Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk 'Work Hard, Rest Hard'

Chapter 683: Reversing the Battle

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Everyone exchanged glances, revealing excited expressions one after another.

The transformation before and after was simply too immense!

Previously, every time they endured an attack, they had to defend with all their strength, fully activating their armor just to protect themselves.

Now, they could easily withstand it. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Lin Feng felt this difference most acutely. The previous standard equipment could only reduce eighty percent of the damage, but the current equipment could reduce nine hundred and ninety-seven thousandths of the damage—the gap between the two was enormous.

And then there was his sword plate. After unleashing the sword aura domain, it could not only weaken incoming attacks by nine-tenths but also amplify his own combat power by three times!

With all these factors combined, the boost in combat strength was nothing short of a complete transformation.

The two hundred soldiers defending the city, relying on the city wall’s protection, madly bombarded the Scavenger horde.

With no restraint whatsoever, they could unleash their full power. Coupled with the massive amplification from offensive Dominator Artifacts, two hundred people could exert the attack power of two thousand.

Two thousand against over ten thousand?

Advantage was mine!

It was important to note that the city wall also had an attack-amplifying effect, multiplying the power of their released attacks by another ten times!

So, the attack power of two thousand multiplied by ten became the attack power of twenty thousand.

Thus, it turned into twenty thousand against seventeen thousand—the advantage was huge!

Not to mention that their attacks were more focused, allowing them to quickly kill Scavengers under concentrated fire.

As a result, not long into the battle, the Scavenger ranks had already lost over a thousand of their number.

But the Scavengers simply did not know fear or death, continuing to charge toward the city.

As they approached the city wall.

The soldiers’ attacks grew even more ferocious, with wave after wave of attacks falling in clusters among the Scavenger horde, inflicting massive damage. Many Scavengers were severely wounded, yet they still fearlessly pressed forward.

Lin Feng was extremely excited. He cultivated the Chaos Slaughter Great Dao, and for every Scavenger he killed, he could harvest a portion of slaughter force.

When his kill count rose to one thousand, his aura suddenly surged upward by a notch, rising to the level of the thirty-sixth tier!

“Well done!” the squad leader praised. “You’re perfectly suited for the battlefield. Fellow soldiers, yield the kills to Lin Feng!”

Hearing this, Lin Feng said gratefully, “Thank you, Squad Leader. I don’t need the Merit Points—I only need the kills!”

“Hahaha, everyone knows your situation. Otherwise, how could you have gotten so many kills so quickly? Keep it up! The frontline needs you! For now, don’t waste your attacks—just focus on reaping kills.”

The squad leader gave Lin Feng an encouraging look.

Lin Feng nodded solemnly and quickly changed his tactics, making kill harvesting his primary objective.

One head after another was claimed by him, and his level rose rapidly.

When the Scavenger casualties reached ten thousand, Lin Feng’s level had actually reached the fortieth tier!

Although the slaughter force given by lower-ranked Scavengers grew smaller the further he progressed, Lin Feng was not picky at all. If a thousand kills weren’t enough, then two thousand, three thousand!

“They’re showing signs of retreat!” Ye Fan pointed at a Scavenger that had stopped moving forward.

“Don’t let them escape!” the squad leader roared. “Increase the output!”

Everyone intensified their attacks, and the source force within their bodies dropped at an alarming rate.

The number of Scavengers plummeted sharply. When only three thousand remained, they finally retreated beyond the range of the city wall’s weakening and amplifying effects.

The squad leader was satisfied. “This time, we caught the Scavengers off guard and earned a huge amount of Merit Points! If we can pull this off a few more times, we’ll have enough Merit Points to pay off this entire set of equipment!”

Everyone was beaming with joy.

“Collect the spoils!”

The squad leader waved his hand, and everyone descended from the city wall to pick up the treasures and crystals dropped by the fallen Scavengers.

But Lin Feng looked longingly at the three thousand Scavengers retreating into the distance.

“What a shame—we still let some of them get away!”

“Don’t get carried away. There will be plenty of opportunities. We only have this kind of combat power because of the city wall. Once we go out there, we won’t have that advantage!”

“I understand.” Lin Feng nodded.

Similar scenes played out across the Second Frontline.

The equipment provided by Su Yuan was not only sufficient in quantity but also exceptionally high in quality. The worst pieces were High-Quality, and the good ones were Supreme-Grade or even True-Grade—each one was worth the effect of ten ordinary pieces!

So, although Su Yuan seemed to have only provided over seven hundred million Dominator Artifacts, their actual effect was equivalent to seventy billion or more!

The boost to combat power was immediate and visible.

Originally, the pressure on the Second Frontline had been increasing day by day, but now the situation was gradually turning around.

At this moment.

The eleven Void Speakers gathered together, and the atmosphere was very tense.

“Void Venerable, didn’t you say that under your targeting, the Artificer could no longer supply the military with Dominator Artifacts? Then how is it that during this period, the armaments on the Second Frontline have become even stronger!”

The First Void Speaker stared darkly at the Void Venerable.

The Void Venerable (formerly the Seventh Speaker) said gloomily, “It’s mainly because of a Grandmaster named Seven Stars, who provided over seven hundred million high-quality Dominator Artifacts, giving the Second Frontline a massive blood transfusion of supplies. My previous assassination operations were very successful, and a large number of Artificers died—this is an indisputable fact!”

“Do you think I’ll believe that?” the First Void Speaker said indifferently. “This looks more like a smoke screen from the Chaos Dominators. Don’t you find it ridiculous that one person could produce so many Dominator Artifacts in one go? These were all stockpiled long ago, just waiting for your betrayal to be put into use!”

Upon hearing this, the Void Venerable’s brows furrowed tightly.

“Also, Cyan Lion is dead. His life ended the moment he arrived at Black Flame City. There is concrete intelligence that he was killed by the Third Speaker’s Chaos Stone Eagle. Clearly, this was a trap! It was set up long ago, just waiting for us to take the bait!”

The First Void Speaker’s face was very unpleasant.

The Void Venerable was even more gloomy, saying, “Ying Wenzheng is too sinister. He seems so upright, yet he hides so many secrets behind our backs. He deserves to die!”

“You are the one who’s too stupid! You probably revealed your hand long ago!” the First Void Speaker said.

“I’ll send someone to investigate again and see whether the Artificers you assassinated really died. This batch of equipment is just temporary, but if the assassination of the Artificers also failed, then it means you haven’t accomplished anything.”

“When that happens, you will lead the main force to attack the Second Frontline!”

Hearing this, the Void Venerable said in a deep voice, “I understand!”

The meeting quickly adjourned.

The Void Venerable returned to his residence, his brow deeply furrowed.

He was the former Seventh Speaker. Previously, everything about the Second Frontline had been under his control. How could anyone have hidden so many Dominator Artifacts from him? He was in charge of all of this!

The Void Venerable pondered for a moment, then decided to activate a hidden trump card he had planted within the Second Frontline. He would personally investigate this matter.

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