Mighty Lord

Chapter 1097: 437

The destructive power of players is one thing; their actual strength is another. Zhou Tian did not genuinely fear the players for their strength but rather for their capacity to cause trouble. In Zhou Tian’s eyes, those players were never truly formidable opponents but merely a group who were inadequate in success yet excessive in failure.

Zhou Tian had always been cautious of those players. However, despite his vigilance, he remained confident, based on his strength, that those players would not pose a challenge to him at the time.

Ultimately, it was not the players but the group of NPC demigods who brought real pressure on Zhou Tian at that time. Had it not been for the direct strength of those NPC demigods to potentially overwhelm Zhou Tian, forcing him to handle their threats cautiously, just dealing with the players’ abilities might have been headache-inducing for Zhou Tian, but it certainly wouldn’t have pressured him. Indeed, at that time, Zhou Tian might not even have considered seizing the main city, let alone generate subsequent strategies.

Due to Zhou Tian’s considerations at the time, there was no way he could just ignore those NPCs. Because if he disregarded the NPCs, in the upcoming battle they could interfere, and with the NPCs’ teleportation point abilities, perhaps the NPCs would directly transport their top fighters into the city. And based on the NPCs’ overall capabilities, although they might be far inferior to players in some special abilities, their inherent strength significantly surpassed that of the players.

So, although destroying the players’ respawn point was a significant problem solved, Zhou Tian’s situation wouldn’t have changed at all if he failed to also destroy the NPCs’ teleportation points. In the coming battles, Zhou Tian would still face a great amount of trouble.

However, compared to destroying the players’ respawn points, destroying the NPCs’ teleportation points seemed a bit simpler.

The NPCs were superior in strength compared to the players, but like monsters, as living beings of this world, death for them was genuine, with no resurrection. Assuming nothing unexpected occurred, those NPCs, despite their strength, would not treat attacks from the monster side as trivial matters like the players did. After all, death for a player meant merely some economic and time loss, whereas for an NPC, death meant losing everything.

The NPCs could not afford to lose the main city, but they also could not afford to lose large numbers of troops. It can be said that ordinarily in battle, even though they knew the monsters could mass-produce members with special energy, they would not particularly worry about their own losses. Because if they had to consider too many factors even in battle, they might as well not anticipate defeating their enemies later.

But in face-to-face combat, although the NPCs did not much care about their own losses, knowing that entering the main city placed them at a disadvantage, where perhaps ten warriors might not even equal one monster in terms of life, the NPCs, due to not being able to afford losing the main city, were compelled to deploy troops into the city repeatedly, yet they were clearly bound to hold back during the battle.

Owing to the NPCs’ performance, unlike with the players’ respawn points, the combat had never ceased at the NPCs’ teleportation point, but the level of intensity was significantly milder than at the players’ respawn points.

And because those NPCs had placed their hopes on the players, who exerted much less effort compared to them, under those circumstances, although the NPCs had consistently been defending their teleportation point in the main city, the battle situation had been at a disadvantage from the start. Had it not been for continuous reinforcements from the NPCs while now being on the enemy’s territory, even if Zhou Tian’s monster army couldn’t defeat them, those NPCs would possibly not have decided to keep fighting Zhou Tian.

Thus, although the NPCs were Zhou Tian’s main enemies in this battle, he still had a lot of confidence in taking down their teleportation points.

Unwilling to delay any further, when Zhou Tian reached the NPCs’ teleportation point, his actions did not halt for a moment, and upon arrival, he immediately expanded his personal world. Soon after, countless replicated Beastmen emerged from his personal world and under Zhou Tian’s command, they charged directly at the NPCs. fгeewebnovёl.com

One could say, at that time, Zhou Tian’s attack lacked any novelty – the tactics were hardly different from those used against the players. However, the effectiveness of tactics was all that mattered, not their novelty. As long as the method of attack was effective, even if the tactics were old-fashioned, they would surely remain the preferred method of attack.

And Zhou Tian, relying on his abilities to attack the opponent, naturally didn’t face the possibility of inappropriate tactics. As a result, right after Zhou Tian made his move, the NPC side immediately began to suffer heavy casualties.

Unlike the situation with the players, due to them continuously coming online and possessing combined attacking abilities, Zhou Tian had not dared to commit too many troops in his move against that respawn point, fearing the potential loss of elite forces. In reality, when actually combating the players, Zhou Tian mainly relied on his own abilities to attack the opposition.