Chapter 37 - The First Battle of Hell Blood Slaughter Part 2

Lu Hong, wielding a Level 8 giant sword, charged into the demon army like a War God, decapitating a mighty demon with a single swing.

The other students formed small teams and clashed head-on with the demon army, but no one besides Lu Hong could break through the first line of defense formed by the mighty demons.

“Tu Ku Lu!” Nono exclaimed in panic, “Isn’t this a suicide mission?

He’s just joking with his life!”

“Nono, don’t be rash!” Fidel grabbed Nono who was about to leave the team.

She was only Level 8, while Lu Hong was already Level 11.

It would really be suicide for her to break away from the team cooperation.

“I’ll go and lend him a hand.” Lock Fan originally followed behind Lu Hong but was blocked by a mighty demon.

Lock Fan had intended to use a 10-meter-long Ice Seal sword to break through, but he underestimated the mighty demon’s strength.

He hadn’t even swung his sword when the demon tightly grabbed him.

So, Lock Fan coldly scoffed, changed his technique, the 10-meter Ice Seal sword instantly shattered into countless tiny ice spikes, blasting a gap in the demon army’s defensive line.

“Everyone, follow me!” Lock Fan called out, and the students from Kains Academy, who were deadlocked with the demons, charged into the demon army’s lines like a flood of steel.

“Ranged professions, maintain precise output.

Don’t hit our own people!” The accompanying teacher didn’t join the fight immediately but focused on protecting the ranged professions at the back.

The ranged professions would truly be like sheep for the slaughter if the demons got to them, so they had to be protected at all costs.

“And you priests, Druids!

What are you looking at?!

Hurry up and add healing skills to the students at the front!” In a brief moment of collision, Lu Hong’s team of nearly a thousand melee professions had already lost hundreds.

The teachers watched in pain, regretting coming to this dangerous hell.

“Understood,” answered the priests and Druid, who were all flustered and startled by the clash between the demon army and the melee students—the girls had never seen such a bloody scene before.

Under the teacher’s scolding, they came to their senses and quickly targeted the students in the fight, casting healing and supportive BUFF skills.

With the help of the support professions, the pressure was slightly reduced for the melee students on the frontline.

“Tu Ku Lu!” Nono slammed down her shield, killing the nearby crawling spider.

Nono was always at the forefront of the crowd.

She initially wanted to break away from the team to find Lu Hong, who had been swallowed up by the demon army, but Fidel, being more rational, called over a few Level 11 Knights to tightly guard her on both sides.

Although the demon army was large, their levels were not high.

The strongest Level 3 and Level 4 demons were mostly at the rear of the army, so the casualties of the large group of Kains Academy students were still not too severe.

Moreover, after initially familiarizing themselves with the battlefield, the team’s coordination became more proficient.

The Knights were responsible for resisting the surrounding attacks, the magic fighters for the heavy firepower output, and the Rogues and Hunters for dealing with enemies attacking from all directions.

Every time a Knight was wounded, healing light would timely shower down to ensure their vitality.

As for our Lu Hong, as mentioned before, the strongest demons were concentrated at the rear.

At this moment, Lu Hong was completely surrounded by hundreds of Level 3 demons.

These demons looked very different from each other, countless flames and claws were slashing at Lu Hong from various directions.

“Sweep!”

Lu Hong’s fighting spirit surged, a 360-degree no-dead-angle attack instantly cleared the surrounding demons that had pounced on him.

“Roar!” Suddenly, the encircling circle of Level 3 demons was torn open, and a massive Level 4 demon wielding an iron bar furiously smashed it down at Lu Hong.

With incredible speed, Lu Hong had no time to dodge!

A loud boom erupted from the rear of the demon army, Level 3 demons around were directly blown dozens of meters away by the blast wave.

However, Lu Hong took this fierce attack head-on.

The opponent was a Level 4 demon with incredible strength.

Even with his orcish bloodline, Lu Hong was hit so hard by this strike that he was forced to kneel halfway to the ground, blood trickling from his mouth.

“Human, you are strong to have withstood my attack, Xia Tuoke.

You should be proud,” said the demon.

“Stopping your attack is nothing.

I’m going to kill you!” Lu Hong powered up from his kneeling position and shot straight into the air.

“Shoot him down!” At the command of the demon commander, Xia Tuoke, a large group of demons in the rear aimed a salvo of molten lava fireballs at Lu Hong in the air.

“Shit!” Lu Hong instantly regretted it.

Why hadn’t these demons used their ranged attack method earlier to strike their ranged professions?

Are they crazy!

“Earth Shield!

Up!” At this critical moment, Lock Fan finally reached near Lu Hong, summoning an ice armor to block the demon’s attack, then directly used an Earth element sword pointed at Lu Hong.

In this way, Lock Fan sacrificed his safety, summoning a multitude of Earth Shields to block all the molten lava fireballs, while he himself was pierced through the right shoulder by a demon after they shattered his ice armor.

“Jump Slash!” Lu Hong gathered his energy and aimed at the demon commander on the ground, falling like a meteor.

This powerful demon commander, too proud to dodge, swung his huge iron club in response.

The club clashed fiercely with the giant sword, and the impact of their engagement splashed around like water.

“Holy shit!” Lock Fan was truly frightened by the shockwave, hurriedly using all his strength to thrust his long sword into the ground to stabilize himself.

As for the other demons, they didn’t have time to react and were each pushed back a hundred meters in disarray.

“Damn humans!” The demon commander seemed to be at a disadvantage during the clash, half-buried into the ground.

“Go to hell!” Lu Hong kicked away the demon commander’s iron club while airborne, then looped back with his sword to decapitate his enemy.

“All demons, full attack!” This demon’s head issued a final command as it fell.

“Not good!” Just as Lu Hong flew up, he realized there were still many formidable demons behind him.

While he could survive, the students of Kains Academy might not.

“Let’s go.” Lu Hong grabbed Lock Fan and hurried back at full speed.

Upon receiving the demon commander’s orders, the demons roared in fury.

Those in the back ranks began to move, trampling the frontline demons, and launched a deadly charge at the students of Kains Academy.

“All students, fall back!” Lu Hong shouted a warning as he rushed to the front lines of the battlefield, just as huge demons, taller than ten meters, charged forward.

“Fall back quickly!” The teachers panicked, recognizing the level 4 strength in these massive demons.

While a few students might manage, a charge by thousands of such demons was an absolute disaster!

“Ice Seal!” The teachers acted, with the ice mages activating their Second Transition, Level 11 skills—a blue light sweeping over the charging demon army.

Moments later, absolute cold descended, freezing the horde of demons solid.

“Retreat quickly!

I can’t hold this much longer!” The ice mage shouted; his skill seemed effective, but the sheer number of enemies and the dispersed magical output meant he couldn’t keep them frozen for two minutes.

Hearing Lu Hong’s command, all students from Kains Academy didn’t hesitate and retreated from the battlefield.

As for the lower-ranked demons trying to entangle them, they were tightly controlled by the students who volunteered to cover the retreat.

“You as well, retreat!” Another knight teacher arrived, urging the rogue students to retreat faster.

Raising his shield, he cried out, “Holy Light, I pray to you with utmost devotion, Light Protect!”

Second Transition Knight—Holy Light Knight!

With the activation of the Holy Light Knight’s skill, a thousand-yard-wide Holy Light Barrier descended from the sky, completely blocking the demons’ pursuit.

“Are you hurt?” Nono quickly reached Lu Hong’s side and relaxed only upon seeing his blood-stained body was from the demons.

“The teachers will cover; we’ll pull out of this hell immediately,” Lu Hong declared as he led the close-combat students back to camp, announcing the retreat.

“Good!

We cover, everyone hurry and retreat!” The teachers, wise to the severity, recognized that if the eight academies had united, they might have had a chance to resist.

However, from the start of the war, the other seven academies had been devastated by deadly assaults, now barely able to defend themselves, let alone withstand the demon army.

“Is there anyone willing to come with me to rescue them?” Lu Hong shouted, gesturing towards the heavily afflicted seven academies.

“Me!”

“Me!”

Although these academies had previously mocked them, they were, after all, human.

“I need only a hundred-person spearhead team!”

“Count me in.” Under the Priest’s healing, Lock Fan had recovered most of his external injuries.

“Alright, let’s go save them.” Lu Hong nodded, pulling together a team of a hundred and started rushing towards the embattled seven academies.

As for the other students of Kains Academy, they escaped through the hell rift at top speed, retreating to their own world.