189: The demons retreated temporarily, and the human race counterattacked

The Demon Race's war decision-makers were also somewhat dumbfounded.

They truly hadn't expected the Human race to be so adept at restraining spatial power, directly creating a spatial restricted zone with such a wide coverage area.

It was also the first time they had been so thoroughly suppressed, directly disabling the operational mechanism of their most fundamental war model.

Unable to engage in close combat with their opponents through Demon Realm rifts, their attrition tactics were nothing short of absurd; instead of wearing down the enemy, they were being worn down themselves.

For this war, the Demon Race had gathered a great number of Inferior Demons and Lower Demon Clan cannon fodder in the Demon Realm, waiting only for the war to begin to unleash countless cannon fodder to assault the Human race's border defenses, like a tide surging into the northern reaches of the Human Federation.

As long as the cannon fodder Demon Race could break through the Human race's border defenses and extend the war into Human race territory, the Demon Race could already be considered victorious.

However, the reality was that a spatial restricted zone covering such a vast area was simply the bane of the Demon Race, causing their attrition plan to die in its infancy.

After all, 90% of the Demon Race's cannon fodder army would die on their own before even reaching the Human race's first border defense line from the Newborn Demon Domain; as for the remaining 10%, the Human race wasn't some fixed-template NPC, and would certainly strike them wave after wave along their path.

Ultimately, if even one percent of the Demon Race army managed to reach the Human race's first border defense line, it would be a testament to the Demon Race army's resilience.

They hadn't even engaged in close combat, yet merely in the process of approaching the defense line, 99% of their strength was consumed; this was purely a losing proposition.

Cannon fodder Demon Race are still Demon Race; producing them also requires consuming resources, and if they cannot achieve results and recoup their costs, then it is simply bleeding the Demon Race dry.

For a time, the Demon Race truly couldn't come up with a good method to break through the spatial restricted zone.

Either the Demon Race Gods would act, using themselves as anchors to forcibly open a fixed spatial passage within the Human race's spatial restricted zone.

But the Human race's Gods weren't idle; how could they possibly allow the Demon Race Gods to do such a thing? Once they used themselves as anchors to open a spatial passage, they would be living targets, ripe for slaughter.

Or the Foundation Level would act forcibly, directly destroying the Human race's first defense line. Of course, this could be done, provided they could withstand the Human race Foundation Level's retaliation.

In terms of the number of Foundation Level, the Human race outnumbered the Demon Race.

If the Demon Race did not abide by the rules and allowed the Foundation Level to intervene in the conventional battlefield, then all of the Human race Foundation Level would inevitably sortie; they would only need to tie down the Demon Race Foundation Level, and the excess Human race Foundation Level could then invade the Demon Realm.

At that time, even if the Demon Race Foundation Level were not lost, the Demon Realm would be reduced to ruins under the Human race Foundation Level's devastation; a halving of the Demon Race's fate would be a mild outcome.

Once a war between Foundation Level begins, it cannot be easily stopped, especially after the Human race decides to retaliate, it will certainly be a fight to the death.

And during this process, if the Ancient Immortal Clan and the Underworld Clan had any ulterior motives, they could directly ally with the Human race, forming a three-on-one situation, and eliminate the Demon Race ahead of schedule.

The Underworld Clan was too eager to return to the Main Universe; if the Demon Race were eliminated, then the Underworld Clan could take advantage of the situation to return and occupy the Demon Race's ecological niche.

Therefore, the Foundation Level would not act easily.

The Human race Foundation Level would not easily touch that Newborn Demon Domain, but rather let the war erupt and engage in a straightforward battle with the Demon Race.

The Demon Race Foundation Level dared not break the rules even more, for once they did, the Human race would certainly retaliate, and then a chain reaction would occur, at which point the probability of the Demon Race's annihilation would truly be very high.

Thus, the Demon Race could only temporarily retreat.

They needed to research how to break through the spatial restricted zone, and also re-evaluate the Human race's war capabilities.

The Demon Race would not abandon this war; as long as they cracked the spatial restricted zone, or were able to preserve their cannon fodder army and deliver them to the Human race's border defenses, the war could continue.

The cannon fodder army, already prepared, could not be kept in the Demon Realm, otherwise, they would constantly consume resources and the Demon Realm's origin, continuously bleeding themselves dry.

Therefore, these cannon fodder Demon Race armies must attack the Human race; they cannot be consumed by themselves while the Human race does not need to expend any resources and is not consumed.

The Newborn Demon Domain no longer continued to receive cannon fodder armies from the Demon Realm; the cannon fodder armies that had already arrived could not be wasted, so they were dispatched to the edge of the Newborn Demon Domain to expand it with their lives.

War was inevitable; the Newborn Demon Domain could be considered a war barracks set up by the Demon Race, a forward stronghold connecting to the Demon Realm, so the larger and stronger this stronghold was, the better.

"The demon brats have retreated. They initiated the war, and upon realizing they couldn't win, they thought of taking a step back, wanting peace, and readjusting their strategy. How can such a principle exist in this world?"

"Since the Demon Race has retreated, it's our turn to attack!"

"That's right, since they want war, then we shall grant them war."

"War, the Human race is also professional at it."

The Human race Foundation Level watched the Demon Race shrink back, knowing without a doubt that the Demon Race had only temporarily retreated and would certainly return once they found a way to break through the spatial restricted zone.

Since war was inevitable, it was better to strike first.

The Human race's first border defense line was garrisoned by half of the Northern Frontier Army, while the Northern Frontier Expeditionary Force was currently stationed at the second defense line.

The thirty-seven military commanders of the Expeditionary Force all received orders to attack from the Human race Foundation Level; as pioneering Expeditionary Force commanders, they had been ambitious, and now being stuck on the second line, defending positions, they were also full of pent-up frustration.

And so, thirty-seven Expeditionary Forces sallied forth.

Each Expeditionary Force numbered in the tens of billions, with ten thousand Ascension to God Group Armies under them, each Ascension to God Group Army having one million soldiers, ten thousand warships, and top-tier various war weapons.

Now they were actively attacking the Newborn Demon Domain.

Logistical supplies were more than abundant, and the border army stationed on the first defense line could provide fire support at any time.

Various high-power weapons were fixed on the defense line, and the Newborn Demon Domain was within range; they hadn't used them before, only wanting to clash with the Demon Race and accumulate war experience with a super-race.

They just hadn't expected the Demon Race to be so weak, arriving aggressively and retreating shamefully, with the first defense line not even firing a single shot, and no opportunity to use high-power weapons.

Thirty-seven Expeditionary Forces, over five hundred billion Human race soldiers, boarded warships, with the legion fortress as the core, forming a charging formation with warships as nodes.

The thirty-seven Expeditionary Forces transformed into thirty-seven streaks of light, warping towards the starry sky beyond the first defense line, with a clear target: the location of the Newborn Demon Domain.

Five hundred billion Human race soldiers, compared to the Demon Race, were not numerous; their first probing attack had sent out a trillion cannon fodder.

Currently, the number of cannon fodder Demon Race in the Newborn Demon Domain was in the hundreds of trillions, and they could also be continuously summoned from the Demon Realm.

In terms of quantity, the Human race was indeed no match.

However, the Human race soldiers were all elites, and their various war configurations were at the pinnacle of the universe; the more numerous they were, the stronger their combat power would be, and with various advantages stacked, they were naturally incomparable to the Demon Race cannon fodder.

The Demon Race naturally saw the Human race dispatching troops, preparing to attack the Newborn Demon Domain.

They also immediately mobilized a large number of cannon fodder Demon Race from the Demon Realm to serve as the outermost barrier of the Newborn Demon Domain, protecting the spatial passage at the core of the Newborn Demon Domain.

Now, the offense and defense have shifted.