"A bunch of useless things," the Rapids Dragon Yi Angde spat in disdain, his eyes coldly surveying the battlefield.
Truth be told, Yi Angde was rather shocked by Bai Zhongqi. The soldiers who continuously surged up from underground wielding weapons that were so efficient in slaughter reminded him somewhat of the dragon-slaying weapons faced by the Dragon Clan in the last Era of the Dragon. Those dragon-slaying weapons were much more powerful than these, but still, these were very effective; ordinary armies simply couldn't stand against them.
The most critical point was that there were a lot of these weapons.
"So what if there are many? My False Dragon army is even larger," Yi Angde sneered.
Awie, mounted on a colossal False Dragon, received the orders from Yi Angde. He had no choice but to lead the other False Dragons in charge. When the False Dragon horde burst out of the dense jungle and hundreds of flying False Dragons soared towards the battlefield with an imposing momentum, the tide of the entire battlefield shifted.
Gang Naj was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth; he looked up to his teacher Bai Zhongqi with admiration, saying, "Teacher, you actually noticed this army of False Dragons hiding in the forest from the beginning, that's really impressive."
Bai Zhongqi didn't have special abilities; he was able to know because he had released a large number of inconspicuous pigeon Enslaved Beasts, which not only flew quickly and had good eyesight but also had the ability of infrared thermal imaging that could detect hidden creatures.
Gecimi Jiang, whose hat had even fallen off while riding his horse, saw the dense flock of False Dragons in the sky and felt the ground beneath him start to rumble. Thousands of False Dragons were charging madly in this direction, and his face turned pale.
"We can win this battle; with these thousands of False Dragons, no matter how strong the army, they will all be exterminated. But charging straight at us , the allied forces of the Northeast Land lords are done for!"
Indeed, when the colossal False Dragons broke into the formations, ordinary soldiers wailed as they were flattened by these massive creatures. It seemed as if the False Dragons couldn't see or simply didn't care that their charge would turn these fragile beings into meat pulp.
The land-bound False Dragons did not distinguish between the soldiers of the Northeast Land lords and Bai Zhongqi's combat Humanoid Beasts. They would knock them down or swallow them whole whenever they pleased. These land-bound False Dragons aimed for Guan City, seemingly prepared to use their massive bodies to directly break open the city gates.
Meanwhile, the sky-bound False Dragons were even more direct. They shrieked with terrifying noises and dived down, ready to swallow all the people on top of Guan City.
Bai Zhongqi remained silent, but Zero beside him chuckled, saying, "Although these False Dragon corpses are roughly equivalent to a day's nutrients for my Chlorophyll Beasts, since they've been delivered to my doorstep, I'll gladly accept them. Plus, there's the extra bonus of more DNA to collect."
For Zero, indeed, this was a rich feast. Dragon genes were highly unstable yet extremely valuable material. To some extent, the Dragon Clan was closely related to the Swarm. Although the False Dragon genes were mixed with other species, they were still of great use to Zero.
The horrifying number of Cannon Beasts stationed on Mount Ranji began firing into the sky. The Cannon Beast, another recent invention by Bai Zhongqi, was rapidly produced in the hundreds thanks to Zero's bursting production capacity. From the outside, these Enslaved Beasts looked like beefed-up infantry fighting vehicles, but they could swap out various barrels and autonomously produce ammunition of different calibers.
The Cannon Beasts could flexibly adjust their attack patterns, integrating an assortment of weaponry including large-caliber suppression artillery, small and medium-caliber infantry suppression guns, anti-aircraft guns of all sizes, and even rocket launchers.
For the nations of the old era on Earth, concentrating so many kinds of weapon requirements on one platform was very unscientific, but for Bai Zhongqi, using one Enslaved Beast to execute multiple combat tasks was more appropriate. Moreover, these Enslaved Beasts didn't face much survival challenge on the battlefield. To the Swarm, Enslaved Beasts were merely expendable, easily replaced after losses.
Perhaps the flak from antiaircraft guns was only somewhat painful but still defensible against a True Dragon like Yi Angde, but for these False Dragons, the lethality of antiaircraft fire was deadly.
Hundreds of Cannon Beasts created a dense barrage of antiaircraft rounds, bursting into large swathes of fire in the sky. The False Dragons never imagined they might face such intense attacks, their flesh and blood bodies easily pierced by steel or torn apart by explosions.
For a time, the sky was filled with the mournful cries of flying False Dragons. One after another, they fell from the sky. Even if they weren't shot to death in midair, they'd crash to their demise upon hitting the ground.
Watching the scene play out as if spraying mosquitoes with insecticide, Bai Zhongqi looked towards the dense forest from where the False Dragon army emerged and smiled.
"This time, we must capture that Rapids Dragon."
"As you wish, my Chancellor," Ling smiled.
Yi Angde, who had been watching the battle, was shocked and enraged to see so many False Dragons so easily defeated. He knew about the prowess of Bai Zhongqi's antiaircraft cannons, having suffered from them before. But he had thought that for a dragon-slayer like Bai Zhongqi to possess such powerful weapons was rare enough. However, in this battle at Guan City, Bai Zhongqi had brought out firepower dozens of times greater than before, leaving the fragile False Dragons in a battered and desperate state.
"The dragon-slayer Bai Zhongqi has become a grave challenge to the Dragon Clan. When the rest of the clan arrives, we must ask the elders to deploy the army and exterminate Bai Zhongqi as a warning to others. Any dragon-slayer must be eradicated by the Dragon Clan!" Yi Angde thought, understanding that it was no longer wise to stay. With such terrifying firepower, the land-bound False Dragons would be of no use.
Just as he spread his wings to fly away, he suddenly felt an immense weight, unable to lift himself into the air.
"Thinking of leaving so soon? That's not the hospitality of Mount Ranji," Bai Zhongqi's voice rang out from behind him.
Yi Angde turned and saw a man in white, with a strikingly beautiful woman by his side, looking at him as one might look at a Shiba Inu.
For the first time, fear entered Yi Angde's heart.
Bai Zhongqi's left hand had already transformed into its armored state. He leapt up, and as Ling applied thousands of tons of gravity on Yi Angde, he punched the Rapids Dragon's abdomen, reopening a transparent hole through it.