Chapter 141-3: Campaign Victory, Bully Strengthening (3) |
The great battle lasted until the eighth day.
All energy provided by the corrosion core had been transferred to the Abyss of Heaven Territory Node.
Already in desperate straits, the Rotbane Evil Spirit held on with difficulty.
At this moment the Earthmind Evil Spirit proactively connected to the Rotbane Evil Spirit and provided recorded footage of his own battlefield.
“Rotbane, I need to turn back to defend against the Swarm’s incursion. This support ends here.”
This news struck like a bolt from the blue, throwing the already embattled Rotbane Evil Spirit into a complete panic.
But the Earthmind Evil Spirit had already provided several days of command support. He had no reason to stop the Earthmind Evil Spirit from returning to guard his own node.
“I understand. Thank you for your command, Earthmind.”
“The situation has deteriorated. I recommend that after you retake command, you contact the king as soon as possible to request support.”
Feeling the surging flow of energy beneath the tower, the Earthmind Evil Spirit could not help laughing heartily.
Through this auxiliary command, he had received his due reward. Now it was time to begin a new round of unit upgrades.
But before that, he had to act out one more scene.
Then he would report this segment of recorded information.
As for whether the king would discover anything unusual, Earthmind was not worried.
His auxiliary eye had permission to modify records. Upon discovering an error in the information, he could directly modify the content or delete it.
Just like the intelligence record of the last lunar phase change, even though that segment had already been recorded in the information database, it could still be directly deleted.
As long as the Azure Star Sea Region node did not file a report, there would be no possibility of discovery.
He did not care about this issue in the least.
With countless large and small campaigns against players, he was very familiar with the player race’s tactics and behavior.
The Rotbane Evil Spirit was certain to die.
If he did not die, Earthmind had left a backdoor.
But the priority now was to launch the war quickly and leave video records.
His perception mode spread out at this moment. He locked onto the Swarm that was gnawing at the ground and controlled the Black Tide to launch a second round of fierce assault on the Swarm.
This time, he planned to lure the Swarm to the area near the tower.
He would turn proactive provocation into a forced defensive battle.
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On the other side, within the Evil Moon domain of the Azure Star Sea Region.
Still fighting to the death, the Rotbane Evil Spirit turned back toward the high tower as soon as the Earthmind Evil Spirit left.
Seeing this, the players surrounding Rotbane to kill him all spoke up in the voice channel.
“Block it. Do not let this punk escape. As long as we kill it, we have won.”
“Brothers with the Taunt Inherited soul, hurry up and act. Even pulling one second of aggro works. Relay to keep it pinned here. A successful decapitation means victory.”
Just as the Rotbane Evil Spirit struck and killed swathes of players who were trying to encircle him and was about to retreat, he was blocked by a figure that cut off his path.
This figure radiated a strong vitality fluctuation all over, eyes dull, standing there like a puppet.
The one who had arrived was the Tian Bing puppet under Yu Yun’s control.
He finally ended half a month of wandering. After asking Guide and learning that the residual imprint within Tian Bing’s body had dissipated, he was completely at ease. He returned from the Ghost Shadow Sea Region and entered the Evil Moon domain.
Seeing that his own camp was locked in a great battle with the Black Tide, he decisively joined the fight.
With Tian Bing’s support, a battlefield dense with Evil Entities looked to him like a money-printing machine, bringing in considerable evolution points and sacrificial power every second.
He had long since recovered the sacrificial power spent to control Tian Bing.
Noticing that the Rotbane Evil Spirit wanted to withdraw, he decisively controlled Tian Bing to block, raising a fist to strike at the Rotbane Evil Spirit.
Fists collided, and both the Rotbane Evil Spirit and Tian Bing slid back more than ten meters.
“Block complete. Brothers, charge. My good bro will come back now.”
Having finished the interception, Yu Yun decisively controlled Tian Bing to return to his side.
That punch had landed on Tian Bing’s fist, but the pain was in his heart.
In his eyes, Tian Bing was an inexhaustible treasure. It must not die here, and injuries should be minimized.
Because every time it was injured he needed to spend potions to heal it, and that was all money.
While the other players cursed him as stingy in the voice channel, they all lunged at the Rotbane Evil Spirit, throwing Bind at him like crazy to prevent his retreat.
The Taunt Inherited soul then showed its might.
Although they could not control Rotbane for long, every time he tried to leave he would be forcibly interrupted by players’ Taunt Inherited soul, then angrily swing a fist at the player who had activated Taunt.
At that moment, players switched on a life-feeding suicide mode solely to keep the Rotbane Evil Spirit there.
Facing the encirclement, the already exhausted Rotbane Evil Spirit was extremely passive.
He could not get away.
With no alternative, he spoke in a deep voice.
“Evil Eye, return first to connect with the high tower and acquire Black Tide control rights.”
Hearing this, the purple-skinned Evil Eye did not answer. The tentacles that had pierced into the Rotbane Evil Spirit’s back all withdrew and floated toward the high tower.
The Rotbane Evil Spirit let out a thunderous shout.
A chilly wind rose, an evil and deathly aura filled the air, the ground began to tremble, then he suddenly opened his mouth and inhaled. At once, large numbers of nearby Evil Entities converged into his mouth.
In the blink of an eye, Rotbane transformed into a ferocious giant formed from gathered black mist.
If the high tower were destroyed, it would mean his journey to this world would end early.
But he would never allow his own failure.
He had prepared for this day for a long time.
The fighting and striving in the first three small worlds had also been for this moment of glory.
Becoming a Black Tide commander was his dream. He would never allow himself to fall at the starting point of that dream.
As more and more members of the player race rushed in nearby, Rotbane let out a roar. His massive body raised a hand and whipped up a gale. Wherever the mist claws passed, players were sliced and killed.
Meanwhile, the purple-skinned Evil Eye, drifting to the high tower, extended tentacles to interface with the tower’s control rights and then control the Black Tide to help Rotbane break out.
But before the tentacles touched the high tower, a teleport spirit pattern automatically sketched itself below.
The purple-skinned Evil Eye’s eyes flew wide open, and before it could react it was teleported away.
When its vision cleared, it found itself on the most crowded stretch of shoreline among the players.
The nearby players were bewildered.
The Black Tide’s combat system had been analyzed by forum players, and many players had also asked Guide to learn about it.
The Black Tide’s core combat system was divided into three parts.
They were the overall command-type Evil Spirit, the Evil Eye acting as strategist and functional support, and the Black Tide with its Evil Entity units responsible for the war.
Seeing the opposing side’s strategist suddenly pop up in their faces, the players were dumbfounded.
Not playing by the book.
After a brief silence, damage skills rained down on the purple-skinned Evil Eye.
The purple-skinned Evil Eye decisively formed a barrier of psychic power before itself to block the players’ offensive.
At that moment a figure approached, and the Taunt trait instantly enveloped it.
Dazed for a moment, the purple-skinned Evil Eye’s psychic shield was broken, and the players’ concentrated attacks struck it at once.
“Rotbane, my mission ends early. Farewell.”
After transmitting the final message to Rotbane, the purple-skinned Evil Eye exploded with a bang, turning into a splendid rain of colored energy that scattered.
Upon learning the news, the Rotbane Evil Spirit went completely berserk.
He did not know exactly what had happened, but it was highly likely that the players had executed a decapitation tactic, ambushing near the high tower to kill the Evil Eye.
Now that the Evil Eye was dead, even if he obtained the tower permissions, without the auxiliary eye he would still find it difficult to control the Black Tide.
At this point, he was in a dead end.
Three hours later, already unable to fight on, Rotbane opened his arms and chose to end his life by self-detonation.
The victorious players continued to advance toward the Black Tide high tower.
Without command, the Black Tide began to birth various types of Evil Entity lifeforms in disorder to automatically defend against the players’ invasion.
But it could not resist the players’ ferocious offensive at all.
Before long, the player legion advanced to the Evil Eye Tower. The Extreme Speed Clone Pickaxe squad took the lead, swinging their pickaxes to begin dismantling.
The other players were also busy, unleashing various Inherited soul traits to break the tower’s defenses.
Boom.
Before long, the tower collapsed with a thunderous crash, and a streak of light burst forth like dawn piercing the darkness.
Victory arrived at that moment.
Players hugged one another and wept with joy. Some raised their arms high and shouted loudly. An indescribable joy and sense of accomplishment filled the air, and smiles blossomed on every player’s face.
Countless cheers were mixed with excitement and elation.
At this moment all fatigue, all effort, all sweat were repaid.
The shouts of different players resounded through the regional voice channel.
“Brothers, after nine days of bitter fighting, we finally won.”
“Hahaha, I must have revived 34 times. I survived entirely on nutrient solution and did not even dare to rest. I finally held steady in the top 100 of the Honor Ranking. So satisfying.”
“Brother Emperor’s Sign, time to settle the wages. Why has the Challenger Notification still not appeared? (Dirt Poor slams table.jpg)”
“Everyone, do not worry. Hurry and occupy the nearby Territory Nodes. Charge.”
