Who told him to rush up there?.

Chapter 36 Testing
Later, after resting for a while in the camp, Eli led the vanguard to set off.

Because the team is composed of high-level strong men, without the "burden" of ordinary soldiers, their marching speed is extremely fast.

In less than half an hour, the vanguard team arrived at the next city occupied by the demons.

Watching from far outside the city, the demon soldiers on the city wall looked ready for battle, but judging from their expressions, there were no signs of abnormality.

Wouldn't it be that the demons in every city would mutate? Then wouldn't they just need to pick the normal cities to attack?

No, just looking at it won't ensure that there are no mistakes, you have to try it first...

"Let's test it out first. I'll lead the team to attack the city. If everything goes well, we'll kill a lot of people and leave. If something unusual happens... you retreat first, and I'll kill a lot of people and leave."

Looking at the city in the distance where his spiritual exploration could not find anything unusual, Eli gave orders to the vanguard team he brought with him.

After the order was passed on, Eli reined in his horse and rushed straight towards the demon guards in the distance. Behind him were other high-level warriors including Jessica and Cecilia. Oh, and even Wendy, who had delivered the message, came. At this moment, she was beside Eli, following him closely in the charge.

When Eli led his team to attack the city, even though their troops were not numerous, their quality was too high. The demon defenders on the city wall immediately notified their superiors after discovering them, and soon high-level demon generals and the city lord went up to the city wall.

Although no one in the charging team released their fighting spirit at this time, in each of their previous battles, some demon soldiers had been defeated and escaped. After these soldiers were absorbed by the nearby cities, these cities became more or less wary of Eli's special team.

It was simply because Eli’s vanguard was too powerful for ordinary small and medium-sized cities, and they could not match it even if they were prepared in advance.

Now, the mysterious and powerful army that was rumored by the fleeing soldiers was attacking them. The demon clan's city lord and deputy general knew that they could not defeat them. After all, it was rumored that the opponent's main general was a ninth-level strongman who was lost outside.

There were only 70,000 demon soldiers in their city, two seventh-level and one eighth-level. How could they resist a high-level team led by a ninth-level warrior? For now, they could only follow the Lord Priest's request...

Almost in an instant, the demon defenders who were originally on high alert suddenly changed their momentum. The light in their eyes gradually disappeared and gradually turned into a feeling of emptiness.

At this moment, Eli, who had already rushed to the foot of the city, jumped up and leaped directly onto the city wall, and the battle axe in his hand ruthlessly chopped at the high-level demon in front of him.

Just like when he killed generals and enemies before, no matter how strong the opponent was, no demon could survive under Eli's axe. All beings were equal under the battle axe and it was not just talk. No matter whether it was an eighth-level city lord or a seventh-level deputy general, they all felt powerless in terms of force before they died.

But it doesn’t matter. The secret method created by the High Priest has spread in the army, and the demon soldiers under their command will force back these powerful enemies.

The high-level powerful demons died of normal deaths, but after Eli broke open the city gate and the vanguard outside the city rushed into the city, they were no longer facing normal demons.

Just like the abnormal changes of the demons in the previous city, the demon defenders in this city, who originally looked normal from afar, now rushed towards them desperately. It was completely different from the previous cities. There was not a single defeated soldier escaping.

Although the vanguard team was full of high-level warriors, each of them had the ability to completely kill the mutated demon soldiers, but in this way, their fighting spirit consumption rate would increase by more than ten times. With their lineup, excluding Eli, they would only fight 10,000 or 20,000 demon soldiers before their fighting spirit was exhausted and they would die. Fortunately, they did not need to exclude Eli, because Eli himself was standing at the city gate.

"Kill as many demons as possible. Those who have less than 30% of their fighting spirit should retreat directly. I will cover your retreat. Just kill the demons without worry."

Standing at the broken city gate, Eli raised his battle axe and casually reaped the lives of the mutated demon soldiers. Beside him, the other high-level warriors in the vanguard team were also fighting hard to kill the enemies, but their efficiency did not seem very high.

After a one-sided crushing battle, the vanguard team killed more than 28,000 demons before retreating one after another, of which Eli killed 15,000.

Looking around, the mutated demon soldiers in the city were still so numerous that there was no end in sight. Although Eli had enough strength left to kill another 15,000 demons, he still chose to retreat temporarily.

There is no point in fighting with a group of mindless demon soldiers here, it is better to hurry up and go to another demon city to take a look. During this battle, Eli realized that the changes of the demons seemed to be "manually shifted", which required some magic to activate. Before the activation, the demon soldiers were just normal flesh and blood.

In order to break the pseudo-immortal ability of the demons, he had to find their "casters". If he could pull out the casters among the demons and kill them before the battle, then when the demons' mutant abilities could not be activated, it would be easy for him to lead the army to kill the demons.

With Eli's speed, as long as he wanted to retreat, the brainless demon soldiers would have no chance of chasing him. After killing enough mutated demon soldiers, Eli quickly left the battlefield to meet up with the vanguard team that had retreated earlier.

After successfully joining up with the vanguard, Eli ordered a short rest to restore some fighting spirit, and then everyone set out again to another city that had not yet been recaptured from the demons.

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After a period of rest, most of the high-level warriors in the vanguard team recovered to 50% of their fighting spirit, among which Jessica and Cecilia recovered to 70%. As for Eli, he had already been waiting in full condition.

Without wasting time, Eli quickly led the vanguard team to the nearest demon city. After a quick march, it was still less than half an hour before Eli and the vanguard team arrived at their destination.

However, unlike any previous city, although the gates of this unknown small town were closed, there were no demon guards on its walls. If the gates had not been intact, the vanguard would even have thought that they had arrived at a small town that they had conquered.

Eli flew into the city without any hindrance. After exploring with his soul, he did not find a single demon soldier here. There were only corpses of slaves of various races scattered everywhere in the entire city.

"The demons retreated, and they massacred the city before retreating."

Eli felt a little heavy-hearted, both because of the demons' inhumane massacre in the city and because the demons had really begun to withdraw their troops from the small town.

Once the demons who had withdrawn from the various small cities began to gather their forces, they would face enemy demons several times, dozens of times, or even tens of times more if they wanted to attack the city. Even if these enemy demons were flesh and blood, it would be difficult to deal with them, not to mention that they now had the secret method of mutation...

(End of this chapter)