Ant could only struggle to hold the giant scimitar in his hand with both hands and take the blow forcefully.
"clang!!"
Huge power came from the war blade, and Ant was so shocked that his arms went numb and he almost lost consciousness.
"Hide! Why don't you hide!"
In addition to the sound of swords clashing, there was also Sven's arrogant roar.
Under Richard's instruction, the two engaged in a one-on-one duel between warriors.
Although the two sides are both great demons at the holy level, there is a clear gap in strength.
Although Ant is not a flower growing in a greenhouse, judging from the battles he has experienced, his growth can only be regarded as quite satisfactory. After all, he has only become a saint not long ago. In the past few decades, Ziyue City has not been defeated.
What a big battle.
But Sven is a powerful warrior who fought on the bloody battlefields of Erathia.
In the fight against the Angel Legion, Sven was on the verge of life and death almost every moment. How could he survive in the meat grinder of Erathia?
Sven's combat experience is far more sophisticated than Ant's.
And although the two of them are both saints in the Realm of Power, Sven, as a special soldier, can enjoy a lot of attribute bonuses from the treasures on Richard's body.
The four-dimensional attributes are also a bit higher than Ant.
The entire battle was asymmetrical from the beginning. Ant was suppressed by Swain from the beginning to the end, and he went from being confident at the beginning to panic now.
Ant knew that if the fight continued like this, defeat would only happen sooner or later.
"boom!"
"puff!"
Although he blocked Sven's extremely powerful slash, Ant's arms were so painful that they no longer had any remaining strength, and their strength was exhausted.
Swain's condition looked more like he had just warmed up.
Then a knee came straight into Ant's stomach.
Although the Great Demon is not known for his strength, it is relative, and there is also Richard's strength bonus.
This hit to the knee made Ant's internal organs tremble, and a mouthful of blood spurted out and splashed on the knife.
Obviously, Swain suffered serious internal injuries and his internal organs were damaged.
Fortunately, a great holy-level demon has a terrifyingly tough body, and his internal organs are not as fragile as ordinary creatures.
Otherwise, under such huge force, it is possible not to mention just vomiting blood, but also being directly pushed through the stomach.
But this time, Ant's fantasy was completely broken.
The fellow member in front of him had a murderous intention and had no intention of letting go. The monarch standing aside had even cold eyes.
Keep only what is useful.
From the beginning, the other party had no intention of letting him survive.
escape!
Ant no longer had any hope of defeating the opponent. If he stayed, he would be beaten to death by the opponent, so he could only run.
As for how to escape under the nose of a great king?
This is no longer something Ant can consider. At least if he runs, he still has a chance of survival. If he doesn't run, he will really be dead.
With the help of Swain's knee, Ant flew out like a cannonball and rushed hundreds of meters into the air.
Then he used all his teleportation speed, and in a few blinks, he moved hundreds of meters out of thin air, and got into the surrounding team of great demon warriors.
These great demon warriors who had been called to watch the battle had mixed emotions when they saw that their original commander was beaten by the opponent and was unable to fight back. At this moment, Ant rushed directly into their crowd, causing a burst of chaos in an instant.
.
"Let's all run for our lives together!"
"They are the murderers of Lord Diabo. If you don't run away, you will die!"
Ant was quite quick-witted and knew that there was no chance of him escaping alone.
He wanted to encourage a group of great demon warriors to scatter and flee, causing chaos to give himself a chance of survival.
"this?"
"Run!"
Don't mention it, Ant's move still has some effect.
After all, he has been the leader of the great demon warriors for decades. Among these great demon warriors, apart from Diabo, only Ant has the highest prestige.
This subtle influence caused many great demon warriors to make wrong choices.
Originally, most of the great demon warriors had doubts about the strange new owner of Ziyue City.
At this time, encouraged by Ant Yi, at least a dozen demon warriors chose to use teleportation to escape outside the city.
For a time, figures of great demon warriors appeared in all directions in the sky.
"court death!"
Ant's behavior made Swain angry, but he didn't expect that the other party would follow his attack and choose to escape.
"You go and lift his head back, if..."
"If I can't do it, I'll come back with my own head!"
Swain didn't care about the other big demons, and started teleporting in the direction Ant was escaping from, staring at him and chasing him all the way.
Richard was not idle either.
He can also teleport. Now is the time to scare the monkeys. Since you made the wrong choice, you will have to pay the price.
In a few flashes, a golden-red figure became a thread in the air, catching up with several fleeing demon warriors at extremely fast speeds.
In fact, the speed of the Great Demon Warrior is not slow. Among the strong men of the sky level, the speed of the Great Demon Warrior can be said to be one of the best.
Coupled with the talent of teleportation, some ordinary saints may not be guaranteed to catch up with them.
This is also the reason why these great demon warriors chose to escape.
Everyone scattered and ran away together. Even the king couldn't kill them all. At most, only some unlucky ones were caught up.
It's just that Richard's speed exceeded their imagination, and the opponent continued to use teleportation as if there was no consumption.
The two great demon warriors were intercepted by Richard before they even ran out of Ziyue City.
"grown ups…"
"Chi!"
Before the two great demon warriors could finish their pleas for mercy, Richard swung his sword and cut them in half with a burst of golden-red fighting spirit.
Next, under everyone's attention, Richard intercepted all the demon warriors who were trying to escape without missing a single one.
Just after Richard returned to the ground with the sword still dripping blood, Swain followed closely and returned to the original place.
Sven was seen holding Ant's hideous head in his hand. Ant's face was wide-eyed with reluctance, and blood was dripping from the broken neck to the ground.
Sven did not mind the blood dripping on the ground. He bowed his head to Richard and then raised Ant's head high to show it to the surrounding demon warriors.
The surrounding demon warriors now also knew what choice to make.
They all fell to their knees on the ground.
This group of great demon warriors has been initially subdued, but they cannot be as determined as the system soldiers.
It's not like the Northern Army sincerely supports Richard, they just succumb to the strong.
If the full score of loyalty is one hundred, then these great demon warriors are probably only in their fifties or sixties.
It takes some time and means to allow them to completely become their own people.
Leave it to Sven to lead this group of demon warriors, and they will soon become sharp blades again.
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outside the city
Naturally, major changes in Ziyue City cannot escape the observation of Duowu's thousands of eyes.
From the moment Carlson appeared to the moment he was killed, everything happened so fast that Duowu's brain, which was down, couldn't even process what was going on.
However, since seeing Carlson's death, Duowu was so frightened that he lost his soul.
If Ziyue City was still a piece of cake in his eyes before, he was a little bit unwilling to be forced to return it by Carlson.
Now, the prosperous Ziyue City is a huge whirlpool, and anyone who comes even slightly closer may be swallowed up without leaving any residue.
After witnessing Carlson's fall, Duowu accelerated his escape without any regard for dignity. He was as majestic as he came, and he was so embarrassing when he ran away.
The vassal demons and allies had completely ignored them, and only took the dozens of Thousand-Eyed Demons under them to run away. Anyway, there were plenty of vassals and cannon fodder in the abyss.
Duowu didn't stop for a moment until he was completely out of touch with the attacking army and Ziyue City was only a small dot in sight.
Although the Thousand-Eyed Demon is a high-level demon, it is not known for its speed. Even because of its larger body, its speed is the lowest among high-level demons.
Fortunately for Duowu, a strong man in the Realm of Domain would not be much slower no matter what.
The other Thousand-Eyed Demons are not that fast, and they will never be able to catch up with Duowu if they run like this.
Although Duowu didn't care about some subordinate demons, he didn't even look down on high-level demons like Shadow Demon.
But he still cares about his own kind.
Seeing that the prince from Purple Moon City was not chasing after him, he simply stopped and gathered his team a little.
"This time is really too dangerous. We will never come to Ziyue City again."
Duowu, who had calmed down from the shock, first let out a long sigh of relief, then glanced at his compatriots who had suffered almost no losses, and felt a little proud in his heart.
Diabo, his old enemy, died, and so did Carlson, whom he had humiliated.
Although he failed to obtain Purple Moon City and suffered some losses, compared with Diabo and Carlson, he was very lucky.
However, this place is still too close to Ziyue City and not very safe.
"Let's set off, continue eastward, and return to our clan first."
"Where is Chief Duowu going?"
Just as a group of Thousand-Eyed Demons continued to prepare to set off further away from Ziyue City, several small black dots blocked their progress.
A large army of demons also appeared on the ground one after another.
Snake demons, violent demons, some evil-eyed monsters and claw demons are all mid-level demons with strong combat power, and there are even a small number of high-level demons such as bone demons.
They are different from the subordinate tribes and large amounts of cannon fodder that Duowu recruited before.
They actually formed a relatively orderly formation, giving them a bit of an army feel.
This level of formation is at least equivalent to the training level of farmers and soldiers in the North.
This level of training may only be considered common on the mainland, but it is very special in the abyss.
Although most of the demons are fearless in battle, they are not easy to manage and are very easy to get emotional, especially those like the violent demons who go berserk from time to time. In many cases, the battle is simply divided into formations.
Then switch to charging.
Then the high-level demons would form a formation and give some command. Regardless of their strong individual combat effectiveness, most of the battles in the abyss were only slightly better than group fights.
Only the demon army under the great king can have a similar sense of sight as a regular army.
However, the seemingly powerful demon army on the ground was not enough to worry Duowu.
Thousand-eyed demons are the least afraid of group battles, especially for Duowu. The army of several thousand mixed-blood demons is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. If it lacks combat power above the holy level, no matter how good the army's formation is, it will be useless.
They are all lives melted by him, it’s just a matter of how much is consumed.
What really frightened him were the shadows with black wings on their backs in the sky.
"Wing Demon?"
Duowu has never met Lucifer, but he only knows a little about him from his subordinates' descriptions.
At that time, he thought it was just a winged demon and nothing to worry about. It was just because his tribesmen were too weak that he described the other party as so powerful.
Only when he saw the real person did he realize how outrageous his idea was.
The other party just stood there, seeming to blend into the entire environment. The background of the abyss sky was obviously red, but the black figure seemed to be one with the abyss.
Red wings or black abyss?
It has actually affected his perception. Damn it, is this really a winged demon from the Realm of Realm?
"I don't know why you stopped in front of us. We are just a group of Thousand-Eyed Demons who want to go home."
Duowu couldn't see through Lucifer's strength, and even the winged demons around Lucifer felt abnormal to him.
He no longer had the arrogance of facing middle- and lower-level demons, and he still spoke with caution.
"I see that Your Excellency Duowu yearns for Ziyue City, so why are you rushing back?"
Ziyue City is now more terrifying in Duowu's heart than the Dragon Pond and the Tiger's Den. It is simply an abyss that wants to swallow everything. There is no way he would want to go back.
"Purple Moon City is too hot, and the Screaming Grass Hill is more suitable for our people to live in."
Too hot is a false proposition in the abyss. None of the demons living here are afraid of heat.
Even the most charming and intelligent violent demon would not believe Duowu's nonsense.
Naturally, Lucifer wouldn't believe it. Of course, it didn't matter whether he believed it or not. No matter what reason Duowu used, Lucifer would not let him out of the way.
"Your Excellency Duowu, my prince is now the new owner of Ziyue City. Please let me invite the Thousand-Eyed Demon Clan to live in Ziyue City."
"We will carve out a territory for you nearby. From now on, the Thousand-Eyed Demon Clan will also be a part of Ziyue City."
Although the words sounded nice, Duowu couldn't tell. This was to make their Thousand-Eyed Demons become vassals of Purple Moon City like the cave demons and succubi of Purple Moon City.
Strong men in the realm are also very rare in the abyss. Among the hundreds of billions of demons in the entire abyss, the number of strong men in the realm will not exceed three digits.
Wherever he is placed, he is an overlord-level existence, and wherever he is willing to become a vassal easily.
However, if the opponent is a powerful king-level person, it seems difficult to refuse...
"Your Excellency Duowu, my lord values you very much. I hope you will not disappoint my lord."
The threat in Lucifer's words was already obvious.
Duowu didn't care about his anger, but was making quick calculations in his mind.
Return to Ziyue City and join the new king?
This is not a good choice. Although the Southern Territory King doesn't care much about the fighting between the various forces below, he doesn't even care about the killing of his own generals.
If Carlson died in Purple Moon City, it would definitely attract the attention of the Southern Territory Monarch. If he returned to Purple Moon City, wouldn't he be involved in the dispute between the two Monarchs?
But to forcefully fight out and escape back to the Screaming Grass Hill, you must first pass the level of the Winged Demon in front of you.
After meeting Lucifer, he didn't dare to look down upon this "Winged Demon" at all. He might not be his opponent if he wanted to fight.
And even if you kill the opponent, you will offend a great king to death. Unless he abandons all his people and wanders into the abyss, there will definitely be no good fruits to be gained.
But Duowu is a very responsible clan leader. He doesn't care about the vassals and cannon fodder demons, but he cares a lot about his own clan. If he is asked to abandon his clan and run for his life alone, he can't do it.
It may not be possible to kill him by force, and he will be targeted by a prince immediately.
Returning to Ziyue City, although there is a high probability that you will be involved in a fight between the two princes, it is better than being targeted by a prince immediately.
Now Duowu regrets it to death. If he had known that the dispute in Ziyue City would turn out like this, he would not have led others to plot against Ziyue City if he were killed.
Having made a decision in his heart, Duowu no longer hesitated and said to Lucifer:
"How dare the Thousand-Eyed Demon clan refuse the invitation from the Great Lord."
"Let's go back to Ziyue City!"
After that, Duowu greeted his subordinates very cooperatively and followed Lucifer back obediently.