Permissions Override, Unexpected Gains!
The 120,000-recruitment target for the front line was met within just one month after opening a breakthrough through the Ao Race.
However, the City Beast did not immediately leave for the front line after the target was reached. Instead, it wandered through the Hundred Severed Mountain Range, stopping and starting along the way.
By straight-line distance, it had traveled only about three hundred kilometers from the Ao Race's settlement. Its efficiency was absurdly low.
"According to my investigation during this period, nothing strange happened around the City Beast that night. The only thing was that a bolt of lightning struck it. I don't know whether that was what caused the problem."
"Lightning?" Su Mo furrowed his brows slightly.
After seeing the Hope's abnormal attributes, he absolutely refused to believe that lightning could harm the City Beast. A Demigod Rank being should not be this fragile.
Yet the City Beast had indeed suffered some kind of attack that night, causing the Shadow Beast Race's control to fall from 51% to 47.07%, making it impossible to drive the City Beast onward.
"Could it be that the lightning had no effect on the City Beast but caused tremendous damage to the Shadow Beast Race?"
Although the Shadow Beast Race inhabited the City Beast's body, they were fundamentally just ordinary foreign races. There was indeed a possibility that they could be harmed by lightning.
Su Mo guessed inwardly and asked casually, "How has the weather been in the Hundred Severed Mountain Range lately?"
"Not very good. The autumn rains have come one after another."
"Oh? What about thunderstorms? Have you observed the City Beast's movements then?"
"Hmm." Connie thought for a moment before nodding.
"I'm not sure about thunderstorms, but whenever it rains, the City Beast stops. That's why they