Chapter 1 The Opening

When the space gate leading to a distant alien planet opened, the demon legion, wrapped in sulfur and thick smoke, swarmed out of the narrow gap of time and space. The entire earth trembled under the pressure of this terrifying army, and the air was filled with scorching heat and the aura of destruction. This scene was enough to shock anyone at any time—especially Bai Huo right now. She stared dumbfounded at the shocking scene before her, which only appeared in fantasy stories. For a moment, she even suspected that this army was here to destroy the entire world.

Perhaps such a large-scale scene had occurred in the ancient mythological era, but for Bai Huo, who was born in modern times, she couldn't imagine the great battles that took place tens of thousands of years ago, but she could clearly see what kind of alien legion Hao Ren had summoned.

The huge space rift was like a broken lightning bolt, slashing obliquely across the vast ice sheet of the Arctic. Hundreds of dazzling electric lights jumped between the rifts, and unstable energy窜流 splashed everywhere between the space rift and the ruins of the summoning array, making this plain seem to be ravaged by ancient divine thunder. Demons and soldiers of various races continued to pour out of the space rift, and their heavy footsteps caused the entire ice layer to tremble constantly, as if it were about to collapse the earth.

And those soldiers were obviously not performing such cross-gate combat missions for the first time. After leaving the space rift, they immediately judged the surrounding terrain, and then began to reorganize their formations in a complex and efficient manner and spread to the surroundings, so as to leave space for subsequent troops. Each brigade maintained real-time contact with the troops on the other side of the space gate while transferring, to prevent congestion at the gate and even more deadly turbulence accidents.

Bai Huo saw all these detailed arrangements. At this moment, she had calmed down from the initial shock and subconscious panic, and immediately asked: "Do they often cross the gate like this to...attack other places?"

She carefully swallowed the word "invade" that almost jumped out of her throat.

"Do you think I'm a villainous demon king who has nothing to do and opens a dark portal to invade with a legion?" Hao Ren glanced at Bai Huo with his arms folded. "There's a reason why this army is used to going through the gate—their hometown is fragmented, and the gate is the most common form of transportation. All the armies there know this tactic."

"The world I know is too small," Bai Huo sincerely sighed, "If it's such an army...it should work."

Hao Ren and his group were standing on a high ground on the periphery of the transfer area. Half of this high ground was flattened in the previous explosion when the transfer device tore through space, making it suitable as an observation point for the legion's transfer gate. Izhaks stood on the edge of the high ground, overlooking his army coming out of the space gate, as if he remembered the glorious years when he conquered the world. A smile couldn't help but appear on the old demon's face: "These guys are all very excited."

At this time, Nangong Sanba, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Lao Wang, speaking of which, I have a suggestion, I don't know if I should say it or not..."

Izhaks waved his hand boldly: "Just say it!"

"Aren't those Fire Demons causing a little trouble here?" Nangong Sanba raised his finger and pointed to one side of the demon king's army, "If they stand there for a while longer, they'll melt through the ice and fall into the Arctic Ocean, right..."

Hearing this, Hao Ren looked up, and sure enough, he saw that the flank of the demon king's army was shrouded in a vast fog. Under the rolling fog, there were vaguely clusters of huge firelight shining. At first, when he looked at it, he felt it was really tm cool, maybe it was the secret weapon of the demon king's army. It was only when Nangong Sanba reminded him that he realized that there was a Fire Demon brigade standing there, and the vast fog was the water vapor they burned out of the ice sheet...

"Don't worry," Izhaks didn't mind at all, "Someone has already taken care of it."

Sure enough, there were people in the demon king's army who specialized in dealing with this kind of "terrain adaptation problem". When the Fire Demons burned a large area of the ice sheet with steam, and were about to burn through the ice layer, a group of graceful elf girls suddenly ran out from the rear of the army formation—in fact, there were also guys in there, but even if the elves were guys, it's okay to say they were graceful—these elves ran to the Fire Demon brigade and cast two or three hundred polar storms without saying a word, and the Fire Demons were immediately extinguished...

"There are only a few Fire Demons like my dad who can control themselves freely," Elizabeth shouted proudly, "In fact, most Fire Demons don't study the magic of transforming into humans. My dad studied transformation purely to pick up my mom..."

Hao Ren looked up at Izhaks' current face and sighed slightly: "Your dad was also very straightforward back then..."

Jokes aside, he had his eyes opened today. Ordinary people who come into contact with things like "magic wars" can probably only watch the excitement, but only by being in the midst of it can one realize how many details are involved: demons are inherently fond of releasing power, so most of them are not good at precise self-control; Fire Demons cannot move in cold regions, and when they have to be active on the ice sheet, they need magicians to help cool the outer shell; the Demon King learned to disguise himself as a human not to infiltrate human society, but to pick up human girls, but in fact, the main reason he succeeded in picking her up was that the girl herself had a problem with her aesthetic...

It seems that some strange knowledge has been mixed in here, but that doesn't matter.

When the front of the legion stabilized slightly, Hao Ren saw a figure suddenly flying up from the black mass of the united legion. This figure flew straight towards the high ground and arrived in front of Izhaks in an instant. The person who flew over was a tall and beautiful female demon with a hot figure, dark skin, impressive, light purple seductive lips, and soul-stirring eyes.

Hao Ren knew her, there was no way he didn't know her, this demon sister was too impressive: the only asexual succubus in history...

The succubus strategist bowed deeply in front of Izhaks: "Your Majesty, following your summons, your legion has arrived on this planet."

"Lanina! Long time no see!" Elizabeth jumped up to say hello first, "Your horns look even more beautiful!"

Lanina smiled slightly and touched Elizabeth's little horns: "So are yours, little princess."

The communication between demons really can't be understood...

Hao Ren stood beside her, poking his head and looking at the demon army that was constantly gathering on the plain. At this time, the bottom was already a black mass: "Speaking of... is this a hundred thousand troops?"

"Of course not," Lanina didn't complain about Hao Ren's lack of military common sense, but explained with a serious face, "Only a few thousand people have passed through the gate now. The subsequent legions will be transferred in batches over the next day until the gate closes."

Izhaks nodded, called Bai Huo to explain the current situation here with Lanina, while Hao Ren looked up at the direction of what was said to be the Ice Fortress—this vast ice sheet was unobstructed, and the line of sight could be extended to extremely distant places, but he could not see anything even when he looked as far as he could: the Ice Fortress, like most secret realms, was invisible to the naked eye.

But conversely, the demon hunters inside the Ice Fortress should have seen the movement on the side of the legion's transfer gate. Bai Huo had previously sent the message "reinforcements are about to arrive" through secret techniques, and now the fortress must be making some preparations.

Just as Hao Ren was thinking this, three meteors suddenly streaked across the sky and fell towards the direction of the Ice Fortress.

Bai Huo immediately noticed this scene: "Three starlights... are the signal from the fortress guards."

"Let's take a step first," Hao Ren immediately nodded to Lanina, "You lead the subsequent troops to follow, keep a little distance from us—the demon hunters have never seen the demon king's coalition, there may be a bit of an overreaction, we and Bai Huo will go over and say hello to them first."

Lanina nodded slightly, her temperament calm and reliable: "Understood."

Izhaks added: "Control those Ash Imps, don't let them leave the main formation—this ice sheet is very special, try to reduce the traces left by the legion here as much as possible, and the route of action must strictly follow the area I have drawn for you."

After leaving Lanina to reorganize the army, Hao Ren and his group then left the legion transfer gate area and advanced towards the Ice Fortress under the darkness of the polar night.

After driving for a distance, Bai Huo took out a special Laita rune card from her arms. In addition to depicting complex Laita characters, there were also abstract drawings of constellations and fortresses on this card. She ignited this card with holy flames. In the flames, the card itself was not burned, but the fortress pattern on the card gradually brightened as if it was absorbing the power of the holy flames.

As this rune card was lit up, Hao Ren saw the scene in front of him suddenly change drastically!