Chapter 1306: 424. Toolman? No!

“Manually alert all guild members, a Demon God Host has spawned in the Motuoli Galaxy, hurry over. The spatial beacon has been placed, just teleport here after you pass through the Star Gate.”

“Hey? By the way, if the people who come later join us in fighting the Demon God Host, can we also complete that SS-level task incidentally?”

“Damn, they’d be making a fortune then, wouldn’t we just be working for them?”

“I think it’s not a big issue. The reward for the side quest is likely distributed based on contribution. Those of us who boarded first will definitely have the upper hand.”

“I also think that’s the case…”

The players who arrived first at the heavy transport ship were boisterously discussing this.

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More and more ships teleported in around the transport fleet, significantly increasing the pressure on the Artificial Angels.

The battle between the Artificial Angels and the player fleet intensified, quickly turning into a dazzling fireworks show.

A small player chimed in:

“Do you think the United Bureau will come to help us fight the Demon God Host?”

His question caused a few seconds of silence in the voice channel.

“Oh right, this isn’t the United Bureau’s territory; they have no obligation to maintain order here. Even if a Demon God Host appeared, the United Bureau wouldn’t dispatch a fleet to suppress it.”

“If we don’t have the United Bureau’s support, can we still defeat the Demon God Host?”

“We can temporarily use Three Ring Magic now; this must be the game’s way of balancing the gap between us and the Demon God Host.”

“Can the new players use Three Ring Magic too?”

“Yes, yes, I asked. After they moved closer to the fleet, they also successfully activated their Academy Badges, allowing them to use Three Ring Magic just like us.” noveldrama

“Oh~ I see. It must be intentional by the shrewd game designers. If we encounter a Demon God Host in the territories of the United Bureau, our assistance comes from them. If it’s outside their territory, then our help comes from the Academy Badge. That’s the idea, right?”

Uh… not necessarily.

Noland Lee, listening to the players’ discussion on the side, slightly shook his head.

If the Demon God Cell had no use to him, Noland Lee wouldn’t always appear at the scene of the Demon God Host’s appearance just to join in on the action; the players have always had only themselves to rely on.

Noland Lee glanced at the scene outside the ship.

In space, player ships were as numerous as hairs, with at least tens of thousands of ships gathered here.

Just for the Battleships, Noland Lee spotted over 300 of them.

Battleships are specifically used to attack large targets.

The heavy cruise missiles they launched could each create either a fireball more than two kilometers in diameter or a thunderstorm field.

The 11 still freely moving Artificial Angels were now overwhelmed by the ocean-like firepower.

After the players continuously killed them four times, the defense forces of the transport fleet were essentially eliminated.

Noland Lee, while granting the newly arrived players access to use Three Ring Magic, waited for them to launch an attack on the Demon God Host.

Even with the aid of magic, the combat capability of individual players was still hard to compare with a Combat Escort Ship.

— This level of combat power, nicely put, could be called “able to avoid attacks from Artificial Angels with a high success rate”; more bluntly, it was “not even able to break the defense of the Artificial Angels.”

To defeat the Artificial Angels in direct combat, one inevitably needed to be on a Battleship.

The agility and defensive abilities of the Demon God Host were even greater than those of the Artificial Angels, making the forthcoming battle’s difficulty predictable.

In Noland Lee’s view, the best combat strategy was not to fight the Demon God Host inside the ship, but to lure it into outer space and cover it with a saturation attack of cannons and missiles from the ships.

The Commander in charge of directing the players’ combat had probably thought of this as well.

Those players who remained on the heavy transport ship started evacuating.

They gave up the Experience and readily obtainable spoils of war from killing the armed crewmen and quickly returned the way they came, crawling out through the holes in the cargo bay.

In just a short while, the noisy ship was left only with the wailing of the armed crewmen.

Noland Lee glanced at the Laboratory, pondered for a moment, and then left the ship as well.

In the Laboratory, the Demon God Host was eating.

Yes, literally.

It considered the Dark Priests and armed crewmen as provisions, devouring people like them to rapidly replenish its nutrients.

The body of the Demon God Host was slightly more robust, but its muscular appearance was hard to change; evidently, consuming Ordinary People did not provide much nutrition.

Moreover, Noland Lee noticed another detail.

That was that the Demon God Host did not eat metal objects nor could it draw energy from the ship’s Energy Pipeline Network.

Otherwise, why would the Demon God Host ignore the sparking wires and only focus on devouring flesh and blood?

Noland Lee’s observations did not stop there.

He used Blood Magic to perform an X-ray on the Demon God Host, seeing its organs and skeleton.

During its feeding, the Demon God Host went from having one heart to three, and a fourth heart was growing.

It had also developed three additional pairs of lungs.

Other organs like the liver, kidneys, and spleen all showed growth.

The most exaggerated was the stomach; the Demon God Host actually had nine of these, with a tenth now growing.

All these organs were squeezed into a body as slender as a pole, barely making the torso bulge a bit.

Just about when Noland Lee leisurely walked to the cargo bay, the growth of the Demon God Host’s organs stopped, and instead, the bone spikes on its body surface began to extend outward.

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