NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 32: A Resounding Victory
"A Lord?"
"It's a Lord-level creature, and Silver-tier at that!"
"Xu Luo actually has a Lord too. He's been hiding it well!"
The observing students, with their keen insight, quickly deduced from the Queen's ability to directly confront the Burrowing Drake without falling behind that it was also a Silver-tier Lord-level creature.
Initially, they thought Xu Luo was just lucky to have a mutated species, unsure of its future potential.
But now, knowing he possessed a Silver-tier Lord creature, they changed their minds.
Because this creature was clearly in line with the Zerg lineage.
This meant that
the claim that Xu Luo's species couldn't reach Silver-tier was self-defeating.
Silver-tier creatures weren't as common as cabbages.
Even with their extraordinary backgrounds, they hadn't raised their own species to the Silver tier at this point.
With their family wealth, it wasn't that they couldn't afford Silver-tier species, but there were other issues involved.
Buying a Silver-tier was just the beginning. First, you needed to feed them, solve their living arrangements, then cultivate and enhance their strength, raise their faith level, arm them with equipment - all of this required gradual cultivation and couldn't be rushed.
If your Divine Realm could only support a group of Bronze-tier units, but you insist on buying Silver-tier, that's possible, but when the Divine Realm can't meet the logistical needs, you'd have to spend extra money to make up the difference. This way, forget about development, you'd have to constantly pour money in just to maintain the current situation, and over time, you'd be slowly dragged down and left behind by others.
Moreover, family support for them had limits; it wasn't unlimited.
More often, they needed to do things themselves.
To be honest, many people didn't have Silver-tier Lord creatures.
"Actually..."
Wang Xiaoling, among the crowd, watched this scene thoughtfully.
Initially, she also worried that Xu Luo couldn't break through to Silver-tier, but she wanted to take a gamble, so she approached him quickly. Now it seemed he had long recognized his own potential, not giving others a chance to take advantage. No wonder he refused so decisively yesterday.
With the Queen joining the battlefield, relieving pressure on the front lines, the other Zerg quickly dealt with the remaining Dragon Blood Warriors, then joined in surrounding the Burrowing Drake.
The Queen's combat style wasn't flashy.
It had the Beetle Zerg's thick shell, providing strong protection, and the Mantis Zerg's sharp blade arms, eight of them, with strong attack power. It also had two pairs of giant cicada wings like the Mantis Zerg, allowing it to fly and pounce, and the ability to spray acid like the Acid Zerg.
From a distance, the Queen spat a stream of acid. Compared to the Acid Zerg's attack, this was a torrent of acid.
The Burrowing Drake initially didn't take it seriously, but as the acid approached, it sensed danger and hurriedly retreated. But by then, it was too late.
The acid sprayed all over the Burrowing Drake's body. Its originally hard scales made a "hiss" sound upon contact with the acid, being continuously corroded.
Soon, a smell of burnt flesh wafted over.
Accompanied by the Burrowing Drake's painful roar.
In the interval of the Burrowing Drake's retreat, the Queen's two pairs of cicada wings fluttered, directly lifting its enormous body into the air, then charging towards the Burrowing Drake.
It was hard to imagine that such a behemoth could possess such agile movements.
Once in close quarters, the Queen's eight sharp blade arms all struck mercilessly at the Burrowing Drake, causing eight deep, bone-deep wounds.
The Burrowing Drake roared in pain, the horn on its head flickering with earthy yellow light, immediately launching a counterattack.
But the single-target damage of earth-element magic was limited. Low-level magic couldn't harm the Queen, hitting its thick shell without causing any pain.
Meanwhile, the wounds on the Burrowing Drake's body were continuously oozing blood.
At this moment, the Zerg began to charge in waves, some even climbing up the Burrowing Drake's body, directly crawling into its wounds, continuously attacking from the inside.
Acid Zerg crawled in and self-destructed inside, causing massive damage. More importantly, the remaining acid caused even greater harm, causing black blood to flow from the wounds.
Even with the Burrowing Drake's terrifying recovery ability, it struggled to withstand such damage.
Especially now that many small Mantis Zerg had crawled into the wounds, wreaking havoc, while the Queen engaged it head-on.
Although the Burrowing Drake was fighting back, its tail violently striking the ground, there was a sense of impotent rage.
From the Burrowing Drake's mouth came bursts of lava-like dragon breath, burning a patch of nearby Zerg, but compared to the Zerg's numbers, these losses were negligible.
Seeing his Burrowing Drake on the verge of collapse, Xiang Xun, who had been complacent, finally panicked. He feared that if he hesitated any longer, his Burrowing Drake would be gone.
Losing the Dragon Blood Warriors had already cost him tens of millions. If he lost the Burrowing Drake too, this time he would lose over a hundred million. Even though the Xiang family was wealthy, such losses couldn't be completely ignored. Causing such huge losses, he wouldn't be able to expect family support in the future.
"Xu Luo, stop! I... I surrender!"
No matter how unwilling, Xiang Xun had to bow his head at this point.
But how could Xu Luo possibly listen to him? This was combat mode, and the only victory condition was to completely annihilate all of the opponent's units on the battlefield.
Therefore, the Queen and the Zerg's attacks never stopped.
Moreover, Xu Luo had never forgotten that it was always Xiang Xun who had been provoking him. Now that he had the upper hand and the other surrendered, but if their positions were reversed and he was at a disadvantage, would the other accept if he surrendered?
Xu Luo thought not. The other would likely humiliate him even more.
Xiang Xun could only watch helplessly as all his Dragon Blood Warriors and the Burrowing Drake were engulfed by the Zerg swarm.
He didn't continue to deploy forces but directly disconnected and came out of the game pod. He stared at the game pod where Xu Luo was, said nothing, and walked straight through the crowd.
At this time, Xu Luo didn't rush to leave the battlefield. Instead, he commanded the Mayflies to collect all the Dragon Blood Warrior corpses on the battlefield, especially not missing the Burrowing Drake's body.
He even had a sudden idea and commanded the Mayflies to collect some of the battlefield ground, but unfortunately, the battlefield directly ejected his consciousness.
Clearly, this was not allowed to be damaged.
Even so, Xu Luo was already very happy.
This time, he had made a killing.
