Castle of Black Iron

Being held by the endless wires and the flames of incendiary mines and incendiary bombs that fell off the airships, iron-armored demons gradually shrunk like an ice cube that fell into hot water. After jumping and surging forward dozens of miles resolutely and bravely, only a dozen of them survived.

Among the alive ones, those with the highest level was a battle spirit.

At the final hopeless moment, over 10 iron-armored demons were still breaking forward dauntlessly which was really touching. However, their destiny would not be altered.

After a flame fell onto the last high-level iron-armored demon, thousands of square meters instantly became a fire sea, submerging the demon fighter. The most powerful iron-armored demon didn’t break out of the fire sea like before with the protection of his battle qi. After the flames died out, a large patch of wires had melted down, turning the ground black. The final iron-armored demon had been burned into ashes. Its final location of existence could even be barely seen on the ground…

Although protective battle qi could resist ordinary physical strikes, it couldn’t withstand high temperature. Only knight-level protective battle qi could prevent them from being hurt by magma. However, the temperature of the flames of incendiary bombs and incendiary mines were both above 1,500 degree Celsius, which was even higher than many sorts of magma. Even battle spirits’ protective battle qi couldn’t protect them from such a high temperature…

In the air battlefortress in the distance, Sagus the Monarch Abyss of demons was gazing at the extermination of iron-armored demons that had rushed over Weishui River. During the process, Sagus was always clenching its fist. However, when the last iron-armored demon was killed, Sagus loosened its punch while its scorching qi turned chaotic and deadly which was forbidding.

After throwing the last glance at the wing demons above Weishui River wrestling with human air cavalries and the knights of both parties; especially at the brilliant battlefield between Zhang Tie and the shadow demon knight, Sagus the Monarch Abyss finally uttered its muffled voice from below its mask.

“Be stationed on the west bank. Call back the knights and fighters…”

Sagus waved its arm as it continued when a subordinate heavenly knight moved one step forward, “The holy war has just come to a start. The wrestle between us and Taixia Country would not end within one day or one year. If Taixia Country could be conquered so easily, it would not be our turn to do that…”

The heavenly demon knight then became silent as it slightly bowed and returned to its original position.

Sagus’ order was soon passed down.

Demons were also something. Before the demon army completely collapsed, they were always in order even in evacuation.

After receiving the order, 20,000 wing demons set off at once. To respond to such a sudden change, the second batch of air cavalries also set off the airport on the east bank of Weishui River and prepared to fight the enemy.

However, the second batch of wing demons didn’t fly over Weishui River; instead, they hovered in the sky above the west bank and covered the first batch of wing demons which evacuated from the battlefield.

Noticing the wing demons’ evacuation, the first batch of air cavalries didn’t chase after them; instead, they returned to the airport on the east bank while the second batch of air cavalries started to patrol in the sky above the east bank in case of demon’s tricks.

After wing demons evacuated, black iron demon knights started to leave the battlefield, followed by earth knights. Shadow demon knights stuck to the last moment.

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“Bang…”, before the shadow demon knight’s off-hand battle qi strike fell onto Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi, it had been shattered by the light surrounding Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi. It was a natural response in a high swordsmanship realm that Zhang Tie had just reached and consolidated that shattered the off-hand battle qi strike of the shadow demon knight.

At this moment, Zhang Tie didn’t even know the name of the powerful battle skill that he had just got and consolidated. He only felt a strong strength staying glued to his body. As long as he thought about it, he would release great strength in a terrifying manner. Sometimes, he didn’t even think about it. Whenever it sensed a potential threat, it would release automatically and eliminate the threat.

The special strength on Zhang Tie’s side was a bit like sword qi. It could be both rigid and soft, coming from and going to void like Zhang Tie’s shadow and magnetic field. It had already become a part of Zhang Tie’s body. After being released outside Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi, this special strength provided one more protective cover for Zhang Tie. By comparison, protective battle qi just sustained the strike of the enemy negatively and purely enhanced his anti-strike ability; however, this special strength could both bear others’ strike and launch a strike at its discretion to diffuse the enemy’s strike.

Zhang Tie didn’t know about this special strength; however, this strength reminded him of the active reactive armor over tanks before the Catastrophe. At that time, active reactive armor could sense incoming shells and missiles before their arrival and detonate the latter where they were near.

If a knight’s protective battle qi was regarded as the armor of traditional tanks, in some sense, this new skill was like Zhang Tie’s active reactive armor. Of course, it was much more powerful than the so-called active reactive armor.

Zhang Tie stretched out his hand while the Devouring Dragon sword qi turned into a 100-m long light sword and slashed towards the shadow demon knight in an overwhelming manner.

Zhang Tie slashed against the shadow demon knight, causing its protective battle qi to quiver. Half of it collapsed almost in a split second. However, the shadow demon knight instantly separated from Zhang Tie and flew back towards the demon camp on the west bank. Before leaving, this shadow demon knight even turned around and glared at Zhang Tie with full killing intent.

Zhang Tie didn’t chase after it; instead, he hovered there and saw the shadow demon knight and the other demon knights returning to their camp. The 4 heavenly demon knights also returned to their camp. Such a short fight was just a warm-up for heavenly knights. In the 2nd holy war, the duration of the fight between a human heavenly knight and a demon heavenly knight ranged from 1 week to 47 days. The world of heavenly knights was out of the imagination of commoners.

Zhang Tie knew that this fight had come to an end for the time being.

The virtual image of Devouring Dragon was dozens of meters long silver dragon, which was circling around Zhang Tie in an imposing and brilliant manner. Every detail of the dragon was like the real one, including its scales, buckhorn, long beard and fishtail. Zhang Tie was standing in the sky while this silver dragon protected Zhang Tie by circling around him. If this virtual image showed up in front of ordinary Hua people, it would win the worship of them for sure because this dragon had been an admirable immortal beast of Hua people since ancient times. Hua people regarded themselves as the descendants of the dragon. Among Hua people, dragon represented authority, dignity, mystery and strength.

At the same time, Zhang Tie also received the command to return to Xuanyuan Fortress.

“Let’s go…” The shadow human knight who blocked another shadow demon knight at the critical moment for Zhang Tie asked Zhang Tie as he threw an extremely strange glance at Zhang Tie and that virtual image circling around Zhang Tie.

Even though this shadow human knight was not hostile, his approach also aroused the response of the virtual image of the Devouring Dragon. The 3-claw silver dragon bared fangs and brandished claws while one of its head was targeting at this shadow human knight as it was ready for a strike.

As the shadow human knight was a bit afraid of the Devouring Dragon, he didn’t approach Zhang Tie too close.

Zhang Tie’s heart raced while the dozens of meters long virtual image instantly minified and turned into a 30 cm long snake before finally drilling into Zhang Tie’s sleeve…

Previously, Zhang Tie didn’t know that the virtual image of a silver secret item could be so inscrutable. After this fight, Zhang Tie really understood the subtlety of silver secret items. From then on, Zhang Tie opened the gate of a wholly new world. The virtual images of silver secret items were inclusive which didn’t exist for good look and fashion. The moment Zhang Tie got the head or tail of it, he’d become thrilled inside.

In the sky, Zhang Tie fought demons in a heroic way and hid a dragon in his sleeve, which made him pretty alluring.

After fighting a shadow demon knight and returning to Xuanyuan Fortress, Zhang Tie finally knew what was it like being eye-catching…