Read Novel Full Chapter 1150 - Taming the Old World
Chapter 1150 - Taming the Old World
Defending the South sector was fundamentally no longer a fixed and legally unyielding obligation for Ren.
Given his staggering importance as an individual, it had only been a matter of time. Now that he officially held the title of General, and the terrifying truth of his identity was floating openly across his parapets, it made way less logistical sense to keep him permanently anchored to a single stretch of stone like a common recruit.
Officially, he existed in a bureaucratic stratosphere far above the standard military service requirements. There wasn't a single lower commanding officer alive suicidal enough to write up the 'Glorious General' for missing a graveyard shift.
He was, in the truest, most literal sense of the phrase, basically above the law for this.
But the long zone was still his responsibility. Whether he was standing watch in the freezing rain or sitting comfortably in the city, it was his territory.
And despite the theoretical freedom his new rank granted him, the underlying tactical nightmare remained entirely unchanged: humanity still possessed a terrifyingly small handful of Tamers actually capable of halting a Platinum-tier assault.
The ten distinct sections of the circular Great Wall absolutely had to be guarded by someone possessing the raw firepower to survive that exact level of threat.
And that "someone" was a profoundly scarce resource.
There were barely enough elite Tamers in existence to close the huge wall circle.
If one were to mentally trace the perimeter of the Great Wall moving clockwise, the geographical distribution of humanity's supreme vanguard looked like this:
Immediately after Ren guarding the absolute Southern point, the Southwest sector belonged to Liora. Pushing past Liora, Larissa anchored the West. Then Luna secured the Northwest. Sirius held the true North, operating under the constant close overwatch for help from Selphira if needed be.
From that point onward, the territory belonged to Yino. Liu initiated their defensive line in the North-Yino sector. Taro locked down the Northeast. Victor commanded the East. Min secured the Southeast. And finally, closing the massive circle, Roran's squad held the remaining Southern sector. Roran's group lacked a dual-contract Tamer, but they were heavily supplemented by elite Gold squads like Mira's, and strategically positioned to receive instantaneous, high-speed reinforcement from Ren whenever the perimeter buckled.
Hovering above this static grid, Lin and Zhao operated as a lethal, high-velocity rapid response team for the entire surface. They were fully cleared to instantly mobilize alongside Selphira, Ignatius and dozens of specialized, high-agility Gold Tamers to violently reinforce any sector threatening to breach.
And directly beneath all of them, operating in the suffocating dark, Julius and Arturo directly commanded the subterranean territory.
That massive underground front was intricately subdivided into specialized kill-zones, employing a significantly higher volume of elite Gold Tamers. The subterranean caverns were vastly wider and demanded highly specialized sensory tactics.
But paradoxically, they were also vastly safer.
There were no walls to climb down there. The underground defensive barriers were reinforced to a mind-numbing density approaching Platinum-level hardness, forcing the mutant enemy to squeeze through a handful of agonizingly tight, highly lethal choke points.
Curiously, despite Selthia's net practically living underground herself, these subterranean zones were precisely the sectors she attacked the least.
The fundamental reason was the terrain itself. Her standard, brute-force swarms of Silver-tier mutants were practically useless for gathering intelligence in an environment where they couldn't break the rock or scale some walls.
Furthermore, the subterranean environment was ruthlessly, terrifyingly efficient for the three royal princes who wielded the strong Qilin beast line. And ever since they had perfected their enhanced fusion after the thousand-day training method, the princes were virtually untouchable in the deep earth. Any microscopic vibration in the bedrock violently betrayed a mutant advance miles before it ever reached the choke points. The crushing volume of solid rock surrounding them on all sides granted the princes an overwhelming, asymmetrical advantage. They possessed an infinite supply of ammunition to mold, to reinforce, and to execute crushing ambushes from impossible geological angles that a mindless, Silver-tier intruder lacking elemental mana couldn't even begin to counter.
Attacking the Qilin princes in the subterranean caverns was exactly like trying to punch a trio of Great White sharks in the open ocean. The exact moment the enemy stepped into the water, the environment itself did ninety percent of the killing.
And Ren was currently prototyping subterranean variants of his autonomous wooden towers specifically to install down there. Once that defensive grid went live, the situation was going to become exponentially more agonizing for any corrupted beast suicidal enough to try climbing into the city from below.
The sharks' place was about to be armed with automated bear traps.
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Taking all of that into consideration, Ren's sector still absolutely demanded that Ren remain almost permanently anchored to it.
Or perhaps... it didn't.
In reality, the Southeast sector only needed its defensive grid to physically withstand a catastrophic assault long enough for Ren, or someone possessing a decent level of Platinum-erasing firepower, to arrive and break the siege.
He didn't need to neurotically babysit every single shift, provided he could leave behind a garrison genuinely capable of locking down a Platinum horror and surviving until the rapid response team crashed into the fray.
That trusted garrison, it turned out, was going to be comprised first of his childhood friends and former neighbors from the slums. Li, Tao, and Anuar. They were now two Gold 3 plant Tamers, fighting alongside a massive, heavily armored black-and-white amphibian hovering at the exact same rank. At this stage in their cultivation, they were undeniably formidable thanks to Ren.
And with Lin's rapid-response flight path now heavily skewed toward the Southern sectors to provide immediate reinforcement, and with the elite Maids and royal guards generously loaned to him by his official future wives, the sector's coverage was rock-solid.
He could now use them as his replacement, so he could leave to have fu… leave to finish the very important quest of finding the wood ruins.