As for the mutants, hybrid plant beings, living plants, and the army of slaves under the wizards who were fighting for their lives not long ago, none of them can be seen on the surface. They have all been buried deep in the earth. Perhaps only by going thousands of meters underground can we find their figures.
The four starships bombarded relentlessly, with their energy pools operating at 90% capacity, leaving only 10% as a redundancy to handle emergencies, while the remaining 90% was used entirely for combat.
This is already the mothership operating at full power; once this state is reached, it will be a matter of life and death.
The bombardment lasted for a full month. At first, it could be done every ten minutes, but after a month, it took half an hour for a round of bombardment to occur.
The wizards' magical power had been completely drained, making it impossible for them to maintain the energy output they had at the beginning.
Even though Leo and Yaoyao didn't need to input their own magic power, and only needed to continuously perform nuclear fission, they were still constantly rubbing their heads.
The constant, repetitive, and tedious calculations would give anyone a headache.
"No, no, I'm going to die!"
After complaining, Yaoyao vanished instantly, afraid of being caught by Leo. He had already run into the Shadow World.
As for earning battle merits for providing energy, those merits are unnecessary!
Leo had to slow down and adjust his mindset. He couldn't change anything on his own, so going slower wouldn't make a difference.
Leo's face was grim and extremely ugly as he looked at the footage on the monitoring video.
After a month of bombardment and 1.2 million secondary cannons, the roots on the surface of Homo sapiens' planet not only did not decrease, but actually increased.
Unable to reach the starship at the edge of the atmosphere, these roots swayed incessantly below, a clear act of provocation.
It's as if it's saying, "Hit me! Come and hit me now!"
Leo no longer held much hope of completely eradicating these roots. As long as the branches of the World Tree remained rooted on the planet, there would be as many roots as needed.
Even if the mothership were powerful enough to destroy an entire planet, these roots could still thrive in the universe.
The key to determining the outcome of this war still lies on the main battlefield. All the four motherships can do is consume the energy of the branches and relieve some of the pressure on the four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard.
As for the main battlefield
Leo's face turned even uglier.
A month has passed, and the figures of the four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard are still at the edge of the video. If they were any further away, they would disappear from the video altogether.
Although Leo couldn't see the details of their battle, the fact that they hadn't made any progress in a month clearly meant they weren't at any advantage, and it seemed like defeat was inevitable.
During a lull in the battle, Leo asked Vasily if there were any backup plans, only to be told that the mothership did not.
In their view, with four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard leading the team, victory was a certainty, but they were incredibly unlucky and encountered a level-seven life form!
Who would have thought that a terrifying Level 7 life form standing at the pinnacle of the universe would occupy a miniature world?
A normal micro-world cannot accommodate the arrival of a Level 5 life form, just as a gopher's home cannot house a tiger.
But now, four mammoths have crammed into the gopher's home, and instead of bursting it, they've trapped them inside.
If it weren't for the support of this level seven World Tree branch, this tiny planet would have been destroyed by the aftermath of the war long ago. How could it have withstood such an unimaginable battle so well!
The probability of a level-seven life form appearing in a miniature world is so small as to be almost zero!
"Should we run away?"
Yaoyao peeked her head out from the shadows and made the worst suggestion.
"How can we escape? This place is extremely far from the Wizard World. Even a starship using the Stellar Leap takes twelve years. We can't get back."
Looking at the blurry video of the battle, Leo realized that he had no other choice but to trust the four Stigmata Great Wizard.
Hearing Leo's words, Yaoyao sank into the shadows in despair. If they were close enough to the Wizard World, he could take Leo away through the Shadow World.
But it's too far now; even through the Shadow World, Leo wouldn't be able to hold out until the time to return.
Moreover, Benji was also there; they couldn't possibly abandon Benji and run away alone.
The bombardment by the four motherships continued for another three months. By this time, they could only launch one round every half day. Almost all the wizards had exhausted their magic power, and even the energy in the motherships' energy pools had been largely depleted.
The mothership's combat effectiveness has decreased by 56%.
Leo had seen energy warnings multiple times on the information platform. If the energy pool's energy dropped to 10%, they would be unable to initiate the Stellar Leap back to the Wizard World.
Unfortunately, the four motherships could only maintain the lowest possible intensity of bombardment, continuously consuming the energy of the World Tree branches. Even the motherships' main energy cannons could only launch a 100% attack once every three days.
Such attacks, used to assist the four Stigmata Wizard on the battlefield, are better than nothing.
But now, the mothership can't help with anything except these things.
Seeing that the information platform was filled with updates about insufficient energy, Leo's heart sank.
There is a real possibility that we will fail again!
But even four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard lost. Does this mean the Supreme Lord intervene?
Just as Leo seemed resigned to his fate and awaited defeat, the latest updates on the information platform suddenly roused Leo.
[ The World Tree branch's energy has dropped to 71%, reaching the attack energy threshold.]
[The mothership ceases attacking and shifts to a defensive stance.]
[All motherships, please immediately leave the planetary area and enter space to avoid the impending energy impact.]
The moment after the information was displayed on the information platform, the mothership's loudspeaker announced, "All wizards, cease energy input. The mothership is about to enter space. Please stop any strenuous activity."
"All wizards, cease energy input. The mothership is about to enter space. Please stop any strenuous activity."
The fact that it happened three times in a row indicates that a major event is about to occur.
"Energy shock?"
"What kind of energy impact would require the mothership to retreat into space?"
Leo's gaze was fixed on the battlefield where the four Stigmata Great Wizard were fighting. Currently, the mothership's energy was only around 30%, so it couldn't unleash a significant attack.
Therefore, the impending energy surge can only come from the battlefield!
"They can only attack when the energy of the World Tree branch has decreased to a certain level. It seems to be a trump card they've been hiding all along, one that they didn't even tell the commanders about."
Leo muttered to himself, his expression shifting from gloom to joy, like clouds parting and the sun shining. The four Stigmata Great Wizard possessed a hidden trump card; they would not fail.
"A trump card? There's a hidden trump card?"
Upon hearing Leo's low murmur, Yaoyao instantly jumped out of the shadows and curiously looked at the surveillance video.
If they have a trump card, then they won't have to die; they can live again!
The starship trembled and rapidly flew into the depths of space, while the image on the video was zooming out.
First, the four Stigmata Great Wizard disappeared, then the branches of the World Tree disappeared, and finally, all that remained in the entire scene was a dark, ugly, and cold planet.
The atmosphere on the planet's surface has all dissipated into space, making this Homo sapiens-influenced planet a complete no-go zone for life.
Leo kept a close eye on the information platform and the surveillance video, afraid of missing any important information.
Soon, a flashing message on the information platform caught Leo's eye. As the short string of characters imprinted itself into his brain, both Leo and Yaoyao gaped open.
"So that's their trump card!!!"
Yaoyao extremely shocked, and without realizing it, she tightened her grip on Leo's shoulder.
[ The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard activates the Sword of Winter; the mothership is too far away, no need to worry about the energy impact reaching it!]
Just that one sentence left Leo speechless with shock. Only then did he remember that when the rescue army first arrived at his location, he had seen a sword hanging at the waist of the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard through a video.
At the time, I was puzzled: how did the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard become so rich?
It can even be equipped with weapons!
Now it's clear that the sword didn't Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, but to the Supreme Lord — the Sword of Winter!
A weapon of Supreme Lord, indeed a trump card!
Just as the information flashed on the information platform, a blue longsword appeared in the upper right corner of the surveillance video of the Homo sapiens planet.
On screen, it looks like an ordinary blue sword aura, no different from the sword aura released by a low-level wizard.
However, if you compare it to the Homo sapiens planet where the sword energy originated, you'll understand how terrifying this sword energy truly is.
This sword energy was two-thirds the length of the planet Homo sapiens, exceeding the planet's boundaries, with its very tip reaching into the universe!
Leo watched as the blue sword energy in the video seemingly slashed down slowly but actually at lightning speed, directly piercing into the planet. The sword energy then disappeared without a trace, as if nothing had ever happened.
The distance was too great; I couldn't perceive anything.
It's like watching a silent movie; the images on the screen don't move at all, so you have no idea how far the battle has progressed.
The information platform was eerily quiet. Leo felt as if all the wizards were staring intently at the next scrolling message, just like him, without daring to blink.
With the outcome hanging in the balance, it's no wonder these wizards were nervous.
Just as Leo was scratching his head in frustration, the motionless scene on the video changed.
In the lower left corner of the planet, a very short, faint blue sword shadow appeared.
Leo dared not breathe, fearing that she was imagining things.
But the sword shadow immediately grew larger and longer, and Leo's heart skipped a beat; he hadn't misread it.
The sword energy entered from the upper right and exited from the lower left, cutting through a watermelon with ease, just like a sharp long knife!