Chapter 2042 - 548: Alakdo's Most Useful Episode (Happy New Year!)_3

With the resources tilted towards the Demon King's Tomb and Lady Alachinos's diligent egg-laying, this spider army is armed to the teeth!

At the forefront marches the battle spiders, each with carapaces covered in fine steel armor crafted by the Great Graveyard workshop, with runes of "Solid" and "Sharp" in Netherworld Language glowing with eerie green magic light.

They wield scythe-like forelimbs, cutting down rows of Ratmen like harvesting wheat with every charge!

And behind, even more deadly forces wait!

Skeleton Archers mounted on the backs of smaller, agile spiders, follow the tank-like battle spiders, unleashing wave after wave of crossbow arrow rain within the narrow tunnels.

The night vision of the Undead surpasses that of the Ratmen!

Those little rats have nowhere to hide!

The Ratmen of Burial Peak have never seen such a scene before? Their prideful numerical advantage, feels as flimsy as paper in front of the steel flood that rivals their numbers!

"Wait, wait a minute! Don't kill me!!"

A Ratman General in half-armor is cornered, he drops his weapon and screams for mercy.

"Don't we have any misunderstanding? We have no old grudges or new grievances with you..."

"Misunderstanding?"

Alakdo's eight compound eyes flickered with cruel light, its mouthparts opening and closing, emitting a chilling low laugh.

"You forgot what happened outside Twilight City, but our Majesty remembers. Dare to touch His Majesty's belongings, this is the consequence."

The shifty-eyed General rolled his eyeballs, plopped to the ground, shaking and defending himself.

"Misunderstanding! This is absolutely a misunderstanding, my lord! We are not the Rot Clan! We, we have just established ourselves! We are the Desert Bite Clan! The attacks on humans were all done by that bastard Merk, nothing to do with us—"

Crack.

Nearby, a gigantic Shadow Weaving General clearly has no patience for his nonsense, biting his head off directly, chewing with a crisp sound like crunching bones, then burping contentedly.

"Boss, why do these little rats talk so much?"

"Tsk."

I'm not done boasting yet!

Alakdo glanced disdainfully at the headless corpse on the ground, ignoring the annoying subordinate, and continued advancing with eight legs.

The Weaving Shadow Clan can't be bothered to distinguish which clan they are, and believes that Lord Demon King doesn't care either.

At this time, a nimble scout spider rappelled down the rock wall, quickly arriving at Alakdo's side, making urgent chattering noises.

"Lord Alakdo! There's movement at the big entrance to the south! A large group of humans are running out from the prison inside, they look like slaves raised by these Ratmen."

"Numbers?" Alakdo asked in a low voice.

"Several hundred!"

As soon as they heard several hundred, a few Earth Cave Spiders nearby instinctively began secreting saliva, their compound eyes flashing with a hunger for food.

Alakdo simply scanned the area imposingly, the Gold Level pressure instantly calming down the restless subordinates.

"Our targets are those rats, swallow your saliva back, you bunch of useless creatures!"

The sound of swallowing saliva echoed, the spiders indeed swallowed it back, although the sound echoed eerily in the dark cave.

Alakdo turned to the scout who conveyed the message, continuing to command in a deep and authoritative voice.

"Ignore those humans, let them run!"

Alakdo remembered Lord Demon King's orders at all times, the goal of this operation is to settle accounts with the Ratmen, control key facilities, and pave the path for the vanguard troops.

As for the humans, they're not the target.

Leaving them is more of a nuisance, better to let them escape on their own.

"Understood, boss! What about those humans in the cages, should we release them?" the scout spider continued to ask.

"No need, leave them there... Hmm, throw them a few rats, don't let them starve, Lord Demon King has use for them."

Alakdo has absolute confidence, he is the Demon General most understanding of the Demon King.

After all, a typical Demon General only holds the title of Demon General, even Sarah is merely a pet, whereas he, Alakdo, is not only a pet but also a mount above that!

Upon receiving the command, the scout spider immediately raised its forelimbs, performing a standard Demon King Army salute.

"Yes!"

The mighty Earth Cave Spiders continue toward the depths of the cave, soon engaging in close combat with the reinforcements from the Clan Rat troops.

Blood flows like rivers in the cave, piled high with the corpses of Ratmen and Earth Cave Spiders.

Shrek's subordinates fought with all their might, barely holding back the Earth Cave Spiders' assault, yet still the spiders managed to nest on several hills.

All the Ratmen wore expressions of shock, not knowing where these spiders came from, nor how many more of them were out there.

Fortunately, they don't know the truth, otherwise they would definitely despair again.

Earth Cave Spiders are merely the Demon King's construction crew, their leader has witnessed the methods in the Twilight Province once, the Demon King hasn't even brought out his full power for them yet...

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The slaughter at Burial Peak continues, the Earth Cave Spiders nesting at the foot of the mountain did not annihilate the Ratman soldiers, but instead went directly to the sacrificial altar and laboratory, cooperating with Little Demons and Hell Dwarves' engineers to lock down the area around Burial Peak.