192: Chapter 192 A Dilemma
Xu Qin drew the marching route on the regional map.
Led by three heroes, the Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons split into two columns and advanced from the front of the collision line.
They had only one task:
to attract the giants' attention
and keep them from breaking formation.
This would buy time for the beetles to flank the giants' feet from underground.
Xu Qin immediately drew two beetle marching routes on the map.
From both flanks of the collision line,
they would go underground to circle around to the flanks and rear of the giant array.
"At the same time the Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons make contact with the giants..."
"The beetles will burst from the ground."
"And start killing directly!"
This was his self-detonation tactic.
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[Territory battle has been triggered!]
Hum!
The moment the barrier disappeared, Xu Qin directly gave the order.
"Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons, attack."
Boom, boom, boom!
Fourteen thousand Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons marched in neat steps, crossed the collision line, and advanced toward the front of the giant legion's position.
In front of the opposing giant army formation,
a deep rock general raised its giant palm and issued instructions in a deep voice.
Boom!!
Twenty thousand Rock-Skin Giants stepped forward simultaneously.
The earth trembled.
The six-meter-tall grayish-brown figures slowly pressed toward the Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton defense line.
This oppressive feeling of slow advancement
made Xu Qin, overlooking from the Floating City, take things seriously.
When the distance between the two sides closed to 100 meters,
the first row of Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons fired first.
Swish, swish, swish!
Six bone tubes fired in unison, and shadow projectiles smashed against the giants' petrified skin.
-142!
-139!
-145!
...
The giants' terrifying defense, combined with 35% physical damage reduction, directly suppressed the output of the Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons to the minimum value.
The giants still advanced slowly, directly ignoring the counterattacks of the skeletons.
The moment the armies clashed,
the Rock-Skin Giants began to raise their fists.
Thud!
With a punch down, they directly sent a Soul-Eater Battle Skeleton flying.
Then came the second punch, the third punch.
The Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons in the front row began to suffer battle losses.
Bang, bang, bang!
Self-detonation triggered.
-195750!
True damage spread out from the center of the explosion.
That Rock-Skin Giant's health bar was instantly emptied.
Seeing this, Xu Qin nodded with satisfaction.
Very well, since both sides are already tangled up,
then... let's begin.
At this moment, Tian Ming's voice came through the command panel.
"Report."
"The beetle vanguard has outflanked to the underground behind the giant array."
"Wait!"
Xu Qin looked at the frontal battlefield.
He saw that the giant legion had had all their attention attracted by the Soul-Eater Battle Skeletons and were advancing toward the collision line.
Xu Qin looked toward the rear of the legion.
After confirming that no reserve troops were left, he opened the command panel.
"Charge!"
Squeak!!!
Deep underground, Jiafeng issued the Swarm Command.
The next second...
Rumble!
The ground around the giant army formation split open simultaneously!
The grayish-black Necro-Beetless,
led by heroes like Jiafeng and Wild Bull,
burst out of the ground from hundreds of fissures.
Seeing the surging swarm, the giants also began to fight back.
Thud!
A patch of beetles shattered.
And the moment they shattered...
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
[Wraith Fury]!
-156600!
A dark purple soul energy shockwave exploded within the giant army formation.
The Rock-Skin Giant with 68,000 HP was blown to death on the spot.
Following closely, nearly 100,000 emerging beetles instantly spread into the rear and flanks of the giant array.
The giants were thus caught in a dilemma.
Facing the ceaseless explosions, for a moment they didn't know whether to swing their fists or defend.
The army completely panicked.
Some giants were still attacking, while others chose to stop and retreat.
Bang!
-156600!
Another beetle self-detonated.
Bang, bang!
-156600!
-156600!
Under the continuous explosions,
the giant phalanx began to fall in batches.
Every single attack of theirs
was helping Xu Qin trigger [Wraith Fury].
In no time, they would be eroded bit by bit by tens of thousands of beetles.
There was no other way; both sides were completely entangled.
This was the experience Xu Qin summarized after these few battles.
...
Dense purple explosions
rose and fell successively within the giant array.
The giants' proud 2,120 points of defense
were a joke in front of true damage.
In less than a minute,
the 20,000 Rock-Skin Giants in the front row became a vacuum zone.
Standing on the Floating City, Xu Qin continued to give orders.
"All troops, press forward."
Boom, boom, boom!
Another wave of 400,000 Necro-Beetless
surged out from the ground on one side of the Boundless Domain, crossing the collision line.
This wave of beetles took less than 10 seconds
to easily circle around to the rear of the panicked giant legion.
The Rock-Skin Giants began trying to change formations,
attempting to rebuild a defense line to stop the insect wave.
But their movement speed was simply too slow.
They had only turned halfway when
the front insect wave had already collided with them.
Caught in a pincer attack from front and back, the giant legion was completely submerged in the swarm.
Their massive six-meter-tall bodies
were covered by one Necro-Beetles after another.
They repeatedly gnawed on their petrified skin.
-286!
-286!
Armor-Splitting Stab ignored 40% of defense,
and the actual damage dealt was not high.
But that didn't matter.
What mattered was that
every beetle killed when the giants counterattacked
would trigger [Wraith Fury].
Following that,
boom, boom, boom!
dark purple light
almost dyed the entire battlefield purple.
The deep rock general stood in the rear, trying to organize a counterattack.
But the iron rock heavy guards around it
were also covered all over with beetles.
Thud!
An iron rock heavy guard smashed five beetles to pieces with a single punch.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
Five self-detonations exploded simultaneously.
-156600!
-156600!
...
Nearly 800,000 points of true damage directly turned seven or eight nearby iron rock heavy guards into air.
Looking at the battle loss statistics, Xu Qin snorted coldly.
Over 2.5 million of them, can you finish killing them all?
"Shadow."
Xu Qin marked a coordinate on the regional ground.
"Sneak into Grum's core building and look for an assassination opportunity."
On the command panel,
Shadow's icon flashed and then disappeared.
Watching the direction where Shadow disappeared, Xu Qin clicked on another avatar.
"Dragon Bone."
"Go cover Shadow, attract the attention of the core building complex, and create an assassination opportunity."
"Attention!"
Xu Qin deliberately emphasized his tone.
"Don't blast them to death directly, just injure them, and let Shadow finish them off in the end."
Last time when fighting the treefolk, Dragon Bone's breath of dragon fire directly blasted them until not even slag was left.
"Yes, Master."
Dragon Bone replied.
Xu Qin nodded.
"Very good."
He looked back at the frontline battlefield.
Three minutes passed.
The number of the giant legion was only 40% of the original.
The Rock-Skin Giants had all fallen in battle,
the iron rock heavy guards had suffered more than half losses,
and the deep rock general was still struggling to hold on.
But the insect wave coming from all directions
showed no tendency to weaken at all.
Looking at the battlefield, Xu Qin finally revealed a relaxed expression on his face.
"Grum should be panicking soon..."
Sure enough.
Not even a minute after he finished speaking,
a prompt popped up on the command panel.
[Enemy Star Lord "Grum" requests surrender!]
Xu Qin clicked the button directly.
[Refuse]
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