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Chapter 1091: The Rinal Mountain Consumption Battle
Chapter 1091: The Rinal Mountain Consumption Battle
Otas is a Divine-Level Spirit Energy Master, while Lei is a Divine-Level Psychic Power Master. Both are spellcasters by profession.
In fact, apart from Selya, who is a Spirit Energy Warrior, and Plante, who is a Spirit Energy Mecha Master, all other Divine-Level individuals among the Scrill are either Spirit Energy Masters or Psychic Power Masters. These two professions have higher potential.
At this moment, Otas is surrounded by rings of spirit energy, which refract differently due to their varying oscillation amplitudes, creating a dazzling array of colors. The spirit energy halo around Otas is incredibly splendid.
Lei's psychic power, on the other hand, is like a black hole, forming small vortexes that seem to want to suck everything around them in.
The two of them hover in the air, exuding an overwhelming and intimidating presence.
However, the Blue Star humans show no fear.
Su Yu approaches the two and smiles, saying, "I know your base defenses are strong, and it’s hard for us to breach them with just our numbers.
But if we can't breach them, does that mean we won't fight?
Currently, in this major battle, the Scrill still have the upper hand. Just because you have an advantage, should we surrender immediately?"
Su Yu turns to the Blue Star powerhouses behind him and shouts, "Everyone, follow me! Let’s show the Scrill what we’re made of!"
"Alright, Chief K!" comes the thunderous response from the crowd.
Under the leadership of the Supreme Emperor, the Heavenly Dipper Formation quickly activates.
The players actively use buffs and enhancement items, stacking layer upon layer, and the colorful enhancement auras significantly boost everyone's overall strength.
Su Yu summons two Spatial Overlords, [Singtenas], to the front lines.
Yang Jian, the venerable elder, channels his Eight Trigram Mystical Arts, causing his trident to emit a burst of golden light.
Morning Star’s [Star Rainbow Focus] is unleashed without hesitation, directly targeting the base’s force field shield.
Alyssa also reacts quickly, immediately using [Substitute Scarecrow] to support Morning Star.
And so, the battle begins!
...
After the battle starts, there’s not much to say because both sides fight quite steadily.
Before the battle, Su Yu carefully observes the base’s internal defenses.
After a thorough inspection, he quickly concludes that the base’s internal defenses are too strong; with their current strength, breaching them is almost impossible.
Since they can’t breach the defenses, they need to change their strategy.
Once the battle begins, Su Yu alters the strategy, instructing the Blue Star’s high-tier powerhouses to not use their full power but to instead use regular attacks to continuously wear down the defenses.
Since they can’t breach the spring eye, they can only try to drain the base’s defenses as much as possible.
Otas and Lei, both ancient beings with over a thousand years of life, are shrewd and cunning. They quickly sense the Blue Star humans’ intentions.
If the Blue Star humans want to drain them, they are willing to endure it!
Moreover, Otas is somewhat relieved.
Not long ago, the Scrill’s Divine-Level Elisabeth was nearly defeated by the Blue Star forces at the Kosiak Spring Eye, leaving him with significant psychological trauma.
Elisabeth is much stronger than Otas and Lei.
Elisabeth is a mid-level Divine being approaching the upper tier, while they are just ordinary lower-tier Divine beings. Combined, their strength is on par with Elisabeth.
Deep down, Otas truly doesn’t want Su Yu to make any reckless moves, such as sacrificing everything to attack the spring eye.
Now that both sides are locked in a prolonged consumption battle, this is the best scenario for them.
...
Thus, both sides enter a sustained state of mutual consumption.
The Blue Star side uses Morning Star’s [Star Rainbow Focus] to continuously attack the force field shield.
The Scrill continuously repair and reinforce the force field shield, occasionally using laser weapons and antimatter railguns to sneak attack the Blue Star’s weaker defensive points.
However, due to the Scrill’s weak firepower and the Supreme Emperor’s flawless operation of the Heavenly Dipper Formation, the Blue Star side suffers no casualties or injuries.
Both sides continue this prolonged consumption.
...
The entire battle lasts for two hours.
By the two-hour mark, the Blue Star’s 6th and 7th tier powerhouses are severely drained, with almost everyone left with only 50% of their strength.
The Scrill are also in a rough state.
While they have the base’s defenses, their spirit energy consumption is severe, and even the force field shield is dimming, barely holding up.
At this point, it’s impossible to continue the battle.
Su Yu ordered the retreat, leading the high-ranking Blue Star forces to withdraw from the battle.
...
With the battle concluded, the high-ranking Blue Star forces headed to the closest sub-base near Renier's Psychic Spring.
The Blue Star United Government had established a base in the western suburbs of Seattle, which was now piled high with spirit energy canisters.
Su Yu led the main force into this base, and everyone immediately received several spirit energy canisters to begin absorbing and quickly restore their strength.
Most of the group had expended about half of their spirit energy, so it would take roughly four hours to fully recover.
During these four hours, Su Yu didn't idle.
While absorbing spirit energy, he instructed the AI, Blue Whale, to calculate the spirit energy consumption of both sides during the battle.
The calculation was quite complex, and it took Blue Whale over ten minutes to come up with the results.
She informed Su Yu, "Su Yu, based on the calculations, the spirit energy consumption ratio between Blue Star and Skrul is approximately 1:1.26. We didn't gain an absolute advantage.
However, besides spirit energy, the Skrul also consumed a massive amount of electricity (for laser weapons, various base equipment, and weapon loads) and antimatter railgun projectiles. Overall, we didn't lose much."
Hearing Blue Whale's conclusion, Su Yu nodded, "Alright, since we didn't lose much, let's do it again! After four hours, when everyone is fully recovered, we'll continue the attrition war against the Skrul!"
...
Four hours later, the fully recovered Blue Star forces returned to Renier's Psychic Spring, and both sides began a new round of attrition warfare.
The war continued in this manner.
Over the next two days, they engaged in four battles, each lasting two hours.
A vast amount of spirit energy and resources were poured into the battlefield, rapidly consumed during combat.
The Skrul had plundered a large amount of spirit energy from Blue Star over the past ten months, which they used to their full advantage. Meanwhile, Blue Star had various spirit energy springs and had also earned a substantial amount of spirit energy from their business ventures on Skrul, making their reserves quite substantial.
Both sides spared no expense, pouring massive amounts of spirit energy into these battles, maximizing their consumption.
In these four battles, due to the relatively low combat pressure, the Blue Star forces experimented with various tactics.
For instance, during the second battle, Zhong Feng used 1000 tons of gold to exchange for 200 [Angels ] from the mercenary camp and deployed them in the Great Dipper Formation.
[Angels] were best at healing and casting various buffs, and they could also restore players' spirit energy, making them very suitable for the Great Dipper Formation, a type of "battle formation."
When integrated into the formation, Zhongfeng directed the [angels] to cast buffs and sing spirit energy recovery songs, turning each [angel] into a "power bank."
However, these [angels] were only used once by the Blue Star forces and not again in the third battle.
The reason was simple—[angels] were too low in rank!
While [angels] could restore spirit energy and cast buffs, they were only at the fifth rank, which made their buffs and recovery songs almost ineffective for sixth and seventh-ranks players.
Moreover, the [angels] had poor individual combat strength, requiring a large number to be effective.
Deploying a large number of [angels] significantly reduced the flexibility of the entire formation.
With 200 [angels] integrated into the formation, the difficulty of coordination and command increased dramatically.
If the Blue Star forces continued using such a large formation, it would expose numerous vulnerabilities to the enemy, especially once the major battles began in two months.
Therefore, the Blue Star forces did not use [angels] in the third battle.
The mercenary camp, of course, did not accept refunds, so Zhongfeng had to assign them to a base near Seattle to sing spirit energy recovery songs for the resting high-ranking Blue Star forces.
...
Apart from the [angels] army, the Blue Star forces experimented with other tactics.
For example, they launched large-scale nuclear weapons, used the Skrul's best triad (hover battle vehicles, mechs, and drones) to attack bases, and halfway through a battle, they suddenly teleported away to ambush the Meginley Psychic Spring in Alaska.
The Blue Star forces frequently tried various tactics, whether they succeeded or not, it was all part of their training.
The Skrul, on the other hand, remained immovable, steadfastly defending their force field shields, rarely retaliating, like turtles hiding in their shells.
...
After the fourth battle, the date was March 25th.
In the four battles, neither side suffered any casualties or even severe injuries; only a few unlucky souls received minor wounds.
However, after the fourth battle, the conflict around the Rayner Mountain Spring was about to come to a close.
The reason was simple—Prime Minister Cao and First Emperor were returning!
According to the Skrull observers, the Terminal Secret Realm was now at its most unstable state and was expected to end today.
Once the Terminal Secret Realm ended, Prime Minister Cao and First Emperor would certainly return to Earth.
With the addition of these two peak divine-level powerhouses, the Rayner Mountain Spring would undoubtedly fall, no doubt about it.
So, two days ago, the defense forces at Rayner Mountain Spring had already begun their evacuation. First, the logistics personnel left, followed by the regular soldiers, and finally the officers...
By the end of the fourth battle, the Skrull base had been completely evacuated, leaving only two divine-level and over 200 high-tier powerhouses still guarding the spring.
However, they were also packed and ready to flee at any moment.
...
At 1:00 AM on March 25, Earth's high-tier powerhouses launched their fifth attack on the Rayner Mountain Spring.
When Su Yu and the other high-tier powerhouses arrived above the Rayner Mountain Spring, they saw that the base had been completely evacuated. Only the 200+ Skrull high-tier powerhouses remained, gathered at the spatial rift above, ready to leave at any moment.
"It seems this is our final battle!" Su Yu looked up at the Skrull high-tiers and sighed.
"Yes," Zhong Feng added, "Today, Prime Minister Cao and First Emperor should return. The Skrull defense forces in the Rayner, Elbert, and McKinley Springs have all retreated. From today, we only need to focus on the Fuji Mountain Spring!"
"Right, only the Fuji Mountain Spring remains. But this spring is more important than all the others combined," Su Yu turned and loudly addressed all the Earth high-tier powerhouses behind him:
"No time to waste, let's go! Today, we will reclaim all the springs except Fuji Mountain!"
"Alright, Chief!" the players and cultivators responded loudly, their buffs activating in unison.
Without waiting for Su Yu's reminder, Morning Star immediately cast [Star Rainbow Focus], hurling it toward the force field shield.
The light spot created by [Star Rainbow Focus] streaked across the sky like a meteor, heading straight for the force field shield.
Alyssa's [Stand Strawman] was already in place, positioned in front of the force field shield to intercept the meteor-like light spot.
Everything seemed to go smoothly, just as they had practiced dozens of times.
But this time seemed different from the previous dozens of attempts.
Just as the light spot was about to hit the [Stand Strawman], Morning Star and Alyssa both froze.
Not just them, Su Yu, Elder Yang Jian, and the players in the Heavenly Dipper Formation also froze, their attacks that were about to be unleashed abruptly halted, causing a brief pause in the formation.
The reason for their sudden freeze was that the force field shield had suddenly disappeared just as the Earth forces were about to strike!
It turned out that just before the Earth forces attacked, Othas had seized the opportunity and deactivated the base's force field shield.
With the force field shield gone, the Earth forces instantly lost their target, leaving them to stand there, looking up at the Skrull high-tiers above.
Othas, meeting the gaze of the Earth forces, smiled and said, "We've already had four major battles. Now, this expenditure is meaningless. Let's just give up this spring!"
He looked at Morning Star, Su Yu, and Elder Yang Jian and continued, "Three of you, we will settle our final score at Fuji Mountain Spring in two months!"
With that, he turned and led the Skrull high-tier powerhouses into the spatial rift, vanishing without a trace.
All the buildings and equipment in the base self-destructed the moment Othas left, creating a spectacular "fireworks" display. The Skrulls, as always, left behind a completely destroyed and useless base for the Earth forces.
Watching Othas disappear, Su Yu couldn't help but smirk, "Settle a final score with me? Do you have the qualifications? Maybe if it were Plangte or Manina the Third, it would be a different story."
Since the Skrulls had retreated, the next steps were much easier.
Su Yu addressed all the Earth powerhouses, "Let's enter the spring. Focus our strength on extinguishing the fire, and remember to be cautious of any hidden traps left by the Skrulls.
"Once we finish here, we'll immediately head to the Elbert Peak Spring. Today, we reclaim all three springs!"
"Alright, Chief!" everyone responded in unison.
(End of Chapter)
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