Chapter 171

Chapter 171: Churning Smoke

The demon monarchs immediately surrounded Jiang State Capital’s four city walls . Only Blackwater Palace Lord and the ten Skydemons were left on the plain .

“All of you, move out as well,” instructed Blackwater Palace Lord indifferently . “According to our agreement, we will infiltrate Jiang State Capital and carry out a massacre . We will force the Godfiends to appear before killing them . ”

“Yes . ” The ten Skydemons respectfully obeyed the order, split into four squads, and disappeared from the plain .

Blackwater Palace Lord looked at the distant Jiang State Capital before his body silently transformed into black water . The black water entered a nearby river and rapidly moved towards Jiang State Capital at terrifying speeds .

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Outside Jiang State Capital’s western city wall .

The demon monarchs were blurry shadows as they charged towards the western city wall extremely quickly .

“We’ve finally arrived at the western city wall after taking a 150 kilometer detour . The western city wall is the furthest, so we were the slowest to arrive . The demon monarchs have already arrived at the other three walls . ” Demon Monarch Goat looked at the towering western city wall in front of him . Currently, 30 demon monarchs were split into 12 groups . They were scattered around the western city wall—that spanned dozens of kilometers . Two demon monarchs stood beside Demon Monarch Goat .

“Leader, the demon monarchs are waiting for your command . ” The other two demon monarchs were filled with anticipation .

Demon Monarch Goat’s excited eyes filled with killing intent .

They had been hiding in the human world for too long . They could finally storm a large city, something they didn’t dare do in the past .

However, there were no Marquis Godfiends in the city, while a fourth Firmament Skydemon led their attack!

“Let’s begin . ” Demon Monarch Goat’s sharp claws pointed at the gloomy sky .

Swoosh .

Blinding white light shot out from Demon Monarch Goat’s claws and into the sky . The beam of white light—1000 feet wide—was extremely eye-catching . Even mortals could see the dazzling beam of light from tens of kilometers away, much less the demon monarchs .

The light was a signal—the signal to attack together!

“Kill!” The demon monarchs led by Demon Monarch Cat—scattered outside the dozens of kilometers-long eastern city wall—charged at the city wall rapidly . At the southern city wall, the demon monarchs—led by Demon Monarch—also moved . Demon Monarch Tiger led the charge on the northern city wall . Demon Monarch Goat led the charge on the western city wall .

“Demon monarchs, there are demon monarchs!” The soldiers patrolling the city walls shouted frantically . Since the demon monarchs were no longer concealing themselves as they charged towards the city walls, the soldiers immediately saw their large figures .

Furthermore, since this was a state capital, the generals of the four city walls each had a Demon Seeking Token . Once demonic powers were released within 25 kilometers of the Demon Seeking Token, the tokens would alert the generals .

The four generals were shocked to see their Demon Seeking Tokens burning red-hot . After rushing out of their towers, they saw the demon monarchs that were charging towards the city walls . The demon monarchs’ speed made the mortal soldiers feel despair .

“Light the beacons!” screamed the generals .

In fact, the soldiers had already begun to light the beacons before they were even ordered to do so . Lighting the beacons was standard procedure once they discovered demon monarchs coming .

Billowing smoke rose from Jiang State Capital’s four city walls . The soldiers—on any city wall where a demon monarch was sighted—lit the beacons . Instantly, smoke from over a hundred beacons billowed up!

“Hahaha…” The demon monarchs jumped up the city walls .

These 80-kilometer-long, 300-foot-tall city walls were not used to block demon monarchs, but ordinary demons! No matter how tall they built the walls, demon monarchs could scale them easily . Mortal soldiers were not threats to demon monarchs .

Whoosh .

A blood-red fog spread out .

As Demon Monarch Cat jumped up the city wall, several attacks sliced through the area . Soldiers on the city walls were killed like harvesting wheat . They all fell to the ground as the blood-red fog filled the area .

Kill! Kill! Kill! Demon Monarch Cat’s eyes began to turn red with ferocity .

The other demon monarchs scaled the city walls and slaughtered wantonly . The mortals despaired .

These demon monarchs had followed the law of the jungle ever since they had been born . They had been stuck in the human world for too long . Now that they could begin a large-scale attack, they could sate their bloodlust .

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The sky above Jiang State was gloomy as rain poured .

Meng Chuan held an umbrella as he walked through Jiang State Capital’s streets . He wore a dark-cyan robe—given to him by Archean Mountain . He knew that an attack was coming ever since they had interrogated the Skydemon Sect disciples .

Oh? Meng Chuan stared off into the horizon . He could see the columns of smoke rising from the city walls .

Smoke is rising from the eastern city wall . Meng Chuan’s expression changed as he glanced around him .

The southern wall, the western city wall, the northern city wall…

Smoke was rising everywhere . Over a hundred beacons were lit within a few seconds .

Meng Chuan’s expression changed . Demon monarchs are invading from all directions . A large-scale assault?

Meng Chuan was extremely fast . He could be considered the fastest among Regis Godfiends . However, each of the city walls was 80 kilometers long . Even Meng Chuan would take five minutes to cover the city wall perimeter . How many people would die in five minutes? Furthermore, the five minutes weren’t inclusive of his battle time . Besides, the demon monarchs wouldn’t stay put . They would scatter throughout the city and massacre everybody .

At this moment, even Meng Chuan found Jiang State Capital too big! After the demons had invaded the human world, state capitals were one of the safest places in the world . Jiang State Capital had constantly expanded for 800 years, resulting in a population of 7 million . Jiang State Capital had four city walls, each 80 kilometers long .

Don’t panic . There are many other Godfiends in the city . Meng Chuan calmed himself down . Jiang State’s Archean Mountain branch is located in the city’s northwest . Many Godfiends reside in the city’s eastern region… The southern region has the least Godfiends . I should head there first .

Although it took time to describe, Meng Chuan instantly made up his mind in reality . With a whoosh, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and disappeared . The umbrella he had been holding fell to the ground . The wind blew the umbrella, causing it to tumble several times on the ground before falling into the river .

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“Let’s go . ”

“Quick!”

Most Godfiends were at Jiang State Capital’s Archean Mountain branch . Fifteen Godfiends immediately reinforced the city’s northern and western regions . Similar arrangements occurred in the city’s eastern and southern regions .

The Godfiends had long prepared for a demon monarch attack . However, they still lacked Godfiends, no matter how they prepared . After all, Godfiends also had to guard prefecture cities, city passes, and etc . The demons and Skydemon Sect could focus on attacking one city .

I hope we can hold on this time . Archean Mountain branch’s dean, Dean Chang, had grizzled hair . He stood on the tallest bell tower and observed the overall situation . He flipped his right hand, and a black wooden box—as large as his palm—appeared . Dean Chang glanced at the wooden box . The sect sure is ruthless . Only when the Godfiends are completely defeated, or over twenty percent of the city’s population is killed can I use it . If not, I will be a human sinner .

When Dean Chang saw the hundred-plus columns of smoke, he knew that a large number of demon monarchs had invaded the city and were massacring the humans .

This ate at him, but he also understood that a defensive treasure wasn’t the same as a powerful Godfiend . It was gone once it was used . He had to wait for the right moment to use the defensive treasure . In fact, it would be even better if they hadn’t used the defensive treasure even after the state capital was attacked for decades .