Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 94 A Sneaky Attack

"That's too much!"

Erhu grumbled as he watched the third wave of light spots gradually disappear on the detector.

"Are they making a fool of us?!"

"We can't drag this out any longer. If a fourth wave comes, Xiao Anzi, just open fire and take them all out."

Sui An's expression was equally grim. Three groups of people had gathered, bringing the total to eight Level 4 professionals. Adding the sixteen Level 3 professionals, if this number attacked simultaneously, he couldn't be sure he could withstand it.

"OK!"

"You're right, we really can't delay any longer! But I haven't tested the level 3 Sword Star Totem yet, so I don't know if the range has increased. If not, then we can only wait until they get within 200 meters."

"Let's see who comes in first!"

On Line 7, a transport vehicle quietly appeared. On the vehicle, a man who looked like a leader was holding an oil paper map and constantly comparing the terrain and location. When the group arrived at a certain location, he raised his hand and shouted.

"Stop the car, turn off the engine and leave it here. One of you stay here to watch over it. The rest of you, get out of the car and walk over with me."

The group of people climbed out of the truck bed and began to quietly follow their leader toward their destination.

He took out a cylindrical object from his pocket and began to examine it in the direction of his destination.

"Why is this territory so small, and there's no one on guard duty in the watchtowers!"

"We didn't go to the wrong place, did we?"

The person behind him quickly took the map and re-compared the surrounding environment and location.

"Commander, yes, this is it."

The group leader glanced around again, and even took a special look at the ground near Line 7.

"These hunting parties are really cowards. They don't dare to take any risks and launch a night raid on the territory. Look, there's not a single person on guard here. They probably occupy the territory because they have high-level attack buildings and aren't afraid of being attacked!"

"Big Brother is really brave; 3000 Originium is definitely worth the risk!"

"There aren't even any footprints or axle tracks around here. Looks like we're the first ones here. Brother, let's hurry up and get started before we have to wait for someone else to come and take a bite!"

Several people behind him tried to dissuade him, but the leader turned around and glared at them before they quieted down.

"With the commotion you're making, a sneak attack has turned into a full-scale assault. Do you want to get riddled with crossbow bolts?"

"Second brother, did you bring the energy shield?"

A lean young man behind him quickly spoke up: "Yes, we brought it. How could we not bring our tools of the trade? Shall we start now?"

The commander whispered, "Open fire! Better safe than sorry. If the enemy has any detection methods, we'll be exposed!"

The lean young man took out a black metal sphere from his backpack. After activating his energy, a faint transparent light shield appeared around him. As he continued to activate his energy, the shield grew larger and larger until it covered everyone.

Seeing that everyone had entered the light barrier, the commander continued, "Everyone, check your weapons, especially your shields. The crossbow bolts fired from this territory are much more powerful than hand crossbows!"

"Big brother, I brought them all!"

"Alright, let's go. Just a reminder, we'll break through the energy shield directly, ignore the walls, and don't draw the blades beforehand to avoid glare!"

Led by their leader, the group began to walk briskly toward their territory. These people were experienced and walked on the yellow earth covered with stones without making a sound.

The burly man leading the group was dressed in plate armor and held a large gray shield, as big as a door panel, in front of him to protect against sudden crossbow bolts and cannonballs.

Suddenly, clusters of bright flames rose one after another above the distant territory, shooting straight into the sky, and three crystal greatswords soared into the air, hovering above the territory.

The powerful flames illuminated the area within a hundred meters of the territory as if it were daytime in the darkness.

"not good!"

The commander looked at the sudden burst of fire. Although he didn't know what it was, his face was extremely grim. He didn't panic, but instead gave a low shout to calm everyone down.

"We've been spotted! Cancel the jammers! Full speed ahead! Break the shield!"

He took the lead, and together with the giant shield-wielding man and the young man carrying the jammer, the three of them ran at top speed, leaving everyone behind them in the dust.

But suddenly a strange phantom appeared on the wall in front of them. The phantom was made of lines and was seven or eight meters tall, like a witch's portrait. It floated over from the territory at high speed.

"What is this thing?!"

Seeing the eerie phantom rushing straight towards them, the leader had already forced himself to stop, and the shield-wielding giant instinctively rushed in front of them. The shield shone with a bright yellow source energy light, making it appear incredibly heavy.

The phantom was incredibly fast, arriving in front of the three almost instantly. However, the three found that the thing seemed to have no offensive capabilities and simply stepped over them.

Seeing this horrifying scene, the members of the adventure team behind them all stopped rushing forward and came to stand behind their leader.

"Snap!"

But when the phantom arrived in the middle of the crowd, it suddenly burst like a bubble. Everyone instinctively reached out to protect their vitals, only to find that it was not aggressive at all.

An invisible wave swept across the entire area, and the leader felt a powerful spiritual force invade his mind, causing his head to swell violently.

"Oh no, this is a psychological attack!"

After a few breaths, the commander finally managed to break free from his swollen mind. He subconsciously looked around and found himself surrounded by people.

Apart from the two deputy commanders who were still there, the rest of them had bloodshot eyes and their swords were already in front of them.

"Damn it, how could this happen!"

His body surged with golden energy, and he parried the attacks of five level-three professionals with his longsword.

But these five professionals were not afraid of death at all, and they swung their swords like madmen, making the leader hesitate and unable to defend himself.

Just as he was hesitating whether to unleash his power, a massive flaming sword in the sky transformed into a dazzling rainbow, piercing the night sky and hurtling straight toward them.

"What the hell is all this crap?!"

Golden energy surged around him, shining like a lamp from afar. The long sword in his hand transformed into a two-meter-long energy blade, colliding with the eight-meter-long flaming greatsword in the air.

"boom!"

The immense impact was terrifying; the golden energy blade shattered inch by inch in the blink of an eye, while the power of the flaming greatsword remained undiminished, pressing down directly.

The longsword, glowing red-hot, was shattered into several pieces by immense force. The source energy around the body dissipated, the metal armor was pierced, and the captain was even hit by the sword's edge, torn to pieces, and finally burned beyond recognition by the intense heat.

"唳~"

Eight firebirds took flight, blasting the people around them into the air. They were burned into pieces of charcoal in mid-air and smashed to pieces on the ground.

The two deputy commanders had already broken free from the environmental effects, but the approaching firebirds still caused them immense pain.

Fortunately, the shield of the burly man was of exceptional quality, managing to block the terrifying flames from the two of them.

Sparks flew across the large gray shield, igniting the energy source the giant was attached to it.

"This flame can burn source energy!"

With a roar, the burly man immediately cut off the energy supply to the shield.

But behind them, a whooshing sound suddenly arose, and small fiery swords were already tearing through the air. The two were completely focused on resisting the firebird and did not notice the danger behind them at all.

"Pfft~ Pfft~"

One flaming sword after another pierced through the two men on the spot, and seven or eight bowl-sized holes tore their corpses to pieces, scattering them all around.

"What on earth is that thing?!"

At that moment, under the bridge pier in the distance, several leaders were observing the vicinity of their territory with their respective cylinders, and asked questions from the bottom of their hearts.

The enormous phantom, the greatsword descending from the sky, and the sword shadows that resembled flying swords from novels were completely shattering their worldview.

Even those without any observation equipment could see the enormous fire sword and the firebird rising from the ground with their naked eyes. Even from a distance of nearly two or three hundred meters, they were still deeply shocked.

"Is this some kind of fire magic?"

"It looks like a dharma image from a fantasy novel!"

"It's clearly a flying sword from a novel!"

"I see other people's buildings are all bows and arrows and cannons, at most energy balls and energy beams. This style is not right."

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These people subconsciously moved closer to the bridge piers, as if the solid bridge deck could give them a sense of security.

The flames over the distant territory gradually subsided, and the once bright sky became somewhat dim.

Du Yuan put down the cylinder in his hand and shook his head bitterly: "I knew it wouldn't be so easy to earn three thousand source stones in this damn world."

Hong Ming reluctantly put down the cylinder; the scene he had just witnessed seemed too shocking for him, so much so that he wanted to see it again.

The level 5 professional He Yun was the most direct, beckoning over the people behind him.

"Let's go, we don't need the bounty!"

Seeing He Yun leave so directly without any hesitation, Du Yuan and Hong Ming looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Commander Hong, are you still planning to put up the bounty?"

"What are you doing? I now suspect that the lord himself set that bounty. He's short of money, so he wants us to deliver it, is that it?"

Hong Ming cursed loudly. Although the fireworks were beautiful, his own life was obviously more important.

"Those three things that just appeared—putting everything else aside, that seven- or eight-meter-long flaming greatsword alone would kill even a level 5 professional!"

"Commander Hong, aren't you exaggerating?"

Du Yuan frowned deeply, even though he knew that he and his group alone had no chance.

However, they had long-distance observation methods and were able to see the leader because he was distracted by the sudden attack from those around him; otherwise, he would have had a chance to escape.

Moreover, the level 4 professional next to him with the shield took two hits with the shield. If it weren't for the sneak attack from the small flaming longsword behind him, he wouldn't have died so quickly.

If it were a true level 5 professional, it wouldn't be this bad.

"Whether it's an exaggeration or not, you know in your heart!" Hong Ming calmed himself down, put the cylinder back into his pocket, and prepared to leave.

"Otherwise, why would the Dark Assassin Squad turn around and leave? It means they weren't confident either!"

"Anyway, I'm not going to make this money. I just observed that there are three flaming greatswords in the sky, but only two of them launched an attack."

"This territory definitely has a powerful figure secretly supporting it, otherwise how could there be so many high-grade buildings? Those three greatswords are most likely not blue buildings, they might even be purple!"

"Commander Du, you should understand the value of those three purple buildings, shouldn't you?"

"Commander Hong, what you said makes sense~" Du Yuan seemed to be convinced, nodded slightly, and said softly.

"In that case, let's go back together, so we can keep each other company on the way!"

Hong Ming glanced at Du Yuan and thought that this man was too cunning, but it would indeed be safer to go back with someone.

"Whatever you like~"

Within the territory, a group of people were standing on the watchtower, and could vaguely see transport vehicles leaving from Line 7.

Erhu, hands on hips: "I need to establish my authority, otherwise everyone will be eyeing me!"

"However, starting tomorrow, you're probably going to be famous, so be prepared~"

He turned to look to the side and noticed that Sui An seemed preoccupied, so he asked curiously.

"Xiao Anzi, why do you look unhappy?"

Sui An was indeed somewhat troubled. He pointed to the regimental commander who had been split in two.

"Isn't the power of this purple building a bit too high with each level? It feels like if I used it to fight source beasts, even a level 4 corpse wouldn't be left intact."

"???"

Erhu couldn't hold back any longer and kicked out, yelling, "Are you fucking showing off?"

"The power of this purple attack building is simply outrageous!"

Zhao Feng looked at the charred marks on the ground. When the firebirds attacked the level-three source beasts before, they were only melted, but now they were burned to charcoal.

"I really want to see the full power of this building. Is its maximum level 4?"

"It's level 4, but this thing consumes a lot of energy!" Sui An looked at his territory's secondary core.

「1级的时候一剑14块源石，2级24块，3级涨到40块了~」

"I suddenly regret upgrading all of them to level 3; I should have kept one level 2."

"Hearing you say that, it does seem a bit ruthless. If this sword strike doesn't yield at least 40 Originium, it'll be a huge loss~"

The erhu player thought it made sense; territory must eventually be developed. Strength alone is useless; the key is to obtain reasonable benefits.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he quickly patted Sui An on the shoulder.

"Wait a minute, you're level three now, so your territory core is recovering much faster. You should be able to save up the source energy you recover each day for use during the big battle, so it shouldn't be used up too much, right?"

Sui An shook his head and immediately gave Erhu a breakdown of the expenses.

"When a territory is upgraded by one level, energy recovery increases by 4 times, while the energy consumption of other buildings doesn't actually increase by more than 2 times."

"The energy shield's maximum energy consumption has increased fourfold, but the energy itself has also increased fourfold."

"I did some calculations, and with the support of that core tower, it can now restore about 115 Originium per day. If we deduct the energy shield and detection tower that are turned on for 12 hours at night, we can probably save about 40 Originium."

"If the energy shield isn't activated at its maximum, it can probably save quite a bit of energy."

Erhu pointed to the detection station in the courtyard: "But you already have this, are you going to keep the energy shield running all night?"