Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 1244 - 327: Prelude to War, No Sense of Achievement
Death Words + Mingwu, the two Rules complement each other and erupt with terrifying Combat Power.
Being unable to truly die in the strict sense lets Mingwu Warriors fight without any worries in war.
The Mingwu Warriors in the very front ranks even chose to use self-detonation to force Shuyan to display even stronger Combat Power.
The Mingwu storm that formed was not dispelled by the Holy Light, but instead polluted the Holy Light Power within the Domain.
The second echelon of Mingwu Warriors advanced by stepping on the corpse-mist of their comrades; with every step they took, Runes of power shared from the dead surfaced beneath their feet.
Under the successive bombardments of the Mingwu Clan, the Bright Barrier within the Shuyan Domain showed web-like cracks.
In regions that neither the Ascension Clan nor Shuyan could see, Qi Sheng also observed something.
The Energy ripples of the two battlefields were being mutually conducted through gray veins deep beneath the sea.
Every Elemental Torrent impact released by the Ascension Clan, once its intensity exceeded the threshold, would be conducted over to the Shuyan Domain front line.
This Resonance tactic that transcends Space allowed the Mingwu Clan to have enough power to fight on two fronts with the strength of a single race.
The war potential displayed by the Mingwu Clan already had the preliminary framework of the Reverse Tide Army; it was a true war system tempered by countless flames of war.
Guidance once said that the system construction of a War Corps is divided into two modes.
The first mode is: the weak nourish the strong, and the strong wage war.
This system is essentially an elite centralized war system.
It requires concentrating all of a race's resources to nourish a few powerhouses, crushing the enemy army with absolute individual martial force.
The bottom-tier races are responsible for resource gathering and logistical support, the mid-tier warriors filter out elites, while the strongest at the very top bear the entire civilization's war potential.
Under this system, a single Peak powerhouse can form an army by themselves; with a wave of the hand, the Sky Collapse and the earth shatters, and they can even decide the outcome of an entire war with personal Combat Power alone.
This mode demands sacrificing the weak to exchange for a higher upper limit; the weak become nourishment, and the strong devour the Fortune of the entire race to grow.
In the end, it gives birth to war machines that transcend conventional Life levels.
The Insect Race follows precisely this war system; of all the resources plundered by Insect nodes, the Main Brain only keeps part and then sends part up to the Supreme Main Brain.
As for the Insect Warriors, in essence they are not independent complete individuals.
They have no independent thought, but are war Strength bred into existence, node-extensions of the Supreme Main Brain's Strength.
The entire Insect Race can be regarded as a single gigantic individual.
It is just that the Main Brain in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range is rather special; not only does it not need to send plundered resources to the Supreme Main Brain, it can also obtain resources from the Supreme Main Brain without limit.
Shuyan's development mode is similar to that of the Insect Race.
Shuyan Warriors are not essentially independent individuals either; they are all extensions of Shuyan Strength and will.
It is just that Shuyan is still far too weak at the moment, utterly unable to reach the heights of the Insect Race, and can only optimize the Army's Strength, but cannot, through collecting pheromones, optimize the growth potential of Combat Power units.
The second mode is the one the Mingwu are currently using: with the many shaping the one, defying the current to strike at the heavens.
The core logic is that the weak connect through means such as Battle Formations, Rules, Resonance, and so on, erupting with collective Combat Power far exceeding the individual.
Under this system, the weak are not cannon fodder, but network nodes of the whole.
Through precise cooperation, their Strength can be stacked and amplified, thereby triggering a qualitative change.
As with the Mingwu Clan under the dual Rule blessing of Death Words + Mingwu, the Strength of the fallen will be inherited by the living warriors, forming a snowball effect of growing stronger the longer they fight.
These two systems can coexist.
The Reverse Tide Army is the perfect model of the coexistence of these two systems, combining the traits of the weak nourishing the strong and the many shaping the one.
The bottom-tier architecture of the Reverse Tide Army is: the weak as the foundation, nourishing the strong.
Resource gathering and logistical support are all handled by low-level races; the Four Eyes Clan, the Dragon Spine Clan, and other races players are very familiar with are all part of the logistical support.
It is just that what they see are trainees selected as elites from within those races.
These bottom-tier races do not need to directly participate in war; their survival safety is comprehensively guaranteed, and they maintain the operation of the Reverse Tide Army through production, construction, and Energy transmission.
Meanwhile, the elite selection mechanism continuously picks Talented individuals from the bottom.
They are sent into the "Reverse Tide Training Camp" for trials, where the strong are kept and the weak eliminated, ultimately giving birth to true warriors.
At this stage, they can be considered the mid-tier.
The mid-tier architecture of Reverse Tide is: Battle Formation Resonance, the weak defying the current.
The Battle Array System covers the entire Reverse Tide Army; even the most ordinary warrior can, through the Battle Formation network, conduct and stack Strength, erupting with Combat Power far beyond the individual.
Thus the individual is only a part of the collective Strength, and there is no possibility of falling into the role of cannon fodder.
The high-tier architecture of Reverse Tide is: the strong command, the battlefield's sovereigns.
Every Commander of the Reverse Tide Army possesses Demigod Realm Combat Power, and above them there is also the Reverse Tide God, this Peak Combat Power.
The entire Reverse Tide Army has an incomparably well-refined war deployment.
From the bottom to the top is a growth pathway, not a fixed class.
Even the weakest warrior, as long as they can endure to the end in high-intensity war, can become a Divine Realm Powerhouse.
The Reverse Tide Army has already forged an assembly line for cultivating powerhouses; every living being in the Army has its value.
The strong, the elites, and the weak all have clear roles in this system; none can be dispensed with.
The similarity between the Mingwu Clan and the Reverse Tide Army lies in their utilization of the Strength of the weak, letting individuals contribute Strength to the collective through Resonance.
But in other aspects, they are far inferior to the Reverse Tide Army.