Chapter 76

Bamate let out a roar, proclaiming his victory.

The opponent's territory was large but empty,

with only this sniper tower having any real combat power.

Once the city wall is breached, victory is assured.

"Giant Ram Cart," assemble!

"Speed Build Card," used!

"Siege Decree," used!

Damage to the city wall doubled!

"It's over."

"Sigh."

"At a time like this, he still won't deploy troops and heroes?"

"Look at his territory — just a few farmhouses and fields, useless as hell."

"You're all overthinking it. Think carefully — he's just a new-generation lord."

"In three months, all resources must have gone into developing this wall and sniper tower."

"Where would he find resources left over for troops and heroes?"

"True — that sniper tower firepower deceived me. I forgot for a moment he's a newcomer, thought it was a veteran lord's battle."

"Still... to reach this scale in three months is fairly terrifying. No wonder he was first place in the monster wave settlement."

"Even so, defeating an old-generation lord is still too difficult."

The sounds of shaking heads and sighs continued unbroken.

The hope in those new-generation lords' eyes dimmed, and they lowered their heads in dejection.

Indeed, even if the buffs on this sniper tower were monstrous beyond measure,

once the enemy breaks through your firepower,

the tower becomes nothing but decoration.

"Let's go, no need to keep watching."

"The wall is about to shatter."

"There's no need to pick a gate to attack at all — just ram straight through the wall."

"An old lord's deep foundations are something a new-generation lord can never hope to match."

The crowd of previous-generation lords shook their heads and began to leave.

It made sense after all —

how could a new-generation lord possibly defeat the Frenzied Beast Bamate?

【Frenzied Beast Lion Bro has surrendered.】

【Victory!】

【Winner: Moonfall.】

Wait, what the hell?!

Winner Moonfall?

Did I hear that wrong?

The lords about to leave froze for a moment.

Bamate... dared to throw a match in the TW Simulated Battle?

Amid the excited roars of the new-generation lords in the spectator space,

the crowd of previous-generation lords were baffled.

In the brief span of a short exchange, what had they missed?

The former lords immediately started watching the replay.

They saw the lion-headed Bamate charging excitedly right up to the base of the city wall.

His four heroes

were operating a gigantically powerful battering ram, slamming it fiercely into the wall!

Tens of thousands of orc knights,

siege weapons in hand, all launched an attack on the wall together!

And then...

The wall didn't budge a fraction.

Not even a wisp of sand or dust rose from it.

The enormous recoil force sent surges of blood and qi churning through those orc knights.

How... can it not even break through defense?

Is a rare-grade obsidian city wall... really that exaggerated?

This level of defense, it's got to be at least level 45, right?!

City wall structures are the hardest to level up.

A city wall spanning a hundred li all around, leveled up to 45?!

How is that possible...

Because the energy consumed to upgrade city walls is just too terrifying,

some lords don't even build city walls,

opting instead to construct buildings with defensive properties.

For example, the elf Carlo built Forest Guardians instead.

But the defensive power of a city wall is the highest of all structures — there's no doubt about that.

A rare-grade hero can hardly deal effective damage to a rare-grade city wall of the same level.

From this alone, you can see just how terrifying the defensive power of a city wall structure is.

Bamate's mind went completely blank.

The city wall in his own territory was only level 20.

Every level a city wall gains requires a massive amount of territorial energy.

The further you go, the more outrageous it gets. Past level 10 in particular, special materials and items are needed too.

The higher the wall's grade, the more it demands.

The opponent's rare-grade obsidian city wall... reached level 45 in just three months from the start?

That's not right!

His Lord Crystal is only level 3,

so his territory's building level cap should be level 30 at most!

Bamate stared blankly. Dim as he might be, he still knew

the opponent must have used some item that grants a terrifying boost to territory buildings!

Suddenly,

a humming sound arose,

waves of energy rippling through the air.

That was the sound of a Charged Particle Cannon gathering energy.

Bamate looked up in a daze.

At this moment, all of his troops attacking the wall were clustered right beneath it.

"Boom—!"

The Charged Particle Cannon fired a single blast!

One shot annihilated every unit on the 10 tiles around the impact!

Mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud rose continuously from beneath the city wall.

Flames scorched the sand and soil, earth exploding upward,

the land vaporizing to reveal the [Indestructible] terrain underneath.

Your troops...

【Your hero...】

【You have died. Returning to Lord Crystal to respawn...】

【Respawned.】

Bamate's eyes went blank,

In his territory, all that remained were the neutral units he'd been feeding and the falcons used for scouting.

What's the damn point of fighting anymore!

【You have surrendered.】

One by one they watched the replays of past lords, utterly dumbfounded, unable to speak.

This city wall... this energy-concentrating cannon,

Is this really the kind of firepower a new lord should possess?!

"We won!"

In the broadcast room, Ma Ma Kusi clenched both fists and swung them hard twice.

"Write the post, ramp up the publicity right now!"

"Yes, sir!"

【Shocking! New lord Moonfall defeats Mad Beast Bamate!】

A post rocketed up the TW forums at blazing speed!

The heat spiraled completely out of control,

charging straight into the largest forum across all worlds — the Ten Thousand Races Forum.

It even hung on the front page for a full half hour.

In that half hour, far too many races across the worlds learned of this matter.

Hundreds of billions of views had Ma Ma Kusi grinning from ear to ear.

A tiny simulation match had actually drawn more attention

than the real great battles on the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield.

He made a decision: from now on, whenever Moonfall came online again,

he would spare no expense to build momentum for Moonfall!

"Haha, a brilliant win!"

The elf Caro swept away his earlier dejection, gleefully dancing with joy.

Now, his loss to Moonfall was hardly an embarrassment.

Hadn't they seen? Even Mad Beast Bamate lost, hadn't he?

Poor Bamate. From here on out,

it's your turn to bear the infamy.

Caro smiled happily.

【You are victorious. Earned 10 points. 2-win streak bonus: +4 points.】

【Current points: 20.】

By the time he logged out of TW, the sky had already gone dark.

Su Yu was quite satisfied with the firepower of the sniper towers and energy-concentrating cannons.

They concentrated their force onto the attack target,

without wasting power or causing excessive environmental destruction.

Even if used on the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield,

there would be no worry about destroying map resource points.

"Time to sleep, time to sleep."

Su Yu pulled back the covers and went straight to bed.

The upgraded 【Hero Hall】 felt a little unfamiliar.

But with the beauty beside him here, anywhere was home.

Sylph and Iloti, still drowsy with sleep, rolled over.

"My lord... you've returned."

Iloti was somewhat dazed and, unusually, added the title "my lord" to her words, even using the respectful "you."

Only when she was half-asleep

did the "Close and Affectionate" bearing of her 91 loyalty show itself.

Su Yu smiled faintly and drifted into dreamland.

The feeling of defeating a past lord gave him a little thrill,

and he slept especially soundly tonight.

Though he slept very soundly,

many others lost sleep over it.

"Too fierce, way too fierce — is he really a lord from our same cohort?!"

"We've had the same three months. Fine, he's got rare city walls and defense towers — but how did he develop them to such terrifying levels?"

"Don't tell me he's got a legendary-grade permanent territory buff... too terrifying."

Whether Su Yu's classmates or the members of the Blue Star Alliance, everyone...

The many new lords of the Myriad Realms Battlefield,

were all fervently discussing this matter.

A lord who had only entered the Myriad Realms Battlefield three months ago,

actually surpassed a lord who had been developing for fifty years—

it was simply suffocating and inconceivable!

This was something that had never happened in the Myriad Realms Battlefield before;

they had witnessed history,

and it would surely be recorded in the annals!

Although, whether it was Moonfall or the Frenzied Beast Bamate,

the territorial power they displayed

was, in the eyes of those great lords of the Myriad Realms Battlefield,

no different from ants.....

Yet, the potential Moonfall revealed made countless people frightened.

"Damn it, how can he be this strong..."

"Why, with the same Legendary-grade talent, how can he develop his territory to this degree!"

"Territory tools, I absolutely must obtain Legendary-grade permanent blessing territory tools!"

The Holy Son of Light, Luyier Miusi,

was extremely unwilling to accept it.

……

On the grassland terrain,

within a single grid of territory,

a woman with black hair and crimson pupils gazed at the information on her lord terminal,

remaining silent.

After a long time,

she raised her head and looked up at the sky,

observing what changes had occurred among the stars of the Myriad Realms Battlefield.

Three months had passed, yet Fran Nuoleiya, who inherited the title of "Crimson Witch" of the Crimson Demon Clan,

had not developed her territory to this day.

A lone lord crystal tempted the fog of war.

"Roar——!"