Chapter 172: The Plan of the Illusionist Overlord
The power of the ancient dragon alone is not enough to kill all 60,000 to 70,000 dinosaur people in a short period of time. After all, the killing range of a breath of dragon is limited. However, the terrifying pressure brought by its huge body is fatal to morale.
A Quetzalcoatlus with a wingspan of over a hundred meters swooped over to intercept, and turned its body flexibly to attract the ancient dragon's attention to flying the kite.
However, it was unexpected that the Ancient Dragon was larger than it, but more flexible. It jumped onto its back and grabbed it, tearing it into pieces in a few strokes.
Many Tyrannosaurus grabbed thick, sharpened tree trunks and threw them fiercely, but they failed to break even the dragon scales. Instead, they attracted Li Qing's attention. He turned around and rushed towards the center of the dinosaur army under the javelins thrown in the sky, and first let out a breath of flaming dragon breath to wash the ground.
As he flew, flames swept forward like a collapsed waterfall in the sky, spewing out a river of fire nearly three hundred meters wide and nearly seven or eight kilometers long in one breath, directly cutting the dinosaur army in half.
The power of this dragon breath was extremely terrifying, but it consumed nearly one-third of Li Qing's physical strength.
With his current total physical strength, it would be difficult to recover one third in a short period of time.
If he encountered an equally powerful opponent on the battlefield, he would definitely not be able to use dragon breath to devastate the battlefield so recklessly.
However, the effect of such a large and energy-consuming spray was extremely significant. It was estimated that more than five thousand dinosaur people were killed directly by it. After all, the spray was three hundred meters wide and seven or eight kilometers long, and it plowed directly through the center of the dinosaur army.
In addition, the terrifying killing power caused the morale of the dinosaurs to plummet. Coupled with the terrifying effect of the dragon's might, some dinosaurs had already collapsed in morale and fled.
"waste!"
The dozen or so velociraptors hiding in the dark were now speechless.
The moment Li Qing transformed into the ancient dragon and descended, they already felt something was wrong. They were all aware of the destructive power of such a huge dragon on the battlefield, so they decisively asked the Lord to change the plan.
But the plan did not change as quickly as they thought, and they did not expect that these dinosaur people could not even last two hours.
The main force on the ground fell apart after a shocking dragon's breath plow.
The aerial pterosaur army was completely helpless against the attack of two superior dragons and forty-eight giant dragons.
Ordinary pterosaurs could not break the dragon's scale defense at all, it was a completely one-sided massacre.
There are too few Quetzalcoats that can break dragon scales, and it will take a while for each of them to determine the winner in a one-on-one fight against a giant dragon. Even if the Quetzalcoats are two or three levels higher and can gain the upper hand by relying on level suppression, they cannot kill a giant dragon that can easily flash away from the battlefield.
These space dragons can easily flash back into the city, and the Wind God Pterosaurs dare not chase them.
If anyone dares to come over, the numerous space dragons on the city walls will teach them what strength in numbers means.
In less than half an hour, the dinosaur army was already showing signs of defeat.
An Erqiu seized the opportunity and launched a full-scale attack on the dinosaur army, which already had some defeated and deserted soldiers.
Led by the Lava Crystal Dragon, they rushed out first, a fiery halo spread out, and the weeds on the ground quickly burned wherever they went, like a moving source of fire.
One hundred iron golems followed behind, cooperating with numerous dragon-scale heavy infantry to attack head-on.
At the same time, Xie Zhu led the remaining 170 steel golems, nearly 500 dragon-scale heavy infantry, several hundred sharpshooters and elite sharpshooters, two thousand cannon fodder recruits, and more than 500 space dragonborn, to open a space gate in the city.
The landing point is on the route that the dinosaur people must take to retreat, along the edge of the river, between two mountains.
The troops walked out of the space gate, quickly established a defense line, and then sent their men to set fires in other places where there might be detours.
The first defeated soldiers to escape saw the jungles burning in many places behind them and instinctively ran towards the river.
When passing through the jungle, you will soon see an iron golem hiding behind the jungle and cutting down trees.
With interceptors in front and pursuers behind, some of the dinosaur people who had recovered from their fear among the defeated soldiers gathered together under the call of some Tyrannosaurus people and bravely charged towards the army of iron golems.
The good thing about primitive and barbaric races is that they never lack courage.
After all, living in a world full of ferocious beasts and unable to farm, one must hunt every day to fill one's stomach.
If you don’t have enough courage, how can you face more ferocious beasts and how can you hunt enough prey?
But courage no matter how brave they are, it cannot change their current predicament.
How could the primitive and barbaric natives who had nothing collide with the civilized army?
Even without Li Qing's talent, even if it is just an ordinary army, it can easily defeat the enemy with fewer troops by relying on its advantages in weapons and armor, strategic and tactical command, military formation system, war weapons, etc.
The main ground force of the dinosaur people collapsed early, but the pterosaur troops in the air held out a little longer, but only for about half an hour.
After Li Qingteng took action and killed several Quetzalcoatlus that were in a stalemate, the space pterosaur army collapsed on the spot.
Moreover, their collapse was more complete. After all, they could fly and flee in all directions. They only had forty space dragons, and it was impossible for them to catch up with them all.
Without interference from air forces, Li Qing led his men in a frenzy of killing, and relying on the super mobility of space teleportation, they surrounded large groups of fleeing dinosaur soldiers everywhere.
Li Qing was determined to wipe them out in one wave and not give the lich war lord any chance to become cannon fodder.
After killing this wave, although there were still 170,000 to 180,000 people in the super-large dinosaur tribe, most of the most elite middle-aged dinosaur people were killed, and the threat was greatly reduced.
Although the dinosaur people reproduce quickly, it still takes at least five years for the next batch to reach adulthood.
After waiting for another five years, he would be able to enlighten five upper-level space dragons, transform 120 space dragons, and transform more than five thousand space dragon descendants.
By that time, he had initially established a foundation for gaining a foothold in this plane.
This is only five years. If he could have ten years to prepare and double the above accumulation, that would be even better.
By that time, he must have been promoted to a legend, and the strength of the Ancient Ancestral Dragon will definitely undergo a huge qualitative change. By that time, it is estimated that ordinary demigods will not be his match.
The gap between a legend and a demigod is not a qualitative gap, and theoretically they belong to the same level.
A powerful legendary wizard, with sufficient preparation and the support of a floating city, would even dare to touch the tiger whiskers of a true god. Ordinary demigods really could not defeat such a senior super legend.
Two hours passed quickly. Li Qing was still diligently hunting down the Tyrannosaurus among the fleeing dinosaur soldiers. He did not notice that there was an area in the void about ten kilometers away that was shrouded in fog, in which was parked a huge behemoth as big as a city.
This is a creature that looks like a huge sphere, with thick fleshy tentacles flying in the air.
If there were an experienced war lord here, he would recognize that this thing is the exclusive domain of the official war lord of the mind flayer - the Mind Fortress.
Although it is called a fortress, its shape is not fixed. Some of them look like an octopus flying in the air, while others look like a spaceship or a floating city.
This thing is the divine domain of the Illithid War Lord. Every Illithid War Lord, upon awakening, will gain a core brain pool, also called the mental brain pool or the spiritual brain pool.
Then, with the mental energy pool as the core, collect resources from different planes and slowly build your own divine fortress base.
There are two kinds of resources that the mind suckers like most. One is the pure crystal of flesh and blood essence, which is an essential material for building the inner core brain pool. A large amount is needed for both construction and future expansion of the brain pool.
The other is pure soul essence, which is the source of spiritual energy within the brain pool.
Putting pure soul essence into the brain pool can be converted into pure spiritual energy, which can nourish the newborn mind-sucking monster in the brain.
The brain pool is equivalent to the nurturing palace of the mind-sucking monster. Young mind-sucking monsters will be nurtured and grow in it. When they mature, they can be taken out and choose a body of an intelligent species with great potential to take over, and then be transformed into a new mind-sucking monster.
To put it bluntly, the so-called mind flayer has another notorious name in some planes - the mind flayer.
Each illithid war lord will build a brain pool, and then use the brain pool to nurture his own descendants. The war lord himself is the ruler of this ethnic group.
The birth of a mind-thirsty monster is very demanding and slow. It often takes a long time to accumulate enough soul essence and then nurture a new member of the tribe with a strong enough soul.
Every newly born mind-thirsty monster is a heroic template. The stronger the soul essence initially used to nurture it, the higher its potential.
Their powerful mental powers make them natural psychics and they can easily practice magic.
This means that the Mind Flayer War Lords basically take the elite route and have all elite subordinates.
Their soldiers are divided into three categories.
The first type is various golems created with magical knowledge, such as the iron golem, or the flying gargoyle.
The second type is a powerful alien who is controlled by the power of the mind and a trace of the original brain matter of the spirit-sucking monster. This kind of control is irreversible and it is impossible for him to wake up.
The third type is cannon fodder who is controlled and influenced by mental power, and can forcibly break free from control in many cases.
Of course, in addition to these, there are also some indigenous races that were conquered by the Illithid War Lords and voluntarily surrendered, but ordinary Illithid War Lords do not have this ability.
This spaceship-like mental fortress is about the size of a small city and is surrounded by a layer of fog that blocks mortal vision.
It was originally flying at full speed in a certain direction, but suddenly stopped halfway.
In the core of the spaceship, on the crystal throne, the indistinct appearance of the mind-sucking monster master silently stared at the huge dragon displayed on the light screen in front of him for a long time without saying a word.
Many of the core subordinates stood below and did not speak.
After a long while, the master's voice sounded:
"This human war lord is extraordinary. Even if he is not born divine or the Son of Destiny, he is still the most outstanding genius outside of the Son of Destiny. Perhaps he is the descendant of a powerful true god. We are a step too late."
One of the men asked:
"Supreme Lord, with our current strength, we are not without a chance of winning."
The master nodded first, then shook his head:
"He does have a good chance of winning. After all, he is not a true war lord, nor a legend, so he is definitely not my opponent. But if his identity is as I guessed, he must have a powerful trump card in his hand."
"If he only has one trump card, it's not a big problem. But if he has more than one trump card..."
“The risk is too great!”
"So...are we going to give up?"
"No, let's observe for now. I will contact the others. There are several companions who came to this plane with me. In addition, this plane has no owner, and there are many of my kind who want to conquer this plane. I believe that there must be a master who is very interested in the souls of dozens of dragons."
“While the benefits are shared, the risks can also be shared.”
At this point, the ruler pointed at one of his men and said:
"You stay here. All the infiltrators from the dinosaur tribe will be under your command. In addition to continuing to monitor this area, your main task is to continue infiltrating. I hope to completely control that super-large dinosaur tribe before I come back."
The subordinate immediately lowered his head:
"Make sure to complete the mission!"
"I'm sure you'll accomplish the task."
After a while, a meteor fell from the gray fog, drew an arc in the air and flew in a certain direction.
Li Qing didn't know what was happening and he was killing crazily at this moment.
Chasing wildly all the way, the LV5 dragon spit out fireballs crazily as if it had no mana, and countless fleeing dinosaur people were blown to pieces.
Although it is a bit beneath his dignity to bully weaklings, he needs to improve his strength quickly now, so he can't care about all that. He just kills as many as he can and accumulates enough combat experience to level up as soon as possible.
The same was true for the many space dragons he summoned at this time, which were madly chasing and killing the fleeing soldiers.
He also didn't know whether he could be promoted to a legend within five years. Given his life essence, the amount of combat experience he needed to accumulate for each promotion was extremely outrageous, hundreds of times that of an ordinary hero.
A normal seventh-level hero could kill so many dinosaurs in one go and would have been promoted to the eighth level long ago. However, his current level is only 77, and he still needs at least three or four such crazy kills to reach level 80.
Fortunately, I had killed many bosses before, including the ninth-level big guys, to accumulate to the current level.
Four hours later, Li Qing gave up the pursuit and returned to the city.
The men had not returned yet, and they were still chasing the fleeing soldiers.
However, the loot box has been successfully condensed and obtained.
After the routine prayers, the treasure chest was opened, revealing only three cards.
Each of them is a military promotion card pack, containing a total of 80 cards.
A hero skill point card pack contains 1 extraordinary hero skill point and 20 ordinary hero skill points.
The third card is a War Behemoth Summoning Card, which can summon an eighth-level Wind God Pterosaur.
As before, he used the extraordinary hero skill points for himself and gave the ordinary hero skill points to his subordinates. This time, the ones he gave to were Xia Mang.
It is worth mentioning that he can now condense a new ancient dragon blood, which he can give to Xia Mang after the battle, transforming her bloodline and template into the upper space dragon clan.
The military upgrade card is temporarily kept as a backup.
As for this war beast summoning card...
Li Qing hesitated for a moment and decided to use a large amount of dragon blood and the light of origin to transform into a superior dragon first.
Like the Lava Crystal Dragon, it was originally just a crystal lizard, but it relied on a large amount of dragon blood and used the light of origin to purify its blood to transform into a Lava Crystal Dragon.
