175: Chapter 175 Testing the Waters with This Little Star Lord
Two days later.
The tunnel project spanning across the Boundless Domain was completed.
Xu Qin stood at the edge of the Combat Readiness Platform and opened the regional map.
On the map, the underground of the entire 591-square-kilometer continent was densely packed with blue lines.
Six main roads, fifteen meters deep and five meters wide, ran through the southeast, northwest.
Every fifty meters, there was an exit.
There were a total of over one thousand two hundred surface exits.
No matter which direction the enemy launched an attack from,
the underground army could emerge from the nearest exit within thirty seconds.
And three hundred meters inside the boundary line,
a giant trap thirty meters deep and twenty meters wide had also been completed.
The entire boundary line was covered without any blind spots.
"Very good." Xu Qin nodded with satisfaction, "Everything that should be here is here."
He switched to the vassal channel to check the migration progress of each vassal.
Su Yao's team was currently escorted by the Winter Sovereign and had completed one-third of the total distance.
The progress of the others varied slightly, but they were all advancing normally.
"At this speed, the first batch of vassals will be able to arrive in ten days."
Xu Qin crossed his arms in front of his chest and muttered to himself,
"When that time comes, the monthly troop supplies will..."
Beep!
The command panel suddenly popped up a full-screen notification.
[Warning! Territory collision warning!]
[Detected a floating continent drifting at high speed toward the Boundless Domain!]
[Estimated collision time: 3 hours and 12 minutes]
[Target land area: Approximately 50 square kilometers]
[Target Star Lord level: Unrated]
Xu Qin looked at the prompt information and raised an eyebrow.
"Fifty square kilometers..."
Xu Qin touched his chin,
"I am now over five hundred and ninety, a tenfold gap."
In other words, this Star Lord was about the same as his situation when he first arrived in this plane.
Xu Qin looked toward the edge of the continent.
"Just right."
"The tunnel system has just been built and hasn't been tested in actual combat yet. Let's use this little Star Lord to test the blade."
Xu Qin immediately issued an order.
"Tian Ming, prepare for battle. There will be a land merger in three hours."
"Yes, Master."
"First send a team of Bone Storm Winged Guards to scout and see what kind of troops the opponent has."
Xu Qin opened the troop panel,
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Thirty Bone Storm Winged Guards rose from the Combat Readiness Platform and flew toward the collision direction.
...
Twenty minutes later.
The vision information of the Bone Storm Winged Guards was transmitted back to the command panel.
Xu Qin looked at the screen and frowned slightly.
He saw that the surface of the entire continent was covered with a thick layer of grayish-white fungal carpet.
There was not a trace of exposed rock terrain.
Huge mushroom-shaped structures stood densely on the surface,
and the tallest building was over twenty meters high,
its top continuously spewing pale green spore mist.
"Spore Clan?"
Xu Qin touched his chin and looked at the screen intently.
"Another new race..."
As the Bone Storm Winged Guards lowered their altitude and began close-range reconnaissance,
the picture gradually became clear.
But just as they flew within about fifty meters of the surface...
Puff puff puff puff puff!
Dozens of writhing giant fungal sacs on the ground expanded simultaneously,
spraying a large amount of pale green spores toward the sky.
The spores were extremely fast, instantly enveloping the low-altitude area.
The five lowest-flying Bone Storm Winged Guards flew directly into the spore mist.
Xu Qin looked at the panel.
After the spores attached to the surface of the bones, they began to erode at a speed visible to the naked eye.
-180!
-180!
-180!
Popping up once per second.
"Fungal erosion?" Xu Qin frowned, "Continuous corrosion damage?"
The HP of the Bone Storm Winged Guard was 4200.
Dropping at a rate of 180 per second, they would die in twenty-odd seconds.
Once attached by these spores, they could not be removed at all.
Sure enough.
Twenty-three seconds later.
The HP bar of the first Bone Storm Winged Guard was cleared.
Boom!
[Wraith Fury] triggered!
At the moment of death,
29,400 points of area damage directly exploded!
Within a five-meter radius,
a dozen floating large spore sacs were blown to pieces!
Fragments splashed everywhere.
But...
Xu Qin noticed that the blown-up spore sacs did not die.
After their fragments fell to the ground, they actually began to wriggle and repair themselves!
"Can they still self-heal?"
However, the repair speed was not fast.
The more shattered they were, the longer the repair time.
Boom!
The second Bone Storm Winged Guard was also corroded to death.
It also triggered [Wraith Fury],
blowing up a large area of spore cluster buildings.
Then...
Clang!
["Undead Immortality" triggered!]
[Resurrection successful: 2]
The two just-exploded Bone Storm Winged Guards revived with full HP!
As soon as they finished reorganizing their skeletons and before they could fly up, the spores on the ground sprayed again.
-180!
-180!
-180!
Twenty-three seconds later, they died again.
Boom!
Boom!
Another two [Wraith Fury]!
Blown up another large area of repairing spore buildings!
Clang!
["Undead Immortality" triggered!]
[Resurrection successful: 1]
Only one was revived this time.
The moment it finished reorganizing, it was covered by remaining spores again.
Twenty-three seconds later, it died for the third time.
Boom!
The third self-detonation.
The spore cluster buildings within a fifty-meter radius around it
had already been blasted into an open space.
This time, Undead Immortality did not trigger.
Battle ended.
Xu Qin watched the playback of the entire process and slowly leaned back against the bone throne.
Five Bone Storm Winged Guards triggered seven self-detonations.
A single instance of 29,400 damage,
seven times amounting to just over two hundred thousand area damage.
And this two hundred thousand damage actually directly blew a small patch of spore structures into flat ground.
"Indeed weak."
Xu Qin pulled up the reconnaissance data summary.
The opponent had no air combat units.
Those floating large spore sacs could fly up to thirty or forty meters high at most and could not pursue high-altitude targets.
The situation of the ground troops was not clearly seen,
but judging from the distribution density of the spore buildings,
the opponent should be purely defensive.
"Continuous corrosion damage... No matter how high the defense is, it's useless; it directly takes true damage."
Xu Qin analyzed.
If conventional troops were sent to push hard, they would be continuously consumed by spores.
No matter how thick the HP was, it couldn't withstand dozens of seconds of corrosion.
But...
"What if they were cannon fodder to begin with?"
Xu Qin sneered.
Skeletal miscellaneous cannon fodder had low HP, and he never expected them to return alive.
Corroded to death by spores, triggering [Wraith Fury] for an AOE self-detonation of 700% health.
Then a 50% chance to resurrect, being corroded to death again after resurrection, and exploding once more.
"Isn't this a delivered demolition shooting range?"
Xu Qin stood up.
"Tian Ming."
"Present."
"One hundred thousand mixed skeletal miscellaneous troops, all enter the underground tunnels on the merging side boundary. After the battle starts, surge out directly."
"Yes, Master."
"The opponent has no air force; bone dragons and vultures are not needed. Just flatten them with pure ground cannon fodder."
Xu Qin looked at the countdown on the command panel.
Two and a half hours left.
...
Three hours later.
Rumble!
The entire Boundless Domain shook violently.
The fifty-square-kilometer mushroom continent completed the collision and merger with the eastern edge of the Boundless Domain.
Clang!
[Territory collision! Territory contention battle triggered!]
[Battle begins!]
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