Chapter 392: Million Troops Arrive

"I say, you old-timers arrived just in time! If you hadn't shown up immediately, I'm afraid we would have suffered significant losses in this battle!"

When Long Kun left Cloud Ridge with the team earlier, he pilfered over a dozen jars of fine wine from the elders. Now, as he approached the old men, laughing and celebrating, he was met with perfectly synchronized eye-rolls and disdain from several elders.

"Hmph, don't forget your promise, kid. You can't go back on your word about the good wine you owe us, or else... hehe!"

Among the hundred or so people fighting on Xu Yang's side, over twenty were injured, but none of the injuries were life-threatening. For Xu Yang's team, this was an almost perfect record; no loss of life was the greatest honor in battle.

The third engagement concluded, and the morale of the hundreds of thousands of allied troops throughout Millennium Ridge soared to its peak.

However, the sense of crisis in Lord Xu Yang's heart also escalated to its limit.

How vast and boundless was the Endless Sea?

Even if the vast majority of creatures within it had not yet matured into combat forms, the Endless Sea could still deploy millions of fresh troops if needed. Yet, after these few battles, the combat power the enemy had committed was far less than Xu Yang had anticipated, not even reaching a tenth of their maximum combat reserves.

The more this happened, the more uneasy Xu Yang felt.

He realized that the string of easy victories had instilled a sense of arrogance and complacency among the allied soldiers behind him. Although this attitude hadn't spread widely yet, Xu Yang knew well that everyone was human; no one could avoid this instinct. Even within his own team, Long Kun and Xiao Tuan Tuan, among others, looked completely relaxed.

Perhaps only the Empress and Wushuang truly understood Xu Yang's inner thoughts. From beginning to end, they stayed by his side, offering advice and solving problems, but more importantly, providing deep emotional support and comfort.

"Is it really this easy...?"

Xu Yang leaned on the railing, gazing into the distance, and couldn't help but ask himself. However, he never doubted his judgment. For the Endless Sea to have fought in such a manner, there had to be hidden internal reasons unknown to the public, rather than a supposed lack of strength. Xu Yang became increasingly certain of this.

"Thinking about these things now is useless; it will only add more pressure on yourself. The soldiers' morale cannot be swayed by a few words from one person. Although I understand that the truly brutal part of this war hasn't arrived yet, what's coming will come eventually. We can't face what they must face on their behalf. I only hope that when the real confrontation arrives, everyone won't collapse."

Xu Yang nodded gravely, his gaze silently piercing into the distance. Unbeknownst to him, at that very moment, an unprecedented storm was making its final preparations across the continent.

The wind howled through the building, signaling an approaching storm!

On the eve of dawn, the fierce wind seemed a hundred times more turbulent than usual. Throughout the entire night, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers rested far worse than in previous days. They felt as if a lurking nightmare was constantly prowling in the darkness, and the desolate wind carried a chilling scent.

The next day, as soon as the sky began to lighten, earth-shattering war drums boomed through the military camp—the explosive sound of an emergency assembly!

"Oh heavens! Look, over there..."

The first group of warriors to assemble looked out at the horizon, and the only emotion left in their hearts seemed to be despair.

A dense, dark mass, piled into sky-high colossal waves tens of meters tall, swept towards them!

This sight reminded the soldiers of the terrifying legend of a million celestial soldiers sweeping across the continent; now, unexpectedly, it had become a reality!

At the crest of each gigantic wave stood countless figures. According to the observations relayed by Xu Yang's Heaven's Eye, the force deployed by the Endless Sea in this wave already exceeded a million.

In other words, this group before them was the true core force of the Endless Sea!

"Warriors, you must all see it now. Compared to our achievements over the past few days, this scene today will fill all of you with deep despair, perhaps even bringing you to the brink of collapse. But, like me, you no longer have a choice. The only thing we can do now is draw your sharp blades and, with me, kill!!"

"Kill!!!"

Xu Yang's words, transmitted again through the Heaven's Eye, delivered a deafening surge of encouragement to the warriors.

Instantly, the restless soldiers seemed to return to their original state. The music of the Five Golden Flowers resonated once more. This time, they enhanced the hundreds of thousands of troops with at least seven soundwave amplification effects. Undoubtedly, the three hundred thousand soldiers had reached their peak combat power.

The gates of Millennium Ridge swung wide open. The colossal gates, hundreds of meters high, fully extended to both sides, and all three hundred thousand warriors charged out.

Without a doubt, this was the true, fierce confrontation where both main armies would fight to the death.

Looking at the formation of the million-strong army, Xu Yang's expression became uncharacteristically calm. Seeing the enemy's true might somehow made him feel more at ease; at least he didn't have to worry about unknown forces anymore.

After observing this million-strong army, Xu Yang could almost conclusively determine that this represented over eighty percent of the Endless Sea's current combat reserves. This meant that if they could completely eliminate this force in the current battle, the Endless Sea's main army's ambition to unify the entire continent would be utterly shattered.

All that would be left was the Black Flood Dragon King himself...

Within this million-strong army's formation, the dozens of strikingly dressed and distinguished figures in the front ranks were the various Prince-level leaders from the Endless Sea. The combat power of each of them was comparable to that of a main force member in Xu Yang's team; they were absolutely not to be underestimated.

Furthermore, these Prince-level leaders almost all came from different sea beast races, meaning their special abilities varied greatly. This was the true underlying threat.

The completely black flood dragon silhouette commanding the entire million-strong army was Twilight, the Black Flood Dragon King's eldest son and Silent Night's elder brother!

Xu Yang and his team had never even seen this individual before, making their understanding of him completely new.

"Hahaha! I can't believe that the combined allied forces of your two great nations amount to so few people! I truly don't understand how those incompetent fools fought in the previous battles. In the end, it still falls to us, the Royal Dragon Clan, to personally intervene. What a useless bunch!"

Though the various Prince-level leaders grumbled internally after being reprimanded by Twilight, none of them dared to openly defy him. They could only choose to endure in silence.

"Hey, which one of you is named Xu Yang?"

"Hmph, Twilight, given your status, you are not worthy of speaking my master's name."

Just then, a streak of light suddenly appeared in the sky, startling everyone!

"That's... Cherry of the Ice and Snow Divine Dynasty!!"