The battle was without suspense.
In ordinary new cities without the combat power of Dragon Cavalry Generals, Chen Luo's four disciples possessed the suppressing force that dominated the realm.
The resisting forces of various families were completely scattered after a single contact.
All who took up arms in resistance would face the merciless attack of the Dragon Cavalry!
The large number of resistance forces pouring in from outside the city completely extinguished any possibility of escape for the various families.
The remaining forces of the various families could only drop their weapons in despair and fear, awaiting their fate.
Some family heads, taking advantage of the chaos, attempted to contact the Nine Dragons to request rescue.
But to their despair, upon hearing their pleas, the Nine Dragons immediately hung up the communication and refused to respond no matter how they tried to contact them.
Thus, a city changed hands with ease.
In the ruins of the noble district in the center of the city, Chen Luo sat alone atop the remains of the former tall tower. He tilted his head back, gazing at the full moon rising in the sky, lost in thought.
Amidst the rumbling sounds of battle armor movement, four familiar Dragon Cavalry battle armors slowly stopped not far from Chen Luo.
As the metallic threads scattered with a crash, four young girls landed gently and walked towards Chen Luo.
Lost in thought, Chen Luo felt a weight on his back, and Lin Xin'er's cheerful voice sounded in his ear:
"Master! What are you thinking about? Let's go, let's go, they're preparing a victory banquet in the city! They're waiting for you!"
Chen Luo ruffled the little girl's head, looking at this once mischievous spirit, a sense of complexity inexplicably arose in his heart.
Although Su Xin'er had voluntarily requested to go to the battlefield, and her two elder sisters had also interceded on her behalf,
the fact that a child just over ten years old was piloting a battle armor to fight on the front lines made Chen Luo feel a bit melancholic.
However, this was her own choice. Chen Luo respected everyone's choices, as long as they could bear the consequences.
Chen Luo casually lifted the little girl from behind him, patted her small head, and then set her aside:
"I won't go. You represent me. Let them celebrate properly."
Lin Qing, sensing Chen Luo's low mood, nodded to Fang Xue and picked up the communicator, instructing that the victory banquet in the city proceed as planned.
Afterward, the female disciples, instead of leaving obediently, sat down on the ruins of the metal tower just like Chen Luo.
Lin Yue slyly tried to get close to Chen Luo but was blocked by Lin Xin'er.
After a moment of eye contact, the two sisters compromised and leaned against Chen Luo on either side.
Fang Xue sat honestly not far away, gazing at Chen Luo with admiration.
Three months had passed since Chen Luo decided to launch the offensive. During this time, the resistance army had captured cities under the control of the Nine Dragons at a rate of about one city per day.
Currently, the resistance army held nearly a hundred cities, captured nearly a thousand S-class and A-class battle armors, and controlled a population of nearly one billion.
It could be said that the territory of the former Donghua Kingdom had been largely reclaimed in just three months, a feat that the resistance fighters of the past could never have imagined.
Fang Xue knew clearly that all of this was possible because of Chen Luo's existence.
Otherwise, when the resistance army attacked the first city, the Nine Dragons, having received the news, should have directly intervened and annihilated the upstart resistance forces.
Unlike Fang Xue's admiration, and unlike the carefree behavior of her two younger sisters currently clinging to Chen Luo, the perceptive Lin Qing sensed Chen Luo's low spirits:
"Mr. Chen, are you troubled or worried about something?"
Chen Luo, looking up at the bright moon, lowered his head and looked at Lin Qing in surprise, then gently shook his head:
"No need to worry. I'm just thinking about some things."
The resistance army's actions had been very smooth for the past three months, but Chen Luo felt discomfort and a hint of unease.
On one hand, the fundamental reason why the resistance army could take over a city a day was that in each new city, the only ones who truly resisted were the families in the noble districts.
Once the families were killed or suppressed, the tens of millions of ordinary people remaining in the new city would not care about any changes.
The root of Chen Luo's discomfort also lay here.
The tens of millions of ordinary people in each city did not care who owned them; they just wanted to survive.
Just like the ordinary people in this Crescent City, even if they saw others dragged away on the street, even if they saw their compatriots, played with until broken, thrown out from the noble district,
they would just stay here, living numbly.
Fortunately, after the resistance army took over the cities, they would help these numbly kept individuals gradually break free from the shackles of their thinking.
On the other hand, Chen Luo felt a bit of instinctive unease about the reaction of the Nine Dragons.
Over the past three months, the resistance army had seized nearly a tenth of the Nine Dragons' assets on this continent.
But the Nine Dragons' reaction had remained unchanged: they avoided all conflict with the resistance army!
To this day, Chen Luo, leading the resistance army, had never encountered an enemy above the Dragon Cavalry General level in combat.
Not only had the Nine Dragons chosen to retreat, but they had also failed to notify their subordinate new cities.
The resistance army had been active for three months, but most of these self-sufficient new cities were unaware that the resistance army had begun its operations.
The vast majority of them, like the head of the Su family, were still stuck with the memory of the resistance army being completely suppressed by the Nine Dragons.
"What exactly is the Nine Dragons doing?"
"Why do I feel a sense of unease?"
Looking up at the bright moon, Chen Luo suddenly felt that perhaps he had never truly understood the Nine Dragons as an enemy.
...
Under the jurisdiction of the Nine Dragons, Second Battlefield,
West of the Central Continent, on a vast expanse of grassland, a colossal metal fortress stood upon the earth.
Compared to the boundless green grassland, this silver-gray fortress was like a silent giant, majestic and grand.
Whoosh!
Suddenly! A piercing alarm blared from within the giant metal fortress!
In the very center of the fortress, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face slammed his fist onto the command console before him:
"Void disturbance detected! Damn foreign world monsters are here again!"
"Mobilize all battle armor units that can still move! At the moment of their descent, annihilate them!!!"
Roar!!
Upon the silver-gray fortress, several massive metal gates slowly opened, and teams of sci-fi-esque battle armor squads, under the command of the Second Battlefield garrison, poured out!
Moments later, tens of thousands of Soul-Heart Battle Armors were densely arrayed on the verdant grassland!
In this massive battle armor formation, the weakest were S-class Dragon Cavalry.
Among them were also colossal Dragon Cavalry Generals, and the Nine Dragons True Guards who had completed their fusion!
Yet, even with such a powerful force, they appeared quite apprehensive, everyone gripping their weapons tightly, nervously gazing at the tranquil grassland before them.
The grassland was eerily silent at this moment, as if the wind had stopped.
In the tense anticipation of thousands of battle armors...
Crack!!!
Countless rifts suddenly erupted across heaven and earth!
The rifts varied in size, but what truly drew the attention of the battle armors were the foreign monsters that roared out from within them!
Mountain-like behemoths, swarms of beasts like tides, bizarre alien creatures that evoked deep unease just by looking at them,
at this moment, the tranquil grassland was filled with billions of monsters!
The next moment!
Tens of thousands charged!
Cannons roared!
Blood and shredded flesh!
Battle armor and demonic creatures!
This was the Second Battlefield!
This was the place where the Doomsday Game clashed head-on with the most powerful force in this world!