You promised to wreak havoc on the dungeon, but instead you've got Dragon Slime!

The city lives up to its name—it is flanked by towering cliffs, with only one passage through the canyon in the middle. Once a battle breaks out, there is no way to advance or retreat but to certain death.

Viser spread out the map and pointed to the marker at the canyon entrance: "A head-on attack would cost at least 30% of our forces in casualties."

Belin sneered: "Then let them think we're going to fight head-on."

Ron nodded: "The Dark Sea Abyss will dive in from the bottom of the valley, the Abyss Throat will cut off the supply line on the north slope, and the Black Whisper Caves will face high pressure from the front—drive them into the killing field we have set up."

Three days later, the Black Language Army appeared at the mouth of the canyon.

The walls of Shattered Valley Fortress were not high, but the terrain created a natural bottleneck. Any army that entered would face a hail of arrows, boulders, and scorching oil fires pouring down from above.

The heavily armored troops of the Black Language Cave slowly advanced, raising their thick siege shields to block the arrows.

The defenders on the city wall shouted slogans and poured down huge stones and barrels of boiling oil, which hit the ground with a dull thud and hiss.

Ron watched this scene without batting an eye: "Keep the pressure on them."

At this moment, the bone shark swarm from the Dark Abyss was already lurking in the lower riverbed at the bottom of the canyon, its tentacled ghosts clinging to the slippery rock walls, bypassing the defenses and directly approaching the city's foundation.

The Bone Serpent Assault Team of the Abyss's Throat climbed along the mountain fissures on the north slope, intercepted a convoy transporting supplies to the fortress, and burned the grain carts and arrow piles to ashes.

As the fortress commander received news of the supply cutoff and was preparing to send troops back to reinforce, a thunderous roar came from the bottom of the canyon—

The swarm of bone sharks detonated the explosives embedded in the city's foundation, causing the entire foundation to crack and the walls to collapse inward.

Ron gave the order: "All troops, enter the valley!"

Black Language's heavily armored troops launched a fierce frontal attack, while Bone Dragon One swooped down, its dragon breath sweeping away the defenders on the city walls.

The Bone Serpent Assault Team and the Tentacle Ghosts swarmed in through the breach, plunging the fortress into chaos instantly.

The system prompt sounds:

The core of the Shattered Valley Fortress dungeon has been destroyed.

[Transfer of control over the rules]

Ron stood on the collapsed city wall, his gaze passing over the precipice to the last core of the central defense line—the Thousand Blade Plains.

"As long as it doesn't fall, the midline isn't broken."

The moment Shattered Valley Fortress was captured by the Black Whispering Banner, the scouts of Thousand Blade Plains had already sensed the impending storm.

This seemingly open plain hides countless razor-sharp traps—sharp wind-bladed stone forests, metal dust drifting in the wind, and death storms that can instantly slice through armor.

Viser pointed to the huge circular array in the center of the plain on the map: "The core of the Thousand Blade Plain is a wind blade array, covering a radius of thirty miles. As long as the core of the array is not broken, once we enter, we will be torn to pieces by the wind blades."

Belin sneered: "Then don't leave."

Ron gave a deep order: "Black Whisper Caves, suppress them from the front and draw their fire; Dark Sea Abyss, advance along the underground canals and find the center of the formation; Abyss Throat, use the Bone Serpent Assault Team to entangle their mobile forces."

Three days later, the Black Language Army arrived at the edge of the Thousand Blade Plains.

The sky was dark, and the wind sounded like countless tiny metal blades rubbing against each other, carrying a chilling cold.

The center of the array was faintly visible in the distance, and the light spread in all directions along the pulse. With each pulse, sharp wind blades swept across the surface.

Under Ron's orders, the heavily armored troops of Black Whisper Caves advanced slowly, their shields riddled with fine marks from the wind blades, and the air was thick with the smell of metal and blood.

High in the sky, Bone Dragon One barely maintained its altitude due to the interference of the wind blades, and its dragon breath fell again and again, creating chaos around the core of the formation.

The tentacled ghosts of the Dark Sea approached the center of the formation silently from the underground channel on the west side of the plain. They meandered along the slippery passage, dodging most of the sensing runes.

Meanwhile, the Bone Serpent Assault Team of the Abyss Throat repeatedly engaged the enemy Wind Riders on the eastern flank, keeping them away from the center of the formation.

When the tentacle ghost reaches the bottom of the center of the formation, it immediately embeds the bone spike explosive into the main opening.

Ron sensed the fluctuations through the Law Link and raised his hand to command, "Detonate!"

boom!

The light at the center of the formation suddenly became chaotic, and the cutting sound of the wind blades instantly diminished.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the heavily armed troops of Black Language Cave charged forward, directly breaking into the heart of the formation and engaging the defenders in close combat.

Ron personally stepped into the center of the formation, his longsword cleaving through the last wind wall and splitting the crystal core in two.

The system prompt sounds:

The core of the Thousand Blade Plains dungeon has been destroyed.

The central defensive line has completely collapsed.

The wind gradually subsided, and the plain returned to its deathly silence.

Ron gazed at the distant map of the Southern Region and whispered:

"The central line has been breached, Southern Region... Are you ready?"

The wind blade array at the heart of the Thousand Blade Plains turned to dust, and the central defensive line completely collapsed.

The Black Language Army completed its reorganization on the plains, with its banners unfurling southwards like a black torrent pressing into new territory.

Viser laid out the intelligence from the Southern Region on his command desk.

"The southern defense line is centered on 'Yanyun Pass', with 'Shaming Valley' and 'Rock City' on either side."

Flamefall Pass is the main entrance, Sandstorm Valley is an assassination den, and Rock City is a support granary.

The three are mutually supportive; if Yan Yun Pass falls, the other two will immediately retreat.

Belin pointed to the marker in Sand Valley: "Take this out first, and the garrison at the pass will lose its rear threat."

Ron nodded: "First Sand Valley, then Flamefall Pass, and finally Rock City."

Operational deployment

Dark Sea Abyss: Utilizing the lower river to bypass the surface defenses of Sand Nether Valley and directly strike the core assassination camp;

The throat of the abyss: seeps in from the cliff outside the valley entrance, cutting off escape routes;

Black Language Cave: Set up a siege formation outside the valley to suppress the garrison at the valley entrance and prevent reinforcements from intervening.

Once the battle order was issued, all three groups of people started moving at the same time.

On the Black Language Cave side, Ron stood on the high platform, looking at the underground river on the battle map that stretched deep into the Sand Nether Valley, and directly ordered: "Dark Sea Abyss, make the first move, go underwater, don't give them a chance to set up the sluice gates."

The water at the mouth of the underground river was icy cold, with a layer of oil floating on the surface—defense oil that the Sandgaze Valley defenders had poured in early on. Claudia, leading the group, didn't waste any words; she directly ordered her fire elementals to throw in several molten stones. The oil instantly burned a black channel, with heat waves and thick smoke billowing outwards.

Like a runaway horde, the monsters surged into the water. The currents in the deep water were swift, and the rock walls on both sides of the underground river were sharpened to the point of being like blades. Leading the way were two giant black-striped crocodiles, carrying thick steel plates in their mouths as shields, charging straight forward against the current.

Halfway there, a series of white shadows flashed across the riverbed, and the water suddenly burst open. It was the "River Killer" raised in the Sand Valley—a kind of giant fish with serrated bony plates. They swarmed up and bit the giant crocodile's tail and the monster's leg.

Without saying a word, Claudia slammed the fire elemental magic circle directly into the water. Dark red flames exploded underwater, creating a bubbling mess, and the giant fish floated to the surface, scalded.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the monster army accelerated, breaking through the last section of mud seal and burrowing into the underground lake inside the Sand Nether Valley. The water here was pitch black, but the lake shore was lit by a dense array of torches, where dozens of assassins were already waiting, armed with short crossbows with barbs.

Claudia didn't stop, immediately releasing the rare elite that had been pre-planted in the team—a blasting beetle with a hard shell on its back. The beetle rushed to the shore and exploded with a "bang," the shockwave directly overturning half of the camp into the lake.

The Dark Abyss's forces seized the opportunity to swarm ashore, and the melee monsters crushed the lurkers who hadn't even gotten up yet, splattering blood everywhere.

Meanwhile, it began at the Abyss's Throat as well. The wind howled like knives from the cliff face as monsters swung their iron hooks up, wedging themselves in the crevices of the cliff and struggling to climb upwards. Upon discovering this, the sentries of Sandgaze Valley began pushing boulders and dumping hot sand down from the cliff top.

The giant armored crabs in the front row crawled along the rolling rocks, their shells dented and battered, yet they remained firmly stuck to the cliff face as a buffer. A group of climbing monsters behind them took the opportunity to leap over their shells and rush upwards.

Once they reached the top of the cliff, the monsters rushed towards the mountain path outside the valley entrance, intercepting the Sand Valley garrison who were trying to escape.

The siege array for the main attack position at Black Language Cave was also ignited. Outside the valley entrance, catapults roared one after another, hurling corrosive stone projectiles at the wooden gate at the valley entrance. The wood emitted white smoke and creaked as it was corroded.

The garrison inside the valley hurriedly splashed water on the door, but once the corrosive liquid came into contact with it, the water actually penetrated faster, and pieces of the door panel fell off.

On the ground, the slime swarm had been pushed to the forefront, spreading out like a thick muddy torrent and blocking the trench at the valley entrance. Meanwhile, the bone throwers in the rear kept hurling explosive bottles filled with bone spikes, forcing the defenses inside the valley to retreat step by step.

With the three-pronged attack advancing simultaneously, the outer defenses of Sand Valley were quickly breached in three places. The Dark Abyss underwater invaded the core camp, the Abyss Throat on the cliff blocked the retreat route, and the siege formation outside the valley entrance continued to exert pressure.

Ron looked at the three red lines on the battle map, which had formed a closed loop, and slammed his baton heavily on the table: "Keep pushing forward, don't give them a chance to breathe."

The carnage on the lakeshore continued. The monster legion of the Dark Sea Abyss had pushed the assassination camp to half a corner of the lake area, and the blood-stained water reeked of blood. Several assassins who tried to escape underwater were caught in traps laid at the bottom of the lake as soon as they plunged in, and were dragged to the bottom in the next moment—when they surfaced, they were a pile of floating debris with severed limbs.

Claudia waved his hand, and the rare monster bees on the eastern shore of the lake immediately swarmed out, like a black cloud rushing into the camp. The bee stings carried bone-dissolving poison; once they struck, the infested creatures collapsed before they could even scream. The camp's firelight was extinguished by the swarm, and the remaining survivors scattered in panic, only to step into soft mud and be immediately dragged down by the mud beasts lying in the mud.

On the other side of the Abyss's Throat, the ropes on the cliff had been replaced with chains. The first wave of climbing monsters that rushed up occupied the top of the cliff and began throwing rock spikes down, riddling the defenders who were preparing to reinforce the valley entrance with holes.

A few lucky defenders tumbled down the cliff, only to run into the Black Language's pursuit team halfway down the mountain path. They were met with a hail of bone spears and instantly turned into pincushions.

Outside the valley entrance, the catapults on the siege position began to reload. The original corrosive liquid stone bombs were replaced with explosive bombs containing fuel oil. Once they hit the wooden door, they would explode with a muffled thud, and flames would seep in through the breach.

The slime swarm continued to writhe in the firelight. The flames burned their bodies but were absorbed and converted into heat energy. They swelled up and flung their hot, slimy liquid onto the defensive equipment in the valley, making a hissing sound.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the bone-throwing soldiers hurled explosive bottles filled with steel nails into the valley with all their might. As the bottles shattered, the steel nails flew out, pinning all the infantrymen in the valley to the ground, unable to get up.

Ron gripped the terrain panel on the battle platform, pulling up a 3D structural map of the valley. He discovered that the Sandgaze Valley's backup defenses were no longer operational. He immediately ordered, "Dark Sea Abyss, move to the left and block the road to the granary; Abyss Throat, cut across and directly seal off the valley's core; Black Whisper Caves main formation, continue bombarding until the valley gate is destroyed."

On the lake side, the Dark Sea Abyss obeyed orders. The monster army surged towards the left flank granary like a tidal wave. A giant crocodile swept away an entire row of wooden fences with its tail, revealing mountain-like stacks of grain sacks inside. Before the defenders could react, rock-fire beasts carrying fire sacks charged forward, spewing out a torrent of high-temperature fire that instantly ignited the grain sacks, illuminating half the valley in flames.

Seeing this, the defenders rushed forward like madmen, only to be met with a barrage of heavily armored beasts, which crushed them into a pile of wreckage.

The Abyss Throat on the other side of the cliff bypassed the main battlefield and cut into the heart of the valley along the ridge. They charged into the command platform over piles of corpses. Several deputy generals of Sandgaze Valley were stabbed through the back by Shadowscale Puppets before they could even draw their swords. The armor plates on the puppets reflected the firelight, like pieces of blood-soaked iron, constantly rolling and reaping in the chaos of battle.

The main defensive position at the valley entrance finally collapsed under the continuous bombardment. When the last explosive shell hit, the wooden door, along with half of its stone foundation, fell down, sending dust and flames shooting into the sky.

The slime horde was the first to charge in, flooding the valley streets like a mudslide, engulfing everything that could move. The main force followed closely behind: bone minions, fire elementals, swarms of sand snakes... advancing in waves amidst the chaos and flames.

Chapter 149

Ron stared at the shrinking blue defensive circle on the battle map, his voice low: "The defenses inside the valley are in complete chaos. With three forces closing in, we'll clear it out within half an hour."

The monstrous torrent of black language had converged at the heart of the valley, and the sounds of battle shook the entire valley floor.

The fire burned a red wall over the granary, and waves of heat rolled up the valley floor. The Dark Sea Abyss pressed their formation into a semi-circle, with the Ironback Beasts at the forefront, followed by a line of skeletal soldiers carrying bone shields. The lake shore was trampled to pieces, bubbles constantly rising from the mud, and silt gushing out like overturned entrails.

The Abyss's Throat had already cut in from the mountain ridge, pushing Sandgaze Valley into a corner by stepping on the rubble along the cliff edge. Broken flags were stuck on half-collapsed rooftops, the tattered cloth rustling loudly in the wind. The siege formations on the other side of the valley entrance were still bombarding, explosive shells carving black craters into the streets, the bottoms of which gleamed from the heat.

Ron zoomed in on the battle map to the center of the valley, where a layer of fine lines, like a spider web, appeared on the terrain panel. The stone platform in the center of the valley was the pulse point of the entire valley, where Sandgaze Valley's trump card was hidden.

He pushed the plate with his fingertip, and a red line slid down the underground river, finally stopping below the stone platform. He knew in his heart, "There's a mechanism there."

The Dark Sea Abyss arrived first. The eastern shore of the lake area was cleared clean; the bees had dispersed, the mud beasts had retreated into the mud, and the giant crocodiles and heavily armored beasts had leveled half of the temporary fence. A stone platform was revealed ahead, with four black stone pillars standing around its base, each pillar studded with iron nails, and bone skewers strung on the nails.

Claudia raised her hand, and the fire elementals lined up, hurling rows of molten stones. As soon as the fire touched the stone pillar, a ring of sandy yellow light shone around the base of the pillar, like an overturned hourglass. Sand began to rise from the ground, spewing out from cracks in the earth, suddenly stopping mid-air, then falling back upside down, smothering the flames beneath.

The counter-array of the Sand Valley has been activated.

The sandstorm grew thicker, turning the road into a sea of ​​fine sand. The ground beneath the heavily armored beasts collapsed, and the monsters sank in, armor and all. Worse still, something was moving in the sand, as if swimming inside. The next instant, a sharp, piercing rumble erupted from the sand's depths, like countless needles grinding against each other—sand scorpions raised in the Sand Valley swarmed in from all directions, their pincers gripping the gaps in their armor, their stingers burrowing into the crevices.

The first row of Dark Sea Abyss members withstood the onslaught, several heavily armored beasts were pierced through, their forelegs buckling and collapsing to their knees. The sand was swallowing them, and the sand scorpions dragged their carcasses deeper and deeper.