Chapter 315: The Boss Appears

The Material Plane is the core of the universe, but it is not limited to just the main world where Donald resides. The main world is merely the largest and most populated core world among them. Many other major worlds, sub-planes, and newly formed or emerging planes are hidden in the void and the mists of space-time. They may be either extremely close or extremely far from the main world. Even the gods of the main world have not discovered many planes suitable for the development of intelligent beings. The few known ones have been transformed into divine kingdoms by powerful true gods and raised to higher planes—what ordinary people call the heavens.

Some others have been occupied by powerful demons. After being corrupted by the influence of the abyss, they were dragged into abyssal planes, becoming one of the layers in the endless abyss worlds—this is also the origin of the numerous planes in the endless abyss.

Thus, whether it is the gods competing for believers in the main world or the demons plundering souls and eroding planes, they are all stealing resources from the Material World.

However, relatively speaking, the gods’ methods are more moderate, and they also bring certain benefits to the main world. As a result, they are less suppressed by the laws of the world compared to the demons. They can spread their power into the main world through preaching.

On the contrary, if demons want to invade the main world, they must first use sacrifices to communicate with the will of the abyss and corrupt a certain area into a land of evil, so as to prevent their own power from being overly suppressed by the rules.

The Dragon Tooth Fortress was once filled with smoke and chaos. Even though the hundred thorny magic vines kept killing demons and purifying their corpses, countless remains of demons still piled up hundreds of meters away.

By now, the human defenders were extremely exhausted. Only Donald remained energetic, wielding his spear and continuously attacking the demons, like a battle machine with endless stamina.

In fact, Donald had already consumed several recovery potions and Moon Essence. His mana, which had been depleted earlier, had only recovered to about 50%. This was due to his astonishing natural talent, which allowed him to become a Golden Archmage. His mana capacity was already close to that of a Legendary Archmage. Without external aid, it would take him at least three days to fully restore his mana. This is also one of the reasons why those powerful spellcasters above the Golden rank rarely take action.

The reason Donald could keep attacking continuously was simply because using Wrath of Nature did not consume his own strength. It was almost as if the laws of nature themselves were dealing with the invaders, requiring him only to guide them with his mental power, without much exertion. His current soul strength had reached the peak of LV10, ready to break through to the legendary realm at any moment. His mental power was vast, and even after casting so many control spells in a row, he hadn’t used up even half of it. The several powerful mages in Dalaran, led by Maelthor, launched another round of spell attacks before taking the restorative potions prepared by Donald to rest, preparing to face the powerful demons that would appear next. Unfortunately, the demons’ attacks remained fierce. With their numbers and strength combined, the Nightguard and Holy Shield Regiments, numbering only a few hundred, were utterly overwhelmed. They could only stay with the Knights of the Sirens to watch the battle, ready to step into the fray and fight the demons hand-to-hand if the fortress couldn’t hold. However, with the Ancient Guardians providing distant support and the fierce, tireless Thorn Vines guarding the fortress walls, coupled with Donald and the other defenders’ attacks, the demons would likely suffer heavy losses with each wave. Under normal circumstances, the fortress should be able to hold out for several more hours. Unfortunately, the demons weren’t all fools. Realizing that their original plan to overwhelm the human fortress had failed, continuing to attack would only be handing the humans an easy victory. So this time, the demon army stopped advancing on the fortress and gathered a thousand meters away, out of reach of the Ancient Guardians. Soon, the figure of a powerful demon, surrounded by numerous high-ranking demons, appeared before the human defenders. To assess a demon’s strength, aside from observing its racial traits, most people usually estimate it based on its height. Similar to dragons or true gods, as a demon’s strength level increases, so does its size. Thus, the larger a demon’s physique, the stronger its power. Except for a few extremely rare demon species, this method of judging strength is generally standard. So when Donald and the others saw three giant figures in the demon army, far taller than ordinary demons, they knew that the commander behind this outbreak of demonic chaos must have appeared.

With Donald’s Superman-like vision, he could easily see the appearances of those three great demons a kilometer away—each being a Frost Demon, a Blood Lion Demon, and a Berserk War Demon, all powerful demon nobles of the Gold rank. Demons above the Gold rank were generally nobles under demon lords, favored by the Will of the Abyss. Besides their own strength, they each possessed special abilities granted by the Will of the Abyss, allowing them to wield combat power far surpassing ordinary Gold-ranked warriors, even approaching or matching that of legendary warriors. Even when in the main world, constrained by its rules, they could usually easily defeat ordinary human Gold-ranked warriors, unless it was a Gold-ranked warrior of high tier facing a Gold demon that they might have a chance of winning.

Donald silently calculated, “It shouldn’t be a problem for the teacher to hold off one Gold demon alone; he might even succeed. It’s also no trouble for me to kill one Gold demon myself. As for the last one, we can have Kelsas, Chris, and the other three work together to deal with it—there’s a good chance of victory. The only thing to consider now is whether these three Gold demons are the supreme leaders of these demons.” “A million-strong demon army can’t possibly be commanded by just three Gold demons. There’s likely a even more powerful commander lurking in the shadows, probably even more difficult to deal with. So we can’t use Carlisle’s secret forces yet; we should keep them inactive and strike when the enemy is off guard!”

After analyzing the current situation, Donald shared his thoughts with the others, who all agreed it was the safest approach. They then approached the Grand Duke of Sirens to ask his troops to cooperate with Donald and his group in their strike to eliminate the leaders. Once Donald’s team had finalized their battle plan, they saw the demon army begin to advance. Led by the three Gold demons, surrounded by thousands of Silver demons, and preceded by tens of thousands of lower-ranked demon fodder, the army slowly moved toward the human fortress.