Chapter 946: Return to Clear Blue Skies!
Everyone thought this would be a protracted tug-of-war.
But who could have imagined that once Ling Zhan joined the battlefield, the tug-of-war instantly turned into a crushing victory!
For the Ten Thousand Demons' soldiers, losing their shared consciousness was like losing the absolute bond with their comrades. Facing the onslaught from the Demon-Slaying Legion and the Amethyst Legion, they were completely powerless to resist.
Their commanders—the demon emperors—were all ruthlessly mowed down by Ling Zhan, who fought like a god of slaughter. Each time he caught up to a demon emperor, he would simply throw out a plain SS+ tier fireball.
After that, Ling Zhan didn't even look back, immediately moving on to chase another demon emperor.
Any demon emperor hit by the fireball could only wait for death, since no matter what they tried, they could not remove the 'Endless Death' status.
All they could do was keep casting healing spells on themselves.
But what use was it?
With a 90% healing reduction suppressing their spells, and their heals also having cooldowns, all they could do was wait helplessly for death.
This key strategic point was thus forcibly taken by Ling Zhan, leading the Demon-Slaying Legion and the Amethyst Legion.
From the start of the battle to the finish, the whole process took less than half an hour.
It was a swift, decisive battle.
Although the Demonic Valley wasn't that significant strategically, winning the first battle so easily still greatly boosted morale.
The only thing left was to mop up the remaining enemies.
Chase them all the way!
Kill them all the way!
Woooooo!
The battle horn never stopped sounding!
The entire Demonic Valley was covered with demon corpses, snapped banners, and disgusting, still-twitching black flesh scattered everywhere.
Even when the remaining Ten Thousand Demons soldiers went wild and chose to self-destruct, against the 100% buff-covered Demon-Slaying and Amethyst Legions, it was like ants trying to stop a carriage—it did nothing at all.
In fact...
It didn't even cause the legionaries to lose a single point of HP.
Some demon soldiers even knelt down, opened their fanged mouths, raised their hands high, and shouted in their own incomprehensible language, "I surrender! I surrender!"
'Language Analysis' is a general skill that every Professional must have.
With this general skill, all Professionals can communicate without barriers.
So...
Members of the Demon-Slaying and Amethyst Legions could naturally understand what the demon soldiers were saying.
However...
"Commander Ling Zhan's order!"
"No surrenders accepted!"
"No surrender from any Ten Thousand Demons soldier will be accepted! Exterminate all of them! Leave none alive!"
Avina raised her flaming gauntlet high, her voice ringing in every member's ears.
At the meeting before this war to eradicate the demons, Ling Zhan and all the top leaders of the kingdoms reached a very unified decision.
That was: do not accept the surrender of any Ten Thousand Demons soldiers!
In the past, demon soldiers who surrendered were accepted because countless arenas and training grounds needed live demon soldiers as practice targets.
So, surrendered demons were used as tools.
Many internet influencers once deliberately tried to stir controversy about this practice online.
They said it was too cruel.
"If all the kingdom legions act like this, how are they any different from the Ten Thousand Demons?"
At first, those influencers really did manage to start a trend.
However...
The higher-ups of every kingdom soon dealt with these so-called influencers.
Not with brute force—
But by deeply investigating every influencer's background.
They even found out how many times someone wet the bed as a child.
As it turned out, these influencers couldn't withstand scrutiny.
Many spies of the Demon Arrival Organization were exposed.
In addition...
The top brass also made public all casualty reports from the past hundred years of battles.
These casualty reports...
Detailed every battle with photos and videos.
They showed Ten Thousand Demons soldiers mercilessly slaughtering legionnaires, devouring them as food, or torturing prisoners for sport.
After these cruel scenes were published, every Professional in the world was deeply moved!
Since then, anyone with a conscience never complained about refusing surrenders again.
Because the Ten Thousand Demons were nothing but beasts!
Cold-blooded, merciless beasts!
Crash!!
As Ling Zhan, expressionless, blew away a kneeling, begging demon emperor, he turned to survey the battlefield.
In the Demonic Valley, the Demon-Slaying and Amethyst Legion members were dealing with the aftermath with utter coldness.
Any who weren't completely dead were given a swift coup de grâce.
All members of the Amethyst Legion were veterans, calm and steady as always.
Although the Demon-Slaying Legion had fought in the battle at Lemoris Fortress, most of them were still newcomers to the battlefield.
Before, their experience of war was just small skirmishes, following behind other legions.
Now, fighting on their own without Ling Zhan's protection, and able to kill as they pleased, they still maintained that same calm and coldness—something that Ling Zhan deeply admired.
Back at the Hundred Ghosts Fortress, when Ling Zhan first went to battle, he saw the way most new recruits reacted.
About ninety percent of new recruits, after one brutal battle, would break down emotionally.
They would sit limply on the blood-soaked earth, faces twisted with tears and breakdown, swinging their blades wildly at corpses as if to avenge their fallen comrades.
For these prodigies to be so calm now proved their training had paid off.
It's said the Demon-Slaying Legion trained every day by slaughtering demon soldiers.
To develop a tenacious, battle-hardened mindset.
Clearly, it worked.
The battle ended quickly.
But cleaning up and securing this Demonic Valley outpost took a lot of time.
With the Ten Thousand Demons routed, the demonic miasma was finally cleared away, and the blue sky returned.
It made many people emotional...
"How many thousands of years has it been since blue sky was last seen here?"
"After so many years, sunlight is finally shining down on this land again."
Even though the sun here is artificial, seeing the sky turn blue under the artificial sun still moved many to sigh in relief."