Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2176 - 670: Two Against One (Part 1)
As October sets in, the stalemate on the Aegean Battlefield continues.
At dawn, Jushi Qiang Sen adjusted his equipment, and along with four comrades similarly camouflaged with paint, they quietly crawled out from the tunnels of the Sea Clan’s base camp and into the grasslands of the Donau Wasteland.
This is an ideal battlefield for the death hunt game, where the dense yellow vegetation effectively conceals the large forms of the Burrower Clan. The brisk autumn wind violently shakes the shrubs and withered grass, making it difficult for enemy lookout towers to detect the movements of the "Jushi Hunting Group" through the waves of grass.
After a long and cautious crawl, Qiang Sen stopped his legs. Four well-trained comrades immediately understood his intention, quickly spreading out to form a Christmas tree battle formation.
"Boss, isn’t it a bit too far?" whispered Qiang Daniel, the youngest member of the sniper group, positioned at the very front of the battle formation. His large compound eyes could easily gauge the distance to Sabak through the gaps in the grass clump.
Qiang Sen placed his sickle-like main claw in front of his huge mouth, glaring fiercely at Qiang Daniel.
In the death hunt game, exposing one’s sound is a dangerous act, equivalent to selling oneself out to the enemy. It is rumored that opponents have long begun using tactical hand signals. As a veteran archer, Qiang Sen had to admit that the Empire was falling further behind in this aspect.
Qiang Daniel also realized his mistake, but like every young person, he felt a little defiant after being reprimanded by a superior, especially since they were still quite a distance from Sabak, and Beamon archers did not have eyes that could see for miles.
The only female Burrower in the team, Qiang Turan, subtly signaled to the disgruntled Qiang Daniel. If the "Combat Code" didn’t strictly forbid casual communication during ambushes, she would have given this rookie a hearty scolding.
Yes, as a Burrower archer with a "Qiang" prefix, young Daniel already possessed excellent archery skills, indeed giving him a reason to be proud—however, who in the team wasn’t a "Qiang" Burrower archer?
Turan had arrived half a month ago under the command of the central command to support the Sea Clan in battle. The intention of the Demon Clan command was for high-ranking archers to assassinate Beamon high commanders, paving the way for the Sea Clan’s future sieging. However, in just fifteen days, Turan had already changed seven hunting groups, with comrades falling every two days on average.
According to insider information she privately received, the first batch of Burrower archers supporting the Sea Clan had arrived on the Donau Wasteland a month ago, but Turan so far had met only one who had been here longer than her—that archer was now the head of the Jushi Hunting Group: Sen.
Where did the earlier Burrower archers go?
Turan dared not ask, nor was there a need to.
When she first arrived, she was as naïve as Daniel today, thinking with her superb spearing skills, excellent ground-burrowing techniques, and gliding abilities, being assigned to assassination tasks was beneath her.
It wasn’t until she entered this death hunting ground and personally experienced several encounters that she realized how childish and ridiculous her thoughts were—there are numerous documents in the Demon World recording the characteristics of the various Aegean archers, and based on specific data from the last Demonic War, Beamon archers were undoubtedly weaker than Burrower archers.
Their war bows had limited range, not matching the five hundred-yard range of the Burrower clan’s jet-propelled spears.
Their arrows lacked power; standard arrowheads couldn’t penetrate the Burrower clan’s proud natural exoskeleton.
They had no claws to burrow and hide underground.
They had no wing sheaths to glide with the wind.
They didn’t raise Carnivorous Ladybugs either!
All they had were miraculous archery skills and sharp senses.
In the last Demonic War, nearly all Burrower archers who died fighting Beamon fell to single eye-piercing shots, prompting the Empire to strive to address this flaw, which is why today’s Burrower archers each have a pair of crystal goggles.
Before coming, Turan believed that current Burrower archers could not possibly be challenged by Beamon archers, but harsh reality thoroughly shattered her pride!
Faced with the piercing power of Beamon archers’ Jing Gold arrowheads, the Burrowers’ exoskeletons were as vulnerable as clay chickens; the once far superior range of the Burrowers’ jet-propelled spears now only reached half of what Beamon archers achieve!
Most staggering was the Beamon archer’s use of Arrow Gang, a powerful arrow Dou Qi capable of swiftly taking the lives of multiple Burrower archers at once, forcing the solitary Burrowers to now operate in five-man battle squads to venture out!
Turan didn’t know how long the mission would last; she only knew that if there were no changes, in less than a month, the Burrowers’ "Qiang" archers might be entirely depleted on this battlefield.
The rustling of soil from Team Leader Qiang Sen’s digging brought Turan back to reality. She suddenly grew tense, instinctively drawing a Vodka long spear from her pouch under her left flank.
Tunneling beneath Sabak City is a good idea, but Turan also knew that Beamon archers could discern a lot from even slight ground vibrations. Of her previous six team leaders, four were shot through the heart while digging tunnels.
