Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit.

Chapter 466 Kelu? Zelian Driver? Dera

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, held in Mingdu, caused a great stir and attracted the attention of the entire continent.

Wealthy people went directly to Mingdu to watch the live event and experience the festive atmosphere of the coronation ceremony, while those without money watched the live stream or video clips at home and enjoyed themselves just as much.

The festive atmosphere dispelled the dark clouds that had hung over the mainland in recent years, and the vibrant young people vying for attention made the mainland appear prosperous and thriving.

Unfortunately, not everyone can enjoy the relaxation that the festival brings. Fate has never been fair, at least not for the people of the Douling Empire and the soldiers on the front lines.

The shadow of war continued to loom over the Douling Empire, with the Southern and Northern Douling Empires locked in constant combat, their blood slowly seeping into this fertile land.

The soldiers who came here to fight risked their lives every day, and the large-scale use of soul guides made the intensity of the war far exceed that of ancient times.

The most classic example is the Battle of Wuyun City. This city is the throat of the Lingdou Plain and has been a strategic location fought over by military strategists since ancient times.

To seize this city, the Northern Empire of Douling and the allied forces of the three kingdoms deployed a total of 150,000 troops.

The Southern Empire of Douling recruited a large number of Sea Soul Masters, relying on its terrain and high-end combat power to fight against the Northern Empire.

Although the Sea God family has lost its command over the sea spirit beasts, it remains the uncrowned king of sea spirit masters and wields immense influence.

Soul-guided cannonballs razed this once extremely prosperous city to the ground, with multiple soul-guided cannonballs falling on every inch of land.

Chen Hanhai also went all out, transporting a large amount of rare metals from the ocean, and the Amon family also restarted the domestic soul guidance factory to imitate and produce various soul guidance cannons and soul guidance barriers.

Although technologically inferior, they compensated with superior materials and advanced combat capabilities, making the city a tough nut to crack. Amon's primary objective was to weaken the strength of Tianhun and Xingluo Empire, so they naturally wouldn't hold back.

The Amon family's terrifying cooperation, coupled with the assistance of soul tools, turned Wuyun City into a meat grinder.

A full-strength Soul Master regiment deployed by the Star Luo Empire could not survive more than ten days in Wu Yun City.

A greenhorn who can survive for an hour in Wuyun City is considered a veteran.

A Soul Master who has cultivated for decades is completely exhausted in just twelve hours here.

Here, if you're not careful, you'll be bombarded by soul-guided cannons; if you don't dodge in time, you won't even be left with a corpse.

The fierce battle turned the city red with blood, and the ancient moat surrounding it was filled with corpses.

Even today, the city remains a battleground for both sides, with flags on the city walls changing hands repeatedly, and soldiers from both sides fighting to the death here.

Crydella was not a soft-hearted person; she was willing to use any tactic to achieve victory.

The primary objective of war is victory; the process and cost are not important.

Even though there were criticisms within the Allied Forces about her ruthlessness, Kerudela never changed her ways.

She never allowed her own people to sing her praises; she preferred to be cursed and forgotten rather than defined.

Even if future history books describe her as a tyrant or a madwoman, she will simply laugh it off, because there will always be people who offer fine wine to commemorate her and her companions.

In the blank spaces of Huo Yuhao's script, how the story should be written is up to her and Amon to decide.

Aside from writing scripts, Huo Yuhao always gave them plenty of freedom, as long as they didn't go too far. She was willing to risk her life to achieve her goal.

Just like her martial spirit, chess is an art of sacrifice and progress; to win, a chess player must be prepared to give his life.

Amon is the same; he can afford to lose but doesn't want to. Even if he messes everything up, someone will clean up his mess. His brother Adam, his father, and even his sister Xia Die will help him.

In his father's script, Amon didn't want to always be a loser; that wasn't interesting enough.

Therefore, neither Amon nor Crydela wanted to lose to the other, and both had their own principles.

Of course, there are also people who are even more tragic, namely Xu Jiawei and the emperor of the Heavenly Soul Empire.

In the heart of Xingluo City, a palace nearly half the size of its former self stands in the city center.

The once magnificent palace is now predominantly white, and the most skilled craftsmen have used various carving techniques to make the simple white rock appear elegant and full of connotation.

The Star Luo Empire no longer has the capacity to rebuild its former imperial palace; the cost would be too great, and Xu Jiawei is reluctant to do so.

In the imperial court, Xu Jiawei sat on the dragon throne with a melancholy expression, looking down at the assembled officials.

Ever since the war between Douling and the Sea God family broke out, he has often had this expression. Sometimes he really wants to run away and leave this mess to someone else.

An elderly man dressed in a python robe respectfully reported the latest situation to Xu Jiawei.

"Your Majesty, the results of the military exercises between the Star Luo Empire and the Douluo Northern Empire are in."

Xu Jiawei sat up straight, immediately perking up, and looked intently at the Prime Minister below, saying, "Prime Minister, stop keeping me in suspense, tell me the result!"

Prime Minister Xingluo's forehead was covered in sweat. He stammered for a long time, not knowing how to say it. Seeing his performance, Xu Jiawei and the ministers realized that the situation might not be good.

Under the intense scrutiny of so many eyes, the Prime Minister steeled himself and said, "The Northern Empire of Douling has dispatched a special corps of fifty soul masters to infiltrate our rear."

With extremely high tactical skills, they infiltrated and outflanked our rear, cutting off our supply lines through guerrilla tactics.

Under the cover of night, they carried out a decapitation strike on three full-strength Soul Master regiments and successfully detonated the Empty Soul Missile.

In a real war, these blank rounds would be actual level-nine fixed-position soul-guided artillery shells.

"Then these fifty people withdrew from Dragon Roar Valley at the cost of twenty casualties, and destroyed the soul guidance defense line located on the border line in the process."

As the Prime Minister finished speaking, the entire court fell silent. All the officials looked at each other in bewilderment. Xu Jiawei's forehead veins bulged, and his hands gripped the handle of the dragon throne tightly.

"You mean to say that a special soul master group with an average strength of Soul Emperor and a maximum strength of 93-level Title Douluo can destroy three of our full-strength soul master groups?"

And then, during the evacuation, they can conveniently disable our expensively built absolute defense line?

If they don't withdraw, could they fight their way all the way to Xingluo City and behead me?

Who is the commander of this exercise?! What is he good for? Has our army become so useless?!

"What if one day the Northern Douling Empire is no match for the Southern Douling Empire, and they decide to attack us and the Heavenly Soul Empire, seizing our land?"

Xu Jiawei's furious voice echoed throughout the court. A minister stepped forward tremblingly and said, "Your Majesty, the Northern Empire of Douling, under the leadership of Empress Kerudela, emphasizes military strategy and has fought a bloody war with the Southern Empire of Douling."

"It's normal that they are better than us in terms of tactical awareness."

I think we can also learn from their military strategies. Queen Cerdydra was truly a military genius, unparalleled before or since.

Looking at the trembling ministers below, Xu Jiawei sighed deeply and said, "Empress Kerudela will visit Star Luo City again tomorrow, and then head straight to Tian Dou City and Ming Du."

"Judging from the previous times, they've come to ask for aid again."

"Ten billion Dream Coins—how could she even say that? Cut my head off and throw it on the black market, see if you can get that much!"

Xu Jiawei was worried. In the past few years, he was full of vigor and dared to tell Kerudela that the Star Luo Empire was not short of money and that he would fight to the death. Now, he gets a headache whenever aid is mentioned.

Over the past three years, the Star Luo Empire has provided the Northern Douling Empire with approximately 10 billion Dream Coins in aid and has also dispatched a large number of troops to provide support.

The Star Luo Empire is now at its wit's end and can no longer afford to provide support.

If Krystra's results were average, there wouldn't be any problems, but in reality, the opponent has consistently achieved excellent results.

Moreover, the other party's reasoning made things difficult for Xu Jiawei. Kerudela's slogan was to fight for Xingluo and Tianhun, while the Northern Empire of Douling was defending the two empires against the Sea God Family.

Their blood was shed for the two great empires, and they were even hailed as continental heroes on the magic network.

If we don't support the Northern Empire of Douling, there will be public opinion within the country. What if Keludela really gets desperate and sends troops to attack Tianhun or diagonally crosses the Star Dou Great Forest to attack Xingluo and forcibly seize resources?

A special group of fifty Soul Masters can break through the border. If the other side's Ocean Douluo, Hailiequla, were to lead his men to attack, wouldn't they be able to take his head?

The Star Dou Great Forest and the 05 Conference only promised not to let the Sea God Family cross the border, but they did not restrain the Northern Douling Empire. If they want to play the game of losing the south and making up for it in the west, Di Tian will not care.

Soon, a minister stepped forward, steeling himself, and said, "Your Majesty, aid will certainly be provided."

"The Southern False Emperor and his army are launching increasingly fierce offensives. The battle in Wuyun City has not yet ended. If we stop providing aid and the Northern Empire of Douling is defeated, then we will be in a situation where our lips are gone and our teeth are cold."

Xu Jiawei waved his hand impatiently and said, "I know."

"But how much? We definitely can't come up with ten billion dream coins."

After a moment's thought, the Prime Minister said, "Your Majesty, then send them the latest batch of soul tools, along with rare metals and 300 million dream coins. That should be enough to appease Queen Cerudela."

"If we give them these, the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire will only give them more, not less. Everyone giving less is the same as everyone receiving less."

It's a very simple idea: if the Star Luo Empire loses money, then the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire must also lose money, otherwise they won't feel psychologically balanced.

Xu Jiawei said weakly, "Then let's leave it at that."

"The next batch of Soul Master legions will be mobilized from the Western Army Group, with Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger leading the team to support the Douling front."

The Prime Minister replied respectfully, "Yes!"

Meanwhile, the focus of everyone's discussion was Krydella, who had brought Heather to the border of the Star Luo Empire.

Looking at the Soul Guidance Cannon defense line on this border, Kerudela shook her head and said, "A flashy but impractical design."

"You can easily break through from the South Wind Wasteland outside the Star Dou Great Forest, or you can bypass it directly from the Spirit Mountain Forest using an all-terrain soul tool."

They can even use mental shielding soul tools and high-altitude soul tools to launch surprise attacks and break through.

This is an impregnable defensive line? It's far inferior to the Southern Empire of Douling.

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Just as Crydella was making her comments, a crow suddenly flew by, and she snorted coldly, saying, "Flying is prohibited here."

The raven immediately plummeted to the ground, and Crydela used her mental power to lift it in front of her, saying, "What? Here to challenge me again? Haven't you lost enough yet?"

The crow twisted its body, touched the white socket around its right eye, and said, "Of course not."

"It's about some things concerning our dear clan leader and Tang San. I need to discuss them with you to facilitate our subsequent plans."

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