Chapter 003: Chaos

Of course, these dwarves’ shooting style was different from that of the elves. The dwarves had their own way of shooting. To draw several mountain giants to follow him closely, Du Fan flew at low altitude, which made it easy for the dwarves’ flying axes to reach him.
The battlefield immediately became chaotic due to Du Fan alone. As he flew over Karu’s army, the flying axes kept shooting at him.
Du Fan was surrounded by intense white light, and the flying axes attacking him emitted bursts of white light with each impact!
Following behind Du Fan were five mountain giants! At that moment, these giants were like mad bulls, with Du Fan as their sole enemy.
The mountain giant race had such a small population that it could only be counted in the hundreds. Every member of this race was extremely precious, and the death of any one of them would cause profound sorrow among all.
Especially those who died violently, murdered by others—once they found out who killed them, the mountain giants would pursue them relentlessly.
Moreover, Du Fan had directly pierced the heads of four of these mountain giants right in front of them. Such actions made him a target to be eliminated in the eyes of these five giants!
All these giants thought and wanted at that moment was to tear Du Fan to pieces. No matter how Du Fan tried to escape or where he went, they would follow closely behind!
Soon, the mountain giants rushed into Karu’s army behind Du Fan. In their eyes, there was no longer any concept of allies!
Their massive bodies knocked the dwarf warriors around. A few dwarf warrior leaders immediately rushed forward and shouted loudly. The giants responded by letting out strange cries at them as well, but they didn’t slow down at all and continued straight toward Du Fan!
Du Fan was extremely fast, and even the mountain giants, with their long legs, could run at an unimaginable speed.
Soon, Du Fan had circled the entire Karu army once, and the five mountain giants also circled around the allied forces once.

With such a punch, those five mountain giants alone knocked down at least three thousand people! But these dwarf warriors were utterly helpless against them. First, the mountain giants were their allies—not only allies but also a key force on their side! Even if these dwarf warriors had objections to the mountain giants, they could do nothing about it. With their strength and defense, the mountain giants could stand still even under attacks from ordinary warriors on Karu’s side, and those dwarf warriors’ attacks couldn’t cause them any harm.
“Leader, what should we do?” This time, the allied forces of the Dodge and Bilu tribes were still under the command of Komhan.
“Accelerate the attack,” said Komhan.
Faced with this situation, Komhan was also at a loss. If he had top experts at his disposal, he could at least force Du Fan to stay away from the allied forces. But on his side, there wasn’t a single warrior who could outmatch Du Fan in one-on-one combat. Moreover, Du Fan was a wind mage who was highly skilled in flight. As long as he flew high and deliberately kept flying low to draw the mountain giants after him, those dwarf warriors’ flying axes couldn’t even get close to him!
As for facing those five mountain giants, Komhan was even more helpless. As allies, even if those mountain giants went berserk, he couldn’t kill them. Besides, he didn’t have enough top experts to take down five of them. In short, faced with Du Fan’s actions, Komhan could do nothing but let Du Fan lead the five mountain giants around his army at will.
Accelerating the attack and capturing the Black Panther Knights’ base was the only way to solve the problem fundamentally.
Hearing Komhan’s words, the allied forces of the Dodge and Bilu tribes once again sounded the battle horns! Amid these horns, forty thousand Armored Pangolin Knights set out together! In just a moment, thirty thousand allied warriors charged head-on at the Black Panther Knights—right where Du Fan had killed four mountain giants earlier.

The warriors of the Bilu tribe were determined to fight against the people of Basha. Thus, in the battle against the Black Panther Knights, these pitiful dwarf warriors did not flinch at all and held firm against them, giving the Armored Pangolin Knights behind them a great opportunity. The power of the knights was evident in their striking force. When these Armored Pangolin Knights could charge forward, the Black Panther Knights were held back by the allied warriors, unable to gain any momentum.

As the Armored Pangolin Knights charged, at a single command, the allied warriors who were holding back the Black Panther Knights quickly stepped aside!

The Armored Pangolin Knights rushed fiercely at the Black Panther Knights, while the latter, who had just been fighting against the allied dwarf warriors, could only manage to reorganize their formation.

When the Armored Pangolin Knights collided with the Black Panther Knights, the disparity between the two forces became immediately apparent. The 40,000 Armored Pangolin Knights, with their momentum, only managed to knock over the first three rows of the Black Panther Knights; beyond that, their formation remained intact!

Suddenly, Leibiao spotted Komhan, the commander-in-chief of the allied forces.

“Komhan! Back then, I let you go so that you could think carefully about whether to continue fighting against Lord Basha. I never expected you to ignore all that and keep opposing us!” Leibiao shouted loudly upon seeing Komhan.

“Colonel Leibiao, you’ve killed so many warriors from the Bilu tribe. How should we show you that we want to make peace? Our Bilu tribe has only 350,000 people, and you’ve already killed over 40,000 of us! Leibiao, think about it—such a high death toll means every family in our tribe is in mourning, crying night after night! Leibiao, the conflict between you and our tribe must end now,” Komhan said, narrowing his eyes in response to Leibiao’s question.

“Komhan, do you really want to drive your Bilu tribe to extinction?” Leibiao asked repeatedly after hearing Komhan’s words.

“Colonel Leibiao, what’s the point of talking more? At this point, let’s settle this once and for all!” Komhan said.

“Pass the order to speed up the attack,” Komhan instructed those around him.

The trumpets of the allied forces sounded again—the call to charge, this time played in a rapid rhythm. At Komhan’s orders, the allied forces launched a full-scale assault! Seeing the tide of allied soldiers rushing toward the Black Panther Knights, Basha also let out a loud shout! Soon, the dwarven warriors guarding the Black Panther Knights also flocked to the battlefield! The method of siege this time had completely changed! Many dwarven warriors no longer carried axes or hammers; instead, they wielded shiny spikes. These dwarves ran to the base of the city walls and began pricking at them with clanging sounds! The spikes easily pierced through the iron, knocking off pieces of the metal covering the walls! Dwarves were highly skilled at mining and digging tunnels, so naturally, they handled this task with ease. In fact, it wasn’t unusual—when not at war, these dwarven warriors were simply miners and craftsmen. It was routine for them to quarry mountains, and this time, they treated the Black Panther Knights’ walls as ore to be mined. When the Dwarf King built this military training base, he constructed high, thick walls covered with heavy iron plating. Back then, he built these structures openly before the dwarves, aiming only to defend against external threats, never expecting internal strife to arise so quickly among his people. Now that he knew the structure of these walls, Komhan made corresponding plans to counter the Black Panther Knights’ defenses. Initially, Komhan thought that with ten Mountain Giants present, breaking through the walls and gates would be no problem. But he never expected Nayshu’s archery skills to easily kill the Mountain Giants, nor did he anticipate that Moses’s domain ability was a perfect counter to them!

Ordinary saints could withstand a weight a hundred times their own, but mountain giants could not. The rank of saint was achieved through gradual cultivation. Although mountain giants possessed abilities even stronger than those of saints, these abilities relied solely on innate talent. Thus, when faced with a gravity a hundred times their own and a weight of hundreds of thousands of pounds, they became completely immobile, forced to lie on the ground waiting to be killed. After Du Fan killed four mountain giants and drove five others mad, Komhan realized that it was impossible to use mountain giants to break through the city defenses.

Thus, Komhan’s second siege strategy came into play. The constant clanging sounds quickly formed what sounded like a strange symphony. If not for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers fighting nearby, one might wonder if this was a mineral-rich mine. If it wasn’t a mine, then how could such dense, clanging sounds resembling mining occur?

These dwarf warriors could only extract a small piece of iron after much effort, but when they worked together, they achieved an astonishing speed!

Moreover, in terms of troop numbers, the allied forces vastly outnumbered the soldiers on Bashar’s side. Therefore, at the front and on both sides of the Black Panther Knights’ gate, the allied soldiers held firm against the Black Panther Knights and the dwarf warriors from various tribes supporting Bashar. As a result, the dwarves busy digging at the city walls were largely undisturbed. In such conditions, they went all out, pushing the speed of destroying the walls to its limit!

Soon, those thick iron plates were pierced. Without the protection of the iron plates, the city walls were just ordinary stone. The stones beneath the iron plates were easily shattered like tofu under the dwarves’ picks.