NABC Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter 100: Monster Siege
In truth, long before the people from Jinlin High School kept shouting the word “coward,” many of the reservists from the Pearl Military District had already started laughing.
They were so angry they laughed.
What kind of trash did these people think they were?
They actually dared to call Wolf Guard Li a coward?
Ignorance really was fearless.
Yesterday, Wolf Guard Li had hung the corpses of two Fifth Grade assassins in the square for public display.
No matter how strong Song Yan, with her dual S-grade talents, was in your lousy elite tournament, could she possibly be stronger than two Fifth Grades?
Not to mention a waste like Zheng Kuan.
It was a good thing Li Mu had not gone on stage.
Otherwise, one swing of his cudgel would have smashed the platform to pieces.
If anyone had dared shout those two words at Li Mu inside the Abyss-Suppressing Army district, the soldiers there would have torn them apart alive long ago.
What a bunch of clowns.
And after Li Mu led his troops away from the scene, the audience remained immersed in prolonged shock.
Some were worried.
Yang Suying and the others had been sitting in the rear stands behind Blackwater High School the whole time. The instant Li Mu rode out, he had cast her a reassuring look from afar.
Worry written all over her face, Yang Suying hurriedly gathered her things, pulled her younger sister along, and headed outside, wanting to find out what exactly had happened.
Some were stunned.
That included Song Yan and the people from Jinlin High School.
They had been shouting “coward” the whole time just now, yet in the blink of an eye, Li Mu casually raised an arm and effortlessly commanded more than a thousand reserve soldiers.
One had to remember that reserve soldiers were always highly sought-after figures at school. Some of them even disdained associating with powerful martial artists who had not enlisted.
After all, joining the Reserve Force was the same as throwing oneself into mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
No matter how weak their strength might be, how weak could they really be?
Their mental fortitude and real combat ability were both extraordinarily strong.
And no matter where they were, whenever Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers formed a group without a superior officer present, the one with the highest rank automatically became the acting commander.
Everyone had to obey him. That was military law.
Li Mu gave a single order to assemble, and everyone answered at once.
That meant every reservist knew perfectly well that Li Mu’s rank was higher than all of theirs.
That was why their execution was so terrifyingly efficient.
Just who exactly was this Li Mu?
Some were jealous.
Li Xiaohao had originally been delighted to see Li Mu humiliated.
When people called Li Mu a coward, he had secretly savored it for quite a while.
But he had never expected Li Mu to turn around in an instant and become the leader of the Abyss-Suppressing Army reservists, with every single reservist taking his lead.
And more than a few were afraid.
Naturally, Old Madam Ma was one of them.
The moment she saw Li Mu command all the reservists with such ease, she knew that Li Mu did not merely possess a military rank in name.
He held real prestige in the army. Only then could those reservists have responded to him like that.
If Li Mu had truly been a useless wastrel, how could those reservists possibly have respected him so completely?
Her old fists clenched until her knuckles turned white, and her eyes filled with regret and unwillingness.
The regret tore through her to the core.
If Li Mu were still her grandson now, how glorious would her life have been...?
But the largest group, naturally, was the audience as a whole.
At this point, in their eyes, Jinlin High School, which had been shouting “coward” again and again, had already become a joke.
You had schemed so hard in an elite tournament.
To force Li Mu into making a move, you had used every despicable trick you could think of.
All for the sake of winning first place in a competition.
You called him a coward.
Yet the moment the air-raid siren sounded and war broke out in the Abyss, you all went mute and sat there blankly in your seats.
Meanwhile, the “coward” in your mouths had already ridden straight toward the Abyss to face countless monsters and fight for the defense of humankind.
Compared side by side, every one of those people from Jinlin High School who had shouted so fervently looked like a clown.
At the same time, the Pearl Military District had already descended into total chaos.
And not just the Pearl Military District, but the neighboring Red Moon Military District as well.
The two great military districts, Pearl and Red Moon, each formed a semicircle around the area directly beneath the Abyss entrance, together making a circular defensive perimeter.
By the time Li Mu arrived, he did not even wait to take the Abyss Elevator.
He transformed directly into an eagle and dove down from the Abyss entrance.
As he fell, the sight before him made his scalp go numb.
Countless monsters, endless as far as the eye could see, were frenziedly assaulting the military district’s outer perimeter.
The district itself was layered from the inside out.
The innermost ring beneath the Abyss entrance consisted of transportation facilities for moving up and down, including docking stations for airships and the like.
There were also many large Fortresses, the equivalent of shopping centers and supermarkets. Weapons, pills, Spirit Treasures, food, daily necessities, lodging—everything could be found there.
After all, it was not only the Abyss-Suppressing Army that came into the Abyss to kill monsters. There were also huge numbers of civilian martial artists.
Beyond the inner ring were barracks, the bases of the major military districts, plazas, Training Arenas, and similar facilities.
Further out was the Teleportation Area. From there, people could go straight into the wilderness through teleportation gates.
Ordinary soldiers generally only operated as far as that. It was enough for carrying out missions and the like.
Beyond that was yet another layer of buildings: the Death-Row Base. In addition to condemned prisoners, many soldiers were also stationed there.
Past the Death-Row Base was a teleportation array used exclusively by the Death-Row Base.
And beyond that was the final layer.
The city-wall defense line.
Of course, the wall itself could not truly stop monsters. They could easily climb over it.
Its main purpose was as a landmark for marking the outer boundary of the military district.
Once you saw the wall, you knew you had reached the edge.
But when an overwhelming monster siege like today’s took place, the wall finally served a real purpose. As long as it was used as the boundary, the defensive line could be pushed outward from there.
At this moment, the military district had already activated the Linked-Star Grand Defensive Array.
It was a multi-point defensive array formed by linking multiple groups of array banners together.
Between one array banner and the next was a barrier. As long as the array banners were not destroyed, that barrier possessed astonishing defensive power.
And the array banners could be moved. All a unit had to do was protect them to the death.
Given the horrifying scale of today’s battle, Li Mu estimated that it would take at least a hundred array banners to encircle the entire defensive ring of both military districts.
Above the Abyss entrance, civilians had already begun being evacuated outward in widening waves.
The Abyss Elevators and airships were transporting martial artists downward in a constant torrent.
Large numbers of civilian martial artists had also joined the defensive force, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Abyss-Suppressing Army.
The two military districts were in complete chaos.
Li Mu circled once, then flew straight to the command center of Pearl Military District Base One.
He rushed inside, only to find that Wang Longcheng was not in the command room.
Even Adjutant Zhang was gone.
The one directing things inside the command room was a guidance officer who had previously served under Wang Longcheng.
This guidance officer was only at the Fifth Grade, and his rank was not especially high, but fortunately he had always been attached to the command center and was quite familiar with command work.
There was also a group of old professors in the room, all wearing anxious expressions.
If not for the strict order from above forbidding them from moving, they would have thrown their old bones into the fight already.
“Guidance Officer Liu! Twelve hundred Third Grade reservists are outside awaiting battle!” Li Mu strode over and shouted.
The moment Guidance Officer Liu heard that and saw Li Mu, he slammed his fist onto the table. His thick brows loosened for a moment, and he exclaimed excitedly, “Good! Excellent!”
“Guidance Officer Liu, what’s going on? Where are the commander-in-chief and the commanding officer?” Li Mu asked urgently.
Guidance Officer Liu pointed at two of the screens.
“We activated Libra Space!”
“The Libra? How many layers?” Li Mu asked in shock.
“Two layers!”
Li Mu looked toward the screens. Sure enough, two enormous masses of dark clouds were floating in midair, thunder rolling within them.
Libra Space was one of humanity’s defensive measures for responding to battles on an extraordinary scale.
Throughout humanity’s long history of fighting monsters, space-type and array-type martial artists had played a decisive role.
Libra Space and the Linked-Star Grand Defensive Array were both highly representative crystallizations of human wisdom.
Simply put, Libra Space was battlefield partitioning.
Once this technique was activated, the battlefield within an enormous area would be divided into layers.
All monsters within the area that were above the Profound Rank would be drawn into a separate layer to battle all martial artists from the military districts who were also above the Profound Rank.
Liang Huajun, Liao Feng, Wang Longcheng, and the other Profound Rank powerhouses of the military district, as well as Commissioner Lu from the Research Institute, who had only happened to be visiting, had all been pulled into the Profound-Layer Space.
Guidance Officer Liu had said there were two layers.
That meant all monsters and Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers from the Fifth Grade to the Ninth Grade within the area had also been drawn into a separate layer.
Adjutant Zhang and the others were probably in that layer.
And beneath those two masses of dark cloud were the monsters below the Fifth Grade.
Of course, if any person or monster above the Fifth Grade or the Profound Rank entered this region now, they would still be drawn into the corresponding Libra layer.
The main purpose of Libra Space was to split the battlefield.
Soldier against soldier, general against general.
Its primary function was to prevent powerful monsters from wiping out large numbers of martial artists with a single devastating attack.
But this was, after all, the High-Martial World.
In the end, it still came down to whose highest combat power was stronger.
Inside Libra Space, whichever side’s top experts killed off the other side first, the other side would suffer catastrophe.
As long as the monsters in the Profound layer were wiped out, then even if Wang Longcheng’s side had only one survivor left, that person would still be able to slaughter these low-grade monsters as easily as crushing ants.
And the reverse was equally true.
“Why did these monsters suddenly launch such a massive assault on the military district? This place is supposed to be a vacuum zone.”
Li Mu could not understand why the monsters had launched a full-scale siege.
“The Mother Crystal! They came for the Mother Crystal!” Professor Tong said with certainty.