Tempest of the Battlefield

Anger had been building up inside Lie Jian, festering and gnawing at his pride. The soldiers followed Lie Jian and rushed through the threshold. There were still significant number of dark ones inside the castle; however, they were smitten by fear and defenseless. Plagued by hunger, the direwolves devoured the dark ones with great efficiency. They would quickly subdue their prey by piercing them using their giant horn and then gobbling up their life force within a second; they then found their next target, rinsing and repeating.

Bu Zhihuo and his team were in charge of protecting the casters. Despite the severe depletion of their sea of consciousness, Wang Tong, Guan Dongyang, and Michaux were still able to attack the dark ones with deadly force. However, it was the METAL warriors who were taking the brunt of the enemy force.

A group of legendary warriors stormed through the city gate and started to rain death onto the dark ones.

Kaedeians controlled the sky with their airborne units, not giving the dark ones any advantage in the air; the battle quickly turned into a slaughter. It wasn’t long before the captain of the castle guards abandoned the castle and fled, leaving only the primitive Zergs to slow down the humans.

Lie Jian’s pained face was awash with anguish. He hit the Zergs with as much force as he could muster; each strike was a carrier of not only death, but also punishment. Over the last few days, his House had lost its prestige, and he had lost his father. It was a miracle that Lie Jian could have kept calm in the previous few days.

After Lie Jian had vented his fury on the Zergs, he finally gathered himself and realized that things were on the right track overall. Lie Jian knew that his next task was to reclaim what he had lost to the Zergs. Zambrotta might be the leader of Mars now, but once he was back with his household, he would restore the order. He didn’t design to undermine Zambrotta’s authority once he was back; instead, he would work his way up and prove his ability as the leader of Mars.

He had been planning and calculating the steps to rebuild his household, and those thoughts in part had prevented him from falling into a fit of rage and remorse.

He had made up his mind to kill the dark lord with his own hands and prove it to the world that House Lie still had it!

A swell of cheers broke Lie Jian’s train of thoughts. He looked to Wang Tong and saw a gleeful smile had broken over the earthling’s face.

The soldiers had found a hive hidden deep inside the dark castle.

“Boss, we have found twenty-three queens. One of them is big like nothing you have ever seen! There were also many eggs, huge ones…I bet those were the eggs that hatched baby queens. ” Tan Bu pulled up his direwolf in front of Wang Tong.

Wang Tong nodded in response. “Excellent! Haul them all out!”

The air was awash with excitement as everyone wagered that the queens inside the castle were some of the most high profile masterminds.

“These fat worms thought they could writhe away. The wolves had sniffed them out miles away. Haha”

The soldiers gathered the queens at the plaza; they were too huge to be spread out on the plaza, so the soldiers piled them on top of each other until a small mountain of meat and blubber was formed.

The dark ones and Zergs that had scattered during the attack sensed the queens’ anguished keening and turned around instinctively to save them. However, they were quickly laid low by the METAL warriors.

The scent of the queens made the direwolves prick their ears, more of them becoming restless by the second.

Wang Tong nodded and willed the soldiers to unleashed their wolves, which instantly swarmed at their meat. The queens shrieked again, summoning another round of mindless attacks of the dark ones against their wills. One of the largest queens held Wang Tong’s gaze as if she was plotting another sinister plan.

Wang Tong channeled out his soul energy to embrace the giant Queen. Deep Blue raised his hackle at the looming energy, seemingly unimpressed by it; not ever his brothers were allowed to touch his meat.

Wang Tong scratched Deep Blue under his ear and willed it to be patient. Before Deep Blue satisfied his appetite, Wang Tong needed to find out the secrets hiding inside this queen.

Wang Tong reached out to the queen as the latter pulled back a little while quivering. Wang Tong quickly learned that the Queens were the most skittish and fearful lot among the Zerg race. However, it was these coward meatballs that had pulled the strings behind the scene and commanded every action of the deadly race.

Much against their wills, the dark ones threw themselves at the human warriors with abandon. The METAL warrior had formed an impenetrable line around the plaza, so none of the Zergs could get through. Standing right beside the giant queen, Michaux, Heidi, and Guan Dongyang could also feel that there was something different about this Queen compared to the others.

Wang Tong closed his eyes and tapped deeper into the mind of the queen, searching for the source of Zerg’s power. He had searched the minds of all the queens he had captured. However, only in the large queen did he find what he was looking for. To his surprise, he had found out that the Queen was able to absorb the energy of any planet.

“Do you know what is its purpose among the Zergs?” Guan Dongyang asked. He hoped that this large blob of fat was the ultimate commander of the Zergs.

Wang Tong shook his head and patted Deep Blue on the back, who then closed in on the queen and started eating it alive. This queen, along with the rest the queens, were reduced to bones in mere minutes. The direwolves’ scales started to shimmer as soon as they finished eating the meal of their lifetime. Suddenly, all of them collapsed to the ground, laying on their backs motionlessly. Their scales kept gleaming with the blue light, making them look like ice sculptures.

This turn of events worried the soldiers. They had developed a deep bond with their mounts, and therefore, they hoped that the direwolves were not poisoned after eating the morbid queens.

“They are not poisoned. They just need time to digest, Haha! These queens are hard to come by, and they contained immense powers. Give our wolf pups a little time.” Wang Tong laughed. The creator of the direwolves would have never thought that the humans would use their perfect creations like that.

These direwolves might not be as powerful as they were then when they were first born, but after a few months of evolution, they were capable of directly absorbing the life forces of all living things.

It took the direwolves a while to completely digest the queen Zergs. As Wang Tong linked his soul energy with the beast’s, flashes of memories that Deep Blue had absorbed came up in his mind.

Most images were vague and hard to make out the story they told exactly, but there was one among the others that depicted a dark mass in an even darker background. Wang Tong knew right away that this was the main force of the Zerg race that the humans had been trying to locate over the five centuries after the great war.

Although the picture didn’t reveal any telltale sign of its location, it was the first time a human had ever laid eyes on it.

Wang Tong went through these images many times but failed to find any definitive information on the Zergs’ evolution. That being said, the fragment of the memory pertinent to the main force was a huge breakthrough. Wang Tong nodded to Deep Blue, and the beast finally lowered his head and went to sleep.

After the battle, when Battle Wolf warriors were finally gathered together, the human warriors looked around the huge castle and still found it hard to believe what they had achieved. They had created a new legend; bards would sing songs about their victory for generations to remember.

Wang Tong smiled broadly and said, “Well, let’s prepare a surprise party for Moye’s return!” The soldiers raised the Martian front’s flag high up over the city wall. Someone took a photo of their victory and uploaded it to the skynet. In the human cities, people rushed to the streets and celebrated this great news. The news also boosted the human soldiers’ confidence.

It was a much-needed victory, particularly after the catastrophic defeat that they had just suffered. The human force bounced back from where it had fallen down and started fighting back again.