?52: Chapter 52: Ambush 52: Chapter 52: Ambush “Attack!” Consequently, when Zhou Tian suddenly broke out with his Beastman warriors, he achieved considerable success almost immediately.

    No matter how strong the NPCs were or how weak Zhou Tian was, in a scenario where they were not prepared for an attack, it was naturally difficult for them to fully utilize their strength.

    When Zhou Tian broke out, many of the NPCs did not even have their weapons on them.

    Given such conditions, even if the NPCs were powerful, they stood no chance against the Beastman warriors.

    As a result, when Zhou Tian led his Beastman warriors into battle and then swiftly retreated, the number of NPCs killed in the assault reached a staggering few hundred.

    In comparison to a regular war, a few hundred casualties might not seem significant when the Beastman camp was battling the NPC army.

    However, the problem now was that Zhou Tian’s surprise attack on these NPCs could hardly be considered a war!

    Attacking a strong enemy with an inferior force and causing such casualties in a single raid, Zhou Tian’s achievement was very commendable, in a sense.

    Unfortunately, such opportunities were rare.

    Zhou Tian had been successful in ambushing the NPCs this time.

    But to have another such chance, he did not know how long he’d have to wait.

    Through this battle, Zhou Tian benefitted greatly.

    Firstly, his appearance had informed the NPCs that this territory was now owned.

    If they were not to retreat, then a war was inevitable.

    Of course, since they were already mobilizing, it wouldn’t be easy to scare them off.

    In the meantime, Zhou Tian’s Beastman warriors had undergone significant transformations through this battle.

    While the NPC side suffered heavy casualties during this battle, it was impossible for no casualties to be on Zhou Tian’s side as well.

    Nevertheless, the Beastman warriors that were lost were far fewer than the NPCs.

    Given the level of Zhou Tian’s Beastmen, it was likely that for every two or three Beastman warriors, one had killed an NPC.

    Lower-level monsters that killed NPCs above their level gained a considerable amount of experience.

    Initially, Zhou Tian had quickly evolved from beast slave to Beastman warrior for this reason.

    As with Zhou Tian’s case, after his Beastman warriors killed a large number of NPCs, although not all of them gained enough experience, around twenty Beastman warriors managed to evolve into Beastman champions at that time.

    While twenty-odd Beastman champions weren’t a strong force, even among all the Beastman Clan members, they represented only a small portion of the strength.

    However, facing the threat from the NPCs at this moment, Zhou Tian lacked sufficient strength.

    Having these twenty-odd Beastman warriors evolve into champions was indeed good news for him.

    But following this good news, a series of subsequent situations were nothing but bad news for Zhou Tian.

    Zhou Tian’s ambush did indeed cause the NPCs to lose a lot of their troops.

    However, compared to Zhou Tian, the NPCs undoubtedly held enormous superiority both in power and strength.

    Even when Zhou Tian did not reveal any strong force and could not intimidate the NPCs into retreating, the NPCs, having made so many preparations, naturally would not yield the territory easily.

    On the contrary, after Zhou Tian’s ambush ended, the NPCs immediately launched a counterattack.

    As they weren’t devastated by Zhou Tian, and didn’t see any significant power on his side, Zhou Tian’s previous ‘hello’ attack only ended up provoking them instead of intimidating them.

    As a result, the enraged NPCs started to send messages back to their base camp and mobilized another army to target and hunt down Zhou Tian. Sёar?h the n??el Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    When the NPCs really got serious, Zhou Tian’s situation began to turn tricky.

    Given the limited strength Zhou Tian had at the moment, he couldn’t match the NPCs.

    Therefore, the only thing he could do was to avoid direct confrontation with the NPCs as much as possible.

    Consequently, to minimize the target, Zhou Tian reluctantly dispatched most of his Beastman warriors, only keeping less than a hundred with him, and started guerrilla warfare against the NPCs.

    Admittedly, Zhou Tian’s decision did have some effect.

    With only a small number of Beastmen warriors, their movements were not significant during the battles.

    Despite the NPCs’ diligent search, they struggled to locate them if they hid deliberately.

    As the NPCs had no choice but to divide their forces to search for Zhou Tian, he took this opportunity to gradually initiate a counterattack.

    Given the overall strength of the NPCs, no matter how hard Zhou Tian tried, it was unlikely for him to pose a threat if they stuck together.

    But when the NPCs were dispersed, Zhou Tian saw his chance.

    Even though the NPCs divided their forces to find Zhou Tian, the fact that they divided their forces meant that each squad would not have many troops.

    So, while Zhou Tian couldn’t handle an entire NPC army, he was confident enough to handle just a small NPC squad.

    At present, the only thing Zhou Tian needed to consider was how to act.

    After all, the overall strength of the NPC side still held a lot of advantages at that time.

    Zhou Tian could handle their squad, but if he didn’t act quickly and they surrounded him, then that would spell real danger.

    Nonetheless, at present, this was one of Zhou Tian’s only opportunities to fight against these NPCs.

    Regardless of the certain risks, even if Zhou Tian knew that this opportunity was a trap set by the NPCs, he figured he’d still have to grit his teeth and go for it.