Chapter 004: The Prelude Unfolds

As the long arrow pierced the sacred beast’s body, Dragon Battle and the other six masters of the Sacred Rank immediately felt a sharp pain in their chests! It was as if something had violently ripped out a piece of flesh from their chests!
Soon, these six masters were horrified to realize they could no longer communicate with their magical beasts. Then, they suddenly discovered that their contracts with those beasts had automatically been terminated—due to the death of their magical beasts!
After the long arrow entered the sacred beast’s body, the beast froze instantly, its face showing a strange expression. Soon after, it began to disintegrate into pieces, forming a massive corpse that lay sprawled on the ground, lifeless.
The sacred beast, one of the Icebound Alliance’s most vital assets, the composite sacred beast, had died like this!
“Uncle, my dragon is dead!” Dragon Battle suddenly said bitterly.
“I see, little Battle,” Dragon Aotian replied, feeling a pang in his heart upon hearing his nephew’s words.
Among the royal families of the Icebound Alliance, once they reached the Sacred Rank, they would go directly to their totem tribes to choose a companion magical beast. However, if that companion died along the way, the master of the Sacred Rank could no longer form a contract with their totem beast.
This was a very painful situation for these royal masters.
A totem beast was the most suitable magical beast for them within the Icebound Alliance. Such a beast not only had attributes that perfectly matched theirs but also allowed for much better communication between their souls!
For these royal families, losing their totem beasts meant a significant decline in their strength.
Moreover, without their totem beasts, even if they found another Sacred Rank magical beast as a companion, they could no longer combine forces with other royal families to use combined techniques!
Yet, the death of that sacred beast wasn’t entirely useless. At least while the sacred beast was distracting the heavy cavalry, the Icebound Alliance’s spear soldiers had already begun attacking the heavy cavalry of the Northern Army.
Spear soldiers were known as the nemesis of heavy cavalry. Faced with them, the heavy cavalry felt immense frustration!
As long as the spear soldiers pointed their spears at the heavy cavalry, they didn’t need to exert any force—thanks to the heavy cavalry’s own momentum, it was enough to break through their armor!
And the heavy cavalry, deprived of their momentum, stood frozen in place, becoming easy targets for the spear soldiers!
“Order an accelerated charge! Don’t wait for the spear soldiers to form a siege!” Duke Green said.

At the Duke Green’s command, the vanguard of the heavy cavalry charged even more fiercely! Where the heavy cavalry had become separated was only the area in the middle, blocked by the sacred beast! As they accelerated their charge, a large open space was quickly created in the middle, reconnecting the previously separated sections! With this, the entire heavy cavalry prepared to charge again! Meanwhile, the pike soldiers of the Icebound Alliance had just arrived at their positions. Faced with the charging heavy cavalry, they could only watch helplessly as the cavalry rushed past them too fast to keep up! “Naixiu, shoot that Dragon Overlord down too,” Duke Green suddenly said to her. “Father, really shoot him down right away?” Du Fan asked, looking at Duke Green. “Exactly. Initially, I wanted to keep him alive to capture later—after all, such a person could be quite useful. But after thinking it over, I decided to kill him first; this way, the war will end sooner, and my soldiers won’t have to die in such large numbers,” Duke Green said. “Naixiu, then go ahead.” Hearing Duke Green’s words, Du Fan thought for a moment before quickly saying the same. Hearing Du Fan’s words, Naixiu drew her bow again. Soon, a red-and-green long arrow, as if capable of cutting through space and time, flew toward Dragon Overlord! Dragon Overlord, who was closely watching every move on the battlefield, immediately sensed a dangerous presence. Before he could even lift his head, he saw a strange red-and-green arrow strike his chest! Instantly, the arrow transformed into streams of energy that circulated within his body. That extremely violent energy instantly cut off all life force in Dragon Overlord! Even Karu, who was at the peak of a lower godly realm, had been killed by Naixiu’s arrow skills. Dragon Overlord was merely at the level of a domain powerhouse—how could he possibly survive such an arrow from Naixiu? “Uncle!” Seeing the arrow suddenly appear on Dragon Overlord’s chest, Long Zhan felt a badpremonition. Sure enough, as the arrow disappeared, Dragon Overlord spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground, motionless! At the exact moment Dragon Overlord died, a giant purple dragon suddenly appeared above him. It turned out that when Dragon Overlord was hit by the arrow, he had already invoked his magical beast companion through a contract!

After the purple dragon appeared, it looked at Long Aotian lying on the ground and let out a mournful cry into the sky before transforming into a man in a purple robe and landing beside him.
“Brother Aotian! I never thought that after a lifetime of heroism, you would end up like this! Don’t worry, I’ll avenge your revenge for you!” The man in the purple robe immediately addressed Long Aotian as “Brother Aotian”.
After saying that, the man transformed into a giant purple flying dragon and charged straight at the Green Shuttle in the sky!
“That’s bad!” Du Fan shouted when he saw the purple dragon about to collide with his Green Shuttle. The Green Shuttle surely couldn’t withstand such an impact!
Seeing the incoming dragon, Du Fan quickly controlled the Green Shuttle to swerve to the right, avoiding the dragon’s attack.
“Listen up, everyone! I’ll be back soon. I’m going to avenge Long Aotian!” The purple dragon didn’t turn around to fight again but instead turned into a streak of purple light and headed north!
“Kill them all!” Long Zhan screamed frantically. Driven by his rage, the soldiers of the Frozen Alliance quickly assembled a large army.
“Kill!” After gathering together, Long Zhan led his tribe head-on against the heavy cavalry of the northern army!
“There are still twenty Holy Rank experts in total,” Du Fan knew exactly how many experts the Frozen Alliance had under his mental control.
“Twenty! Plus the five who died—not bad,” Duke Green sighed. “It seems Long Aotian attaches great importance to these northern troops.”
“Not at all,” Du Fan quickly replied upon hearing Duke Green’s words. “Long Aotian has been unable to capture the city and must be very anxious. He brought in many Holy Rank experts from the Frozen Alliance; it’s inevitable!”
“Du Fan, those Holy Rank experts below have started fighting. I’ll go down and kill them too!” Robb shouted excitedly as he saw the experts of the Frozen Alliance fighting each other.
“Good! Everyone, get ready! It’s best to wipe out all those Holy Rank experts!” Duke Green’s face also showed a strange glow!
As long as they won this battle, they would basically understand the situation of the Northern Frozen Alliance. After this battle, the Frozen Alliance would never be able to gather so many Holy Rank experts and troops again!
This battle would determine whether they could conquer the entire Frozen Alliance.

As soon as Duke Green said those words, Rob rushed downstairs—this tiger was extremely excited by what was happening! Killing experts at the Saint level was still a very interesting thing for a divine beast like Rob, who had just risen to the divine rank not long ago. After descending from Qing Suo, Rob began frantically killing the experts at the Saint level below. The next to jump down was Allen! As a warrior-type expert, such a confrontation was also very appealing to Allen. Then came George and Moses. Duke Green took out a long spear and tried to fly down as well, but was pulled back by Du Fan. “Father, you are now the commander! Don’t go down!” Du Fan said to Duke Green. “Kill a few, kill a few… Hehe, son, you should know I haven’t been to the battlefield to kill in ages!” Duke Green said to Du Fan with a smile. “Father!” Du Fan said firmly. “If you go down too, who will command the war?” “Haha, don’t worry, son. Carol will help me command,” Duke Green said with a smile. “I know. You’re afraid I’ll be in danger down there, but rest assured, the experts of the Frozen Alliance are all at the Saint level. I’m also an expert at the Saint level. Even if they want to hurt me, it won’t be that easy, right?” Duke Green said. “Son, you know, after this battle, there probably won’t be any major battles left. In that case, there’s no need for me to get involved!” “Son, I just want to relive the thrill of fighting enemies on the battlefield!” Faced with his father’s many arguments, Du Fan didn’t dare to stop him any further. Moreover, Nai Xiu also said, “Du Fan, let your father go down. Don’t worry, I’ll watch from above.” And so, as the commander of an army, Duke Green joined the fight among the experts below. The deaths of the four experts at the Saint level early that morning already gave Long Aotian a sense of foreboding. But Long Aotian never imagined that things would turn into a massacre of the experts from the Frozen Alliance! With the divine beasts killed and Long Aotian killed, there were no more powerful experts in the Frozen Alliance capable of resisting Rob, Moses, and Du Fan! It had completely turned into a one-sided massacre! Six experts at the Saint level died at Rob’s hands, and eight at the Saint level magical beasts died as well! Three experts at the Saint level died at Moses’s hands, and two at Du Fan’s hands.

Duke Green, George, and Allen each killed a Saint-level expert. Out of twenty Saint-level experts, only six were left in an instant! Such a situation made the remaining Saint-level experts consider retreating! Soon, a Saint-level expert who possessed a wind-type magical beast fled the battlefield at high speed. This action immediately triggered a chain reaction, with the Saint-level experts from the Icebound Alliance also starting to flee one after another! At that time, two more of the fleeing Saint-level experts were killed by Nai Xiu’s archery, one by Rob, and one by Du Fan. In the end, only the leopard woman from the Windsplitting Leopard and the Saint-level expert from the Dark Wind Snake remained! In this battle, as many as twenty-three experts above the Saint level perished! Such a large-scale loss of Saint-level experts was unimaginable in previous wars! Yet, this was only the beginning—a prelude to a series of future battles! This prelude already indicated how bloody the chaotic era to come would be!