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

Chapter 896 The Ferocious Beasts Go into Battle
The spirit beasts were racking their brains for a way to deal with Shrek Academy, while the Shrek Academy members were anxious to retrieve the spirit rings below the city wall.

In this second wave of beast attacks, the level of the dead soul beasts was generally high, and soul rings of thousands or even tens of thousands of years were common. In addition, Xuan Ziwen had stockpiled a lot of soul ring collectors in the early days, and was now leading his students to drive soul guide all-terrain vehicles to collect soul rings everywhere.

Soul beasts killed by soul tools will have their soul rings unclaimed once the internal structure of the soul tool has been specially processed to erase its original aura.

It can be stored in the Soul Ring Storage Device and made available for any Soul Master who needs it to absorb.

A thousand-year spirit ring is a valuable item for the outer disciples of Shrek Academy, and a ten-thousand-year spirit ring is even more precious.

The academy's demand isn't too high. After all, if students reach a bottleneck in their cultivation during their studies at the academy, the academy will support them in acquiring soul rings as soon as possible.

However, the situation is not so simple within the Shrek City Defense Force.

The Shrek City Defense Force has three thousand Soul Masters, the vast majority of whom are either graduates of Shrek's outer academy or have been eliminated by the outer academy.

Many people stayed in Shrek City to gain experience and seniority within the Shrek City garrison.

Among the three thousand Soul Masters, quite a few have reached the bottleneck in their cultivation.

They all came from Shrek Academy, and each of them had a bit of pride in their hearts. Their soul power cultivation would grow with cultivation, so they weren't in a hurry to acquire soul rings. If there wasn't a suitable one, these soul masters were unwilling to absorb one easily.

Just like Xiaoya, she initially pursued a high-quality soul beast soul ring like the Touch Dragon King for her third soul ring. In the original timeline, she had no other choice but to select the Mandragora Snake as her third soul ring.

The area beneath Shrek City's walls now consists entirely of souls aged thousands or even tens of thousands of years. These are invaluable treasures for the city's defense forces' soul masters!
The more powerful a soul beast is, the higher the probability of it producing powerful soul skills. The Shrek City Guards are not like the hungry undead legions in the Other Shore Small World, who are overjoyed to have a white soul ring.

Although the city guards mostly used soul tools, if the soul beasts rushed onto the city walls and engaged in melee combat, without a powerful soul skill to protect them, the difference between life and death could be significant.

Therefore, Shrek Academy's gains this time were quite substantial. In addition, two thousand-year-old soul bones and two ten-thousand-year-old soul bones were also unearthed from the corpses of the soul beasts killed by the trap soul tools below the south city wall yesterday, which made it even more encouraging.

The Shrek City Guards didn't have much time to rest. Soon, as the dawn of the second day hung high in the sky, the soul beasts of Star Dou Forest launched another fierce attack.

A deafening roar followed, and the fixed-mount soul-guided cannon shell began to unleash its extremely powerful force.

Outside Shrek City, different lights kept shining, each time accompanied by the casualties of a large number of soul beasts.

On the city wall, the soul-guided cannons continued to fire wildly, and various other soul-guided devices and shock grenades provided by Shrek Academy and Dan Pavilion were being launched onto the battlefield at all costs.

However, the spirit beasts were getting closer and closer to Shrek City.

Besides the smell of gunpowder, the air was filled with the stench emanating from the soul beasts.

"The jade belongs to [the individual], so heal it with all your might."

A strange sound emanated from the Emerald Swan, Brigitte. Immediately afterward, not far from her, several emerald green figures swiftly rose into the air. These were swans enveloped in a dazzling emerald light. Once airborne, they immediately flew in all directions, each emerald swan emitting gentle emerald light waves that healed the wounded who had been hit by the fixed-position soul-guided cannon bombs.

Yes, these are Brigitte's people, the healing team of the Star Dou Great Forest whom she has carefully protected and nurtured for many years.

Due to their inherent lack of defense, the Emerald Swans, numbering only a little over a hundred, were not originally intended to participate in this great battle, as they simply could not afford to suffer losses.

However, the current situation and the huge casualties forced Brigitte to call out her people, as she could not possibly cover the entire battlefield and provide healing on her own.

In order to break through Shrek's long-range firepower, Brigitte had no choice but to send out her own people as well. Only in this way could the beast tide army avoid being wiped out after crossing the 14-kilometer deadly line of fire.

Brigitte's choice was correct. Although the power of the fixed-mount cannonball was much greater than that of the soul-guided cannonball of the same level, most of them would only be injured, not killed, unless they were soul beasts connected to the cannonball.

With the full support of the Emerald Swan Clan's soul beasts, they were able to withstand the barrage of artillery fire from the upper, middle, and lower levels of Shrek City for the first time and finally reach the city's walls!
A barrage of ranged attacks began to rain down on the Shrek City walls like a meteor shower.

The Soul Masters worked hard to activate the Soul Guidance Shield on the city walls to withstand these ranged attacks.

However, this time the four ferocious beasts were truly determined, and leading the charge was a large group of thousand-year-old soul beasts, led by a group of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. No hundred-year-old soul beasts participated in the vanguard.

This resulted in a significant increase in the defensive and offensive capabilities of the soul beasts; even a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast could withstand the bombardment of high-explosive shells without much trouble.

The collective defense of numerous ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts significantly reduced the lethality of the cannonballs. Meanwhile, the thousand-year-old soul beasts behind them launched a relentless barrage of ranged attacks on Shrek Academy.

They attacked not only the city walls but also the city ramparts.

A violent roar, accompanied by light waves and soul power fluctuations of various colors, unfolded wildly around Shrek City.

The battle reached a fever pitch from the very beginning.

However, the soul beasts soon witnessed a despairing scene: when the massive amount of soul skills they unleashed exploded on the walls of Shrek City, within the shattered bricks and tiles were gleaming, half a meter thick pure metal plates.

The reconstruction of Shrek City was initiated from the very beginning to address the issue of Shrek Academy's lack of warehouses to store vast quantities of rare metals.

Yes, the rare metals consumed in making these soul tools and arming the city guards, as well as those sold to the three great empires as military supplies, are negligible compared to the rare metals consumed in directly melting and casting these 5*5*0.5 meter standard rare metal steel plates and stuffing them layer by layer into Shrek City.

The spirit beasts were thinking that by bombarding Shrek City, they might be able to find a few weak points. They would then seize the opportunity to pour in firepower, perhaps widening the gaps and then pouring directly into Shrek City.

However, the thick metal plates inserted into the Shrek City walls in a standard format almost immediately thwarted the initial plans of the soul beasts.

(End of this chapter)