#77 - Chapter 77 Fatal "Mistake"
“Thump, thump!”
“Thump, thump!”
In the abyss, more than a dozen demon cocoons were wriggling madly.
Moreover, with each wriggle, the seemingly never-ending, enormous heartbeat reverberated throughout the abyss like thunder.
Even these bizarre and grotesque heartbeats were transmitted to another world through a newly risen portal nearby.
That world was known as the Trial Continent.
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“...Is this guy crazy?”
When Li Qi saw Wu Wei establish a new portal on the battlefield, he couldn't help but wonder.
The reason he said this was because Wu Wei actually built a new portal in the center of the battlefield.
The very center!
That's right, this wasn't his imagination or anything like that.
His surprise stemmed from the fact that Wu Wei had genuinely built a “costly” and easily “destroyed” portal in the center of the battlefield.
Although Li Qi could understand Wu Wei's anxiety, his desire to quickly recruit troops from his initial plane and free his army from the encirclement of steam tanks,
placing the portal in the center of the battlefield was a fatal mistake!
And a fatal mistake that no lord would ever make.
Firstly, in Li Qi's understanding, the construction of a portal was extremely expensive.
Many lords in the early stages, when resources were scarce, basically had to sell everything they owned to build a portal.
Secondly, the portal itself was very fragile and easily destroyed.
However, the above two points were not very important.
After all, at this stage, many lords had become relatively wealthy in terms of resource points.
The resource points required to build a portal were not considered expensive.
The reason Li Qi believed that Wu Wei's move was a fatal mistake was because the portal itself was bidirectional!
Once a portal was opened, if the owner couldn't protect it,
the opponent could occupy the portal and send their troops into your territory at any time, destroying everything you had painstakingly built and completely ending your lord trial!
Thinking of this, Li Qi didn't hesitate at all, directly changing his previous defensive order and instead having his army begin to advance steadily and orderly towards the portal in the center of the battlefield.
“Wu Wei, whether you're really crazy or pretending, this move will be your biggest downfall.”
Li Qi, located in the center of his legion, raised his head and looked at Wu Wei, who was standing on the former dwarf royal city in the distance.
“Let me take this opportunity to drive you out of this trial in one fell swoop.”
“A ruthless and heartless guy like you isn't fit to be a lord.”
“Rather than letting you harm countless lives after passing the lord's trial, I'd rather end your path of sin here!”
Li Qi recalled Wu Wei's previous war tactics, and then thought of the dwarf royal city that had been turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and this idea became even more firm in his heart.
Although Li Qi was well aware that the war tactics between lords might not be much cleaner than Wu Wei's,
Wu Wei was the first to use such crazy and dirty tactics in the early stages of the lord's trial.
This was the real reason why many lords, even if they hadn't been attacked by Wu Wei, harbored ill intentions towards him.
Wu Wei was a madman obsessed with war, and war tactics were an indifferent matter to him.
But others, other lords, were not.
They were still human, and they still had compassion for ordinary beings.
In addition, the pressure Wu Wei placed on other lords was simply too great, so Li Qi believed.
Eliminating Wu Wei at this moment was likely the right choice!
Therefore, under Li Qi's urging, his steam legion swept across the entire battlefield at a speed visible to the naked eye, advancing firmly towards Wu Wei's portal.
Along the way, gunpowder and flames roared together.
Whether it was the plague legion's pathogen demons, the modified orcs, or the little demons that had appeared too many times, none of them resisted for long.
Cannonballs that could deal 150 points of fire damage, as well as continuously burning flamethrowers, plus flying goblin bombs.
Li Qi's steam legion had an overwhelming advantage over Wu Wei in close combat, mid-range, and long-range combat.
So after only a short advance, this steam legion had already approached the vicinity of the portal located in the center of the battlefield.
As long as they advanced another four hundred meters or so, Li Qi would completely control this portal, and at that time, a large number of active goblin bombs would pass through this portal, directly reaching Wu Wei's core territory and turning everything he had into nothing.
But just when everything seemed to be going so smoothly, Li Qi suddenly noticed.
In the distance, in the direction of the dwarf royal city.
The abyss lord, who should have been nervous, was smiling.
This monster, who enjoyed war and didn't hesitate to turn all that was beautiful into nothing, was actually smiling.
His snake-like, scarlet vertical pupils were staring intently at Li Qi and his legion.
What was he laughing at?
A feeling of being tightly wrapped in deep malice made Li Qi shiver uncontrollably.
But Li Qi, who had already made a decision, gritted his teeth and said fiercely.
“Stop acting mysterious, Wu Wei.”
“Open fire! Crush all the enemies.”
Boom boom boom!
A few minutes later, as the last orc bound by a parasitic demon was blown to pieces by the steam tank's cannon, there were no longer any demons on the entire battlefield blocking Li Qi and the portal.
Although some demons were still alive and engaged in battle with the remaining troops of Gu Changqing.
But they were too far away from here to pose a threat to him.
So Li Qi didn't hesitate at all, directly ordering the goblins in his army to aim the bomb launching devices in their hands at the center of the portal.
As long as these mechanical bombs that could automatically identify enemies passed through this portal, Wu Wei's territory would inevitably suffer heavy damage!
And Wu Wei would completely lose the qualification for this trial.
Thinking of this, Li Qi issued the order to launch.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
As planned, dozens of mechanical bombs passed through this portal engraved with blasphemous objects and abyssal runes, arriving in the long-silent endless abyss.
Moreover, shortly after the launch, Li Qi and the others heard the sound of explosions.
But...
“Wait, why don't I have any kill notifications?”
Li Qi looked at the Heavenly Dao System with some confusion.
It was clear that these mechanical bombs that could automatically seek out enemies showed that they had hit the enemy, but Li Qi had not received any kill reminders.
This was obviously not right.
But just as Li Qi was still confused.
A pair of huge hands suddenly stretched out from the portal...
And in these hands was a pile of fragments after the mechanical bombs had exploded.
“Oh.”
Li Qi's heart suddenly turned cold.
“Damn it!”
A monster poked its head out of the abyss portal, looking at this strange world.
