Cave Refuge

Those bat monsters, if they had just arrived at Blue Star, might have initiated a battle upon encountering the Blue Star humans, but now they were about to return home and naturally did not want to cause any further trouble.

After all, although the humans were gathered not far away on the water surface, the Plane Return Teleportation Array was in the sky, and as long as the humans lacked means of aerial attack, even if many humans gathered on the sea surface, it would have no impact on them.

Perhaps because they were already carrying a large amount of materials, the bat monsters, upon seeing the humans gathered ahead, chose not to engage them and rose into the air to increase their flying altitude, preparing to wait in the sky for the Plane Transmission Channel to open again.

The bat monsters being able to see the humans obviously meant that the humans could also detect such a huge bat monster army.

Since the humans here had already received the compulsory conscription text, they naturally knew that these otherworldly creatures were their targets to eliminate.

While it is true that the enemy, being winged, could fly, the humans also naturally had means of aerial attack.

You see, once Martial Artists reached the Path Entry Realm, they already possessed the ability to fly briefly in the air; not to mention, any cultivator having reached the Energy Refining Realm had mastered the method of long-range attacks using Inner Breath.

As for the Artifact Masters and Awakeners, that needs even less explanation. Artifact Masters could use the command of Strange Creatures to enable the owners of the artifacts to fly like Sword Flight, whereas Awakeners, even though they couldn't fly, could use Five Elements Magic, acting as spell cannons as long as they were in a safe location.

Seeing that the bat monsters did not initiate an attack but instead rose to avoid confrontation, the human side became somewhat restless. Although Martial Artists who reached the Path Entry Realm could fly briefly, their flight height and endurance were, after all, limited.

On the other side, those winged bat monsters, having flying as their instinct, used much less energy whether flying or hovering, compared to Martial Artists.

Hence, seeing the bat monsters starting to increase their flight altitude, someone on the human side immediately commanded to initiate battle.

Dong Tianyu initially thought this battle would mainly involve cold weapons, but what he didn't expect was someone actually fired a flare into the sky.

With the flare exploding in the air, everyone knew that the defensive battle was about to start.

Upon seeing the flare fired into the sky, some smart bat monsters realized that the humans who attacked them frontally were treating them completely differently compared to those they encountered before.

If they hadn't been carrying anything, faced with human provocation, they would definitely have started teaching the humans a lesson, but at that moment they were carrying big and small packages filled with various materials, so unless they dropped everything they were carrying, they wouldn't have been able to defeat those actively provoking humans easily.

Perhaps because this was a trial attack, the human side did not use their best strategies, but merely used ordinary attacks with bows and spells from the Awakeners, also to gauge the situation on the bat monsters' side.

When this trial ended, both sides showed an incredulous expression on their faces.

Although the bat monsters had noticed the humans attacking them early on, they did not care much because according to their experience fighting Blue Star humans last time, the intensity of this human attack was almost impossible to kill any bat monsters.

Thus, after seeing the humans actively attacking them, a few bat monsters who didn't find the human attack lethal not only didn't dodge the arrows shot towards them but even intentionally rammed into them, to see if their learned Defense Skills could effectively block the human arrows without damage.

In the blink of an eye, those overconfident bat monsters who tried to withstand the human attack were turned into hedgehogs by the human Archers.

No one expected that a seemingly trial attack from both sides could result in the annihilation of one side.

In fact, the bat monsters also didn't expect that this trial attack would result in so many deaths.

The bat monsters, realizing their companions had died, their eyes instantly bloodshot, then released the various materials tied to their bodies and charged towards the human side, intending to kill all the Archers who had just shot at them.

Initially, the humans just wanted to send a signal with their bows, but unimaginably, this test attack from the humans directly killed many bat monsters.

Moreover, what was surprising was that, after just a few bat monsters were killed, some of the bat monsters immediately dropped everything they were carrying and charged into the human camp like mad.

If shooting the gradually ascending bat monsters might be somewhat difficult, under the current circumstances, as the other side was clearly charging at them, all the humans needed to do was wait for them to come, which would be very advantageous.

As those few red-eyed bat monsters charged recklessly towards the human camp, a middle-aged man standing beside Dong Tianyu disdainfully remarked, "With so many of us here, just facing those few bat monsters attacking us, this is simply a suicide mission for them."