Chapter 504
Chapter 504 - 484 Family
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Most of the time, life is full of misfortune.
For Evil Bone, today was a day when bad luck piled up. He not only lost all the chips he had accumulated in the past, but also lost his future... at least, the ticket to the future.
He still held the intelligence he had obtained from Shepherd Silver, but it was just intelligence. There was no way to move forward without enough cannon fodder and combat power to support him.
In a sense, his all-in bet had completely ended after being forced to hand over his "treasure."
"Damn outsiders, stealing everything from me..." The bandit leader resented the reality of being robbed.
The king’s spy? True, but now he was just a lone traveler trying to survive.
After escaping from Lu Ping’an’s view, he did not leave immediately.
How could he leave? In the desperate situation where Doomsday had already begun, betting everything and gaining nothing meant sentencing himself to a slow death.
He hid in the woods, waiting for the Beast God puppet to kill Lu Ping’an and his group... He didn’t think they could take down that obviously extraordinary monster.
At that time, he could directly pick up the treasures from the corpses.
However, the development of the situation clearly exceeded expectations.
The eerie flame metal knight actually blocked the resurrected ancient god (by his calculation), an opponent that should not be encountered on a normal battlefield.
An error in assessing the puppet’s combat power naturally led him to overestimate Lu Ping’an’s group’s combat power... Various exotic powers from the different realm made it impossible for him to accurately assess them.
He could only judge that it might be the incarnation of a deity based on the intelligence "Beast God’s believer successfully resurrects the deity"... This was also the root of why he didn’t dare resist, slacked off the whole time, and always prepared to flee.
But now, the result of his misjudgment of combat power was that Evil Bone was startled by himself.
Perhaps, in his eyes, it was the narrow terrain of the underground tomb that limited the metal knight so that it didn’t directly kill his group.
"A backstabbing ambush? No, I have no chance of winning..."
The overestimated combat power made him give up the idea of taking action by himself, but he still had not given up.
Finally, when Lu Ping’an’s battlefield reached a balance, he gritted his teeth and took action.
In fact, his actions were quite simple. Since the battlefield was in a balanced state and the "ancient god" was restricted... then why not break that balance?
Evil Bone quickly moved through the woods, his professional training as a spy gave him exceptional speed among the trees, and his hook lock and specially made running boots made him like an elf in the forest.
And behind him were various mutated magical beasts and the undead... Their quality might not be high, but their quantity was definitely terrible.
He emitted the aura of a living being and invaders, attracting all kinds of powerful demons. He was racing against time and his own life.
"A train? Although this method is old-fashioned, it is indeed useful..."
When the "train" ran out of the woods, Lu Ping’an actually breathed a sigh of relief.
He had never forgotten that guy’s existence and didn’t think he would stop there.
"The dagger behind is always more frightening before it is used..."
Lu Ping’an had already noticed that the group of monsters behind Evil Bone was both numerous and troublesome, but this was already one of the better outcomes in his numerous plans... What he was most worried about was when that guy suddenly pulled out some lethal weapon and killed one of his partners or Catherine.
Or, contacting his fellow spies and getting a large number of reinforcements and combat power from Schlei Domain... When the spy leader puts pressure on the lord, the lord might not even hold on.
If the pressure succeeds, just forcing the knights to turn against them would make Lu Ping’an’s group have to consider their rear. This was what Lu Ping’an worried about the most.
Now that a large number of beast swarms were out, it might be a bit troublesome, but not unresolvable...
"...Awaken..."
But before Lu Ping’an revealed his trump card, Guan Xinxian stopped him.
"Let us try first, don’t bring out that thing now, or it will be troublesome... You may offend this forest because of it."
Lu Ping’an nodded and stopped talking, continuing to focus on the main battlefield ahead. Catherine fought more fiercely and had already gained the upper hand.
Behind her, her mother had been supporting her all the time. Although he didn’t know what effects those curses and techniques had, the obvious enhancement effect of Catherine’s consumption of the drugs indicated that they were quite effective.
Great Priest Marian had tried to attack the Beast God puppet, but as it turned out, it was almost in vain... When faced with an overwhelming opponent of the same type, Marian, who had lost most of her battle pets, didn’t have any options.
It’s worth mentioning that a powerful Beast God Great Priest like Marian has the main profession that Lu Ping’an has been looking for - something similar to a Beast Tamer’s Path.
Lu Ping’an had initially looked forward to seeing her formidable War Beasts, but one sentence had silenced his expectations.
"...When I was infiltrating, the feed is too expensive and requires a lot of breeding space, so I couldn’t afford them. Some were eaten, some were let go, and the rest were lost in previous battles..."
Although this left people feeling helpless, at least the techniques that boosted Beastification Men’s abilities were substantial enough to let the knights become much stronger.
Unfortunately, in a certain sense, Catherine had become a "Fireman," so her Transformation abilities were utterly useless.
While Lu Ping’an was still focused on the main battlefield, Brother Guan had already engaged with the beast swarm brought by the Evil Bone.
Himself? He had already slipped away, but on Lu Ping’an’s side, someone else had already caught up...
"Meow, and Su Zhizhu, do not let me down ..." Lu Ping’an sent out high-quality trackers and assassins on his side, once their heads were exposed, they wouldn’t go back easily.
Now, Guan Xinxian’s "Ark" has completely transformed into a land ship, directly blocking the beasts’ and dead spirits’ frontal assault.
With it as a barrier, trees were pulled out of the ground, and the warriors on the Ark began to enter their battle state.
Guan Xinxian demonstrated a completely different tactical strategy in his Gardener style compared to Lu Ping’an.
"Come forth, my Safe House..."
Guan Xinxian revealed his second scene, a giant treehouse with him at the core... However, with the massive structures surrounding it and the super-thick roots, it looked more like a fortress.
Unlike the mobile Ark, the treehouse rooted in the ground after its appearance, becoming a fortress blocking the onslaught of the beast swarm.
At the same time, the "wall" surrounding the treehouse became the first line of defense, blocking most of the ordinary beast swarm.
There were many beasts in the swarm, but if they could not simultaneously pose a threat to the defenders inside the "Safe House," it would be just a series of repeated one-on-one battles.
And this was only the beginning.
"...Awaken, my siege ladder swarm."
The next moment, several giant trees were pulled out of the ground, forming a tower in a crucial area surrounded by groups of trees.
City walls, towers, the Ark—In just a few minutes, Guan Xinxian built a "Great Wall" when he pulled out all the stops.
This was a completely different Gardener’s playstyle from Lu Ping’an and the standard "solution" for a Court Gardener.
With his Magic Plants, third-tier Guan Xinxian constructed many scenes that were easy to carry, which he would release simultaneously when needed, building his own battlefield.
In this way, compared to Lu Ping’an’s "traditional Gardener’s technique" that communicated directly with the forest, the actual combat effect was stronger, and the intensity of positional warfare was higher.
Amid the continuous collisions, Guan Xinxian gradually stabilized his wavering defense line.
The "Safe House" was lined up with the Ark, accompanied by the rising "forest," which withstood the first wave of attack.
However, the beast swarm seemed crazy as they rammed into the trees, apparently trying to punch a path with their flesh and blood...How could that be possible? The scenes constructed by the Magic Plants were exceptionally strong; as a result, the beasts would continue ramming themselves to death without choosing to fall back.
This behavior was undoubtedly puzzling... Past experiences had proven that even these Demonized animals still had basic intelligence.
"Their... situation is not right!"
The next second, everyone knew why the beast swarm was running desperately and why Evil Bone decided to flee.
Unseen and eerie beast roars echoed through the entire forest as one giant snake... two giant snakes, four giant snakes emerged from the woods.
The smallest of them was no shorter than a Beast God puppet, its enormous snake body at least three times the size of the previous one.
In comparison to them, the previous mutated giant snake was merely a child... Perhaps it really was their offspring! They flicked their forked tongues, sensing the hatred left behind by their kin!
So, the eight snake eyes full of venom and hunger were all staring at the intruders here.
— End of Chapter 504 —