Chapter 306: The Approaching Shadow (Part )
The next day, canyon battlefield.

When the sky just began to turn pale, accompanied by the sound of noisy footsteps, a main force of over a thousand people slowly emerged from the high ground in the middle of Wei State that was shrouded in morning mist.

With the Shu Kingdom's mid laner missing and their own mid lane hero 'Shen Luo' being killed, the mid lane front battlefield, centered around the armies of Shu and Wei, inevitably fell into an unprecedented stalemate.

This is also very normal. Once there is no intervention from a supernatural being like a hero, when the two armies are evenly matched, the battle situation will naturally become extremely tragic.

At least so far, the number of soldiers sacrificed on both sides has reached nearly four digits, and currently this Wei State's black army is planning to go to the front line to provide support under the orders of the Wei State's top leaders.

Perhaps they all knew that the bloody battle was going on at the front line. Most of the black soldiers looked very solemn. They all knew that what was waiting for them ahead was an extremely cruel meat grinder, where many of them would die. Who would survive? No one could predict that they would eventually be wiped out like the troops in front of them.

With such a heavy heart, the black army that stretched for more than ten miles passed the second defense tower and slowly advanced to the front line of the middle lane. However—

What was waiting for them was not a chaotic battlefield filled with the sounds of fighting, but dead silence!
There was no one in front of us, in the light morning mist, and no sound at all, only deathly silence.

"What, what's going on?!" The Wei captain who was in charge of leading the troops was named Lu Qian, and he was also stunned when he saw this scene.

Before we were ordered to leave, didn't the top brass say that there was fighting going on at the front? But where were all the people? Apart from the fog, there was not even a ghost of a soldier, let alone the enemy or ours!
Could it be that the soldiers on both sides died together?

Thinking of this, Lu Qian's face suddenly showed joy.

If this is true, then it is a great opportunity for God to give him a chance to make military achievements! The reinforcements of Shu Kingdom obviously have not arrived yet, so he can take this opportunity to lead his troops to attack the defense tower of Shu Kingdom. Once he succeeds, the King of Wei may be so happy that he will promote him to a hero! Didn't a soldier named Sima Yi successfully become a hero? He is also a soldier, but others can do it, so why can't he?

Lu Qian was happily fantasizing about the wealth, status and power he would gain after becoming a hero. Just as he turned back excitedly and was about to gather his troops for an attack, there was a sudden commotion and panic among the troops in the rear.

"Hey! What is that?!"

"Demon, demon species?!"

"Why are there demons here?!"

Demon species? What kind of demon species?
Lu Qian subconsciously turned around, and almost at the same time, he suddenly felt a horrible vibration coming from the ground under his feet without any warning, and then his eyes widened in horror!
Boom, boom, boom—

Only the sound of heavy footsteps that shook the earth could be heard, and in the misty fog, a blood-red, ferocious beast that was so huge that it blocked out the sky and the sun slowly appeared! It looked down at them coldly, as tiny as ants, with its mouth full of sharp teeth slightly open, and it frequently let out low roars like muffled thunder.

At that moment, Lu Qian felt that his breathing was about to stop!

No one knew where this demon had appeared from. It was too huge, so huge that it made it hard to breathe, so huge that it made it impossible to muster the slightest desire to resist. However—

When Lu Qian looked again in disbelief, he felt that the giant beast in front of him seemed a little unreal.

Dazzled?
Lu Qian rubbed his eyes hard, and when he looked again, the blood-red beast that had filled his entire field of vision had disappeared silently, and was replaced by a black silhouette that had been shrunk countless times.

That's right, from the fog ahead, a black silhouette was walking towards them alone.

Is that a.person?
A young soldier with a handsome face but with bloodshot eyes and murderous aura.

What's wrong with this soldier? Can murderous aura alone create such a strong and real hallucination? ! Just when Lu Qian was still terrified, the soldier who looked only 20 years old at most spoke first.

"Soldiers of Wei, listen, I will only say this once."

The voice was unexpectedly light.

The soldier said expressionlessly: "Even if all of you are fully armed at this moment, with my strength, I can kill all of you within the time of an incense stick. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, I implore you to lay down your weapons and surrender. We in Shu will treat the prisoners well and will never break our promise."

The scene was dead silent, and then——

As expected, there was a burst of angry cursing!

"Fuck, who the hell do you think you are? How dare you be so arrogant?!"

"Is this soldier crazy? He's asking a thousand of us to surrender?"

"Haha, I guess this is probably a frightened recruit. Didn't he see there was no one around? He must be a rookie who survived by chance."

Everyone was either laughing, cursing, or looking down on others, except Lu Qian who just stood there stupidly, unable to speak for a long time, not because he was speechless, but because of an almost instinctive fear!
As a centurion who was a little higher than an ordinary soldier, Lu Qian could sense the murderous aura of a ferocious beast from the calm appearance of the soldier! He also vaguely realized that this soldier had no intention of persuading them to surrender, but seemed to be expecting something -

Expect them to resist! Yes, just like a raging man who has nowhere to vent, he is expecting someone to provoke him first, so that he has a legitimate reason to vent!

What made Lu Qian most uneasy was that he had also heard the rumor that there was a legion commander in the enemy country with strange behavior. Before every battle, he would persuade the enemy to surrender. The scene before him was exactly the same as the rumor!
Could this soldier be the Wang Yao? The soldier who caused a big commotion in the Wei Highlands more than half a year ago and managed to escape? !

In just a moment, even Lü Qian, the commander of a thousand soldiers of the Wei State, was discouraged. The enemy was a top soldier who could even compete with heroes. Even if there were a thousand of them, what would it matter? Even if there were more ants, could they still eat the pangolin?
Of course, having said that, Lu Qian was not willing to surrender.

They, the soldiers, will not surrender and can only keep charging forward, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead. This has nothing to do with dignity, but because this is the education and training they have received: keep moving forward!
But we can't just die in vain, right? Should we stall for time? Let's see if the higher-ups will send a hero to take charge during this time? As long as our heroes are there, even if the other side is that legendary soldier, there shouldn't be anything we can do, right?

Lu Qian was a smart man. He would not blindly challenge an opponent he could not defeat. This was one of the reasons why he was able to stand out among thousands of soldiers and become a captain of a thousand men.

That’s right, let’s do it!

However, just as Lu Qian opened his mouth and planned to use negotiations to delay time, a blazing magic fireball shot out from the troops in the rear without warning.

"what?!"

The fireball looked so dazzling in the dim morning light, reflecting the surrounding morning mist in an orange-red color, but it was like a bucket of cold water poured over Lu Qian's head!
Boom!

The fireball drew a beautiful parabola in the air and successfully hit the target, causing a violent explosion. For a moment, billowing flames flew continuously and easily engulfed the seemingly fragile figure.

As a result, before the Wei army could cheer or sneer, Lu Qian's extremely angry roar was the first to sound.

"Asshole! What the hell are you doing?!"

(End of this chapter)