Strongest Lord by Opening Blind Boxes

Chapter 492: Chapter 335: Eco-Entanglement, Battle of Attrition (Part 2)

’The Fantasy Avatars can’t break through...’

Wang Yi watched from the rear, having already expected this.

Two minutes later, the nine Monkey King avatars dissipated abruptly. The Fantasy Avatar skill had been broken. The strange, spherical energy contracted into a single point and vanished.

The battlefield fell silent in an instant.

The onlookers remained silent. Wang Yi didn’t move. Surprisingly, Da Hai City didn’t press the attack either. Instead, its mechanical legs pierced the earth, taking root. It continued to transform as various metal structures rose from underground. Giant cannons began to take shape, and what looked like a factory started churning out all kinds of combat robots, which lined up in formation on the alloy deck outside the city.

”Huh? Are they digging in for a protracted battle?” Wang Yi’s eyes lit up. ’This is good, too,’ he thought.

He let out a hearty laugh, piloted his vehicle into the sky, and pressed down with his right hand. A Five Elements Mountain appeared.

The Five Elements Mountain crashed to the ground, towering a thousand meters high and blanketing the land. Wang Yi landed his vehicle on its peak. With a single thought, wind and clouds converged, and the Monkey King and the Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers appeared once more.

”Come on! Let’s have a war of attrition!”

With a great shout from Wang Yi, the Monkey King avatars and the Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers flew out from the Five Elements Mountain as if going to war, charging toward the opposing Da Hai City.

The battle erupted once more.

This time, Da Hai City didn’t use its Matrix Missiles. Instead, it activated its Sniper Cannons.

There were only four Sniper Cannons. Their bases were as massive as aircraft carriers, and their dark barrels, tapering from thick to thin, were about a hundred meters long. They fired crimson energy rays.

The energy rays were peculiar. They didn’t penetrate; instead, they caused a violent explosion upon impact. The first volley instantly destroyed four of the level-240 Monkey Kings.

But the Sniper Cannons were relatively clumsy and difficult to aim. The five remaining Monkey Kings charged in, ultimately falling before the walls of Da Hai City, but not before killing a large number of Mechanical Warriors and destroying one Sniper Cannon!

But before Da Hai City could launch a counterattack against Wang Yi, the winds and clouds gathered once more atop the Five Elements Mountain. The stirring melody of the Cloud Palace Rapid Sound rang out again as nine Monkey Kings emerged, staffs in hand, ready for battle.

Wang Yi had, of course, used Fantasy Avatar again.

A single use of Fantasy Avatar was enormously costly, something an ordinary Player could never afford. But Wang Yi was no ordinary Player. The Mana accumulated by his Divine Power Body King Avatar was enough for him to cast Fantasy Avatar several times in a row.

And even without the Mana support from his Divine Body, Wang Yi still had a virtually infinite supply of Chaos Energy.

In short, under the system’s established mechanics, Wang Yi could use Fantasy Avatar indefinitely. He now intended to fight a war of attrition with the Waga Royal Court and see who would be the last one standing.

This also allowed him to keep an eye on the observers and prevent them from learning too many of his tricks.

In the central control room of Da Hai City, the high-ranking members of the Royal Court saw the Divine Celestial Soldiers and Generals charging again, but they weren’t as tense as before.

”He’s sending more troops!”

”I don’t think that Taishang is so impressive after all. He only sends a handful of soldiers each time. They’re no threat to us. Isn’t he just pointlessly draining his own resources?”

”Taishang shouldn’t be this weak. Maybe he’s just toying with us!”

”Toying with us? Fine by me. If he’s in no hurry to fight, then neither are we. The old Lord locked our technological weapons down too tightly; we can only unlock them gradually. Let’s just take our time unlocking them! The longer this drags on, the better it is for us!”

”Exactly! We’ve already unlocked the Microwave Weapon, Matrix Missile, Sniper Cannon, and Mechanical Soldier Remains. The next weapon to be unlocked is... the Curvature Virus!”

”The Curvature Virus probably won’t work on that Taishang. To defeat him, we’ll need to unlock the weapons that come after it!”

”Has anyone noticed those people in the distant sky? They look like they’re from the three great Royal Courts!”

”Hmph. Without a World Line to protect us, ordinary anti-air defenses are useless against the arrival of experts like them. Let’s just hope they don’t interfere in this National War!”

”Sigh... the Waga Royal Court doesn’t have the best reputation. I hope no one decides to kick us while we’re down.”

”I really hope the Lord can get here soon...”

Amidst the discussions of these high-ranking Royal Court managers, the battle erupted once more. Da Hai City transformed again; the Sniper Cannons on its outer metal shell retracted, and numerous holes appeared in their place.

Those holes were troop deployment tunnels. There was a hidden factory inside Da Hai City, and its functions had just been unlocked. It was now rapidly manufacturing Mechanical Soldier Remains.

Mechanical Soldier Remains were a type of high-level intelligent combat robot, arguably the exclusive Soldier Type of the Waga Royal Court. They were level 180 the moment they were manufactured, equipped with battle sabers, Ion Shields, and laser guns. Capable of both ranged and close-quarters combat, their fighting strength became immense once their numbers stacked up.

Now, vast numbers of Mechanical Soldier Remains poured out of the deployment tunnels and immediately clashed with the Monkey Kings in a furious battle.

The Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers in the sky, however, seemed to be an unsolvable problem. They unleashed a torrent of one hundred thousand thunderbolts, and the Mechanical Soldier Remains couldn’t even touch them.

Ten minutes later, the nine Monkey King avatars were finally defeated, overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The moment they were destroyed, the Fantasy Avatar skill was automatically interrupted, and the Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers vanished.

Cheers erupted in Da Hai City’s central control room. The high-level managers believed they had won another battle, but their cheers had barely died down when the winds and clouds swirled again over the Five Elements Mountain. Another nine Monkey Kings charged out, staffs in hand.

Meanwhile, Wang Yi glanced at the distant onlookers and calmly began to open a batch of blind boxes.

The blind boxes from the system protocol compensation were of such poor quality that it was hard to get anything good. Wang Yi was mainly using them to reroll his Luck Blind Box.

He opened dozens in a row. When the Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers in the sky dissipated, Wang Yi simply cast Fantasy Avatar again and went back to opening his boxes.

’I’m just using the Monkey Kings as cannon fodder,’ Wang Yi muttered to himself. Before long, he had rerolled the Luck Blind Box to Seven-Color Quality, obtaining the special ability: [Technology Burst].

[Technology Burst: After opening the Luck Blind Box, you will receive technology-related items based on your territory’s current status, promoting its technological development. This ability will disappear when the Luck Blind Box is reset.]

’Technology Burst? Sounds pretty good. Let’s see what it does!’

Filled with anticipation, Wang Yi opened the Luck Blind Box. A golden light flashed before him, revealing eight options.

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One: Construction Drawings for the Organism Research Institute (Seven-Colored, Enhance +1)

Two: Eco-House Factory (Seven-Colored, Enhance +2)

Three: Eco-Technology Building Fruit (Seven-Colored, Enhance +3)

Four: Eco-Mecha Production Line (Seven-Colored, Enhance +4)

Five: Construction Drawings for the Photosynthesis Laboratory (Seven-Colored, Enhance +5)

Six: Eco Magic Ball (Seven-Colored, Enhance +6)

Seven: Eco-Cage (Seven-Colored, Enhance +7)

Eight: Special Technology: Eco-Entanglement (Seven-Colored, Enhance +8)

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’Eight options, not bad at all. I’ll pick the eighth one. Let’s see what this Eco-Entanglement technology is!’

After Wang Yi made his choice, a golden light flashed, and a Technology Scroll quickly appeared before him.

[Special Technology: Eco-Entanglement +8: Upon use, your territory will acquire the Eco-Entanglement technology. After acquiring this technology, you can consume Eco Energy to modify your territory’s buildings, facilities, and so on, causing them to enter an Eco-Entanglement state.

The longer the Eco-Entanglement persists, the more the buildings and facilities will be affected, and the more pronounced the changes will become.

The Scroll has been enhanced eight times, so the Eco-Entanglement will directly enter its Deep Entanglement Form. This form would naturally take approximately three thousand years to trigger. The emergence of Deep Entanglement will activate a cluster characteristic. Please explore the specifics on your own.]

Wang Yi read the description on the Technology Scroll in his hand, feeling a bit lost in the jargon. After recasting Fantasy Avatar, he used the scroll and immediately received a system notification.

DING! You have successfully used the Technology Scroll. Congratulations, your territory has unlocked the Eco-Entanglement technology!

DING! You can spend Ten Thousand Points of Eco Energy to apply Deep Eco-Entanglement to your territory’s buildings, facilities, and so on!

DING! Influenced by the Building Rooting technology, once your territory’s buildings, facilities, and so on enter an Eco-Entanglement state, they will immediately complete seven growth cycles and enter their mature stage. Please explore the specifics on your own.