#106 - Chapter 106: Mutual Expansion
“Little Imp Mother, continue to advance!”
Upon the Abyssal Throne, Wu Wei, still unaware that he was being suspected, was commanding the Imp Mother Caroline to advance towards a certain city.
Under his command, all the demon armies advancing eastward were in a state of terrifying crushing dominance.
Unlike the occupation strategies of regular lords,
demons possess no direct operational abilities.
The resource-rich mines, the lumber yards capable of production, and the long-cultivated farmlands are all operated by demon slave laborers.
The demons merely slaughter all soldiers and resisters, turning valuable buildings into ruins.
During this process, less than twenty percent of the creatures in the occupied areas manage to survive.
The remaining flesh and souls become nourishment for newborn demons.
They do not consider the future productivity of the buildings they destroy.
All they care about is destroying everything in front of them as much as possible, spreading death and terror.
In other words, with the demons' destructive attacks, their numbers are actually growing rapidly, in a one-time burst.
Although such growth is temporary, it is enough for the demons and Wu Wei, who stands behind them.
The large increase in demons allows the Endless Abyss, this war engine, to plunder as much land as possible, providing it with fresh fuel.
And the Endless Abyss, in turn, breeds more demons, further expanding its war scale.
Such a vicious cycle will eventually reach a point where it cannot sustain itself.
Because even the vast universe has an end, and the Endless Abyss will eventually run out of resources to plunder.
But regardless,
the expansion of the Endless Abyss will not stop today!
“Continue to advance!”
“Destroy all cities, towns, and villages along the way.”
“Burn the forests, pollute the rivers, and spread plague and poisonous fog across the sky.”
With each cold-blooded order issued, one after another of the bases painstakingly built by the lords on the Trial Continent were destroyed, along with the natives of the Trial Continent.
On that "chessboard" called the Trial Continent, Wu Wei was placing his pieces one by one.
Wherever the pieces landed, death and destruction would descend.
And with each move of the Abyssal Lord, a portion of this chessboard would be permanently tainted, plunging into darkness.
All beings on the Trial Continent were gradually suffocating due to the pulse of the Abyssal Lord.
No matter which lord, no matter how many lords formed a coalition, none could stop the abyss's invasion at this moment.
Three days after Wu Wei redeployed his troops, the eastern and western ends of the entire Trial Continent had been single-handedly cleared by Wu Wei.
And this was just the beginning of the end.
But just as the entire Trial Continent entered its darkest hour, Su Yingxue's forces, who had been silent all along, finally redeployed their troops.
Upon hearing this news, countless lords were moved to tears.
They thought that Su Yingxue had finally had a change of heart and was preparing to stop Wu Wei's atrocities.
However, Su Yingxue's subsequent actions stunned all the lords.
Because the direction of attack of this merciful lord, known as the goddess, was not the area where Wu Wei was located, but the territories of other small and medium-sized lords.
In addition, the several major lords who had suffered heavy blows due to failed attacks on Wu Wei's territory were also her targets.
Unlike Wu Wei, Su Yingxue had hidden her edge as much as possible until the moment she deployed her troops.
And when she truly deployed her troops, the other lords were surprised to find that compared to Wu Wei's demon army,
Su Yingxue's army seemed even more terrifying.
Because Su Yingxue possessed the largest army on the entire Trial Continent during this period.
Even her army size far exceeded Wu Wei's!
The reason for this was that Su Yingxue had successfully utilized the characteristics of faith to recruit a large number of fanatical warriors.
Whether it was to atone for past sins, for the promise of a future heaven, or simply to repay the merciful goddess they worshiped,
Su Yingxue improved their lives, found them their respective paths (faith), and also provided a guarantee of a stable life for their parents and children.
Therefore, these fanatics were willing to take up arms in the name of faith and slaughter all her enemies.
And at this time, the other lords finally understood why Su Yingxue had been acting like a fool before, protecting her people as much as possible, and even spending a lot of resource points to provide antidotes for the plague.
All she did was to gain the trust of her people.
Countless lords originally tried to resist to the end.
But in the face of such a faith-based army, all resistance was futile.
Because in addition to faith, Su Yingxue also wielded the sharp weapon of magic.
One after another lord's territory was completely destroyed, and their teleportation gates were also拔去 one by one.
They had completely lost the qualification to continue competing for resources on the Trial Continent.
So, while Wu Wei was plundering everything in the southern part of the Trial Continent, Su Yingxue was also slaughtering in the northern part of the Trial Continent.
Even Su Yingxue's expansion speed was faster than Wu Wei's.
On this chessboard called Trial, there was no longer only the color of Wu Wei's pieces.
The color of Su Yingxue's pieces also occupied half of the entire chessboard.
And as the two gradually cleared out the other forces in their respective areas, their respective expansions gradually approached their theoretical limits.
The direction of the two armies began to change, starting from who knows when...
The duel between the two was finally about to begin.
A pair of scarlet vertical pupils opened from the Abyssal Throne, looking towards the northern end of the Trial Continent.
