Chapter 628 - Summoning a Thousand Units

Back in the plaza, Han Wu tossed the Level Crystal into their base crystal, increasing its energy and propelling it to level 2.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Two upgrade options appeared before him. The first was to increase the number of summoned locusts fivefold, an option reserved for mass units. The second was to improve the quality of the locusts, taking the elite units route.

As the Origin of Mutation had Controlled Mutation, which it could use to mutate level 1 locusts into level 4, having more locusts would be undeniably more helpful for plundering resources.

Thus, Han Wu chose the first option. He also placed all the materials he had collected during his expedition beside the crystal. Carrying them around was pointless when he didn’t have the extra equipment slots for weapons.

Commerce had teleported back with Han Wu, and upon spotting the materials, asked seriously, “Can I have these?”

Han Wu glanced at him in silent question.

Coughing, Commerce quietly explained, “My initial ability is Wealth Accumulation. Everything on my person can be counted as an asset.”

Han Wu immediately understood. Commerce’s Divine Ring allowed him to spend assets to enhance his own strength. The strength of this ability was highly dependent on the number of assets Commerce had. Naturally, the God King wanted to claim these materials as part of his accumulation of wealth.

Han Wu nodded. At that moment, an asset value appeared above Commerce’s head. Commerce had purposely revealed it to him. The value had doubled with the claiming of Han Wu’s materials. A higher number would give Commerce a greater increase in combat power when he activated his Divine Ring’s ability.

Jia Gui had also teleported back with them, and seeing Commerce obtain so many things for nothing, mumbled enviously, “I’d like some materials too...”

“Scram!” Han Wu barked.

“Alright then.” Jia Gui retreated to the sidelines.

The longer Han Wu looked at Jia Gui, the angrier he grew. If his rage continued to swell, he would actually sacrifice Jia Gui to his Slaughter Knife. Forcing himself to ignore Jia Gui, he headed toward the bottom lane.

Han Wu rapidly cleared the beast nests in the bottom lane, and Slaughter Knife quickly received its first upgrade, unlocking 4% of Han Wu’s strength. He also soon reached level 7. This time, he didn’t use his new upgrade chance, instead saving it to upgrade his Black Dragonification to Black Dragon King Transformation.

The Divine Civilization’s players worked hard to level up; the Super Genewarriors from the Divine River Civilization weren’t slacking off either.

After failing to ambush Han Wu, Warmaster and Carnage headed to the top and middle lanes, respectively. Meanwhile, Torrent led the soldiers from their base crystal to the bottom lane.

Under the guidance of Oracle in the plaza, the three slaughtered beasts at a rapid pace. Their summoned soldiers also rapidly leveled up. Once they had enough high-level soldiers, they would launch a great assault against the Divine Civilization’s team. The Super Genewarriors wanted to show them the consequences of provoking the Divine River Civilization.

As the four of them carried out their duty, a little girl doodled on the plaza ground rather than leveling up. In reality, she was a 35-year-old woman with a younger appearance. Though outwardly looking as if she were playing around, she was actually drawing the summoning array for a thousand troops, making use of whatever materials she could find to do so.

After carefully inspecting her finished work, she chanted, “Goblins, loyal to me, answer the call of Selene and descend onto this world!”

The space around her summoning array warped as goblins appeared one after another. There was a veritable army of them—a thousand to be exact—all Heroic life forms. After completing the summoning, Selene returned to the fountain to recover her energy before preparing for the next wave.

Under Oracle’s command, the goblins charged towards the top lane, the one weakest in defense for the Divine Civilization.

A thousand goblins charged forward. That number of enemies was enough to make people tremble with fear.

Xu Hai, responsible for the top lane, took one look at the goblin army before decisively calling for help in the group chat. He knew he couldn’t deal with it alone.

The Origin of Mutation was the closest to him and swiftly sent over a hundred level 4 locusts in response. The locusts attacked the goblins like a dagger through flesh, prompting a huge battle between both sides.

The locusts had an aerial advantage due to their ability to fly and had saliva with extremely corrosive properties that could eat away at the goblins upon contact.

However, Selene’s Heroic goblins were no pushovers either. As forest-dwellers, they were also skilled at stone throwing. Grabbing stones from the ground, they launched them at the level 4 locusts above, striking their weak points with great accuracy and dealing considerable damage.

Even so, it appeared the locusts’ corrosive spit was even more destructive, enough to make up for the enormous difference in numbers between the two armies.

There were massive casualties on both sides. The goblins lost half of their army. The locusts also suffered heavy losses. Neither side gained any advantage.

Divine River Civilization’s first invasion failed. Nevertheless, the goblins had killed quite a few level 4 locusts, which had granted their team significant gold and experience.

Warmaster hid among the goblin army, fighting alongside them, and his level swiftly rose to level 9. With his Obsidrum equipment, which allowed him to equip a complete set of armor and a battle axe forged from Obsidrum from the start, he also had the early game advantage.

Investing all his upgrades into his strength meant Warmaster had unlocked 10% of his strength at level 9.

Once my strength is completely unlocked, I can defeat all of them,

he thought to himself, gripping his Obsidrum battle axe.

Deciding to play it safe, he continued marching down, hunting all the beasts he encountered.

Meanwhile, Han Wu had also noted the message stating that there were 1000 Heroic goblins attacking and saw that the Origin of Mutation had saved the day. The mutated locusts killed the goblins, but they had also suffered heavy losses in the process.

Han Wu’s heart ached. That was over a thousand life forms! If he had killed them with his Slaughter Knife, he would’ve unlocked 10% of his strength. Unfortunately, he was too far away to assist. He couldn’t wait for the next wave of goblins.