Chapter 242: The Navy's Miscalculation

The dense clouds were torn apart as the Wave Jiangji erupted, revealing an azure sky.

Another colossal Giant Evil Light Slash, as if cleaving the very sky, slammed once more into the Navy's 【Giant Shield Iron Wall】.

Pfft.

Some of the weaker Navy soldiers, having forcibly unleashed Giant power, directly vomited fresh blood.

Most of the Navy Giants were pseudo Vice Admirals whose combat power had been artificially inflated by the Family Badge; the true combat power of the blood-spitting Navy was barely at the Colonel level.

Accepting the Giant power of the Family Badge at such high intensity had already overtaxed their bodies.

Crack.

One giant shield after another shattered, until at last the Iron Wall Barrier had grown as thin as translucent paper, ceaselessly being pushed backward.

The ground was plowed into a deep furrow.

"The Navy will prevail!"

Dalmatian roared,

the Navy uniform wrapped around his body bursting open to reveal bloodshot scarlet skin; his Wastaya Xuemai was activated in overload, making him look like an iron beast-sculpture of the utmost hardness.

The real-time-reporting News Coo circled in the sky above.

The Navy soldiers still held on with bitter endurance, their gazes resolute; even when they vomited blood and fainted from exhaustion, not one of them had thought of retreating.

Once they retreated, the Navy's honor would be utterly swept away.

"Very good — a will worthy of respect!"

Watching the Navy that had already reached its limit, Shanks twisted off a bottle cap and downed two bottles of Recovery Potion in succession.

Using potions repeatedly to replenish life and Energy Value would cause the recovery effect to weaken continuously.

Boom—

The Shura Evil Light Slash appeared, splitting open the tottering Iron Wall Barrier and slamming straight into the city wall.

The thick city wall was torn open like burning foam, leaving a trench-like enormous breach.

All around were Navy soldiers who had already lost consciousness after the Family Badge Reinforcement was released, as well as several Vice Admirals who could only barely keep their eyes open and not faint after expending every last ounce of strength.

"I truly didn't expect that it would be the Eastern defense line that was destroyed."

A Fu's mouth stuffed full of Poseidon-class fish sashimi, he stared at the collapsed city wall with a face full of astonishment.

Although he had not shown himself, Fang Yi would still occasionally observe some of the large-scale battles outside the players' game.

Hearing this, he gave a slight shake of his head and said: "The Navy's deployment was not at fault."

"On the Western defense line, the Revolutionary Army has already retreated. Although the dragon-tribe WordSpirit of the Revolutionary Army Leader is extremely powerful, it has already been caught up to head-on by Garp."

Both of them were Tier 1 Peak players, and the father-versus-son duel was especially spectacular,

especially Garp's newly exchanged Qilin Blood from the 【Wind Cloud】 World's First Startling Fire — both his arms had transformed into 【Qilin Arms】, impervious to blade and spear, and capable of unleashing scorching Qilin Power.

The collision of the Wind Dragon Word Spirit and the Qilin Blood directly shattered several nearby uninhabited islands.

Although evenly matched,

the Revolutionary Army corps was nevertheless defeated by the Navy Giant Regiment, and the Revolutionary Army Leader could only retreat in helplessness.

The other side was in a similar situation,

Kuzan, Sakazuki, and Borsalino joined forces to hold back the frenzied Whitebeard, then let the 【Navy Giant Regiment】 charge in and scatter the Whitebeard Pirates.

Although the Scarlet Great Demon possessed an extremely powerful army ability,

Vice Admiral Tsuru had seen through its trick,

so she adopted this tactic: once Whitebeard gathered all the power of the Scarlet Great Demon to fight the three Admirals, those crew members would lose the protection of the Scarlet Breath.

Once Whitebeard released the Scarlet Breath to shield his crew, his own strength would be weakened.

In this kind of situation, if it were before the establishment of the Navy families,

even if Vice Admiral Tsuru had discerned the weakness, she would have been unable to crush the Whitebeard Pirates.

Because the strength of ordinary Navy alone was simply not enough to defeat the majority of the Whitebeard Pirates' crew in an overwhelming manner.

But now,

with the appearance of the 【Navy Giant Regiment】, the Whitebeard Pirates simply could not withstand it.

Unless Whitebeard was willing to risk the price of losing most of his crew to forcibly break through the Navy's defense line.

Vice Admiral Tsuru, who had a firm grasp on Whitebeard's character, knew the other party would never make such a choice —

in Whitebeard's heart, family was an incomparably important existence.

Therefore,

the strongest assaults on both sides were resolved by the Navy at an extremely small cost.

Vice Admiral Tsuru wore a smile, greatly admiring Fleet Admiral Sengoku's decisiveness —

the mighty function of the Second-Level Family

had actually been able to withstand the joint siege of two Four Emperors crews, the World's Greatest Swordsman, the Revolutionary Army, and countless Pirates.

After this wave of warfare ended,

the Navy's name would thoroughly resound throughout the world!

Just at this moment,

a heavily wounded Navy soldier came fleeing over, stumbling and collapsing prone on the ground.

"The Eastern defense line has fallen — how is that possible!?"

Vice Admiral Tsuru, who had all along maintained an elegant composure, twitched her eyelids and could not help but raise her voice.

Absolutely impossible.

The deployment was the result of countless deliberations.

Smogger and Hawk Eyes fighting — even if they could not win, they would both be severely wounded; subsequently, the Red Hair Pirates simply could not defeat two hundred Navy Giants.

After Shanks was forced into a desperate situation, even his exchanged game abilities were factored into Vice Admiral Tsuru's calculations.

The Red Hair Pirates' assets, at the very most, could only be exchanged for two hundred thousand Reward Points,

so Shanks could not possibly have the power to break through the defensive line.

A Second Level Family can not only embed one 【Second Level Family Emblem】, but can also embed two 【First Level Family Emblems】.

A First Level Emblem like 【Iron Wall Barrier】, combined with the defense of two hundred Navy Giants, would be unbreakable even by Smoker at Tier 1 Peak.

What on earth is going on?

Incomprehensible.

Watching the remaining Navy troops hastily rush toward the eastern defensive line, Fang Yi said, "The Navy's deployment is the most perfect decision at this stage."

"It's just that both Sengoku, known as the Strategist General, and Staff Officer Vice Admiral Tsuru, underestimated the possibilities of the Samsara Game."

With the Navy Family's clan monument as the center,

two forces were moving at extreme speed.

His gaze falling on Shanks, whose eyes were covered by a cloth strip, Fang Yi smiled and said, "Until now, most players' combat methods have gradually begun to stabilize."

"For example, Sakazuki's Lava Mage, a ranged fire-type Magic ability."

"Kuzan's Ice Freezer, a close-combat ice-type Magic ability."

"Smoker's Poison Controller ability."

"……"

"Everything has its traces to follow."

Fang Yi paused, then said, "From now on, the Pollution Lords will grow stronger and stronger, and the Pollution Legion will become more and more twisted."

"The purpose of the Family System is to change the players' chaotic combat methods, gradually shifting them toward small and medium-scale battles."

Take Shanks for example,

being able to break through the eastern defensive line beyond the Navy's expectations,

was because the Navy had overlooked 【game class characteristics】. Even though they already had early warnings from legion-type abilities like Whitebeard's Scarlet Ogre, they still failed to react and made such a rigid deployment.

Dark Knight.

It is different from the Ghost Swordsmen of Arad Continent who pursue Wave, the Blade Dancers who pursue the ultimate Sword Skill, the Berserkers who are bloodthirsty like fighting machines, and the Ghost Slayers who touch the power of ghosts and gods and possess extremely strong control abilities.

The Ashura who controls Wave has the strongest ability in siege warfare.

Shura Evil Light Slash, Explosive Flame Wave Sword, Dark Heaven Wave Eye, Heaven Thunder Demon Subduing Pestle…

All of them are large-scale clearing abilities. They may not have an advantage when fighting players of the same level, but when facing enemies slightly weaker than themselves, they will display astonishing mowing-down power.

Even the Navy Giant Corps with the 【Iron Wall Barrier】,

facing the great killing weapons that had been unstoppable against both the Revolutionary Army and the Whitebeard Pirates, could only be crushed head-on.

For a class with such a siege advantage, the only one who could probably contend with the Ashura is probably the Wind Mage, known as the Grandine Brick Mover, right?

(End of this chapter)