Chapter 2504 Breakout Of A War
A while back during the expedition, Lin Mu had made a modified map that could not only show the entire Rust Sky World but even the asteroids that filled its exosphere.
He had given it to the Crown Prince and the man had showed it to the Emperor who was highly impressed by it. They had used it to upgrade their own maps, and Lin Mu intended to make use of it for the Chimeric Beast Sensing Radar Array.
"I'll help you out with it." Lin Mu stated. "I've gotten some insights about the empire's arrays recently." He was happy that Lady Kang had given him the book before.
He knew about the empires arrays and which ones were utilized for it. And while they had changed over the years, the Third Grand Tutor of the Empire had been one of the first batch of formation grandmasters that had set up the foundation of the Empires Arrays.
As such, he held the core of his knowledge in the book and Lin Mu now knew about them. He also knew about the flaws and the solutions that were given to improve them.
These were all something that he intended to integrate into the current set up.
"We'll enact the previously discussed protocols and begin the First Phase of the War Plan." Empower Feng declared.
"Yes, your majesty!" the Imperial Court said in unison. "Meanwhile, Imperial Imperator Lin Mu shall have free reign in all his commands. He shall be supported in any form needed." Emperor Feng reiterated.
"We shall follow the will of the Imperial Imperator!" They acquiesced.
With this done, everyone split up to do their duties. Lin Mu left with Daoist Chu and joined up with the Imperial Formation Masters to modify their Grand map array to also include the Chimeric beast sensing Radar Array in it. The work was not easy and with how expansive the map was it needed everyone's help in making it. Lin Mu's newly gained insights came in handy as he applied them in making the work faster.
The Grand Map array wasn't a singular array but rather multiple array nodes that were spread across the cities in the entire empire. These connected with each other and scanned for the surroundings to form the map that they knew off.
Of course they also had a static map of the world, but the information on it wouldn't work with the Chimeric Beast Sensing Radar array which needed a dynamic map.
Thus they needed to do work on not just the Capital City but every major city of the empire for it to work. It was a big undertaking which wouldn't be possible with all the formation masters of the empire working together.
Thankfully for Lin Mu, the formation masters were highly competent and only needed a bit of guidance to fully understand what needed to be done. As such he didn't need to personally leave to instruct the others and could do it simply through the communication formations.
But it was still something that was not going to be finished in a short time.
It took a week before they managed to finish this, during which Little Shrubby had sensed several Chimeric Beasts in his patrols. The Chimeric Beasts that were found during this were either killed by Little Shrubby himself or the army that was nearby.
But as time went by and the threat increased, all the cultivators of the Dao Wind Empire were added to this. The Emperor sent out an Imperial Edict that each and every cultivator capable of fighting had to enter combat if they wished to live.
Even if they couldn't go out personally, they had to at least defend the city they lived in. Normally the cultivators would be hesitant to carry out at task like this, but since it concerned their survival they took it very seriously. The Emperor also set up a bounty system for the Chimeric beast as well as the Black Ying Empire members, further motivating the people to participate.
With everyone joining in like this, the presence of the Chimeric Beasts was greatly suppressed. They weren't suffering as much as the other two continents were.
The Huiqing Empire had the worst losses between the two, as it had a lot more area compared to the Holy Topaz Dynasty. Not to mention, the Black Ying Empire members had also managed to infiltrate it much deeper due to the lack of sensing capabilities. After all, they didn't have Lin Mu and his companions who could use their experience and skill here.
Even if Emperor Feng had shared a lot of information there were limits to how much that could be done. Plus despite the personal participation of the Huiqing Emperor, the attacks of the Chimeric Beasts still caused a lot of damage as they could tectonically appear from anywhere.
They tried to adapt the Chimeric Beast sensing Radar array too, but they lagged behind due to having different infrastructure. Not to mention, even if they were trying to set it up, there were many efforts to hamper and sabotage them by the Black Ying Empire.
A month passed by like this, after which the siltation only became worse.
The Dao Wind Empire had managed to maintain their status similar to before, but the other two empires were still facing a lot of losses due to the guerrilla tactics used by the Black Ying Empire.
They would send out their Yin Nascent Soul Maggots which could cause massive damage within settlement and then explode, turning the area uninhabitable. These explosions would also take out a lot of experts with them, making them lose their manpower.
It finally reached a point where, Yao Changying appeared personally and fought against the Huiqing Emperor in Crack Leaf City which was one of the major cities of the empire.
Huiqing Emperor was injured in this and was forced back, while Yao Changying destroyed the city revealing ruins hidden deep which was her goal all along.
"Yao Changying has obtained another Soul Fragment!"