Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf Chapter 1940 - 1080: The Flaming Sun Mobilizes, the Roach Emperor Plots! (2)

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Previously on Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf...
The Wolf Pack Civilization, led by the resolute Wolf Lord, mobilized its three major military groups to bypass Yangyang Star and target the home planets of the Constant Star Powers, igniting widespread panic among the defenders. The Lord of Yangyang, facing this dire threat, proposed a three-pronged strategy: one force to recapture surrendered stars and raid the Sky Wolf System, another to conduct guerrilla warfare with elite troops including the Hundred Stars Godslaying Army, and the rest to defend the Yangyang Stellar System. In response, various Constant Star Lords pledged their Heavenly Boundary and Quasi-Sky Realm elites, committing to battle to protect their home worlds.

Upon surveying the entirety of the Hundred Stars Alliance’s Heavenly Boundary and Quasi-Sky Realm troops, the forces commanded by the Lord of Yangyang had swelled to almost three hundred thousand,

including nearly forty billion Heavenly Boundary warriors, excluding the Hundred Stars Godslaying Army!

His eyes burned with unyielding resolve and an unstoppable drive, propelling him to pursue the three primary legions of the Wolf Pack Civilization without delay.

All the troops under his leadership also grasped the ruthless foe and the looming clash that awaited them.

However, no Exotic Beast in their ranks displayed the slightest urge to back down.

Having battled up to this instant, every one of them understood that the Wolf Pack Civilization sought the total destruction of the Hundred Stars Alliance; without fighting desperately, the Hundred Stars Alliance would fade away like a fleeting mist.

Their homeworlds, fellow fighters, partners, loved ones, family ties, mates, and young ones would, at the very least, end up as eternal servants to the Wolf Pack Civilization!

A grimmer destiny awaited them: transformation into Dead Souls, forged into the Celestial Wolf Wings of that horrifying Demon Wolf Lord, marred by infinite carnage and killing!

Therefore, they had every justification to battle ferociously.

Right now, these Hundred Stars Alliance warriors, fueled by a desperate will to live, carried a savage impetus born from facing death head-on.

Even as the Lord of Yangyang Star detected this steadfast drive in his forces, he knew they had just barely earned the right to clash in a galactic battlefield against the three chief armies of the Wolf Pack Civilization.

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In the meantime, as the savage conflict between the Hundred Stars Alliance and the Wolf Pack Civilization intensified once more,

deep in the southern reaches of the Sky Wolf System, the Roach Emperor’s Vassal Towns and the Black Sun Star Army clashed amid a fractured void.

The farthest southern sector of the Sky Wolf System lay only about thirty-odd light-years from the central hub, a span traversable in just two or three centuries at a brisk pace.

Still, the resources in this area paled in comparison to those of the Sky Wolf System, already tinged with the harsh conditions of the Bitter Cold Land.

Even across billions upon billions of miles in space, there were scarcely any minor celestial bodies to be found.

One should note that not only the present Sky Wolf System, but the former Hao Ri System too once boasted a Life Planet and myriad Shattered Stars, Meteors scattered every few million miles.

The scarcity of resources here defied imagination.

Nevertheless, this desolate Bitter Cold Land now played host to a tremendously brutal and sprawling conflict.

Currently, the Roach Emperor positioned himself within a shadowy fortress on a forsaken planet, covertly directing the whole Undying Cockroach Army Group to counter the Black Sun Star Army.

Following the devastating loss from their last encounter, the Roach Emperor had come to fully acknowledge the enormous chasm separating him from the Black Sun Star.

Particularly regarding individual fighting prowess,

the Black Sun Star’s soldiers resembled indomitable bulls, boasting physical might that instilled dread, and even at equivalent ranks, their Heavenly Boundary True Intent proved far denser and more steadfast.

Even lacking extensive support from Star Energy Weapons, they dominated utterly, matching the strength of multiple equivalent enemy units.

For the Undying Cockroach Army Group, already feeble in close-quarters combat, this posed an insurmountable threat.

Typically, it required ten Ancestor Levels from the Undying Cockroach Army Group to fell just one Black Sun Star soldier!

Such a tenfold gap proved difficult even for them, as members of the Star Sky Insect Clan, to accept.

"Roach Emperor, the Purple Blood Cockroach King is out there overseeing the broader scenario per your strategies, leveraging terrain benefits to block the Black Sun Star Army, but we’ve detonated the handful of Life Stars in the path, ejecting their Nuclear Sources, and still inflicted only slight harm on the Black Sun Star; right now, their troops remain as ferocious as ever, while our lands have been overrun by thirty percent!"

A scout from the Undying Cockroach Swarm informed the Roach Emperor.

Although merely a decade had passed, even the once-haughty Undying Cockroach Army Group sensed the utter ferocity of this fight.

Far too formidable!

The foe they faced surpassed any adversary they had met before!

In raw combat strength, it equaled the elite legions of the Wolf Pack Civilization!

In sheer determination, it matched the Wolf Pack Civilization’s various forces without faltering!

In strategy, formations, and every facet, it excelled at the highest level!

Such a force harbored no flaws!

Were it not for the Undying Cockroach Army Group being forged from nothing by the Roach Emperor and the Star Sky Insect Clan, with many carrying the Mark of Sin, their discipline would have crumbled long ago!

"Understood! Stay calm! Don’t panic, we were simply too arrogant earlier; from now on, we must safeguard the leftover seventy percent of our domain for a thousand years, and if it falls here, that’s acceptable—shatter the Life Planets, then the Shattered Stars and Meteors, or deploy Killing Arrays, Mazes; in short, as I’ve stressed, use every possible method, any tactic, to delay them! Scatter the Undying Cockroach Army Group across their billions and evade clustering,

fan out and then harass, ambush, set traps, poison, employ whatever ploy you choose, I just require you to buy time! Should our Vassal Towns be lost, I will die last on this soil, for the Undying Cockroach Army Group cannot endure such disgrace; a mere millennium hasn’t elapsed, and we must surrender the Vassal Towns!"

The Roach Emperor’s Spiritual Will, conveyed through the White-striped Cockroach King tasked with command relays, scouting, and monitoring, instilled a fierce resolve for all-out war.

This made him drop his earlier plan to convince the Roach Emperor to abandon this region.

Still, the doubt lingered: could they even last a thousand years with the Roach Emperor’s plan?

Especially since, after the Roach Emperor’s personal duel with the Lord of Black Sun Star, his once-overbearing presence had taken a severe hit.

In a mad surge, the Roach Emperor had summoned his peak battle power but could not endure more than a few offhand strikes from that Black Sun Emperor.

Without deploying a Forbidden-level Foil Weapon for defense, he would likely have perished right there!

Even more shockingly, that Forbidden-level Foil Weapon had been withstood by the Emperor!

This hinted he had advanced to the late-stage Semi-taboo or perhaps even the Late Stage!

He was an overlord surpassing the Star Sand Master in dominance!

Thus, the White-striped Cockroach King worried the Roach Emperor might crumble psychologically from the clash!

Yet the White-striped Cockroach King failed to grasp that if the Roach Emperor, with her three lifetimes of survival and wild fortunes as the Insect Queen, possessed such a fragile psyche, she wouldn’t be who she was!

In truth, the White-striped Cockroach King overlooked a key detail himself.

Namely, the original near-hundred billion Heavenly Boundary Followers, all marked with Sin, who served as the Roach Emperor’s personal vanguard—the keenest edge of the Undying Cockroach Army Group—had disappeared entirely at some point.

As such, the Roach Emperor had never faltered in spirit; instead, she harbored a thought that would appear deranged to the White-striped Cockroach King and every general and warlord in the Undying Cockroach Army Group.

Beyond merely stalling the Black Sun Star Army for a millennium, she aimed to try capturing this Sin Star Emperor!

For the shame and injuries inflicted on the Roach Emperor and the Undying Cockroach Army Group, she refused to let other Wolf Pack Civilization clans avenge her!

She desired to avenge them personally!

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Positioned in front of Meng Hu, gazing at his figure that seemed icy and devoid of life, like a lifeless husk, lacking any trace of emotion.

A heavy aura of peril swiftly shrouded the Invincible Fierce Tiger’s entire form, making the already faint-breathing Meng Hu gasp deeply, as though he were a helpless fish on the block, awaiting the White Wolf’s knife; this sensation almost crushed Meng Hu’s fighting spirit, since the Invincible Fierce Tiger couldn’t fathom why the White Wolf spared him instead of slaying him outright, wasting effort to haul him from the ice to the Land of Adventure; this dread of the unknown flooded Meng Hu’s core, yet in his debilitated state, he lacked any power to fight back, and even in his terror, within the White Wolf’s domain in the Land of Adventure, resistance proved pointless.

Su Lin examined Meng Hu like a supreme ruler appraising a captured thrall, with a detached stare.

"Owooo—" Su Lin let out a soft howl to the nearby Wolf Clan, signaling them to drag the fading Siberia Tiger away and guard him vigilantly.