Chapter 421 – This Must Be Tianyuan City

North of Tianyuan City, approximately over two thousand kilometers away, a team of several hundred people was advancing southward.

Among the group were the Undead Lord and Bone General who had already reached the Fourth Order, as well as Skeleton Warriors merely at the First or Second Order, and several dozen ordinary humans. However, most of these ordinary technical workers had at least reached the peak of the Apprentice Tier, with a few having stepped into the Professional Tier.

They rode on the back of a massive Giant Rock Dragon Turtle, swaying and jolting with its movement.

Their minds were equally unsettled.

As miners, construction workers, and mechanical repairmen, when had they ever experienced such a situation?

Breaking through waves of monsters, marching southward—it was terrifying.

The citizens trembled in fear.

“Fortunately, we have the warriors of Tianyuan City protecting us, and the noble and revered Lord Sario,” Old Zhang sighed.

These several dozen people were all employees of the Soul Sand Mine. Some led skeletons in mining operations, others were responsible for vein exploration, construction, or meals.

They had initially chosen this mine for the high benefits.

At first, they were also afraid of the skeletons in the mine.

But after a while, everyone realized the skeletons were actually quite friendly, patrolling tirelessly twenty-four hours a day, making everyone feel incredibly secure.

The divine and mighty Lord Sario was even more so.

Not long ago, Sario received orders from the command center to pack up materials and evacuate the entire mine.

Lord Sario was more than willing to comply.

After all, after Uta left, he was the only General-level expert in the entire mine. Though he claimed to fear no Legendary Realm expert, if several Legendary experts came, even he, Sario, would find it difficult to handle.

A strategic retreat southward—this dragon thought it was a great idea.

They were heading to Mine No. 3, over a thousand kilometers away.

Garrisons from many mines also packed up materials and set off with the miners.

The deputy commander of the observation base didn’t have time to bid farewell to that Macho Man and the divine bird before the man and the bird chased after two monster Legendary experts, disappearing at the edge of the sky.

Unable to catch up, he gave up.

On the way to Tianyuan City, the deputy commander encountered Sario’s team on the move and decided to stay and travel with them.

“You mean Uta? That guy is indeed incredibly fierce, but of course, this dragon isn’t bad either. That Uta is only slightly stronger than me,” Sario slightly raised his majestic dragon head.

His gaze swept across the land, occasionally unleashing a Dragon Breath on any monsters they encountered, freezing the ground.

With such a large team and his own imposing presence, it was inevitable they would run into some monsters.

But even waves of thousands of monsters would quickly disintegrate under his Dragon Breath, unable to hold out at all.

As for Sario’s self-praise, the deputy commander…

Believed it!

His intuition told him that Sario was stronger than him, undoubtedly a top-ranked expert on the Dragon Gate List.

“To think Tianyuan City already has six experts on the Dragon Gate List, and there are other invincible Fourth-Order experts at headquarters.”

“Lord Uta probably broke through to the Legendary Realm not long ago; otherwise, he’d also be a top-ranked expert on the Dragon Gate List.”

In his view, the Frost Dragon Sario and One-Punch Martial Maniac Uta were both General-level experts of Tianyuan City.

Sario being only slightly weaker than Uta naturally referred to when Uta hadn’t broken through and they were still at the same tier.

From his perspective, Sario would break through to the Legendary Realm within a few months.

He himself was confident of breaking through to the Legendary Realm within a year.

It was precisely because One-Punch Martial Maniac Uta was a top-tier expert at the Fourth Order that he could easily slay a two-thousand-meter-class monster Legendary expert shortly after advancing to the Legendary Realm.

What? Uta isn’t Legendary?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The deputy commander himself came from a top-tier territory and was well-informed.

He also knew of the combat technique ‘Domain Integration.Being able to treat Domains as nothing and easily break through Domain barriers—wasn’t this Domain Integration?

Only a Domain could counter another Domain.

As they chatted, Sario’s expression grew somewhat strange.

This little brother’s knowledge was still shallow.

Well, of course, he was a dragon following Dead Bone Boss and the Lord—how could a mere deputy commander of a small base compare?

Just then, a group of monsters crossed the ridge.

Leading them was a chief-level Three-Headed Great Serpent, accompanied by over a dozen Third and Fourth-Order experts.

It set its sights on Sario.

Sario said, “Watch closely, little brother.”

He exhaled a thin mist.

The mist billowed and expanded in mid-air.

Frost froze time and space, the heavens and earth mourning its demise.

The Three-Headed Great Serpent roared, but soon its body was covered in ice, its scales and flesh decaying and withering. In the blink of an eye, it was frozen in the frosty mist, completely lifeless.

The same happened to the other Third and Fourth-Order experts.

The deputy commander was astonished. “Is this the power of a top-ranked expert on the Dragon Gate List? I admit defeat!”

Sario: “?”

Why don’t you think I’m at the Legendary Realm? Damn it!

…

“The team from Mine No. 2 is relocating and has currently reached this position.”

“The Fire Lion Clan team is also moving toward Mine No. 3 and is roughly here now.”

“The Winged-People Kingdom…”

In Mu Yuan’s view, they had gained a significant advantage in the first wave of clashes.

Dolai, Lu Liu, Uta, and a few others had slain up to seven Legendary Realm monsters.

This number couldn’t compare to wartime because the enemies never gathered together. Powerful Legendary Heaven-Earth Realm experts had also emerged among the enemies, sniping Dolai several times and delaying its progress.

“The enemy has quite a bit of intelligence on our side.”

“Dolai, Uta, Lu Liu… especially Dolai—the enemy is guarding against it.”

They managed to kill these few Legendary experts partly by relying on the element of surprise.

Xiliu’s Red Dragon True Flame and Asun’s Wind God’s Sigh both had a strong first-strike effect.

Secondly, they relied on Isloria’s power.

Isloria didn’t leave the city, but the power of Fate Star Weaving was constantly operating and interfering.

Uta’s timely support for Asun was due to Isloria seizing a fleeting opportunity from the obscure threads of fate.

However, such chances were hard to grasp, almost random.

The actions of one or two Legendary Realm experts were inconspicuous in the current Ten Directions Island Region, with fate not revealing itself;

The actions of over a dozen Legendary Realm experts were also concealed by the enemy, preventing fate from showing.

At this time, as the situation grew more turbulent, wars erupted everywhere, and the heavens and earth became chaotic, the threads of fate also became somewhat disordered.

Under such circumstances, it wasn’t easy for Isloria to grasp these opportunities.

Still, she performed simple interventions.

For example, slightly altering the fate of a certain Legendary Realm monster, making it more fortunate and causing it to linger a bit longer.

The monster Legendary expert was then caught by Dolai.

With such coordination, the Tianyuan City side had already slain seven Legendary Realm monsters and injured or severely wounded six others.

Both Nature’s Garden and Boulder Mountain Ridge also clashed with monster Legendary experts, but far less intensely than at Tianyuan City.

Among the mining areas under Tianyuan City’s jurisdiction, one managed by the Winged-People Kingdom suffered greatly, attacked by the enemy’s main force with heavy losses.

Although Dolai was also there and killed two Legendary experts.

“Our Tianyuan City also suffered some losses, with over a dozen Fourth-Order experts dying in battles against Legendary Realm foes…”

Even disregarding the Hall of Heroic Souls factor and looking only at the surface casualty ratio, Tianyuan City’s losses were far smaller than those of the Great Serpent Clan and Black Crow Clan.

The Monster Overlord indeed liked to constantly exchange pieces, but within this exchange range, Legendary Realm experts weren’t included.

Outside the Crimson Mist disaster months, monster Legendary experts weren’t that brave either.

“Even so, the attacks from the Great Serpent Clan and Black Crow Clan haven’t stopped. They must still have some reliance.”

“Is it the Bloodtree Forest to the west? No, it can’t be.”

“The Bloodtree Forest could be one of their methods, but it definitely isn’t their key reliance.”

It was precisely considering this that Mu Yuan ordered the retreat of various mining areas.

At critical moments, even with full confidence, he had to shrink defenses; otherwise, losses would multiply by several or even dozens of times.

This Monster Overlord was hindering his money-making!

Mu Someone would remember this grudge.

However, he didn’t abandon all mining areas.

If they all turtled up in Tianyuan City, all the ‘fixed vision points’ in the wild would be lost, greatly reducing strategic depth.

Some mining areas were too far from Tianyuan City, making travel inconvenient.

Thus, Mu Yuan retained Mine No. 3, which Dolai had previously guarded and could quickly reinforce from.

…

At the same time.

In the core area of the Great Serpent Clan, before the Great Serpent Idol.

The idol seemed almost alive, its large and small snake pupils radiating a cold, ghostly light.

For a moment, the ghostly light continuously flickered throughout the Great Serpent Clan, terrifying and eerie.

“How is the situation?The Great Serpent spoke, its hoarse voice echoing through heaven and earth.

The High Priest respectfully replied, “Great Serpent, we have forced the humans to shrink their defenses, giving us more opportunities to strike directly at Tianyuan City’s core.””During this process, our followers have also slain many experts from the human city, some of whom even had the potential to reach the Legendary Realm.” Roughly speaking, it’s equivalent to us killing over a dozen human Legendary experts!”

He was quite satisfied with this outcome.

Before the battle began, he never expected that Human Tianyuan would have so many geniuses with Legendary potential.

If given another year or two, wouldn’t that be disastrous?

They were absolutely right to launch this war!

Tianyuan City was also foolish to station such geniuses on the front lines. He had always heard that living beings kept their geniuses in the rear.

Even more foolish was that these geniuses with Legendary potential all charged forward most fiercely, fearlessly confronting their Legendary Realm experts.

If not for this, they couldn’t have achieved such results in such a short time.

Seven Legendary experts from the Black Crow Clan and Great Serpent Clan exchanged for over a dozen human Legendary experts—was it worth it? Absolutely worth it!

The High Priest was satisfied but didn’t receive affirmation from the Great Serpent.

Instead, he was met with a distinctly dissatisfied snort.

“Is this all? Just this!”

“Losing seven Legendary Realm experts without even trading for a single human Legendary expert—utterly useless!”

The High Priest felt wronged.

“These human Legendary experts… are quite powerful, each possessing extraordinary means. I suspect they are all Epic-grade Legendary experts.”The Red Dragon, the azure divine bird, the strong man with an intense aura, the golden-armored black General, the blue-haired girl.”..”The High Priest reported one by one, mainly emphasizing that it wasn’t their lack of effort but the enemy’s excessive perversion.”

Thus, they had to rely on the Great Serpent’s power.

Actually, among Tianyuan City’s experts like the Red Dragon and the divine bird, it seemed one or several weren’t at the Legendary Realm but merely at the Fourth-Order Great Perfection.

But could he say that? No.

Being slain by a Legendary Realm expert was somewhat acceptable, but being slain by a Fourth-Order expert would incur the Great Serpent’s wrath.

In short, experts like the Red Dragon and the divine bird were all Legendary.

No matter who asked, they! Were! Legendary!

The High Priest continued, “Although we are at a slight disadvantage in the exchange ratio, everything is proceeding according to plan.”

“The advantage is still in our hands.”

…

Tianyuan City Region.

South side, within a certain dense forest.

Golden Grand Duke and his group were advancing.

“We’re almost there, almost there. This Grand Duke has such an intuition. And look, the further we go in this direction, the fewer monsters there are, indicating we’ll soon find the human forces of this island domain,” the Golden Grand Duke said.

The Guard Commander said, “What if… what if the direction we’re heading is the Monster Overlord’s lair? There are examples where monsters are sparse near the nest.”

Golden Grand Duke: “Can’t you say something more cheerful?”

Golden Grand Duke crossed mountains and ridges.

In his youth, he was an experienced explorer and pioneer, with his own set of tracking methods.

His judgment that the human headquarters was in this area wasn’t based solely on intuition.

He was at least 90% confident.

He climbed a small kilometer mountain, standing at its peak.

The Grand Duke originally intended to use a secret technique based on the terrain to determine the human headquarters’ location, but…

As soon as he reached the summit, he saw a city in the distance.

A human city.

With his sharp eyesight, he immediately spotted humans coming and going within the city, as well as towering City Walls and countless defensive buildings.

Arrow Towers, Multi-Arrow Turrets, Thundercoil Towers…

The Golden Grand Duke identified each defensive building one by one.

There were indeed many, and the entire Human Tianyuan City was already fortified like an iron bastion.

However…

“The scale is small.”

“This is just a small city, not even comparable to a single district of my Golden City.”

“Is this really Tianyuan City? The Tianyuan City trading with the Gem Principality? The one against the Overlord forces?”

It was quite different from what he had imagined.

The city was too small.

With such limited capacity, how could it possibly handle a Monster Overlord?

Suddenly, the Guard Commander’s gaze sharpened, and he swept his halberd across all directions.

Where the halberd passed, leaves fluttered and shattered, half of them transforming into black feathers.

The surroundings had also darkened without notice.

The floating black feathers gathered, forming Nether Crows with black feathers and red pupils. Visible Nether energy flowed around the Nether Crows, and an intangible killing intent filled the area.

Both the Guard Commander and Golden Grand Duke, being Legendary Realm experts, sensed some threat from this.

“Black Crow Legendary experts?”No, that’s not right—there’s no Filth aura; they’re living beings!””

“But who exactly are you?”

The night was like a net, the Nether Crows’ red pupils flickering on and off, staring directly at the group.

An empty echo came from all directions.

“That’s my question. What is your purpose here?”Sophia, wearing a black robe with the hood up, stepped out from the dark night.”

Then, a second, third, fourth… up to a hundred identical figures gradually emerged from the darkness.

Eerie voices chimed and echoed together.

The Golden Grand Duke felt a bit numb on the scalp.

It seemed they had been watched all along, yet they had no awareness.

Who was this?

Wait, they were close to Tianyuan City.

So, this black robe expert was actually…

Someone from Tianyuan City!

The seemingly ordinary Tianyuan City suddenly became mysterious again in the Golden Grand Duke’s mind.

(End of Chapter)