Chapter 1026: Chapter 707: King Meets King

In front of the Ratmen’s final defense line, all the lines of the United Army gathered together.

Massive camps were distributed in different locations, encircling the Ratmen’s defense line tightly.

Raelia walked out of the camp and found Abis.

After not seeing each other for a long time, she hugged her sister tightly.

"How does it feel? Leading a massive legion."

Raelia teased with a smile.

Facing her sister’s teasing, Abis rolled her eyes and sighed helplessly, "It’s exhausting, the pressure is immense."

This was truly her heartfelt thought.

Compared to before when she only needed to manage squad affairs, analyze tasks, and deal with challenges encountered during missions, commanding a legion now was an entirely different matter in terms of military decision-making.

The former was relatively easy and carefree, whereas the latter not only had immense pressure but often faced inner torment.

Especially when soldiers in the legion suffered casualties due to her decisions, the pain and guilt were beyond words.

Raelia naturally understood her sister’s feelings.

In this action, although she still undertook the role of charging into battle, by staying by Blake’s side, she also witnessed some of his command and deployment strategies.

She gently patted her sister’s arm and comforted, "We’ve come this far, haven’t we? Victory is just ahead."

Saying this, Raelia looked at the city wall with a determined gaze.

Even so, the real decisive battle was one final step away, and it was also the most difficult step.

And their current actions were essentially paving the way for this final battle.

...

The siege operation soon unfolded.

The rear forces initiated the assault first, and the front forces had to immediately follow, applying maximum pressure on the Ratmen, leaving them no time to care about the rear.

However, the Ratmen’s current performance was puzzling.

"They’re not afraid? Not collapsing? Not even a hint of chaos?"

The staff in the front line command camp looked at the intelligence in their hands, full of amazement.

The commanders of each offensive line were gathered in the command camp, looking at their intelligence, and everyone fell into a brief silence.

They had originally hoped to disrupt the Ratmen’s formation through pressure tactics, but now this tactic had failed at a critical moment.

All the Ratmen had become unusually fierce, unafraid of death. This transformation was truly terrifying.

One must know that even with the influence of the Evil God and various transformations, Ratmen have always won by numbers, with the low-level cannon fodder Ratmen being inherently timid and cowardly, and they were also the largest group.

But now, even these cannon fodder Ratmen became as desperate warriors defending their homeland, fearless of death.

"The Evil Rat must be at play."

Abis said softly.

This statement stunned everyone in the tent.

This was precisely what the United Army, or the Night Watcher, lacked.

They fundamentally lacked the highest combat power and knew very little about entities about to ascend to divinity, let alone understanding the Evil Rat, an existence almost akin to a god.

They didn’t realize what powerful forces a godly transcendental Ratman birthed from this world might possess.

Perhaps, this was merely the Ratmen’s instinct to defend their homeland, sparking unprecedented courage, which was reasonable.

"No need to worry about this, the power we’ve deployed this time is enough to completely penetrate the Ratmen’s defense line. Whether there’s pressure or not, the result won’t change."

Blake, sitting in the main seat, said steadily.

This was precisely the well-thought-out plan they had this time. Even without the rear assault, just the frontal troops might only take slightly more time but could eventually break through the defense line.

The hidden rear troops were mainly to more effectively annihilate the Ratmen and achieve the combat objectives faster.

After all, in a sense, they were in a tense race against the Ratmen.

The Ratmen were trying to win this race, allowing their Evil Rat to successfully reach the end and achieve the purpose of divine ascension.

While the world’s barrier hadn’t broken and the external Evil God couldn’t directly exert power, an Evil God born and ascended in this world could instantly turn the situation for the Ratmen, from defeat to victory.

This is the terrifying nature of gods, or Evil Gods.

In this apocalyptic moment approaching annihilation, all the world’s negative emotions poured into the Evil Rat without reservation, giving it unparalleled power in this world.

This is also the reason the Evil Rat has been hiding in the black spire perfecting its essence since its appearance.

As soon as it completes the essential enhancement, it can handle various situations and even remodel the Ratman race.

Therefore, it continuously advanced towards this optimal goal.

Fortunately, Kana had discerned the Evil Rat’s course of action from the beginning.

Even if the initially induced Evil Rat was directly an Evil God, Kana had countermeasures, not to mention that the current situation was different.

With knowledge of previous plot lines, Kana held a significant advantage.

Especially after gaining the authority of the Savior, even though the plotline had drastically changed, the key information revealed in the original plot wouldn’t be wrong.

In the original plot, the Evil Rat appeared directly as an Evil God, without the current "forced growth" process, causing more severe problems.

Therefore, Kana clearly understood the dangers an Evil Rat becoming an Evil God could cause and had already devised detailed contingency plans for this situation.

So, even if the Evil Rat ultimately became an Evil God, it would find that the developments weren’t as it wished.

Not to mention, the current Evil Rat hadn’t truly reached that terrifying level.

One could say that the actions of the Four Gods were largely driven by self-interest, fundamentally very selfish. At worst, they’d do a bad deal this time, then walk away, regardless of the fate of this world.

For them, the disappearance of an Evil God born in this world would instead be a relief.

After all, they weren’t strangers to losing deals.

And because of this, Evil Gods appeared so detestable.

Because they always had an escape route while the world facing the Void crisis could only silently endure suffering.

...

Space rippled, and Kana stepped out from the Teleportation Gate.

At this moment, he was suspended in the heavenly realm, with the endless ink-green swirling cloud mass fully in view. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Inside the black spire soaring into the sky, the Evil Rat perfecting its essence had already sensed Kana’s arrival and turned to look at him.

The two mighty existences realized the "face-to-face" confrontation for the first time.

"Looks no different from its game image, perhaps even slimmer."

Kana thought to himself.

"Is this the Savior chosen by this world? What is called justice and evil... Why does it look like this?"

As an Evil God born in this world, although it hadn’t fully ascended, its divine essence granted it the ability to perceive all life’s negative emotions.

In contrast, it could also infer the positive will of all life in this world.

However, Kana before it was puzzling.

Indeed, Kana harbored negative emotions, although positive emotions dominated, he lacked the flawless, saintly embodiment expected of a Savior.

"Neither purely positive nor entirely negative, is it guided by rationality? A Savior acting on rationality."

The Evil Rat found it hard to comprehend the situation before its eyes.

In its perception, a Savior should be filled with positive emotions, suppressing all negative factors.

Yet, the Kana before it was entirely different from what it imagined.

Because Kana always acted based on rationality, striving for the optimal solution.