortieth rows.

They continued advancing in this manner.

In just a few minutes, the long-range attacks of the Giant Human Wall were already reaching the first line of defense.

Boom!

Under the impact of the fire walls, the wall made from low-grade spirit mines of the first line of defense collapsed with a loud crash.

The sturdy wall, far stronger than ordinary metal, continuously cracked and melted under the fierce flames.

“Retreat, maintain formation and slowly withdraw, do not enter their long-range attack range, continue suppressing with long-range attacks!”

Manos hurriedly gave the order.

The army of the Lisi Tribe began to slowly fall back.

Unfortunately, in front of the Giant Human Wall, it was impossible to hold formation while striking and retreating.

Because the eastern human army moved faster and followed their discipline more strictly.

The consequence of maintaining formation was that the front line warriors continuously entered the long-range attack range and were completely engulfed by the fire walls.

In just a few minutes, before the Giant Human Wall even formally entered the first line of defense, the army of the Lisi Tribe began to collapse and flee.