Chapter 466 - 43: Grand Melee

Chapter 466: Chapter 43: Grand Melee

Upon returning to his territory, Lin Yu immediately sent the data on Crystal Core Technology—the fruits of his recent trade—to the research institute.

Just as he had expected, as soon as the Crystal Core materials entered his territory, a new technology line appeared on the Wisdom Library’s Technology Tree—the Crystal Core Technology Line.

It became the territory’s fourth technology line, alongside the Rune Technology Line, the Glacier World’s "Boiling Water" Technology Line, and the Star Cultivation Technology Line that required luck to unlock.

This way, the researchers at the institute only needed to research systematically, and his territory would eventually master the Crystal Core Technology of the Crystal Core Giant race.

’Hopefully, Rock won’t regret selling me *The Principles of Low-Tier Crystal Core Manufacturing* later.’

...

Over the next few days, Lin Yu conducted some experiments in his territory with the Money Tree Leaves.

Through comparison, he discovered that the Money Tree Leaves were surprisingly subjective. When they transformed into currency, the conversion was truly based on the user’s internal concept of "valuable."

Furthermore, once the first conversion was complete, the rate wouldn’t increase, even if the user’s standard of "valuable" changed afterward.

In other words, the best person to use the Money Tree Leaves would be a super-tycoon from an incredibly wealthy family, someone who regarded money as little more than dirt.

Once the experiment’s results were in, Lin Yu resumed practicing his control within the territory. His training had shifted focus to simply maintaining normal daily activities; for him now, even these mundane tasks required precise micro-control.

At the same time, he leveraged his skyrocketing attributes to study the knowledge required of a Great Druid in the Jade Sanctuary.

This time, his physical strength had finally caught up with his mental fortitude, making his learning efficiency countless times faster.

...

「Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the first year of the third phase had ended.」

On this day, as the clock struck midnight, the system notification arrived right on schedule.

[Congratulations on successfully surviving the first year of combat.]

[From now on, all spatial barriers will be lifted.]

[Let the fighting become even more intense!]

After the brief system announcements, the Nuclear Crystal Beasts on the Crystal Core Giant’s continent, having long been prepared, stormed into the Beastman Continent and the Titan Continent.

The Crystal Core Giants had calibrated the strength of these Nuclear Crystal Beasts based on the combat intensity at the border they currently shared with the Human Race.

One look at the Human Race Lords on the eastern border was enough to grasp the strength of these Nuclear Crystal Beasts. The humans were turtling, defending with all their might, relying solely on defensive structures that were continuously reinforced during the fighting.

Although the border lords of the Beastman Continent and Titan Continent were prepared, they never expected to face such a powerful assault. Their defensive lines collapsed in an instant.

The Nuclear Crystal Beasts pushed directly into the two races’ continents, launching indiscriminate attacks against all living creatures within.

The Titan Race territory occupied by Lin Yu was also hit by the onslaught. Vast numbers of Nuclear Crystal Beasts clashed violently with the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes that blanketed the region.

The Nuclear Crystal Beasts that pushed into the Titan Continent were immediately affected by its high gravity.

However, worthy of their status as biological weapons engineered for war by the Crystal Core Giants, they adapted after a brief moment and resumed their charge.

Aside from their strength being suppressed by ten or twenty percent, their movements slowing slightly, and the flying-type Nuclear Crystal Beasts being grounded, there were no other effects.

They slaughtered their way into the Titan Continent, attacking every single living thing they came across.

The Nuclear Crystal Beasts’ advance only stalled when they encountered the soft, squishy Slimes.

Facing the Slimes, the Nuclear Crystal Beasts showed no mercy, immediately unleashing their abilities.

And faced with these bizarre, overtly hostile abilities, the Slimes didn’t back down either.

This wasn’t like playing games with the little Titan Race kids under the lord’s orders. The Slimes unleashed their full strength and engaged the Nuclear Crystal Beasts in battle.

The Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes covering the ground rapidly fused together. Then, one after another, massive Telekinesis Hands and an assortment of Telekinesis Weapons flew toward the Nuclear Crystal Beasts.

At the same time, a series of Telekinesis Barriers materialized between the Slimes and the Nuclear Crystal Beasts, blocking their various attacks.

Some of the faster, close-combat Nuclear Crystal Beasts were ensnared in layer after layer of Telekinesis Nets, which then shredded them to pieces.

After the first wave was thwarted, the Nuclear Crystal Beasts immediately launched a second, unleashing even more bizarre attacks against the Slimes.

Some of the high-tier Nuclear Crystal Beasts launched attacks that bypassed the Telekinesis Barriers entirely, striking the Slimes directly and inflicting massive damage.

However, the number of Slimes injured or killed was not high.

Likewise, the Slimes’ Telekinesis attacks were also inflicting enormous damage on the Nuclear Crystal Beasts.

The Slimes’ Telekinesis attacks didn’t have any fancy elemental properties; they were purely physical.

But as the saying goes, brute force trumps clever tricks. By combining their power into a mighty offensive, the Slimes easily killed many Nuclear Crystal Beasts.

To evade the Nuclear Crystal Beasts’ special attacks, the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes split off some low-level Slimes to mix into the swarm. These acted as decoys, drawing enemy fire and greatly reducing the probability of the max-level Slimes getting injured, thus preventing catastrophic losses to the swarm as a whole.

The Nuclear Crystal Beasts’ offensive against the southern part of the Titan Continent was quickly repelled by the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes, but the lords in other regions of the continent were not so fortunate.