110: Attack of the Goblins
The earliest firearms were not very powerful and were extremely difficult to manufacture; the barrel, chamber, and projectile all required manual crafting and polishing.
However, Qian Ji saw the enormous potential of this weapon.
So, he recruited the Little Devil into his command, specifically to improve firearms.
During his continuous travels, he moved between various goblin settlements, attracting every skilled and sharp-minded goblin with a beautiful vision of the future.
After bringing them under his command, Qian Ji assembled an elite team specializing in firearm improvement.
These poor goblins, knowing they were fighting for the rise of the goblin race, immediately erupted with unprecedented passion.
Through countless days and nights of research and experimentation, these tenacious goblins overcame numerous technical barriers.
Finally, the percussion gun burst forth!
It discarded the clumsiness and inefficiency of the firelance, becoming a deadly weapon capable of striking fear into the dinosaur people with its convenient operation, powerful force, and accurate shooting.
However, Qian Ji was not carried away by his temporary success.
He knew the time was not yet ripe; after all, the goblin race had not yet reached a desperate situation, and rash action might lead to more innocent goblins being persecuted.
So, he chose to continue biding his time.
He continuously optimized firearm technology while quietly establishing the 'Gear Brotherhood' in major cities.
This superficial goblin guild was, in fact, a massive secret training camp, reserving vital forces for the coming struggle.
The dinosaur people, confident in their strength, paid no attention to these 'insignificant' goblins.
Little did they know that their repeated underestimations led to their own demise.
But paper, after all, cannot cover fire.
In an unknown city, a goblin father, witnessing his daughter's tragic death at the hands of a dinosaur people, pulled the trigger of a percussion gun in grief and indignation.
This gunshot, like a fuse, instantly ignited the long-hidden conflict.
With the fall of the dinosaur people, the intelligence that goblins possessed powerful weapons was quickly exposed.
The dinosaur people King was enraged and ordered a nationwide search for 'Gear Brotherhood' members.
Qian Ji had long anticipated this day and had left orders in advance with various guilds: if the matter was exposed, they were to seize the city with all their might; if it was impossible, they were to break out with all their might.
Thus, in just half a month, multiple dinosaur people cities were captured by goblins, and many dinosaur people fell at the hands of the goblins they despised.
But countless goblins also fell on the path of uprising.
With strongholds established, Qian Ji began to extensively arrange city defenses, seizing opportunities to connect various cities.
Powerful cannons were pushed onto the city walls, and many goblins, after simple training, received a pistol and joined the uprising forces.
As the goblins' firearms became more advanced, the dinosaur people's strongholds could no longer withstand their long guns and cannons.
City after city was razed, and dinosaur people after dinosaur people became lost souls.
Under the crisis of extinction, the dinosaur people massacred the goblin race within the cities, rapidly escalating the conflict between the two races.
It wasn't until fifteen years later, when the goblin race, relying on advanced firearms, stormed the dinosaur people's royal city, that this great war finally ended.
The former world overlords, the dinosaur people, were few in number, and the remaining ones became slaves of the goblin race.
The goblin race, on the other hand, rapidly grew and prospered due to their excellent reproductive capabilities, their presence spreading throughout the world.
Until this day, a strange teleportation gate unfolded in the wilderness, and the Vanguard Team stepped into this goblin kingdom.
When Ye Chen learned that the new world's Extraordinary-level power was not strong and that the goblin race primarily relied on firearms to conquer the world, he felt relieved.
This kind of world was like the Blue Star of his previous life, where individual power was not strong, and the main reliance was on climbing the technology tree.
But facing the diverse abilities of the Abyss, firearms sometimes could not play a role.
You can use a Gatling gun to harvest zombies, but can you use it to harvest ghosts?
Apparently not.
Therefore, Ye Chen was confident in quickly taking down this kind of mortal-flow world.
This time, he decided to let Apollo serve as the commander of this invasion, leading a massive army composed of ten thousand elite Little Devil, a million Worms, and several million 'inferior' Demons.
Currently, there are over sixty thousand Little Devil in the Shadow World, but Ye Chen only selected the ten thousand Little Devil most proficient in Enter the Shadows.
As long as they are not careless, they will be invincible.
Apollo did not bring the Banshee troops this time.
As the Abyss continued to grow stronger, the second-tier Extraordinary-level Banshee were gradually falling behind.
After all, they were not Demons, and their growth rate was relatively slow without the blessing of innate talent.
Sooner or later, they would be eliminated by the Abyss, only to become Apollo's vassals.
Agash also clearly realized this, but she temporarily had no good solution and could only rely on Apollo for now, while seeking a way out.
Apollo received the order and immediately assembled his army, preparing to set out.
As a legitimate member of the Abyss Demons, it was only natural for him to command the Little Devil.
As for the several million inferior Demons, there was no need to mention them; he had already commanded them once before.
Under the call of the Abyss Will, they quickly learned of this conquest mission and their leader, and swiftly surged towards the teleportation gate.
Apollo also led ten thousand Little Devil into the teleportation gate.
When the tide of the Abyss surged into the Goblin World, the goblins had not yet realized the crisis.
Facing a world without much Extraordinary-level power, Apollo only wanted a quick victory.
The teleportation gate continued to spew out the Demon Army, and various Demons messily filled the land.
At Apollo's command, the Demon Army roared and swept towards the nearest city.
They were eager to destroy this beautiful world.
At this moment, high above the Mitt Plains, a newlywed couple was riding in a hot air balloon, immersed in the sweetness of their honeymoon.
Suddenly, the wife's terrified scream pierced the tranquility:
"Darling, look what that is!"
The husband followed his wife's trembling finger, only to see the distant horizon seemingly stained with thick ink, a black tide surging forward at an astonishing speed.
The tide surged extremely fast, and soon it was upon them.
It was then that they saw the truth of the black tide.
It was clearly countless ferocious monsters!
Both of them turned Green with fright and quickly ascended the hot air balloon, fearing being caught by the black tide.
"Darling, what should we do? Should we go back to Pace City to report the situation?"
The wife asked her husband in a panic.
The husband shook his head with a solemn expression:
"It's too late, their speed is too fast. Going to Pace City would just be sending ourselves to death. Let's go to Nair City; their Magic Powered Mecha troops might be able to stop them!"
With that, the two drove the hot air balloon, wanting to escape this dangerous place.
However, fate did not give them a chance to escape.
A strange ripple suddenly appeared in the void, and before the two goblins could react, they were torn to shreds by a sudden Little Devil.
One of the Little Devil shook its claws, stained with Green blood, and said with a look of disdain:
"Tsk... It's incredible that such a small thing, worse than a Worm, can dominate the world."
The other Little Devil responded thoughtfully:
"Hey, don't underestimate them. At least their little brains are quite clever; they can create things that can fly without wings. Worms don't have that ability."
With that, the two Little Devil sacrificed their shredded bodies and souls back to the Abyss, believing that it wouldn't be long before they would have two more Worm companions.
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