I Have a Golden Crow

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Demon Spirit Realm - Zone Five.

At this moment, chaos reigned outside the flag platform area, snow forests toppled, a scene of utter devastation.

The Red Team’s formation was like a set of concentric circles, no less than three layers of defense circles, guarding the central flag to the death.

Outside the defense rings, the Red Team was already locked in close combat with the Blue Team, Demon Pets of all shapes and kinds roaring, and all sorts of Demon Skills flooding this part of the field.

From atop the flag platform, the red flag couldn’t be seen at all.

It’s not that the flag had snapped or toppled, but the entire flag platform was shrouded in thick earth, looking like a smokestack thirty meters high.

The ”smokestack” stood at the very center of the battlefield, but it looked like the only thing uninvolved in the fight.

Outside the northernmost ring, low earth walls stood tall—all constructed by Earth Element Demon Pets—to help keep enemies hundreds of meters at bay.

Red Team students ducked behind the earth walls, controlling their Demon Pets, constantly firing off Demon Skills outward to block incoming attacks.

”Hold them off, they’re just about to retreat!” An Ran shouted loudly, clutching a staff and bracing himself sideways against the wall.

”Yeah! Hold the line! Hold!!”

”Damn it, eat another blast from me!” On this chaotic battlefield, shouts and battle cries echoed, voices ragged and hoarse.

An Ran snuck half his face around the wall, scanning the outside situation. His once-handsome face was now caked with dirt—a total mess.

”Meow!” The Lightning Cat on his shoulder yowled, leaping up onto the two-meter-high earth wall.

Lightning crackled in its vertical pupils, blasting out two thick arcs of electricity.

Glory Gold·Purple Lightning Beam!

A loud ”boom”!

The purple lightning beam instantly split apart a Fireball.

In a flash, firelight and crackling currents filled the air...

At the same time, in the northern snow forest, nearly a hundred Blue Team students lay in wait!

”Junrong, now’s the time!” Liu Junzhen stood atop a fallen tree, speaking out.

All around him, toppled trees littered the ground in total disarray.

Clearly, this had once been part of the battlefield too, but under the Blue Team’s powerful assault, the Red Team had been forced to fall back to the flag platform’s open area.

Liu Junrong gazed from afar at those earth walls ahead, looking just like anti-cavalry spikes from ancient times.

There were even sharp mud spikes outside the earth walls.

The scene was truly impressive, and no less intimidating.

Anyone else might have lost their nerve by now, but for Liu Junrong’s eyes...

Liu Junrong called out loudly, ”Everyone, spread out! Earth Rhinoceros Squad, get ready!”

Behind Liu Junrong, thirty-three Blue Team students rushed forward, falling into formation.

In just three to five seconds, thirty-three Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros appeared on the field!

”Moo~”

”Moo!” Each giant beast roared and stamped, restless and agitated.

Clearly, they had all sensed their masters’ fighting spirit.

On this field, tempers always only burn hotter the longer you fight!

The Red Team had held out for so long with no victory, watching teammates fall in defeat one after another. The Earth Rhinoceros Squad was already itching for a fight!

These thirty-three Demon Tamers with Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceroses had been handpicked out of seven hundred Blue Team students by the Liu Juncai’s direction, with Liu Junzhen and Liu Junrong personally selecting each, forming a dedicated assault team.

The Little Earth Rhinoceros, as Great Xia’s official starter Demon Pet, had absolutely monstrous potential.

Mortal Level·Little Earth Rhinoceros, Earth Level·Thick-Armored Earth Rhinoceros, Heavenly Level·Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros!

Once the Earth Rhinoceros Race hit Heavenly Level, that thick armor wasn’t just for defense anymore. It could unfold into shield plates, and, powered up with mighty Demon Skills, transform into sharp blade-like armor!

Liu Junrong, high-spirited, brandished his long halberd and pointed forward, voice loud and wild: ”Earth Rhinoceros Squad, charge!!”

”Woooo~~~”

”Moo!!!” Thirty-three Blue Team students sent the order simultaneously through their Contract.

The Earth Rhinoceros army roared, trampling forward with snow flying, surging forward like mad!

Leaving behind only a few dozen Demon Tamers in their place, watching their beloved Demon Pets rush into battle.

”Thump! Thump! Thump!”

”Thump! Thump! Thump!” The Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceroses were absolute heavyweights—their heavy steps pounded the snow, making a dull, ominous sound.

For a moment, even the ground seemed to tremble...

The Blue Team students parted to either side, faces gleaming with excitement, some even bursting out in laughter:

”Hahaha! Kill them all!”

”Crush every last one of them! Leave no survivors!”

”Damn, you guys think you’re tough? Let’s see you tough it out now!” With these jeers and curses from Blue Team, the Red Team students’ faces grew stiff.

”Gulp.” An Ran could not help but swallow a mouthful of spit.

Were all those previous attacks just warm-ups? The real trump card is actually this Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros army?

”Where did they even get so many Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceroses?”

”Fall back! Back up, don’t go head-to-head with the Earth Rhinoceroses...”

Feeling the quake underfoot, An Ran snapped back and shouted, ”Block them! Everyone, hit with max output!”

As An Ran roared, his Lightning Cat atop the wall blasted out purple lightning once again.

Suddenly, a storm whipped up—Demon Skills of all kinds flashing everywhere.

Some kept fighting, but plenty just bolted in panic.

More than a dozen Red Teamers with their Demon Pets scattered, sprinting for the inner circles.

An Ran seethed, yelling angrily, ”Nobody run! Zhou Yingjie don’t you dare run, use Little Wind Blow, we can stop them...”

”Meow!!!” An Ran’s words weren’t even out when his Lightning Cat fluffed up in alarm.

An Ran clung to the earth wall, anxiously craning his face northward for a look.

The drifting snow settled onto the Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceroses’ armor, sparkling strangely in the sunlight.

The Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros army was absolutely daunting!

Surging in an arrowhead formation, their thick armor not only shrugged off all kinds of Demon Skills, but slashing arcs of Demon Breath rose at the blade tip with each plated segment.

The true iron tide!

At this moment, the Red Team students huddled behind their earthwork were so frail, so powerless.

It was as if no Demon Skill—no matter how strong—could stop this terrifying charge.

The Earth Rhinoceros Race came with a bunch of flaws: huge size, clumsy, a bit slow on the uptake, and not exactly speedy.

In 1v1 combat, even maxed defense makes a Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros a sitting duck eventually.

But in war...

The Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros army reigned as the king of siegebreakers!

”Moo~!” The lead Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros, with armor plates raised, sliced apart an incoming water jet; the vines around its feet were yanked free with brute force.

It bellowed, its gigantic horn smashing the wall, the armor crushing every sharp mud spike into ”mud pies”.

The Blue Team... broke in!

”No, no!”

”Run, scatter, they can’t turn!”

The Red Team students behind the wall scattered, courage evaporated.

Central position, Ye Xihai turned grim, frantically giving orders: ”All Wind Element students, support the north! Little Wind Blow, ready up!”

In the northern woods, Liu Junzhen shouted, ”They’re in full charge, speed’s up! Earth Rhinoceros Squad, shift formation—Blade Armor Torrent! Crush them!”

Thirty-three Blue Team students used their Contracts, giving the command to their Earth Rhinoceros Corps.

”Woooo~~~”

”Moo!!!” The Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceroses bellowed wildly, slamming their limbs, and their heavy bodies actually left the ground by more than ten centimeters?!

You watched as these giant Earth Rhinoceroses curled up into irregular spheres, rolling forward like mad!

If this isn’t overwhelming force, what is?

”Help, help!”

”I surrender, come on...”

Earth walls crumbled one after another. Miserable shrieks rang everywhere. Demon Pets ran wild, students went flying.

The Lightning Cat screamed a warning at An Ran, but An Ran’s face turned ashen white. Staring at the gigantic rolling Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros bearing down—his mind went blank.

”Ah!” In the very next second, An Ran felt his body tilt, as if someone grabbed his collar, wind howling by his ears.

A snow-white figure darted before the iron tide, snatching the young man from the jaws of death.

”Thud!”

An Ran hit the ground hard, tumbling across the snow, and only then realized he hadn’t been picked up but had actually been yanked out by his collar—speared by a long spear!

”Meow~” The Lightning Cat ran up to An Ran, meowing over and over, trying to snap him out of it.

An Ran struggled up, his eyes following the snow-white deer hooves in front of him, upward all the way.

There stood the legendary White Deer Female General, astride her deer, letting the iron tide roar past mere meters ahead.

Let alone An Ran—even among all the students present, Red or Blue, who had ever seen something like this?

The rumbling Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros squad smashed right through the field, demolishing layer on layer of defense nets.

Their weaknesses were still obvious—turning was a joke—but in this setting, who even needed to turn?

The Red Team’s three concentric circle defenses looked solid, yet were shattered one after another by the Earth Rhinoceros army, like glass!

Ye Xihai gathered dozens of Wind-type Demon Pets, joining forces for a howling gust—but they still couldn’t slow the Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros charge.

Too late!

If such a gale had met them at the very start, maybe it could’ve stopped them.

But by now, the Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros army was fully rolling—the Demon Skill·Blade Armor Torrent was unstoppable!

”Bang!”

”Rumble!!!” Several huge booms in a row—the towering smokestack got smashed apart by the rolling Earth Rhinoceros squad!

The flagpole inside crashed down, earth tumbling everywhere, and in the midst of the debris you could just spot the red flag falling too.

Ye Xihai had already dodged away—seeing how things stood, he yelled out orders, ”Move aside, everyone in their path, just get out of the way, let them roll!”

The Red Team students to the south of the circles had no choice but to bow their heads for now.

Not just them—even Blue Team attackers coming from the south were scared silly, jumping aside and halting their assault.

Just like that, the Blade Armor Earth Rhinoceros Corps smashed right through the Red Team, steamrolling them face first!

They swept away one student after another, Demon Pets and all, and took down the Red flag...

The students sent flying tumbled messily across the snow, howling in pain.

The lucky ones who escaped the metal flood just gawked at the southern snow forest, utterly shell-shocked.

They’d only ever scrapped on small dueling platforms, but this first taste of real war made them finally realize—on the battlefield, they were so, so small...

Liu Junzhen and Liu Junrong strode confidently forward, flanked by Blue Team members just as stunned, all staring at the ruined battlefield.

Liu Junrong: ”Bro!”

Liu Junzhen steadied his own emotions, then shouted, ”All units! Attack!”

”Attack!”

”Attack! Attack! Attack!” With one shout, everyone rallied.

Shouts rose from the snow woods—Blue Team was in full beast mode!

Lin Shiwei looked back toward the northern forest, gaze fixed on the surging blue crowd, then said softly, ”Stand up.”

An Ran: ”Wha... what?”

Lin Shiwei’s fierce eyes flashed, and with a wave of her right hand, a spear of thunder and lightning wreathed with electrical arcs took shape.

”Nai~~~”

Dust Spirit Immortal Deer fearlessly charged northward!

Snow deer, red-cloaked—one woman to meet the enemy alone!

An Ran gaped at her solitary figure, watching her dive into the sea of the Blue Team assault.

He thought he finally understood what she’d said.

She said...stand up?

”Let’s go! Puppet! We’re going in!” An Ran exploded, blood surging, heart pounding, chasing after her with his Lightning Cat.

”Yeah, let’s go!” Suddenly, a voice called out from behind.

The Blazing Eye Steed’s hooves blazed with flames, blasting waves of heat!

Dong Yujun armed with his Flame Long Spear, Hu Haobin gripping his Flaming Saber—two men, two steeds, charged out from either side of An Ran.

”Hiiiiya~” Wind Trace Steed let out a shrill cry, leaping over An Ran’s head.

Mounted on Wind Trace Steed, Lin Shumeng’s short hair streamed behind her, bow drawn and arrow nocked. The Demon Soldier Array on the bow flashed to life.

And up above her head, Lin Shijiang was dangled like a kite—her Fire Fists ablaze, and swinging atop the Flame Flower Vine, she detonated right into the battlefield!