The Record of Unusual Creatures

A white light shattered the protective shield of the Stellar Spire and smashed the connecting platform, leaving behind a large mass of rubble. The protection that seemed indestructible a few minutes ago was the most robust layer on the demon hunter’s defense line. The Council of Elders had not been able to weaken it at all after so long until that white light appeared.

Guards in other areas had seen what happened. For a moment, they could not believe their eyes. Then, Master Teuton roared, awakening the guards. “Stop them!” he shouted.

The target of the Council of Elders was the shield of the Stellar Spire. They tried to break the deadlock by cutting off the support from Coldfrost Citadel to Coldpath. They had been planning this attack the entire time. The simultaneous attacks on the command post and spire platform were just a diversion tactic to hide their special weapon as they waited for the right moment.

Nearly half of the guards were scattered in other points of the defensive line when the door of the Stellar Spire was blown open.

Teuton’s roar awakened the stunned guards. The temple guards immediately rushed to stop the soldiers of the Council of Elders. The surviving guards on the collapsed platform quickly reorganized and rushed to prevent the breach. However, despite their fearlessness, their enemies were already ahead of them. Hundreds of soldiers of the Council of Elders stormed in, and the remaining firepower on the collapsed platform could not stop them.

The small number of guards were unable to defend the entrance after losing the vital protective shield.

“Make the call! Make the call!” Teuton turned to a subordinate. “Inform the Nightwatch; tell them that the line of defense is down. Blow up the spire immediately!”

The young demon hunter behind him was terrified. “But we’ll—”

Teuton grabbed the young demon hunter by his collar like a raging lion. “There are only the old and the weak in Coldfrost Citadel! If the citadel falls, we’ll lose the support and be trapped here anyway!” he said.

In those few crucial seconds, the Council of Elders had stormed past the defense of the guards, arriving before the entrance of the Stellar Spire. A demon hunter, who looked like a commander, raised his sacred silver dagger. “Follow the order of the sages, enter.”

He lunged into the spire. A second later, a green fireball broke out from inside the spire. The demon hunters had never seen such a weird fire, which emanated a terrifying, evil power. The soldier, who went in a moment ago, was blown several hundred meters out. Even the demon hunters who were a little farther away were not spared. The spreading of evil flames shocked them.

A giant, distorted skeleton came out of the Stellar Spire. Burning with green flames, the skeleton looked at the shocked demon hunters, grinning. Its voice boomed like thunder. “Surprise!” the skeleton said.

It lunged out of the tower like a reptile. The skeleton, dubbed the Lord of the Abyss, was wielding a sword and slaying the soldiers of the Council of Elders. “Attack!” it shouted.

It was as if the Stellar Spire had opened its door to hell; many demons and other warriors swarmed out the top of the spire with an earsplitting battle cry and burning demonic flares.

Demon warriors were wielding burning axes, and dark elf sorcerers were summoning thunderstorms. The coalition stormed out of the spire, catching the soldiers of the Council of Elders by surprise. They had anticipated fierce resistance and the self-destruction of the spire, but a 100,000-strong demonic army greeting them at the door was something out of their expectation.

“It’s the demons! It’s the demons!” A soldier recognized the weird creatures. Although these demons were completely different from the species that had appeared on Earth, the demon hunter had smelled their violent power. “It’s the demonic army!” he said.

The soldier raised a huge crossbow and aimed it at the Lord of the Abyss. He fired a bolt together with a pair of silver moon blades. The commander, who was blown away a while ago, had dragged himself back. Half of his body was charred, but he could still order his soldiers. “The demons have broken into the sacred land! Take up formation! Ignite the sacred flame! Prepare the—”

*Boom…*

A dazzling sacred light column suddenly descended from the sky, blowing the commander away again. A human warrior wielding a silver-white war hammer emerged from the demonic army. A pale gold light was floating over his body, and sacred verses were flowing around his armor. “Not only the demons; sacred knights, protect the mages! Gunmen, round them up!” he ordered.

Looking from the distant void, it was a strange scene at the Stellar Spire. An army coalition poured out from the top of the spire with demonic flames being the brightest light in the dark. The green and crimson demonic flames began to shroud the space around the spire. In a panic, the soldiers of the Council of Elders quickly reorganized and tried to resist. The demonic army crushed their defenses. The soldiers of the Council of Elders were trapped.

For those who were unaware, they would have thought that a demonic army was invading their world, and the guards were fighting off the invasion.

It looked like this was indeed the truth.

The emergence of other races in the demonic army had upset the defense strategy of the Council of Elders. Never did they expect the demonic army to appear in the sacred land, much less so the clerics. The demon guards and the holy knights, the dark elves and white elves were joining the fight hand in hand. There were many more unknown races, which were never heard of on this planet. They were all part of the coalition.

This was an invincible army that could cause tons of damage to the enemy, both bodily and mentally.

The soldiers of the Council of Elders had high combat strength. Individually, they were skillful and well-equipped, not necessarily inferior to Y’zaks’ army. But the surprise attack had thrown them into a panic. Outnumbered and outgunned, their forces were on the brink of collapse, so they began to retreat. But the demonic army was not going to let them flee and tip off the Council of Elders. The agile elves and the swift-moving demon guards pursued their fleeing enemies.

Near-field teleportation was initially a skill that the demon hunters used to hunt their prey, but now it became a convenient way of escape. Hao Ren was worried. He did not know if the demonic army could handle the situation.

But he soon realized that his worry was unfounded. Though the teleporting demon hunters had caused some confusion to the demonic army, they seemed to be slowing down and having frequent errors not long after. It turned out that the blue ethereals who were covered in strange runes had jammed the space, rendering teleportation useless.

“The dimension has been the most unstable thing in my homeworld,” Y’zaks said. “The plane where the ethereals lived in had a particularly serious problem. Dimensional distortion was as common as the weather over there. So even a five-year-old kid knows how to strengthen dimensional structure to survive.”

It suddenly made sense. Hao Ren now knew that Y’zaks’ army was the most suitable force to operate in this space.

The demonic army felt at home on this battlefield—the unstable secret realm with floating land and aerial buildings.

It seemed that Y’zaks had it all planned beforehand. He was indeed a veteran war-monger.