Chapter 392: Chapter 87: You mean? Our allied army was crushed by a mere Ancient Giant Dragon?

As the days passed, the Plane War officially began.

[Warning! The "Plane War" is about to begin!]

[A Plane Gate will burst open at the edge of your Lord World! Enemy forces from the Otherworld, a torrent of Divine Chosen Armies and native troops, will pour out from within and sweep over everything!]

[Mission: Lock onto and defeat all enemy "Heaven’s Chosen Rulers"!]

[Failure Condition: If you fail to annihilate or force the surrender of all Heaven’s Chosen Rulers, this "Plane War" will never end, continuing until you, a Heaven’s Chosen Ruler, are defeated and fall, and your own Lord’s Hall is permanently destroyed!]

[Current Status! Combatant information for both sides has been publicly disclosed! 1 vs. 8!]

[Hua Country Realm Plane #10086 will face the Eight Realms Alliance Army alone—Sakura Country Realm Plane #134, Eagle Country Realm Plane #9872, Cosmic Country Realm Plane #190212...]

Elevator: "Huh? What does this mean? 1 vs. 8? Is that Tingfeng guy really that arrogant? Does he have any idea how insane the population of eight Lord Planes is? How dare he refuse to call for a single reinforcement!?"

Beetle King: "Stupid Hua Country people! I knew they were arrogant! Now’s the perfect time for us to crush these dumb pigs! Kill! Fuck them up!"

Issac: "Everyone, don’t underestimate him! His personal strength is absurd! Even with eight of us against one, we might not win!"

Hoboken Nightingale: "What the hell is there to be afraid of! If we can’t even win an eight-on-one, we might as well go home, take a bath, and go to bed! Forget about being Divine Chosen Lords!"

Emodare: "Yeah, exactly! He’s being so arrogant! We should take this chance to teach him a brutal lesson!"

Star of the Night Sky: "Useless Hua Country people!"

I’ll Give You the Universe: "Watch me, Song Zhimin, the Cosmic Country’s number one War God, crush Tingfeng!"

"..."

Just as they spoke, the sky above Qin Feng’s Lord World suddenly split apart as if cleaved by a giant axe, and the Plane Gate, wreathed in chaotic energy, boomed open!

The swirling, violet runes on the gate were so bright they were blinding, and in the churning Darkness behind it, countless eyes seemed to be spying on this land. The deafening sound of space tearing made the very earth tremble slightly.

In an instant, an irresistible, formless force erupted from within the gate. Like a colossal hand covering the heavens and the earth, it violently seized the bodies of all the foreign Lord Players who had chosen to join the war.

In less than half a second, their bodies transformed into chaotic streaks of light and were brutally dragged through the Plane Gate.

「The next second.」

The streaks of light crashed like meteorites onto the borderlands of Qin Feng’s Lord World.

On the desolate, black-rock Gobi Desert, dust billowed. The sounds of shattering armor, clashing bones, and furious roars intertwined as densely packed figures struggled to their feet amidst the dust, their eyes filled with hostility toward this land.

However, before the foreign Lord Players could even arrange their Divine Chosen Armies into a proper formation, someone in the group’s expression changed drastically as they became the first to notice something was wrong.

"Huh?"

"What’s going on?"

"There isn’t a single defender here?"

"What do you mean?"

"This is a long-distance Plane invasion! The game system gave all the defending Lord Players a full week to prepare! Logically, they should have already built high walls and fortresses in this borderland! They should have set up siege engines and defense towers everywhere and laid an inescapable trap!"

"If they’d done that, we would have been met with an overwhelming assault the moment we emerged from the Plane Gate. Our Divine Chosen Teams would have probably lost more than half their numbers in an instant!"

"But now..."

Unable to hold back, someone nearby blurted out a guess:

"Could it be?"

"Did they bet on the wrong landing point for us?"

"Did they think the main force of our Eight Realms Alliance Army would be all clumped together and land through another, closer Plane Gate, then just march straight in and attack Tingfeng’s Lord’s Hall directly?"

"Is that why they didn’t station a single soldier in this borderland?"

Another person stroked their chin and analyzed in a deep voice:

"That’s a possibility."

"But the probability is extremely low." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Think about it. We were also wary of him pulling a ’gate camp,’ so if we chose to land in a remote area far from his main city, his follow-up Divine Chosen Teams wouldn’t be able to provide support in time. We could then quickly take this area, establish a stable beachhead for the invasion, and hold it until we conquer his Lord’s Hall."

His tone shifted, and his eyes grew sharp.

"On the other hand, if we landed directly in the central region near the core of his territory and failed to break through right away, his Extraordinary Camps would continuously train new soldiers to throw onto the battlefield. At that point, we’d likely be dragged into an extremely Passive war of attrition with no chance of making a comeback."

"So, as long as the guy has a brain, he would’ve set up at least some basic outposts in the borderlands..."

Just then, someone nearby clapped their hands and shouted in a gruff voice:

"Bah!"

"Why are you thinking so much about it!"

"Who cares if they guessed wrong or are playing tricks!"

"Since they didn’t put a single soldier at our ’birth point,’ what the hell are you hesitating for? Just send the main army to charge their capital city! We just need to fuck them up, and it’s over!"

"Getting tangled up in all this useless crap here is a total waste of time!"

As he spoke, the man waved his hand impatiently and directly commanded his Divine Chosen Army to march forward recklessly.

He wasn’t worried about going the wrong way at all.

This was an iron-clad rule of Plane Wars: the direction the Plane Gate faced when it opened would inevitably be the location of the enemy Heaven’s Chosen Ruler’s core.

Even if the Heaven’s Chosen Ruler later moved, the foundation of their territory, their people, and their core city would always remain in the direction the Plane Gate originally faced, as if anchored by an invisible law.