51: Death Note! I've seen your weakness!

Dead silence.

A dead silence, like a graveyard submerged in the deep sea.

The Tumo Yuanzhengjun channel fell into this suffocating silence after the Phoenix Empress's golden phoenix emblem completely dimmed.

But this dead silence lasted less than three seconds.

The next moment, the fear and anger, suppressed to the extreme, erupted like a volcanic explosion!

“One arrow… just one arrow? That was a Level 25 SSS-rank hero! She was instantly killed, like a stray dog on the side of the road?”

“I’m not fighting! I quit! This is not a battle we can participate in! What’s the difference between this and sending ourselves to death?!”

A player with the ID Iron Wall let out a desperate roar: “You want to quit now? Too late! We all joined this damn expeditionary force, and in Little Devil’s eyes, we’re all in this together now! That crazy woman, Phoenix Empress, she wanted to show off, and now look, she’s drawn all of Little Devil’s hatred onto us!”

“Damn it! She screwed us over! She’s using us as cannon fodder to deplete Little Devil’s spells and traps! She loses and walks away fine, but what about us? We got on her pirate ship, and now we can’t get off!”

For a time, the channel was filled with curses, regret, and boundless fear.

The Phoenix Empress, who had just been seen as a savior, instantly became the culprit who dragged everyone into hell.

After the chaotic arguments, an even more heart-pounding silence fell.

It was a pure despair, having recognized reality but being powerless to resist.

Swift Wind Swordsman typed out a few trembling words.

“…Who’s next?”

No one responded.

On the leaderboard, below the Phoenix Empress, was him.

But his SS-rank talent, which he was so proud of, seemed like a pathetic joke in the face of that god-like battle.

Let him go up?

It would just be another way to send a new trophy to Little Devil.

In the channel, everyone’s gaze subconsciously, or perhaps deliberately, fell on the ID that had remained silent the entire time.

Heaven's Choice.

Everyone wanted to see what choice this man, who had also created countless miracles, would make in such a desperate situation.

Would he, like them, choose silence and submission?

Or…

Just then, the ID that everyone was watching suddenly lit up.

Heaven's Choice: “Thanks for the invite, I just watched a clumsy teaching demonstration.”

One sentence.

Like a depth charge, it instantly made the dead silent channel boil!

【Swift Wind Swordsman】: “Teaching? You call that teaching? Are you crazy? Those were two Hell Towers! A Level 30 Queen! Didn’t you see?!”

【Iron Wall】: “Another one not afraid of death! The Phoenix Empress is down, do you think you’re better than her? Stop pretending, it’s your turn next, I’ll see how you die!”

Some, with a last shred of hope, trembled as they tried to dissuade him.

【Holy Light Priest】: “Heaven's Choice, think twice! Don’t be impulsive! Where there’s life, there’s hope! He’s clearly deliberately provoking us to go to our deaths one by one!”

“Yes, boss! Don’t fall for it! That guy is not someone we can touch!”

Lin Feng’s gaze had long left the noisy and desperate channel.

His consciousness, like an indifferent ghost, still hovered above Little Devil’s blood-red fortress.

Every detail of that battle just now was replayed, dissected, and reassembled in his mind at ten thousand times speed.

The Phoenix Empress’s failure, in his eyes, was not the end of despair.

But a piece of intelligence filled with answers.

His mind, like a cold and precise instrument, instantly saw through everything.

Hell Tower.

Single target increasing damage, multi-head healing reduction.

One for slaying dragons, one for clearing the field.

Seemingly unsolvable, but in reality, it forced the attacking side to make a choice.

And choice, itself, was a flaw.

Hero.

The Level 30 Archer Queen instantly killed the Holy Phoenix with one arrow.

Very strong.

But her most critical assassination skill, Cloak of Invisibility, had entered cooldown.

An assassin who had lost her fangs was not to be feared.

Finally, and most crucially.

Spells.

A sharp light, seeing through everything, flashed in Lin Feng’s pupils.

The Phoenix Empress’s five-second invincibility was perfectly broken by a single Extreme Freezing Spell.

This meant that Little Devil had already used one trump card.

“Nine-town hall, at most four spell slots.”

“Which means, he has at most three cards left in his hand.”

This was his true weakness!

A seemingly impregnable fortress, a seemingly invincible hero, but his trump cards were limited!

The Phoenix Empress’s failure was not because her army was not strong enough, but because her tactics were too straightforward, too arrogant.

She wanted to win the entire gamble with one ace.

And what Lin Feng wanted to do was to overturn the table.

He would use absolute, unreasonable pressure to force Little Devil to play out all three remaining cards, one by one!

The moment his trump cards were exhausted.

That would be the time of his demise.

Lin Feng’s will instantly sank into his barracks!

A plan so insane that it would make any normal lord’s heart stop, brazenly took shape!

“Train, synthesize, Mystic Destroyer x4!”

【Population Consumed: 160】

【heavy oil Consumed: 21240】

His thoughts did not pause for a moment, the numbers on the resource panel jumped wildly!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Four perfect war machines, combining tankiness, burst, speed, and magic damage, appeared simultaneously on the training ground, carrying a pressure that could make the earth tremble!

But this was not the end.

Lin Feng opened his spell list and dragged the potion flowing with orange light to the deployment slot.

Echo of Destiny!

Storm-like flames ignited in his eyes.

Little Devil had two Hell Towers, very strong.

But what if…

Six Mystic Destroyers appeared on the battlefield at the same time?

Four main bodies, plus two permanent duplicates with 80% attributes replicated by Echo of Destiny.

Six mobile war gods, charging simultaneously from the front!

Your two Hell Towers, even if switched to single-target mode, can only attack two targets per second.

Before you burn down my first Mystic Destroyer, my remaining four will be enough to flatten your walls and your Mage Tower defenses!

This was an unsolvable math problem!

It was an open strategy to force the opponent to use area-of-effect spells to clear the field!

And the War God's Shield in his hand would increase the movement speed, attack speed, and attack power of all Mystic Destroyers by 75%, which would be the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

Under the blessing of the divine skill, the combat power of this Destroyer army would skyrocket to an unimaginable realm.

“Use my strongest ‘hammer’ to force out all your trump cards.”

Lin Feng’s gaze swept darkly over the shadows of the barracks.

There, a group of knights, armed with poisoned daggers and riding spectral war hogs, waited silently.

“And then…”

“Use my sharpest ‘spear’ to finish you off.”

The entire tactical loop was perfectly formed.

Lin Feng aimed his offensive spearhead at the ID that hung high at the top of the leaderboard, an ID that suffocated the entire war zone.

The second before pressing the confirmation button, he ignored all the clamor in the channel and calmly typed out the last line.

Heaven's Choice: “More talk is useless, watch my performance.”

【System Prompt: Do you want to attack Lord “Little Devil”?】

“Yes.”

Lin Feng’s will, like a drawn sword, slashed down decisively.

The next second, his perspective was instantly stretched and distorted, descending with a roar at a speed exceeding light, onto that bloody, desperate killing field!

The battle began!