Chapter 501 Three Matters
Compared to the first attack on the Lava Kingdom, the demons of the Nanyuan Alliance seem to be more experienced. Among the 800,000 demon troops, although most of them are the private armies of the demon nobles, some are the elites of various demon cities.
In particular, among this batch of troops, there are also the 100,000 demon soldiers who survived the first attack on the Lava Kingdom. These 100,000 demon soldiers can be said to have set an example for other demons. With experience, they can lead and guide other demon soldiers to avoid the magma caves that are everywhere in the Lava Kingdom.
The more than 20 demon kings sent by the Nanyuan Alliance this time are also flying in the air vigilantly, guarding against possible attacks. This time, the Nanyuan Alliance can be said to have come out in full force. If it fails again, it will really be unable to recover, and even be conquered by demon forces in other places.
In a lava river not far from the marching route of the Nanyuan Alliance's demon army, Illidan was secretly shocked. The Nanyuan Alliance is really going to do it, and it actually dispatched so many troops. Although I have learned a rough number from the Father God, imagination and seeing it with one's own eyes are two different things.
Actually, Illidan has seen wars involving millions of people on the continent of Eslaze, but how can those weak humans be compared with the demon army? Although most of these 800,000 demon troops are not elite, they can even compete with two human empires in Eslaze.
However, these troops are not the key, Illidan's eyes are deep. Although under the guidance of those so-called experienced demon soldiers, this batch of demon troops did not suffer as much as the first attack on the lava country due to environmental factors, but this does not mean that they can move freely in the lava country.
On the contrary, these seemingly huge demon troops, which are mostly composed of demon soldiers, are even easier to deal with in Illidan's eyes than the previous 300,000 demon troops. However, the epic-level strongmen of nearly 50 are really difficult to deal with.
All the demon kings of the Nanyuan Alliance, except for less than ten who stayed behind to guard against possible invasions by demon forces in other regions, were all dispatched. With the twenty heroes sent by the Undead, Illidan really couldn't find a way to fight back.
With so many epic-level strongmen, even if Illidan restored his original form and appeared as a mythical demon hunter, it would still be a tragedy. However, compared with the worries of other epic flame creatures in the Lava Kingdom, Illidan seemed more relaxed.
As an undercover, Illidan did not seriously try to build relationships with those epic flame creatures. Anyway, with the feathers sent by the Fire Emperor as a command, there was no need to worry that those flame creatures would not listen to his command.
Compared with those flame creatures who were truly loyal to the Lava Kingdom, although Illidan seemed to be united against the enemy on the surface, and even took the initiative to take risks as a temporary supreme commander to investigate the situation, he actually did not care about the fate of the Lava Kingdom.
Even if the Lava Kingdom was destroyed by the Nanyuan Alliance, the Nanyuan Alliance would definitely suffer heavy losses. Overall, the strength of the entire demon world will be weakened by a quarter or even more after this battle that was destined to be a lose-lose battle.
In Illidan's mind, or Yu Fei's mind, this battle is a life-and-death battle between the South Abyss Alliance and the Lava Kingdom, but secretly it has other meanings for them.
This secret meaning is actually divided into three items, and also has different priorities.
First, the most important thing is Yu Fei's purpose of coming to this demon world, the Heart of Darkness. He has almost determined that the Fire Demon Emperor must know the news about the Heart of Darkness, but he doesn't want to reveal it to others, even if this "other" is his subordinate and a fellow tribesman.
In this battle, no matter what the Fire Demon Emperor thinks, he must fight. Otherwise, the strength of the Lava Kingdom and the South Abyss Alliance, which has obtained the support of the Undead, is very different, and it will definitely be a one-sided situation. And if it fights, Illidan, who is an epic Fire Demon on the surface but a mythical demon hunter in fact, will have an opportunity to take advantage of it, or get the whereabouts of the Heart of Darkness.
The second, and secondary, is to explore the true strength of the Undead and the purpose of their sudden participation in this war.
As the undead who are likely to be time travelers like himself, Yu Fei is highly concerned. They suddenly changed their appearance and took the risk to participate in this war as the so-called Undead Demon Realm. Yu Fei couldn't help but care about what the hidden story was.
The last item is to consume the manpower of both sides. This item is also very important. After all, it consumes the overall strength of the demon world, but compared with the first two items, it is not so important. Secondly, it is easier to do with Illidan, a high-level undercover, so Yu Fei doesn't care much.
But now, the first and second items are difficult to do - the Fire Demon Emperor ignored Illidan's call and did not respond; the undead are hiding in the army of the Nanyuan Alliance and don't show up. As a last resort, Illidan can only choose to carry out the third task first.
If only relying on the hundreds of thousands of flame creatures that fought against the demon army in the basin of the volcanic area last time, Illidan would definitely not have the confidence to fight against the 800,000 demon army. With such a huge gap in numbers, the fire creatures are not organized night elves or blood elves with various special abilities. Even if Illidan showed his mythical strength, it would be difficult to turn the tide.
Fortunately, as one of the four regions of the demon world, the Lava Kingdom is much smaller than the Abyss Land, but it does not have only hundreds of thousands of flame creatures.
According to incomplete statistics, the number of flame creatures and some fire-oriented demons living in the Lava Kingdom is more than two million. If there were not such a large number, the Flame Demon Emperor would not have intended to unify the demon world.
However, when awakening the Flame Demon Emperor, most of the residents of the Lava Kingdom contributed their own strength to wake the Flame Demon Emperor in advance. This made them in a state of "loss of strength" for a while and unable to exert their combat effectiveness.
It is precisely because of this that the last time the South Abyss Alliance attacked, there were only hundreds of thousands of flame creatures to fight.
And this time, the South Abyss Alliance came with the prestige of 800,000 troops, but it could not rely on these hundreds of thousands of flame creatures to fight the enemy. Although many residents of the Lava Kingdom still have not fully recovered their combat effectiveness, after discussion with Illidan and other epic flame creatures, they still issued a conscription order similar to the conscription of demon nobles in the Demon City.