Chapter 506: Chapter 272: Resisting the Heavenly Demon, the Crimson Army Displays its Might!_1
After inspecting the spoils of war, Lin Xun left the prison cell in the guise of the Ogiwara family’s head.
Concerning the item named ’Straw Man of the Beginning of the Hour of the Ox’, Lin Xun’s subsequent task involves resisting the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ alongside the great general. Hence, he cannot use this item to weaken the general’s strength.
Moreover, the item’s effect isn’t solely targeted at the great general. As long as the hair inside the straw man is replaced, it can affect other BOSSes as well.
After leaving the cell, he originally wanted to convert all the samurais of the castle tower into experience points and gear using his status as the head. However, just after stealthily killing a samurai, he received a prompt from the underworld game.
[All samurais of the castle tower belong to the ’Crimson Army’ and are linked with your item ’Command Flag of the Ogiwara family’. Killing them will reduce the effect of the item. Please choose carefully!]
"...Fine, I’ll harvest the experience and gear later."
He then continued to roam around the castle tower, inspecting it in the guise of the family head, scouring through every nook and cranny of the guard towers and watchtowers nearby.
After a round of exploration, he harvested quite a bit of standard equipment from the army, amounting to over a hundred and twenty thousand spirit levels.
It’s rather a pity that siege weaponry like giant crossbows and war vehicles can’t be stored in the inventory. Otherwise, Lin Xun would undoubtedly have looted the arsenal bare, not even leaving a hair behind.
As for the famous treasure vault of the lord, it’s filled with piles of gold, silver, and other riches, presumably accumulated for a future rebellion.
Unfortunately, these treasures are just for show and can’t be touched. Their actual value doesn’t come close to the arsenal.
After looting the castle tower, Lin Xun exited the game, satisfied.
"I was initially struggling to guard four immortal palaces alone, but now..."
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Third floor of the Intelligence Team, meeting room.
The expressions of several star Apostles were a bit heavy.
After the difficulty escalation in yesterday’s bonus Chapter, they knew that today’s defense wouldn’t be easy.
According to the strength increase of the heavenly demon, the final day of resistance will undoubtedly be very challenging.
If they fumble on the final day, not only would their previous efforts be in vain, but they would also be hit with a punishment BUFF from the underworld game.
For this reason, they specifically went to the ’Book of Trade’ and bought a lot of consumables for enhancing their attributes.
According to the plan, they would all actively give up the defense of three of the palaces. Other than Lin Xun, who would still be defending the Heavenly Pivot Palace, the remaining star Apostles would split into pairs, each guarding one of the remaining three palaces.
Pretty soon they all agreed on how to form their teams.
The original plan was to ignore the buff status bonus of the palaces and simply select palaces that were next to each other for convenience during reinforcement.
However, on Lin Xun’s strong advice, they chose the three palaces farthest from the Heavenly Pivot Palace.
The reason being that these three palaces had good buff statuses; even if they were somewhat far from the Heavenly Pivot Palace, the small issue was that the ’Summoned Beast Black Dragon’ would need to fly for a few extra seconds during reinforcement.
Giving up these buffs would be a case of an unacceptable loss for a minor gain.
Lin Xun looked around, seeing that everyone was prepared and ready, and initiated the final invasion of the heavenly demon!
[You have entered the bonus Chapter.]
[Chapter 8715, Seven Star Protection!]
[The powerful Wandering Soul awakens beside the Demon Suppression Stele...]
[You touch the ancient Demon Suppression Stele, your consciousness radiating in all directions, calling out to the distant six star monarchs...]
[...]
[Six powerful star monarchs, each with different appearances, heed your call and arrive by stepping on the stars!]
[The sealing core within the Demon Suppression Stele is destroyed. You seem to hear the deafening cheers of countless heavenly demons...]
[You know that countless heavenly demons will soon surge out of the altar...]
[Please return to the palace you are guarding against the invasion of the heavenly demons as soon as possible!]
[You look towards the sky, and you see Tianxuan, Tianji, and Yaoguang palaces completely empty. The remaining six star monarchs are paired up, each group protecting the Tianquan, Yuheng, and Kaiyang palaces, respectively.]
The planned palaces to be given up were the second, third, and seventh palaces, which are the ones adjacent to the first palace - Heavenly Pivot Palace.
The palaces that will continue to be guarded had status enhancements like increased magic damage, increased physical damage, and increased healing quantity, which suited the elite apostles perfectly.
[The Demon Suppression Altar gradually shudders, the heavenly demon army is about to attack!]
Lin Xun took a deep breath and started his sophisticated operation.
[You have taken over the body of the ’Fire Worshiping Yiye Palace Lord’!]
[You chant spells and swing the exorcism string in your hand, summoning the Shikigami ’Snow Woman of Origin Trace’!]
[You chant spells and swing the exorcism string in your hand, summoning the Shikigami ’Sly Ghost of Origin Trace’!]
[You took out the ’Refined Copper Sand Hammer’, lightly shaking it, summoning the Watcher ’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’!]
[Under your command, the ’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ flaps her refined copper wings and flies towards the third palace, Tian Ji Palace, standing at the end of the Cloud Bridge.]
[The Shikigami ’Sly Ghost’ and ’Snow Woman’ head towards the second palace, Tian Xuan, under your command, standing at the beginning of the Cloud Bridge.]
Lin Xun opened his inventory. He initially wanted to use the ’Dragon Pond Temple Demon Tag’, summon the ancient temple’s great monster, and guard the last palace.
However, this item requires the consumption of irreplaceable ’Incense Power’, and the cost of using it is somewhat high. Besides, the great monster of the temple also has a summoning time limit, and it would likely struggle to last an hour.
But the newly acquired ’Ogiwara Family Command Flag’ doesn’t have a summoning time limit, unless the summoning is cancelled actively, or all the warriors in the ’Crimson Army’ are killed.
