56: Chapter 56 One Wave Takes It All

"Prepare to set out."

For this expedition, Lin Xiao would bring all twenty Burning Sky Flame Dragons.

He would not take any other troops; all of them would remain to guard the home base.

As for the heroes, Lin Xiao took Qian Ying and Tu Lie with him, while Jiang Yao and Zhong Yue remained in the territory to defend it.

"From now on, if you encounter another invasion, if you can easily resolve it, then act. If you cannot, just hold them off until we return."

"Remember, do not suffer any casualties."

Lin Xiao looked at the two heroes left behind and instructed them.

By taking all the Burning Sky Flame Dragons and two heroes, the territory's strength would drop significantly.

At most, they could only defend the east and south sides.

The other two directions would be difficult to manage.

Lin Xiao did not want to see any casualties.

After all, the results of the Seven-Day Assessment clearly indicated that zero casualties was also an evaluation criterion.

Unless absolutely necessary, Lin Xiao did not want to lose those points.

Jiang Yao and Zhong Yue solemnly accepted the order. They did not know all the details, only that their lord cherished his soldiers as if they were his own children.

Such a lord was worth their wholehearted devotion.

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"First, calm the spacetime fluctuations."

Lin Xiao murmured. As he gave the order, the captured Shadow Race and Purgatory Race members were immediately killed.

[Invasion ended. You have achieved victory. Beginning settlement.]

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[Invasion ended. You have achieved victory. Beginning settlement.]

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Gold-grade War Chest + 2

As well as information on the two lords and opportunities for revenge.

Lin Xiao did not keep the War Chests and immediately chose to open them.

Unfortunately, his luck was mediocre. Aside from the fixed resources, he only obtained two Excellent-grade items.

Meanwhile, the spacetime fluctuations that had persisted around the territory for ten days finally disappeared.

"Begin revenge."

Without stopping, Lin Xiao opened the invasion panel, where four bright red revenge targets were clearly listed.

The first target: the Shadow Race lord.

The other three invading lords had all dragged out their invasion battles until the sixth day, which would not alert them too much, but the Shadow Race lord's invasion had only lasted two days.

Having received the System notification, the Shadow Race lord would surely be on alert.

Lin Xiao needed to deal with him before he could report it.

[Do you wish to spend 1,000,000 Source Crystals to initiate an invasion?]

"Confirm."

A spacetime channel appeared.

Lin Xiao, Qian Ying, and Tu Lie stood on the heads of three Burning Sky Flame Dragons and flew into the spacetime channel.

The Shadow Race lord's territory.

The moment they entered, the twenty Burning Sky Flame Dragons began to ascend, and in the blink of an eye, they reached high altitude.

This Shadow Race lord's territory was larger than Lin Xiao's, covering about three hundred square kilometers, and the terrain inside was more complex.

Looking down from the sky, one could see that in addition to the dark city in the center, there were four military fortresses located in the four directions of the territory.

If they were to advance from the ground, they would first have to flatten the outer military fortresses before they could threaten the dark city in the center. Along the way, they would not know how many traps they might encounter, making it time-consuming and laborious.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao had brought flying troops.

The twenty Burning Sky Flame Dragons were like streaks of fiery red lightning, instantly sweeping across the sky.

Within a minute, they had crossed the territory's mountains and obstacles, appearing above the dark city.

This dark city was full of the Shadow Race's style.

The entire city seemed to be shrouded in shadows, making it difficult to clearly see the layout and situation of the buildings inside.

Lin Xiao, however, did not care about that.

Regardless of the lord's race or how they adjusted their territory, one thing would never change: the Lords Mansion was always located in the very center of the territory. Therefore, striking at the vital point was enough.

At this moment, the Shadow Race lord had also received the System notification that the invasion had failed and that his territory was being invaded.

He hurriedly opened the territory map, wanting to use the shadow outposts set up at the edge of the territory to determine the location where the invaders had appeared.

However, no matter how he looked, he could not find the invaders.

He never expected that the enemy had already arrived directly above his head.

Just as the Shadow Race lord was frowning, the attack had already begun high in the sky.

Led by Taylor, the Burning Sky Flame Dragons chanted Dragon Language Magic, and terrifying magical power surged, quickly dyeing the entire sky red.

The terrifying commotion immediately alerted those below.

"Flying troops, and they are Dragons!"

Alerted by his subordinates, the Shadow Race lord immediately looked up. When he saw the sky that seemed to be burning, his pupils constricted sharply.

"Enemy attack!!!"

A heart-wrenching roar exploded within the dark city.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Whether it was the Shadow Race lord or his heroes and troops, no one had expected the enemy to come so quickly or the attack to be so sudden.

Before they could even fully enter a state of war, the attack from the invaders had already descended.

High in the sky, dark red fireballs, each over ten meters in size, broke through the clouds and plummeted rapidly downward.

As the Burning Sky Flame Dragons' attributes entered the Tier 4 range and multiplied several times over, the power of their skills had also risen accordingly, and the dark red fireballs they condensed became increasingly massive.

Behind these dark red fireballs, the clouds churned even more violently, and a dark red fireball with a diameter of twenty meters appeared before everyone's eyes.

This largest Meteorite, naturally, came from Lin Xiao's hand.

Twenty-one Meteorites covered the entire dark city. Before they even landed, the shadow of death had already shrouded everyone's hearts.

"Attack, break them!"

"Focus fire!"

The Shadow Race lord was unwilling to sit idly by and wait for death. He immediately controlled the numerous defensive buildings in the dark city, firing with full force at the rapidly falling dark red fireballs. Countless amounts of shadow energy rose into the sky, pouring frantically onto them.

Among them were many attacks of immense power from Rare-grade defensive buildings.

At the same time, the heroes and troops in the dark city with long-range attack capabilities also launched their attacks.

Powerful shadow attacks in the form of fireballs and arrows bombarded the falling dark red fireballs.

These Meteorites were not solid objects but were condensed from endless fire elements. Therefore, the focused attacks from those below were not entirely without effect.

"Boom~"

Under the focused fire, the five leading dark red fireballs became unstable and disintegrated with a loud bang while still a hundred meters above the dark city, turning into countless showers of fire that rained down.

The fire rain after disintegration still posed a significant threat, but it no longer had the world-destroying destructive power of the Meteorites.

Seeing this, there was no change in Lin Xiao's expression.

This Shadow Race lord was, after all, a veteran lord. Although he was at the bottom among veteran lords, he was still much stronger than an ordinary lord and had been cultivating in the First Source Sea for many years.

The many defensive buildings in his territory were not just for show. Although most of them were only Rare-grade and there were very few Perfect-grade ones, the problem was that there were too many of them. Coupled with the attacks from his heroes and troops, it was normal to destroy five dark red fireballs under such frantic focused fire.

However, that was as far as it went.

The dark red fireballs were falling at an extremely fast speed, leaving them almost no time to attack.

After the five Meteorites disintegrated, the remaining dark red fireballs withstood the countless attacks from below and crashed down fiercely.

"Rumble~"

A terrifying explosion resounded between heaven and earth. Lin Xiao stood high in the sky and watched as one horrifyingly huge fireball after another rose up below. The shockwaves tore through the city, and flames scorched the earth.

Figure after figure was vaporized, and countless buildings collapsed in the sea of fire, turning into ashes.

The next moment, the System notification sound rang out.