Titan King: Ascension of the Giant-Chapter 706: Prepare for battle

Chapter 706: Prepare for battle

Rumble!

A violent explosion erupted. Orion activated Battle Will Surge to shield himself from the blast’s impact.

Once everything had calmed, Orion strode forward and, from the dark fiend lord’s enormous head, extracted a Legendary-level dark source crystal.

“What a pity!” Leonidas said. “If Arthas weren’t asleep, he definitely could have turned this little kitty into an undead.”

Orion almost broke out in a sweat; the powerful dark fiend lord was just a “little kitty” in Leonidas’s eyes.

Orion, too, found it somewhat regrettable. If their side could gain an additional upper-Legendary powerhouse, this invasion would be somewhat easier.

Vexis did have the ability to form a contract, but she would first have to abandon the flying Aarakocra she had previously contracted.

With Vexis’s current power, she wasn’t strong enough to maintain contracts with two Legendary-level beings simultaneously.

“Leonidas, do you want the corpse?” Orion asked.

“Hmm… You took it down, you deal with it.”

After Leonidas returned from Stratus in the west, Orion had heard Vexis mention that Leonidas was collecting high-level corpses to feed his dragon brood.

“Using this fellow’s corpse to feed those dragon whelps is a bit of a waste,” Leonidas mused.

“Don’t you have a way to convert Skeletal Knights?”

“Use it as auxiliary material, and you’ll get a batch of even more powerful Skeletal Knights.”

“Oh, right, perhaps your kinsfolk in their deep slumber might also have use for it.”

Now that Leonidas mentioned it, Orion thought it plausible. Last time his sister Clymene and the others were fusing, they had lacked energy.

Perhaps they also lacked materials for physical evolution.

With this thought, Orion immediately stored away the dark fiend lord’s corpse.

“Bro, we won the first two easiest battles quite comfortably. The tough fights are next,” Leonidas stated with certainty, having experienced such situations many times.

He and Orion had consecutively wiped out two major dark creature groups, which would undoubtedly attract the attention of certain entities.

And indeed, events unfolded just as Leonidas had predicted.

North of Red Moon Valley, beyond the territories of the Nethervarg Soulflayers and the Zephyrkin Swifts, lay an ancient architectural complex.

This was the Watchtower.

Also known as Marshlight Sanctuary, it was the dominion of the Hellhound Knights.

In a dilapidated palace, a colossal statue of a Hellhound Knight sensed something, the stone and dirt encasing it flaking off bit by bit.

Once the stone debris had fallen away completely, it revealed the Hellhound’s bronze-colored skin, and atop it, a humanoid knight with bone spurs growing from his back, clad in bone armor.

Suddenly, the humanoid knight snapped open his eyes, revealing a pair of pale, bloodshot orbs.

“Who is slaughtering my people?”

“The Aarakocra and the dark fiends have been wiped out. This is no coincidence. Someone is invading my territory.”

“Stratus and Dex are also dead. Are enemies from the other two continents trying to meddle here?”

Awoooo…

The Hellhound Knight murmured, and the Hellhound beneath him, now fully awakened from its slumber, threw back its head and roared, announcing its and its master’s return.

A few moments later, the Hellhound Knight seemed to perceive something and whispered again.

“Wyverns… spiders… undead… all unfamiliar. Where did they spring from?”

“Despicable invaders, slaughtering my people while I slumbered, diminishing my faith.”

“You all deserve to die!”

“Relay my command, prepare for battle…”

As the Hellhound Knight issued his command, a powerful and terrifying aura surged outwards, sweeping through the entirety of Marshlight Sanctuary.

The next moment, the entire region plunged into endless darkness. A suffocating pressure permeated everywhere, and a sense of bloodlust and despair gradually welled up in the hearts of all dark creatures.

Far north, Ashenfang Traverse, Bloodreaver’s territory.

Deep within a mountain cave, the giant blood-red sarcophagus, hidden within a shimmering light shield, was trembling continuously.

Sensing the aura of the Hellhound Knight Arch Lord, the sarcophagus’s vibrations grew increasingly violent.

Crack! An odd sound emanated from within the sarcophagus, as if a hidden mechanism had been triggered from the inside.

Simultaneously, the blood-red sarcophagus ceased its trembling.

A few moments later, the coffin lid slid open, inch by inch, and a withered Bloodreaver, with goat-like horns and wings sprouting from his back, climbed out of the sarcophagus.

“An Arch Lord’s aura. What has happened?”

“Is it Kian? Has he awakened too?”

“The scent of anger, the taste of war… has conflict reached our Dusk Continent?”

“Perhaps I should venture out. Caution is warranted.”

The aged Bloodreaver climbed out of the sarcophagus. He had been hungry for a very long time; he needed to feed, needed to drink blood.

South, Gloomwood Forest.

The moment the Hellhound Knight and Bloodreaver awakened, Leonidas sensed their presence.

“Leonidas, what’s wrong?” Orion asked.

Just moments before, Leonidas had been standing with Orion on high ground, watching the dark fiend clans being slaughtered.

Leonidas had been gesturing towards the wyverns he had brought, chatting and laughing boisterously, full of pride.

But then, Leonidas suddenly fell silent, turned northwards, and stared intently at the northern sky.

“Bro, I was right. Two Arch Lords were indeed slumbering on this half-continent.”

“What? They’re coming?”

“No. One likely awakened upon sensing the changes in faith energy. The other was probably drawn by that awakening and woke up as well.”

Leonidas shook his head, his expression growing much graver.

The simultaneous awakening of two Arch Lords meant that the other dark creatures were highly likely to unite—this was the worst-case scenario.

“This is really going to be a tough fight!” Leonidas lamented, then turned to look at Orion.

“Bro, we can’t split up from now on, or we’ll be easily picked off one by one.”

“And the enemy numbers are vast. We absolutely cannot afford to lose Lich Vexis, or this war becomes unwinnable.”

“We need to stick close to Vexis, lure the enemy in, and pick them off bit by bit.”

Orion nodded. This was the crucial focus for the upcoming battles. As long as this tactic remained unchanged, they still had considerable room to maneuver.

The appearance of Arch Lords made Orion more cautious.

An unknown Arch Lord undoubtedly represented the absolute peak of power in a region.

It wouldn’t be surprising at all for such an entity to possess strange and unpredictable abilities.

This was also why Leonidas had warned Orion to be cautious and for them not to separate.

“Leonidas, do we continue our offensive, or do we wait for them to attack?” Orion asked, somewhat uncertain; the appearance of the Arch Lords had disrupted his plans.

“We press the attack,” Leonidas declared. “With Vexis, we can bolster our combat forces, especially in these early stages.”

“At a time like this, we cannot afford to miss any opportunity, any means to increase our strength.”

“Even the slightest advantage must be fought for.”

Orion looked at Leonidas, momentarily stunned. The composure Leonidas displayed was reshaping his perception of the Arch Lord.

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