Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 895 Shrek's Meat Grinder (6K)

The Holy Spirit Cult's choice to ignite the beast tide at this particular moment is absolutely brilliant.

Shrek City is now an isolated city. Although the arrogance of the spirit beasts still leads them to primarily attack the south gate, the spirit beast army has surrounded the entire city, and the other three walls are also under attack to varying degrees.

The common people and merchants of Shrek City had all mobilized, sending food and water. As soon as the fighting stopped, all kinds of food were already being delivered to the city walls.

Shrek City was very wealthy, with ample food reserves. Led by some wealthy merchants, they provided the city's warriors with free, highly nutritious food.

Many merchants sent their caravan guards to the city walls, and all Soul Masters obeyed Shrek Academy's unified command.

This wasn't out of generosity, but out of a desire for survival. The battle between humans and spirit beasts is different from the battle between humans themselves.

If the enemy is human, even if the city falls, the civilians and merchants inside still have a chance to survive, and may even be able to live well.

However, the enemy is a spirit beast. Once the city falls, there will only be one outcome: a bloodbath.

Unfortunately, most of the supplies these merchants had were unrelated to the war, and even if they did, they were rare metals that Shrek Academy had no shortage of.

Therefore, Shrek Academy's hopes now rest more on the three great empires—but let's forget about the Heavenly Soul Empire, they're still being attacked on the front lines, so we can't count on them.

However, even if only the Douling Empire and the Xingluo Empire could send some weapons and equipment, especially a large quantity of fixed-mount artillery shells, it would be extremely beneficial for Shrek Academy.

Shi Xing stood atop the city wall, his expression serious. As the city's defense officer, he was actually the one who had the hardest job. Not only did he have to command the battles, but he also had to participate in them and keep track of the overall situation.

He had just inspected the entire city defenses, and the situation was far from optimistic. The key issue was that the soldiers were all exhausted. The vast numerical disparity placed the battle on an unbalanced footing from the very beginning.

He had no doubt about the arrival of reinforcements.

Putting aside the fact that Shrek Academy has cultivated so many talents over the years, and that a call to action would surely be answered, the close relationship between the academy and the three great empires alone makes it impossible for them not to help.

The beast tide in the Star Dou Great Forest is not just a matter for Shrek Academy; if Shrek City is conquered, it will be a disaster for all of humanity.

The reason why the soul beasts of Star Dou Great Forest chose Shrek Academy as their first target was to eliminate this place, which had a strong human influence and was also a powerful opponent, first.

It might seem foolish to tackle this method head-on from the start. But in reality, the soul beasts' decision wasn't wrong.

Indeed, Shrek City is a tough nut to crack. However, this tough nut is located almost in the center of the three great empires, and has very close ties with the three original kingdoms of Douluo Continent. It also holds a pivotal position in the history of the continent.

Although Shrek Academy is just an academy, as the number one academy in the world, they have the ability to coordinate the relationship between the three kingdoms.

If the beast tide chooses to attack other countries, it can indeed reap great rewards from the start, but its back will undoubtedly be handed over to Shrek.

At that point, if Shrek Academy were to organize a massive army, led by its powerful members, the spirit beast army might not be able to prevail. More importantly, if Shrek were ruthless enough to directly target the Star Dou Great Forest, what would become of the spirit beast army then?
The Starry Sky Forest is their home and their strongest support.

They weren't afraid of the army, but Shrek Academy had too many powerful individuals whose destructive power was incomparable to that of an ordinary army.

Therefore, whether it was a hundred years ago or a hundred years later, the primary target of both beast tides was Shrek City.

Once Shrek Academy is conquered, it will be even more difficult for the three major human empires to mount a sufficient offensive to counter them.

Shi Xing felt a little gloomy. This time, the soul beast army was very determined. The attack in one night had consumed a lot of resources in Shrek City. How long could their resources last?
The soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest are not truly inexhaustible. If their deaths and injuries are too great, it will also affect the reproduction and survival of the entire Star Dou, which is something that the soul beasts have to consider.

There are only a few possibilities for the beast tide to retreat. One of them is that the soul beasts have been badly wounded, and their casualties have exceeded their initial plans, forcing them to retreat. However, how easy is that?

So far, the number of casualties among the soul beasts is around 160,000, thanks to the initial surprise attack by a massive number of ground-based soul-guided traps on the soul beast army.

With the Emerald Swan present, the injured soul beasts were able to recover their fighting strength almost quickly in the subsequent battles.

Although Elder Song had tried his best to delay, the opponent's soul skill was a super-large-scale healing soul skill covering an area of ​​thousands of meters, thus still providing a very powerful recovery effect to the soul beast army.

The beast tide that Star Dou Forest has mobilized this time is as large as a million. Shrek Academy judges that Shrek Academy would have to inflict at least 300,000 casualties on the soul beast army before it would be possible to force them to retreat.

In the worst-case scenario, where the number of casualties is no less than 500,000, the soul beasts will not retreat.

Without ground-based soul tools, Shrek Academy could only kill 30,000 to 40,000 soul beasts at most after repelling a wave of beasts. Under such circumstances, the soul beasts of Star Dou Forest could still launch at least five more charges against Shrek Academy. Could Shrek Academy withstand them?

The soul masters on Shrek's side began to have doubts. Fortunately, the ferocious beasts on the Star Dou Forest side, looking at the still impregnable Shrek City, also began to wonder for the first time whether they could break through Shrek City without Di Tian.

The first time was a ground trap, the second time was an anti-air conch. Just how many hidden treasures does Shrek Academy have? These might have been powerful weapons meant to fight the Sun Moon Empire, but they were used on their soul beasts first.

A shadow fell over the hearts of the ferocious beasts. They were unaware of the amount of supplies in Shrek City, so each time they issued an order to attack the city, it was essentially a gamble.

The pressure on them increased even more when they saw that human soul masters had begun to leave the city and specifically collect soul rings from thousand-year-old and ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.

“We need new tactics. A relentless assault is causing too much damage. Our initial two plans were fine, it’s just that the Shrek people are too cunning and happened to have a countermeasure. That doesn’t mean we were wrong.”

The Demon King slowly spoke, breaking the silence among the ferocious beasts.

"New tactics, it sounds simple, but we're not human, how could we come up with so many insidious plans on a whim?"

Looking at the Shrek City Guards on the distant city wall, Xiong Jun was filled with hatred, but could only utter a few harsh words.

(End of this chapter)