Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 973: Unbending Resolve! (II)

Chapter 973: Unbending Resolve! (II)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"The Great Tang will not be defeated!

"The Great Tang cannot be defeated!"

Wang Chong clenched his fists, tensing up his entire body so tightly that it groaned.

No one understood more than him that once Talas was lost, the Great Tang would have no other chance to rise. The Western Regions would be lost, Qixi would be lost, Longxi would be lost, Youzhou would fall ill, the Great Tang would fall into internal discord, the calamity would descend… Step by step, the Great Tang would fall into the endless abyss. If he wanted to change all this and save the Great Tang, he had to hold Talas and throw back the Arabs.

Only by holding Talas would he be able to slowly alter the Great Tang's tragic fate.

And besides, the Stone of Destiny would never let him retreat. Retreat was death!

Roooar!

The distant Behemoths roared, and dust rose from the defense line as the four Behemoths rumbled forward, wreaking havoc on the Tang soldiers. Countless Tang soldiers fled in fear, leaving thousands of corpses behind.

Blood seeped into the earth as a figure sinisterly chuckled in a place no one could see.

"Die! Die! All of you die!

"My obedient pets, kill all these infidels!"

The hunchbacked Masil sat atop the head of his centipede monster, his hands raised up as blood dripped down from overhead, bathing his head, face, and arms. An expression of ecstasy appeared on his face.

Masil might have been deformed and grotesque, but as the commander of the Behemoth Army and one of the Caliph's favored ministers, he was a sinister existence of the Abbasid Caliphate feared by all. But few people knew that Masil was even more sinister and terrifying than he appeared on the surface.

Masil had never feared battle. Wherever one could find a large-scale battle in a stalemate, one could find Masil and his Behemoths.

Every time they took part in battle, Masil's favorite activity would be to burrow underground as his Behemoths destroyed his enemies and stomped t

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