Hearing his lord's words, Huang Sai was shocked.
But the soldiers stepping out of the summoning gate gave him no chance to further his thought.
Shooting out one arrow after another, he quickly finished with the arrows in his quiver before drawing out his poisoned knife and slitting the necks of the dazed soldiers.
Covered in blood after 12 minutes of slaughter and carnage, Huang Sai welcomed his breakthrough to Green bronze-tier advance grade.
"Thank you for this opportunity, my lord!"
He bowed deeply to Zhou Zhou as a smile hung on his lips.
"Don't be too excited. Our aim is no longer just to advance our grade and tiers, but to upgrade the tiers of our skills and compete with higher tiers of soldier type warriors!"
Zhou Zhou's eyes contained an intense desire for power above what the masses could ever come in contact with.
"Yes, my lord!" Huang Sai retracted his smile as a solemn expression hung on his face.
"Let's go to war!"
Following which, Zhou Zhou asked Ashburn for potions before bringing the soldiers with their mechanostriders and Nezario to the territory of the black-tailed fog scorpion.
The only military personnel absent were Man Nao and Wu Tu.
They were performing their duty of gathering information about the territories close to the Blazing Sun City.
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Half an hour later, Zhou Zhou brought his subordinates to the vicinity of the black-tailed fog scorpion's territory.
A lone lord's wooden house stood in the vast desert.
Other than that, there was nothing.
Not even a shadow of a black-tailed fog scorpion.
Zhou Zhou and the others were not surprised at all.
"Use the blood eye!" Zhou Zhou said to Huang Sai.
"Yes!" Huang Sai took out a bottle of blood eye potion before smearing a bit of the portion on his eyelids.
Also smearing the portion on his eyelids, a magical scene immediately played out in front of Zhou Zhou.
Balls of blood-red Qi that looked like black-tailed fog scorpions hidden under the desert gradually appeared in his vision.
They surrounded the surrounding desert with the lord's wooden house as the center.
There were 400 of them.
Zhou Zhou looked at Huang Sai.
"We'll use the same method you and Lu Chong planned to us!"
"Yes, my lord!' Huang Sai nodded before pulling out his crossbow.
Prepared for today's battle, he brought over 800 spare arrows.
They were currently being held by Zhou Zhou in his spatial ring.
"Let's go!" staying close to each other, Zhou Zhou and Huang Sai dashed forward before closing in on the 6 black-tailed fog scorpions nearest to them.
Pulling the trigger of his crossbow, Huang Sai shot out 6 arrows in rapid successions.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The arrows struck as swift as lightning!
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at their destination and shot straight into the ground!
The next second, 6 screams sounded before dying out.
The 6 black-tailed fog scorpions targeted were immediately killed.
At the death of their comrades, a few black-tailed scorpions broke out of the ground one after another and charged towards Zhou Zhou and Huang Sai.
But majority of the scorpions remained underneath the desert as they rushed towards the humans.
Thrusting his spear at the scorpions not targeted by Huang Sai's arrows, Zhou Zhou easily tore through their hard carapace with his spear emerging out of the side of their heads.
'I'm way stronger than before despite not yet breaking through!
Sensing the changes to his attack, he continued thrusting his spear at the enemy close-by, reaping their lives and their promotion energy from them.
Still having thoughts on ways to advance the tier of his skill, Huang Sai shot non-stop at the black-tailed fog scorpion.
Each shot took the life of any scorpion within his range.
Gathering around the humans, the scorpions kept pushing forward even at the expense of climbing on their comrades.
Hardening his heart at the eerie sight of scorpions covering his entire view, Zhou Zhou stomped down on the ground, activating the sand trap technique!
Bang!!
The black-tailed fog scorpions that were almost at the surface of the desert sunk 4 meters into the ground, giving a bit of breathing space to Zhou Zhou and Huang Sai.
Finding a solution to advance his skill after several hours of brainstorming and fighting, Huang Sai wasn't a bit happy about it.
'My soldier class is severely limited due to my equipment! Even if I advance my skill in terms of locking on to my target, the grade of my crossbow won't let me hit the shot!'
Shooting rapidly at the scorpions struggling to climb back upward, he took out the scorpions at the back of the first line.
Perfecting the usage of his intermediate-tier skills after having killed more than 110 black-tailed fog scorpions, Zhou Zhou said to Huang Sai.
"Practice is over. Use everything in your arsenal and kill them!"
"Finally!" Huang Sai blurted out, forgetting to keep proper etiquette.
Using the mental manipulation skill which was currently at the White silver-tier elementary grade, he immediately brought the entire surviving 197 black-tailed fog scorpions into a dazed state.
"I love this skill," he chuckled as he calmly used the unguarded scorpions as target practice.
Zhou Zhou didn't waste time as he pierced through the multitudes of fog scorpions with no hint of slowing down.
Just when the both of them thought they could slaughter the remaining fog scorpions before dealing with the Green bronze-tier advance grade scarlet lord, a change occurred on the battlefield.
The ground suddenly shook.
A huge mound appeared in the desert.
Then, like a bulldozer, it rushed towards the Zhou and Huang Sai at an extremely fast speed.
BOOM!
The ground cracked open.
A huge black shadow jumped out from the ground and landed on the desert ground with a bang.
It was a huge black-tailed fog scorpion that was five to six meters tall and more than ten meters long!
Its scarlet eyes looked at Zhou Zhou and Huang Sai in fury.
Looking at the gigantic scorpion, Zhou Zhou was surprised.
Logically speaking, he should be able to discover such a huge black-tailed fog scorpion through the blood eye.
However, he had never seen the figure of this huge black-tailed fog scorpion in the vision of the blood eye.
What is going on?!
He looked at it.
Several notifications appeared.
[Monster Name: Black-tailed fog scorpion leader – Black Spike (scarlet lord)]
[Strength Level: Green bronze-tier advance grade]
[Monster Description: One of the three scarlet lords of the Blazing Sun Desert.]
[Loots: 40 Green bronze-tier mist cores, 2 origin crystals, 500 units of Green bronze-tier advance grade black-tailed fog scorpion flesh, 1 black iron-tier advance grade black-tailed fog scorpion leader's poison sac, Green bronze-tier advance grade (1 blood cleansing pill, 1 skill book - deadly state, 10 poison crossbow soldier recruitment book, 1 black-tailed scorpion king crossbow), 20 poison crossbow soldier class change certificate, 1 black iron-tier advance grade potion recipe, blood cleansing pill, 8 black iron-tier advance grade lord talent crystal fragments.]
'You should have remained hidden.' having finally attained the advance grade of green bronze-tier, Zhou Zhou launched himself at the scarlet lord with his blood covered spear in his hand.
Stinging ruthlessly at the tiny human running towards it, the scarlet lord aimed to pin him to the ground.
Continuing forward, Zhou Zhou gradually closed-in on the tail of the scarlet lord.
2 meters away from getting stung, he suddenly sunk into the ground, vanishing from the sight of the black-tailed fog scorpion scarlet lord.
Bang!
A meter deep crater appeared on the spot the tail of the scarlet lord landed, raising dust into the ground.
Digging into the ground in a bid to chase after the little human, the scarlet lord couldn't dig far before a spear exploded out of the top of his head.
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