Outside the city walls.

"Kill everyone."

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Master Valen and a powerful looking bug warrior from the invaders' side shouted at the same time.

'Aargh'

Soon, both sides rushed towards each other and started the battle.

Less than one thousand men versus forty thousand bug warriors.

Looking at the lineup, it was impossible for the humans to win against the bug warriors; however, compared to the bug warriors, the humans' battle prowess was great within the same realm.

In the bug warriors army, more than 20 thousand of them were just muscle strengthening realm cultivators whereas the human warriors were having minimum cultivation of level 5 or level 6 energy condensation realm.

So, even though there was a huge difference in the numbers, the humans were fighting at their full power.

'I need to earn money to buy my arm back.'

As for Henrick, he came out of the city and when he saw the huge army of the bug warriors, he clenched his fist because in his eyes, they were not bug warriors but they were the currency that will help him buy his hand back.

Moreover, he would get reputation points and bug cores as a bonus.

So, without wasting any time, he rushed into the battle.

'Demon stare'

He started his fight with 'Demon stare' which froze nearly 1000 muscle strengthening realm bug warriors because the front lines were completely filled with them.

'Burn'

Instead of using a 'demon claw' or spear, he sent his underworld fire.

'Swoosh'

The reddish black flame passed through the bodies of the low-level bug warriors as though it was moving through the water.

Every time it passed through a bug warrior, that bug warrior would fall to the ground.

'Ding,

Master killed 250 rank 2 bug warriors.

'Ding,

Gained 250 x 3 crude souls.

'Ding,

Reputation points 250 x 1.

'Woah'

Seeing that Henrick could freeze a thousand bug warriors at once and disturbed their battle formation helped the human soldiers a lot.

Even though he stopped 250 bug warriors from the 1000 frozen bug warriors, the remaining 750 bug warriors were killed by the other soldiers.

'Once again.'

Henrick didn't mind them as he continued to repeat the process.

On the left side, Senior commander Zaid was fighting two low-level master realm bug warriors.

As for Master Valen, he was fighting four master realm bug warriors.

The battle continued as humans fought the otherworldly bug warriors with their full powers.

Even though they were able to kill thousands of bug warriors within a short amount of time, the humans also received casualty.

Among the 700 plus soldiers, 100 men were already killed and more than 300 men had received some injuries; however, they were still fighting without any fear because behind them were their families.

So, they have to try their best to kill them even at the cost of their life.

....

After six hours.

After fighting for six hours, the bug warriors' army was destroyed by more than 30000.

However, the humans were also not in a good condition because they suffered huge casualties for the first time.

There were no more than 200 men who were still fighting as for the others, they were killed.

Even those 200 men were seriously injured and they barely have any stamina to continue fighting.

Coming to Senior Zaid, he killed one of the master realm bug warriors; however, the other master realm bug warrior pierced his sword into Zaid's abdomen.

Even though the injury was not critical, it definitely affected his battle prowess a lot.

As for Master Valen, he successfully killed two master realm bug warriors; however, he was also not in a good condition.

'Huff huff'

Just like everyone, Henrick was also tired; however, he can fight for another few minutes without any problem,

But the thing is if he continues to fight, he will not have any time to escape from here.

'I basically spend more than 10 hours in this world and all I need to do right now is to survive for another 14 hours which I can do without any problem.'

Since Henrick had increased his cultivation to the peak energy condensation realm, Henrick didn't have any problem surviving for another 14 hours.

So, he hesitated a little to fight until he was completely exhausted.

'I can use the bug cores of the energy transformation realm to refill my dantian; however, what I need right now is to break through to the energy transformation realm.'

Henrick killed a couple of bug warriors as he hurriedly thought of transforming his energy pillar into something.

'Right now, I need power and good defences.'

Soon, Henrick limited his thinking to the items that could increase his power and defences. So that when he transforms his energy pillar into that item, he would get the effect related to them.

Actually, Henrick's battle prowess is three times higher compared to the regular cultivators and if he used his bloodline, he could make it five times; however, Henrick didn't want to use his bloodline unless it was absolutely necessary for him to use it.

After upgrading his 'Camouflage' skill to level 3, he doesn't have to worry about his bloodline because unless he used his bloodline, no one below the immortal realm could find out about it.

'Right! I can use it.'

Suddenly, he thought of something that could increase his defences to an incredible level.

As long as he could withstand the attacks of the bug warriors, he could use his rank 4 spear to even kill a level 1 master realm bug warrior.

So, he hurriedly rushed into the city without any hesitation.

'Master Valen, I will come back soon. Please hold on to it until I come back.'

Before entering the city, he didn't forget to transmit his voice to Master Valen.

"What happened to him?"

"Did he get scared because of death?"

"Idiot, he is just 20 years old. So, of course, he values his life."

"I already know he is not a worthy candidate for the commander position."

"He killed nearly 10000 bug warriors. S, there is no need to mock."

"Yes, he already did more than enough for us. He is not from our city to give his life for it."

Master Valen believed that Henrick would come back soon; however, among the soldiers, who didn't like Henrick who became a commander at such a young age started to mock him.

However, there were many who admired Henrick for his battle prowess and his help in the battle that could freeze the enemies for a few seconds which was enough for them to kill the bug warriors.

So, they stood up for Henrick and scolded the haters and asked them to focus on the battle; instead of relying on a 20-year-old young man who was not even a citizen of Valen City.

"Everyone, let's give our all and save our families from these evil invaders."

Soon, Master Valen shouted to encourage his soldier to fight the bug warriors instead of fighting among themselves.

"For the Valen city."

"For the Valen city."

As soon as they heard Master Valen's words, all the soldiers stopped fighting among themselves and shouted as loud as possible before rushing towards the bug warriors.

For them, their families are their weak point and at the same time, it is their strength. So, they didn't bother about anything as they entirely focused on fighting the bug warriors.

Inside the city,

"Time to enter the energy transformation realm."

Henrick had a lot of confidence that he could fight regular level 3 or level 4 master realm beings without any problem if he successfully entered the energy transformation realm.

Also, he would get another effect from his first transformed pillar. So, Henrick didn't waste any time as he sat down on the ground.

'Ivy, watch for anyone who sneaks up on me.'

Before closing his eyes, Henrick didn't forget about summoning his fire vine to guard him against any unknown attacks.

'Twin fire mountain.'

As soon as he closed his eyes, Henrick muttered the mountain name of the blazing inferno sect.

That's right!

Henrick chose to transform his first energy pillar into a mountain.

Also, it is not a regular mountain but the 'Twin fire mountain' which he watched for ten months.

So, there was a clear image of that twin fire mountain in his head and decided to transform his first energy pillar into it.

'It is a common fact that twin fire mountain had the great defence even without any barrier. So, I am hoping I would at least three times increment of my body defence.'

Henrick entirely focused on his first energy pillar and started transforming it with his full concentration.

'Swoosh'

The pure internal fire energy in the energy pillar started being consumed by the energy pillar as the base of the energy pillar started expanding and slowly started taking the shape of a mountain.

'Huf huff'

'This is harder than I thought.'

Before he could transform half of the energy pillar, he started panting heavily.

Nevertheless, he continued to transform the energy pillar.

'Aargh'

By the time he finished the 80 percent of the twin fire mountain, Henrick felt a sharp pain in his mind sea which was like a warning for him to stop transforming the energy pill.

Why would he stop when he was just 20 percent away from completing the process?

As long as he completed the transformation of the energy pillar, he would gain the sufficient strength to kill the master realm beings.

With that, he could save the Valen city.