Confronting a level-three main city with a level-two main city seems to fall behind.
The level-three main city indeed boosts the strength of its troops, which is why when probing the Undead Territory before, Rosen felt that their level-two troops were even stronger than his own.
With the entire army mobilized, and his own Golden Slime's transformation abilities, along with the skills of Frenzy and Invincibility, Rosen felt he could become the variable to turn the tide of the battle.
Firstly, the transformation ability allows him to stand equal against the strongest troops of the opposing territory, and with his hero attribute bonus, he is sure to overpower them.
Moreover, the Frenzy skill boosts attributes by two-fold, and it is passively activated without any cost.
Even more so, the Invincibility skill, once activated, grants five seconds of invulnerability!
As long as he slays the strongest hero of the Undead Race quickly enough, then comes back to kill other Undead, and supports his own Demon Beast Legion, victory is a certainty.
Upon returning to the main city, Rosen informed his parents of his plan for the next day.
By the mahjong table, his parents fell silent for a moment after hearing Rosen's adventurous plan.
After a while, his mother asked worriedly, "Isn't this too risky? What if you fail?"
"Yes, Rosen, you're gambling with your life," even his usually calm father said with concern, "Seek stable victory, develop for a few more days, there's no rush."
After listening to the advice of his parents, Rosen still shook his head.
Rosen mainly hesitated because he was unsure when the Undead Race might attack.
After all, he had provoked them first, in case they attack tomorrow, his territory surely couldn't withstand it.
After sharing his concerns, his parents gradually agreed.
His father, Luo Hua, contemplated and said, "If you have confidence in yourself, then devise a reasonable strategy."
Rosen discussed with his parents, in part to be responsible to them and to let them know of the dangers involved in his actions.
On the other hand, his father was a military enthusiast, well-read in The Art of War. Although his legs were paralyzed in the past two years, he'd studied military formations.
After discussing with his father all night, they finally determined a feasible strategy in the latter half of the night.
The next day.
Rosen got up early to have the breakfast prepared by his mother.
His parents watched from the second floor of the main city as Rosen led the army to march away, their faces marked with heaviness.
A mother's heart worries when her son travels far.
The distance from here to the forest is only thirteen kilometers, not nearly a thousand miles.
Yet it could be a journey of no return.
After all, this is a confrontation between two major territories; after today, one territory will be destroyed and cease to exist!
At this moment, Rosen felt in high spirits.
Only he knew the power of the Golden Slime.
To step back, even if luck wasn't on his side and he truly lost, he could still transform into an Earth Crawler and escape back to the main city underground, then take his family back to town.
Of course, doing so would mean losing his territory and lordship, and it might take years to purchase another Lord Crystal Stone to activate a new territory.
Rosen was quite confident, and with the strategy discussed last night, he had one hundred percent confidence in victory.
In the forest, less than a kilometer from the Undead Territory, under Rosen's orders, the Demon Beast Legion stopped advancing.
Rosen called upon the Beastman Soldiers to lay down the mines plundered yesterday on the ground before them.
This step was included in the strategy; it was called "using the enemy's method against them."
Once the mines were installed, Rosen instructed the Beastman Legion to hide in the surrounding bushes, waiting for the right moment.
Rosen then transformed into a Dragon Knight, just like yesterday, and charged towards the Undead Territory!
Earlier, he had calculated that the Undead Legion would pursue beyond their territory for two kilometers, inevitably passing the location where the mines were pre-ambushed.
All the mines were laid in ten lines, with one line buried every twenty meters.
Enough to blast the Undead Legion into chaos.
In a blink of an eye, the Dragon Knight charged towards the air above the Undead Territory.
He opened his mouth and unleashed a breath at the Undead Laborers gathering timber on the ground.
Dozens of Undead Laborers turned to ash in the pale blue flames!
In an instant, the Dragon Knight's fiery breath turned and hit the laborers transporting gold ore.
In less than ten seconds, other than the laborers building structures in the distance, all laborers responsible for gathering resources in the Undead Territory disappeared.
This time, the Undead Legion discovered the uninvited invader.
Dammit!
It was the Dragon Knight who had previously harassed them multiple times!
The Undead Legion furiously counterattacked!
A butcher, with a large portion of his intestines hanging out, exuding a green stench, staggered forward wielding dual cleavers, cursing in an Undead language that Rosen couldn't understand.
Presumably, having endured the Dragon Knight's repeated attacks before, it had become a nightmare they no longer wished to recall.
The dark devilish body suddenly swelled, its head now able to look directly at the Dragon Knight soaring in the sky, forming an imposing presence like a mountain.
However, it was quite a distance away, only able to emit a deep, booming roar as it tried to get there as quickly as possible.
The Soul-Throwing Machine, Skeleton Archers, and the fast-moving abominations had already approached the Dragon Knight.
A barrage of arrows coated the Dragon Knight, yet they were deflected by the Invincible Golden Light Bullet.
The Dragon Knight remained unscathed, continuing to breathe at the nearby level-two barracks.
It was clear that as long as the enemy's level-two barracks were destroyed, new Undead types would be prevented from being summoned.
Although the Undead Territory had more than one barrack, only the one in front of Rosen had upgraded to level two.
Meaning, after its destruction, the opponent could only summon level-one troops.
After five seconds of invincibility, the Undead's level-two barracks had already ignited in pale blue flames, and even with armor support, the barracks' life was visibly declining.
Two-thirds gone!
One-third gone!
Boom!
With a violent explosion, the level-two barracks were torn apart in the flames, leaving only scorched marks on the ground and scattered, burning charcoal.
At this point, the Dragon Knight suffered a painful blow.
Three souls projected by the Soul-Throwing Machine simultaneously hit the Dragon Knight, and three small demons appeared above Rosen's head, continuously hammering him.
Facing this triple trouble, Rosen's Spiritual Power was significantly weakened, his movements slightly slowed, primarily due to the damn, astonishing headache.
The Skeleton Archers shot a volley of arrows, densely packed, and many hit the Dragon Knight.
The ten abominations were underground chanting curse Magic, weaving black ribbons that wrapped around the Dragon Knight, steadily depleting his life.
In just a brief moment, he lost over a thousand life points, equivalent to a third of his health.
Even a tough hero couldn't withstand relentless bombardment from an entire army.
Moreover, the shockingly damaging dark devil was already too close and could launch an attack at any moment.
Making a swift decision!
Rosen shifted his body and flew back along his original path!
This scene also angered the Undead Legion; they recalled the manner in which Rosen had attacked their Undead Territory previously.
This attack strategy truly vexed them.
If there's a chance, let's not let him return alive this time!
The Undead Legion was inflamed, shouting loudly!