166: Chapter 166 Reinforcements? Or an Even Deeper Abyss?

Although they were all elites of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races, and all were geniuses near or above the fourth rank, their numerical advantage was not obvious when facing fifth-rank Queens.

What's more, the number of Queens was constantly increasing.

The battle had reached its most critical moment.

Li Yuan stood on the ruins of the eastern defense line, gasping for breath.

His opponent was a high-level fifth-rank Queen. She was a size smaller than Anserwe, but her combat power was still terrifying.

Three minutes ago, this Queen had just squeezed through a crack and immediately locked onto Li Yuan, who was commanding the Light Guardians in battle.

“Human! Die!”

The Queen roared and lunged forward, slashing down with a blade!

Li Yuan had no time to dodge and could only instinctively raise his arm to block—

“Clang!”

The blade struck his arm heavily, yet it felt soft and devoid of power, failing to even smooth out a wrinkle in Li Yuan's clothes.

The Queen was stunned.

Li Yuan was also stunned.

No injury? More than that, he didn't even feel the impact.

The psionic energy and bone blade had struck his arm together, but it felt like nothing more than a light breeze.

Li Yuan looked down at his arm, then at the bewildered Queen across from him, and suddenly smiled.

He seemed to understand.

It was the Intent of the Northern Darkness!

Li Yuan's F-grade talent had evolved into a quasi-black hole form as his internal energy increased. It possessed an extremely powerful energy absorption capability. Whether it was psionic, thermal, or kinetic energy—as long as it was energy, it could be absorbed.

The energy contained in the Queen's strike was indeed massive, but... it was all sucked away by the bei ming core, even the kinetic energy. Without kinetic energy, even the sharpest blade couldn't cut a sheet of A4 paper.

“Come on, keep going.” Li Yuan beckoned to the Queen, smiling like a child who had found a treasure.

The Queen's face turned the color of pig liver.

Refusing to believe it, she slashed down again!

Useless.

Another slash!

Still useless.

The Queen was completely enraged. She stopped using her blade and instead directly condensed psionic energy, slamming a ghostly green energy ball hard into Li Yuan's chest!

“Boom!”

The energy ball exploded, bursting into a massive firework.

A cruel smile curled at the corner of the Queen's mouth.

He should be dead now, right?

However, in the next second, the dust cleared, and Li Yuan patted the dust off his body, grinning at her: “Is that all? Have some more?”

The Queen's smile froze on her face.

The power of that psionic ball was enough to blast through a light armored vehicle! But this human... was actually perfectly fine?!

Li Yuan was indeed fine.

Attacking like this not only failed to hurt Li Yuan in the slightest, but it also continuously replenished his energy.

The energy from that psionic ball was also absorbed cleanly by the bei ming core, and it was even converted into usable energy within his body, replenishing what he had just consumed.

He felt great right now.

Although he was no match for a fifth-rank Queen in terms of speed, strength, or experience...

When the fighting started, he couldn't keep up, couldn't land a hit, and couldn't even touch her, but she couldn't hurt him either—and that was enough.

Taking advantage of the Queen's daze, he pulled out several specially made Explosive Arrows, infused them with multiple fire elements, and shot them at her.

“Boom, boom, boom!”

The arrows exploded around the Queen, bursting into balls of fire. Although they didn't cause fatal injuries, each one left a charred mark on the Queen's body, consuming a portion of her energy.

The Queen was driven mad with rage, chasing Li Yuan all over the field. Although Li Yuan tried his best to dodge, he lacked the heritage of someone like Laya or Aria, as well as the combat experience of the Queens Guard. He would be hit five, six, seven, or eight times, and then when the Queen got close, he'd give her a few Explosive Arrows for a close-range self-detonation.

The two of them engaged in this comical game of 'cat and mouse' amidst the ruins.

Elsewhere in the base, the battle wasn't nearly so 'relaxed.'

Laya slashed aside a Queen she was fighting and flickered, landing on top of a building.

Her opponents were two fifth-rank Queens, one on the left and one on the right, coordinating perfectly. With Laya's peak third-rank strength, she shouldn't have been their match. However, the Angel of Hope's combat techniques were too skilled, and combined with the continuous recovery from the Song of Light, she managed to hold her own against the two.

But her energy was also nearing its limit.

She glanced at Li Yuan, who was being chased by a Queen in the distance, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

Master is as... tanky as ever.

Looking the other way, Aria was also fighting two opponents. Although they were at a stalemate, she clearly had the upper hand. The sharp edge of the divine sword Wangshu emitted a bone-chilling cold that could be felt from hundreds of meters away.

Sailo's statue had been placed by her in a relatively safe corner. The surface of the statue was covered in cracks, but a faint light still pulsed at its core.

He wasn't completely dead yet.

As long as he wasn't completely dead, there was hope.

Laya took a deep breath and gripped her Flaming Holy Sword tightly again.

“Again.”

She said softly, then flickered her body to face the two Queens once more.

The only other one capable of soloing a Queen was the Light-Bathing Battle Spirits. This light summoning unit, which looked like a delicate elf girl, not only had incredibly high agility but was also unimaginably durable. Combined with her attack and healing abilities, she fought a fifth-rank Queen with nonchalance.

Unfortunately, while her output was slightly stronger than the Light Guardians and Light Mages, she still wasn't much of a threat in the eyes of the Queens Guard and couldn't attract much attention. Under the Song of Light domain, her healing abilities also seemed somewhat redundant.

The Light Guardians and Light Mages were scattered throughout the base, using their bodies to block damage for the Trial Trainees.

Their combat power was far inferior to the Queens, but their defensive power was truly absurd.

One Light Guardian was sent flying by a Queen's blade. After landing, he shook his head, climbed back up, and continued to stand in front of the trainees.

Another Light Guardian finally dissipated into a sky full of light spots under the bombardment of countless psionic balls, but in the next second, Li Yuan summoned a new one on his side.

The Light Mages hid in the distance, continuously releasing Sacred Spears and Healing Spells to provide support for their comrades on the front lines.

With the support of the base's dense firepower and the desperate cover of the Light Guardians and Light Mages, the more than 1,500 Trial Trainees actually managed to withstand the sudden assault of over 300 Queens.

But casualties still occurred.

In the Angel Race's Ling Xi squad, which Li Yuan was familiar with, three members were seriously injured and were rushed to the rear for emergency treatment.

The Demon Race's Ye Ge squad also had two members killed in action. When their bodies were recovered by their comrades, they were already incomplete.

Sailo of the Light Giant Race had already turned into a statue, his life or death unknown.

Trainees from other races suffered even heavier casualties.

The base's medical pods were already overcrowded, and the sounds of groaning and crying were everywhere.

And the number of Queens was still increasing.

Every time a crack was blown in the shield, a dozen new Queens would crawl in. At this rate, the number of Queens inside the base would exceed 500 within ten minutes at most.

By then, even with the support of the Light Guardians and the base's firepower, the Trial Trainees would not be able to hold out.

Chen Jingyi's fingers tapped faster and faster on the console, and fine beads of sweat had already broken out on her forehead.

She was calculating.

Calculating the battle loss ratio for every minute and second, calculating the ammunition reserves of every firepower point, calculating the movement trajectory of every Queen, calculating... what other variables could change the tide of battle.

Then, her pupils suddenly constricted.

On the surveillance screen, dense black dots appeared high in the sky.