Chapter 1076 - 512

"One Commander Level, two Commander Level..." he silently counted in his mind.

He planned to first eradicate the nearby Commander Level entities. As for the low-level monsters and elite variants, he would slaughter them in passing, but they wouldn’t be his primary targets. If Commander Level creatures approached Warren Castle, they could inflict far greater damage to the defensive fortifications on the walls and the ordinary soldiers.

Furthermore, he happened to be short on Commander Points lately.

His first target was an Ogre Commander. These giant beasts, addicted to plundering and slaughter, were old acquaintances of Gauss. Although these massive creatures wore no Armor, clad in nothing but ragged loincloths around their waists, their god-given tough skin and thick flesh Attributes provided the best Protective defense. The vast majority of arrows and low-level Magic inflicted negligible damage on them. Once they charged into a crowd, wielding their hundreds-of-kilograms-heavy Wolf Fang Giant Clubs with boundless strength, they could instantly trigger an unimaginable, bloody massacre.

In the distance, the Ogre Commander sprinting across the wasteland suddenly felt a chill run down its spine. But before it could recover, an ear-piercing shriek tore through the air from afar.

"Dragon Roar Missile!"

After a brief charging period, Gauss, hovering right above the Ogre Commander, thrust down his Magic Wand. A surging wave of Magic Power erupted from the wand’s tip.

As the Magic Missile flew, it sprouted a pair of flame-like wings and ripped through the air with the roar of a dragon before plunging vertically from the sky. It pierced straight into the top of the Ogre Commander’s bald head, bore through its thick neck, chest, and abdomen, tearing all the way through until it exited from between its legs.

"HURGH..."

The Ogre Commander raised a hand to clutch its neck, but its hollowed-out body rapidly lost all ability to move. Ultimately, it was pinned firmly to the ground by this Dragon Roar Missile, completely motionless. The fierce gleam that once filled its eyes had long since dissipated.

The Ogre Commander was dead!

With poor agility and strengths focused purely on Protective traits and physical power, it was essentially a natural living target for Gauss, entirely devoid of any ability to fight back.

Next.

Having instantly killed the Ogre Commander, Gauss quickly shifted his sights to the next closest Commander-level Demon.

BOOM!

With a flap of the dragon wings on his back, his body swiftly vanished from the spot, melting into the night sky like a ghost. Any Commander Level monster he targeted rarely lasted long.

The Goblin Commander, dead! The Gleystone People, dead! Even the Eagleman Commander that hadn’t joined the first wave of aerial assaults was driven out of the clouds by Gauss. It was subsequently snatched out of the air by Bigby’s Hand, which snapped its neck on the spot.

Compared to his somewhat wild and uninhibited combat style on the battlefield in the past, Gauss acted more like a low-profile assassin tonight, rapidly and efficiently eliminating every target on his list.

He chose this approach to avoid alarming the other monsters approaching the town, ensuring they would continue their assault on Warren Castle. Indeed, he could have recklessly bombarded the monsters below with the Fireball Technique. But doing so would undoubtedly instill fear in the more distant monsters that had yet to gather. They would eventually scatter and flee, hiding away once more in the vast wasteland. By the time the next wave of monsters arrived at Warren Castle’s perimeter, they would be able to amass an even larger monstrous army.

Only by luring these wasteland monsters in—like boiling frogs in warm water—and killing as many as possible under the cover of night, could he safeguard this small stone town in the long run.

Of course, his other objective was to increase his total monster kill count.