The man-bodied spiders, possessing the handsome upper bodies of humans, quickly took command of the spatial world's monster army.
One by one, spatial dwarfs riding earth-sky wolves emerged from the ground, forming two cavalry armies of nearly a thousand riders each.
"Do not engage them head-on, strike from the flanks!"
Two man-bodied spiders dashed out.
Their massive bodies stood three meters tall, and as if treading on invisible threads in the air, they rushed into the two armies of spatial dwarf knights.
They led the dwarf knights on a flanking maneuver, charging from both sides to avoid a direct collision with the gargoyles and undead lizardmen.
Under the command of the skeletal shamans, the gargoyles and undead lizardmen spread out to both sides, forming a barrier in front of the dwarf knight army.
The two sides were on the verge of collision.
"Burrow!"
A man-bodied spider barked an order.
In an instant, the dwarf knights gripped the manes of their earth-sky wolves and dove into the earth, attempting to bypass the defenses underground and strike at the heart of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment's army.
However, the forces of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment, having already secured intelligence on their enemy, were not without defenses.
The earth-sky wolves could only rely on spatial power to burrow for a short duration.
Therefore...
Undead lizards carrying poison smoke monsters began to spew vast amounts of toxic smoke, cloaking the entire battlefield.
Gargoyles, wood soldiers, skeletal lizards, and others were deployed.
Every one of Dalun Li's ground units lacked a body of flesh and blood.
This meant his monsters were all immune to poison.
Meanwhile, the wyverns, which possessed bodies of flesh, occupied the sky and remained completely unaffected by the toxins on the ground.
As the dwarf knights emerged from the ground, they were immediately engulfed by the thick toxic smoke.
A sensation of paralysis quickly surged through their entire bodies.
Then, skeletal lizards lunged out from the poisonous mist, swinging their weapons to knock the dwarf knights off their wolves.
The dwarf knights brandished their poisoned spears, but before the skeletal lizards, such weapons were a complete joke.
The spears merely passed through the gaps in the bones or chipped a rib, while the undead lizardmen were already closing in with their weapons.
The dwarf knights could only cling to their earth-sky wolves and burrow back into the ground to escape.
The man-bodied spiders commanding the two dwarf knight regiments widened their eyes in shock.
Poison mist!
Protected by the cover of the toxic smoke, the army of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment advanced steadily toward the core of the spatial cluster.
"Blow the poison mist away first!"
The man-bodied spider acting as the commander-in-chief for the spatial cluster's forces quickly issued an order.
Man-bodied eagles took to the sky by the thousands, stirring up violent gales over the shattered earth.
The toxic mist shrouding the Well of Eternal Imprisonment's legion was quickly dispersed.
Although the man-bodied eagles possessed humanoid forms, they lacked human intelligence.
Seeing their actions take effect, they flew wildly through the air, cackling incessantly.
However, they soon found themselves unable to laugh.
From the direction of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment's forces, wyverns with crimson scales, looking as if they had crawled out of hell, began to appear in the sky.
The wyverns flew at incredible speeds, their massive wingspans blotting out the dim sky.
Leather and iron saddles were fastened to their backs, carrying lava skeletal shamans who brandished red stone staves.
"Roar!!"
Accompanied by the roar of a wyvern, a skeletal shaman riding atop one raised its staff.
Three fireballs shot out from the staves of shamans on three separate wyverns, instantly engulfing a man-bodied eagle.
The pitiful man-bodied eagle let out a scream as it was consumed by the flames, plummeting to the ground and turning into a bloody pulp.
That pulp was immediately trampled by the advancing army of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment.
The man-bodied eagles roared in fury, flapping their wings as they lunged at the aerial wyvern knights.
The lava skeletal shamans steering the wyverns were all intelligent monsters.
They had already mastered all the intelligence regarding the man-bodied eagles' skills.
Facing the charging eagles, the lava skeletal shamans quickly pulled their wyverns back, staying alert for the eagles' ability to teleport during high-speed flight.
Simultaneously, another group of wyvern knights flew in from the rear.
These were the heroic gargoyle wyvern knights, armed with four-meter spears and riding armored wyverns.
These wyverns were a size larger than those of the lava skeletal shamans, though they were slower.
After all, the heroic gargoyles were heavy, lacking the lightness of the skeletal shamans.
But their defense and attack power were top-tier, making them akin to an aerial tank division.
Their numbers were few, totaling only seventy.
Yet, these seventy charged resolutely into the swarm of nearly a thousand man-bodied eagles.
The man-bodied eagles shrieked in rage, pouncing on the wyvern knights.
Moving at high speeds, their bodies vanished and reappeared right before the wyvern knights, their sharp talons slashing down.
However, they were met only with an impenetrable wall of steel.
And sharp spears that instantly pierced through their bodies!
Crimson blood sprayed from the puncture wounds as the heroic gargoyles and their wyverns roared in unison, slamming into the man-bodied eagles.
The wyverns bit and flapped their wings, tearing the eagles' aerial formation to shreds.
The heroic gargoyles swung their spears, impaling every man-bodied eagle that drew near.
The wyverns and the armored heroic gargoyles worked in perfect synchronization, a union of dragon and monster that was terrifyingly powerful.
These mere seventy wyvern knights actually managed to halt the nearly thousand-strong eagle swarm head-on.
Seizing the opportunity, the lava skeletal wyvern knights summoned fireballs and hurled them into the eagles from the edges of the aerial battlefield.
Countless man-bodied eagles turned into fireballs amidst their wails, falling to the ground and being crushed into pulp.
They were too strong!
The enemy's aerial legion was far too powerful!
The commanding man-bodied spider watched the one-sided massacre in the sky, a wave of horror washing over its heart!
What was the deal with this monster army that had suddenly descended upon their world? Why were they so powerful?
They had to be stopped at all costs!
The man-bodied spider noticed that this monster legion was far from reaching its end.
Behind the front lines, a steady stream of monsters continued to descend into their world.
It was as if they were infinite, constantly teleporting in to fill the ranks and push forward!
"Eagles, begin the retreat. Let the trolls take the lead. Dwarf knights, fall back and intercept."
"Then, mobilize our underground forces!"
The man-bodied spider quickly issued the commands, which were executed by its counterparts.
The man-bodied spiders were the strongest intelligent monsters of the spatial cluster, responsible for the tactical coordination of all units.
Standing four to five meters tall like giants, the eight-eyed trolls entered the fray.
They swung massive stone clubs, acting as a heavy wall to block the advancing gargoyles and undead lizardmen.
Their eight eyes locked onto two undead lizardmen holding shields.
In an instant, the space around the lizardmen seemed to freeze, pinning them in place.
The massive clubs smashed down, instantly reducing the two undead lizardmen to a pile of shattered bones.
"Roar!"
The trolls let out excited roars, swinging their clubs with unstoppable force and crushing undead lizardmen one after another.
Whether it was the undead lizards or the gargoyles...
While they were hard, they shared a common weakness: blunt force.
At the same time, the entire earth began to tremble.
Countless rock vines burst through the ground, tearing the earth apart as they entangled the advancing monsters of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment and dragged them into the gaping fissures.
Had they turned the tide!?
"Now is our chance!"
The man-bodied spider commander-in-chief brandished its longsword.
But at that moment, massive skeletal lizard mounts carrying skeletal lizardmen and skeletal shamans surged out from the cracks in the earth.
The ground knights of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment had arrived!
The emerging skeletal knights quickly launched a counterattack against the spatial cluster's monsters.
However, against the might of the eight-eyed trolls, the skeletons were still at a disadvantage.
But...
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Nine consecutive thunderous booms shook the earth as if to shatter it, and massive bodies blotted out the sun, their flowing lava resembling waterfalls.
They were like descending mountains, incredibly massive.
The lava giant tortoises of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment.
An eight-eyed troll was instantly crushed by a mountain-like lava giant tortoise.
Atop the mountain-like shells of the lava giant tortoises, wyverns took flight.
The massive wyvern leader, with a body several times the size of a normal wyvern, blotted out the sun with its wings.
As it dove, it looked like a falling red meteor.
Opening its maw, it spat out destructive flames like molten lava, incinerating the spatial cluster's monsters into ash.
This did not look like a monster invasion.
It looked as if hell itself had cracked open, allowing magma and death to take form and crawl out.
"What... what kind of monster is that...?"
The man-bodied spider felt a wave of despair under the crushing weight of death.
Yet the monsters did not stop, an endless stream of them continuing to descend into this world.
It felt as though it could see, far above these countless monsters, a monster emperor sitting high upon a throne, coldly looking down at the chessboard.
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