Chapter 286: Unsolvable Defeat? Reversing Heaven and Earth!

Eclipse City, Data Center.

The Star Net's computing power had already reached its limit.

Facing the increasingly exaggerated four-way melee, the Class-B energy supply was beginning to strain.

In its forceful collision with the other three factions, cracks began to appear.

For the Star Net, this battle was extremely important.

Containing an external rule would inevitably bring an overall boost to the player faction's strength.

That was also why he had agreed to the Divine King and taken part in commanding this campaign.

So upon detecting computational overload, it decisively activated the Class-A energy supply.

The Class-A energy supply, also called War Overclock Mode, was the second tier among the six major energy supply systems.

Under normal circumstances, it basically maintained Class-D energy supply status.

As for Class E, it had long been phased out—in the early days, it drew power by burning inferior spirit-energy coal and low-purity crystal-mineral extracts.

The drawback was that burning produced murky grey mist, requiring a filtration system, and the energy conversion efficiency was only around 69.5%.

With Class-D energy mode, however, the technology took a leap forward, adopting spirit-energy reactor power; its energy intensity could cover routine network administration and industrial activity.

Class-C energy supply was called "Special Emergency Power Mode," used only in certain special situations.

For example, calculating the energy-wave intensity of a spatial rift that suddenly appeared on Earth, deducing the arrival time of an alien race, and so on.

Class-B energy supply was called "Local War Power Mode"; the purified spirit-matter energy conversion efficiency reached 100%, capable of greatly boosting the Star Net's computing ability.

At Class-A War Overclock Mode, the reactor would undergo spirit-energy matrix fission; the energy fed into the reactor would enter a chain reaction, and through energy conduits the explosive output would be directionally delivered to the Star Net core. Under this mode the Star Net could easily construct a real-time holographic battlefield model.

The drawback was that it caused the spirit-energy matrix temperature to spike, requiring part of the energy to conduct heat away, and the reactor's service life was limited.

As for Class S, it was activated only at moments of civilizational survival crisis; the energy consumption it caused could even affect the future development of the Eclipse Clan.

Other tiers of energy supply all had multiple sets of reserve energy; only Class S had a single reserve.

The reason was that maintenance costs were too high, and the stored resources could not be converted into developmental momentum for the Eclipse Clan, which would hamper the research of new technologies.

Along with the Star Net's will to switch to Class-A energy being conveyed.

Three thousand meters beneath Eclipse City, the Class-A energy matrix trembled.

From deep within the rock layers came a muffled mechanical roar, and twelve energy conduits as thick as city walls lit up simultaneously with blinding blue light.

Like blood flowing through veins, surging toward the core region.

The water level in the Class-A energy reserve pool dropped rapidly; the spirit-matter liquid mixed inside was being swiftly drawn out, pushed toward the reactor.

At the same time, the steel gates of the Class-B energy conduits slowly opened amid the hydraulic system's hiss, revealing a spherical core chamber two hundred meters in diameter. On the chamber's inner wall, one hundred and twenty thousand honeycomb-shaped energy interfaces lit up at once with a faint blue glow, flickering like a sea of stars.

【Energy Switch Protocol Initiated, Sequence A-23 Executing.】

The notice of the Class-A energy protocol's activation was automatically transmitted into the minds of Eclipse City's administrators.

The next second, countless fist-sized robots poured out from the chamber-wall interlayers, sweeping over the energy conduits like a metallic tide.

Their forelimbs assembled themselves into ultra-high-temperature welding torches, rapidly dismantling the voltage stabilizers that had been welded on during the Class-B energy supply, following the Star Net's commands.

On the surface of the main conduits, thick as ancient trees, residue from the energy matter was swiftly cleared away.

Spider-shaped robots used their pincers to brace the trembling pipe walls, precisely severing cable after cable to make docking space for the Class-A energy conduits.

Elsewhere, inside the Class-A energy crystal conduits currently being tested for transport, the liquid energy took on a lava-like sheen under the continuous injection of spirit-matter.

The micro-robot swarms used lasers to calibrate every mortise-and-tenon interface, sparks dancing across their metal shells.

When the Class-B energy conduits shifted laterally under hydraulic boost, the Class-A crystal conduits moved in tandem, completing the docking.

Instantly, the energy—now turned the color of lava—was delivered into the spirit-energy reactor, and its interior began to flash at high frequency.

Every tremor came with a blinding flash of light.

But this alone was still not enough.

The energy amplifiers of the twelve Jin Zita slowly descended, their bases docking with the spirit-energy reactor to accelerate the reaction of spirit-matter within it.

The entire underground space, under the influence of this terrifying force, suddenly lost gravity; floating dust froze within the blue light.

Tens of thousands of spider-robots at this moment drove their forelimbs into the conduit panels, linked their bodies together, and the heat-dissipation fins on their backs vibrated frantically, channeling the overload heat through their feet into the cooling rails docked to the mantle.

At the reactor's center, the black polyhedron called the "Star Core" began to rotate; then a ten-meter-diameter equal-energy light pillar burst from the Star Core's apex, surging upward through the mystic-crystal conduit all the way to the Data Center.

The Star Net's computing-power lock was released, and it formally entered Class-A computing-power mode.

In an instant, the Star Net's self-awareness underwent an almost divine metamorphosis.

The viewpoint switched to the Gigantification Domain battlefield.

The qualitative change at the computing-power level altered the structure of the battlefield imagery, which had originally been stitched together from millions of livestream viewpoints.

From the initial positioning of each player's individual icon, it became connected particle-cloud clusters.

A time parameter appeared in the virtual image modeling; the Star Net's consciousness became the switch that could drag the imagery's timeline.

The tactical deductions of the Earth-Read Heretic Spirits were now parsed into clear, visible line trajectories.

The kill-orders of the Insectoid Hive-Mind also appeared in the form of a red neural network.

This time, what the Star Net deduced was no longer centered on the players.

It began to deduce the troop-control rhythms of the Earth-Read Heretic Spirits and the Insectoid Hive-Mind, using this method to predict in advance the action trajectories of the two Catastrophe-tier factions.

The entire golden sand sea was fully visualized within the Star Net's view.

The strongest Meng Yuan Chu monster of the Forest-Realm region's "Precognition" ability was, in essence, deduction—deducing the inevitable outcome from all available information.

The Star Net was also performing this kind of deduction. Although its information gathering could not, like the "Precognition" rule, integrate every unpredictable and unobservable piece of information, everything on the battlefield was a link in its deduction.

Under Class-A energy-consumption mode, every grain of golden sand's floating trajectory in the battle's aftershocks carried a moving trajectory line.

Every roar's sound wave on the battlefield was annotated in the imagery with an attenuation coefficient along its transmission.

Even the contraction force displayed by the Divine Tiger's muscle fibers was converted in real time into action trajectories.

At this moment, the Star Net cast aside probabilistic choices in its calculations; what appeared in the imagery were only the maximum-probability trajectory lines.

At this moment, the Star Web had touched the most fundamental logic of war.

It was attempting to tame the chaotic information generated by the collision of the four factions on the battlefield using precise numbers.

The problems that had originally arisen from computational overload suddenly vanished.

The amplification brought to the Earth-Will Evil Spirit by the Five Evil Eyes was completely neutralized by the A-grade power supply mode.

The three great calamities clashed brutally, officially entering the most bloody sprint phase.

The Beast Legion had reached the tragic moment of a desperate gamble; the Divine Tiger roared into complete frenzy, its body swelling to block out the sky and sun, its sharp claws sweeping up golden turbulent flows with every swing, crushing the Hei Chao Xie Sui, the Insect Warriors, and the players in swathes.

Under the control of the Earth-Will Evil Spirit, the Hei Chao Xie Sui surged wildly; in the perception view, the evil spirits exploded in swathes, Hua Zuo Zhou Yin.

They formed a Zhou Yin Great Array that covered this heaven and earth, attempting to swallow the entire battlefield.

The locust swarm controlled by the Insect Hive Mind obscured the sky like dark clouds, diving to tear and bite any living creature, advancing in relay with the Insect Warriors on the ground.

They gathered into a death tornado, building a ladder of victory to the Rule Imprint with their own deaths.

To fight for the Rule Divine Seal, the players had also gone mad.

The Faith Warriors of the Tank Corps fought bare-chested, using their flesh and blood to withstand the frenzied assaults of the three factions, forming a frenzied frontline of brute-force advancement.

Archers and magic-type players stood in the rear, their arrow rain like a waterfall and their elements like a flood, following the Tank Corps toward the end of this battle.

Furthermore, players with critically low health, when trapped in a desperate situation surrounded by the three types of troops, resolutely purchased the latest model of Spirit Bomb while in a near-death state, offering their final contribution through self-destruction.

The four factions went completely mad, turning the battlefield into a boiling furnace.

The four torrents tore at and swallowed each other in the most primitive way.

The players' elemental radiance met the Hei Chao's plague poison fog on the battlefield; amidst the exploding energy turbulence, the Insect Winged Swarm pierced both lines like meteors.

A dying Beast Warrior used its last strength to drive its fangs into the head of a Devouring Tyrant Insect that was trying to approach the Rule Imprint, swallowing it in return.

Half the body of the Gilded Giant Whale had already been gnawed away; it rolled, crushing swarms of evil spirits, only to be torn apart by attacking players as it exhausted itself.

The Shadow Demons controlled by the Earth-Will Evil Spirit darted through the battlefield, tearing open the throat of a magic-type player, only to be instantly erased a second later by a critical strike from an Assassin-type player standing beside them, enhanced by the Assassin's critical hit trait.

In the puzzle view of the Star Web, the Insect Death Storm tore apart seven frontline nodes; seconds later, the players controlled by the Star Web, in a frenzied counterattack posture, crushed seven defensive nodes of the Insects.

The corpses of Insect Warriors were piled high along the charge trajectory of the Tank-type players.

Every inch of space was playing out the switch between offense and defense; the central convergence point no longer had a frontline at all.

Combat units of the four factions were mixed together, strangling each other.

The dagger of an Assassin-type player had just been pulled from the back of a Shadow Demon's head when it was slapped into the gravel by a Beast's tail strike; the sharp claw of a Hei Chao Xie Sui had just pierced a player's chest when its head was bitten to pieces in one bite by a Devouring Tyrant Insect; a second later, that Tyrant Insect was smashed into scraps by a "charged" punch from a charging Tank-type player... The central battlefield had completely fallen into its most chaotic moment.

Especially the collision between the three great calamities; every move involved high-frequency switching between offense and defense.

Energy fragments, broken carapaces, and flesh and blood residue floated on the sand sea; viewed from high above, it resembled a purgatory.

After the four-colored energies were compressed to the extreme in the central convergence area, they exploded with a boom.

A terrifying high-temperature shockwave threw all combat units in the central region into the air.

But the explosion only briefly delayed the continuation of the madness.

A second later, the frenzied collision resumed, even more madly than before.

The players' stamina had reached its limit; the Earth-Will Evil Spirit's five-in-one form had also entered an overload state; the breeding speed of the Insect Army had also begun to slow... but no one showed any intention of stopping, all launching assaults to their utmost ability.

As the strongest of the four factions, the Beast Legion was the first to show signs of collapse.

Even the Divine Tiger, no matter how powerful, would eventually exhaust its strength.

Facing the unceasing assaults, its speed grew faster and faster, until its roar finally came to an abrupt halt.

Its massive, blood-soaked figure continued the war, but its body was now covered in gruesome wounds.

Facing the Divine Tiger whose life force was about to burn out, the three great calamities showed not a shred of pity, all pouncing on the burning-out Divine Tiger.

Just as the Earth-Will Evil Spirit had once said to the leader of the small world who controlled the "Light Realm" pseudo-rule:

"The races that come to the Monster World must have a glorious history of rising, but I do not care about your struggles and efforts before you jump out of the well; the only thing I care about is the weight of the nutrients you can provide when you wither... Your obsession with protecting your race and my desire to control the Hei Chao to swallow you are essentially no different; we are both surviving in different ways."

This sentence is also the inner reflection of the powerful races and beings of the Monster World.

The greatest respect for an enemy is to wipe them out completely.

Sparing your life only proves you are too weak to even qualify as nutrients, and it shows no belief that you have any possibility of turning the tables in the future.

In the Monster World, every race harbors a reason to survive.

The Divine Tiger fights for the continuation of its race; the three great calamities fight to satisfy their own desires; seemingly different motivations, yet in fact reaching the same destination by different paths.

But this world has no moral judgment; the demands of every race appear insignificant in the face of survival competition.

Only the strength and weakness of power can directly determine the voice and life or death between races.

The noble goal of the Divine Tiger fighting for the continuation of its race will not have the slightest effect on the course of the war.

The Monster World is just this cruel; there are no fairy tales of "the army of justice will surely win."

Only the reality of "the victor continues the story, the loser becomes nutrients."

Whether fighting for the race or for private desire to plunder, only by raising one's own strength to the level of crushing the opponent can one stand firm in the cruel survival competition.

Only by standing at the peak of the Monster World can one write their own will into the world's rules, making the world operate according to their will.

The three types of troops pounced on the Divine Tiger simultaneously; the poisoned dagger of an Assassin-type player, the spiral horns of a Hei Chao Xie Sui, and the tail stinger of an Insect Tyrant all struck the Divine Tiger's broken body at the same time.

The Divine Tiger was already exhausted and near death; the light had long since faded from its weary eyes.

Its severely injured body could not even move.

Just as the Divine Tiger's golden pupils began to scatter, the Hei Chao on the battlefield suddenly stopped strangely for an instant.

The will of the Earth-Will Evil Spirit descended; the pitch-black waves that had been ravaging the battlefield suddenly curled back, wrapping around the Divine Tiger's broken body like a giant python, with Hei Chao energy transforming into life force and constantly injecting into the Divine Tiger's body.

It knew clearly that if the Divine Tiger died, it would be completely swallowed by the players.

The most correct course of action at this time would be to drag the Divine Tiger into the depths of the Hei Chao and nibble it away bit by bit until it was completely swallowed.

A second after the Earth-Will Evil Spirit snatched away the Divine Tiger, the players, the Insects, and the Beast Legion simultaneously turned their attack directions.

The Insects and Beast Warriors locked onto the Hei Chao Xie Sui, while the players locked onto the Insects and Beast Warriors.

The elemental torrent strikes from spellcasters hit the Insect Clan and the Giant Beast Warriors from different angles, helping the Black Tide carry away the near-death remains of the Divine Tiger.

Seeing this, the Di Nian Evil Spirit instantly realized.

The hidden meaning behind the Player Faction's mysterious commander doing this was most likely to make the Black Tide the target of a three-sided siege.

But, so what?

As long as the Divine Tiger can be devoured, sacrificing some evil spirits is completely worth it.

Everyone's goal is the Rule Imprint; it is fundamentally impossible to abandon the Rule Imprint and choose to focus energy on the Black Tide they control.

However, fighting over the Divine Tiger's remains caused the battle situation, which was about to reach a conclusion, to fall into stalemate once again.

The Black Tide, controlled by the Di Nian Evil Spirit, fought alone against three sides, while the Divine Tiger trapped within the Black Tide was shrouded in Black Tide particles, its life energy constantly being drained.

The war situation reversed once again.

And the Star Network's new command was issued at this moment.

It clearly knew that the Player Legion was the weakest of the four forces in terms of comprehensive strength.

In the war to seize the Rules, there was only one unique advantage.

That was that the Insect Clan and the Black Tide could not instantly decompose the Rules; even if they obtained them, they would have to find a way to send them back, but players could store them in their Spatial Bags the moment they touched them.

But this advantage could not be utilized at all.

Sending them back seemed very difficult, but was actually very easy for the Black Tide possessing the Evil Moon as a relay.

Just like the previous struggle for the Origin Monster "Ice Mist Breath," if the Di Nian Bully had not voluntarily gifted it, the players' combat power alone would have been unable to force the Di Nian Bully to spit out the resources in his hand.

Before the absolute torrent of power, relying solely on real-time battlefield layout calculations made it difficult to win the final victory.

To seize the Giant Rule, one could only find another path.

If the war continued to progress at the pace just now, the Di Nian Evil Spirit had the highest probability of seizing the "Giant Rule."

The benefit it chose to sacrifice by offering the Divine Tiger was to keep the war going and buy time for its layout.

A new layout began at this moment.

A golden bullet screen flashed through the God King's mind; the God King did not hesitate for a second, left the rear in the next moment, and actively rushed toward the most intense "Purgatory Zone" of the battle.

Finally, amidst the sound of an elemental explosion, he perished together with a swarm of evil spirits.

The moment he returned to the Small Black Room, the God King posted on the forum as required by the Star Network:

【All resurrected players do not need to rush to the battlefield again; gather all at the exit of Di Zhai Village. For victory, make one last effort!】

Immediately, a large number of players who had resurrected and were preparing to rush to the battlefield again flocked to the entrance of Di Zhai Village.

The Star Network also activated the dual-line command mode.

In its eyes, one of the players' greatest advantages was the ability to resurrect and fight again.

But traveling to the Giant Domain after resurrection took nearly half a day, making the support speed too slow.

Not all players had vehicles for high-speed movement; the slowest ones even needed a full day.

Secondly, even if the speed of returning support forces could be accelerated, the probability of players seizing the Giant Rule was still the lowest among the three Great Calamities.

Therefore, other means had to be used to increase the probability.

After calculation and deduction under the A-rank function, the optimal solution was to launch an attack on the Gao Ta where the Di Nian Evil Spirit was located.

By saving travel time, it required players to open a new battlefield right at the Di Nian Evil Spirit's doorstep; doing this could significantly improve support efficiency.

In the Di Nian Bully's eyes, which was more important, the Rule or the Gao Ta, was obvious.

It would inevitably have to divert a portion of the Black Tide's energy to guard the Gao Ta, so the pressure brought by the Black Tide on the Giant Domain battlefield would decrease significantly.

Merely having resurrected players rejoin the fight was not enough; the core purpose of opening a secondary battlefield was not to distract the Di Nian Evil Spirit through harassment.

What it wanted was the transfer of the main battlefield.

This was also the reason it voluntarily abandoned the Divine Tiger's remains and even assisted the Di Nian Evil Spirit; it needed to buy time to layout the next step.

Under the God King's call, the resurrected players quickly gathered outside Di Zhai Village, then split into two groups to move out.

The first group of players, led by the God King, rushed straight for the Gao Ta where the Di Nian Evil Spirit was located, while the second group of players, under the Star Network's command, rushed to the Phantom Swamp where the Insect Clan's Main Brain was located.

While launching the operation, the God King's voice rang out in the Warband Channel:

"Announcing one thing: there is an emergency plan that requires everyone to contribute Shou Shou Jili. Next, I will activate the Warband Trading Mode. Players with financial means should contribute 2,000 points of Shou Shou Jili. The Shen Tang Guild cannot bear this portion of Shou Shou Jili, so it is considered an unconditional contribution, but it is not forced. Doing this is for the victory of the war. Players willing to contribute this portion of Shou Shou Jili will transfer it directly to me later through the Warband Trading Mode. I will explain afterwards; this might be the key to our victory."

After speaking, the God King activated the Warband Trading Mode, and all players in the warband automatically connected to the God King.

Facing the God King's request, although all players in the warband felt very confused, the God King's reputation made them willing to believe the God King had no selfish motives.

After all, the Shen Tang Guild still had to mix within the Player Camp in the future; it was impossible to become the public enemy of the whole village for temporary private gain.

Doing so was meaningless.

The God King was not short of money in reality either; he would not abandon the Monster World he had vowed to play for a lifetime just for the growth of wealth.

Subsequently, players continuously sent 2,000 points of Shou Shou Jili to the God King.

The balance number in the God King's Spatial Bag skyrocketed accordingly, with massive amounts of Shou Shou Jili entering the account every second.

But the God King, having received the Shou Shou Jili, transferred this sum to the Guild Manager "God's Right Hand," ordering him to take this money and immediately go to Di Zhai Village, first spend 300,000 to increase the vehicles' movement speed, and then wait for further instructions on what to do next.

After giving the orders, the God King led the resurrected players in a rush to the front of the Xie Yan Gao Ta.

Just as he had predicted before the war started, the Di Nian Evil Spirit had already made defensive preparations; before he could approach, the surging black fog began to press down, and the defensive line formed by Calamity-class troops rose from the ground.

The God King did not hesitate and decisively led the resurrected players to launch a charge.

This time, disregarding battle losses, going all out.

On the other side, the resurrected players under the Star Network's command continued to advance toward the Phantom Swamp, finally engaging the Insect Clan controlled by the Main Brain.

But these players did not linger in battle; they fought while retreating, drawing the battle line toward the Xie Yan Gao Ta.

At this moment, the Di Nian Evil Spirit, who was commanding the war within the Giant Domain, had already noticed something was wrong.

In the next second, it analyzed the purpose behind the Player Faction's mysterious commander doing this.

It wanted to open a secondary battlefield... no, it wanted to use pressure to force the Black Tide and Insect Clan combat power to constantly flow into the Di Zhai Mountain Range, turning the secondary battlefield into the main battlefield, thereby tying down their combat power supply in the Giant Domain.

The purpose of doing this is very clear.

Although the Player Clan is strong, it also has a fatal weakness.

In long-distance raiding wars, the Player Clan's support efficiency is extremely low.

The Black Tide can use the Evil Eye Gao Ta's refraction to transport Black Tide energy across ultra-long distances in a short time; anywhere can become the main battlefield.

The Insect Race possesses spreading, expanding fungal mats, which are equivalent to building a direct energy supply pipeline to the battlefield; although their support efficiency is inferior to the Black Tide, they can still achieve continuous energy supply.

Only the Players, whose mechanisms in all aspects are very strong, have a significant shortcoming in support; every time they must travel by passing through the World Barrier.

The situation of this war is clear.

The comprehensive combat power of the Black Tide led by him is undoubtedly the first among the four forces, surpassing the Player Clan and the Insect Race in all aspects.

The second place is the Insect Race Legion, and the last place is the Player Legion.

As for the Giant Beast Legion, since the war began, this force has been a dish on the table; there is no possibility of winning the final victory.

Therefore, the core of this mysterious commander's tactic is to reduce the Players' travel time, using a second battlefield to tie up him and the Insect Race Main Brain, forcing them to continuously invest energy into the Giant Transformation Domain battlefield.

It appears to be a trap, but it is actually an open card.

The Player Clan's mysterious commander is betting that he cares more about the Evil Eye Gao Ta than the Rule Imprint.

The facts are exactly as the Player Clan commander thought; regarding the importance of the Rules and the Evil Eye Gao Ta, he will inevitably choose the Gao Ta.

This is the proof of his status as an Evil Spirit Commander, and the Gao Ta is also the energy supply core of the Black Tide Legion.

How could he abandon the Evil Eye Gao Ta for the sake of the Rules?

Thinking of this, Di Nian Evil Spirit's gaze suddenly turned toward the Insect Race front line.

It can be basically confirmed that the Insect Race will also be the target for opening a second battlefield.

The mysterious commander will inevitably dispatch Player Clan members to go to Phantom Swamp to lure the Insect Race Main Brain into battle, thereby intensifying the second battlefield; only in this way can the resource investment in the main battlefield be better tied up.

The second battlefield opened in the Di Zhong Mountain Range will eventually evolve into a clash between the Black Tide, the Insect Race, and the Player Clan.

But how could he let the Player Clan commander get his wish? The core of this plan is time.

He cannot give the mysterious commander enough time to set up the layout.

After clarifying the underlying logic behind the Player Clan's sudden attack on the Gao Ta, the Black Tide controlled by Di Nian Evil Spirit launched an even more fierce offensive.

The mysterious commander wants time, so he will strengthen the offensive to make the decisive moment arrive faster.

The longer it drags on, the more resources the second battlefield needs to invest.

Just as Di Nian Evil Spirit predicted, the Player Legion is currently mired in a support predicament.

Being the weakest force in combat power, for every Player lost in battle, it takes half a morning for resurrection plus travel time to arrive.

Among the three forces, the Black Tide is always in a peak state, with evil spirits being supplied endlessly.

The Insect Race's energy supply is relatively weaker; the breeding speed of Insect Race warriors has already slowed down, but it is still much stronger than the Players' support efficiency.

If this trend continues, they will be drained empty before they even touch the Rule Imprint.

The problem the Players worry about is naturally known to the Star Web, so the Star Web decisively adjusted its combat strategy, no longer launching offensives against the Giant Beast Legion, but instead helping the Giant Beast Legion fight, sharing the pressure brought by the Black Tide and the Insect Tide.

After changing tactics, the war once again fell into a stalemate.

In Di Nian Evil Spirit's eyes, the tactical shift of the Player Clan's mysterious commander confirmed his own conjecture.

It also made him understand the purpose of the mysterious commander being willing to abandon the resources brought by devouring Giant Beast warriors just to drag the war on.

He wants the Rule Imprint.

As time passed, Di Nian Evil Spirit also began to multitask.

Just as the mysterious commander laid out, the second battlefield has already opened into a three-way free-for-all.

For safety considerations, he must divert energy to take care of the Evil Eye Gao Ta.

But the combat modes of the two fronts are completely different.

The Giant Transformation Domain battlefield is like boiling magma; the Black Tide turns into millions of black torrents, carrying extreme madness, constantly tearing the front lines apart with a force that crushes withered wood.

The generated evil spirits surge forward like a tide, with every wave of offensive attempting to completely crush the three forces, like a raging storm, bringing the Black Tide system's brutality to the extreme.

Meanwhile, in the Di Zhong Mountain Range battlefield, the Disaster-type troops have constructed steel walls, huddling and fighting around the Gao Ta.

The actively contracting defense line keeps the collision of the three forces suppressed within a controllable range.

At this moment, Di Nian Evil Spirit has already seen victory.

Although the pressure on the second front is constantly increasing, as time passes, he needs to continuously increase the energy supply quota.

But the Player losses on the main battlefield are greater; if this trend continues, the Players will leave the field shortly after the Giant Beast Legion.

Just as Di Nian Evil Spirit thought he had victory in his grasp.

Second Battlefield, Di Zhong Mountain Range.

Players, Insect Race, and evil spirits are launching a new round of clashes.

As more and more Players join the battlefield after resurrection, the intensity of the war gradually climbs.

To pressure Di Nian Evil Spirit, the Players under the Star Web's command launched wave after wave of charges, joined by the Insect Tide controlled by the Main Brain entering the fray.

The evil spirit troops added by Di Nian Evil Spirit in the Di Zhong Mountain Range battlefield are also increasing accordingly.

But the participating Players cannot figure out what the meaning of doing this is.

The core of this battle is not the Di Zhong Mountain Range, but the Giant Transformation Domain battlefield; facing the anti-devouring defense line of the Disaster-type troops, dragging it out like this cannot bring any advantage to the main front.

There is pressure, but it cannot change the declining situation of the Giant Transformation Domain battlefield; in the end, it will still end in failure.

In the regional channel, Players kept speaking up to ask:

"I just asked my guild brothers; the Players in the Giant Transformation Domain are almost wiped out. Opening a second front line can reduce the pressure on the main front line, but what about the main front line? Are we just going to let it go like this?"

"I don't care what happens to the main front line; I believe in the God King, I believe in Tourist Number One; just follow and charge, that's all."

"I understand the core of this tactic now. Even if Di Nian Bully can seize the Giant Transformation Rules, he still has to transport them back, right? The second front line is for intercepting them during the transport."

"You idiot upstairs, do you think this is an escort mission? The Black Tide's energy transport goes through the Evil Moon as a relay; you won't see the transport process at all. As long as Di Nian Bully grabs the Giant Transformation Rules, it's over. Intercept? Try flying up to the Evil Moon to intercept."

"So damn anxious, feels like the main battlefield's almost empty of people, this battle really is the swansong of the monster-stream, I can't figure out how to turn it around."

……

The players' inner anxiety deepened as the battle wore on.

The number of players fighting in the Imperial Tomb Mountains had already exceeded by a full fold those still fighting in the Gigantification Domain.

The Earth-Nian Bully had adopted a defensive strategy in the Imperial Tomb Mountains, to reduce the investment of Black Tide energy, and its advantage on the Gigantification Domain battlefield was steadily expanding.

Once the Earth-Nian Bully seized the Gigantification Rule, what use would the pressure from the Imperial Tomb Mountains be?

Time slipped away amid the clashes.

When the number of players in the Imperial Tomb Mountains region exceeded a million, for the sake of Gao Ta's safety, the Earth-Nian Evil Spirit could only invest more resources into the Imperial Tomb Mountains.

The intensity of war in the Imperial Tomb Mountains gradually surpassed that of the Gigantification Domain battlefield.

But the number of players in the Gigantification Domain had already fallen below 100,000, mired in absolute disadvantage.

The Giant Beast Warriors were nearly wiped out; the remaining strength, without player support, was wholly insufficient to protect the Rule Imprint.

All four factions had reached their limits on the Gigantification Domain battlefield.

But the Earth-Nian Evil Spirit remained the absolutely dominant side in the Gigantification Domain, its combat power far exceeding that of the Zerg and the players.

Facing an irreversible defeat, the revived players could only follow Visitor No. 1's command and continue applying pressure on the Earth-Nian Bully at the Imperial Tomb Mountains battlefield.

During this process, the Star Net was also calculating the changes in Black Tide resources.

A number marked in gold pulsed within its mind.

63.7%……63.8%……63.9%……The number represented the resource quota the Earth-Nian Bully was investing into the Imperial Tomb Mountains region.

This number did not represent all the Black Tide energy resources the Earth-Nian Bully controlled.

Rather, it was a relative figure calculated based on the changes in intensity and quantity of the Black Tide Evil Spirits in the Gigantification Domain, compared against the increases in intensity and quantity of the Black Tide in the Imperial Tomb Mountains region.

At this moment, on the Gigantification Domain battlefield.

The player battle line was already showing signs of collapse; the Black Tide advanced like a battering ram, and seizing the Gigantification Rule was almost a foregone conclusion.

The dwindling number of players also left the battlefield footage, originally stitched together from a million livestream viewpoints, riddled with gaps.

But……the war was not yet over.

Within the stitched-together livestream viewpoint, a streak of golden flowing light was rapidly flying over from Meng Yuan Chu.

Confirming the other party had arrived, the Star Net sent a golden bullet-screen to the Divine King:

"Begin!"

Receiving the Star Net's prompt, the Divine King, who was fighting in the Imperial Tomb Mountains region, decisively roared out in the warband channel:

"All players, prepare for airdrop deployment!"

Hearing the Divine King's order, the players currently locked in combat with the Black Tide Evil Spirits and the Zerg warriors all looked utterly bewildered.

Aren't we already fighting? What does "airdrop" mean?

The next second, a Challenger prompt rang out in their minds.

【Challenger Prompt (Warband): Warband Vice-Leader "Divine Hall - Left Hand" has sent you an item: Coordinate Teleport (Coordinates: Gigantification Domain 283.628.582.)】

Along with the prompt tone, in the Imperial Tomb Mountains region, a golden scroll automatically appeared in the spatial packs of the vast majority of players.

Veteran players knew this scroll well.

It was exactly the Teleport Scroll exchanged from the Enlightenment Rule Shop.

The usage was simple: one had to set a coordinate at a location, and the next time the scroll was activated, one could teleport directly to the previously marked coordinate.

At this moment, the participating players suddenly understood the meaning of all this meaningless grinding here.

"Holy shit, that's badass, hahaha, I get it now, I fucking get it."

"Well played, Visitor No. 1, to actually come up with such a heaven-defying slick move, too damn badass."

"Hahaha, the Giant Beast stream still has hope, brothers, the cross-border expedition begins, I'm heading out first."

……

Accompanied by a tidal wave of roars from the map voice channel, a scene the Earth-Nian Evil Spirit found hard to believe unfolded.

Within its perception, Bai Guang lit up across the mountains and plains.

Player silhouettes vanished en masse from its perception, like words erased by a rubber.

"Not good!"

The Earth-Nian Evil Spirit's gaze snapped toward the familiar player faction commander, only to see him flip it off toward Gao Ta, grin, and say:

"Your daddy's heading out first!"

The taunt finished, and the next second the Divine King's figure vanished as well.

Toward the Gigantification Domain battlefield, full-health revived players sprang up following the Bai Guang like bamboo shoots after rain.

A million players, back at full health!

(End of Chapter)