Chapter 501
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Chapter 501: Self-Reflection
With crossbow destroying siege weapons and Elephantmen Slingers hurling massive stones to breach sturdy city walls, Luo Ji’s furious beastman army decisively stormed the defending player’s city.
It’s worth noting that through several consecutive real combat engagements, Li Ke’s wolf cavalry warriors’ formations were becoming increasingly refined.
Their progress was relatively clear.
However, there was still a significant gap in disciplinary formations compared to regular human armies, let alone elite units like the Xuanjia Army.
Ultimately, formations, discipline, and similar aspects were inherent weaknesses of the beastmen army.
No one could deny that even without proper formations, the beastmen army could still run rampant in the Bronze League due to their excellent combat capabilities.
After the army entered the city, Luo Ji, as always, captured the defending general and the city lord.
He also emptied all the major warehouses within the city.
This time, however, he had his sights set on another location: the city’s pharmacies and hospitals.
Medicinal herbs were quite a valuable resource.
Luo Ji, previously with a relatively friendly mindset, had naturally excluded this resource from his plunder.
But now, with the situation changed, his Myriad World Civilization needed a large quantity of medicinal herbs.
Given this, his previous approach naturally had to change.
After all, he had already breached the city.
For rare resources like these, not taking them was a courtesy; taking them was a right, and there was nothing more to say.
Perhaps because it was a border city that frequently faced battles, its medicinal herb warehouse was stacked with a considerable amount of herbs.
After a round of scavenging, Luo Ji managed to seize quite a bit.
And having swept through one city, Luo Ji naturally didn’t stop there.
Time was precious.
In 7 days, he had to plunder as much as possible.
He immediately activated the ‘Speed is of the Essence in War’ tactic and charged straight towards the next city.
The location of this player’s three border cities was very similar to that of Zhou Dongnan’s, whom he had previously defeated, creating a triangular formation.
This allowed for timely mutual support.
But precisely to achieve this timely support, the distance between these three cities was very short.
Facing Luo Ji’s beastmen army, which simply didn’t adhere to rules, they broke through two cities almost on the same day.
The next morning, they breached the third city.
Afterward, Luo Ji even had ample time to capture a fourth city.
Fortunately, before the invasion, Luo Ji, determined to plunder aggressively, brought an additional fifty units of wagon teams.
Otherwise, the supplies from these four cities might not have fit.
Regardless, the defending player was definitely going to protest this time.
However, with his Myriad World Civilization facing such a great disaster, Luo Ji would absolutely not show any mercy now.
After several rounds of invasion battles, while plundering a large amount of supplies, Luo Ji’s rank on the Bronze League leaderboard also skyrocketed like a rocket.
Now, when he checked his rank on the Bronze League leaderboard, it had soared from near the bottom to 153rd.
It’s no exaggeration to say that he now deserved the title of ‘big shot’ from other Bronze League players.
But at the same time, Luo Ji’s reputation within the Bronze League player community began to slowly move towards notoriety.
Of course, accompanying this bad reputation was an exaggerated, almost chilling, increase in ranking speed, which left many discerning individuals who frequently monitored the leaderboard utterly stunned.
How on earth did one grind to go from near the bottom to within the top 200 of the Bronze League leaderboard in such a short time?!
The truth was, while Luo Ji was invading other players, a large number of unsuspecting players were also stumbling into his Myriad World Civilization and getting themselves killed, unknowingly sending him a wave of points.
Although the points gained this way were small, perhaps just a minimum amount, they added up over time!
After all, apart from certain specific players, “Luo Ji” had always been an unfamiliar name in the Bronze League.
However, Luo Ji himself didn’t seem to realize the significant impact his recent actions had caused within the Bronze League player community.
At this moment, he was relentlessly browsing the auction house for silver-tier medical skill books.
Medical skill books were truly expensive.
After all, they were related to saving lives.
Previously, a silver-tier architecture skill book only cost 600,000 or 700,000 Civilization Points.
Medical skill books, however, typically started at 700,000 or 800,000, with some even exceeding a million.
The most frustrating part was that they were highly sought after.
They belonged to the type of item you couldn’t necessarily buy even if you had the money.
To get a few medical skill books, Luo Ji directly opened all the bronze, black iron, and silver-tier treasure chests he had accumulated.
He got one or two decent items, but none of what he currently needed most.
Feeling utterly frustrated, Luo Ji finally focused his attention on the gold treasure chest.
He had earned this gold treasure chest when he eliminated Li Yuanjie and absorbed his beastman civilization.
He had originally planned to save up more gold treasure chests to open them all at once.
Unfortunately, after absorbing the beastman civilization, he accidentally became too powerful.
This made the difficulty of acquiring gold treasure chests when facing ordinary Bronze League players increase by more than tenfold.
To put it bluntly, it was impossible to earn gold treasure chests by fighting them anymore.
It was too easy, and even if he completely annihilated the opponent, the system wouldn’t give him a high rating for battle achievements.
Earning a silver treasure chest was already a courtesy.
However, the reality was that he mostly earned bronze and black iron treasure chests along the way.
Given Luo Ji’s current strength, unless he went and fought fiercely against the top 10 on the leaderboard, the possibility of earning gold treasure chests was virtually zero.
At this moment, staring at his only gold treasure chest, Luo Ji couldn’t help but feel a slight urge.
“Should I take a gamble?”
Once this thought arose, it was a little hard to control.
Thinking back, over this period, his Myriad World Civilization had first experienced a blizzard, causing a snow disaster.
Then, a food crisis and a disease crisis broke out one after another.
A while ago, those grasslanders also caused him some trouble, resulting in significant damage to his Myriad World Civilization’s cavalry.
The latest report from the grasslands stated that those grasslanders were still lingering outside his three grassland cities, but they simply couldn’t breach the city walls.
All in all, Luo Ji felt that he had been unlucky enough recently.
Estimating the time, wasn’t it about time for his luck to change?!
With the golden treasure chest in his arms, Luo Ji silently clicked “OK” at the system’s prompt.
“Open it for me!”
