#48 - Chapter 48: Split

As the demons blew the horns of war,

the armies on both sides of the battlefield within the King's Passage rapidly ended their stalemate and began a bloody melee of close combat.

Large numbers of demons, blessed with plagues, wielded blades of disease, bringing death and decay to this powerful allied force composed of hundreds of lords and the dwarven kingdom.

On the other side, the dwarven kingdom's allied forces, at this critical juncture of life and death, cast aside the fear in their hearts and began to fight with all their might against this demon army that they had initially thought was just a bunch of small fries.

In the blink of an eye, two war machines with different attributes collided.

Regardless of how they viewed each other, what ultimately determined the outcome of these two war machines was still blade and fire.

But in the midst of the battle between the two armies, a strange split began to occur within the dwarven allied forces.

"Bomb them to death for me!"

"We absolutely cannot retreat here today!"

Some of the lords said fiercely as they looked at the demons in front of them.

The reason they said this was because they believed they had a very good chance of winning.

The demons' attributes were not excellent.

They could even be said to be very trash!

Due to the premature pursuit of the size of his forces, over ninety percent of Wu Wei's current army was still firmly occupied by lesser demons.

So although this wave of demons' attack seemed to be about the same size as the dwarven kingdom's allied forces, the difference in quality between the two sides was actually very large.

Even though Wu Wei had spent a great deal of demonic slave labor, letting them be infected with the plague and die to create more than a dozen huge plague demons.

But the appearance of these dozen behemoths still couldn't change the overall situation.

Because corresponding to these dozen plague demons were the elite warriors under a hundred lords and the hero units they possessed!

More than four of these huge plague demons had already been killed by the hero units in the first wave of contact between the two sides on the battlefield.

As for the remaining plague demons, even though Wu Wei had desperately used lesser demons as meat shields to protect them, their health bars were still dropping rapidly.

It was foreseeable that these plague demons would inevitably die on this battlefield along with their kind.

"We can win!"

This was the only thought in the minds of all the pro-war factions.

Even if Wu Wei used such despicable plague to contaminate almost all the warriors, even if his subordinates were all ugly and deformed monsters.

But in the face of the absolute strength of both sides, he was definitely not invincible!

But apart from that pro-war faction, there was another faction with completely different opinions.

"We must retreat!"

"Otherwise, we will suffer huge losses and may even be wiped out here."

Unlike the pro-war faction, the other more calm and rational faction believed that they had already lost this war.

In the eyes of this faction, this battle was already over.

Now they were just struggling chaotically in the quagmire called war.

And their theoretical support lay in the current number of casualties of the allied forces and the battle damage ratio between the two sides.

Currently, the number of deaths of the allied forces' warriors was only one-tenth, which was not a large number.

Even this one-tenth included the warriors who died of illness during the advance.

But these lords had already noticed the continuous impact of the plague.

Under the influence of the plague, more and more allied warriors began to die suddenly, and the number of warriors who died from the plague also increased geometrically, far from reaching the turning point of this plague.

In other words, as the war time prolonged, this batch of allied forces would continue to suffer greater and greater losses.

Moreover, in addition to the deaths caused by the plague, there was an even more important point that made the rational faction think that they should retreat at this time.

That was, for some unknown reason, these demon warriors sent by Wu Wei were not immune to the plague.

These terrifying dark monsters, like the dwarven allied forces, were also plagued by the plague.

But this was the most terrifying thing.

Because all the dwarven allied warriors who were infected with the plague, regardless of their symptoms, all showed a decline in combat power.

On the other hand, those twisted and dirty demons, not only were they not negatively affected by these plagues, but they also became stronger because of the appearance of the plague.

In other words, these plague symptoms, which were extremely terrifying in the eyes of ordinary creatures, were essentially benign lesions that could strengthen demon creatures!

After analyzing this point, many lords immediately realized clearly.

What they were conducting was a war that could no longer be delayed.

Although the quality of the dwarven allied forces was much higher than those demons, the gap between the two sides was rapidly decreasing under the influence of the plague.

As time continued, the strength of both sides would sooner or later reach a critical point, a critical point of certain defeat.

This was the real reason why this faction wanted to retreat quickly.

And Li Qi was a staunch supporter of this faction!

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"What?"

"You want us to all retreat, Li Qi, are you kidding us?"

A lord questioned Li Qi in front of the dwarven king, while the dwarven king and other lords also looked at Li Qi with unkind expressions, wanting to get a reply from him.

"Yes."

"I want you all to retreat, but I'm really not making fun of you."

"Because we have already lost, and now if we continue this war, then we are just suffering losses in vain."

Li Qi said neither humble nor arrogant, and at the same time he handed a carefully calculated data to everyone present.

Not every lord could understand these complex data.

So Li Qi thoughtfully put his prediction results at the end of the data.

"In no more than five hours, we will lose more than fifty percent of our army."

"If the contact time between us exceeds twelve hours, then we have more than a 60% chance of being wiped out here."

"But if we retreat directly at this moment, and send out forces to rescue our warriors in time, then we will save 80% of our strength."

"Those demons don't have much ability to stop us."

He didn't lie, in fact, he didn't need to lie.

Because data doesn't lie.

In his prediction, the ending of the battlefield would inevitably be such an ending.

But Li Qi didn't expect that his kindness would instead lead the war to another extreme.

"Lord Li Qi."

The dwarven king looked at him with a livid face and said.

"You have been officially expelled from the Dwarven Alliance!"

"And from now on, you will no longer have any trade relations with the Dwarven Alliance!"

"Now you are an enemy of the Dwarven Alliance."

What made the dwarven king make such a decision?