Just as Du You was preparing for a full-scale attack, the opponent’s counterattack was even faster than his.
Overnight, from all major territories around his city, troops were deployed, charging straight towards him. Leading them was an Elental Lord, but he did not appear directly on the battlefield.
"Deploying troops from six directions simultaneously? It seems like, except for the rear borders, every place is mobilized. These guys are really crazy," Du You said, looking at the report, feeling quite pleased.
Because the enemy made the first move, it ant there was an excuse, and one shouldn’t underestimate the power of having an excuse. With this excuse, Du You could do much more and be even more excessive, and at that ti, no one would dare say anything against him.
After all, in this world, he is also a Tier 7. In their view, it’s normal for a Tier 7 Elental Lord, after defeating another Elental Lord, to directly divide the territory under his na, becoming a new lord or even a king.
Although many with backers remain unchallenged, if challenged, they must abide by the rules. As for the opponent’s counterattack, that’s within the rules as well. But since they counterattacked, naturally, he can continue to attack. Even surrounding nations wouldn’t think he’s doing anything wrong.
This way, he could take advantage of this opportunity to collect more points and transform more Elental Lords. Once his power is fully established, no one will be able to stop him.
As for why Du You didn’t fight himself, on one hand, he was bored and wanted to play, as he needed to wait for other Doppelgangers to advance faster than him. On the other hand, it was because Du You was observing this world.
This world is Tier 8, and he never believed there weren’t Tier 8 Elent Creatures here. But he didn’t know where those Elent Creatures were hiding, so he could only wait. If entangled by them, and the numbers were too much, it would be a real trouble. Besides, Du You was also experinting, doing so special experints in this world.
"The opponent’s Elental Lord didn’t engage, probably because you acted in the beginning. Few know about the new Elental Lord here, and we’ve controlled the information well; otherwise, they definitely wouldn’t dare to attack," Lin Yucha analyzed.
"For this attack, the opponent will probably deploy at least two Elental Lords, but possibly three. The last one must stay to guard the Imperial Capital, so it can’t be sent out."
"What about other countries? Won’t they ally to help?"
"No, first of all, they all have hostile relations; at most, they would stab each other in the back. Secondly, these are internal matters of their country, and they care about their reputation, so they wouldn’t let others help. As long as our displayed strength doesn’t threaten the surrounding countries, they won’t form an alliance."
This is true. Recently, in this city, Du You and others have deployed a lot of Doppelgangers.
These Doppelgangers have been monitoring the entire city. Once any signs of treason are detected, Du You would imdiately control them, turning them into Doppelgangers. These tasks are handled by the Doppelgangers and don’t require Du You’s attention.
But this control also ans that news can’t spread from this city. That’s why despite frequent elental fluctuations on the Elental Tower, other nations know nothing about it.
Cutting off all contact with the outside, if the outside still knew what was happening here, it would be strange.
After all, relying on re speculation, they could never guess that so many Elental Lords would appear here.
"Forget it, let the Doppelgangers and the lords handle these matters, I’ll continue my research,"
Du You, as usual, would delegate major matters to the two sisters if they were present. If others were around, the responsibilities might fall on them instead.
In any case, Du You and his group remain idle whenever possible, always having their own things to do.
At the frontlines, due to the opponent’s attack, the places they had just occupied were taken back by nearly half. This was unavoidable, as they had no roots in this world.
Without the participation of high-level experts, ordinary forces are insufficient. Du You reserved all points for transforming Elental Lords and hasn’t spawned Violent Soldiers in this world. Besides the original troops, only Du You’s Doppelgangers were left.
Fortunately, the situation soon turned around, as Doppelgangers set up layers of checkpoints, finally stopping those enemies. Du You created a few Doppelgangers that reached Tier 6, and with their control over power, they were much stronger than ordinary Elent Creatures. Even a single one could outperform ten opponents on the battlefield.
When the defensive fortifications were completed, using the advantages of defense, they gradually started to hold back the enemies.
In the face of six simultaneous attacks, yet still being blocked, at this mont, the Heartfire Kingdom’s king was furious.
"Continue to increase troop strength, what are the people of the other major territories doing? Are they refusing to obey orders? Tell them, if they don’t exert full effort this ti, they’ll have to face the consequences."
In this world, a king isn’t soone powerless. As a king, he’s essentially the founder of the nation. Even if not the strongest, he’s close to it.
The king himself is a Fire Elental Lord, so when he speaks, no one around dares to defy him.
If they anger an Elental Lord, it would an ruin for their entire family. In this world, everyone is a servant or slave of the Elental Lords, and as ordinary people, they of course understand this.
However, the hierarchy among Elent Creatures is so strict, and even these transford Elent Creatures must obey the Elental Lords. Whatever the Lords order, they have no choice but to comply.
"Very well, since everyone agrees, act imdiately. Also, send in the two consecrated ones too. This ti we’ll use three Elental Lords, and we must take them down as quickly as possible,"
The king was determined. One of the most powerful cities had been seized directly, and this was a blatant affront to him. If this issue isn’t quickly resolved, it would be a huge blow to his prestige.
Other surrounding countries wouldn’t miss this opportunity to attack him either.
If those nations moved against him, he’d inevitably lose more territories. In this world, Elental Lords have nothing else to pursue; territories and power are their greatest passions.
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