As the choices were confirmed, the virtual images of Xu Luo and Xiang Xun's divine domains appeared over a battlefield, with the two colossal structures situated at opposite ends. Below them lay a vast battleground.
The battlefield's environment could be selected, but both of them chose random settings this time.
Under the watchful eyes of all the elite class students through a projection screen, the divine domains of both shone brightly, followed by a continuous transmission of troops from their domains onto the battlefield.
During the transmission process, the internal details of their divine domains were revealed to the audience. Although only surface details were visible, the glimpses were enough to astonish everyone.
Xiang Xun's divine domain was particularly impressive. As a direct descendant of the Xiang family, his domain included all kinds of terrains and landscapes, almost forming a complete ecological cycle. Moreover, abundant resources were exposed on the surface, demonstrating the richness of his domain.
Although it wasn't filled with pavilions and towers, there was a village formed, indicating that his divine domain was well constructed.
In comparison, Xu Luo's divine domain, despite having various terrains and landscapes, lacked any buildings or visible resources. Large swathes of land were bare and desolate, indicating a lack of funds and incomplete construction.
The difference between the two was clear.
"What a grand gesture!"
Even Xu Luo couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth upon seeing Xiang Xun's divine domain. The disparity was indeed enormous.
Despite his divine domain's increasing production, he couldn't compete with a wealthy player!
Why should the accumulated wealth of several generations be surpassed by ten years of hard work?
At this moment, he deeply understood the meaning of this saying.
While his daily output was in the millions, Xiang Xun's family could casually provide billions or tens of billions of faith power to cultivate their offspring.
The sheer amount of terrain and resources in Xiang Xun's divine domain was unimaginable.
"Pauper!"
Seeing that most of Xu Luo's divine domain was barren, without any buildings, Xiang Xun sneered. Even if the Zergs didn't need buildings, would he never need other species in the future? Shouldn't he start preparing buildings now?
"Xu Luo, if you surrender now, it's still not too late. If your troops all die here, as a pauper, you won't be able to recover from the loss for a long time. Don't cry later!"
Xiang Xun laughed arrogantly.
"It's hard to persuade a doomed man!"
Xu Luo didn't respond further. Since the other party was rushing to his death, he had nothing more to say.
Although he didn't dispatch all his forces, for safety's sake, he sent a part of his acid bugs, mantis bugs, and shell bugs, each numbering ten thousand. After all, the individual combat power of the dragon-blood warriors was slightly stronger than the two-headed ogres, and more importantly, there was an earth dragon of unknown rank.
He had already set his sights on that earth dragon. He wanted the dragon genes, even if it was just a sub-dragon species, as long as it could strengthen his Zergs.
Under his command, the Zerg army on the battlefield began to move first.
"Courting death, daring to move first!"
Xiang Xun sneered and issued his order.
"Dragon-blood warriors, full attack!"
"Yes!"
Following the divine command, thousands of dragon-blood warriors began mobilizing.
From their appearance, dragon-blood warriors were indistinguishable from humans.
They stood three meters tall, with robust physiques.
They universally possessed powerful dragon battle energy. In terms of individual strength, dragon-blood warriors were top-tier troops in the bronze rank.
Xiang Xun had reasons to be proud.
Although there were only a little over two thousand dragon-blood warriors, this number could easily sweep through tens of thousands of ordinary troops.
After all, they were two thousand fully armed bronze tier-nine elite troops.
To equip these two thousand dragon-blood warriors with armor and weapons, the Xiang family had emptied their workshops.
The troops from both sides clashed.
Although Xu Luo's troops were ordinary, they had been strengthened to nearly elite standards through multiple enhancements. While still no match for dragon-blood warriors, his confidence lay in their tenfold numerical advantage.
[Ding! Defeat a Dragon-blood Warrior for a chance to plunder related talents such as "Dragon Scales," "Dragon Blood," "Spellcasting," and "Robust Physique"!]
[Ding! Detected the presence of a sub-dragon creature, Earth Dragon. Defeat it to plunder the sub-dragon bloodline and obtain "Earth Dragon Genes"!]
"Finally, it's here!"
Upon receiving the prompt, Xu Luo's expression brightened. He finally saw the opportunity he had been waiting for. Regardless of the cost, even if he had to deploy all his troops, it would be worth it.
As the two sides fought, Xiang Xun was initially full of confidence. To him, his dragon-blood warriors, equipped with armor and weapons and possessing strong physiques, should have no trouble dealing with Xu Luo's two types of troops, even though one had high defense and the other high attack.
But to his surprise, Xu Luo had hidden another type of troop, giving him a huge "surprise"!
"You actually hid your strength!"
Seeing the acid bugs, Xiang Xun's face turned grim. The acid attacks from these bugs caused significant trouble for the dragon-blood warriors, forcing them to use their battle energy to protect themselves, which quickly depleted their energy.
Moreover, because of the acid bugs, the dragon-blood warriors couldn't charge into the Zerg swarm.
With shell bugs defending in front, acid bugs spraying acid from behind, and mantis bugs waiting for an opportunity in the middle, even though dragon-blood warriors were individually powerful, they still fell one by one.
While they were indeed formidable and caused many Zerg casualties, the cost of training them was vastly different.
Zergs, after birth, only required a bit of faith power to reach bronze tier-nine and some evolution points.
Dragon-blood warriors, however, required an enormous daily expenditure on food, equipment, and more.
Each fallen warrior made Xiang Xun's heart tremble.
At this point, he regretted coming to provoke Xu Luo. But with the battle already underway, it couldn't just stop.
He could only persist, hoping that defeating Xu Luo and damaging his reputation would justify these losses.