novelODS Chapter 1449 - 375: This Is the Strength of Face
Chapter 1449 - 375: This Is the Strength of Face
Upon learning that the race where the Dragon Descendant was located was facing the crisis of an invasion by an outside race, Ji Chen’s good mood from successfully taking in the node instantly plummeted to rock bottom.The anticipation of their reunion still flowed in his heart, only to be replaced by anxiety in the blink of an eye.
He had imagined countless times what it would look like when he met the Dragon Descendant again.
He pictured the stunned expression on the Dragon Descendant’s face when they met, then himself tossing out some casual jokes, followed by a whole sequence of showing off.
Even just thinking about it made him feel insanely good.
The Rule his big brother had dreamed of back in the day, he now had a bunch of.
But now, the joy of "showing off in front of an old friend" he had constructed in his mind was very likely going to end in the tragedy of "losing this friend forever."
The saddest thing in life is probably when you’ve learned a ton of skills out there and are all ready to go back and show off in front of your old friend.
Only to hear of your friend’s misfortune before you even see them.
He decisively asked Guidance about the details of the situation.
The answer he received delivered another critical hit to Ji Chen.
The race the Dragon Descendant belonged to was at an absolute disadvantage in this invasion war.
As it answered, Guidance drew a line with its hand, and a combat power comparison chart for both sides popped up right in front of Ji Chen.
Besides data, there was also an introduction to both sides’ Combat Systems.
On the left side of the light screen was the Dragon Wing Clan where the Dragon Descendant was, and on the right side was the Devouring Clan currently invading the Dragon Wing Clan’s territory.
According to the information shown on the light screen, the average Hunting Level of individuals in the Dragon Wing Clan was Level 103, and the strongest was the already-retired previous Great Dragon Lord: Long Xiaoshua (birth name: 129-character name, abbreviated translation), with a Hunting Level of 239.
The average Combat Power of individuals in the Devouring Clan was Level 59, and the leader of the race was called the Devouring King, with a Hunting Level of 274.
The two sides followed completely different Combat Power growth systems.
The Dragon Wing Clan was a textbook elite-training system.
The total population of the race was just over one million; every clansman began harsh combat training from the moment they hatched, and after reaching adulthood they had to undergo one grueling survival trial after another—only those who passed the trials could survive and receive a tilt of internal resources.
With such a small population base, there were both advantages and disadvantages; once their core Combat Power suffered losses, it was very hard to quickly fill the gaps.
The Devouring Clan, on the other hand, followed a Bursting Soldiers growth system that was even better suited to the Monster World.
They used devouring the Life Energy of other races as nourishment to boost individual growth, and had no fear whatsoever of the sacrifices brought by war.
From the real-time war map, the Dragon Wing Clan looked like a sharp yet fragile sword; every strike could tear open a gap in the Devouring Clan’s battle line, but they couldn’t stand up to the opponent’s endless waves of assaults.
The Devouring Clan on the other side was like a net spread over the sky; each individual node might be fragile, but the whole could win through sheer numbers.
At present, the Dragon Wing Clan’s defense line was rapidly shrinking and retreating; at this rate, in at most five days, the core altar where the Rule resided would be exposed to the Devouring Clan’s edge.
After reading the combat power comparison between both sides, Ji Chen took a deep breath and pressed the surging anxiety back down into his heart.
He knew now was not the time to panic; excessive emotional burnout was just a waste of time.
Right now, he had to race against the clock to find a way to solve the problem.
He was facing two problems at the moment.
The first was: how could he go there to provide support.
As for knowledge related to Space Science, he wasn’t even at entry level.
Even if he decomposed all the other Life Souls in his Star Vein Slots and used the evolution points gained to upgrade Brain Overclocking, five days would still not be enough for him to master the construction of a Space Transmission Array.
On the surface there were still five days, but as a warrior of the Dragon Wing Clan, the Dragon Descendant could fall in battle at any moment.
Every minute and every second, he was in extreme danger.
So cramming at the last minute, trying to rush-learning now, was obviously not going to work.
As his thoughts churned, inspiration suddenly struck him.
Could he find an existing Teleportation Array.
The Monster World was already riddled with countless passages that spanned Space; these Teleportation Arrays might be the key for him to break the deadlock.
As for the origins of those Teleportation Arrays, they might be cross-plane bridges left behind by races now fallen during their Conquest of other realms. After enduring tens of thousands of years, their Energy had dried up, but the frameworks still remained and could be activated by filling them with Energy Baryte. Or they might be convenient passages built by Strong Clans for resource plundering, still operating to this day... These Teleportation Arrays didn’t rely on Space Science knowledge he hadn’t mastered yet; he just needed to find them, then ask Guidance for how to unlock and activate them, and he could skip the long process of building a Teleportation Array from scratch.
This idea was like a bolt of lightning ripping through the Mist.
He didn’t need to butt heads with complex dimensional formulas; the ready-made passages might have been there all along.
Feeling a sudden surge of excitement, he immediately asked Guidance whether there was a Teleportation Array leading straight to Ashen Soil Canyon on the Black Domain Continent near the Space node where the player was located.
[300,000 sacrificial power, required for deep exploration.]
"I’ll pay it."
Clearly this question touched on an area of the Mist the player hadn’t explored yet, so sacrificial power had to be spent for a deep investigation.
But he didn’t feel the slightest pain about this sacrificial power.
If he could find an answer for reaching the Black Domain Continent this way, no price was too high.
Once he gave a definite answer, the sacrificial power was deducted.
Guidance blinked its eyes.
The combat power comparison chart on the light screen instantly switched to a map of the Pale Continent glowing faint blue, with two winding routes marked out in red dashed lines.
[Near the Pale Continent node where the player is currently located, there are two Teleportation Arrays that can lead straight to the Black Domain Continent.]
[The first Teleportation Array is located on the third underground level of the Wailing Ruins to the east of the Sand-breaking Spear region. Its current Energy reserve is only 7%; for a single-person transmission, it’s more than enough, and the transmission endpoint is the Bone Sand Wilderness region of the Black Domain Continent.]