276: Chapter 276 Orc Wars, Adapting to Power

As for why, he felt it was highly likely that the patron gods of these Greenskin Orcs, Gork and Mork, were shielding them with their high-tier status.

Or perhaps the Old Ones who created them had employed some unknown method to prevent them from being easily enslaved.

After the second item, the [Lunar Moon-Essence Lamp], was deployed to Proxima Centauri b, the Transcendent Life ecosystem, nourished by the power of moonlight, further demonstrated its powerful transformation and adaptive capabilities.

The planetary magnetic field had already largely recovered during the fourth step of the first-Rank spiritual plant radiation modification, and the originally thin atmosphere became visibly denser.

The rotation had also recovered to a 42-hour day by Blue Star time, which was a vast improvement compared to the previous cycle that took hundreds of days to complete one rotation.

Even the active transformation of the entire Transcendent Life ecosystem was further spurred by the planet's modification entering the fifth step—the introduction of consumer-type small Spirit Beasts.

Wang An himself had already received some technical feedback, and his cultivation of the Great Forest Wood had accelerated slightly, but these were matters he no longer needed to worry about.

"Beep~ Beep~"

A holographic projection popped up with a message, and Ling Ming's voice came through: "Immortal Master, the First Battle Group fleet has arrived at the periphery of Planet 6 of the Proxima Centauri system and is now awaiting your arrangements."

Wang An pondered for a moment before saying: "Dispatch a portion of the scientific and engineering personnel to Planet 1 of Proxima Centauri to establish a local interstellar rest and resupply base as soon as possible. It must continuously supply war material consumption and provide services such as repairs and medical treatment. After the main combat personnel have rested, they are to immediately deploy to the surface of Planet 6 and descend into the caverns to engage in combat."

"Although I do not expect to completely wipe out the breeding spores of these Greenskin Orcs, as long as we drag down their development progress and prevent them from growing and strengthening in the planet's core, they will be of no concern once we develop low-cost, large-scale cleaning weapons."

After receiving Wang An's order, Chen Tianping of the First Battle Group immediately made arrangements.

He said in a deep voice to the 12 primary-Rank Transcendent Life individuals waiting for orders: "Everyone, according to the Immortal Master's instructions, the Cultivators of the Martial Dao System who are skilled in combat will be the first to enter the caverns of Planet 6 to fight, while other systems should build supply bases as soon as possible. Facing the endless reproductive capacity of the Greenskin Orcs, we must be prepared for a long war."

Founder of Martial Dao Li Feibai, Grandmaster Li Xiping, Mo Yuemei, and other Martial Dao Celestial Martial Artists of the Martial Dao System present immediately accepted the order, gathered the Cultivators and Martial Artists under their command, and prepared for the airborne combat.

Wizard Merlin, Wizard Meiqi, Mage George, and others accompanied them and immediately prepared to set up the modular logistics base.

One day later, the First Battle Group flagship [Polu] sailed into the orbit above Planet 6 of the Proxima Centauri system, and a dozen troop transport ships flew out from the lower deck one after another, landing together on the silent continent illuminated by silver-white light.

Mo Yuemei led 2,300 Cultivators and Martial Artists of the Seventh Company, responsible for the clearing mission of the Seventh District caverns.

At this moment, she was wearing a dark green spiritual plant exoskeleton. After years of long-term adaptation, this exoskeleton had become fully compatible with her True Essence, Shattered True Intent, and Martial Body, and there were no longer any obstacles to using it.

Unlike the heavy mechs of conventional understanding, as a single-soldier combat weapon platform for primary-Rank Transcendent Life individuals developed specifically for war and adapted to the Origin Qi system, the [Starry Sky Type 1 Spiritual Plant Exoskeleton] not only provided sustained vacuum combat capability, but its communication module was cultivated using the genes of spiritually resonant Psychic Willow plants, allowing it to bypass conventional communication interference and maintain real-time contact with the Battle Group headquarters.

Therefore, as soon as the clearing mission for the West District was received, the complete detection data had already been uploaded into her exoskeleton core.

Her personal AI agent, Xiaoling, immediately gave her a summary report: "Councilor Mo Yuemei, the detection data shows that there is currently a Tribe Boss, several powerful and ordinary Orc Boys, and other Giant Squigs and Giant Beast Grot squads in the 7th District."

"Special note: We are currently facing the Goff Clan among the five major fighting clans. They are extremely skilled at melee advancement. Although they have now been driven into the caverns, which has fragmented their large-scale collective psychic field connections, we must still be careful."

Mo Yuemei quickly filtered the information transmitted by the AI and issued tasks for each small cave area, distributing them to the more than 2,000 Cultivators and Martial Artists below.

She then issued the final order through the communication channel: "Everyone, I am the commander of the 7th Company of the Battle Group, Martial Dao Celestial Mo Yuemei. The relevant squad tasks have been issued. The initial entry is mainly for adapting to combat, so do not be greedy for merit or advance rashly. Humanity will prevail."

On every squad channel, the same voice rang out in unison.

"Humanity will prevail."

Although she warned other squads not to advance rashly, she still took her own squad and directly chose the cave entrance leading to the Tribe Boss.

She took the 100 accompanying Cultivators and Martial Artists and entered the cave below together.

Although the Cultivators and Martial Artists accompanying her could not be equipped with first-Rank Spiritual Plant Exoskeletons, the Federation had equipped them with standard Magical Artifact Power Armor.

Although this type of power armor was designed with reference to some Orc power armor, it had been specialized and specifically modified to be extremely suitable for Cultivators and Martial Artists to use.

In addition to providing powerful physical defense, it could further enhance their mobility and aggressiveness. Not only would it not block the outward projection of True Qi and True Radiance Spells or Martial Skills, but it could also rely on the stored 10 Origin Crystals for recovery.

With such strength, even in a single-soldier state, they were more than seven or eight times stronger than ordinary Orc Boys.

A Rank 10 life form alone already possessed a physical strength of 200 tons, and Martial Artists were extremely skilled in close-quarters combat and cold weapon fighting, proficient in various techniques and force-generation skills.

Calculating it this way, doubling on top of that, when they truly fought, it was enough to tear apart ordinary Orc Boys wearing heavy power armor.

However, this was data from before they arrived. According to the transmitted information and the AI's estimates, this group of Orcs, having taken root underground for four or five years, had already developed a fairly strong Transcendent Life system centered on a collective psychic field.

With this enhancement, even ordinary Orc Boys possessed dozens to hundreds of tons of strength.

But fortunately, the gap between the two sides in terms of technique, command, and tactics was huge, so Mo Yuemei was not worried that they would lose this battle.

After all, in four or five years, it was extremely difficult for this group of Greenskin Orcs to cultivate more than ten thousand Orc Boys. Based on the current situation detected, there were only a few thousand Orc Boys with a life Rank equivalent to a Rank 10 Cultivator or Martial Artist.

Therefore, forty thousand against four thousand, the advantage is with us.

Descending into the dozen-meter-wide cave, they saw green fungal plants covering the entire space, and they could even see dark green fruits growing on plants similar to fruit trees.

Dark green light covered the gray cave space, making the atmosphere appear somewhat eerie.