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My Identity Is Becoming More and More Astonishing-Chapter 276 - 156: Speed is the Essence of War!_2
"’Body Tempering Secret Skill’ requirements must be below B- level but above C level. Prioritize overwhelming combat abilities."
"We have reached the most critical moment."
"Billions of human compatriots need you to emerge."
With those words, the alliance director stepped back half a step and stopped the live broadcast.
And, as expected,
the high-levels of the Transcendent realm’s policy of only notification without appeasement plunged the vast human society into unprecedented chaos.
...
Nobody dared to disobey the order of law enforcement.
As the chief enforcer signed and the law enforcement center issued the "war authorization," all races were shocked.
Nobody understood what the human "diplomatic team" had sacrificed.
That they actually managed to force the war initiated by dozens of species to change into a "representative" village fight...
Rules are 5V5.
And all strengths must be suppressed below B- level.
Best of five rounds.
If the allied races win, the human Transcendent realm will be immediately annihilated.
If humans win, then the war ends.
Also, no wars against the human race are to be initiated for a certain period of time thereafter.
Meanwhile, the humans knew the adage "delay breeds danger."
There was no foundation laid whatsoever.
There was equally no preparation at all.
On the day the young prince led his team back to the Capital, the humans, holding the "war authorization," immediately agreed to the declaration of war by the allied races.
On the human border, at White Horse Slope, they arrayed themselves to meet the enemy!
A standard-size and material fighting platform was set.
The pace was so fast there was no groundwork laid at all.
The alliance director’s proclamation ended in the morning.
In the afternoon, "tournament combatants" were already drafted.
By evening, life and death battles had begun.
Fearing that the agreed-upon form of war would change...
The first to enter was Li Yao.
She walked steadily, step by step, to the middle of the vast arena, sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes to rejuvenate, and adjusted her breathing.
The Transcendents from the Capital Li Family, due to their ability "Wandering Serpent" and the accompanying martial arts, have always been at the forefront among their peers of the same level.
And Li Yao, she was the young generation of the Li Family with the strongest fighting talent.
Choosing her to lead was the most suitable decision.
"Begin!"
At White Horse Slope, on the western side, within the brightly-lit human encampment, with the alliance director’s command, thousands of Transcendents immediately raised their right arms, screaming at the top of their lungs: "Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight——"
On the other side of the big fighting platform, at White Horse Station’s eastern side,
inside the coalition camp formed by numerous races, tens of thousands of aliens were stupefied.
’When did these damn humans show up?’
’They set up the arena already, just as the message about the change in the form of war was received?’
’What? What’s happening?’
Alien Transcendents, using their own different language systems, were making a racket.
Inside the temporary command tent, the leaders from various alien races were in complete disarray.
Apart from swearing in their various languages, you could hear nothing else.
In their recorded history, they had never heard of such a "bizarre" war.
The normally slow-moving human camps, it seemed, suddenly had an upset stomach today, unable to wait another moment.
No sooner was the arena set up than their "representative" went on stage.
But at this time, many of the alien leaders had only just received the news about the "change in the form of the war"...
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
At the western side of the big arena, the human Transcendents’ cheering grew louder.
The noise infuriated the aliens in the camp even more.
Yet they still couldn’t manage to send a candidate to the stage on time.
North side of the arena.
The young man in the duckbill cap flew to the side of a robed enforcer, bowed respectfully, and asked, "Honorable Enforcer, our human civilization’s first representative has been waiting on stage for five minutes. According to the rules, how long before the absence of a response is considered a forfeiture?"
"Thirty minutes," the enforcer, whose form was completely hidden in the robe, extended a primate-like hand and gestured a "three."
"Understood," the young man nodded, took a deep breath, and tried to stay calm, "Then there are twenty-five minutes left."
"Mm," the robed enforcer withdrew his hand, floating mid-air, and after a moment of silence, suddenly spoke in human language, "Your humans, such clever tactics."
As a confidant of the high enforcer and the referee for this war, it had witnessed all the operations of the humans.
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One word—fast!
So fast there was no meeting.
So fast there was no preparation.
So fast that even the inner circles of the human Transcendents couldn’t keep up.
They hastily constructed the arena.
On the very day that the "New War Authorization" was officially issued, they launched the war.
They forced the myriad-species coalition to choose a "representative" to battle on the platform, completely unprepared.
The importance of speed in warfare was pushed to the extreme!
And in such a short time frame, with the myriad-species coalition being so numerous and diverse, it was almost impossible to select the most suitable representative.
"Indeed, such clever tactics," the robed enforcer said in a brooding tone.
"You flatter me," the young man withdrew with complex emotions in his eyes.
Had humanity not been driven to a corner, why would it resort to such an unconventional strategy?
But even speaking of his diplomatic team, from the night before last when they left the Enforcer’s capital until now, when they arrived at the Capital this morning, they hadn’t even rested for ten minutes.
Li Yao could only take a short break on the stage because it was necessary.
With a somber face, the young man in the duckbill cap returned to the human encampment on the west side of the great arena and took the communicator from his subordinate’s hands, looking at the girl on the stage, he pressed the call button.
"Li Yao, can you hear me?"
In the middle of the arena.
The girl slowly opened her weary eyes and pressed the device by her ear, "I can hear you. What is it?"
"It’s been tough. I just went to ask the enforcer, thirty minutes after you take the stage, if the foreign species haven’t come forth to battle, we will be deemed the victors in the first match. Currently, there are... twenty-two minutes left."
"Understood," Li Yao nodded.
"But I need to make things clear in advance," the young man pursed his lips, "You’re not in good shape right now. Having traveled at full speed, both your physical and psychic powers have been significantly depleted. The dozens of soul beads can enhance your strength, but they can’t adjust your condition. The best situation is winning the first match without fighting. But in the second match, they should be able to adjust. Therefore, the opponent you face could be one of the strongest among the tens of thousands of Transcendents on their side."
"I understand," Li Yao continued to nod, "Your Highness, just tell me what you want to say."
The young man hesitated for a moment, then bit his teeth, "Right now, we are only being proactive against the unprepared. In fact, we aren’t ready either. The candidates for subsequent matches are still being hastily selected. So, if you face a strong enemy and cannot win, do your best to hold on."
"...I understand," the girl looked back at the young man in the duckbill cap beneath the distant platform, "I know what to do."
"Humanity will remember your sacrifice."
"No need to say such things," the girl removed the miniature earpiece, "Under a collapsed nest, no egg remains intact. If their aim is to eradicate the entire Transcendent realm, naturally I can’t remain unscathed."
"Snap!"
With that, she crushed the miniature earpiece.
Silently, she looked up at the starry river twinkling in the night sky.
Vaguely, it was as if she saw Chen Yu’s figure.
In this crisis concerning the life and death of civilization, including the Prince, every member of the diplomatic team had made substantial sacrifices.
In the face of crisis, "the men" didn’t even blink as they castrated themselves.
In comparison to them, Li Yao felt she was like an encumbrance, utterly useless.
But now, it was finally her turn…
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight—"
Accompanied by the continuously resounding momentum on the field, five helicopters approached from the distant night sky.
They were the broadcasting team that had rushed over from the Capital.
Their task was to broadcast the entire situation of the White Horse Slope battlefield to all of humanity.
Thus, they happened to witness an extraordinarily odd scene.
The "weak and sparse" encampment of the human Transcendents, their cry for battle thunderous.
The "mighty and vast" camp of the foreign coalition, on the other hand, was utterly silent…
"******…"
On the north side of the great arena, the robed enforcer suddenly spoke a phrase in the universal language of the myriad species, then looked towards Li Yao on the stage, translating into the human language, "Ten minutes left. If the opposing side still has no representative on stage by then, the first match will be won."
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