"Shit... 10 Exploration Beacon Cards, 3 Directional Teleportation Cards... What are you planning to do? You’re not planning to just sit tight anymore, are you?" Hua looked at the list William had sent and immediately guessed what he was up to.
Exploration Beacons were typically used by invaders, and high-level gods usually didn’t buy them if they planned on staying safe and developing peacefully.
"Well, I took your advice, Hua Bro, and decided to make a quick fortune in this region. After all, it’s 'no corpse, no bridge-building,' and 'kill people, wear gold belts,'" William responded with a sly grin.
"Shit, are you mocking me? How is bridge-building 'without corpses'?" Hua responded, trying to hide his irritation with a forced tone, "Let me tell you, the logistics development route is really good. In 40 years, I’ll ignite the divine fire and live a peaceful and comfortable life!"
Hua had already prepared the items William needed while speaking: "Pay up, hurry. Exploration Beacons are 100 divine power each, and low-level Directional Teleportation Cards are 200 each. A total of 1600 divine power."
Given their relationship, they often exchanged jokes when meeting.
"Here you go, Hua Bro, take it. I'm off to get rich," William said as he received the items.
"Wait, bro. Even though I keep encouraging you to invade, you need to know it’s risky. Once you make your decision, be prepared for a potential failure. If things go wrong, just run, and make sure to keep your core followers and domain core safe!" Hua immediately stopped William as he was about to leave, pulling out 20 cards from the light sphere and handing them to him.
William immediately reached out and took the cards, inspecting them. 10 were Blank Seal Cards, and 10 were Wasteland Terrain Cards.
"Use the Wasteland Terrain Cards to build the invasion portal. If things go wrong, it will minimize your losses. Consider the Blank Seal Cards as a bonus. Good luck and crush them!" Hua said seriously, his voice full of sincerity.
"Thanks, Hua Bro. My luck won’t be that bad. Don’t worry," William reassured him. After saying that, he waved the cards gently with his light tendrils and teleported back to his domain.
Following Hua's advice, William first placed the 10 Wasteland Terrain Cards at the edge of his domain, then threw the 10 Exploration Beacons into the void in different directions outside the domain.
Now, all he could do was wait patiently. With some rare free time, William waved his hand, and a light screen appeared in front of him. He then scanned his entire domain with his divine sense.
Name: Swarm Overlord
Level: Demigod
Divine Fire: Not ignited
Divinity: None
Divine Mark: None
Divine Traits: Environmental Adaptation, Genetic Adjustment
Divinity Points: 1
Divine Power: 614
Faith Power: 73,000,000
Core Followers: Insects
Followers Count: Queen Ant 1; Piercing Wolf Spider 4,000,000; Poison Stinger Dragonfly 1,000,000; Logistics Spider Ant 1,000,000; Scimitar Cockroach 2,000,000; Jumping Bug 2,000,000…
After the last battle, William had restored the number of Poison Stinger Dragonflies to 1 million. The Piercing Wolf Spiders and Scimitar Cockroaches were repaired after sustaining injuries in that battle, with the Scimitar Cockroaches' numbers increased to 2 million.
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However, due to the appearance of Jumping Bugs, William didn't bother increasing the Piercing Wolf Spider numbers further. In fact, the Piercing Wolf Spiders had taken over some of the Logistics Spider Ants’ work and were on the verge of becoming logistics units themselves, considering the 2 million Jumping Bugs they needed to manage. 1 million Logistics Spider Ants were just too busy to handle the workload.
More than 10 days passed, and William still hadn’t discovered any other domains. When his domain was stationary before, there would always be other domains passing by after some time. Logically, the density of demigods in this area should be fairly high.
"Did I place too few Exploration Beacons?" At this point, William’s mindset had shifted from nervousness to calm, and now, growing impatience, as he just wanted to encounter a target already.
After all, shortly after he deployed the Exploration Beacons, he had summoned 100,000 Jumping Bugs, and the ecological balance of his domain was on the brink of collapse if he didn’t invade other domains soon.
Just then, one of the Exploration Beacons suddenly transmitted information about a discovered domain.
William quickly sensed the location of the discovered domain and activated a low-level Directional Teleportation Card. His domain teleported to the location of the enemy domain.
He appeared right next to the locked domain, and an invasion portal quickly formed, piercing through the edge of the enemy domain.
The teleportation portal opened immediately between the two domains. As William watched the portal light up, he knew it was stable and that he could now send his followers to invade.
He sensed the size of the enemy domain, which was only 15,000 square kilometers, a little smaller than his own domain. Without hesitation, William launched a test attack.
Johnirs was a newly ascended demigod, with a human-like upper body and six tentacle-like legs at the lower half. His skin was covered in green scales. He had been lying atop a massive pyramid in the center of his domain, receiving worship from a group of lizardmen.
William’s sudden domain arrival startled him, causing him to leap from his seat. Before he could react, the teleportation portal at the edge of his domain opened.
"Whoever is invading my domain will pay the price!" Johnirs thought fiercely, his expression darkening.
"My followers, the evil god of another world has arrived. Slay all invaders, and I will grant you eternal life!" A voice of authority echoed in the minds of all his lizardmen followers, issuing the divine decree.
Looking down at the pyramid, Johnirs wasn’t in a panic. He had repelled two previous invasions, even taking a chunk of land from the enemy’s domain each time.
Thanks to the nature of his domain terrain, primarily wetlands and jungles, only crawling followers could move freely and unaffected in his domain.
Other races struggled to perform at their best in such harsh conditions.
Plus, his core followers were over a million Wetland Lizardmen, who thrived in such an environment.
Although his followers lacked discipline and couldn’t form a large army, they excelled in small-scale guerrilla warfare, using harassing, ambushing, and trap tactics to great effect.
