The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 816

When the adventurers saw fist-sized beetles swarming in from all directions, their first thought was that the enemy had started their strategy of attrition.

It must be said that the adventure team was actually very well prepared, both psychologically and practically, for this tactic.

After all, ever since the adventure team first entered the Dimensional God Kingdom, the God Kingdom's defense mechanism has been in a very rigid mode, periodically sending out monsters to launch attacks, which can be seen as a form of attrition.

Some adventurers even believe that even with the existence of the "returning to heaven" doctrine, the dimensional god kingdom still has a certain degree of ability to "leave the meat rotten in the pot" and recycle resources to create new monsters.

At the same time, it's fortunate that there's the concept of "returning the Way to Heaven," otherwise, given the current reality that the ceiling of combat power is the legendary rank, coming to attack the divine kingdom would be tantamount to suicide.

After all, from the perspective of actual offensive and defensive capabilities, the legendary rank belongs to the 'Carmen' level, which is neither the real top tier nor stronger than the higher tiers.

To put it bluntly, even though a Legendary is much stronger than a Master or even an Elite, there is still a possibility of being surrounded and ambushed by them.

Moreover, this possibility is far greater than when a legend faces a true god.

Legends are like humans facing stronger ants compared to true gods.

Under what circumstances can a strong ant kill an adult human single-handedly?

There are many prerequisites, including the possibility that the adult is intolerant to the venom. Normally, a bite from an army ant would only result in a small swelling the size of a steamed bun, but for someone intolerant to the venom, it would be fatal.

It must be such a dramatic setup that legend can kill the true god.

For elite superhumans, killing a legend is far less difficult.

For example, after luring out or restricting their key skills, use a ninth-level or even higher magic scroll.

Given these characteristics, if the Dimensional God Kingdom's puppet-type divine guard circulation system were more effective, even without high-end combat power like the Holy Spirit, it would be very dangerous for legendary powerhouses to venture within the God Kingdom.

After all, the influence of the geographical advantages of the Kingdom of God is sharp and lasting.

Correspondingly, the legends are well aware of what they can do and what their shortcomings are. If the dimensional god kingdom's defense system had not always been rigid and inflexible, even saint-level beings like the Abyss Jellyfish would be clearly limited (including being able to appear only in the inner world), and the adventure of returning to the heavens and attacking the dimensional god kingdom would not be as enthusiastic as it is now.

After all, no matter how much money you earn, you still need to be alive to spend it.

Many legends did not have the ambition to go further, but only hoped to live a few more years.

If you die young in order to live longer, doesn't that seem ironic and ridiculous?
In an exceptionally prosperous era, such ironies might be even more common. After all, those in high positions are like boats rowing against the current; if they don't advance, they fall behind. If you haven't improved your abilities but are just occupying your position and enjoying the benefits, do you think those who come later won't challenge you?
However, in this era, legends are basically the ceiling of combat power. Comparison of strength has become more comprehensive, such as accumulation, connections, wisdom, combat experience, technical strengths and weaknesses, intelligence, power, and so on.

In comparison to these factors, first-mover advantage can often have a tremendous impact.

This has led to many legends who only seek to live a few more years, prioritizing stability and safety above all else.

It can be said that the discovery of the Sky Raven Treasure has created a "catfish effect" among the elite of the underground tribes, and is also a major reason why the legends have joined in this grand event.

After all, there is a clear possibility of taking it a step further. If you fail to seize any opportunity and your old rival succeeds in climbing the ladder, it is not hard to imagine what will happen next.

Therefore, this project is not simply driven by greed, but involves complex reasons and numerous overt and covert power struggles.

Putting aside everything else, the fact that seven people died in the last operation has already affected the rise and fall of certain families and even forces.

Against this backdrop, it's not hard to imagine the seriousness and caution adventurers take. The fact that a shaman would offer a hefty deposit, only to recoup the entire amount through a transaction and make a huge profit, is a form of indirect proof of this.

Since everyone is taking this very seriously, it's not a big problem for the opponent to use attrition tactics at this moment.

But the fact that it's not a major problem indicates that there is still a problem, and that this problem could escalate into a major one.

For example, should the adventure team advance or retreat now?

Or to put it more bluntly, we always need a direction and a small goal, right?
Faced with a massive swarm of beetles, the adventure team started arguing, focusing on only one topic: which direction to take.

As for killing the enemy, it quickly shifted from each person displaying their unique skills to taking turns acting as defenders.

Facing an enemy that is likely an endless supply of cannon fodder, efficient killing is not very meaningful.

There is no one in this adventure group who could kill so many monsters in the Deep Earth Cavity that their production efficiency couldn't keep up with their death rate, rendering their swarm warfare ineffective.

I don't have the ability, nor the ambition.

Therefore, taking turns as defenders becomes a more economical option.

Meanwhile, the discussion on where to break through became an urgent issue, which led to a heated argument. Some people even abandoned their bossy demeanor and started cursing in public.

Numas, on the other hand, was nobody; he had no involvement in such matters, nor did the other party need him to.

But Black Rob is not without his own things to do.

In the current environment, it is easier to communicate with the Dimensional God Kingdom. He has already made contact with them and is helping them solve technical problems, thereby achieving the goal of further strengthening their armament.

Of course, the specific operation involved secretly setting traps.

A lone wolf like him has no real allies.

Whether it's driving a tiger to devour a wolf or driving a wolf to fight a tiger, the ideal outcome in the end is that both tiger and wolf perish.

According to Black Rob's plan, if the Dimensional God Kingdom can quickly convert his new round of technical support, then even without a boss battle, the Cloud Sea Mist Realm alone would be enough to truly trap this group of people.

At that time, his war to conquer the Abyss Dimension will begin.

As a precaution, another step needs to be initiated, which is for the underwater matrix.

That place is the adventurer group's retreat route, and also a transit point for members of the Night God Society and the Shaman Society to quickly evacuate and head to the Abyss Dimension for support.

Only if the underwater matrix malfunctions can the spatial enclosure of the Dimensional Kingdom be ensured, trapping the adventure team for a time in an almost unreasonable manner.

The underlying logic is that the surface of the dimensional divine kingdom has already been severely infiltrated by the Heavenly Dao. The fact that 'returning the Dao to Heaven' is possible proves this point.

If the penetration is not thorough, then playing the game of "returning the Way to Heaven" in the dimensional divine kingdom is equivalent to using the sword of the previous dynasty to behead the officials of the present dynasty.

For top-tier extraordinary individuals, or those who possess top-tier spatial techniques, scrolls, or magical artifacts, distance is hardly a serious problem.

To destroy the underwater matrix, the assistance of the dimensional gods is also needed.

This is also the main reason why Black Robo preserved the integrity of the underwater matrix last time, allowing it to be devoured and deconstructed.

However, relying solely on the dimensional kingdom is still too inefficient, which is also a major reason why Black Robo felt comfortable letting it devour and deconstruct the underwater matrix.

In a dimensional divine kingdom, being too weak is bad, and being too strong is also not good. When I'm around, I can slaughter indiscriminately; when I'm not around, there's a give-and-take. This balance is the best.

To achieve this dramatic effect, the Zerg swarm that Black Rob originally handcrafted for gathering intelligence on the dimensional realms has now been assembled.

They sacrificed themselves to open a passage, allowing the runic pyramids hidden above the Earth Sea to enter the dimensional realm in one step.

The main function of the Rune Pyramid is equivalent to the Source Spire of the Luo element, allowing Reapers to cross realms and even arrive carrying the divine artifact Twilight's End bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

For Black Robb, there has always been only the strong bullying the weak, winning with numbers, and locally overwhelming the weak, accumulating small victories into a major triumph; there has never been the weak defeating the strong. In other words, if he feels it is necessary, he will never use only eight-tenths of his strength when he has ten.

The war between the dimensional divine kingdoms and the invasion of the abyss dimension are both necessary. Except for the divine kingdom warships, which will not move (those are not things that are on the front line of battle), he can use all other means to achieve this.

And so, time slipped by quietly. Before the adventure team could reach a real conclusion, the newly arrived beetles' condition changed.

They were much smaller, but looked more magical, with green light swirling around them.

Evil power!

Yes, the techniques taught by Black Robo are priceless.

His entire system, through its interactions with evil forces in recent years, has collected a vast amount of information, which forms the basis for its deduction of advanced methods for utilizing evil energy.

It's not just about its power and efficiency, but more importantly, its transformation mechanism.

It's important to know that the plague's origins can be traced back to the Ghost Emperor.

As one of the five ancient Aetheric gods in this universe, the technology it has accumulated over the years is absolutely top-tier in its field.

Therefore, acquiring the technology to utilize evil energy from the evil forces and plagues is no less cost-effective than obtaining technology from the old branches. The only difference is that the old branches' technology has the characteristic of being universally applicable, something the Demon Emperor, as the pinnacle of a single universe, cannot match.

The biggest benefit for the Dimensional Kingdom in acquiring this technology is not the strengthening of the beetle swarm.

This is just the surface; the deeper value lies in the fact that the negative energy it has accumulated has found a better way to be transformed into strength.

To put it more bluntly, gunpowder used to be used only for making artillery shells, but now it can be used to make machine gun shells and hand grenades. This wide range of uses and more refined killing methods inherently represent an improvement.

Unfortunately, the adventure team members did not immediately grasp the significance behind this change.

The battle formation team responsible for defending the group simply gave a routine reminder to the others who were engaged in a heated discussion: "A new type of beetle monster has emerged—fel energy!"

The people arguing about the direction to go didn't take it too seriously.

Fel energy it is. This dimensional kingdom has always been dominated by a dark and negative theme. Fel energy is a subcategory of this, so it's not surprising.

At most, one might have some doubts; it seems the dimensional divine realm has slightly adjusted its defenses again. After all, before this, they had never seen any anomalies with fel energy as their core power.

After a while, when the clouds and mist began to glow green, the adventurers finally realized something was wrong.

Someone joked, sounding a little guilty, "With such a dense and massive adjustment, is the Dimensional God Kingdom's mechanism planning to make this the final battle zone?"

As the public representative of the Night God Society and the Shaman Society, Hafra solemnly declared: "The situation is becoming increasingly dangerous. We have no time to argue. Let's vote on the two main choices: move forward or turn back. Raise your left hand if you want to move forward, and your right hand if you want to turn back."

The crowd exchanged glances, and no one raised any objections, signifying their tacit agreement. The vote was then passed, and the voting began.

Soon, the vote narrowed by 5 votes, and the decision was made to move forward.

Thus, the adventure team began operations in full swing, with each battle formation emitting bright light. Led by the shamanic formation, they advanced in a roughly wedge formation.

In fact, there are several specific routes to take.

But now they've adopted a simple and crude approach: going straight down.

This gamble is no longer about whether the road ahead is designed like a Möbius strip, but rather that the adventure team's unreserved, high-speed advance will cause the new scene generation rate of the Dimensional God Kingdom to fall behind the advance speed of the battle formation.

At that time, a loophole will appear, and the battle formation will be able to take the opportunity to break through.

Once aboard the warship, Black Robb understood the core strategy of the adventure team's new operation after receiving the latest action plan.

It must be said that the adventure team was quite lucky.

If he wasn't mistaken, the adventure team made the right bet.

One of the real weaknesses of the Dimensional God Kingdom is that even a skilled housewife can't cook without rice.

Including the waves of strange occurrences encountered in the surface world, it wasn't that the dimensional god kingdom's mechanism didn't want to launch a major attack, but rather that it had to resort to piecemeal tactics. Rather, it was because certain extraordinary resources were scarce, and there were only so many that they could only be reused repeatedly.

Black Rob was unaware of these things.

It was during this entry that the Dimensional God Kingdom mechanism took the initiative to contact him, revealing its own predicament to some extent. After some analysis and deliberation, he came to this conclusion.

Similarly, imparting evil power to someone helps them solve this problem, essentially giving them access to a new category of extraordinary power that can serve as a key resource.

However, transformation takes time, and the Dimensional Kingdom chose a strategy of using its strengths to cover up its weaknesses.

Therefore, the newly generated evil energy, still warm, was put into use on the front lines.

They just wanted to intimidate the adventure team.

As it turns out, the Night God Society and the Shaman Society of the adventurer group seem to have an extremely firm understanding of certain characteristics of the Dimensional God Kingdom. They stubbornly decided to give it a shot.

It's important to understand that this wave of attacks not only incurs huge costs but also cannot be sustained.

If this wave doesn't generate enough positive feedback, the mere perception of the distance will be enough to make the adventure team hesitant to proceed.

The road is too long. How long will it take to fly back? And how much will it cost?

Conversely, if enough positive feedback is obtained to confirm that the dimensional god kingdom is deliberately mystifying and using special means to make people believe that they are going downwards, but in fact they are repeating in a Möbius strip, then the long road in their perception will no longer exist.

Just like no matter how many times a carousel goes around, it doesn't make you feel like the carousel is farther away from the amusement park entrance.

Therefore, sometimes, having the courage to be headstrong is indeed the mindset needed to break through a deadlock.

Thus, in the current situation, the other side is also under great pressure and is not at ease. However, the less they have, the more they want to claim something, while the more they have, the more they want to cover it up, in order to compete in the areas where they have strengths.

The battle formation charged at supersonic speed, and the burning bands created by the energy generated alone incinerated any beetles that entered its range. Not to mention that the beetles were simply no match for the battle formation's speed.

After more than ten minutes of flying and falling, the speed was truly comparable to that of a falling meteor. Once the clouds suddenly cleared and the land was revealed, it would be too late to brake, inevitably leading to a tragedy (the lowest category of stratus clouds is only 200-500 meters above the ground).

At this point, even the legends were on edge. The speed was actually out of control.

If the land were to suddenly appear, people might not die, but the battle formation would likely be completely destroyed. At that point, how to evacuate would become a major problem.

In the midst of this torment, the clouds ahead suddenly began to distort in an unusual way, like a mirror reflection, giving off an unreal feeling.

Of course, this requires extremely keen senses to detect.

The adventurer's group is full of people with keen senses, so some people couldn't help but cheer.

As the news spread, everyone knew they had won their bet!

Black Rob smiled, thinking, "Champagne at halftime, perfect. Now we can certainly see the 'joy turning to sorrow' scenario."

(End of this chapter)