Chapter 61: I Dropped My Guard, I Didn't Guard Against It

The fog of war dispersed.

A towering black city wall emerged.

Rare-grade Defense Tower — Sniper Tower,

instantly locked onto a squad of flying troops in the sky.

Boom, boom, boom—!

A thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth blasted everything within sight to oblivion!

【Your unit Red-tailed Bat has been killed.】

【Your unit Red-tailed Bat has been killed.】

The sudden territory alert left Carlo momentarily stunned.

What’s going on?

The flying units were only meant for clearing war fog,

he never ordered the Red-tailed Bats to attack—

so how did an entire squad of Red-tailed Bats suddenly get wiped out?

And even if they had attacked,

how could a newly initiated lord’s territory take out a whole squad of his flying units in a single encounter?

Is the enemy territory’s anti-air capability really that strong?

Carlo was utterly baffled,

and directed his heroes to launch an assault.

An elven knight led ten thousand armored cavalry and siege engines toward the city wall marker on the map.

A mountain giant led five thousand shield soldiers and five thousand archers, flanking from the side.

A grand magus led a thousand Wu Clan mages, circling wide as they advanced.

What Carlo didn’t realize, however,

was that the classmates watching from the sidelines had already erupted into a clamor.

Possessing an omniscient vantage point,

they stared dumbfounded at that terrifying sniper tower.

“The sniper tower’s range… is that long?”

“I actually thought teacher’s Red-tailed Bats would manage to escape.”

“Holy crap, his walls… how are they that huge?”

“This doesn’t make sense, how can a newly initiated lord have such a massive territory?”

“It wasn’t built on his territory—his territory’s only five hundred squares. Look, it’s a tier-three lord crystal.”

“What kind of ability allows him… to build territorial structures in the wild?”

“No idea…”

“This is… just too absurd.”

The classmates watched Su Yu’s territory, whispering among themselves,

the debate never pausing for a moment.

They gazed at the humanoid form on the mountain peak, completely shrouded in white radiance,

brimming with curiosity.

“Why doesn’t he project his units into the simulated battle?”

“No idea.”

“And why don’t his heroes enter the simulation either?”

“No idea.”

“What race is he anyway? Why is his whole body just a mass of white light?”

“Stop asking! How am I supposed to know if you keep asking me?!”

The sniper tower

shot down the enemy flying units.

Su Yu smiled faintly and moved swiftly along the path the enemy had already scouted.

He intended to charge directly into the enemy territory,

to test just how strong he had become at level fifteen.

He had spent so much time on the Myriad Realms Battlefield with no target to truly unleash his full power against.

Those Red-tailed Bats just now weren’t even level forty and were instantly obliterated by the tower—a major letdown.

“What’s he planning?”

“No clue… damn, don’t tell me he’s thinking of attacking the teacher’s territory with just his own strength?”

“That’s… pure madness.”

“A newly initiated lord like him—isn’t that suicide?”

“Probably just wants to scout the teacher’s territory. A lord can revive after death, after all.”

“I think he just came in to broaden his horizons. He didn’t even bring his units or heroes.”

“How can you assault someone’s territory with nothing but buildings?”

The classmates were all talking over one another.

On the other side, Carlo watched the feedback messages coming in from his heroes,

and was instantly floored.

Walls, walls, and more walls.

This… how had he built the walls so enormous?

What he had assumed was a pincer assault

turned out to be all frontal the entire time.

“My lord… we… have to pull back first.”

"This city wall, its defensive power... there's something off about it."

The lord terminal was receiving information from the hero terminal,

Karo froze for a moment, then opened the footage his hero had transmitted.

Staring at that boundless city wall,

staring at those sniper towers unleashing devastating attacks.

Karo very much wanted to ask, exactly how many generations of lords was he fighting against?

Are you sure he didn't log into the wrong account?

Are you sure this isn't his main account, running a "Heroic Lord"-level simulation battle?

"Damn it, how could this be the lord of generation 11520, how could this be a new generation lord's territory?"

Karo the elf, who prided himself on civilization and refinement, spat out a curse.

The sound of casualty alerts rang out continuously.

Only after retreating more than 20 kilometers from the opponent did it finally stop.

These sniper towers... have a range of 20,000 meters?

Karo's heart was shaken to its core.

Never Falls... Never Falls, why does this territory name feel somewhat familiar?

Not everyone pays attention to the All-Clans Ranking Battles or cares about a new generation lord of this cycle.

Clan rankings, those are matters for the important figures to consider.

As for the introduction to this cycle's new generation lord, Karo had only glanced at it once in the news.

Everything that had happened in quick succession was simply too shocking,

leaving Karo no time to think carefully.

He pondered deeply, trying to figure out how to assault the opponent's territory.

His classmates were still watching,

losing to a new generation lord—

he could not afford that humiliation.

"Judging by the fog-of-war status, his troops and heroes are all shrunken back inside the territory, none have come out."

"Perhaps, in just three short months, his developmental focus has all been on these walls and sniper towers, so his troops and heroes have practically no combat strength at all."

"Forget it, cover the battering rams and assault the city gates!"

Karo thought deeply, already treating this opponent as a lord of his own level.

However,

just at that moment,

The sound of forest sentinels being killed rang in his ears.

Forest sentinels were defensive structures he had set up around the perimeter of his territory.

Moreover, they were structures with a consciousness of their own —

normally appearing as large trees, but the moment an enemy invaded, they would uproot themselves

and use their vines to strangle the enemy.

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Yet, in the brief span of a single dazed moment, an entire swath of forest sentinels had perished.

"?!"

Carlo was stunned.

He immediately pulled up his territory panel.

Staring at the surveillance footage his territory had captured, his eyes went wide.

A white, humanoid creature had charged into his territory —

one punch, one kick, sweeping away swaths of ancient forest trees.

The territory's intel was feeding back: the other party was a lord unit.

How was this possible?!

He was a freshman lord — what kind of power was this??

Suddenly,

a sniper tower appeared at the rear.

"BOOM—!"

[Your Lord Crystal has been breached.]

[You have lost. 3 points deducted.]

Exiting the simulation battle, Carlo's entire mental state was dazed.

"Wow, teacher."

"How was that freshman lord so strong?"

"Teacher, your level-35 forest sentinels couldn't beat him at all!"

"Also, how did that last sniper tower suddenly appear near your territory?"

The students buzzed with noisy excitement.

Carlo's expression was a little awkward, his face burning bright red.

He had originally planned to demonstrate an offensive formation for everyone,

but he had never expected that his opponent wouldn't deploy troops at all,

and on top of that… he ended up losing.

"Items that can move structures are quite common."

"The key was that he moved it beyond the territory boundary and then combined it with that sniper tower's 20,000-meter range — it had a surprising effect."

"I was careless, left myself unguarded, and that's why I lost. If we went again, I would definitely win."

Carlo delivered his post-defeat summary and post-match analysis.

The students pretended to listen attentively, but they were restless and uneasy.

What had just happened, to them,

was practically like watching a dream unfold.

A freshman lord had defeated their teacher?