Chapter 80: The Battle at Kosiasco Spring
Chapter 80: The Battle at Kosiasco Spring
High above the Kosiasco Spring, Su Yu stood in his legendary-quality gear, surveying the scene below.
The Skrull soldiers within the spring were already assembling.
Some soldiers were tasked with towing the anti-gravity diamond instruments to their designated positions, ensuring they were set up smoothly.
Others were busy fortifying the defenses, activating all the defensive weapons.
Thanks to the Skrull soldiers' efforts, the force field shielding the base became thicker and more robust. Anti-matter railguns, laser emitters, and other defensive weapons were all brought to combat readiness.
In addition to fortifying their defenses, they also took many other precautions. For instance, they evacuated tourists and non-essential personnel from the base using spaceships, sending them back to Skrull.
The Skrull high-ranking warriors stationed at the base were not idle either.
Upon discovering Su Yu's arrival, they gradually ascended into the sky, their expressions grave as they watched him, ready for battle.
Su Yu glanced over these Skrull high-ranking warriors and noted that there were eight at the seventh rank and sixty-eight at the sixth rank, totaling seventy-six high-ranking warriors.
These seventy-six high-ranking warriors had formed a battle formation, poised and ready.
Su Yu was quite curious about this formation and couldn't help but observe it more closely.
In the past, Skrull high-ranking warriors never formed such arrays. When battles began, they would scatter and fight individually. Earth's experts, who had studied Skrull culture, had found no historical evidence of them using such formations.
However, now they had formed a battle array, and it was well-structured and precise.
Although this battle array was far less advanced than the "Heavenly Dipper Formation" used by Earth's cultivators, it was clear that the Skrulls had learned a lot from Earth humans in the past six months.
...
In the top-level video conference room on Skrull, the leaders were closely monitoring the situation at the Kosiasco Spring.
Seeing the seventy-six high-ranking cultivators form a large array, Otas asked curiously, "Your Majesty Manina, what are they doing?"
Manina replied calmly, "Lord Otas, they are forming a battle array, a technique I learned from Earth humans.
When high-ranking cultivators form a battle array, it effectively enhances their overall combat power and protects weaker individuals from fatal injuries. It's a very powerful technique."
Kusman added, "That's right, Lord Otas. Because the spirit spring area is small, we can't use our most proficient 'Big Three' (flying battle vehicles, mechs, and drone swarms) against the enemy. We can only have high-ranking cultivators ascend and engage in close combat using the most primitive methods.
In such a situation, Earth's battle arrays are very useful, so we adopted them without hesitation."
"Is that so?" Otas couldn't help but take a closer look at the Skrull high-ranking warriors' formation.
He then nodded, "Hmm, it does look promising. Earth humans have some good ideas. I hope it works!"
...
The scene returned to Su Yu.
After a quick scan of the base, Su Yu decided to act immediately.
He didn't plan to wait for the main force to arrive before launching his attack.
The Kosiasco Spring where Su Yu was located was extremely far from China, over 8,000 kilometers from Yunlu Mountain Spring and more than 9,000 kilometers from the capital!
Even if the main force had already completed their assembly and were traveling in supersonic fighters at five times the speed of sound, it would still take them over two hours to reach the scene.
In those two hours, the Skrulls at the base would have maximized their defenses.
Moreover, Su Yu couldn't use a teleportation array to bring the main force over.
The distance was simply too great.
A round trip would deplete his mana, and he didn't have enough divine mana recovery potions.
After a brief moment of thought, Su Yu decided to act now!
The Kosiasco base had a composite combat power of around 3.5, while Su Yu, with the boost from his gear, had a composite combat power of at least 3.0.
Although there was a slight gap, Su Yu had reinforcements!
"Come out! Morning Star, Alia, Tina!" Su Yu took out three game helmets from his spatial ring and threw them into the sky.
The helmets were blue, red, and gold.
Once thrown, they remained suspended in mid-air, motionless.
A few seconds later, three translucent figures appeared below the helmets and gradually solidified. Morning Star, Alia, and Tina materialized into the real world.
"Krypton, we're here! Should we attack now?" As soon as she appeared, Tina immediately drew her golden greatsword, ready to strike at the Skrulls.
Su Yu had already briefed them in the game, instructing them to be ready for immediate combat upon arriving in the real world.
Diana was a belligerent sort, and she had built up enough anger to be ready for a fight at any moment!
“I’m ready too,” Alyssa said, waving her wand as her robes fluttered without a breeze.
Her ultimate form, the "Beyana War Goddess," activated, ready for battle.
Morningstar, the cat, remained silent.
However, she was no longer in her usual lazy state. She stood up on Su Yu’s shoulder, her paws glowing with starlight.
Clearly, she too was prepared for the fight.
“Alright, let’s begin,” Su Yu said seriously. “I’ll lead the charge, and you follow behind. Focus on targeting their key personnel.”
“Understood,” they replied in unison.
But Su Yu didn’t charge in immediately.
Before the battle, they needed to buff up.
He took out various items from his backpack, such as Cadgar’s Arcane Notes, the Monkey War God Statue, and some items his clones had recently collected, to apply buffs to everyone.
"Powerful Arcane Wisdom" (15% increase in intelligence for all), "Swift Beacon" (20% increase in flight speed and attack speed for all), "Mark of Natural Fury" (10% increase in natural spell damage and physical damage for all)... The buffs fell upon the three people and the cat one by one.
Alyssa, Morningstar, and Diana didn’t idle either, applying their own buffs to their teammates.
Alyssa’s "Ancient Magic Book" (10% increase in intelligence and 50% faster mana regeneration for all), Morningstar’s "Savage Mark" (10% increase in all attributes for all) and "Blessing of Nature" (5% natural damage added to all attacks), Diana’s "War Song Domain" (10% increase in physical attack and 40% increase in movement speed for all)... and so on.
The buffs layered upon the three people and the cat, continuously boosting their overall strength!
These buff skills usually lasted for an hour, making it best to cast them before the battle.
As for those short-term burst skills, like the "Wisdom of the Void" from Su Yu’s set, they would be used at the right moment.
...
But while buffing up, Su Yu suddenly remembered something—these Skrulls in the base had formed a battle formation!
Su Yu didn’t know much about battle formations.
Although he wasn’t sure where the Skrulls had learned their formation or what its specific effects were, if he remembered correctly, every formation had a way to break it, right?!
Ancient Great Cultivators had done extensive research on formations and how to break them.
If the Great Cultivators could quickly identify the weaknesses of the formation, he could easily dismantle it.
With this in mind, Su Yu quickly took a photo of the Skrull formation with his phone and sent it to AI Blue Whale.
AI Blue Whale immediately understood his intention and contacted the ancient cultivators to analyze the formation.
Just as Su Yu and his team finished buffing up and were about to engage, the elder Yang Jian sent a message: “Young friend Su Yu, this is a very basic, almost entry-level formation. The key to breaking it lies with the seventh-stage Skrull in the second column of the third row, who is wearing a suit of armor.
“Once you defeat this individual, the formation will collapse and lose all its effects.”
Su Yu quickly read through the elder’s message.
He was in a hurry and didn’t have time to reply, so he immediately took action against the Skrull base.
"Space Rift" and "Final Space Blade" struck the force field with lightning speed.
...
While the three people and the cat were buffing up, the Skrull high-ranking officials in the base had already sensed the prelude to battle and were on high alert.
When Su Yu’s two skills hit the force field, causing it to tremble, their tension increased even more.
The top Skrull leaders were also on edge.
Seeing Su Yu’s actions, they immediately realized he was serious and about to launch an attack!
The Skrull leaders focused intently on the surveillance feed from the Kosiasko Spring.
Manina even said to Elizabeth, “Lady Elizabeth, please head to the spatial rift area immediately and be ready to provide support.”
“Um...” Elizabeth hesitated.
“What’s the matter? Is there a problem?” Manina asked, noticing her hesitation.
"I fear this is Su Yu's ploy to lure us away," Elizabeth furrowed her brow, voicing her concern.
"We have extensively studied Su Yu, and his most common tactic is to suddenly teleport away with his team when attacking a major psychic spring, then strike another one."
"If I rush to reinforce Kosiasco, I might fall for his trap. He could teleport away, leaving me staring at the spring for three hours."
"So, I think it's best if Othas goes first, and I'll wait and observe the situation."
"Alright," Manina agreed without much thought, then turned to Othas and asked, "Sir Othas, are you willing to be the first to go and provide support?"
"Of course, I'll go first," Othas replied immediately.
"Then it's settled." Manina nodded and refocused her attention on the surveillance of the Kosiasco spring.
However, as soon as she redirected her attention, she immediately noticed a major problem at the spring! Somehow, Su Yu had sliced a large opening in the force field of the massive base. Su Yu and his team had already crossed the force field and entered the base's interior!
"What's going on? How could he do this so quickly?" Manina was visibly stunned.
The other gods and Council President Cusman were equally shocked. While the force field of the Kosiasco base wasn't at its maximum strength, it was still at least half as thick as its maximum.
What did Su Yu do? How did he instantly tear through the force field?
This kind of power is only achievable by a peak god-tier powerhouse!
...
At the Kosiasco base, Su Yu had indeed torn through the force field and entered the base.
The method was simple—just a moment ago, he activated all his burst skills.
He possessed the burst skills Spatial Essence (increases the effectiveness of spatial spells by 30%), Temporal and Spatial Doubling (when you cast a time or space spell, it creates a duplicate of the spell, which can target freely); his equipment also had the burst skills Aether Wisdom and Aether Speed.
With all burst skills activated, coupled with the numerous buffs he had, his burst power was pushed to an unprecedented level!
The Spatial Slash skill was particularly effective against shields, creating a spatial rift that caused the shield's defenses to misalign. Final Spatial Blade was his highest-damage single-target skill.
So, with both skills cast, two Spatial Blades, carrying immense energy, instantly tore through the force field!
A massive cross-shaped tear appeared in the force field, and without hesitation, Su Yu led his team into the Skrull base.
...
As Su Yu's two skills tore through the force field, the AI Syblue issued a warning to Manina: "Your Majesty! Earth's powerhouse Su Yu's instantaneous output has reached 8,328 Syblue Index points! Please be cautious!"
"What? Over 8,300!" Manina and the other Skrull gods were utterly shocked!
The Syblue Index is a comprehensive measure of combat power used by the Skrulls. It has been used frequently in the past.
The standard unit of the Syblue Index is based on the combined combat strength of a lower-tier fifth-stage powerhouse, which is set to "1."
Under normal circumstances, an eighth-stage lower-tier god-tier powerhouse has a Syblue Index of around 1,000. A newly ascended peak god-tier powerhouse like Manina III has a Syblue Index of around 3,300.
When a god-tier powerhouse activates all their burst skills, reaching their peak state, their Syblue Index skyrockets exponentially!
However, for Su Yu to suddenly reach over 8,000 is truly terrifying!
Manina III's peak power is around 9,000 to 10,000.
Su Yu is almost at the peak burst power of a god-tier powerhouse!
No wonder he could instantly break through the force field; the power he unleashed was truly astonishing!
"8,328?" Manina found it hard to believe. She asked urgently, "Syblue, are you sure it's over 8,300, and not a calculation error?"
"It's accurate, Your Majesty. I cannot make mistakes in index calculations," AI Syblue replied confidently.
"What is Su Yu's regular index?" Manina continued.
"Your Majesty, it's at least around 3,200. This will need to be observed further during combat," AI Syblue answered.
(End of Chapter)
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