158: Chapter 158 The Highway for Calamity: Underground Tunnels

"What exactly is Chen Aoyun doing? Is his [General Huo Qubing] here to fight a war or to hold a skill training workshop?" commentator Heller mocked mercilessly in the live broadcast room.

Even Fan Ling felt a bit nervous and whispered, "Old Chen, speed is the essence of war... If you keep dawdling like this, not only will the score gap widen significantly, but the number of portals is also decreasing!"

Fighting the Calamity Demon leads to attrition, but portals do not fight back; therefore, portals have become the top priority for countries to maintain combat strength while widening the score gap.

Although there are still quite a few portals left, if he keeps dawdling like this, let alone the top three, Dragon Country will definitely end up at the bottom!

Chen Aoyun told Fan Ling to wait patiently.

The final battle of the first act is still ongoing.

While Dragon Country was still tinkering with his troops, a dramatic scene unfolded in the battle:

Britain's Heroic Spirit [Robin Hood] and the artifact [Sword in the Stone] were suddenly subjected to the USA's Judgment!

The British mistakenly understood [Robin Hood] and the [Sword in the Stone] as 'Origins of True Martial Arts,' which happened to be recorded in the Old Era historical materials preserved by the USA.

Chen Aoyun was reluctant to use Dragon Country's National Destiny to pass Judgment on the British, but the USA had enough National Destiny of its own and wouldn't hold back.

Especially after the USA finished constructing a signature skill for [Jackson] and used it to surpass the Prussians, becoming second in the rankings.

The British, who were ranked first, became a thorn in the side of the USA's Strategist, giving the Americans even more reason to initiate Judgment.

A single strike to the soul.

The USA's Judgment directly crippled Britain's Heroic Spirit [Robin Hood]. According to the 'rollback mechanism' of Judgment, all the points the British had accumulated from killing Calamity Demons and destroying portals were wiped out in an instant!

The Game of National Destiny is just full of such unexpected events; with this, Britain was effectively eliminated.

By passing Judgment on the British, the USA moved up one spot and became the leader of the leaderboard.

Prussia remained in second place.

For the other countries, the third-place spot opened up.

Among the remaining countries, everyone's scores were close, so the competition became more intense.

Only by reaching the top three could one achieve results for the first act. After the competition intensified, the only country that seemed unaffected was Dragon Country.

Dragon Country's Heroic Spirit [General Huo Qubing] was still huffing and puffing as he adjusted his troops, while using his special Heroic Spirit buff to give those soldiers converted into Cavalry some seemingly ridiculous abilities.

The Calamity Demons in the campaign would replenish themselves.

Portals were the source of the Calamity Demon replenishment. These Calamity Demons that emerged from the portals would move rapidly to areas where demons were lacking via special paths spread across the map.

This prevented other countries from following behind strong nations to launch sneak attacks or trying to scavenge for scraps.

Of course, these special passageways that resembled 'underground tunnels' could only be used by Calamity Demons; national legions could not utilize them. The national legions could only move according to normal movement methods, fighting their way bit by bit to the vicinity of the portals.

No one knew that what Chen Aoyun was interested in were these 'underground tunnels'!

Fighting their way there bit by bit?

Killing a Calamity Demon only yielded one point per kill, not to mention it was slow and carried the risk of attrition.

Simply bypassing the Calamity Demons and destroying those non-retaliating portals would be twice the result with half the effort!

Destroying a medium-sized portal yielded fifty points. Wouldn't destroying fifty or sixty of them allow them to catch up to the first-tier USA and Prussia?

If they destroyed even more, say a hundred, then Dragon Country would be able to overtake them!

"It's a bad idea to underestimate anyone, but it's an even worse idea to underestimate my Huaxia's [General Huo Qubing]?

Here it comes, the troop adjustments are finished, all that's left is to apply the Heroic Spirit's buff!"

He had long planned the signature skill for [General Huo Qubing] in his heart.

Chen Aoyun narrowed his eyes slightly, waiting patiently for the moment to vindicate [General Huo Qubing]...