172: Chapter 168 Starry Sky

Lu Yuan picked up the communicator on his bedside table and opened the supreme VIP list of the Treasure Pavilion.

"Let me see... what good things are available."

After browsing for a while, his gaze locked onto a weapon.

[Legendary Weapon: Ice-Fire Divine Bow]

A longbow entirely woven from ice and flame.

On the bow body, ice-blue patterns and crimson patterns intertwined, emitting waves of alternating cold and hot aura.

[Effect: Frost]: Attacks carry a freezing effect, causing continuous Ice-attribute damage to enemies.

[Effect: Burning]: Attacks carry a burning effect, causing continuous Fire-attribute damage to enemies.

Frost, Burning!

Both effects are continuous damage.

Both can perfectly trigger the effect of the 'Vulnerable' rune.

"This is it."

Lu Yuan placed the order directly.

Immediately after, he rummaged through his backpack and took out the materials dropped from killing the Emperor-level BOSS just now.

One of them was a poisonous fang glowing with a dark green light.

[Poisonous Fang (Legendary Material)]

It can be inlaid into a weapon, causing attacks to carry a poisonous effect.

Continuous damage, stacking layers, each layer causing additional damage.

Another continuous damage effect.

Lu Yuan's lips curled upward.

"Myriad Swords Return to Origin... it has taken initial shape."

With a slight movement of his mind, he allocated both the Ice-Fire Divine Bow and the Poisonous Fang to the Goblin.

Then, he allocated several new pieces of equipment to the other few Magic Pets.

After finishing all this, he opened the Magic Pet panel and began to check their attributes.

The Slime's improvement was standard, so Lu Yuan skipped it directly.

He clicked on the panel for the Little Skeleton.

[Demon Skeleton King (Mutant Species)]

[Race Level: Overlord Level]

[Height: 9,199 meters]

[Level: LV.46]

[HP: 500 million]

[MP: 4,600]

[Attack Power: 46,530]

[Strength: 465]

[Constitution: 550,031]

[Agility: 901]

[Spirit: 46]

[Hextech Rune: Gold - Heartsteel (390 million), Gold - Tank Engine (24 stacks), Prismatic - Goliath Giant, Gold - Steel Your Heart]

Lu Yuan was stunned.

500 million?

He rubbed his eyes and looked again.

500 million HP!

9,000 meters tall!

This wave... Heartsteel stacked so satisfyingly!

"Holy crap..."

Lu Yuan couldn't help but curse.

Before the fight started, the Little Skeleton had less than 30 million HP.

It went straight to 500 million!

A 9,000-meter-tall golden skeleton standing on the battlefield is simply a moving mountain range!

Who could possibly hurt it in the future?

Slime: "Feed me peanuts."

...

Just as Lu Yuan was immersed in the joy of the harvest,

in the conference room, the atmosphere was heavy to the extreme.

Principal Wu Long's communicator lay on the table, the screen displaying message after message that failed to send.

"Still can't reach them."

General Yuan Muzhi's voice was low: "The communication channel for the Starry Sky Battlefield... has been completely cut off."

Everyone's expressions became grim.

The Starry Sky Battlefield is the main battleground where humans fight against alien monsters.

It is Blue Star's most important strategic depth.

With this barrier, humans can safely cultivate, learn, and grow on the Blue Star in the rear.

If the Starry Sky Battlefield falls...

The alien races will drive straight in.

Blue Star will directly become a battlefield.

Fighting on one's home turf, one is restrained.

Casualties will increase tenfold, a hundredfold.

Then, it will be nibbled away step by step, and ultimately completely annihilated.

"What the War King said... is true."

A powerhouse slumped in his chair, his voice hoarse:

"The Starry Sky Battlefield has truly fallen."

In the conference room, there was a deathly silence.

Just at this moment,

Buzz!

Lu Zhentian's communicator suddenly lit up with a red light.

A sharp, urgent notification sound broke the silence.

Everyone raised their heads simultaneously and looked at Lu Zhentian.

Lu Zhentian's pupils suddenly constricted.

He slowly picked up the communicator and tapped on the emergency message that had just been received.

The text on the screen made his heart rate accelerate suddenly.

[Starry Sky Fortress is in danger, come quickly!]

...

Starry Sky Fortress.

Blood!

Blood everywhere!

Every brick and stone on the city wall was soaked in blood.

There was human blood.

There was also alien blood.

Making the entire city wall a dark red.

This is the mark left by humans resisting the alien races for hundreds of years.

Boom, boom, boom—!

Below the city wall, dense swarms of alien monsters surged forward like a tide.

They stepped on the corpses of their companions and climbed up frantically.

The defenders on the city wall could no longer remember how long they had been fighting.

They only knew that their comrades beside them were falling one after another.

The new recruits who filled the gaps wouldn't live for more than a quarter of an hour.

"Hold! Everyone hold for me!"

A blood-covered general swung his blade to decapitate a monster, roaring at the top of his lungs.

But his voice was soon drowned out by the deafening roars.

Below the city wall.

More monsters surged up.

A black mass, with no end in sight.

Someone trembled and put down their weapon.

"It's over..."

"We can't hold it..."

"We are all going to die here..."

The feeling of despair spread across the city wall like a plague.

Just at this moment,

The communication tower at the top of the fortress suddenly shone with a blinding white light.

An encrypted signal pierced through the chaotic energy field of the Starry Sky Battlefield and was transmitted to the Blue Star.

At the same time.

On the Blue Star, communicators of all global powers received a message simultaneously.

[Starry Sky Fortress is in critical danger!]

[Requesting global support!]

[Repeat!]

[Starry Sky Fortress is in critical danger! Requesting global support!]

[...]

This message, like a depth charge, caused an uproar among all the major powers globally.

Huaxia, Kyoto.

General Yuan Muzhi's communicator suddenly rang.

He glanced at the content, his expression changing drastically.

"Starry Sky Fortress... has issued a global call for help."

Inside the conference room, everyone's expressions froze.

Starry Sky Fortress.

That is humanity's last bastion on the Starry Sky Battlefield.

If even it falls...

Blue Star will be completely exposed under the iron hooves of the alien races.

The news quickly spread throughout the world.

The Freedom Federation,

countless people began to loot, burn, and kill in the streets.

"It's the end of the world! Fk, everyone go to hell!"

"Hurry and loot!"

"These are all mine."

"..."

The whole country instantly descended into chaos.

Countless people took to the streets, looting, burning, and committing all kinds of evil.

They just wanted to go crazy one last time.

White Eagle, Gaoli...

Most countries around the world were roughly the same.

In the moment the apocalypse arrived, they fell into uncontrollable chaos.

Only Daxia,

it's not that no one among the Daxia citizens wanted to take advantage of the chaos.

But, this was only a minority.

After experiencing a brief moment of chaos,

many people rushed towards the recruitment offices in major cities simultaneously.

There were teenagers who had just awakened.

There were retired soldiers leaning on crutches.

There were also old veterans with gray hair and withered faces.

"I'm signing up! I want to go to the Starry Sky Fortress!"

"Count me in!"

"Although I'm retired, I can still kill enemies!"

"My left hand is crippled, why can't I sign up? I still have my right hand!"

"I'm only 88, I can still kill alien races!"

"I'm going too!"

"And me!"

The threshold of the recruitment office was trampled down.

General Yuan Muzhi stood in front of the window, looking at the dense crowd downstairs, silent for a long time.

His eyes were filled with hot tears before he knew it.

"I also want to go defend the Starry Sky Fortress."

Just at this moment,

a calm voice came from the doorway.

Everyone turned their heads simultaneously.

Lu Yuan stood with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the doorframe quite casually.

There was no expression on his face, but in his eyes, a kind of light that could not be ignored flickered.

"Lu Yuan, you are still young..."

"I said, I want to go defend the Starry Sky Fortress."

Lu Yuan interrupted him, his voice still calm.

"The beast tide in Kyoto has already been resolved.

With Grandpa, you, and the Demon Suppression Army guarding this place, there won't be any major problems."

"But over at the Starry Sky Fortress..."

He paused, raised his head, and looked at the night sky outside the window.

"If even the Starry Sky Fortress is breached, the Blue Star will truly have no way out."