Chapter 851
The wasteland didn't have many resources, and the Empire had made sure to empty its buildings before the battle . The only real gains of the invaders were the same region and the contents of the space-rings of the fallen . Still, the leaders of the factions would divide them privately .
Wars were usually harmful to both the attacking and defending sides, and it was possible to determine how worth that effort was only years after the battles were over . For now, the three organizations had only gained some random resources and a large amount of land .
Of course, their primary interest was to weaken the Empire, so they didn't care too much about their temporary losses . Yet, the overall number of cultivators in the world was decreasing at high speed due to those fights .
The crisis that those Mortal Lands were waiting for had finally arrived . The greed of the cultivators had been the cause of that trend .
Similar events had repeated themselves across the millennia, as if in a constant cycle of growth and mutual destruction . The various organizations of the world would increase their number of cultivators until those territories became too crowded, and they felt the need to expand .
In the current political system, the war had begun due to the sudden weakness of the strongest organization .
The invading forces aimed to put the Empire in a situation where it had to surrender all its resources and swear ponderous oaths that enforced its cooperation . After all, it would be pointless to defeat the Empire if it ended up destroying all its riches just to hurt the winners .
Since there hadn't been many injured in the battle over the wasteland, the invaders resumed their assault reasonably soon . After only a month of rest and analysis of the remaining territories of the Empire, the army of the three forces marched toward a region filled by small rivers .
That region was more open compared to the forest next to it, so it would be easier for the invaders to spot eventual traps and similar . They were choosing to take care of the territory that appeared easier to conquest first .
The army of the Empire was waiting for them as usual, but its troops didn't have the same stern expressions that they had at the beginning of the invasion . They looked tired and dispirited as if they knew that they were about to lose again on that day .
Of course, the cultivators on the invading side didn't let that scene affect their judgment and charged ahead just as they did in all the previous battles .
The two armies clashed in a matter of seconds, and the Empire resorted to its usual defensive measures to contain its losses and make up for their fewer assets . The formations in place there created the blue pillars and the shadows, but they didn't add any new defense .
Only the human cultivators saw the defending troops making use of the environment to their advantage . Large packs of rank 4 Swarming Piranha filled the rivers, and most heroic cultivators would die if they happened to fall inside them .
It was needless to say what happened to the human troops that stepped inside those waters . Their entire bodies vanished before they could even scream in pain .
However, those magical beasts were too wild to turn them into a weapon against the experts in the heroic ranks, so the battles on the sky saw only cultivators fighting in groups of various numbers . Only a few experts dared to dive into one versus one battles among those messy fights .
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