Chapter 837 - 352: Return from Dragon Hunt (Part 2)
Chapter 837: Chapter 352: Return from Dragon Hunt (Part 2)
His expression turned a bit ugly. These bastards still wanted to hog everything for themselves?!
Unforgivable!
He beat his wings and lunged straight up... but in the blink of an eye, he saw those elegant Demons unleash streak after streak of terrifying Sword Qi from their hands.
Before he could even get close, he felt his body being shredded by the Sword Qi, the searing pain drowning out his very soul.
Those Demons who had just burst out of the fog, eager to start a massacre, suffered a head‑on blow!
The two thousand Two-winged Demons weren’t many, but they were more than enough to Guard a single front.
Not to mention they were being led by two Heroes above Extraordinary.
However, the fog ahead was still too potent, causing many Demons to flounder about inside it and end up flying into other areas.
At that moment, Betina led the Seven-Colored Candy Dragon to join the defense as well.
They looked down from the sky over the whole Swamp.
←To the west, one Demon after another crawled out of the Spatial rift and then, lured by the pull of soul auras, flew madly into the Swamp.
But more than half of them lost themselves in the fog. Under Traits like stoking inner slaughter lust, sealing perception, and obscuring vision, they began slaughtering each other.
Only a small portion managed to burst out of the fog by sheer luck, but these ones would be facing the Bone Swords of the Two-winged Demons and the Candy Bombs of the Seven-Colored Candy Dragon head-on.
They wouldn’t be given the slightest chance.
For extra safety, Lear directly mobilized the Power of Authority, imprinting the Swamp’s real-time dynamics into the minds of the army.
Once any Demon broke out of the fog, they’d be able to detect it immediately.
In this way, though the Demons were vicious and powerful,
they were still brutally hammered down by Weilu City’s army with the toughest methods.
If they dared to show their faces, they’d be insta-killed!
Even if some lucky dog somehow slipped past the army’s Hunting, once they came near Weilu City, they would see the Soul-devouring Demons...
And even if they broke through the Soul-devouring Demons, they’d still have to face the complete city defense system and the Ultimate Soldier—the Master of Marshes.
To be safe, Lear took the time to increase the number of Masters of Marshes to a full Squadron.
Each Master of Marshes cost 50,000 Power of Faith; he casually dumped in a few million.
Now that the number of believers had risen, Lear had grown quite lavish.
Of course, if he wanted to stockpile Power of Faith for his own advancement, he still had to spend carefully.
Layer upon layer of defenses, solid as iron.
Lear observed for several hours. Although as many as fifty to sixty thousand Level 18 Demons poured into the Swamp... they still failed to break the defensive line.
His heart instantly settled.
The Demon tide he had anticipated turned out far less impactful than expected.
Or rather, Weilu City was far, far stronger than he had originally imagined!
Perhaps only when Demons above Extraordinary stepped onto the Main Plane would they be able to exert any substantial pressure on Weilu City.
But he had a feeling that day might not be far off either...
The situation remained deadlocked like this.
On the 14th, after confirming that the Demon Army truly couldn’t affect the territory, the Ancient Goblin God left the Swamp with three squads of Bubble Beasts plus one Squadron of Dark Night Hunters.
Their target: straight at that Plane where the Giant Dragons dwelled.
This ancient existence was making a move for the very first time.
Lear was quite eager to see it.
On the 16th, the Ancient Goblin God sent back word... mission flawlessly accomplished.
Every Giant Dragon in that Giant Dragon Plane was slain, not a single one escaped.
In addition, they seized a full twelve hundred Dragon Eggs!
When the Bubble Beasts ferried Giant Dragon after Giant Dragon back into the territory, they immediately caused a huge commotion.
Giant Dragons!
These legendary beings were actually being shipped back in batches and piled right on the square into a small mountain.
That terrifying Dragon’s Might could be felt even from far away.
Many people’s legs trembled; they simply didn’t dare to approach.
And the mass of Dragon Eggs left everyone even more stunned.
If all of these were hatched, wouldn’t Weilu City become Dragon City in the future?!
Maybe one day they’d even be lucky enough to ride a Giant Dragon... at the thought, the residents were filled with intense anticipation and pride.
They were the children of a god; only a great god could show them a spectacle like this.
When they got old, they’d finally have something solid to boast about to their grandsons and granddaughters.
After the mass of Giant Dragon corpses was brought back, the Blacksmith Shop was the first to rush over, excitedly hauling away ten of them.
Giant Dragon corpses were priceless. Whether Dragon Skin, dragon bone, dragon tendons, or Dragon Blood, all were top-tier forging materials.
Fray and his people were so thrilled they almost fainted.
With hundreds of Giant Dragons, how many good things could they forge?
At the same time, the Alchemy Workshop immediately submitted an application for ten Giant Dragons as well. The Goblins likewise needed大量 of High Tier materials, and nothing was more suitable than Giant Dragons.
The remaining corpses—most were placed into the Swamp Divine Kingdom, while a small part was stored in the underground warehouse, tightly wrapped by Starry Sky Vine weaving.
They could be retrieved at any time when needed.
As for those Dragon Eggs, they were all placed inside Weilu City. Lear specially built a Giant Dragon hatching area for them.
The rules of the Swamp Divine Kingdom were still incomplete, far inferior to the Main Plane. Dragon Eggs incubated under natural conditions had higher Potential.
For safety, he gathered the Power of Authority to form a barrier; without his permission, no one could enter.
Unless they possessed the power to tear apart the entire Swamp.
On the other side, Lear siphoned off a portion of the blood from the Giant Dragons they’d hunted and assigned it to the fish farm.
The Half-Elf who wanted to cultivate 3 Stars Dragon Blood Red Fish was overjoyed.
He hadn’t expected to get such an abundant supply of Dragon Blood so quickly.
Without wasting a word, as soon as he received the Dragon Blood, he went straight into the fish farm to start cultivating.
By the 17th, good news arrived... twelve Dragon Blood Red Fish had advanced from 2 Stars to 3 Stars!
The Half-Elf chief breeder immediately began breeding these twelve 3 Stars Dragon Blood Red Fish, estimating that at most a month would be needed to produce the first batch of 3 Stars fish eggs.
Once the fry hatched, they could replace the current 2 Stars Dragon Blood Red Fish in the fish farm.
This kind of ultra-high efficiency put Lear in a great mood.
What is foundation? This is it!
That feeling of gradually growing his territory bit by bit was downright exhilarating.
Meanwhile, the speed at which Demons entered the Swamp didn’t slow down; it actually showed signs of intensifying.
The difference was that while the first day had only Level 18 Demons, later on Level 16, 17, and even Level 14 and 15 Demons began to appear.
Clearly, even in the Abyss, Level 18 Demons weren’t cabbages that could flood in at will.
Most were still relatively ordinary Demons.
But regardless of Level, as long as they dared step into the Swamp, they would be Executed cleanly by Weilu City’s army.
What delighted Lear was that all these Demon corpses became war spoils.
They were shipped to the rear at once to breed Cold-blooded Cavalry.
The Demons’ frenzied assault actually reduced the pressure on the pig farm; the breeding of Cold-blooded Cavalry shifted from using Three-tailed Pig carcasses to Demon corpses.
This flesh, brimming with rich Energy, was several grades superior to Three-tailed Pig meat—aside from the poor taste.
Wetland Lizard-men began advancing en masse into Cold-blooded Cavalry.
The presence of the Molten Giant Dragon made the Blacksmith Shop’s weapon production efficiency extremely high.
However many Cold-blooded Cavalry were promoted here, they could immediately produce matching quantities of Rock Heavy Armor and Shattered Steel Blades over there.
It basically turned into an assembly line.
After their Levels rose, the Cold-blooded Cavalry could instantly be fitted with a Full Armor Set, becoming Lear’s undisputed main force.
Next, with a great war looming on the Original Plane, they would have to shoulder most of the pressure.
In contrast were the Half-Elves. To cultivate these Aerial Cavalry, they first needed to obtain Horned Eagle Beasts.
But breeding Horned Eagle Beasts required at least three months... so while the Cold-blooded Cavalry were being promoted on a large scale, the Half-Elves’ side was still slowly converting.
This gave Lear a bit of a headache.
At this pace, turning all fifty thousand Half-Elves into Flying Soldiers would probably take a year or more.
Far too slow.
He had to find a way to speed up Horned Eagle Beast breeding...
July 19th.
The situation in Weilu City was still stable, and Lear quietly contacted the Goddess of Misfortune.
Once she descended,
he immediately told her about the Ancient Goblin God’s earlier warning... could the mastermind possibly be some Divine Spirit from the Creation Lineage?
Hearing this, the Goddess of Misfortune first froze, then fell silent for a long time.
In the end, her tone carried a hint of complexity as she spoke.
"Thank you for the warning..."
"I had already faintly sensed something was off before, but I didn’t want to think too deeply about it..."
"I probably should have confirmed it earlier; otherwise how could their chances of a successful ambush be so high... I just never thought they’d be this utterly deranged!!"
"Breaking the Father God’s rules... that means overturning the entire world!"
"No one can predict what changes will follow."
"Can they guarantee they themselves won’t become someone else’s prey?!"