159: Chapter 159 [If Kou can go, so can I]

After using Judgment on Britain's Heroic Spirit Robin Hood, the USA Strategist activated a special skill for Jackson. With his combat power greatly enhanced, he quickly killed Calamity Demons and destroyed portals, soon reaching the top of the leaderboard.

Prussia, which possessed two Heroic Spirits but whose combat power was mediocre and unable to construct exclusive skills for their Heroic Spirits, remained in second place.

The USA and Prussia became the leading tier on the leaderboard.

Then came the battle for third place.

Entering the top three of the leaderboard was only possible if one had achievements in the first act. To avoid wasting the efforts made during the previous strategy phase and for the glory of their respective nations, the competition for third place was exceptionally fierce.

Strategists from various countries were busy planning the best routes for their Heroic Spirit legions while brainstorming how to construct exclusive skills for their own Heroic Spirits.

Finally, there was the Dragon Kingdom.

The Dragon Kingdom hadn't even started moving toward the portals yet!

The further one got from the portals, the scarcer the Calamity Demons became.

The battle to clear out the Calamity was already in its seventh day, and the Dragon Kingdom's total score was barely in the double digits!

The Calamity Demons could not be wiped out completely; they respawned after being killed.

On the visible tactical map, many types of portals still remained.

Quantity wasn't the problem; time was the biggest problem!!

The entire campaign to clear out the Calamity Demons was scheduled to last ten days, and seven days had already passed!

The Dragon Kingdom's score was practically zero. Under such circumstances, the Dragon Kingdom had only just finished reorganizing its military affairs with General Huo Qubing, replacing every single soldier in the legion with Cavalry, and using the Heroic Spirit's blessing to grant these Cavalry skills that seemed incomprehensible and useless to normal people!

- "No matter what the Dragon Kingdom people are up to, it's already too late! With only three days left, even if General Huo Qubing is as strong as the USA's Jackson after reorganizing the military, it is impossible to catch up to any country's score in just three short days."

- "Don't be ridiculous. What reorganization? I think the Dragon Kingdom people are just using military reorganization as an excuse to cover up General Huo Qubing's incompetence! What right does a 'dowry Heroic Spirit' have to be mentioned in the same breath as my USA's Jackson?"

People in the live stream channel were still looking down on General Huo Qubing, who had debuted under the name of a 'dowry'.

Just as everyone was sealing the deal, believing that General Huo Qubing was nothing special and that the Dragon Kingdom had completely lost the possibility of catching up to other countries in the first act...

Suddenly.

It moved!

The Dragon Kingdom's army, which had been holding its position, finally moved!

"They wasted seven days, and now they're finally heading toward the portals. Isn't it a bit too late..."

In the live broadcast channel, those mocking words were only half-spoken when everyone suddenly froze in shock.

It was because the movements of the Dragon Kingdom army completely exceeded everyone's imagination!

The Heroic Spirit General Huo Qubing, who commanded the Dragon Kingdom army, pointed his long sword forward. His iron Cavalry, like a torrent of steel, did not rush toward any ground target but instead charged straight into the empty ground ahead!

"What are they..." The commentator York gasped in shock at this scene.

The next second, a scene that left the whole audience breathless occurred:

The moment the Dragon Kingdom's iron Cavalry crashed into the ground, that patch of land rippled like water, revealing a dark tunnel underneath that should have belonged only to the Calamity Demon, filled with a dense, corrosive aura!

The entire Dragon Kingdom legion, under the stunned gaze of the whole world, unhesitatingly "dived" into the underground!

After 'diving' into the underground, the Dragon Kingdom used that 'high-speed tunnel' to bypass all the Calamity Demons on the surface and headed straight for a medium-sized portal!

Such an action, such a scene, stunned everyone!

"How is this possible?! Isn't that underground 'tunnel' something only Calamity Demons can use? Not to mention that the tunnel itself didn't have an entrance open to anything other than demons, the fact that the Dragon Kingdom legion could just inexplicably drill into it is absurd. The most critical point is that the tunnel is filled with a Calamity Demon corruption aura so dense it's like poison! Isn't the Dragon Kingdom army just courting death by diving in like that?"

The slap in the face came too quickly.

Those viewers who looked down on General Huo Qubing waited five minutes, then another five minutes, but the entire Dragon Kingdom army showed not the slightest sign of being corrupted or polluted. Instead, the army was full of energy, and the longer they stayed in the tunnel, the more familiar they became with the conditions inside, and their marching speed actually increased!

Those ridiculed "useless skills" now shone brightly:

The guide accurately identified directions in the complex tunnels, the doctor used silver needles and herbs to resist the erosion of corruption, and the veterinarian could even soothe the warhorses that were agitated by the environment!

Now all the viewers were dumbfounded.

Some people shouted, 'Holy hell, that's insane.'

A very small number of people suddenly recalled the actions of the Dragon Kingdom Strategist Chen Aoyun just a moment ago:

Just before the Dragon Kingdom army dived into the underground tunnel, the Dragon Kingdom's Strategist Chen Aoyun seemed to have constructed and released some kind of skill...

Can a 'dowry Heroic Spirit' also have a recognized historical allusion to construct an exclusive skill?

Recalling Chen Aoyun's words when he activated the skill...

"If the enemy can go, so can I"!

Could these seven characters be the exclusive skill Chen Aoyun constructed for General Huo Qubing?

"If the enemy can go, so can I... If 'the enemy' refers to the Calamity Demon, then does 'the enemy can go' refer to the 'underground tunnel' used by the Calamity Demon? Pushing it further, 'so can I' means: the Dragon Kingdom army is also going to turn the 'underground tunnel' into their own marching route just like the Calamity Demon?! The road the enemy can take is my road! Damn! No way... I don't even need a professional to analyze this skill; I figured out the gist just by the literal meaning! A skill that even I can understand—this shows just how targeted it is and how perfectly it fits the current situation!"

Sometimes the strength of a Heroic Spirit's exclusive skill doesn't matter; the word 'suitability' is the most important.

Of course, the word 'suitability' is also the hardest thing to achieve.

As this person said.

"If the enemy can go, so can I", this exclusive skill didn't even need anyone to jump out and explain it. Any viewer with a brain could analyze it based on the situation on the battlefield. That is enough to show how well this skill fits the current scene!

"So, we were all wrong about the Dragon Kingdom's General Huo Qubing before? We wronged this Heroic Spirit? He wasn't slacking off to drag out time and seek a dignified end. He was actually reorganizing the military! But why reorganize the military like this? Why convert all branches into Cavalry and bless them with some seemingly useless, miscellaneous abilities?"

The detailed viewers were still a bit confused, and the two commentators in the live broadcast room couldn't figure it out either.

However, the conversation between Chen Aoyun, Fan Ling, and others was revealed to the public after being broadcast.

Chen Aoyun explained to Fan Ling and the others,

"The more a unit's state matches the historical allusions and deeds of the Heroic Spirit, the stronger the skill constructed from this allusion will be when activated. This is the underlying rule of the Game of National Destiny. "If the enemy can go, so can I" is a skill constructed based on the historical fact of General Huo Qubing's northern expedition against the Xiongnu. Historically, in the allusion, the unit General Huo Qubing used to attack the Xiongnu was Cavalry. And not just ordinary Cavalry! It can be said that the Cavalry General Huo Qubing used against the Xiongnu was the first 'special forces' unit in human history organized at the national level! When mounted, they were Cavalry; when dismounted, they could be veterinarians, doctors, guides, water-seekers who could find water sources, engineers who could build simple defenses... Why did I waste so much time reorganizing the military? It was to turn this originally ordinary Dragon Kingdom legion into a 'special forces' unit! To make this army fit the historical allusions and deeds even better, and to allow the exclusive skill "If the enemy can go, so can I" to maximize its effect!"

Understood. No wonder the Dragon Kingdom had been dawdling for so long. After these words, everyone understood.