Chapter 525: A Great Start but a Bad End

In the Lava Kingdom, Demon King Dia was in a bad mood.

Originally, he thought that without the Flame Demon Emperor, the Lava Kingdom would be vulnerable. Demon King Dia also knew the status of the Flame Demon Emperor in the hearts of the residents of the Lava Kingdom.

But what he didn't expect was that facing the million-strong army under his command, the Lava Kingdom actually showed a strong sense of resistance and an indomitable fighting will. It was as if the death of the Flame Demon Emperor did not affect their fighting spirit, but instead stimulated the bloodiness of those fire creatures that had no blood at all.

The composition of the army under Demon King Dia was complex. Almost every demon king in the Central Region and the Western Region of the Wuyuan Land symbolically sent out a few thousand or tens of thousands of troops to form an army called a million.

The troubles in management are naturally needless to say. The name of Demon King Dia can still calm the situation. Although there must be more or less dirty things between the troops of so many forces, there was no big trouble under the suppression of Demon King Dia.

The key point is that these demons who have never been here before are not well prepared for the environment of the Lava Kingdom. The original Nanyuan Alliance was fine, because it was close to the Lava Kingdom, so at least it knew to select a large number of fire-oriented demons.

The demon soldiers who went to the battle this time all came from the Central Region and the Western Region, and almost no demon knew the real situation of the Lava Kingdom. Therefore, it is natural that they are not adapted to this hot environment.

There were even some oolong incidents of some troops falling behind or even getting lost because there were no demons familiar with the terrain. And a large part of the demon soldiers who fell behind mysteriously disappeared.

Moreover, the number of soldiers in the Demon Alliance was as high as one million, but there were only thirteen demon kings. The disadvantages soon emerged. One million soldiers were distributed to thirteen demon kings, and one demon king had to take care of 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers-this was impossible.

You know, when the Nanyuan Alliance invaded the Lava Kingdom for the second time, they had more than 40 demon kings, including the twenty heroes sent by the Undead. But even so, they were still overwhelmed by Illidan's various sneak attacks and traps.

Now, the coalition army of Wuyuan Land only has thirteen demon kings who can effectively warn of sneak attacks and traps, and Illidan will naturally not let them go.

This coalition army, which is larger than the second expeditionary force of the Nanyuan Alliance, is completely inferior to the Nanyuan Alliance's troops in coping with Illidan's various guerrilla warfare and trap ambushes.

After all, the Nanyuan Alliance is close to the Lava Kingdom and knows a little about the situation of the Lava Kingdom; and they have had experience before, and those veterans who have experienced the first war can lead the new recruits. When Illidan found that this million-strong army was easier to deal with than the previous 800,000 troops, the pressure that was originally not much disappeared without a trace.

The great demon king Dia is now regretting that he did not bring some demons from the Nanyuan when he went on the expedition. When it issued a call to completely eradicate the Lava Kingdom, Nanyuan, which had already been severely damaged and had become a pile of scattered sand, did not respond to the call. The Great Demon King Dia did not care about Nanyuan, which only had a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled demons left, and simply did not include even a single demon from Nanyuan in the team.

Now, it is too late to regret. In fact, even if it brought some demons from Nanyuan, it would not have played any role in this expedition. The veterans who survived the first invasion of the Lava Kingdom by the Nanyuan Alliance were all brought in during the second invasion, and then the entire army was annihilated in the Lava Kingdom. Now there are no demons familiar with the Lava Kingdom in Nanyuan.

Facing Illidan's ubiquitous sneak attacks and traps that could be stepped on at any time, the Demon Alliance of the Unlimited Abyss has gradually become as nervous as the Nanyuan Alliance troops at that time.

Although Illidan did not need to delay time this time, he used various means more skillfully and attentively than last time. After all, he used to work for the Fire Demon Emperor, but now he is his own boss, which is completely different.

In this case, the performance of the Wuyuan Land Alliance was much worse than that of the Nanyuan Alliance. Even half a month had passed, and they had not even reached the volcanic zone.

This made Illidan speechless. Should we say that this Great Demon King Dia is confident, or should we say that he is stupid and bold? He has no idea about the terrain of the Lava Kingdom, and even doesn't know where the core area is, but he dares to lead the army in like this.

What Illidan didn't know was that the Great Demon King Dia had already meant to withdraw his troops at this time. But thinking that he hadn't even touched the edge of the main force of the Lava Kingdom, if he withdrew his troops like this, it would be a huge blow to his reputation. Therefore, after considering for a long time, the Great Demon King Dia still couldn't make up his mind to retreat.

It was not until the news that the blood elves suddenly became extremely powerful and swarmed out of the abandoned land to attack the Central Region came that the Great Demon King Dia found an excuse to order a withdrawal in addition to being nervous.

When Illidan first discovered that the Abyssal Land coalition had withdrawn, he was cautious, thinking that this might be the enemy luring him to attack so that he could have a head-on confrontation. Although the overall strength of the Lava Kingdom was certainly not inferior to the million-strong army of the Abyssal Land, the two sides were completely on a different order of magnitude in terms of war potential, and a head-on fight was obviously unwise.

However, after observing for a while, Illidan discovered that the coalition forces of the Abyss Land were actually retreating. Thinking of the blood elves wreaking havoc in the Abyss Land, Illidan no longer doubted it and began to recruit soldiers and generals to chase the coalition forces of the Abyss Land.

In the end, combined with various sneak attacks and traps before, 200,000 soldiers of the Abyss Land coalition were lost in the Lava Kingdom, but they did not achieve any results.

For this kind of loss, the Great Demon King Dia did not care at all, and even the demon kings who lost their troops did not care much. There were seventy or eighty demon kings participating in this coalition, and the loss was nothing to each demon king.

However, this expedition, which was originally grand and loud, ended like this, which seemed a little anticlimactic.

Not only Illidan thought so, but many demons in the Abyss Land also expressed dissatisfaction. But the Great Demon King Dia had the excuse of the blood elves invading the Central Region, and those dissatisfied demons could only calm down this emotion in the end.

The old nest of the Great Demon King Dia, Dia Demon City, is in the Central Region. We can't let the first demon king lose his old nest, right?

After the return of the Great Demon King Dia, the blood elves were under great pressure. Because the influence of the Great Demon King Dia is more effective in the Central Region. In the troops that went to the Lava Kingdom before, eight of the twelve demon kings were from the Central Region.

Now these demon kings and many demon soldiers from the Central Region have returned, which is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Central Region where the war is continuous. The momentum of the blood elves' advance was quickly curbed. Even in some places, the areas that had been occupied by the blood elves were taken back by the demons.

Fortunately, the blood elves are only facing the demon forces in the Central Region. Nanyuan can now be ignored. The demon forces in the West and the Central Region have a lot of friction in the fight for territory in Nanyuan, and they have no intention of supporting the Central Region for the time being.

As for the Northern Wasteland, the momentum of the undead attack is very fierce.

All the demon kings in the Northern Wasteland add up to less than forty. But the number of genuine heroes of the Undead Clan plus a large number of cloned heroes whose level cap has been raised to level eight has exceeded forty.

Even if the thirteen newly created cloned heroes still need some wars and time to reach level eight - that is, the level of the Demon King, the twenty Demon Kings and a large number of undead creatures that the Undead Clan has revealed are enough to form a crushing posture in the Northern Wasteland.

Therefore, the Northern Wasteland has no leisure and ability to support the Central Region. On the contrary, the Northern Wasteland even needs support from other regions of the Wuyuan Land. However, the demon world is now full of wars, who will help the Northern Wasteland to fight against the Undead Demon Realm?

Thanks to the book friend Yongyuan Dadu for the monthly ticket and evaluation ticket; thanks to the book friend Miaosha Tudou for the magic cake!