"Varek, you're still young; there will be more chances for rabbits in the future." Looking at the young dire wolfman who had fought bravely, Old Caius understood Varek's meaning. The wounded dire wolfman warrior must be sent back to the original world for treatment, as per the will of the gods.
If the war proceeded smoothly, Varek would no longer have a chance to return to the battlefield. It could essentially be said that he had no further part in this plundering mission.
However, Old Caius's face was grim. After just a brief encounter, their squad had already suffered significant casualties. Their opponents were not like the small goblins they had fought before. Although they were just bugs, the way they fought with reckless abandon gave Old Caius a bad feeling. This was likely going to be a difficult war.
"This is... a bug?" Orin, the possessed dire wolfman leader, was now holding a knife-wielding cockroach on a short spear and observing it closely. His hundred-man team had also been attacked by the swarm of insects, but since they were all elite dire wolfmen, the losses hadn't been too severe.
Looking at this unfamiliar species, Orin was troubled. The combat power of these insects was not strong. A single dire wolfman, with proper preparation, could kill one of them with only a few injuries at most. But in this divine realm, the real concern was how many of them there were. During the earlier ambush, almost 10,000 bugs had died at the hands of the dire wolfmen, but their own casualties had exceeded 3,000.
Was that all the enemies' combat strength, or just a part of it? Or perhaps it was just a test? Everything was hidden beneath the two-meter-tall grass.
At that moment, William was floating in the air, overlooking the battlefield. Through this probing action, he had gathered the information he needed.
"Some kind of dire wolfman kin, no special bloodline, average combat strength in the regular tier. Piercing wolf spiders and knife-wielding cockroaches can inflict effective damage, and the venomous dragonflies also perform well. A conventional divine belief development style. From the invasion portal's sensory input, their divine realm is about one-third larger than mine. Conservatively estimating, their kin number will not exceed 1.5 million, and their professional army won't exceed 150,000." William was confident in the data he had analyzed.
Without hesitation, he began drawing upon his divine power, and a large transparent tendril reached out from the surface of his divine realm, quickly merging with the enemy’s invasion portal.
The transfer channel between their realms immediately doubled in size. Orin instantly sensed the change in the portal, and a bad feeling arose.
He immediately issued a divine command for the dire wolfmen to retreat from the enemy’s divine realm. His 90,000 warriors were to prepare for battle and eliminate all hostile creatures entering their divine realm.
Before all the dire wolfmen could enter the portal, William had already activated the line of faith, and over 8 million insect units received his command.
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They began advancing toward the transfer portal at the edge of their divine realm. Countless venomous dragonflies and knife-wielding cockroaches soared into the air, heading toward the portal, while piercing wolf spiders on the ground charged in that direction.
The leader of the dire wolfmen, who had yet to retreat, looked up and saw the sky blackened by the swarming insects and the grassland quaking in the distance, rolling toward them like a tidal wave. A sense of unprecedented fear grew in his heart.
Seeing this, Orin also felt helpless. This was not a war; this was a disaster, an insect plague.
Watching the venomous dragonflies that were rapidly approaching the portal, despair flooded into his mind. He could already sense the end of his divine realm approaching.
Even if he wanted to sever the transfer portal now, there was simply not enough time to do so. Severing a standard invasion portal required a massive expenditure of divine power and more than half an hour. To sever the merged invasion portal, it would take even longer and require even more divine power.
At the same time, every enemy kin unit within a 10-square-kilometer area needed to be severed from his divine realm if the enemy didn't abandon that unit, in order to break away from the battle.
The fastest venomous dragonflies were the first to reach the portal. They didn't engage the dire wolfmen on the ground, instead flying straight into the portal. William's order for them was simple: spread rapidly within the enemy's divine realm and map out its geography.
With their speed and numbers, the venomous dragonflies needed less than an hour to cover the entire enemy divine realm.
Following them were the knife-wielding cockroaches, who also did not engage the remaining dire wolfmen but swarmed into the portal, where they circled in the sky like a terrifying insect ball, seemingly waiting for some signal.
The sound of their wings beating created immense psychological pressure on the 90,000 dire wolfmen soldiers gathered at the portal below.
Their task was to secure air dominance and assist the piercing wolf spiders in the attack.
As ground units, the piercing wolf spiders were far slower than the flying units. They had not yet emerged from the grass when the grass began shaking violently, approaching the edge.
The first piercing wolf spider finally broke free from the grass, followed by the second and the third. Like a tidal wave of insects, they rushed toward the transfer portal, their terrifying howls seeming to penetrate the eardrums of all the dire wolfmen.
They were the true main combat units, their target: eliminate all standing dire wolfmen.
The few dire wolfmen closest to them were frozen with fear, unable to move. The insect horde had no mercy.
Just a few meters from the frozen dire wolfmen, the piercing wolf spiders sprang into the air with astonishing leaping power, forming a wall of insects. They slammed down on the terrified dire wolfmen, engulfing them instantly.
The insect horde continued surging forward, unrelenting, and entered the portal, reaching Orin's divine realm, where the shrill insect cries reverberated through the sky.
The knife-wielding cockroaches in the air immediately received the signal, and the terrifying insect ball transformed into a massive screen, blotting out the sun as it descended.
In the 90,000 strong army of devout dire wolfmen, despair, fear, and panic spread across every face.
Faced with the terrifying insect tide formed by the piercing wolf spiders and the insect horde blocking out the sky, it only took a moment for the frontlines of elite dire wolfmen, composed of fanatic warriors, to be overwhelmed by the insect horde without putting up any resistance.
Seeing this horrifying sight, the dire wolfmen in the rear completely broke down. A large number of them turned and fled in the opposite direction, losing all courage to continue fighting.