Chapter 469 - 44: Preparing to Jungle

Chapter 469: Chapter 44: Preparing to Jungle

Comparatively, the borders of Lin Yu’s territory were rather peaceful.

On the Northern Continent, he had created a buffer zone composed of Titan Race lords who had pledged their allegiance. Any force wanting to invade from the north would first have to break through the territories of these lords, whom Lin Yu had reinforced.

Moreover, the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes were surprisingly effective. They were fighting both the counterattacking Titan Race lords and the invading Nuclear Crystal Beasts simultaneously, yet they weren’t at a disadvantage in the slightest.

The Hero Squads dispatched to the Titan Continent had grown so bored that they’d requested to be recalled. They were now stationed at various points along the border.

With time on their hands, the Titan Race lords who had allied with him went to fight the Nuclear Crystal Beasts, helping to ease the pressure on the Slimes.

To the west, the Beastmen were busy fighting the Human Race and simultaneously dealing with invading Nuclear Crystal Beasts. Furthermore, some of their more cunning and powerful lords had left to seize territory from the Titan Race, leaving them without the forces needed to breach Lin Yu’s Abyssal Defense Line.

Only the eastern defensive line was under constant assault from the Nuclear Crystal Beasts.

As time went on, these Nuclear Crystal Beasts breached the Abyssal Defense Line once more and began steadily advancing toward the territory’s main line of defense.

With the number of flying Nuclear Crystal Beasts on the rise, Lin Yu pulled back all the Corn Cannons deployed on the cliffs to deeper, more protected positions to avoid losses.

These Corn Cannons were sentient, making them far more precious than ordinary defensive plants.

Meanwhile, within Lin Yu’s territory, the common residents throughout the middle circle were also fighting with all their might for survival and evolution.

This was because Lin Yu had added a small reward mechanism to the middle circle to make the battles more intense.

Every time a battle was triggered in one of the middle circle’s regions, a High-Order All-Attribute Spirit Fruit that granted +10 to all attributes would be airdropped in.

For unevolved, Normal-grade lifeforms (the current newborn generation no longer had the gray, Damaged-grade), a +10 bonus to all attributes was almost equivalent to the stats gained from leveling up once.

The level cap for Normal-grade lifeforms was only level 20, and the total attribute increase from reaching the max level was no more than 1,600 points. A boost of 50 total attribute points was already a massive amount for them.

A reward like this was enough to drive the common residents living in the middle circle into a frenzy.

Where they once did their best to avoid triggering regional battles, they now actively sought them out.

However, this made life difficult for the common residents who had no desire to advance and just wanted to live their lives peacefully.

Lin Yu considered that they were all his people. ’I can’t just cater to the ones who want to advance,’ he thought. ’After all, these residents who don’t want to improve still add to my population count.’

Thus, he established several safe zones within the middle circle where these non-combatant residents could live.

With these arrangements from Lin Yu, it was safe to say that every continent that had entered the third stage was now embroiled in fierce battle.

Then, Lin Yu quietly waited for news...

Some ten-odd days later, just as Lin Yu was about to organize an internal tournament in his territory to ramp up the combat intensity, good news finally arrived.

[789 Human Race Chat Channel (7654)]

Yun Qihao: "Everyone, good news! The main Cosmos has located our continent and has begun the towing process."

Yun Qihao: "Now we just have to wait for a while, and this stage will be over!"

Yun Qihao: "Any of you who are still able to seize territory, get moving!"

Qian Duoduo: "Is there a specific timeline? How long until we can return to the main Cosmos?"

Yun Qihao: "The Goddess didn’t say, but it should be soon. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have reminded me."

Qian Duoduo: "So in other words, there’s no concrete timeline!"

Yun Qihao: "Pretty much."

Qian Duoduo: "These Beastmen are truly strong. To think they’ve held out for this long against our industrialized armies with just their physical bodies."

Qian Duoduo: "It’s not realistic to think we can conquer their territory quickly."

Yun Qihao: "True. Their tactic of digging tunnels to initiate base trades is a real pain to deal with."

Mi Qisheng: "Why don’t we go check out the north?"

Mi Qisheng: "Who knows how much of that northern continent the big shot has taken for himself."

(Not many people currently knew that Lin Yu was the lord of the Central Territory, only the lords who had participated in the census and those who were close to him.)

(They all had a tacit understanding not to reveal information about Lin Yu in the main group chat.)

Yun Qihao: "Ah, that area... it might be a bit complicated!"

Yun Qihao: "I’ll go and ask about it for you all!"

Yun Qihao knew that Lin Yu was spreading the Goddess’s faith on the Northern Continent. He had also recently heard Lin Yu mention that those Titan Race lords were not having an easy time and were getting beaten badly.

They were beacons designated by the Goddess, destined to spread her faith on the Titan Race’s home world in the future.

If their fellow humans were to get involved, they might completely shatter them. If that happened, it would be difficult to answer to the Goddess.

Yun Qihao (Private Message): "Lin Yu, did you see the messages in the channel?"

Lin Yu (Private Message): "Saw them."

Yun Qihao (Private Message): "So what are you thinking?"

Lin Yu (Private Message): "∑(O_O;) Are you saying you want everyone to go and trample all over your Goddess’s garden?"

Yun Qihao (Private Message): "Of course not, but they’ve already brought it up. I can’t just come right out and say it!"

Yun Qihao (Private Message): "That’s why I’m asking you for a good excuse to turn down their suggestion!"

Lin Yu (Private Message): "Hah, just be blunt. Tell them the Goddess has already laid claim to the entire Northern Continent, so they shouldn’t get any funny ideas."

Yun Qihao (Private Message): "(⊙?⊙)!!"