Chapter 383: Striking the Sura Capital

"Depart!" Zhang Lie commanded.

They followed the tracks of the sura king and his retinue backwards. Thanks to the sura king, who had culled the genetic lifeforms nearby on his way to Qi, Zhang Lie and his party were able to make rapid headway.

Once they reached the lands of the sura, Zhang Lie shouted, "Kill!"

The sura began to panic. It felt like no time had passed at all between the sura king's departure with his elite troops and Zhang Lie and his party invading their lands.

Within the capital of the sura lands, on one of the watchtowers overlooking the city walls, one of the sura fighters lay on the floor as he stared out the window. "Why do you think the king's been gone for so long?"

Beneath the watchtower, a fighter responded, "They're probably all having a feast with the humans they've caught! That's what they used to do in the past, after all. It'll probably be a few days before their return."

The sentries didn't take their jobs too seriously; after all, it had been many years since someone dared to attack a capital of the sura lands.

Beneath the watchtower, another fighter added, "There's even a chance the king and his party won't return for half a month or so. Regardless, given his strength, there's no way he would fail. Let's wait to hear their good news."

"Ah, I'm envious—they'll have a chance to taste fresh human meat! Ever since I ate the one my family was rearing, I've been salivating to get the taste of another. I should have gone with them!"

From the watchtower, one sura fighter glanced at the path the king and his retinue had taken out of the sura lands and found a party of hunters heading in the opposite direction. "Look! Could the king be back already?"

The guard by his side frowned. "Would they have returned so quickly? That seems unlikely."

𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The scout continued to murmur to himself, "Wait, they don't look like sura—aren't these... humans?!"

The other fighters all began to laugh.

"Ha! I can't believe I fell for that. You're pulling a prank on us, aren't you?"

"And here I thought we really were facing an invasion from another race!"

The first fighter replied seriously, "But there really is a party of humans heading in this direction!"

"You must be blind—where would humans find the courage to attack us sura? They've never won a single altercation against us."

However, upon the first fighter's urging, they too began to look outside the watchtower.

"They... really do seem to be a band of humans."

The first fighter rolled his eyes. "That's what I told you!"

"What are they doing here? Surely they don't plan on invading us."

"Maybe they couldn't beat our king, so they're trying to attack us in an attempt to get him to retreat?" one fighter suggested.

"What, you think these humans can do anything against us?"

His comrades scoffed at him. Every member of the sura was a fighter in their own right. Although some hadn't received military training, the constitution of the sura alone meant that they were no weaker than ordinary hunters.

It was precisely because of their physical strength that they were so arrogant; after all, on the basis of that strength, they had conquered the entirety of the second realm.

"Didn't you say that you wanted to consume human flesh?" one sura fighter asked. "You must be happy to see all this human meat making its way over, then!"

One of the fighters frowned. "But isn't it strange?"

"What?"

"How did these humans make their way over here?

Aren't there quite a few cities and settlements the humans have to get through before arriving at the capital? Could they have avoided them all?"

"Imagine that—could the humans know how our lands are structured, as well as where our forts are? But if they didn't..."

Some of the sura fighters shook their heads. "What's there to worry about? They're just humans! Would we sura be afraid of them? We've all reared a few humans, haven't we? They're perfectly harmless, and we even break them all the time by accident! I've fought with humans myself, and I've taken part in some of these large-scale fights. It generally takes around four humans to bring down a seasoned sura fighter. We'll be able to handle that human party easily."

The sura fighter glancing at the human procession continued to frown. "I still feel like something's wrong."

As the sura fighters continued to chat, Zhang Lie and a group of the fastest human hunters flew toward the city, sending drops of the Yeluo potion splattering all over. Quite a few sura fighters were caught in the spray before they could even react, and their bodies began to decompose on the spot.

[Fists of the Silent Sea: Hundred Dragons Soaring]! A gigantic flock of black dragons soared throughout the city, dive-bombing the walls and crushing the sura fighters caught within.

"Rush forward with me!" Zhang Lie and his three thousand troops rushed into the capital of the sura lands.

Their invasion was so rapid, and the scouts on the watchtowers so ignorant of the humans' true strength, that no advance warning was sent to the citizens ensconced within the capital. As a result, the fighting began and ended extremely quickly.

Every hunter held a weapon that had been dipped in the Yeluo poison, and they easily slaughtered whatever resistance they found. Having lost their king and a large fraction of their forces, the sura were unable to resist the humans' invasion, and they ultimately found themselves fleeing from their capital.

The human fighters were all exhausted after defending Qi and then rushing over to the sura lands, but bright smiles shone across all their faces. They stuck the flag of Qi above the top of the sura king's palace, waving it as they yelled out, "For the honor of glory of Qi! For Zhang Lie!"