Chapter 237 - 141: Dispatching the Legion (3)
"Hmm, now that you put it that way, I’m suddenly not so keen on attacking the Demonized Creature nest. It feels unnecessary," Li Ziyu said, rubbing his chin.
He’d been foolish before, not thinking to use the Mobile Fortress and instead pondering how to go head-to-head with them. Looking at it now, there was no need for a life-or-death struggle. He could just wear them down. From the very beginning of this battle, he was already on the winning side. As long as he didn’t do anything stupid, victory was guaranteed.
Zhang Peng and Liu Xingxing said nothing. It didn’t matter to them whether they attacked the Demonized Creature nest or not. In any case, with Li Ziyu around, they definitely wouldn’t have to send their own troops down.
Everything was up to Li Ziyu to decide.
"Sigh, since we’re already here, I feel like it would be a waste of time not to at least give it a shot." After a moment of thought, Li Ziyu sighed and said.
’I came all this way, I can’t leave with nothing to show for it. The Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army won’t be able to find me for a while anyway. With this free time, I’ve got to stir up some trouble.’
’As for whether the Demonized Creatures are strong or not, who cares? If I can’t beat them, I’ll just run. I have the Mobile Fortress, after all.’
Zhang Peng’s words had served as a reminder, making Li Ziyu deeply understand the true way to use the Mobile Fortress. To put it bluntly, it was for bullying people.
’I’ll hit you once to see if it hurts, to see if you’re strong or weak. If you’re weak, I’ll wipe you out in one go. If you’re strong, I’ll run and see if you give chase.’
’No wonder Benjamin developed so well. So this is how he did it.’
’This Mobile Fortress is practically a Divine Artifact for conquering cities and plundering resources. Isn’t this just forcing me to become a bandit?’
Before going to bed, he was still agonizing over the Demonized Creatures. He wakes up, and the problem is solved. ’Who cares if the Demonized Creatures are strong or if their forces are large? I’ll just hit them first and figure it out later.’
’To stand before a mountain of treasure and not enter is to be unworthy of being called human!’
Li Ziyu had made his decision. He stood up and said with a fierce grin, "Tonight, we begin the assault on the Underground City!"
Once the decision was made, the rest was easy. First, he’d send a corps down to test the waters.
A corps was a legion composed of 100,000 Skeleton Undead and equipped with Skeleton Warriors of all levels. The High Level Skeleton Warrior commanding the corps served as its Corps Commander, an Intermediate Skeleton Warrior as a Ten-Thousand Man Commander, and a Low Level Skeleton Warrior as a Thousand-Man Commander.
At his command, a corps of Skeleton Undead immediately assembled, setting out from the fortress platform and marching toward the cave entrance.
Li Ziyu, Zhang Peng, and Liu Xingxing went up to the top floor and watched the Undead below. Now that they had a command structure, the state of the Undead was different. They no longer crowded together as before but had become much more orderly, lining up to march inside.
They had barely gone down before the fighting started. Soon, the bodies of Demonized Beasts were being carried out of the cave entrance by the Undead.
As Li Ziyu was watching his great army depart, he received a message from the Undead. "Large numbers of Demonized Beasts discovered in the caves. Currently engaging."
After they were organized into corps, the method of communication had also changed. Originally, messages were passed along from one Skeleton Undead to another. But Skeleton Undead were, after all, Low Level Undead units, and the information would inevitably become jumbled and incomplete. Sometimes Li Ziyu had to guess what they meant.
But now, messages were relayed up the chain of command. The Undead reported to the Thousand-Man Commanders, who then reported to the Ten-Thousand Man Commanders, and finally, the information was consolidated by the Corps Commander and sent to Li Ziyu.
It might have seemed much more troublesome than before, but it actually wasn’t. The Undead communicated through the Soul Network, and the speed was incredibly fast. As soon as a message was sent from below, it would be received at the top, almost like a phone call.
Li Ziyu opened the system panel to take a look. In just that short time, the Soul Fires of quite a few Undead in the first corps had already dissipated. The fighting below was quite fierce, and a steady stream of Demonized Beast corpses was being sent up.
It made sense when he thought about it. When the Treasure-Hunting Catman Expedition Team went down, it was for reconnaissance. They had to be as careful as possible, with the goal of gathering more intelligence without alerting the Demonized Creatures.
But the Undead Corps went down to subjugate the Demonized Creatures. With so many Undead, there was no way to be stealthy. They were discovered by the Demonized Creatures almost as soon as they entered. Those things weren’t exactly rational; there was no way they wouldn’t attack upon seeing Undead, so the battle began.