Free Web NovelChapter 1026: Chapter 413 Millennia of Peace_2
Influenced by the World Consciousness, basically, if it wanted to deal with certain enemies, the living beings on the nearby Main Plane would unhesitatingly take action against those enemies. Under such circumstances, Zhou Tian happened to bring those demigods to the Continent where he had started his foundation. Consequently, when the World Consciousness began to exert its influence, many Monsters were affected, and among them, Beastmen under Zhou Tian’s command definitely made up the largest proportion.
It was that kind of suicide attack, where all the nearby Monsters would constantly launch attacks on those demigods under the influence of the World Consciousness, despite clearly not being a match for them. Although the situation might seem insignificant, at that time it was certainly a fatal disaster. freёwebnoѵel.com
As a result, given the demigods’ powerful strength, not to mention ordinary Monsters, even King Level BOSSes could hardly pose any threat to them. Thus, although many Monsters attacked the demigods, in the end, aside from causing the demigods to consume a slight amount of energy, they hadn’t managed to accomplish anything.
Unlike the demigods who dusted off their butts and left, unconcerned about this battle because of their powerful strength and having sustained no serious injuries, they had no need to care too much about the outcome of this battle.
While the demigods did not take the previous battle to heart, Zhou Tian had paid a significant cost for his actions.
It was during that kind of suicidal offensive that nearly ninety percent of the Beastmen on Zhou Tian’s present Continent died at the hands of those demigods. Fortunately, Zhou Tian had already shifted his focus to the Mainland. Although some facilities on this Continent were not dismantled, the majority of manpower and resources had been moved to the Mainland. Hence, even though a large number of Beastmen on that Continent had suffered casualties, it did not shake his foundation. Otherwise, based on Zhou Tian’s previous layout, after letting those demigods come and wreak havoc, it is estimated that at the moment, Zhou Tian’s forces would have either been annihilated or definitely severely damaged.
"That was close, almost took a loss there," Zhou Tian could only think this way now. After all, this incident was over, and there wasn’t a good opportunity to take action for quite a while, so Zhou Tian could only calculate the gains and losses of his actions this time.
Loss of a large number of Beastmen wasn’t trivial, but with Zhou Tian’s last bit of savings, replenishing the lost Troops wouldn’t be a problem. While losing the Troops, the fact that Zhou Tian’s actions had led to the annexation of over a hundred Ancient Ruins Spaces was true, and that the area of his starting Continent had nearly doubled was also a fact. Even with considerable losses, in the long run, Zhou Tian could indeed be said to have profited from the expansion of such a large Territory.
After experiencing this incident, Zhou Tian really did behave more prudently at that time.
He had to behave!
Since he hadn’t expected so many problems to arise when expanding into the Ancient Ruins Spaces, after the previous battles, Zhou Tian truly no longer had the conditions to continue expanding at the moment.
There’s no need to mention the Mainland; although Zhou Tian had gained some benefits, his strength hadn’t fundamentally changed. When confronted with two Emperor-level BOSSes working together, even with Zhou Tian’s strength, he couldn’t handle them.
And there’s even less need to mention the Ancient Ruins Spaces. If Zhou Tian’s initial consideration of them as the best avenue for expansion couldn’t be considered wrong, then after the previous events, Zhou Tian no longer had the courage to continue with that plan.
Zhou Tian could be considered a first-time offender last time, but even so, he nearly caused those demigods to join forces against him. It’s not hard to imagine that if Zhou Tian failed to learn his lesson and went back into those Ancient Ruins Spaces after the demigods had retreated, it didn’t matter if the demigods set up an ambush or not, if they were provoked to emerge from the Ruins spaces for a counterattack, then Zhou Tian would indeed be in big trouble.
Having already reached such an extent on the first occasion, if Zhou Tian’s actions provoked the demigods to unite against him again, setting aside whether Zhou Tian had the capacity to survive their clutches to return to the Main Plane, even if he managed to come back alive and wait for an Emperor-level BOSS to come to his aid, after this experience, it’s estimated that it would not be easy to make those demigods retreat again.
Furthermore, on this occasion, those Emperor-level BOSSes had helped Zhou Tian for some unknown reason, yet Zhou Tian couldn’t really consider them as allies. Once or twice of good luck, Zhou Tian could borrow their might, but if he were to truly place all his hope in them, who knows whether those Emperor-level BOSSes would falter at a key moment. After all, to those Emperor-level BOSSes, Zhou Tian was also an opponent; if there was a chance to remove Zhou Tian, a future significant threat, they might not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of the Main Plane.
So, it wasn’t that Zhou Tian was defeated by the demigods’ counterattack this time; rather, judging by the current situation, Zhou Tian simply no longer had the conditions to continue taking action. Therefore, whether it was the situation or the consequences of his actions, Zhou Tian had no choice but to abandon his original intention of continuing to annex those Ancient Ruins Spaces at that time.
With the Mainland being unable to expand its Territory, and the annexation of the Ancient Ruins Spaces having to be abandoned, the only place Zhou Tian could consider for expansion at that time was naturally Overseas.
