"Can't you see? Would he work this hard if he wasn't pushed?"
Seeing Leo's rapid progress, Yaoyao stood aside and took the opportunity to teach those Gulu Beast a lesson. If Leo wasn't greedy for big things, why would he be working so hard?
Most of the time, the expedition missions look busy, but they're not actually that busy. It's only now, to pay off my debts, that I'm truly fighting hard.
Leo was furious at Yaoyao Yao's tone, but there was nothing he could do because what Yaoyao said was true.
A year later, thanks to the combined efforts of Leo and 30,000 Gulu Beast, the battle merits from breaching the metal fortress reached one million.
At this moment, Leo straightened his back, let out a long breath, and felt great to be free of debt.
"Slow down, slow down, what's the rush?"
No longer troubled by debt, Leo reverted to his true nature, becoming less proactive, and the number of metal fortresses he breached each day plummeted to one-third of what it used to be.
Hearing Yaoyao's angry shouts, he looked over curiously, wondering who dared to provoke him.
It turned out that the starship was transporting the wreckage of metal fortresses to the mothership. Although these metal fortresses had not transformed into metal giants and the energy level within the metal was only low, they were still quite valuable.
What Leo didn't understand was that half a year ago, the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard suddenly ordered that all the remains of the breached metal fortress be transported back.
At the time, Leo was preoccupied with paying off his debts and didn't have the time or energy to deal with these matters, so he just let them be.
Looking at it now, this situation seems a bit strange.
Sending out a large number of people to transport the metal fortresses would not only slow down the expedition, but the wreckage of these metal fortresses would also take up too much space.
Wouldn't it be better to wait until the expedition ends and the spatial portal opens before gradually transporting the slaves back to the Wizard World?
Why the rush? Why do you need to ship it back now?
Yaoyao didn't want to know why the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard was in such a hurry; he just kept jumping up and down as he watched the fortress wreckage being transported back.
What a wonderful energy metal! They didn't even give him a chance.
These warships followed behind them; for every ship Leo and the Gulu Beast army captured, they took it with them.
So Leo and his group were like locusts in flight, leaving nothing behind in their wake, even taking away the corpses of the Cyborg.
Leo shook his head. He couldn't understand many of the Elemental Body Tempering Stigmata Wizard's operations, and the person was also strange. Fortunately, he no longer owed the wizard battle merits, so the wizard couldn't easily interfere with him. The remaining expedition time was time to earn battle merits for himself.
Others start their expeditions to make money for themselves, he started in the eighth year, there's nothing wrong with that.
Leo originally intended to lead the Gulu Beast to continue fighting on the front lines, but before five months had passed, he received a summons from the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard, summoning all wizards and slaves back to the mothership's location.
The information scrolling across the information platform said that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard was about to launch a general offensive and that he would personally arrange the tactics.
Leo was constantly monitoring the changes in information, but he saw no sign of an impending decisive battle. As always Cyborg were slow to react, only launching a counterattack when the enemy was right at their doorstep.
The wizard army is advancing at a rapid pace; at the current rate, it will likely take over the entire metal fortress of the Rota World in about twenty years.
Launching a full-scale attack now means either something has happened to the opponents, or there has been a change in the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard.
"Let's go, and see what our Stigmata Wizard has to do."
Leo sat on the back of Benji, with a vast army of Gulu Beast behind him. After more than eight years of fighting, among the more than 20,000 level one Gulu Beast, seventy-three level one Gulu Beast broke through the level barrier and entered level two, greatly enhancing the strength of the Gulu Beast army.
While their numbers may appear to be decreasing, their actual combat effectiveness is increasing—this is exactly the kind of change Leo wanted!
Two months later, Leo returned to where the mothership was located.
In the past two months, the Rota World has undergone dramatic changes, and the metal fortresses that were previously dormant and unaware of taking the initiative to attack have changed.
Without being attacked, and even without seeing the wizard army, they transformed from their original stationary metal fortresses into walking metal figures.
They weren't seventy-meter-tall, level-three metal giants, but rather metal figures with various appearances.
In the footage captured by the reconnaissance wizard, some metal fortresses melted directly into hundreds of small metal figures, no stronger than level two and no more than five meters tall, but made entirely of metal, clearly indicating extremely strong level two defense.
There were also five small metal giants that melted into the metal fortress. These were the thirty-meter metal giants that Leo had seen before. Although they had level three strength, they were not very strong and belonged to the lower level of level three. But no matter what, they were still level three strength.
Some metal fortresses transformed into 70-meter-tall metal giants, easily reaching level three strength. At the beginning of the transformation, the five Cyborg responsible for controlling the metal giants were not yet coordinated well, and their strength was limited.
The key is that their current transformation location is far from the battlefield. By the time they arrive at the battlefield, they will have already adapted to the changes in strength, and the strength they unleash will inevitably be that of a mid-to-high level three combat force.
The remaining metal fortresses in the Rota World rapidly transformed, from level one and two to level three, and they were everywhere, their numbers even more terrifying than the wizard army.
The unfortunate premonition Leo had when he first discovered that the metal castles could transform has come true: all the metal castles in the entire plane will transform, and the wizard army will definitely suffer a great loss.
That's the situation right now!
After more than eight years of efforts to control the pollution, the smog in Rota World has improved considerably; at least aerial footage is now clearer.
The surveillance video shows that all the metal beings on the Rota plane are charging towards the mothership.
They rushed toward the mothership without any formation, battle coordination, or any discernible command.
According to data assessed by the mothership, the number of metal humans controlled by Cyborg exceeds three billion!
These are not three billion flesh and blood lives, but three billion metal beings, a considerable number of which are metal beings with level three combat power.
A level three combatant far surpasses the level three warriors in the wizard army!
The visible army of wizards is no match for the Metal Legion.
No wonder the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard urgently recalled all his wizards and slave army; it turns out he knew the Cyborg were about to attack and wanted to avoid the Cyborg army's sharp edge.
Leo had assumed that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard would rely on the mothership, warships, and the powerful defensive capabilities of the Polyhedral Fortress to wage a protracted war against the Cyborg army, significantly depleting Cyborg numbers. However, when Leo saw the situation below the mothership, he realized he was completely wrong; there was absolutely no indication that a major battle was about to begin.
Below the mothership lay the ocean of metal fortress wreckage.
It is literally an ocean, because these metals have long since lost their original appearance as fortresses and Cyborg remains, and have come to life to form a metal ocean.
Under the sunlight, it has a shimmering effect, and even when the wind blows, there are flowing ripples.
If you didn't know the weight of these metals, you might easily mistake it for an ocean with a different texture at first glance.
The ocean of activated metals is so vast that it stretches as far as the eye can see; even tens of millions of slaves and wizard armies standing on its shores wouldn't feel crowded.
Now all the wizards and slave armies are waiting outside this sea of metal, and no one knows what to do next.
As the Cyborg army rapidly approached, they received no mission assignments, no defensive lines were established, and everyone simply stood there quietly waiting.
In the sky, warships towed the wreckage of metal fortresses into the sea of metal. Within moments, the once-sturdy metal fortresses melted into the ocean.
Like other wizards, Leo waited for more than ten days by the sea of metal, watching helplessly as the army of Cyborg drew ever closer.
There were no updated mission messages on the information platform; the scrolling messages were all about the distance of the Cyborg army from this location.
The command center was also unsure of what to do next. When Leo asked them what to do, they simply told the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard to wait.
The Stigmata Wizard has spoken; let's wait and see.
As the Cyborg army drew ever closer, many wizards grew restless. With the enemy practically at their doorstep, they had yet to take any action.
Those Cyborg are covered in thick layers of energy metal, making them extremely defensive. If you don't prepare in advance, you'll suffer a great loss if you rush into battle.
In terms of actual combat strength, a metal man controlled by Cyborg of the same level is stronger than a slave and second only to a wizard.
But how many wizards are there? Only five million.
And the metal army commanded by Cyborg numbers three billion!
Just as all the wizards were growing impatient, Cyborg army was less than a hundred kilometers away, the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard finally appeared above the sea of metal.
The enormous true form attracted all elemental energy to converge, and the distorted light around its body reflected a terrifying, deadly radiance.
"Hahaha, the two World Lord of the Rota World were so badly defeated by me that they dared not even step out of their turtle shells, so they sent their subordinates here to die."
"I'll show them right now that those two World Lord are no match for me, and their useless, incompetent subordinates are no match for you either."
"Don't they have thick metal layers as a defense?"
"Today I will give you the same metal layer as a defensive measure, so they can see that our wizard expeditionary army is always the strongest."
Before the wizards could figure out what was happening, the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard waved his hand, unleashing a raging wind that swept a group of slaves into a sea of metal.
These slaves were completely unprepared. Just moments before, they had been bowing to the Stigmata Wizard, only to be swept into a sea of metal the next second, the churning metallic waters engulfing their terrified eyes.