As the Kingdom's Tenth Army and the remnants of the Demon King's Seventh Army marched, scouts from both sides had already begun fighting.
Human scouts consist of hunters with battle pets and thieves.
The scouts on the monster side are composed of lizardmen and centaurs.
Lizardmen and Centaurs are both agile fighters, not only are they fast but they also have strong attack power.
The former is a bipedal lizard, generally about two meters tall, with strong limbs!
In addition to four horse hooves, the Centaur also has a human upper body and hands, and its head is a horse head with two black horns!
Centaurs are a demonized race of Centaurs who have human appearance and belong to the camp of Order.
After the scouts of both sides met, they began fighting.
The human side is slightly higher level and has more skills.
The monsters here are strong and numerous.
After leaving more than a dozen bodies on each side, both sides began to retreat.
The reason for retreating, of course, was that the main force had arrived.
If they don't run now, the scouts in the middle will be heavily bombarded by the ranged troops of both sides.
On a hilltop, Annuo and a group of adventurers looked at the monster troops approaching from the distant horizon and the monsters hovering in the sky.
"Within an hour after the battle begins, you must find a way to get close to the battlefield and collect souls!"
Anno and others were ordered by Test to stay here.
The more than thirty Black Iron-level adventurers beside Anno had experience in killing more than a thousand monsters. When they were dealing with the corpses, they witnessed the shock brought by thousands of monster corpses.
Now, seeing thousands of monsters rushing towards the Tenth Army from a distance of one kilometer, many people were just a little shocked.
But other adventurers and mercenaries don't have this mentality.
Most people feel their scalps tingling when seeing the densely packed monsters.
Some people even regretted coming to join in the fun, fearing that monsters might rush over.
However, the first round of fighting between the two sides made many mercenaries and Annuo feel relieved.
When the monster army was about to rush over, the 100-man magician battalion of the Tenth Army released powerful second-level magic.
The monsters in front of the monster army are all cannon fodder below level 10. They will die instantly if they are affected by the second-level magic of various systems.
The continuous explosions, the shaking of the ground and the screams of monsters marked the official start of the battle.
An aerial formation consisting of hundreds of harpies and gargoyles flew over the Tenth Army.
The harpy cast wind magic downwards, while the gargoyle threw the huge rock in its hand at the group of magicians below.
The magicians put up the shield at the first moment, and then under Test's command, they attacked together with the hunter brigade to eliminate the monsters in the air.
"Moo~!"
In the place that was bombarded by the first round of magic, with a roar of a bull, a large number of monsters rushed out from the smoke and dust fearlessly and collided with the front row of the Tenth Army.
Strong minotaurs, ugly ogres, three-meter-tall mountain dogs, and so on.
"kill!"
A deafening sound rang out, and thousands of professionals from the Tenth Army rushed towards the monsters without fear.
The entire battlefield was like a meat grinder, with large numbers of low-level monsters falling every moment.
The guards of the Tenth Army had a rank advantage over these cannon fodders rushing in the front.
But it's not that there was no damage, the damage ratio was almost 30:1.
It takes the death of thirty monster cannon fodders to kill one human soldier!
Soldiers with second-level skills are simply not something that monster cannon fodder can resist!
However, because there were cannon fodders resisting in the front, the long-range monsters such as the Ogre Magi and Night Hunter in the monster army in the rear were attacking crazily.
An Nuo also saw a familiar scene: a group of high-level large monsters began throwing stones at the human army!
This caused considerable casualties to the Tenth Army.
The third prince frowned as he looked at the seriously injured people who were carried to the rear next to the priest, and asked several generals over level 15 to join the battlefield with their soldiers.
The vanguard of monsters is basically at level 5 to 10.
A group of level 14 and 15 elites, led by several generals above level 15, were like wolves among a flock of sheep, instantly tearing a hole in the monster vanguard.
A large number of soldiers followed this gap, tore through the monster's vanguard, and rushed to the front of the monster's elite troops.
The Sheep Demon held a serrated broadsword in his hand, rode on a level 15 half-sheep man, and led a group of elite soldiers including the Lion-headed Man Chief and the Lizardman Chief, rushed to the battlefield, and fought with the human elite who were the spearheads.
If Liz was nearby, she would also see her sister Ella fighting here.
Less than twenty minutes into the battle, a quarter of the monster's 3,000 vanguard cannon fodder had been wiped out.
The Tenth Army only left 500 people to deal with the remaining cannon fodder, and the rest all fought with the elite monster troops.
Although there are many monsters, and their individual strength is stronger than that of humans at the same level, the Tenth Army has the level advantage and almost crushes the monsters with its powerful posture!
"Very good, very good, let's keep fighting at this momentum." Tester, who was riding a warhorse behind the Tenth Army, had a glimmer of madness in his eyes.
"The Demon King's Seventh Army, which brought countless disasters and humiliations to the kingdom ten years ago, will be buried today by the Tenth Army of the Kingdom led by me!
This battle will not only wash away the shame of the kingdom ten years ago, but also be the beginning of my rise to power!"
Tester's reluctance to allow adventurers and mercenaries to join the battle was not due to arrogance.
Instead, the reputation gain from destroying the remnants of the Demon King's Seventh Army alone is far greater than having someone help and using the advantage in numbers to defeat the monster army.
As long as his reputation improves, he will have the opportunity to become the first heir to the throne!
Soldiers kept falling in the battle ahead, but Tester didn't care at all.
Because the losses of the monsters are far greater than those of the Tenth Army!
Besides, compared with the final harvest, the death of a few guards is nothing!
"The birth of a king is built on a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!"
This is what Tester thought in his heart.
When the battle lasted for forty minutes, more than half of the three thousand monster vanguard troops were lost, and more than three hundred of the two thousand elite troops were also lost!
And the human casualties just exceeded two hundred!
On the distant hilltop, Annuo was ready to quietly join the battlefield.
If the soul of a monster dies and stays for more than an hour, it will dissipate.
The maximum range of Anno's ability to absorb monster souls is now two hundred meters.
There are now thousands of green souls and hundreds of yellow souls on the battlefield!
If it was absorbed, Annuo would be truly rich.
But just as Annuo was about to sneak into the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed.
A spreading black fog suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and it continued to spread until it reached a diameter of 100 meters before stopping.
Hundreds of humans, demons, and monsters who were fighting were affected.
In the area shrouded by the black fog, both humans and monsters fell to the ground in agony, screaming in pain.
The fallen humans, monsters, and even magical beasts had bulging blood vessels and black lines appeared on their bodies.
He/she seems to feel no pain and frantically scratches the flesh with nails or claws.
Blood splattered everywhere and strips of flesh were torn off.
Before long, there were few healthy pieces of meat left on his/her body, black blood flowed all over the ground, and the body gradually became silent.
Then, the surrounding black fog rushed into the corpses frantically.
After a few seconds, the black fog on the battlefield completely disappeared, leaving only hundreds of corpses and a figure holding a black magic wand in the middle of the corpses.
From time to time, a fat worm would crawl out of the rotten body, its white eyeballs oozing with pus kept turning, its mouth with exposed gums cracked into a smile, and its hands, which were almost left with only bones, were waving a staff.
As the staff was waved, the corpses around that were corroded by the black fog suddenly moved.
The flesh on their bodies kept falling off as they shook, and soon only a skeleton was left.
The human skeletons picked up shields and weapons from the ground, and rushed towards the humans around them together with the skeleton monsters transformed from monsters and demons!
When the surrounding soldiers saw this scene, the fear in their hearts quickly grew and they retreated one after another.
Tester, who was at the back of the battlefield, saw this scene and exclaimed at the same time as the warrior guard with three scars and the white-bearded old man guard beside him: "Corpse Witch!"