Ten hours earlier, it had received reports of a strange noise and a large fireball in the direction of the Wolfheart, and a supply force had been heavily damaged, while it was still in a city west of Eternal Winter receiving the allegiance of the human lords.

To be honest, Hekzod didn't want to bother with something the size of a sesame seed, and he wouldn't have been here in person if it weren't for the debriefer's repeated mention of the strangeness and unusual destructive power of the explosion.

Dealing with humans is enough to annoy it, but it's the only one on the entire Western Front that can do it. Not every subordinate is as smart as Ersluk and will always learn something useful and useless - most of the promotions see humans as bugs, let alone learn their language.

Its generals are no exception, all loyal and unquestionable, but they are only limited to combat, let these guys negotiate with the humans, or in half a day, they will be angry and tear each other to pieces.

However, man is a very easy creature, and although this race is weak in character, it is very good in its brains, and in the early days of its development they can replace the work of many inferior beings, and it is not in the interest of the race to destroy them all.

At the end of the day, it's all Wakiris's fault.

It was the Maharaja who was the best at it, but now it was still soaking in the mayfly pool, and Hekzod always felt that his patience was getting closer to the bottom line.

However, when it flew over Fangs, it immediately realized that something was wrong.

The floating in the city seems to be very thin, as if it has been cleaned up by something. The city was even more in shambles, with washed-out houses and charred wooden frames everywhere.

After the group descended, Hekzod noticed that the ground was warm and a strange pungent smell came to his face.

It quickly found the source of the flavor.

A group of strange-looking inferior beings were curled up and frozen in the streets, their skin blackened and peeled off, apparently burned to death by the fire. But strangely, there are no obvious ignitions around the inferior bodies, except that the masonry is dirt, and it is difficult to imagine how the flames burned on them.

And there's more than one such sight.

"Totorok, you and your men will each take ten men to search for the movements of the human army, and if you find one, report to me immediately. ”

"Obey the master. ”

"Sissis, investigate what the hell is going on, and by the way, look for any ones who are alive. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The promoter quickly took the lead, and Hekzod walked slowly down the long street towards the city's most devastated North District.

According to the report, it was an inferior supply team that was attacked, and these poor creatures who could never be promoted were at the bottom of the pack, equivalent to labor or slaves among the human race. They were in charge of transporting a batch of Black Shine Stone and Minor Mayfly Pools into Fangs City so that they could then set up a camp where the Ascendants or Ascenders could rest.

This can also be seen from the wreckage at the scene, where the cut and impregnated obsidian was scattered everywhere, and some of the inferior ones were still in the same way as they were when they were carried. The lack of fighting meant that the humans were not in direct contact with the supply caravan, and the battle broke out very suddenly and ended unusually quickly.

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the other party has set a trap here, rather than gathering a large army under the nose of the Boglewinged beast, and Totorok will most likely find nothing in this search.

But the more this happened, the more it frightened the Lord of the Heavens. It would rather enemies come in droves, at least easier to spot. Hekzod didn't care about the life or death of the inferior, but there was no room for failure in the battle on the Western Front, and if a trap like this was hit by the main force, the consequences would be unimaginable.

There is no doubt that the enemy used "fire" as a means of attack - Hexzod is no stranger to fire, and they have used fire to conquer human cities in the past battles of the Divine Will. It's just that because life mayflies don't like high temperatures, they are rarely seen in the group.

But it was the first time it had seen a flame that could burn inferior bodies in the air.

Unless you turn the whole city into a giant furnace.

But how is this possible?

If humanity had such means, it would have to let the king know that the Western Front was in danger.

Wait a minute...... Flame?

A picture flashed through Hekzod's mind—the one he had seen while searching for Kabradabi's memories in his consciousness, a ball of fire bursting out like a rising sun.

Don't...... What Kabradabi saw at that time was exactly this kind of flame weapon?

It couldn't help but feel a chill rush over it.

Just as the Lord of the Sky Dome was in shock, Siasith's voice suddenly interrupted its thoughts, "My lord, the basic situation has been ascertained, this supply team has a total of three hundred and fifty inferior bodies, and there are also more than a dozen primordial bodies to protect it. No survivors have been found, but I think I've figured out the bugs' methods. ”

"Oh? ”

"Please follow me. ”

Hexzod followed Sissis to the northern wall, where some protozoes were digging for something, and around them, a pile of pitch-black metal shards were scattered. Farther away, several siege engines scurried alongside the road—old war equipment had become specialized carriers since the cultivation of more powerful and nimble symbiotes.

"Look," Sissis stretched out his tentacles and grabbed a piece of shard on the ground with obvious melt marks on the fracture, "if you put them together, it should be a container." And there are hundreds of such things lined up along the edge of the city. I think the bugs are probably stuffing it with snow powder and combustibles, intending to cut off the supply team before attacking it. ”

Since the fight with humans, the weapons they use are naturally no longer unfamiliar, and in the process of chasing and killing each other, Hekzod has also captured a lot. Both the "Fire Branch" and the "Fire Crossbow" use the explosive object of snow powder as an introduction, which is obviously much more cumbersome than a magic-powered weapon. Because of this, most of those weapons are very elaborately structured, which is also a technique not seen four hundred years ago.

"If it's just an ordinary flame, how can it cause so much damage?"

"My lord, this flame is probably not ordinary, at least the temperature is much higher than that of ordinary flowing fire, but even so, it cannot kill all inferior beings in the air. I think the key point is probably in the siege engines. ”

"What do you mean?" asked Hekzord. Siassis is a psychic sorcerer, and most of the promoted people who have evolved from this branch possess a keen sense of observation, which is why the Lord of the Celestial Dome sent him to investigate the battlefield.

"When the powder was detonated, it probably affected the siege trucks that were passing through the city gates, which were usually used to transport heavy loads, either mayfly ponds or storage tanks. The heat caused them to burst into flames, further exacerbating the disintegration of the mayflies of life in the area. The other party's rapidly swinging tentacles hissed constantly, "You know, when the temperature is high enough, anything can be ignited, including us. ”

Sissis's explanation relieved Hexzod slightly, and regardless of whether the explosion was a coincidence or not, at least the massive fragments of the barrel reassured it a lot. The need to plant a large number of them in advance and to be able to project them at any time are completely two different concepts, and as long as they are carefully guarded against, it is difficult for such traps to pose a threat to large forces in the field.

Of course, it also knew that it would not be easy to quickly inspect a human city - a threat would not be completely eliminated by prohibiting the close transportation and stacking of mayfly pools and storage tanks, and it did not think that simple-minded protozoes and inferior individuals could do the same.

The most effective way is to use human beings themselves.

"My lord, what are we going to do next?"

"Slow down your entry into the city and let the humans check it on our behalf," Hekzod quickly decided, "There is no way to bring in more inferior people from other places for the time being, and this loss will be replenished by Snow Castle, I think Earl Marvion will be happy to serve me." ”

"Besides, didn't we capture some of the enemy's weapons?" the Lord of the Celestial Dome paused, "There are quite a few nobles who seem to hate the Grey Keepers, so I'll leave it to them to try." ”