Chapter 22: The Invincible Hoolay is Defeated! (Patreon)

[Because your expansion was too swift, you made many enemies.]

[Among them was the 'Poison Claw' great hunting pack. During your rampant expansion, one of the packs you annexed was backed by 'Poison Claw'.]

[Driven by the anger of having been slighted and wary of a new challenger, the 'Poison Claw' great hunting pack launched an attack on your newly consolidated 'Pale Moon' great hunting pack.]

[Refusing to show weakness, you led your newly integrated great hunting pack to meet the enemy.]

[Due to the fearsome reputation you had built with your 'decapitation' tactics, the nest-father of 'Poison Claw' kept most of his elite forces at their main camp, rendering your previously unstoppable decapitation strategy ineffective.]

[Due to 'Poison Claw's' strategy of hunkering down, the stronger 'Poison Claw' pack was paradoxically put on the defensive on the battlefield.]

['Poison Claw' relied on its greater strength and resources to withstand your assault.]

[Facing this turtle-like opponent, you found yourself at a loss, only able to engage in a repeated back-and-forth struggle.]

[The war gradually turned into an endless battle of attrition, causing both hunting packs to suffer heavy losses.]

[After several years of prolonged war, both sides had lost over half their population.]

[Facing a war with no end in sight, the ever bloodthirsty and belligerent Borisin began to show rare signs of war-weariness.]

[But you do not care.]

[You could not care less whether Borisin or Foxians die; in your eyes, they are all just tools in your hands. From the moment you learned of your mother's death, you stopped seeing them as your kin.]

[The nest-father of 'Poison Claw' cared, but his status prevented him from backing down.]

[The Borisin still maintain a 'tribal council system,' and the 'Poison Claw' nest-father is one of the council elders. This war has garnered significant attention.]

[War-Chief Hoolay could bear it no longer and called a halt to the war between you. He could permit Borisin to die in the hunt, whether as hunter or prey, but he would not tolerate endless internal strife among the Borisin.]

[He ordered the two of you to settle the score in a different way: a sacred duel under the witness of the Long-Life Lord. The victor would take all.]

[Under the watch of Hoolay and a host of others, you easily defeated the 'Poison Claw' nest-father, devoured his heart, and obtained his power.]

[You have gained the 'Poison Claw's' elder seat, and the 'Pale Moon' and 'Poison Claw' great hunting packs have merged into one.]

[Hoolay greatly admires you, publicly praising you as the most Borisin-like of all.]

[You look at Hoolay, your mind filled with thoughts of how to replace him.]

[The other council elders have lost their value to you. You have shifted your next target to the great enemy of the Borisin—the Xianzhou Alliance.]

[Compared to the Borisin, the Xianzhou people are undoubtedly a more powerful enemy.]

[The Borisin are wary of the Foxians' intellect and are very conservative in technological development. Compared to forged weapons, they trust more in their own powerful bodies, blessed by the Long-Life Lord. This has also led to the Borisin's technology lagging behind that of the Xianzhou.]

[The Xianzhou people possess superior armaments, well-trained soldiers, and unwavering faith.]

[Fortunately, the Borisin have allies, such as the Wingweavers, who are also hunted by the Xianzhou.]

[The Wingweavers excel at aerial combat, while the Borisin excel at ground combat. This powerful alliance is a force to be reckoned with, having once caused great trouble for the Xianzhou.]

[Your strength, wisdom, and rationality make you ever-victorious when dealing with the Xianzhou.]

[You fully leverage the Borisin's advantages, continuously dispatching small elite units to attack Xianzhou merchant caravans, luring the Cloud Knights into sending small forces to encircle and suppress them, and then using ambushes to devour these forces.]

[This guerrilla warfare has caused the Cloud Knights endless suffering.]

[The small units you lead are few in number but incredibly formidable in strength. Small units dispatched by the Cloud Knights are fated only to be ambushed and wiped out.]

[If the Cloud Knights dispatch a large force, not only will it be difficult to catch your nimble units, but they also risk falling for the ruse of luring the tiger away from the mountain, exposing the Xianzhou ship's main body to the main Borisin force.]

[If an elite squad composed of masters like the Sword Champion or the Dragon High Elder is sent to intercept, it would not only be a gross misallocation of resources but also impossible to cover all fronts.]

To put it plainly, the Victor in the simulation adopted a strategy of maximizing strengths and minimizing weaknesses.

The Cloud Knights are well-equipped, highly disciplined, and excel in large-scale legionary warfare.

The Borisin are physically powerful and excel in individual combat.

Therefore, the Borisin are better suited for this type of small-scale special operations warfare.

Of course, more importantly, the Cloud Knights are on the defensive. Being the defending side puts them in a very passive position, often only able to react to moves as they come.

[Your strategy does not inflict massive losses on the Cloud Knights, but it is nauseatingly effective, making them feel as if a fishbone is stuck in their throat.]

[You have also shot to infamy, becoming second only to Hoolay, and countless Cloud Knights hate you to the bone.]

[Your notoriety is known to everyone on the Xianzhou.]

[But you do not care.]

[Hoolay is also very pleased. Because your strategy has tied down a large number of the Cloud Knights' main forces for him, the pressure on the main army he leads has been greatly reduced.]

[Unfortunately, he does not know that you were aiming for his position from the very beginning, especially his heart, and the miracle blessed by the Long-Life Lord that resides within—the Crimson Moon.]

[Throughout the long war, countless Cloud Knights have died at your hands. You have accumulated illustrious military achievements, your prestige at one point surpassing Hoolay's.]

[Thanks to your powerful bloodline, your strength grows wildly, as if without any bottlenecks.]

[At the festival of the Long-Life Lord, you issue a challenge to Hoolay.]

[Hoolay gladly accepts the challenge.]

[And then he lost.]

[You have been growing and developing in silence, your strength already far surpassing Hoolay's. Although Hoolay possesses incredibly rich combat experience from countless bloody battles, it is meaningless in the face of your powerful physique.]

[Being crushed by stats is just that simple and unadorned.]

[In Hoolay, you saw the true pride and heroism of a prairie wolf king. After being defeated by you, he accepted his death with grace, even feeling genuinely happy that the Borisin now had a stronger and wiser leader.]

[An opponent like him, you will probably never forget for the rest of your life.]

[Out of respect, after digging the 'Crimson Moon' out of his body, you ordered that his remains be given a grand burial.]

[You devoured the 'Crimson Moon.' From this point, the power of the bloodline within you reached its zenith, even surpassing Doolan, the first Borisin ancestor blessed by The Pharmacist.]

[But you know it is still not enough!]

[The racial limits of the Borisin and the Foxians are holding you back.]

[To surpass the racial limits of both, you must stop being a Borisin (or a Foxian)!]

[You decisively made your choice, devouring the massive power of Abundance contained within the 'Crimson Moon' in its entirety.]

[A massive amount of Abundance power is now rampaging wildly within your body. If you cannot withstand it, you will be completely overwhelmed by the power of Abundance...]