When there were stars in the sky, Zhang Tie had already easily passed by the entire territory of Titanic Duchy and arrived at the familiar Selnes Theater of Operations.
4 months ago, he was familiar with everything here; however, at this moment, everything here suddenly became strange.
When Reuben said that the human defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations was going to completely collapse, Zhang Tie doubted it. However, when he was close to Selnes Theater of Operations, he knew that Reuben didn't lie to him. The human defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations was really going to collapse.
When Zhang Tie caught sight of those huge pyramid-shaped gravetower demons in the periphery of the cities near the demon's defense zone in Selnes Theater of Operations, he knew that the situation facing Selnes Theater of Operations was much more perilous than he imagined.
The appearance of gravetower demons in Selnes Theater of Operations indicated that the human airship troop had completely lost the air supremacy in Selnes Theater of Operations. If the human airship troop still had the air supremacy like that 4 months ago, they would not allow demons to build their arsenal in the frontline strategically or tactically. If so, the demonized puppets provided by gravetower demons would become the biggest nightmare of human corps.
However, now. The human airship troop could no longer stop all this.
Zhang Tie recalled the scene which was like a graveyard for human airships outside Tokei City. It seemed that the human airship troop had paid a greater price than he had imagined. The gravetower demons outside Tokei City were destroyed. The human airship troop also suffered a severe loss. They might not recover their strength until now.
Looking down from the sky, Zhang Tie saw endless camps of demonized puppets close to those gravetower demons. The number of demonized puppets on the ground was so large that Zhang Tie felt his scalp numb.
When he entered the battlefield in Selnes Theater of Operations, the scene changed once again. At this moment, in the sky above the battlefield in Selnes Theater of Operations... It was not human airship troop or demon wing demons, but numerous vultures which lived on carrion.
There were vultures on the battlefield before. However, Zhang Tie had not imagined that there would be so many of them. Shadows of vultures could be seen everywhere in the sky and on the ground. When some vultures flew up from the ground, the ground beneath their feet looked like a layer of dark gray waves. The vultures circling in the sky looked like dark clouds from afar.
How could so many vultures gather here? There was only one reason, namely, sufficient food on the ground.
Zhang Tie looked down from the sky. The white bones and incomplete corpses covering miles were like a hell. The entire Selnes Theater of Operations had become the paradise of carrion animals. Packs of wild dogs and vultures were wandering on the battlefield. The human armored vehicles and tanks were covered with blood stains. From time to time, Zhang Tie could see the wreckage of fallen airships.
From those corpses, Zhang Tie could not identify which were demonized puppets and which were human corps. When he recalled that Senel Clan had already transformed 10 million demonized puppets into human corps, Zhang Tie felt cold inside. Even though he had not experienced it himself, he could imagine the bloody battle between demonized puppets and human corps which were garrisoned here and there.
Behind this scene, those broken battle fortresses started to appear in Zhang Tie's vision.
At the sight of those broken human battle fortresses, Zhang Tie felt his scalp numb.
Right outside those broken battle fortresses was a slope composed of corpses which was almost as high as the wall of the battle fortresses. Zhang Tie could imagine how those battle fortresses were broken. Facing the overwhelming demonized puppets' strikes, these steel battle fortresses and human fighters in the battle fortresses were sticking to the plain of Selnes Theater of Operations like reefs. Batches of demonized puppets' corpses piled higher and higher under the wall of the battle fortresses. When the corpses of demonized puppets reached the height of the wall, those demonized puppets from behind finally broke into the battle fortresses by stepping on those corpses in front of them...
In such a case, none of the human defenders in the battle fortresses could survive. However, Zhang Tie didn't see any corpse of a demon fighter among those corpses with his super sharp vision after incarnating into a thunder hawk.
This was the holy war. Demons and Three-eye Association broke the human defense line with the strength of humans.
However, there were still a lot of demonized puppets wandering near those broken battle fortresses. Many demonized puppets were squatting on the ground and feasting on those corpses like scavengers on Selnes Theater of Operations. Even wild dogs and vultures dared not approach these demonized puppets.
From north to south, Zhang Tie saw human battle fortresses and trenches being broken. Human corpses piled up as high as mountains outside the battle fortresses. The trenches were also filled with corpses.
'Tragic, too tragic... '
After the sky completely turned dark, the entire Selnes Theater of Operations was covered with phosphorescence. Looking down from the sky, Zhang Tie found the entire plain was covered with phosphorescence like a ghost's domain.
Zhang Tie finally recovered his composure. The scene in front of him told him that the defense line of allied human forces in Selnes Theater of Operations was finally broken by almost 10 million demonized puppets.
Zhang Tie wondered where the allied human forces had retreated to and whether the three cities in the southernmost part of Selnes Theater of Operations were still in the hands of the allied human forces.
Zhang Tie directly flew towards the Crystal Battle Fortress. The closer he was to the south, the more demonized puppets he saw on the ground. Many organized demonized puppets troops were converging towards the south at night.
...
After a short while, Zhang Tie had already approached the Crystal Battle Fortress. The Crystal Battle Fortress was pitch-dark in the night while being surrounded by phosphorescence. At the sight of this scene, Zhang Tie's heart raced at once as he instantly lowered to 200-300 m above the ground.
Corpses of demonized puppets piled up outside the Crystal Battle Fortress, which could be seen from 1 mile away. The closer one was to the Crystal Battle Fortress, the more corpses there were. There were at least 300,000-400,000 corpses of demonized puppets.
Zhang Tie hovered above the Crystal Battle Fortress. At this moment, nobody could be seen in the Crystal Battle Fortress. The entire Crystal Battle Fortress had been completely occupied by demonized puppets.
After flying around the Crystal Battle Fortress for two circles, Zhang Tie became a bit relaxed as he didn't see any airship wreckage in the Crystal Battle Fortress.
In the entire Selnes frontline, the Crystal Battle Fortress was not only the largest battle fortress, but also the only battle fortress where fury-level airships could be docked. Zhang Tie remembered that some fury-level airships were docked in the Crystal Battle Fortress all the year round for emergency evacuation like life rafts on ships. Now that he didn't see any airship wreckage, it meant that those airships had already left here. Most of the fighters in the Crystal Battle Fortress had already evacuated. This was the best news for Zhang Tie.
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem The Military Exploits Rankings were still standing in the Crystal Battle Fortress. After being exposed to wind and rain for almost one year, the metal frame was still free of any rust. The plates and scores of the elites of the major clans of Jinyun Country were still hanging on the Military Exploits Rankings. Zhang Tie saw his name on the Military Exploits Rankings, which still ranked first...
It seemed that this Military Exploits Ranking was left by people in the battle fortress before they left. It was a ridicule to demons and represented the great meritorious deeds and majesty that Hua countries in Waii Sub-continent had made in Selnes Theater of Operations.
At the sight of his own name once again, Zhang Tie sighed with mixed feelings.
Those stupid demonized puppets could not understand the Hua characters on the plate. If they could, the Military Exploits Rankings might have long been dismantled by those demonized puppets.
After leaving the Crystal Battle Fortress, Zhang Tie flew to the glider base of Hoorn Republic. As Zhang Tie had imagined, the glider base which was not far away from the Crystal Battle Fortress had also been occupied by demonized puppets.
No one knew how many of the soldiers in the base survived in the end.
The glider base of Hoorn Republic was only dozens of miles away from Mocco City. The collapse of this place clearly told Zhang Tie that allied human forces had already retreated to the last urban strongholds in Selnes Theater of Operations. If those strongholds were broken, the human defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations would collapse completely...
Zhang Tie's guess was right.
Only after leaving the airship base of Hoorn Republic for a few miles, Zhang Tie had seen a battle between a human troop and demonized puppets on the ground. In other words, it was not a battle, but a chase...
Hundreds of allied human fighters were retreating in the wild while almost 1,000 demonized puppets were chasing after them like wild dogs with red eyes. Those human fighters who stayed behind were constantly being drowned and torn into pieces by the demonized puppets.
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