Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 685 - 143 - Heart of a Giant_3

Chapter 685: Chapter 143 - Heart of a Giant_3

The most unfortunate turned out to be the skeleton warriors summoned by the Dark Elves, holding broken shields and damaged swords. Bellamy and the Mastiff Warriors coldly surveyed them, bone chilling noises resounded as their bare gums clicked together, as if they were pecking at seeds. Instead of charging in, their appearances alone sent the skeletons shrinking back, this included even high-level skeleton warriors.

The innate nature of dogs cherishing bones is indeed deeply ingrained.

After the battle line had neatly retreated, all the militia gradually fell back into the mountain cave. The Drow warriors who chased after them were in great trouble-they could not use the "Fire Meteors" of the Difeng Giants because the splash damage was too much to handle in such a confined space. However, the familiars of a few mages and high priests didn’t have this drawback, sweeping an area clean as if the entrance of the cave had been swept by an angry woman.

Through a series of chaotic battles, Liu Zhenhan managed to understand the terrain of the entire valley. He was furious that neither the Difeng Giants nor the Antelope Warriors had the habit of drawing maps. Supposedly, they didn’t differ greatly from the blue-green militia in terms of individual combat power, but after several battles, it was clear how amateurish they were. Their movements were erratic and their defence was half-hearted at best. Once they encountered any change, they would immediately fall into chaos, reverting to every man for himself like in the primitive ages.

The terrain of the Lava Valley was actually pretty good. The valley was the product of an extinct volcano after many years of weathering. Perhaps it had been eroded for too long, resulting in the collapsed ridges around it. A massive extinct volcano mouth naturally formed a shaped mini-mountain range. Here, the volcanic stones weren’t as hard as the Obsidian found in the Flame Mountain Valley. On each of the two parallel adjacent ridges to the north, there were large lava caves that were formed naturally. The Difeng Giants’ home was situated within these caves. Over millions of years of expansion and refinement, the Giants had excavated an ample amount of space underground. The volcanic stones inside the cave had been polished over countless years, giving them a bright, lustrous glaze on their surface.

Looking at the shape of the valley from an overhead perspective, the gap between each mountain ridge was no more than twenty meters. It could be best described as a rough version of a "one-line sky". The entrance of the Difeng Giants’ home was right in the middle of this "one-line sky". Looking at their troop distribution, the attacking Drow army was confined by this "one-line sky", allowing the deployment of only a few hundred soldiers at a time. Moreover, they needed to consider a joint attack from the two caves. Their airborne troops were also useless in this scenario. The Lava Valley was indeed easy to defend but hard to attack and was many times safer than Flame Mountain Valley.

"This time, the attack of the Drow army is completely different from the past; they’ve become more cunning! Wallace, the Giant Chief of the Lava Valley couldn’t help but express his gratitude to Lord Beamon for his timely aid: "Without Lord Richard, we would have been at a disadvantage."

Defending passively is inherently passive. Liu Zhenhan muttered under his breath, noticing an abundance of wet hay by the cave entrance. He picked up a piece, looking at it carefully. It turned out to be a bundle of mushroom stalks tied with some vine. The bundle was clearly soaked before. One end had white burn marks. The smell of the vine wrapping around the mushroom stalks was pungent. He ripped off a piece and brought it to his nose to smell it. Sure enough, he was right.

"This is Eryue vine. We use it to smoke out beasts during hunts." Duncan saw his lord’s curiosity and quickly pointed at the vine to explain.

Liu had to admire the cunning of the Drow commander. The mushroom stalks, excellent fuel in the Underground World, were easy to combust, but a half-soaked mushroom stalk would only produce thick black smoke when ignited and wouldn’t produce a visible flame. If thousands of Eagle-Bull tribesmen each lit this sort of half-dry hay bundles and rained them down onto the "one-line sky" location of the two giant caves in a ceaseless assault, the wet mushroom stalks would emit thick smoke. With that many wings fanning frantically on top of the cave, coupled with the irritating smell of Eryue vine burned by ember, it was practically a mustard gas made in-house.

Giant caves didn’t have doors. To fend off this sort of dirty trick from the enemy, Liu Zhenhan pulled out five large windmills from his Space Ring and placed them in appropriate directions, prepared to create a wind source at any time.

This time, Liu Zhenhan didn’t seize any military-related resources whilst in Dorott Duchy, all he took was civilian-related goods. On this occasion, he’d managed to acquire ten windmills. These windmills could not only be driven by wind but also operated with water thanks to the numerous hydro turbines mounted on them. Human power could also be used to operate them. Since the elderly and women were all evacuated, space was plentiful. With fifty sturdy men rotating five windmills in shifts, Liu saw the setup as a giant electric fan on the front line. A fan on the great wall.

As long as the enemy intended on conducting smoke warfare again, the fire magic from Master Otigha and Lord Remel’s Nine-Tailed Fire Fox could easily generate a burst of flame. Followed by the gusts from the five windmills, the problem should be solved quite effortlessly. It was only a pity that Figo went to the Koutao Merfolk to collect Malong crystals and couldn’t come to Lava Valley. Otherwise, a single water column cast by him could solve every problem.