Chapter 1899: with translation of chapter title

NO. 518：Preparation has its limits.

There are many keys that determine the outcome of a war, and logistical supply is often one of them.

Although the war itself is certainly not what the remnants of the cult hope for.

Rather, it is because they are willing, after the eastern window incident, to still seek negotiations with the demon kings to continue cooperation, in order to avoid the unnecessary resource consumption brought by the slaughter of war turning into. After all, the remnants clearly understand they are in a dead-end stage; rather than launching a swift attack that places them in a deadly situation before finding life, it is more realistic to try every means to preserve themselves.

Moreover, in the eyes of the remnants, each Hei'an Digital Monster here is equivalent to a walking resource.

Under the premise that external enemies and hidden dangers have not been resolved, fighting against the resources themselves—such internal consumption decisions naturally should not exist. On the contrary, if they can get through the present, after securing the technology for producing containers for Digital Monster information, everyone can enjoy a long period without worrying about resources—thus, by ceding part of the technology and resources, this hollow alliance can be prolonged.

This should have been somewhat humiliating, but given that no key technology leaked and the gains from the investigation by the Seven Demon Lords' Holy Highness were successfully concealed, the priests of the cult remnants instead felt a bit of secret delight.

It's as if they saw the other party buy the case and return the pearl.

This sense of superiority felt in making trade-offs is truly the domain of merchants, further highlighting their deviation from past inertia and their beastly nature.

And when this deviation progresses further, the logistical base of the cult remnants is set up.

When the situation they strive to avoid still occurs, and they cannot immediately find a way to escape, the priests can only temporarily prepare for battle according to war standards.

Although this battlefield has been the enemy's territory from the start, filled from the start with their ambushes, facilities, and strategic deployments, the Hei'an Digital Monsters and the cult remnants who were forcibly 'bound' here should, aside from themselves, have nothing at all—utterly destitute.

But as a group of transmigrants who are not Digital Monsters, although the cult remnants have always looked down on humanity and its civilization, in actual operation they have not failed to make use of human technology.

Such as portable compression storage tools, or like building a micro-reactor within themselves to operate the entire miniaturized facility to support the expensive equipment and its technology for locking an independent space—all are technologies used to facilitate the rapid deployment of various facilities like a base vehicle.

It is also an MVP in normal moving and emergency escape procedures! It can be said to be the necessary condition support for the Beast Cult's long-term fleeing and wrongdoing, and long-term development.

But there is also a problem that must be faced every time they reach such a juncture:

You can deploy a base in one second, but can you hold it for the countless seconds thereafter?

Especially when deploying on the battlefield in the heat of battle.

This will make you a target of everyone's attacks, and temporarily transform the form of war into tower defense.

Of course, guarding the base has long been a field where lower- and middle-level personnel work together.

The priests need not concern themselves with it, let alone participate.

But this does not mean they will be inexperienced and make countless mistakes.

After all, the priests were once grassroots believers themselves.

Indeed, top runners of the past, after retiring for decades, often cannot be compared with current active ones. Time wears down skills, which is common knowledge, and time wears down memory even more, which is a truth among the transmigrant group.

But human-established truths always have a time to be overturned.

For example, technology and source energy that change life.

Needless to say, source energy has long had many systems involving memory imprint/inheritance/integration from ancient times to the present, and on the technological side, the crystal cores at the front end of versions often can lock in memory. Even in the form of cloud disk expansion, they can store capacity beyond ordinary human lifespan, and the super-Dream-like function loaded in the crystal cores can let you revisit those memories from the five-sense domain while also retrieving the original feelings.

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Although this feel will be somewhat awkward on an aged/strengthened body, adapting to it in that case is not really a problem.

Moreover, what the remnants of the cult need to recall is not skill, but knowledge.

The priests, who have never been unfamiliar with combat, find it easy to recall the past and even easier to put defensive battle knowledge into practice; the only problem is that they indeed have a great disadvantage of insufficient manpower.

Containers are dead objects.

Even if they can summon a powerful form to have them execute simple commands such as 'destruction, attack, defense,' they cannot meet the ever-changing needs of the battlefield.

This problem has no fundamental solution; only those priests skilled in multitasking can be made to work harder, and by frequently issuing commands and exercising mental control, they can at best create a virtual image of tight defense.

And they also intervene in the size and development direction of the base.

This is mainly reflected in: the size of the ground base can be reduced to that of a small apartment complex, while more of its contents are completed in underground construction.

The instruments and barrier technologies used to conceal detection are mature.

By setting up surface bases at multiple locations on the battlefield to achieve a visual diversion effect—such a 'three burrows for a cunning rabbit' delaying strategy also exists.

Such professional temporary base construction, even network police observing server operation data on a high-dimensional level would find it hard to detect quickly, and the soldiers on site are even more filled with the battlefield's complex information, so the vast majority simply lack the leisure to notice those faint clues that are not obvious to begin with.

Note, it is the vast majority.

You should know that although the attention of Digital Monsters, humans, monsters, and various miscellaneous ascended species is limited in improvement, the higher the intensity and danger of the battlefield, the more it requires nerves to be tensed and full effort; yet among them there is still a portion that excels exceptionally in perception, information processing, and multitasking.

Those are usually individuals with mechanical tags.

Mechanical monsters, mechanical Digital Monsters, transformed humans/Digital Monsters, etc.

And a small portion that, through source energy research, specializes in mental, soul, divine consciousness, etc., to achieve extraordinary insight and analytical ability.

They can notice battlefield anomalies that the vast majority of comrades overlook; they can notice the slight clues behind seemingly reasonable scans being blocked, and even the base constructions meant to disturb hearing are first discovered by them and proposed for destruction.

But regardless of whether those are pure bait or temporary bases undertaking part of the logistical function, none of them count as key to the cult remnants' battle arrangements.

Truly responsible for important functions are not only many replaceable and restful monster containers, as well as equipment for information stability, but also the props, information, and even the temporary main base of Digital Monsters that the cult remnants have come into contact with in their investigations of the various Demon Lords' holy halls, which remain shrouded in mist.

Even Aomo Lindun, who is currently waging continuous battle with the power of Extreme Evil Belial, inevitably overlooks it.

This is also unavoidable.

Even after Nigicaris overloads and collapses, the Gilbaris card is still pierced again by the Beta Magic Blade, and via the Beta Motor's full-power operation to assist the remaining computing power—successfully making it the auxiliary plug-in currently mounted on Extreme Evil Belial.

But even if Extreme Evil Belial's senses surpass many Ultraman warriors, they still struggle to match the scanning ability of Heaven's Authority Judgment.

Having only computing power without fine scanning is like having a brain but being slightly deaf and blind; how could one notice that there is still a cave beneath the building they casually destroyed?

And how could one notice that the scorching traces left by light covering the rift valley are merely an illusion fabricated by the opponent using monster abilities?

Let alone whether one can notice it; there's even no time to think, because the ultimate super beast Ultraman Slayer Saurus shows no mercy.

Pretty much, they've been driven to desperation, even pulling out disposable monster containers—relying on Extreme Evil Belial's perception, which may not match Heaven's Authority Judgment but remains sharp, he can feel that the power, agility, and energy attack output of that thing before him show a clear decline within a minute.

Just like the Oubu Moge King previously handed over to Jie De to deal with, a one-glance true view, it is absolutely a relatively precious consumable container.

Such things are still hanging in front of Aomo's office counter as exhibits! They cannot possibly be used; only showing them off to people now and then counts as passing the day—how could they be consumed on a battlefield with no end in sight?

Although the resistance is indeed considerable now, but not as great as expected, I feel the remnants of the cult should still have a backup plan, but I just haven't had the time to notice.

But it doesn't matter!

Although he doesn't have the time to survey the whole area, nor the energy to ponder the clues, the battlefield is indeed ever-changing.

It is also two-way.

When he and the opposing priest, both expressionless and each harboring ulterior motives, were snickering in their hearts, the Hei'an Tyrant that burst forth from the sudden sky‑rushing light pillar still made both sides' hearts skip a beat.

Only in a certain place stood a Great Dracule Beast gazing into the distance, laughing ha ha ha, as if it had instantly solved a mystery that had troubled for many years.

(End of chapter)