Chapter 211

"It's even more troublesome than I imagined!"

After Mu Yi stored the personal guard army with a barrier, he relied on his personal concealment to directly shake off the troops behind him.

Mu Yi rubbed his brow, wondering if this world could really be saved.

No matter how you look at it, there's no hope; the final gathering place of all races has already been surrounded, and if this place falls, only some extremely harsh environments might allow a portion of the races to barely survive.

But I can't see any chance of winning; if the Goblins only had numbers, that would be fine, but now even their quality is not lacking.

It feels like the defeat of the allied races is just a matter of time.

Forget it, he's not here to be a savior; whether this world is doomed or not doesn't really concern him.

He came here just to improve himself; saving the world and such should be left to others to figure out.

In that previous charge, the slaughter yielded rich gains; many soldiers' levels rose by one, and at this rate, it won't be long before the average level of this personal guard army under Mu Yi reaches at least around level 15.

Moreover... Mu Yi glanced at his own Zongwang Panel.

The battlefield is indeed a good place to enhance Elite Talent; just one round of charging and slaughter, and two of his Elite Talents have leveled up.

"Damned outsiders, if it weren't for those outsiders, we would have won already!"

Behind the Goblin army, the Goblin General serving as commander-in-chief was flying into a rage.

Although there is also the effect of prior accumulation, there is no doubt that the battlefield's catalytic effect is also excellent.

"Preliminary judgment: it shouldn't be the remnants of the races that caused this, but those outsiders!"

Mu Yi pondered a bit; during the recent charge, he mostly used Charge and Power Burst, hardly using any other talents, so it seems he needs to target their use more specifically.

"Based on the summary from each camp, the enemy is likely human, profession unknown, but they have the ability to grow stronger through slaughter, numbering close to two thousand, and their average strength should be on par with our military professionals."

……

A teammate glanced at the endless green waves beneath the city wall.

Exiting the Power Burst State will lead to a state of exhaustion (Strength attribute -4).

Talent Combination: No-Start Charge Charge Defense

Talent Combination Effect: Consuming stamina to instantly enter the Charge State; in the Charge State, speed increases by 10% and all-around defense increases by 25%.

"Have you figured out the enemy's intelligence!" the Goblin General asked, struggling to suppress his anger.

Mu Yi pondered a bit, and instead of returning to the Death Land Gathering Point to rest, he directly rushed toward the Goblin camp in the next direction.

Upon hearing that, the Goblin General's anger flared even more.

But thanks to the help of those foreign Goblin compatriots, they were able to gain a foothold and rise from obscurity.

"However, because of the outsiders' activity, they have reclaimed many places and are now rebuilding small outposts!"

"We also need to make more use of other Elite Talents!"

Mu Yi felt the power emanating from the crimson armor on his body, cracked the corners of his mouth into a smile; the last time he unleashed such a killing spree was the previous time, and this feeling of unrestrained slaughter without any burden is truly nostalgic.

Consuming a large amount of stamina allows a brief entry into the Tathagata Ten Powers State.

Meanwhile, Captain Ka Bu Lu-Li Er Wei Ya wiped a smear of blood from his face, looking at the still-unrecovered Zongwang friend list and the team channel with no new messages, and nodded to his nearby teammates.

"He hasn't died and come back yet; it looks like Xiao Hu has clung to the thigh!"

Within just three days, almost all Goblin camps in every direction suffered surprise attacks, with tens of thousands of Goblins killed in battle.

After learning it was outsiders, the Goblin General gave up further questioning and asked another question.

"Xiao Hu's luck has always been good!"

The loss of tens of thousands of Goblins is actually nothing to them; they used to lose even ten thousand a day in battle, but times have changed—now they are the rulers of the world.

(In the Tathagata Ten Powers State, Strength attribute is 2)

【Strength Enhancement LV2→LV3】

"But our luck isn't that good……"

"Because of the outsiders' existence, our small elite units sent out to raid have suffered heavy casualties; we basically confirmed there are no other abnormalities at the gathering point!"

"General, please calm your anger; the enemy is truly cunning, we've set up ambushes several times but the enemy always avoids them!" the Goblin Military Advisor beside him advised helplessly.

"What's happening at the gathering point?"

Taking advantage of the recent massive slaughter, the "Fierce" mark provided by Iron-blooded Slaughter still grants its temporary attribute boost; now is the perfect time to head straight to the next camp and completely catch the Goblins off guard.

"It's just that an enemy force of several thousand can repeatedly attack our camps and retreat unscathed—how am I supposed to explain this to the King!" the Goblin General flew into a rage.

Strength Enhancement (LV3)

The Goblin Military Advisor simply reported the situation; while Mu Yi attacked their camp, other Zongwang Players were also not idle, causing considerable trouble for the Goblins.

【Charge LV1→LV2】

……

New Talent Effect: Power Shock (deals an extra 50% damage to heavy-armor-type defense)

Talent Effect: Strength Base Attribute 1, Strength Judgment 1.

We can't now judge these new Goblins with the old mindset of seeing stupid Goblins; their intelligence may not be lower than humans', and treating them as humans allows for better strategic judgments.

In the process of Goblins sweeping the world, the activity of Zongwang Players undoubtedly greatly delayed their steps toward conquering the world.

"Trash, all a bunch of trash!" the Goblin General roared in anger.

"Kill!"

"Damned outsiders!"

The Goblin General cursed angrily, also helpless; they have already grown accustomed to the disturbances of the Zongwang Players.

After all, the victors will ultimately be the Goblins, and this time is no exception.

"Starting tomorrow, deploy troops to wipe out all the small outposts they've built outside, and notify all defense zones to prepare for an attack on the remnants' final gathering point!"

The Goblin General made the final decision; although according to the original plan they should have continued preparing, plans cannot keep up with changes, and encountering this unexpected situation, they could only follow and change their own plan.

This is also their consistent way of dealing with outsiders: grasping the strategic initiative, pushing the war to the doorstep of the gathering point, exploiting their Goblin numerical advantage, and forcing these outsiders to fall back on defense.

This is also the strategic essence they realized in the long war—when attacking the enemy, one must rescue.

After the Goblin changed its strategy, Mu Yi clearly felt the shift in the wind.

"A bit terrible!"

Mu Yi crouched on the treetop, watching the Goblin camp massing outward.

With Transcendent perception augmenting him, Mu Yi's senses were far sharper than ordinary people.

This let him recklessly crouch outside the Goblin camp to scout; after all, apart from Legend and above, no one could catch him.

As for the ambush set by the Goblins, Mu Yi relied on Instinct, perfectly evading it, and while they concentrated their forces, he struck again from another unexpected angle.

But he hadn't expected the Goblins' response to be so intense; after a few harassments, they immediately launched a massive advance.

Strategically, these guys really didn't err.

Mu Yi and his group lacked a main quest, yet they each had a hidden main quest: to ensure the gathering point's existence; once the gathering point is breached, their earnings are directly deducted by the Zongwang Player.

Basically it's like drawing water with a bamboo basket—nothing gained.

This is the biggest difficulty of the battle mission; if it were just a casual raid, the world's Goblins would have already been flattened by Zongwang Players.

That counts as a direct punch to the Zongwang Players' lifeline.

The Zongwang Players have only two final choices: flee immediately to secure base earnings, or fall back to defend.

Mu Yi doesn't at all think the gathering point can withstand the Goblin army's assault; it's hundreds of thousands of Goblins encircling from all sides, the green tide instantly instills primal dread.

Mu Yi thought for a moment, then decided to keep working behind enemy lines; if the reward disappears, it disappears, after all he came to train his Elite Talent.

Riding the chaotic movement of the Goblin main force, Mu Yi wondered whether to go up and cause a stir.

The instant the thought arose, his Instinct told him it was best not to do so.

"An ambush?"

Mu Yi frowned, scanned the surroundings a few times, and found no obvious problem, yet he sensed a dissonance, so he cautiously chose to retreat.

This sudden hunch wasn't just a side effect of Transcendent perception; it was his own strategic nose.

Pulling out a map to estimate, Mu Yi saw the main force's route to the gathering point and moved in another direction.

Such a massive relocation couldn't be a swarm rushing straight through; Goblins are highly intelligent and would never do that.

It must be in batches; from a human army's perspective, the vanguard is the hard core, and the camps ready before movement are the most secure, so the only attackable targets are the small camps the enemy set up as supply stations along the way.

These small camps serve as supply line nodes; after all, the shorter the supply line, the better for an army.

Goblin‑placed small camps are easy to find; within the dense forest lie roads the Goblin main force actively cleared.

The Goblins seem to wield a forest‑controlling artifact; Mu Yi saw with his own eyes that when a Goblin giant swings its whip, the trees automatically part to form a road.

Mu Yi had to admit, using this method they blocked any breakout from the gathering point with dense forest, yet now they could spontaneously open a passage and forge an attack route.

Moreover, from the Goblin druid, Mu Yi could even guess that perhaps a great druid exists among the Goblins, capable of turning a massive tree into a tree spirit, making siege even easier.

Accompanying the Goblins' movements, various beasts originally living in the forest were directly slaughtered, and Mu Yi could smell the thick scent of blood in the air.

But what surprised Mu Yi was that the Goblins seemed to have taken all the corpses; along the way he saw no bodies at all.

Following the road, Mu Yi found a Goblin supply station.

The supply station was built of wood into a ringed wall, looking fairly proper; Mu Yi crouched in a tree to peer directly into the camp.

Inside the camp, new Goblins were being spawned.

They chopped several Goblins into pieces and buried them in the ground; after a while, a tiny Goblin sprouted from the earth.

These little Goblins crawled out, gathered around the corpse mound to eat, each swelling their bellies round like inflated balloons.

The corpses included beasts and other creatures, mixed with some charred Goblin bodies, apparently remnants from when Mu Yi previously charged and killed Goblins.

Mu Yi finally understood why Goblins manipulate the forest to siege; not only as an obstacle, but more importantly, it can foster Goblin growth.

While these Goblins ate, the vitality spreading in the air poured into their bodies, like photosynthesis in trees; the little Goblins ate while absorbing life.

Under Mu Yi's observation, these little Goblins took about one or two hours to grow from hatchlings into combat‑ready Goblins, roughly Level 10 in creature rank.

And the Goblins only expended some corpses and a few large Goblins.

Even worse, during this cultivation process, a few Goblin professionals were born.

Mu Yi now understood how this world fell to such a state; facing a horde of Goblins that are both plant and animal, it's truly astonishing they have persisted this long.

"Whhhhh!!!"

Seeing the hundreds of extra Goblins in the camp, Mu Yi thought the world was beyond saving, unless a high‑rank Legend capable of destroying an entire Plane intervened.

He estimated that even ordinary Legends might not survive such a green frenzy siege.

He tallied the Goblins in the camp—over three thousand—and spread his perception to lock onto every Goblin assault, then immediately erected a barrier to pull all Goblins into it.

The forcibly displaced Goblins were blinded, and before they could react, Mu Yi led his elite guard to launch an attack.

"Release the arrows!"

The bowstrings quivered in unison, arrows fell like rain.

Flaming arrows inflicted effective damage on the Goblins, yet even so, a Goblin could endure several arrows before dying; their vitality was extremely tenacious.

Without fire element damage, perhaps a dozen arrows wouldn't kill these Goblins.

Mu Yi likewise drew his bow to shoot at the Goblin professionals.

As one of his few ranged attacks, he felt it necessary to upgrade it properly.

Ordinary Goblins could be blown up with a single arrow, but those Goblin professionals often required two or three arrows, sometimes even a charge; otherwise half the effort wouldn't kill them.

Mu Yi sometimes wondered if he should train two bow talent slots; his current arrow damage was too weak, at best a nuisance, far too feeble as a main combat method.