Chapter 1433: Chapter 1433: The First Gate Reward

It was then that everyone realized why Li Yao had always used long-range scatter shooting. With this method, the power of the arrows wasn’t too strong, and they couldn’t hit and instantly kill vital parts, thus unable to instantly take down the enemy forces.

Their confusion at the beginning now turned into understanding.

These insects had average combat effectiveness and were rather fragile both in vitality and defensive power, since they were essentially half-finished even after being recycled by the mother insect.

But these strange bugs had an extremely domineering trait, which was essentially a life-for-life tactic. They were willing to sacrifice their own worthless lives; if they couldn’t kill you, they would at least splatter you with blood.

Moreover, the characteristics of the bugs that hatched were very peculiar, with only three types of attacks: the Beak Blood Flowing Effect, the suicide-style attack of the tail needle with a strong pain effect, and then the spraying of poisonous liquid from their corpses upon death.

No matter which one, they rarely were able to kill elite troops, but they could definitely disgust you and greatly reduce the fighting power of the elite Legion. No, it was more accurate to say that they turned into lambs ready for slaughter.

However, the truth was that even though the war mode had been activated for a while, there were too many ancient godly troops and such troops were hard to come by. Given the short time, and even top-tier guilds didn’t possess an elite Legion as excessively luxurious as Li Yao’s. The gap between the two sides was almost too huge.

If it weren’t for the fact that Li Yao’s summoning quantity was limited, just give him a quota of 200,000 summons, and he would be able to stop a real Invincible Legion. Unlike now, he was in dire straits. It was only after continuous attrition and revealing of weaknesses that Li Yao resorted to using some of his more average trump cards.

The Starfire Army took the initiative to strike, and the United Army basically had no power to resist.

After all, they had launched their final array of total disruption and then suffered the suicide attacks of the strange bugs. Even the surviving soldiers had swollen bumps that were painfully unbearable, and their combat power probably couldn’t reach even half its potential.

The harvest this time was very smooth, almost like a carpet-style rolling crush. Wherever the Starfire Legion went, the United Army fell like wheat.

The entire process did not exceed fifteen minutes.

During this time, more than twenty thousand Essence of War Souls drifted into Li Yao’s cup, but Li Yao didn’t rush to drink it. Instead, he stood on the back of the Battle Scorpion, watching the Legion slaughter.

It wasn’t until the United Army was completely exterminated that Li Yao tilted his head back and drank the third cup of Secret Blood Wine.

After drinking the Secret Blood Wine, the dark purple mist around Li Yao’s body slowly converged. However, Li Yao’s presence was more wickedly charming than ever, his whole person exuding a devilish charisma, yet this wickedness also contained a sense of sanctity and transcendence.

To put it in terms of data, Li Yao was originally somewhat handsome, with a charisma rating of three and a half stars. Now it was at least five stars. His appearance hadn’t changed, but his aura made his charisma skyrocket.

It would be an exaggeration to say that fans and fan girls watching were smitten to the point of losing their minds, but they couldn’t help looking a few more times, finding him pleasing to the eyes, indeed very attractive.

Moreover, there was a change in the ring in Li Yao’s hand. It transformed into a star emitting silver light instead of the eerie spider, and within the star, there faintly flickered a character for “star.”

Li Yao’s third cup of wine once again enriched his equipment, especially the Touch of Darkness, the two had integrated. The ring in his hand had completely become his own, although its specific properties hadn’t changed much. The special effects required Li Yao to become a Demigod to transform.

The only thing that irritated Li Yao was that after the power of the three cups of wine was exhausted, he was unable to remove Ross’s curse.

After all, it’s a curse cast by the life sacrifices of godly projections, it’s definitely not that simple.

Other than that, Li Yao found that after being cursed, the amount of negative emotions in his heart increased, with the dominant emotion being spitefulness; Li Yao wasn’t originally a bloodthirsty and belligerent person, but now he found himself starting to enjoy the bloodshed on the battlefield, feeling utterly intoxicated by victory.

Moreover, he realized it was also affecting his desires, as if he had taken some sort of potency-enhancing medicine, he couldn’t help but admire beautiful women.

Of course, this effect was not obvious for the time being, and he could control it himself, but what worried him more was that he discovered the curse had affected his Mecha as well, carrying over into reality.

This was the real reason why he went to great lengths to obtain Secret Blood Wine, but the curse was too strong; three cups of wine, and it seemed as if the curse didn’t exist at all–not even triggered.

Fortunately, the curse’s impact was not significant; it didn’t affect him much. Having more spitefulness was no big deal, just meant fighting a few more battles, and as for liking beautiful women, he was a normal man who liked them anyway. As long as he didn’t become like Teddy, it wasn’t a big deal to Li Yao. He’d just take it as reverting back to his teenage years, with an increase in hormones.

The front lines of the Starfire Army were not numerous anymore, but the battle had ended, and passage number ninety-one now had an owner.

The other teams in the radiation area of passage ninety-one, the nearest ones, were shrinking back to the seventh defensive line.

However, these teams were full of despair. It would take at least three more hours for the monsters to reclaim the eighth defensive line, but Starfire’s occupation progress bar was almost filled.

More importantly, Starfire had always been monopolizing the first kills in the mainline dungeons, making them the most hopeful seed team.

Many people felt hopeless, thinking that if they wanted to compete for passage ninety-one again, they would probably have to wait until Starfire entered higher levels.

Many teams, upon seeing this result, gave up directly, regrouped, and were assigned by the System to other areas.

Starfire didn’t care what the other teams thought, and the people of Starfire were jubilant, continuously clearing the battlefield, with the corpses first being looted, then the engineers took them to the conversion pools to be transformed into energy units.

Li Yao had started producing cockroaches as soon as the battle began, and for the Worm Tribe’s Legion, he would not create too many, always maintaining a certain number.

Overall, the competition for the first checkpoint was quite rewarding.

As time went by, Starfire finally occupied the post for three hours.

“System: Starfire Team One has activated passage number ninety-one.”

“System: After passing the first checkpoint, please select rewards. The comprehensive mode reward is divided into three parts. The first part is the team adventure reward (the reward is judged based on the number of team members surviving), the second part is the Legion war reward (the reward is also judged based on survival numbers), and the third part is a special reward (the reward is judged based on overall evaluation).”

“System: Adventure evaluation, S++, with three reward options available. First, all team members level up one level. Second, all team members randomly receive one Skill Book (if it’s a skill already learned, using it will level up the skill by one). Third, all team members randomly draw one piece of equipment (high chance of getting dark gold, small chance of getting Gold). Please, team leader, make a selection, and then proceed to settle the second part of the rewards.”

The audience’s eyes shone with excitement; these rewards were just freaking awesome. It’s not that no one had passed through the passage, but the highest anyone got was just S-…