novelraw Chapter 948 - 671: Rainbow Mulberry
Chapter 948 - 671: Rainbow Mulberry
The structure of the Wave Tree Bay Alliance is chaotic, and the internal insect relations are correspondingly intricate.
Behind each leader and deputy leader, there are their supporters.
For example, Mighty Spirit Mountain and Volcano Kingdom, which Dragon Cypress first contacted, belong to the Azure Mica Ant King faction.
The Forest Beard Bee Kingdom is all under the Bloodvine Bee King faction.
The Hawk Wasps Kingdom belongs to the Mountain Pepper Ant King faction.
As compensation, post-war rewards are distributed, and these leaders and deputy leaders strive to secure more resources for their respective factions.
Slots for spawning troops mean quotas for post-war resource interests.
Dragon Cypress also had their own calculations in mind: to minimize the share of wild Divine-Given Seeds as rewards after the war, without delaying battlefield opportunities.
The tiers designed by Dragon Cypress indirectly imply the three levels of post-war resource allocation.
For the first and second tiers, there is a high likelihood of receiving wild Divine-Given Seeds after the war.
As for the third tier, it’s mainly for filling numbers; if there are no special combat merits, it’s basically impossible.
Thus, the base quota is compressed to 250 slots, guaranteeing one Tree Heart each, costing only 250 Tree Hearts, and calculating the combat merit rewards and death compensation, the total cost is around 300 Tree Hearts.
This is a clever method that Dragon Cypress pondered over for a long time, reducing the originally planned 400 Tree Hearts to around 300 through tiered allocation.
However, Dragon Cypress rose to their position through capability and is not associated with many other vested interests. The 300 slots proposed by Dragon Cypress are carefully selected based on factors like loyalty, combat strength, and racial characteristics, and are absolutely fair and impartial.
In the council hall, after intense discussions, the quota for the first and second tiers were finalized at 250 slots.
Dragon Cypress proposed 300 slots, the remaining 50 slots automatically moved to the third tier, and 100 additional reserve slots were nominated by other leaders, deputy leaders, and elite combat team leaders.
Ink Orchid used the Sinking Gold ability to form ultra-hard stone slabs.
Dragon Cypress used the complex continental characters commonly used by the Flame Spider Tribe to engrave the names.
All insects were gathered for a meeting,
formally announcing the refinement ability and the White Refining Beads.
Insect Clan Warriors skilled at flying were sent to the various kingdoms to inform the respective Ant Kings and Bee Kings.
The Dark Maple Dragonfly King organized a logistics transportation team, personally escorted by Ink Orchid, to Rainbow Island to collect White Refining Beads, which were then transported to Volcano Kingdom, Turtle Ant Kingdom, Dragon Stride Mountain, and the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom.
Distributions were then made downstream from these four places.
After more than ten days of busy handling, troop spawning affairs were settled.
Simultaneously, fifty million troops gathered and were assigned tasks.
It was also the coldest time of the year, deep winter. After waiting two more days for a blizzard to pass, Ink Orchid led ten million troops to form the first Vanguard Army to set off.
The Bee Clan army swarmed the skies, with the high-frequency beating of wings drowning out the roar of the wind.
The Ant Army of skilled water movement ran on the waves, rushing ahead.
Thousands of Ice Boats flew high with sails, riding the winds and breaking the waves.
Landing from the north end of the island.
Ink Orchid charged at the forefront: a four-hundred-meter-long Giant Mantis of the Dual System, indestructible and unstoppable, attacked left and right, and uprooted all the stationed troop nests along the coast in one go.
The Bee Clan army followed up, setting fire to the mountains and forests.
The Ant Army of skilled water movement landed, searching for underground water vein insect paths.
Ice Boats successfully docked, and the Ant Army surged onto the land like a tide.
Dragon Cypress, Mountain Pepper Ant King, and Bloodvine Bee King led ten million troops, forming the second Vanguard Army, and followed closely behind, directly targeting the island’s interior.
Azure Mica Ant King and Bee King Sedge led ten million troops to form a reserve army, while the Dark Maple Dragonfly King led four hundred thousand members of the engineering construction team skilled in Earth-Wood Ability for the third batch to land, clearing out any remaining soldiers, sealing off underground water vein networks, and building temporary troop encampments.
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The dual crushing of top-level combat power and troop strength allowed the allied army to quickly establish a foothold in the northern part of the island.
More than thirty kilometers away from the coast, six earth and stone palaces of various sizes rose high on the high ground.
Dragon Cypress, the Great Leader, and five leaders moved in to direct the war.
Millions of troops were stationed around them.
Three hundred communicative Insect Clan Warriors, either resting in the front plaza or hovering in the sky, were ready at any time.
Warriors who communicated messages kept coming and going, continually entering and exiting the leader’s palace.
During wartime, the information transmission mode was also adjusted. Various intelligence information and battle status reports were sent to Dragon Cypress first, who made coordinated decisions and issued action instructions to the five leaders, who then arranged deployments downward.
Dragon Cypress specially arranged three of the fastest Dragonfly Warriors for Ink Orchid, so at least one was always following, reporting movements at a high frequency.
Similarly, twenty-six elite combat teams of the fifth Group Army moved independently, specifically tasked with destroying troop ant nests and beheading the Stone Hunt Blue Ant’s commanding Assistant King. They continuously reported team movements to Dragon Cypress, facilitating quick responses during sudden battle situations.
The first and second Vanguard Armies alternately moved forward, with a daily advance of thirty kilometers, pushing southwards from the north.
Attacking but not occupying, wherever the army passed, ant nests collapsed, waterways were blocked, and orchards were burned.
Destroying all arrangements of the Stone Hunt Blue Ants on the island, giving them no opportunity for guerrilla attacks.
Step by step, every three days, advancing 90 kilometers, the Great Leader and leaders’ command Main Nest would relocate once, and battle damage would be tallied.
The heavily damaged corps would withdraw to Yu’e Island for restocking forces, while pulling units from the third reserve army to fill the gaps.
Step by step, compressing the survival space of the Stone Hunt Blue Ants.
A month later,
The allied army pushed to the southern end of the island.
The entire army attacked, quickly clearing out the remaining enemies.
The logistics personnel responsible for engineering construction swiftly moved, transporting mountains and soil, constructing trapezoid dikes to resist tsunami surges on the plain connected to the Eight Directions Continent.