Mighty Lord

Chapter 1029: Chapter 414 Player Reappears_2

After all, based on the previous situations, once Zhou Tian’s Beastmen occupied those islands, no one would come to fight them for them. Having claimed the islands, they wouldn’t need to focus their energy on defending them at all.

But now, the situation is different. Although the players definitely already have a spatial teleportation array with the help of that Deity up there, I believe that even with a teleportation array, it would be impossible for those players to directly teleport into Zhou Tian’s sphere of influence. Not to mention later, but at least the first time those players enter Zhou Tian’s territory, they would certainly have to use conventional methods. freēwebnovel.com

And when it comes to traveling from one continent to another, there are generally only two conventional methods.

The first one is naturally by using flying tools. Once the specific route is known, beings with sufficient sustained flight capability can commute between the two continents using this method, whether flying on their own or with the help of a tool. However, flying beings or tools are extremely rare, so if players really use this method to attack Zhou Tian’s territory, Zhou Tian wouldn’t care at all. For Zhou Tian, the number of enemies coming from the sky would definitely not be too many, and with his strength, dealing with such enemies would be too easy.

The other method, which Zhou Tian is truly concerned about, is for those players who want to travel from their original location to the territories of these monsters; the most suitable method would be by ship.

Taking a ship is certainly the best suited to the players’ needs for long-range attacks. Although ships are not fast, their carrying capacity is strong. I believe if the players were to launch a major attack, other than taking ships to sea, they wouldn’t have a better choice.

However, the fact that players would definitely choose to set sail concerns Zhou Tian greatly. According to Zhou Tian’s initial layout, based on his influence overseas, if those players chose to expand in the direction of his territories, a collision with his Beastmen would be inevitable.

And on those islands claimed by Zhou Tian, most didn’t have many Beastmen left to guard them. Under such circumstances, when they encountered an attack from the player faction, how could they possibly have the ability to resist?

Hence, Zhou Tian would necessarily have to make some deployments to prevent his Beastmen from suffering heavy losses when they ran into those players.

Zhou Tian never believed that his Beastmen could win a hard fight against the players. But, they didn’t need to fight head-on, as dealing with the players wouldn’t be difficult given his conditions. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Players, unlike monsters, don’t need territories to enhance their strength. So, generally speaking, as long as he took precautions and made sure not to let the players envelop them like "dumplings," even if his Beastmen were unlucky enough to encounter the players, they would only need to retreat in time. After all, the players didn’t need to occupy those islands, and it was expected that few players would seek out the monsters on the islands once they were out of sight.

As soon as the players arrived, they would retreat, and once the players left, the islands would be reclaimed. With this tactic, Zhou Tian could easily maintain his dominion over the majority of the islands.

As for the other islands that would catch the players’ eye, it was likely that the players were planning to use them as transit points. Facing the players’ intentions, it was unlikely Zhou Tian could resort to cunning tricks. If he truly didn’t want the players to occupy his territory, then he would have to engage in a fierce battle with the players on those islands. As for whether he could defend those islands in the end, Zhou Tian had no confidence to surmise.

However, with his help, Zhou Tian was confident that unless the players attacked his territory from multiple routes, he should have no problem driving them away with his assistance.

According to his plan, at Zhou Tian’s command, spatial teleportation arrays were set up on the larger overseas islands. Although this arrangement cost Zhou Tian a considerable amount of resources, he believed that with those arrays in place, even if he couldn’t ultimately stop the players’ advance, he would surely gain a significant amount of time.

"You should all be thankful to me!" Thinking of the need to fight those approaching players while those monsters on the Main Plane hostile to him wouldn’t have any trouble. Even at this very moment, he guessed those two emperor-level bosses were still plotting against him, which made Zhou Tian feel suffocated just entertaining the thought.

Nevertheless, Zhou Tian didn’t mind these gains and losses too much because although dealing with players was tough, the rewards for killing players were far superior to those for killing NPCs. With the rewards from killing players, Zhou Tian could amass a significant foundation to recover his military power and create a bunch of elite monsters.

While contemplating the changes that the arrival of the players might bring, Zhou Tian silently took the teleportation array to an overseas island, ready to fight the players as soon as they appeared.

Zhou Tian didn’t have to wait long; once his Beastmen detected the players, that meant the players had already begun to focus their attention on his location. And under such circumstances, given the loose internal structure of the player forces, they couldn’t employ strategies effectively. Having made up their minds to expand in the direction of Zhou Tian’s territories, the players simply formed squads and took to their ships, heading over to Zhou Tian’s lands.