The time for the Battle Zone challenge has entered the final week, and several Tier Five Lords within White Poplar City are starting to get serious.
They’ve dispatched most of their hidden troops into the Battle Zone, and begun harvesting regions involved as swiftly as possible.
Of course, this mainly refers to the Corpse King and Jun Lin.
Throughout the majority of this month in the Battle Zone, they’ve kept going, striving to ensure their territories truly match the name of Tier Five.
Both of them target Fan Mao as a goal, working hard to transform all their power, while Chang Shi advances all his soldier units to Tier Five elite combat power.
Little do they know, they are already among the strongest in Tier Five.
It’s only because they mistakenly set their sights on Bai Yi, giving them a novel feeling of being rookies.
Other Tier Fives simply lack the energy to enhance all their combat units, focusing solely on boosting a core combat troop upon surpassing Tier Five.
The former sent forth her entire army of Tier Five Martial Artist Zombies.
Although each individual’s level isn’t high, pairing the zombie racial traits with the enhancements brought by Martial Artists makes their melee combat power not inferior to the witch when she had just broken through to Tier Five.
Along with the Corpse King’s booming zombie virus infection ability, it somewhat resembles the witch’s flair from the past.
As for Jun Lin, he brought along a group of cultivators dressed like special operations forces.
They carry bulky rocket launchers on their backs while numerous pouches on their waist don’t hold ammunition but various talismans and some disposable spiritual artifacts.
Their bulletproof vests occasionally display some odd decorations like Bagua arrays or mirrors, showcasing a theme of chaotic style.
Having an aspect similar to players in games wearing bizarre outfits for buff effects.
Although they look peculiar, their combat power is indeed impressive.
They possess diverse abilities to fly and maneuver underground, with decisive strength from those rocket launchers loaded with small cloud burst bombs...
—those shells enhance with occult buffs, and adopt elements from the Immortal Cultivation system...
The ostentatiousness nearly matches the witch.
Even because the witch banned spell usage in the Battle Zone for weapon testing, these oddly styled cultivators become the only aerial force.
Meanwhile, Landon, having already become a witch, focused more on research, and did not significantly involve this time.
For her, now the priority of territory growth has fallen behind, emphasizing more on conducting research for Bai Yi and managing Ocema, the newly built Witch City.
Consequently, gaining additional points in the Battle Zone lost interest, only dispatching reinforcements at a standard rate.
With such combat power support, Iron Blood managed to eliminate the remaining regions in three days using the most prudent strategy.
Supposedly, the victory in the Battle Zone would cause no impact on Bai Yi, and wouldn’t attract her attention.
However, post-battle, Bai Yi’s attention was drawn by a message from the Battle Zone, prompting her to learn about recent battle situations.
"Again with the same superpower user as last time?
Hold on, why is it this witch squad again..."
This time, the information is again because a participating witch squad brought her a sacrifice, albeit with different abilities yet same origin as the last sacrifice.
The same Lord’s soldier unit, possessing the same unique ability.
But compared to the previous superpower user with defensive abilities split into ten pieces to form the first batch of artificial anomalies in the territory.
This one is a purely offensive superpower.
Moreover, the attack style is extremely abnormal, using a curse of sorts, deemed valuable by the witch prompting a capture.
It’s coincidental that even though only one witch squad was engaged in that battle, the superpower user insisted on using the curse against them.
This mind series curse used on ordinary people could possibly affect Tier Five or even Tier Six Hero Units, yet targeted the witches...
Unsurprisingly, the attack quickly diluted and slammed unconscious by the vast witch network.
The participating witch took a while to realize the remote curse had swiftly triggered a counterattack revealing the superpower user who had fainted.
Directly picking him up.
However, due to biological reasons, returning him is time-sensitive, so Bai Yi coincidentally continues to inquire related information.
It’s a remarkable coincidence that the capture was by the same witch squad as last time.
"Tsk, luck anomaly players are really outrageous, bringing new spoils so soon...
Unfortunately, why don’t they have a knack for research?
Otherwise, there could be another researcher like Feyter level..."
During her metallic research phase, Shang Ji reported a luck anomaly suspicion in one of the witches within the squad.
Given Feyter’s precedent, such anomalies receive special attention, prioritized for reporting.
Subsequent actions by the Cat Witch indeed affirmed this, having undergone related testing, even Bai Yi personally observed the witch through her Avatar.
Confirming no luck aura or similar exists, pure good fortune.
Knowing the case, feeling a bit regretful about it.