#80 - Chapter 80 True Ignorance

Just as Wu Wei was commanding the Giant Demons to crush the remaining enemy forces on the battlefield, Gu Changqing's reinforcements finally arrived, rushing through the still-unconquered kingdom passages.

However, to his surprise, when he led the reinforcements to the battlefield, Li Qi had already been defeated and returned to his territory to respawn.

The steam-powered warband of the era that Li Qi had led was now nothing more than scattered wreckage.

The entire battlefield was littered with burning corpses and shattered mechanical fragments.

Within the wreckage of the steam tanks consumed by flames, gnomes and goblins were being burned alive in despair.

"..."

Watching the warriors slowly turn into charred corpses in despair, Gu Changqing was silent.

At this moment, he already understood the difference between himself and Wu Wei.

Because that terrifying army, which could have shattered his defenses in a mere ten minutes, was no different from toys in Wu Wei's presence.

Moreover, if it were just a difference in tactics, Gu Changqing wouldn't be so disheartened.

After all, in the realm of intellectual duels, there are many uncertainties.

What truly made it difficult for Gu Changqing to accept were the twelve Giant Demons wreaking havoc on the battlefield!

He wasn't a fool.

The moment he saw these twelve Giant Demons, Gu Changqing immediately understood.

These demons with twisted horns were actually units at least one era ahead of steam tanks.

And their appearance only meant one thing.

That was, Wu Wei, who had already defeated him twice in local battles, actually had even stronger reserves that he hadn't used from the beginning.

His assumptions had been wrong all along.

Wu Wei wasn't as "poor" as he had thought.

It wasn't that he couldn't produce high-level units, nor that he couldn't gather enough resources to upgrade his territory's technology.

On the contrary, the reason Wu Wei was willing to use those fragile and weak Lesser and Imp Demons to contend with them was simply because he thought it was more resource-efficient!

In other words, Wu Wei had never considered him, or the laughable alliance he had gathered, as an evenly matched opponent.

Their actions didn't even qualify to force him to use his trump cards.

If Li Qi hadn't suddenly appeared with his steam-powered warband in the underground kingdom, then Gu Changqing had reason to believe that even now, they might still be dealing with Wu Wei, who used Lesser and Imp Demons as the main force of his army.

And in all likelihood, the one who would win the war would still be Wu Wei.

Gu Changqing raised his head and looked at the Abyss Lord standing in the distance, atop the Dwarf King's city.

He was staring with his scarlet vertical pupils, scanning and directing the movements of the entire battlefield.

When Wu Wei saw the reinforcements brought by Gu Changqing, he was also taken aback.

Clearly, Wu Wei, who didn't know enough about the Gu family, didn't understand Gu Changqing's approach of sacrificing more soldiers to save a small group of "doomed" warriors.

But that was all.

After Wu Wei glanced at Gu Changqing, he shifted his gaze away from this "unthreatening" enemy.

"You damn bastard!"

Gu Changqing said through gritted teeth.

He certainly felt the contempt in Wu Wei's eyes.

It was true disdain, the look a strong person gives a weak person when the difference in strength is so great that they are ignored.

And what made Gu Changqing the most furious was that the Giant Demons under Wu Wei's command, upon discovering the arrival of the reinforcements, rushed over without saying a word.

These demons, who were constantly starving, had long desired flesh that was more delicious than gnomes and goblins.

Or rather, flesh that could satisfy their hunger more than goblins and gnomes.

They didn't care about the spellcasters in his army, nor the arrows in the hands of the longbowmen.

They didn't even care about him, the "Lord" standing at the front of the army!

One after another, the Giant Demons strode past Gu Changqing, heading straight for the army behind him.

They crushed everything, destroyed everything, and were indiscriminate in their hunger.

But not a single Giant Demon reached out a dirty limb to touch Gu Changqing himself.

This was obviously an order issued by Wu Wei.

Because in Wu Wei's opinion, rather than wasting a few seconds to attack a Lord who could be resurrected in the Lord's Trial, it was better to take this opportunity to destroy more of the enemy's warriors.

So even though Gu Changqing stood at the very front of the army, not a single Giant Demon attacked him.

And not just the Giant Demons.

The Lesser and Imp Demons that followed behind the Giant Demons also did not attack him.

He was completely ignored.

Never having felt so enraged, Gu Changqing immediately slashed his sword hard at the heel of a Giant Demon.

But the other party was thick-skinned and tough, and the Giant Demon didn't feel anything from this sword strike. Instead, Gu Changqing staggered and fell to the ground, stepped over by a Lesser Demon jumping over his head.

"Damn it, Lao Xie, you guys retreat first with the warriors we saved."

"What?"

Hearing this, the Gu family's relative was stunned.

"Aren't you retreating with us?"

"No!"

Gu Changqing gritted his teeth, unwilling to accept this, and cleaved a Wriggling Demon that flashed past him in half.

"I want to see how long this bastard can ignore me!"

Hearing this, everyone knew that Gu Changqing was starting to lose it again.

But in this situation, everyone couldn't care less about him.

After all, every second they delayed, the more casualties their army would suffer.

Anyway, during the Lord's Trial phase, Lords can spend resource points to resurrect infinitely, so everyone just let him go and let him vent some of the dissatisfaction in his heart.

So, under the enormous pressure exerted by the Giant Demons, everyone began a not-so-orderly reverse advance, retreating in the direction they had come from.

As for Gu Changqing?

Unfortunately, after he was separated from the majority of the troops, the remaining demons, temporarily without a target, naturally wouldn't let him be a practice dummy for his sword.

A Wriggling Demon flickered out from behind a Lesser Demon, and the next second, it appeared behind Gu Changqing, stabbing its dagger into Gu Changqing's body.

Gu Changqing cried out in pain, and after turning around and slashing the Wriggling Demon to the ground, he sat down, clutching his wound, and watched with disgust as his health bar reached zero.

And this Lord entered the resurrection process just like that....

No.

His resurrection process did not begin.

Because at the moment he fell, that seed suddenly came into play.

His soul, which should have returned to the Heavenly Dao system, was "timely" sheltered within this seed.

And his body was torn to pieces amidst the cheers of the Lesser Demons.

And that seed just fell to the ground.

No one, including Wu Wei, who possessed the Vision of War, noticed this.

If Wu Wei's attention was on this side, he, who could datafy everything on the battlefield, could have seen this scene.

But because Wu Wei was currently focusing his attention on the Abyssal Seed that was about to hatch, this scene was forever missed....