This world has not experienced a large-scale war for too long, only small-scale struggles, with the largest scale not exceeding a thousand-person battle.
As a direct result, battles involving tens of thousands of people can only be seen in books, learned about, and imagined. However, commanding a battle is not enough to rely on imagination alone.
Under the mobilization of a large amount of money, the royal family successfully gathered a team of over ten thousand composed of ordinary soldiers and source mages, heading towards Pingkong City, declaring a slogan to eradicate the evil sect ‘Radiant Society’.
However, reality is cruel. The inexperienced commander led a ten-thousand-person team into battle for the first time, only to encounter various problems shortly after departure. Before even reaching Pingkong City, the team almost collapsed. Forget about combat effectiveness, it would be good enough to simply arrive at Pingkong City normally.
The Radiant Society also did not miss this opportunity. They actively sent out a team of two hundred source mages to probe and sneak attack, tossing some skills from a distance, and running away before the enemy could chase.
Many source mages in the royal team, stimulated by money, charged out shouting when they saw the enemy, only to be defeated and disarmed by the already ambushed people. After a ‘ideological mobilization meeting’, they joined the Radiant Society.
After several back and forth, the team organized by the royal family completely stayed still, in a mess. Many source squads saw the situation was not good and sneakily ran away at night. In just a few days, the royal team completely disintegrated.
The first expedition was declared a failure.
The royal family, feeling the pain of their mistakes, replaced the previous prince generals with a slightly renowned versatile minister. After two months of thorough preparation, they once again assembled a team of four thousand composed entirely of source mages and set off towards Pingkong City.
This time, the team finally looked somewhat decent, appearing ready to go to exterminate the rebels. They were prepared in advance for the tactics of the Radiant Society—maintain the team and push forward.
Zhi Peng frowned and contemplated the map in the hastily assembled tactical command post.
Meanwhile, Zhi Peng’s friends and staff officers were also considering countermeasures.
At this moment, Zhi Peng felt the most conflicted. The essence of the Radiant Society he established was to target the unruly royal family, and he had never intended to confront the source mages from the beginning.
He grew up listening to stories of heroic source mages and his own parents were among them, having a natural admiration for source mages who fought against various disasters to protect the world. He was not willing to harm these source mages deep in his heart.
However, the reality was cruel. When the source mages stood on the opposite side of the Radiant Society, he had to suppress his inner feelings and issue attack orders to the team of source mages organized by the royal family.
This sense of contradiction made him feel very uncomfortable, even doubting whether what he was doing was correct.
But he knew he could not hesitate. He had to make a quick decision and choose.
*Clap!*
He suddenly stood up, slapped the table with a resolute expression, and said, “Choose the third option—’guerrilla division.’ Use the rapid transfer ability of the ‘transmission ball’ to erode the opponent’s morale, capture source mages as much as possible, and then invite them to join our Radiant Society through a mobilization meeting to participate in this sacred cause together.”
The so-called ‘guerrilla division’ tactic was actually to use the rapid transfer ability of the ‘transmission ball’ to flexibly move between ten cities including Pingkong City, avoiding the royal family’s densely populated teams and targeting smaller ones, holding mobilization meetings to turn enemies into friends.
At present, the Radiant Society had only two thousand source mage friends, while the royal family’s team had over four thousand people. A direct confrontation would not give an advantage, but the Radiant Society had a huge advantage, which was the ‘transmission ball’ given to them by Su Hao.
If the royal family’s team gathered four thousand people in one place, the Radiant Society would directly move elsewhere, avoiding a head-on clash with the opponent. In any case, the royal family’s team would not be able to catch up with them, so they could just bide their time in this manner.
If the royal family’s team dared to split up for encirclement, they would choose the team with the fewest people. Over two thousand Radiant Society members would rush up together, outnumbering them and directly eliminating the opponent. Then, they would hold a mobilization meeting with the captives to turn them into friends.
Simply put, it was playing rogue!
When Zhi Peng made a decision, the staff at the headquarters all showed interesting smiles, each eager to try, wanting to make a big move, humiliate their opponents well, and see the helpless expression of the enemy general.
However, this was hard on Feng Cheng. After Zhi Peng announced the response plan, a disappointed look flashed across his face.
He had experienced the transformation of the immortal world all the way through and always knew that transformation was very cruel, always involving bloodshed and sacrifice.
In his opinion, he could help the Radiant Society make a dozen or so ten-thousand explosion bombs and throw them directly into the enemy’s team, blow them up once and for all, why bother with so many fanciful tricks.
Now, the transformation and war were played out as a children’s game by them. Could this work?
A leader with a heart of kindness and using that kindness in war will find it difficult to succeed.
Feng Cheng muttered to himself, “If it weren’t for Boss Weida backing them up behind the scenes, can these people achieve anything? It’s a joke! They seem to be having a good time, but it’s hard on me. To protect his safety, when will this day end… Oh no, it’s almost lunch time now, I have to go back and cook for Boss Weida and Yashan Laoda.”
As for Zhi Peng’s safety, is it more important than Boss Weida and Yashan Laoda’s lunch?
Moreover, there’s no rush, he cooks quickly, doesn’t waste any time. If Zhi Peng is unfortunately killed while he’s away, then it can only be said that Zhi Peng has had bad luck and died.
He could personally take action and help Boss Weida clear out all the royal families in this world!
In his view, it’s very simple, make eight or ten ten-thousand explosions, throw them directly into the King’s Palace, clean and clear!
Thinking about it, Feng Cheng held back for a few seconds, finally completed the teleportation preparation, flashed and disappeared on the spot, and went back to cook.
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As expected by the Radiant Society, after the royal team arrived at Pingkong Market, they were indeed at a loss against the Radiant Society. They tried all kinds of methods, suffered over a thousand casualties, and eventually retreated.
The royal team’s second expedition, a month later, was announced a failure. It’s unknown when the third expedition will take place.
Those who were confident and said “The Radiant Society will perish within half a year” changed their tune to “The Radiant Society will perish within a year.”
Undoubtedly, aside from the dead Origin Mage, all these over a thousand people have become new friends of the Radiant Society.
For the sake of convenience in management, Zhi Peng classified his friends into levels, ranging from Level One Friend to the highest Level Five Friend.
His friends all strive to become Zhi Peng’s Level Five Friends, working and fighting actively…
Totally outrageous!
This made Feng Cheng, who had been watching the whole time, feel scalp-numbing. He usually blocked his ears directly, afraid to interact too much with Zhi Peng, fearing that one day he might also become Zhi Peng’s Level Five Friend.
Time passed quickly, and a year passed.
The royal family did not organize another Origin Mage team to attack Pingkong Market, instead changing their strategy, frequently sending people to negotiate at Pingkong Market, seeking methods of coexistence, as if they had tacitly acknowledged the existence of the Radiant Society.
Or perhaps they are buying time to hold back their big move?
As for the matters between the royal family and the Radiant Society, Su Hao, who was immersed in studying source devices, did not pay too much attention, as long as he knew that the power of the Radiant Society was gradually strengthening.
Nothing was more important than his research.
It is this year of focus that has finally allowed Su Hao to find the principle of material transformation into source.
Controlling his excitement, he maintained a relatively calm demeanor on his face, and faintly uttered two words, “Temperature!”
The answer, unexpectedly simple, but it took him an unknown amount of time.
If he hadn’t coincidentally touched that strand of tail from the Source Beast, this time would have been even longer.
Over the past year, he has conducted many experiments repeatedly, and observed that after certain frequencies of movement of microscopic particles, they suddenly transform into ‘source’.
He had previously thought it was related to a particular rhythm of movement, but later discovered that it was not the case.
The fundamental reason for the transformation of matter into source is a tiny particle that reaches the highest limit of temperature in an instant, thus transforming into ‘source’ and maintaining relative stability!
The violent motion observed by Su Hao is just one of the conditions used to heat random particles.
Although the ‘source device’ he once made can move according to that pattern, it fundamentally cannot heat particles to the limit, naturally unable to obtain the ‘source’ he desires.
Su Hao exclaimed, “Heat the particles! Heat them above 142 megakelvins…”
