Earth’s Best Gamer

With the AOE talent abilities of the Legendary heroes as well as the Hyperspace Transporter, Dragon City had obvious advantages in half of its settlements after it abandoned the other half.

However, such a tactic wasn’t suitable for all settlements.

For example, the battlefield of the navy forces!

Splash!

This was a broad estuary that connected the sea and the river that flowed across the continent.

However, unlike when water flowed from the river into the sea, tides were rising back into the canal on this day.

Inside the seawater, all sorts of aliens could be found.

The aliens on the land were usually several meters long. Even the biggest of them were only several dozen meters long. However, there were more than one type of gargantuan sea creatures that were a thousand meters long.

There were also the ferocious beasts that were attacking under the aliens’ control!

Boom, boom, boom…

Under the dual attacks of the tides and the Transcendent creatures, the dam that Dragon City had prepared in advance was trembling in danger.

“Captain Zheng, I don’t think this dam can endure much longer. Let’s retreat to the second defense line!”

“Not yet! If we retreat, those sea creatures will be able to widen the river by controlling the water. Then, they can swim further and attack more settlements!”

On a round stone platform that was more than a hundred meters in diameter on the dam.

A middle-aged general, who wore a helmet, a piece of fish-scale armor, and a red cape, gazed at the rising water and aliens coldly without the slightest fear in his eyes!

“Ask the Divine Dragon Fleet to attack them!”

He reassuringly gave orders via the SkyNet.

“As you wish!”

In the navy camp behind the dam, there were ten warships that were made out of a lot of Transcendent materials and decorated with Transcendent orange paint that was in the pattern of a divine dragon.

“Thank you for your hard work, Chief Zhang!”

Ten generals bowed at an old man who had a long beard and paid respects at the same time.

The old man nodded. He grabbed a brush that was made of purple jade, dip it into the dragon blood that emitted great pressure, and then pointed the brush at the eyes of the divine dragons on the warships that had been left unpainted.

He was Zhang Sengyao, a man from the Southern Dynasties. He was known as one of the four Ancestral Painters, along with Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, and Wu Daozi. His talent ability was Eye Painting!

He was none other than the master of the Eye Painting Brush that Ji Ye acquired from the Battlefield of Providence.

“Roar… Roar… Roar…”

When the golden eyes were painted by the brush, there were shocking changes on the iron warships. They were enlivened and transformed into ten Transcendent divine dragons that carried a gray and metallic vibe.

“Chief Deng, Chi Liu, Chi Lin, and Chief Ding… The City Master asked me to tell you that this battle is very dangerous. If the aliens you meet are too strong, just abandon the warships and escape.”

On the dam, Li Qing, as one of the oldest players in Dragon City, spoke to the captains of the Divine Dragon Warships solemnly.

“But those iron warships are much more powerful than the warships we used in the past. Are we really going to abandon them?”

The Commander-level heroes of the navy were stunned for a moment and couldn’t believe what they heard.

“We’re not scared of death at all. We don’t intend to go back alive after we go to the battlefield.”

Someone even thought that the leaders actually meant the opposite. They frowned hard.

“Chief Ding, make no mistake! We know very well just how brave you are from the battles in Huanghai and Weihai. Your blood is still red in the water.”

“However, we have better weapons right now, and we do not need to launch suicide attacks towards those aliens. For our settlement, your lives are more important than the warships… That’s what the City Master said!” explained Li Qing.

“Oh, got it! We’ll follow your instruction!”

The navy heroes nodded at each other. Their morale was boosted.

Having been given such a heavy responsibility soon after they arrived at the settlement, they were rather uneasy, but they didn’t doubt it anymore when they heard that it was Ji Ye’s idea.

“I finally realize why the natives worship City Master Ji so much.”

“The resources to build such huge iron warships are probably enough to train one person in Transcendent Rank-4 or Rank-5. They’re very precious in other settlements. Yet Dragon City has asked its members to just abandon the warships in danger…”

“Indeed. As a player, I find City Master Ji charismatic too. I wish I could go to Dragon City.”

“Then you have to kill yourself first. Even if you do, you might not be able to be reborn there!”

A lot of people were remarking with mixed feelings on the forum.

Because of the comprehensive live stream, they saw how the heroes, even including the historical figures with Legendary ratings, admired Ji Ye.

They didn’t understand in the past, but they were getting it from the details.

“Heh, this is just a nice gesture for the live stream.”

“If those people really dare to abandon their warships and escape, they’ll probably be marginalized after the Legendary advancement test.”

“Not just that. It’s even possible that they’ll be fired for random stuff and sentenced to prison.”

Of course, certain cynical men, especially those from other countries, made sarcastic comments.

“The ‘hope of civilizations’ that the Land of Inheritance intends to preserve is human beings, not the substances that the civilization creates.”

“Why are the props to summon human beings named ‘Soul of Civilization’? Because human beings are the soul of a civilization. The fire of civilization will not die out as long as human beings are alive!”

“You people probably will never understand the importance of people!”

“Besides, the people of Chidragon respect our ancestors and national heroes rather than nonexistent gods. Those people are worth preserving more than the Iron Armored Warships are!”

Of course, on the forum of the Land of Inheritance that everybody could access, the natives of Chidragon wouldn’t lose any debate.

More importantly, the combatants of Dragon City worked hard enough in the stream.

“Roar… Roar… Roar…”

Ten enormous iron divine dragons that carried aggressive metal scales leaped into the seawater from the dam that was over three hundred meters tall!

After they disappeared into the seawater, their scales were opened, revealing a tremendous number of guns that shot penetrative bullets. Cannons rose on their backs and barraged crazily too.

Rumble…

When their four dragon claws waved, they threw out shock grenades, and the dragons’ mouths also spouted out burning flames.

Immediately, a storm of slaughter began underneath the surface of the sea.

When the ten Transcendent Rank-4 and Rank-5 went on a killing spree, countless fish were rolling and surfacing within a radius of ten kilometers.

The sea beasts that were controlled by aliens suffered heavy casualties and were about to retreat in fear.

“Roar!”

However, when the main cannon inside the mouth of an iron dragon roared and boiled half of a Transcendent Rank-3 enormous sea lion, an even louder dragon roar sounded from its bottom, and an “island” rose from the bottom of the sea. Quickly enlarging as a shadow, it swallowed the iron divine dragon along with the enormous sea lion on its claw.

It was a Dragon Fish, the same as the one which the mermaids drove to destroy Dragon City’s navy base, except that it was much bigger than the last one. It was more than a thousand meters long and almost looked like a small continent!

“Roar!”

There was more than one such strong Dragon Fish.

Half of the iron divine dragons in the water were attacked by the Dragon Fish, and some were attacked by Transcendent creatures with dragon blood.

Dragon Fish, as its name suggested, carried dragon bloodlines. One feature of the dragon-blood creatures was that they could grow by swallowing creatures with the same bloodline.

The dragon blood used in “Eye Painting” was not common dragon blood but Ji Ye’s True Dragon Blood. It was the ultimate temptation to the dragon-blood creatures including the Dragon Fish.

Therefore, the Dragon Fish swallowed the iron divine dragons without hesitation!

“Abandon the warships!”

Fortunately, thanks to Ji Ye’s warning, most of the soldiers from Dragon City escaped with the safety devices on the warship.

Because of the temptation of the True Dragon Blood, the dragon-blood creatures nearby didn’t hunt them.

“Roar!”

After swallowing the iron divine dragons, the Dragon Fish surfaced.

They carried tens of thousands of enormous sea creatures with themselves as ladders and attacked Dragon City’s soldiers on rising tides.

The Dragon Fish were so huge that each of them could accommodate ten thousand fish.

Also, all of them were above Extraordinary Rank-5. Some were even Transcendent.

“Oh my god, it’s so horrifying!”

“Those monsters are as large as some cities. They can easily swallow tens of thousands of people in one bite. Who can kill them?”

“I suspect that the Land of Inheritance is itself an ‘alternate dimension’, and the players are candidates chosen by the universe to fight the monsters and protect Earth. The so-called ‘Great Darkness’ is that those creatures will come to Earth and destroy our civilization if the settlements fail…”

“Damn it, it sounds like a legit hypothesis. May I know who you are?”

“I’m just a LV5 writer on Qidian…”

The players who were being streamed had never seen anything like this.

When they were so close to the monsters that were ten times bigger than the skyscrapers, they couldn’t help but sweat.

Only those who were next to the monsters knew how dangerous and formidable the players’ enemies were.

“They swallowed the Divine Dragon Warships? What a great appetite!”

On the stone platform on the dam, a general who wore a helmet and a red cloak saw how the dragon-blood creatures ate the Divine Dragon Warships.

He wasn’t angry or disappointed. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and put on a cold smile.

The command center of Dragon City still remembered how the Dragon Fish devoured the golden warship earlier. They knew that even if Dragon City was invincible on the continent, they could hardly fight such overlords of the sea.

Dragon Fish could be observed easily too, and the strategic division had foreseen them coming.

In such a way, why would they deploy the iron warships to get killed?

Of course, it was because something was hidden inside the warships!

Boom!

All of a sudden, a Dragon Fish that was approaching the dam halted.

Then, a dazzling light burst out of its body and spread out crazily along with a horrifying blast and water vapors.

An enormous red mushroom cloud rose to the sky from the sea and even dispersed the clouds.

A nuclear bomb!

To be more exact, it was a nuclear engine.

The ten Divine Dragon Warships were all powered by Transcendent nuclear engines.

Also, after Zhang Sengyao’s Eye Painting, the dragon blood that those monsters craved most was hidden in the heart that the nuclear engines transformed into. When it was detonated, it was as powerful as a million tons of TNT!

Considering the Dragon Fish’s enormous body size and Transcendent body, the nuclear engines couldn’t have killed them if they were detonated in the water.

However, if they were detonated from within, they could easily kill a deity.

The reason why the information wasn’t told to the commanders of the navy force was that there was a kind of invisible Transcendent alien named Heart Swallowing Fish!

Their Transcendent ability was to perceive the thoughts of the creatures in the water and even remotely eat some of their memories.

Therefore, for confidentiality reasons, the plan was kept a secret among Ji Ye and the commander in the red cloak.

Boom!

It was unnecessary to describe the power of a nuclear explosion, not to mention such a huge one.

After burning half of the Dragon Fish into ashes, the horrifying blast raised a tide hundreds of meters high and boosted it to the dam with rolling flames.

When the horrifying mixture of water and fire was about to swallow the soldiers…

“Suppress!”

A sound that was as magnificent as a bell rang from the “high platform” that the command in the red cloak was wearing.

Wait, it wasn’t a high platform but a Buddha statue.

It was a gargantuan statue whose head alone was more than a hundred meters long. Its body sat in the seawater and joined the dam that was a dozen kilometers long!

At this moment, faced with the incoming fire and water, the Buddha statue didn’t sit quietly any longer. Instead, it stood up and stepped into the seawater, with its head reaching the sky!

“Suppress!”

It bellowed and slowly extended its hand.

An enormous palm appeared on the surging tide that was hundreds of meters tall, and it came to an abrupt halt as if it had been seized.

Then, it fell back to the surface of the sea.

Although the red clouds made of burning flames and strong radiation swept across the Buddha statue’s body, it couldn’t cause any damage.

They were absorbed by some sort of power and quickly gathered into the ears of the Buddha that was high in the sky before they were transformed into a fiery qilin a dozen meters tall.

“Roar!”

Then, the fiery qilin roared and galloped out of the clouds on flames, burning and killing the Transcendent aliens that survived the nuclear explosion!

“Hiss, this scene feels so familiar!”

“Isn’t this the move from Kung Fu?”

“No, I think the Buddha statue is…”

The viewers of the other countries on Earth might still be confused, but the people of Chidragon had almost exclusively figured out what the Buddha was!

[Leshan Giant Buddha]

[Level: Transcendent Rank-6]

[Rarity: Legendary]

[Description: It boasts the magnificent power of suppressing water and protecting humankind!]

[Note: In ancient times, Mountain Leshan stood at the joint of three rivers. The water there was turbulent and overturned the boats. In summer, the boats were even thrown to the mountain and destroyed. To reduce the momentum of the water, Master Haitong gathered craftsmen, who built this Buddha statue over ninety years across three generations.]

Boom, boom, boom…

The Dragon Fish that had swallowed the iron divine dragons exploded one after another.

The hot flames and airwaves from the nuclear explosion didn’t just blow them up but also killed a lot of the Transcendent aliens that were attacking their backs!

In the end, more and more fiery qilins were transformed from the fire and radiations by the Leshan Giant Buddha’s power. They raged in the sky and almost turned half of the sky red.

“This ‘nuclear cannon’ is truly powerful.”

“If the Great Ming had such cannons, we wouldn’t have lost our country to the barbarians!”

The commander who wore a helmet and a red cape stared at the brilliance of the nuclear explosions without batting an eye and spoke sorrowfully.

If anyone else had said that, they probably would’ve been scolded for bringing disunity to the group.

However, nobody would blame him for saying that.

[Zheng Chenggong]

[Level: Transcendent Rank-5]

[Rarity: Legendary]

[Description: A militarist, national hero, and famous general at the end of the Ming Dynasty who beat the intruders and recovered Taiwan!]

As a hero who was known as the “national hero”, Zheng Chenggong had spent his entire life fighting intruders.

When he was on his dying breath, he even ruined his own face because he was too ashamed to see the late emperor in the other world.

Such a hero naturally had an unusual talent. He could increase his subordinates’ damage to the sea aliens.

It was actually a powerful ability and the reason why Zheng Chenggong became Dragon City’s commander in the battle here.

It was also one of the reasons why the nuclear explosions were so shockingly effective.

However, even though they had prepared in advance and the Divine Dragon Warships were used to kill tens of thousands of Extraordinary aliens as well as two hundred Transcendent creatures, it was impossible to finish off all the water aliens with the nuclear explosions.

Firstly, nuclear bombs were Transcendent items on the Land of Inheritance, and it required power of providence to build them. They couldn’t be used at random.

Secondly, the shocking kills just now were partly due to the unexpected attack. When the aliens were prepared for such a massive-destruction weapon, the nuclear bombs probably couldn’t even be detonated.

Most importantly, while the Leshan Giant Buddha was a Legendary heavy treasure, it only contained limited Transcendent power. After blocking the blasts of ten nuclear bombs, it had already turned dim. There were even signs of cracks on its body.

The Leshan Giant Buddha was actually connected to the dam. Once there was a crack on a dam, it would only be a matter of time before it collapsed.

“Hurry up, use the Water Fire Sand!”

“Strengthen it with the Thousand-Year Cold Ice.”

Fortunately, Dragon City had seen it coming. They had prepared Transcendent materials for repairing, as well as a dozen Transcendent heavy treasures that could partly replace the Leshan Giant Buddha.

“Dujiang Dam!”

“Sacrifices to the River God!”

More importantly, heroes who were famous for taming blood in history, including Sun Shuao, Li Bing, Ximen Bao, and Lin Zexu, were performing their talent abilities and preventing the dam from collapsing.