The Semi-Steep Main Star was breached, and the War Headquarters kept relocating, not far from the temporary main star, reachable with one space-time teleportation.
Mingling in the crowd as he stepped off the warship, Wang Xu looked around, a scene of alert combat readiness.
The soldiers who truly received training had strict ranks, undergoing rigorous training, and were in perfect order, divided into cyan, silver, and gold armor, clearly distinguished.
Cyan armor soldiers were Void Level, silver armor soldiers were Black Hole Level, and gold armor soldiers were White Hole Level.
As a new independent soldier, Wang Xu could choose to accept training, becoming a member of the Cosmic Country’s soldiers and enjoying all the benefits and privileges provided by the Cosmic Country. Conversely, if unwilling to accept conscription, preferring dispersion, one only needed to adhere to the camp headquarters’ rules, and no one else would manage you. However, , generous welfare entitlements would be out of reach.
Among the new soldiers, most came for the generous benefits, naturally choosing to accept training first, joining the Cosmic Country’s soldiers, becoming a proud national force.
Another part, choosing to go solo, gathered together, made an oath, and formed a temporary team to battle on the border battlefield.
Only Wang Xu and a few others remained, neither joining the national force nor joining any team, completely lone rangers, coming and going at will.
Yet such people often have the highest mortality rates on the battlefield.
"Soldier, here’s your Imperial Armor. Wear it well and don’t be reckless on the battlefield, or you’ll lose your life," said the person responsible for receiving soldiers, handing Wang Xu a piece of ordinary Defensive Star Spiritual Treasure.
Wang Xu smiled, taking this piece of Defensive Star Spiritual Treasure.
Currently, he wore Defensive Immortal Divine Soldiers, not needing this Defensive Star Spiritual Treasure at all, but to cover up, naturally, he couldn’t refuse.
"I see, there’s such a benefit in border wars." Wang Xu strolled around the War Headquarters, examining everything except restricted areas.
From this, Wang Xu learned about the "exchange system" in border wars.
How does a soldier prove they killed someone on the battlefield? By presenting the enemy’s Iron Token, it’s known. If they killed many, gaining a lot of Iron Tokens, they could exchange them in the exchange department for the war soldiers, Imperial Armor, ancient medicine, ancient ore, secret techniques, etc., they wanted.
The more Iron Tokens obtained, the more enemies were killed, greatly attracting the Cosmic Country, which spares no expense to recruit.
Moreover, all war trophies gained on the battlefield belong to the one who killed the enemy; the Cosmic Country won’t take a single share.
Thus, for soldiers, the enemy is a huge mobile fortune. Kill them, and it can be obtained.
The Cosmic Country incentivizes soldiers this way, competing on national strength, consumption, seeing which side can’t hold on first and surrenders.
In this regard, Wang Xu nodded. This method is fair, making soldiers feel their effort on the battlefield is valuable, prompting them to risk everything to kill the enemy.
In the cruel cosmos, using slogans like "defend home and country" or "protect territory" cannot achieve victory. Only by enticing with benefits, making soldiers drool and greedy, can the war be won.
On the other side of the War Headquarters are four space-time teleportation platforms, each corresponding to a different battlefield level.
"I want to go to the Void Level battlefield," Wang Xu said to the silver armor soldier on watch.
"Pay 10 Cosmic Crystals, and you can go." When the army teleports together, it doesn’t cost Cosmic Crystals, but using the space-time teleportation platform alone requires payment.
After paying 10 Cosmic Crystals, Wang Xu stepped onto the space-time teleportation platform. A hazy white light shone, and Wang Xu’s figure suddenly disappeared.
In the cosmic vacuum, shattered and desolate stars floated all around, the creatures on the stars had completely perished in the war.
Once beautiful and prosperous, the planet, after being engulfed by flames of war, was left with only a low sigh and a sorrowful bleakness.
The Semi-Steep Star Domain’s main star, three hundred years ago a brilliant star, now completely dim, its light extinguished, buildings, oceans, and land leveled, leaving only a vast barrenness.
However, at one end of the desolation stood a simple and modest town, covered by a faint energy barrier.
The hazy white light shone as Wang Xu slowly stepped down from the space-time teleportation platform.
Two gold armor soldiers, White Hole Level characters, stood on either side, glanced lightly at Wang Xu, then closed their eyes again, cultivating alone.
This town was a temporary base, existing for the space-time teleportation platform, and the two gold armor soldiers were just watchers of the platform, not participating in war.
The Void Level battlefield is contested by Void Level soldiers; no other realm level cosmic martial artists can take action; otherwise, they violate the war tacit rules, potentially triggering a cosmic country-wide war.
No one wants to see that.
This temporary town acts as a Safe Zone. Once soldiers find themselves injured and unable to continue fighting, they come back to the Safe Zone, waiting to heal before heading out again.
In other words, once entering the temporary town, enemy soldiers can no longer pursue, or they will be considered violating the war tacit rules, and will be killed by the gold armor soldiers.
On the contrary, as long as your people have not entered the temporary town, even if you are being killed outside the Energy Barrier right in front of everyone, it is not considered a violation of the war treaty, and the Golden Armor Soldier will not intervene.
However, a typical pursuit would never dare to go so far, as the temporary town is filled with soldiers of the Tai Long Cosmic Country, and if challenged, they will undoubtedly come out in full force. Who could withstand that?
"I want to go out of the town to kill the enemy troops." Wang Xu went straight to the town gate and said.
The Cyan Armor Soldier on guard frowned, "Friend, going to the battlefield alone, your chances of survival are very low, you should think it over."
"I am very sure," Wang Xu said seriously.
Seeing that Wang Xu was determined to go at it alone, the Cyan Armor Soldier shook his head, opened the Energy Barrier, and let him leave the town.
"Another one seeking death."
Wang Xu gazed into the distance in the cosmos, where each star no longer shone brightly, becoming floating cosmic debris, useless rubble.
Sighing softly in his heart, Wang Xu took out the Bailan and traveled through the cosmos.
The distance between stars is incredibly vast, and without a warship, relying solely on Void Level flying speed, who knows how many years it would take to reach another star.
The Bailan skimmed over fields of broken stones and wreckage, mixed with dilapidated cosmic battleships turned to debris, Void Ancient Soldiers whose forms could still be discerned in mechanical structures, and even several lifeless cold corpses drifting alone in space, stripped of all their treasures.
"Hmm?" After traveling for a short while, Wang Xu saw a still intact planet not far away, though a fragment of it had been shattered.
"Celestial Spirit, go take a look at that star," Wang Xu said.
Where there is a star, naturally there will be life, and it is very likely to be the life of the enemy.
In the Void Level battlefield, Wang Xu feared nothing. His strength was already comparable to the strongest Black Hole Level, dealing with ordinary Void Level soldiers was effortless.
Meanwhile, on this planet, a man and a woman were frantically flying. One was a towering giant over ten meters tall, and the other a petite woman with green scales on her skin.
Both had pale faces, and the giant was drenched in blood, his body riddled with various wounds.
"Haha... Run faster, speed up! Haha!" Behind the two, five figures were also in pursuit.
The five were all at the Extreme Void Level, led by a cosmic warrior that resembled a lizard, sharp-toothed and holding a laser gun, laughing wildly and shooting at the two in front.
The laser beam shot directly toward them, and the giant’s eyes narrowed, his body shifting behind the woman, letting the laser beam hit his back, the smell of burnt flesh spreading out.
"Captain!" The woman’s eyes reddened, shouting in a hoarse voice.
"Don’t mind me!" The giant gritted his teeth, veins bulging, cold sweat pouring, "Remember what I just said, once I turn around, immediately take the Forbidden Medicine and leave at full speed, understand?!"
Tears silently fell from the woman’s eyes, she knew what the giant intended to do. As long as he turned around, he would immediately self-detonate, blocking the chasing soldiers.
"Haha... what a fragrant smell of roasted meat, so the flesh of the Tai Long Cosmic Country’s cosmic martial artist is so fragrant. Later, I’ll capture you alive and cook you directly!" The lizard man laughed with a hoarse and piercing voice, "And that female martial artist, bring her back as well. If usable, play with her; if not, kill her!"
Upon saying this, the other four lizard-like warriors burst into laughter.
"Xu Bi, take out the Forbidden Medicine, I can’t hold on anymore," the giant gritted his teeth and said moments later.
The woman covered her mouth, tears falling like large beads.
Ultimately, she had to accept reality.
"Xu Bi, thank you for staying with me for so long." The giant forced a pale smile, then closed his eyes, spun around sharply, and charged toward the five lizard warriors!
"Goodbye, Xu Bi." The giant said one last time, as the Cosmic Energy within him violently surged!
"Captain!!!" Xu Bi howled in grief, yet powerless.
An intangible wave of Spiritual Consciousness exploded outward, jolting the giant’s Will, causing a pause in his awareness, and the raging Cosmic Energy within him instantly calmed.
At the same time, space distorted, and a cosmic battleship with a blooming Bailan at its base suddenly appeared.
A figure shot out from it, arriving directly in front of the giant.