Lord of the Sky City

Having withstood a demon's claw without a scratch, Rocky's heart sank instead, and as he brushed past the demon, he flicked out the magic energy short sword from his wrist and stabbed it towards the demon's chest.

Apart from the Magic Fang Scythe, the new version of White Demon was naturally equipped with other melee weapons, and the magic energy short sword used by Rocky was one of these. This type of short sword is about half the length of a regular mana sword and is specifically designed for close combat.

In the instant he brushed past the demon, Rocky plunged the magic energy short sword into its chest, facing almost no resistance before dragging it downwards, disemboweling the creature.

In a fleeting moment, a demon was easily disemboweled, and as Rocky retracted his short sword, organs were yanked out of the torn chest cavity. The demon screamed in agony as it flapped its wings twice in the air before plummeting from the sky, scattering a mass of entrails...

"Captain, these are all normal demons!"

After killing the demon, Rocky immediately contacted the Fierce Tiger Squad, informing everyone that these were just normal demons.

Having fought with high-level demons before, Rocky was acutely aware of their terrifying power. That's why he had intentionally not dodged the attack earlier; he wanted to determine the strength of these demons. After the encounter, he realized they were merely normal demons.

But this was precisely the worst-case scenario!

If even normal demons could fly, then what safety remained in the skies?

Right at that moment, shortly after Rocky had slain the first demon, more of them arrived, giving him little time to ponder; he was immediately embroiled in combat with the approaching demons.

Confirmed as normal demons, he gripped the Magic Fang Scythe to face the oncoming demons with a sweeping strike. A flash of cold light, and within the scythe's wide attack range, several demons were cleaved in two.

At this time, the Fierce Tiger Squad arrived in hot pursuit, with Kyle at the forefront. He charged at a demon, leapt into the air, and landed behind it. Next, he delivered two swift cuts with his serrated blade, slashing gaping wounds into the demon's wings.

With its wings cut, the demon immediately lost balance in the air, but before it could flap its wings a few times, Clara's mana whip struck, not to slay the demon, but to bind it. The demon was then dragged away by Clara!

Neither Rocky nor the Fierce Tiger Squad were strangers to demons; in fact, they were quite familiar with them. However, they had never seen this type of demon before. Hence, as commanded by the commander, their primary mission was to capture a demon alive, and only then to eliminate any disruptive demons.

For the Fierce Tiger Squad, handling these normal demons was naturally easy—the team caught one alive almost immediately upon engagement, and Clara brought it back. Once this primary mission was accomplished, the members of the Fierce Tiger Squad began their massacre.

In the face of the Fierce Tiger Squad, these normal demons posed no threat, so the squad members quickly spread out, each facing a horde of demons alone.

However, this is not to say these demons should be underestimated. Although they weren't as individually powerful as Rocky and the Fierce Tiger Squad, demons had carried an inherent advantage ever since they first appeared a hundred years ago: their numbers!

The same was true at this moment.

Although Fierce Tiger Squad and Rocky, along with the Imperial Knight Order on the other side, each had the ability to take on a group of Demons on their own, the number of Demons was simply too great. There were so many that even though each of them could handle a large group, there were still clusters of Demons flying past them, and within minutes, they were submerged in the dense mass of Demons.

The Demons that overran them then set their sights directly on the remaining Void Magic Warriors on the battlefield, as well as the fleets from both sides!

On December 21 of the Sky Era Year 118, above Tulip City, a human force composed of tens of thousands of warships engaged in an unprecedented battle with a roughly equal number of Flying Demons!

In the hundred years before this, people had never experienced a war like this, for although there were occasionally Demons that took to the sky, they were exceedingly rare, usually only a single high-level demon, and even the rare flying Normal Demons, there were only a few dozen or at most a few hundred. But this time was completely different.

This time, the number of Demons flying out of Tulip City and into the sky was in the tens of thousands!

These sky-bound Demons were dark red all over, and when tens of thousands of such Demons appeared in the sky at the same time, it was as if a blood-red cloud had formed. This blood-red cloud quickly engulfed the Void Magic Corps, then the warships, and finally even Sky City that was part of the battle was swallowed up!

What was even more unfortunate was that, although the battlefield was being contested by the most elite forces in the sky, neither the Alliance Army nor the Imperial Army had any experience dealing with this kind of battle...!

The outcome of this lack of experience was unimaginable and devastating.

The first to suffer a heavy blow was the Void Magic Corps, which met the Demons head-on.

Even though the Demons they faced were Normal Demons, their claws might not hurt Rocky or the Fierce Tiger Squad because these individuals were clad in High-Level Armor. However, had their opponents been typical Void Magic Warriors, it would have been a completely different story.

Typical Void Magic Warriors wore only Mass-produced Armor, which was not only extremely vulnerable to a Demon's claws but what's more critical was the sheer number of Demons.

In this battle, the Alliance and Imperial Armies together fielded three hundred fifty Void Magic Squads, meaning there were three thousand five hundred Void Magic Warriors. Yet, the number of Demons they were facing was in the tens of thousands!

More than three thousand Void Magic Warriors against tens of thousands of Demons meant that even if a portion of them went towards the Fleet, on average, every Void Magic Warrior had to contend with at least two Demons attacking from different sides—a pressure that was simply too great for common Void Magic Warriors.

As such, when the battle began, the Void Magic Corps immediately fell into a desperate struggle. Even as Rocky, the Fierce Tiger Squad, and the Imperial Knight Order were slaughtering masses, the other Void Magic Squads quickly began to suffer casualties.

Yet, even so, compared to another battlefield, the blow suffered by the Void Magic Corps was not the greatest. The forces that truly took a heavy beating in this fight were the fleets of the Alliance Army and the Imperial Army!