What? You opened a resort on the battlefield of all races?

Aro slowly closed his eyes on the bone chair, his hands clasped in front of his abdomen.

He was enjoying the tranquility of the moment.

In his mind, he had even already sketched out the perfect movement to come—

That was the desperate wail of a human warrior after all hope had been shattered.

It is their pain and struggle when they face a dead end and have no other choice.

The thrill of manipulating people's hearts and minds was far more intoxicating to him than mere killing.

However, this ultimate enjoyment did not last long.

Suddenly, an untimely, even violently trembling voice came from beside me.

"Ah... Lord Aro, something's not quite right about these races..."

The messenger's voice was crumpled and rough, like a ball of paper crumpled in a toilet bowl.

They abruptly pulled Aro from his beautiful conception.

Aro frowned, a hint of displeasure flashing in his eyes.

He slowly opened his eyes, following the messenger's trembling finger, and cast his gaze toward the distant torrent of battlefield.

With just one glance, Aro stiffened slightly.

At the edge of the horizon, the alien army that had just roared down onto the battlefield did not, as expected, completely tear apart the human race's five-prefecture defense line from the rear.

Instead, they strangely changed direction and stood firmly on the side of the human race!

"Boom!"

The earthquake trembled.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Fallen Knights, clad in iron armor and riding skeletal warhorses, formed an impenetrable wedge formation the moment they arrived.

They held their several-meter-long lances level, their eye sockets glowing with eerie green flames, drawing a black storm of death across the wasteland.

However, the storm's target was the rampaging Blade Demon army!

The immense impact erupted instantly, and the dull thuds of bones shattering echoed throughout the room.

Countless Blade Demons didn't even have a chance to turn their heads to look before being mercilessly pierced and trampled by the Fallen Knights' massive hooves and spears.

Their fragile bodies were smashed to pieces like tofu in the face of the steel torrent, with limbs and broken bodies flying everywhere.

At the same time, another thick, wall-like defensive line appeared on the ground.

Those were hundreds of enormous iron-armed bears.

Their bodies are covered with stiff, needle-like hairs, and their two forearms gleam with a cold, metallic sheen.

These colossal beasts lined up in a row, moving forward with incredibly heavy steps, one step at a time.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

With each step, a deep footprint is left in the ground.

Instead of attacking the panicked human warriors around them, the Iron-Armed Bears tacitly clasped their arms together, lined up in a row, and steadily squeezed the space in which the Night Demon could move in the center of the battlefield.

Those ghostly night demons, who originally relied on their speed and ghostly figures, were gradually stripped of their room to maneuver and dodge in front of this moving wall of flesh.

In the end, amidst desperate screams, he was brutally smashed into a pulp by the heavy bear paws.

above the sky.

When the Thornfeather Clan spread their bone wings, it was like a huge dark cloud blocking out the sunlight.

They swooped down in the air in turn, accompanied by a series of ear-piercing whistling sounds. Countless bone spikes, glowing with an eerie light, precisely bypassed the human defensive formation, pinning the charging alien vanguard to the ground in large numbers.

The massive bodies of the Blood Rhinoceroses rampaged across the battlefield, their enormous horns gleaming with a bloodthirsty light.

As the lead rhinoceros stomped its hooves on the ground, a visible, violent shockwave spread out in a ring.

War tramples!

The ground within a radius of several miles instantly shattered, and the densely packed alien army was directly blasted backward by the violent shock force, coughing up blood and completely paralyzing their formation.

Even more outrageous are the fish that have been brought ashore.

Dozens of bluefin whales appeared on the battlefield for some unknown reason.

There isn't a single drop of water in this place.

After these dozens of enormous whales landed on the ground, their huge eyes were filled with utter bewilderment.

The arid battlefield caused extreme discomfort to the bluefin whales that live in the sea year-round.

They twisted their mountain-like bodies, but couldn't move an inch.

In a fit of anger, he simply started rolling around on the ground.

then--

Dust flies wherever they go!

The Bloodweb Spiders, which were originally lurking in the shadows and preparing to shoot silk to ambush the humans, didn't even have time to scream before they were all crushed into a thick green paste with a "splat" like bugs under a millstone.

The tunnel that the Yellow Sand Ratmen had painstakingly dug collapsed as soon as they turned around.

Amidst the swirling dust, only the yellow sand ratmen remained, their faces filled with bewilderment.

These rat-men never dreamed that one day a fish would be the one to destroy their traps.

Beneath the throne, the envoy watched in disbelief as these bizarre developments unfolded, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

His mouth was wide open, and the flames in his eyes were like firecrackers going off outside his grandmother's house during Chinese New Year.

Why?

Why are the Demon King's servants fighting amongst themselves?

The initial look of surprise gradually transformed into a deep sense of shock and confusion.

Is it...

The messenger remembered what his demon king had just said.

"Is there anything more wonderful than cruelly extinguishing their newly nascent hope?"

"When they discovered that their comrades-in-arms, who were fighting alongside them, had suddenly become their enemies."

"To die in horror and bewilderment, isn't that the most wonderful way to die?"

He turned his head with difficulty, staring intently at Aro on the bone chair with a look of awe and boundless terror.

The messenger swallowed hard, making a difficult swallowing sound.

The very forces that extinguished their hope... were their own allies?

So, it turns out, these "them"...

Does it refer to ourselves?

The envoy dared not ask.

He didn't even dare to think about it any further, fearing that he might discover some shocking secret and be silenced on the spot.

But driven by a strong will to survive and a blind worship of the strong, the messenger's mind raced in that instant, automatically filling in all the logical gaps for Aro.

"Lord Aro is truly a man of extraordinary talent!"

The envoy slapped his thigh, his astonished expression instantly turning into fervent flattery, and began to boast loudly.

"Understood! You must have foreseen that dead dog... no, you must have known that the Demon King of Xilin, that muscle-bound idiot, would harbor malicious intentions!"

"You know he would definitely send troops to cause trouble at this crucial moment and try to steal your credit, so you deliberately held back and didn't send a single soldier to support the front lines!"

The messenger became more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes even sparkling with worship.

"My lord, you're deliberately feigning weakness to lure the enemy deeper into your territory!"

"By using the human race and with the help of your supreme strategy, you easily captured the entire elite force of the Demon King of Xilin!"

"Even the Demon King Xilin was manipulated by you! My admiration for you is as boundless as a surging river!"

"..."

Despite the deafening, heartfelt flattery from his retinue, Aro on the throne remained completely unresponsive.

Aro was also somewhat bewildered.

Is that what I meant?

It shouldn't be me activating the hidden poison, turning these damned humans into abyssal monsters, roaring and slaughtering their own kind.

What the hell is going on here?!

Why would a bluefin whale, a creature with a fin pattern, appear on land?!

Did they really think of themselves as a bowling ball, rolling all the way out?

Xilin Gol?

That was the only explanation he could come up with.

Then, Aro felt a series of frantic throbbing sounds in his temples.

"asshole!"

Arro finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Veins bulged on his forehead as he abruptly stood up from the bone throne and kicked a skull stool in front of him to pieces.

"Xilin! You idiot! Get out here right now!"