My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 449 - 418: Crisis on the Western Front (Major - ! One Million Words Achieved, Celebrate!)
Chapter 449: Chapter 418: Crisis on the Western Front (Major Chapter! One Million Words Achieved, Celebrate!)
Tang Yu agreed readily, leaving Lu Changhong momentarily stunned.
Then, after superficially complimenting and flattering him, Lu Changhong returned to his seat with a pleased heart.
His gaze swept covertly over the people behind Tang Yu.
There were a total of twenty or so people, and even if all of them were top-notch experts in Green Shadow...
The Ancestor Dragon Three Armies, each Army had tens of thousands of Awakeners, these tens of thousands stood out from the millions of awakeners inside the Defense Circle.
And those qualified to participate in the second stage of the Four-directions Military Drill of the three armies, were all strongmen among the strongmen.
Every one of them,
had exceptional talent!
Extraordinarily diligent!
And they possessed systematic cultivation methods and combat skills!
How could Green Shadow win?
The other high-ranking officials of Beiting harbored similar thoughts.
It wasn’t that they looked down on Green Shadow—if they truly underestimated Green Shadow, they wouldn’t have invited them to watch the Three Armies’ Military Drill.
However, having a Transcendent Strongman in Green Shadow did not mean that the strength of the Awakening Tier warriors could rival that of Ancestor Dragon.
One was a Sanctuary with a scale of over a hundred thousand.
The other was a Defense Circle with a population of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
To compare the two was already the highest form of recognition.
...
The Military Drill of the Three Armies.
There were no overly detailed rules, but as the drills continued over time, experts tended to fight against those of similar tiers.
The experts of the three great Armies involved previously were of the Tenth Layer against the Tenth Layer, the eleventh layer against the eleventh layer, and most had settled in their respective tiers for a considerable time.
Only at the end, during the battle of the very top echelon of experts, might there be cases of the Twelfth Layer against the Thirteenth Layer.
But the addition of Green Shadow, turning it into a four-way battle, made things different.
After discussions, it was decided that participants in the Military Drill would no longer be confined to above the Tenth Layer.
...
The first to enter the arena was a member of the Personal Guard.
Tang Yu remembered his name was Cheng Zhuangzhuang, at the Middle Stage of the Seventh Layer, and just a fifteen-year-old boy.
His opponent was a company commander from Azure Dragon, at the Seventh Layer Peak.
Upon entering the field, both of them cut the talk, and Cheng Zhuangzhuang, wielding a B1-grade Combat Saber, roared and brought down his blade in a swoosh.
The Awakener from Azure Dragon growled, his body sprouting dense fur, his limbs grew stout, his stature tallened, and his fingers turned into sharp werewolf claws.
A Werewolf!
Dust flew and the ground cracked.
Cheng Zhuangzhuang held the advantage of a weapon.
But the physical qualities of the Awakener from the Azure Dragon Army were already slightly superior, and after the Transformation, he completely suppressed Cheng Zhuangzhuang.
Both had rich combat experience and had learned several battle techniques.
Cheng Zhuangzhuang fought fiercely, refusing to give up even when grievously injured, but in the end, was still slightly lacking and defeated.
The one-meter-ninety tall boy was red-eyed when he was rescued from the arena.
Next,
there were several more battles, two at the Seventh Layer, two at the Eighth Layer, two at the Ninth Layer.
In the six bouts, two members of the Personal Guard participated, and four experts accompanying the great Corps participated.
Two victories, four defeats.
Candle Dragon, Ying Dragon, and Azure Dragon, the three great Armies, also had clashes, completing six bouts.
In terms of combat results, Green Shadow ranked last.
Yet, Lu Changhong couldn’t muster a smile.
In his imagination, Green Shadow would lose all six bouts, not like this at all!
Even the four bouts won against Green Shadow were extremely difficult... each one was evenly matched, with the warriors of both sides genuinely on the same level.
...
Beiting’s high-ranking officials had mixed reactions, some admired while others were grave.
Instead, it was the Awakeners from Green Shadow’s Personal Guard and those from the great Corps who felt dejected.
They didn’t care about the big name of Beiting; losing was losing.
They had to make a comeback!
...
Seeing their dejection yet undiminished fighting spirit, Tang Yu inwardly nodded.
At the same tier within Tiannan Province, one could hardly find an opponent, and Tang Yu’s subordinates, perhaps unknowingly, had become slightly conceited.
Having too narrow a worldview was detrimental to growth.
Daxia Country, despite its vastness on Earth, was still just a drop in the ocean.
From Kevin, from Xing Ling, Xing Yue and others, Tang Yu learned that there were many geniuses in other worlds, where tier was never a barrier; an Awakener at the Ninth Layer defeating one at Thirteen Layer Perfection wasn’t a once-in-a-century occurrence.
Even for Tang Yu, who could defy the odds and defeat the Transcendent with his Awakening Tier, could he afford to be proud?
He couldn’t be proud!
Everyone thought him a Transcendent!
...
The battles of the second stage resumed with the Tenth Layer strongmen facing off.
In Beiting, more than sixty percent of the super-experts who broke through to the Source Condensation Realm were part of the Ancestor Dragon Three Armies.
Yet, even so, the combined count of super-experts from the three great Armies was no more than two hundred, and the whole of Beiting had roughly three hundred.
Seemingly okay, but in reality, they had emerged from over ten million Awakeners.
Green Shadow had even fewer people, so the battles below the Tenth Layer were added.
If replaced with other large Sanctuaries, typically only one or two experts of this tier existed; in worse cases, the strongest might still be stuck at the bottleneck of the Peak of Body-shaping Realm.
This round was Green Shadow against the Azure Dragon Army.
Green Shadow, being fewer in number, would send its contestant to the Military Drill arena first, and then the Azure Dragon Army would send an Awakener of the same tier.
Tang Yu’s eyes swept over Shay, Luo Zhe, Xiaoli, and others before finally settling on a face that could only score 59 points.
"Deceit Technique, you’ll be the one."
"what?"
Zhuang Laifu was dumbfounded, pointing at himself repeatedly, laboring to explain he couldn’t fight, that he was very weak.
"Laifu..." Tang Yu spoke earnestly, "think about how your name has spread across Beiting, but you should know exactly what kind of reputation it is. Now, it’s time to prove yourself to the world."
Zhuang Laifu pondered for a while.
These days, he heard quite a bit of whispering, about the ’Deceitful Thief’s’ eighteen methods of being tied up, the ’Deceitful Thief’s’ unknown dark history.
