Blue Phoenix Chapter 71 - Newborn Crusader

As the first rays of light appeared over the horizon, they shone on a battlefield where ravens and other birds were feasting upon the many corpses that littered the ground. The air was crisp, and it was possible to see one’s breath condensing into a small cloud due to the cold. As the sun peaked over the horizon, the beasts stood in formation looking ahead of them.

The camp now looked nothing like it had the day before. The beasts had been busy working all through the night, and the result was a large ditch that appeared around the entire camp. A ditch which was three meters deep and three meters wide. It had a small entrance twenty meters wide they intentionally did not dig so creatures could move through it. Even the backside of the camp had the ditch dug around it making it difficult for the experts to surround the beasts while they were fighting.

The ditch was not the only thing that had been created during the night. Wooden obstacles which were also made and gathered together resembled what looked like a mass of barbed wire created from wood, something that would hurt badly if the experts were to jump past the ditch and land on the ground.

“This should cause them some trouble,” Hui Yue mumbled with satisfaction. He was uncomfortable with the number of losses they had sustained the previous day, and today he decided not to give in to his beastly desires. He decided to let the war be controlled by the calm part of his personality; the one which could keep a cool head no matter what was thrown his way.

The humans who stood on the opposite side of the beasts were all nervous. Some were shifting from one foot to another while others were gripping their weapons hard, and yet others kept gnawing on their lower lips in worry.

They were all experts, and although not all as high-ranked as everyone in the beast army, their eyesight had been enhanced multiple times that of a normal human. They could all see the massive ditch which was dug around the enemy camp, not to mention the wooden barriers that had been erected, and

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