God-level Hero

It is now two o’clock in the afternoon Beijing Time, and the drunken haze enveloping the entire city has finally dissipated, making Da Fei’s destruction and cleansing steps even more reckless.

For such a massive event like the siege of a city, the enemy reinforcements have been surprisingly delayed, truly unexpected for Da Fei. It wasn’t until Da Fei saw the high wall square smashed into a pit that he realized that the God of Wine had directly used a Divine Artifact to destroy the square’s teleportation array at his entrance! In other words, Demon Flame City had long become an isolated city!

And it wasn’t just the teleportation array; the densely packed crossbow cannons and the defending army on the high wall had vanished into dust as well! No wonder Da Fei had the feeling that there weren’t as many corpses when clearing the field half the day; it turns out the elite main force of the defenders was wiped out by the God of Wine early on! Indeed, given the structure and function of this fortress, elite troops must have been stationed on the walls, and using regular troops to attack it, they would have definitely been slaughtered like a meat grinder.

In short, this is actually a city that Da Fei can slowly digest!

Realizing this, Da Fei was really a bit regretful! In his gaming career, there might only be today when he has the chance to encounter such a city, and under normal circumstances, how could there be a God-level assist like the God of Wine? Such a rare opportunity was wasted by such crude smashing and burning!

Forget it, they are just tanks and jars after all, the biggest wealth is the prisoners and the tree roots. While sighing, a System Prompt sounded:

——System Prompt: Your Nasir Ancient Tree destroyed 2 Hell Citizen Dormitories, current city destruction progress 48.86%!

Whoa! Once it passes 50%, the World Announcement of city destruction will be released! Who knows what will happen then, might it alert the Great Demon King? My World Tree roots have not been excavated yet.

Da Fei quickly ordered the entire army: "Stop destroying buildings and focus on capturing citizens!"

Just then, Tamilia reported: "Lord City Lord, we have already captured 1135 Hell citizens in our Central Village Space, and there’s not much space left to accommodate prisoners. My personal suggestion—"

Eat them, right? Whoa, that’s too inhumane!

Da Fei immediately instructed: "No, while the roots have not been cut off yet, the Hell entrance is still open; let’s transfer them all to the surface world!"

Three Elders laughed from the Central Village: "Worthy of a warrior, although this Demon Flame City is just a fortress, the citizen population isn’t as large as those big cities, but there are still several thousand, which is a huge leap for Lamia’s territory construction!"

Da Fei laughed heartily: "Alright, let’s do it this way. Now, all vice officers deploy troops throughout the city to search and transport the prisoners; execute any who dare to resist or escape on the spot!"

Anlicia, Catherine, Elena, and Selvia immediately responded: "Understood!"

Da Fei took a deep breath; who said that his vice officers are too many? In times like this, they are far from enough though. As for the current priority, of course, it is to focus on the excavation progress of the World Tree roots. If the root progress is fast, then temporarily halt the prisoner transport progress.

When Da Fei sailed back to the City Hall ruins, he discovered that he had thought too much; the progress of the roots excavated by the Sandworm Mining Machine was unexpectedly slow! The electric drill was buzzing sparks this whole time, seeming like the root had just cracked a little skin?

At this moment, the General guarding the excavator waved and sighed: "Warrior, destroying this root will be very difficult because this root constantly absorbs nutrients from the World Tree to recover its durability, see—"

Da Fei hurriedly jumped off the ship and looked ahead, indeed! The cracked skin was constantly recovering! And the recovery progress was clearly not much slower than the destruction progress of the mining machine!

Da Fei was shocked, his jaw dropped: "A mere root is actually this powerful?"

The General sighed: "To be honest, such a massive piece of Divine Power Tree Root could essentially be regarded as a god on its own. In fact, it’s said that the Silena Ancient Tree also emerged from such Divine Power Tree Roots and became an Ancient Tree God independently. In the World Tree Space, we occasionally encounter some Wisdom Ancient Trees, which are also born from such Divine Power Tree Roots, though the divine power certainly pales in comparison to this root."

Just then, Nasir’s voice sounded: "I have a solution, I’ll release the insect swarm to absorb the energy from the World Tree Root, slowing down its recovery!"

Da Fei’s eyebrows twitched: "That’s right!"

The voice of the Three Elders also came from the ship: "I’m afraid this might be the only solution, let’s hope time is sufficient!"

Time? Indeed! Though I’m quite at ease now, compared to this tough-to-chew root, that could potentially alter the situation with delay! Da Fei made a decisive move: "Release the insects!"

The next moment, Nasir’s Insect Swarm Space Gate opened, and a dense swarm of insects rushed out, instantly covering the massive root like flies drawn to stench, blocking out any light!

Tamilia couldn’t help but let out a scream of excitement: "Lord City Lord, if we can absorb the Divine Power juice of the World Tree, the power of our Holy Vine Space will greatly increase!"

That’s right! This is the legendary extraction of the World Tree’s energy! I was just thinking about it earlier, but now it’s happening, and it’s not just any ordinary wood we’re extracting, this is Divine Power! I’m already standing at the top of the food chain!

And in a normal situation, daring to do something like this in front of the General and the elders would be suicidal, but now it’s different, now it’s legal and legitimate, hahaha, wahahaha!

At this moment, Da Fei couldn’t help but ask cunningly: "General, why don’t the demons use the energy of the tree roots to gradually weaken the power of the World Tree?"

The General replied calmly: "If the demons did that, the Druid Council would surely notice the abnormal flow of the World Tree’s energy and discover us here. I don’t think it will be long until our actions here will be found by the Druid Council, and our reinforcements will arrive! So I’ll go to the entrance to welcome the Druid Council’s reinforcements, and also to arrange the prisoners you’ve transported out."

Oh crap! So this good thing won’t last long? Damn, the system really doesn’t give players any cheap advantages!

Da Fei could only say with some disappointment: "Then take your time, General."

The General gave a meaningful smile: "Warrior, you’d better hurry up, then. Farewell!" With that, the General transformed into a crow and flew towards the entrance.

Da Fei was taken aback, the General’s words had a hidden meaning! That’s right, once the Druid Council comes, we won’t be able to take the roots with us, let alone extract energy!

Da Fei gritted his teeth and asked: "Nasir, can we speed up the extraction?"

Nasir replied solemnly: "Yes, once these insect swarms have absorbed enough of the first batch of Divine Power juice, we won’t let them spit it out. They will all fly back to my fortress to consume it themselves, and I’ll upgrade them! Even with just a one percent success rate, 1,000 out of these 100,000 insects can be promoted to elites! With such pure divine power to strengthen them, I doubt I’ll be so unlucky, perhaps ten percent may be achievable."

Da Fei’s eyebrows twitched, indeed! Nasir’s attribute is "fortress," which has a certain chance to train elite and even BOSS-grade units. But unlucky?

Da Fei quickly asked: "You’re saying that the success rate of training beetles into elites is also related to luck?"

Da Fei had already verified that the advancement of units is unrelated to luck. However, the elite promotion of Evil Demons had proven to be an exception, as they are promoted through their own unit skills, which can be influenced by the player’s Luck Skill. Could the beetles also have self-advancing skills?

Nasir explained earnestly: "Of course, beetles lack intelligence, they can never advance through their own ability or effort. They are like the products of a factory, and it depends only on my skills to create them, so my condition will determine their advancement. And since I am a biological building, being both a building and a creature, and as long as it’s a creature, it is influenced by luck."

Da Fei suddenly understood, so that’s how it is! Normally, fortresses are buildings and not influenced by luck, but Nasir is an exception! Great, fantastic! Training elites, is it? A percentage chance, is it? I’ve been saving up my Invincible Luck for days, and it’s already been itching to be used!

Da Fei immediately instructed: "I’m entering your fortress to assist you in training the beetles!"

So the next moment, Da Fei entered Nasir’s command cabin and anxiously waited. At this moment, Da Fei was not anxious about when the hell reinforcements would appear, but when our reinforcements would arrive! Such is life, after all.

But one could only think positively, as the intelligence system is destined not to let players take such a large advantage that borders on being a bug. However, if we could use this opportunity to extract divine power and upgrade a portion, or even a significant portion of our beetles into elites, it would make future locust-type operations much more efficient. Of course, it doesn’t matter how much divine power we absorb; the key is to get our hands on this tree root!

Meanwhile, at this very moment, looking around, the actions of the beautiful vice officers seem to be going smoothly as well. Those powerful NPCs who dare to resist are directly killed under concentrated fire, and the weaker NPCs haven’t fully recovered from the domain’s influence and obediently enter the entrance to leave hell. It seems there are no fewer than 2,000 people, plus the 3,000 to 4,000 captured alive on the ship, right?

So all that’s left is the tree root. Finally, the insect swarm returned home after feeding. To say the least, the effect was pretty disappointing! And it seems that the upgrade to the mining machine wasn’t very significant either, but there was still some improvement, and Da Fei was even more looking forward to the elite’s impact.

Nasir’s voice echoed again: "My Lord, I am ready!"

Da Fei nodded: "Then let’s start!"

A rainbow light shot up, enveloping the entire Nasir Ancient Tree! Then the next moment, a dazzling gold-green light erupted from the Insect Swarm Heart in Nasir’s command room, followed by the system prompt’s ding:

——System Prompt: Congratulations! Nasir Ancient Tree Fortress upgraded 100,000 Evil Beetles, with 43,341 beetles successfully promoted to elite status! Elite Evil Beetles’ Attack +5, Defense +1, Health +10, Damage +2! The beetles’ Absorb Juice special skill has been upgraded to Rapid Absorb Juice!

Oh yeah! A 43% success rate! I’m the king of the world! (To be continued. If you like this work, please feel free to give it a recommendation vote and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)