Chapter 2 Two Battlefields...Two Objectives

"Two battlefields...two objectives..." Hao Ren nodded slightly upon hearing Leah's analysis. He had also deduced the final battle against the Lord of Mad Chaos, and his conclusion was similar to that of the Goddess of Creation: to deal with that special enemy, its derivatives and its main body were undoubtedly the two most important challenges. "The main task of the outer defense line is to block and weaken the power of the derivatives, and prevent the Lord of Mad Chaos from spreading. The task of the central area is to confront the main body of the Lord of Mad Chaos head-on... Then it seems that those entering the central area must be elite troops."

"I'm definitely going in person," Leah nodded. "And the Creation Engine that is about to be completed – that will be our biggest weapon."

"And me," Hao Ren pointed to himself. "Although I'm not as good as you at fighting, I'm the one with the highest divinity besides you. We're probably the only two who can move freely and maintain complete combat power in that kind of environment."

Just as he finished speaking, Vivian suddenly said, "I'm going too."

Hao Ren looked at her with some concern: "You..."

"I have retrieved all my power, and my power is of the same origin as that of the Goddess of Creation. If we fight together, we will complement each other," Vivian looked into Hao Ren's eyes. "More importantly...I can't let you go alone."

Looking at Vivian's firm eyes, Hao Ren couldn't help but be moved, but he still added, "I can be resurrected – it's written in the contract."

"This has nothing to do with whether you can be resurrected," Vivian said lightly. "I just don't want to be apart from you when the final battle comes. Besides, I won't hold you back – if I summon the Red Moon now, you might not be able to beat me."

Lily looked at Hao Ren and then at Vivian, and couldn't help but bare her teeth, "You two, that's enough, okay? Spreading dog food on such a solemn occasion is a little inappropriate, you know?"

Then everyone around nodded along, even Leah started nodding...

"Ahem, let's get down to business," Hao Ren quickly coughed twice to change the subject. He looked at Izhaks and the others, "The central area can be left to us, and the outer defense line will be the responsibility of the drone legions and the guardians, but in addition to that, there is another front that I hope to entrust to you."

"Another front?" Nangong Sanba was stunned. "Aren't we just supposed to be on the outermost edge shouting '666'?"

Nangong Wuyue immediately smacked her brother on the head with her tail: "Bro! Can you have some face!"

"I'm just telling the truth," Nangong Sanba said plausibly. "The Dark Abyss is the domain of high-end players. Don't we know what we're capable of? There are two fronts inside, one is a space battle and the other is a battle of gods. Neither one looks easy to deal with..."

"You're right, but there will be battlefields outside the Dark Abyss," Hao Ren waited for Nangong Sanba to finish before explaining. "The battlefield here at the Dark Abyss Cage can be regarded as the 'line of gods', but the various surviving civilizations should also be prepared."

"Which is the so-called 'line of humans'..." Leah nodded slightly, and the star map of the Dream Plane unfolded behind her. "Holleta, Tanagus-Drom, Aioi, the Emissaries, and the other surviving planets you've discovered, they are the only remaining mortal civilizations of this era. We must ensure that they are not affected and destroyed in this final battle."

Izhaks frowned: "Didn't we just say that there are mental filtering devices?"

"That's just a layer of defense, but we can't rely entirely on defense measures," Hao Ren said seriously. "I can almost be sure that the omnipresent Lord of Mad Chaos will always find an opportunity to invade those surviving civilizations – because those signal sources with mental reactions are as conspicuous as lights in the night in this desolate Dream Plane, and the minds of mortals are the easiest to attract the attention of the Lord of Mad Chaos."

"In order to break free from control, it will definitely scan the entire universe for intelligent reactions at the first moment, and try to tear open the defense line on the outer edge of the Dark Domain by invading the minds of those mortals," Leah took over Hao Ren's words, "So there needs to be a team to monitor and extinguish those 'infiltration points' that emerge in the mortal world at any time. To be honest, we are already short of manpower in the Dark Domain, so there is no extra manpower to disperse again..."

"Oh, oh, I understand, you want us to be off-site firefighters, you guys put it that way, it is quite necessary," Nangong Sanba nodded suddenly, but then frowned, "But you're just counting on a few of us to monitor the situation of several planets? If only one or two 'infiltration points' appear, it's okay, we can teleport over and fight some small monsters, but what if several planets appear infiltration points at the same time?"

Izhaks stroked his chin and began to think: "Demon King's City has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and the Irim Elves will definitely be happy to respond to your call as the Sun King... These troops may not be able to cope with space battles, but they can still control the situation on the planetary surface. But..."

"They are all in the surface world," Lily scratched her hair, her ears and tail swaying back and forth, "No matter how you look at it, it's unrealistic for such a large wave of troops to pass through the Wall of Reality... Or is the Wall of Reality already strong enough to arrange for a group of 100,000 people to pass through?"

Hao Ren heard this and showed a mysterious smile: "Due to the limitations of the Wall of Reality, the Demon King's City and the armies of the Irim Elves will definitely not be able to pass through. At most, a hundred or eighty high-end combatants can come over, but there is an army that is not subject to this restriction... Or rather, the restrictions are very small, just enough to exploit the loopholes in the Wall of Reality."

The others looked at each other, and everyone except Gun, who was hugging a dried fish and gnawing on it, showed a confused expression. Nangong Sanba held it in for a long time before finally squeezing out a sentence: "When did you hide a wave of soldiers?"

"I didn't hide them, you all know them," Hao Ren chuckled, and finally stopped being coy, "It's the Einherjar Legion."

Nangong Sanba immediately showed a look of realization, and lengthened his tone: "Oh—who was that again?"

"Why are you 'oh-ing' if you don't remember!" Nangong Wuyue slapped Sanba with her tail again. If there weren't so many people here, she would probably have wrapped up her elder brother and slammed him on the ground. Then she was a little embarrassed, "Speaking of which, I don't remember either..."

After saying this, she immediately excused herself: "But it's not my fault! Fish naturally have bad memories..."

"You're a shapeshifting elemental being, just because there's a mermaid princess on Earth doesn't mean you're really a fish?" Lily glanced at the siblings with disdain. "Einherjar! Have you all forgotten? Yggdrasil, those spirit armies from the Nine Realms, the Asgardian God Realm, didn't the landlord get the Gungnir spear from there?... Speaking of which, the landlord is also the Lord of the Nine Realms."

Nangong Sanba immediately covered his forehead: "I went... There are too many messy things, I forgot all about it... There is such a thing, we even picked up an Odin there. Speaking of which, has the Einherjar Legion been restored to its establishment?"

"They are the 'Spirit Legion', but to put it bluntly, they are actually a kind of 'robot' that combines necromantic technology and alchemy," Hao Ren said with a chuckle. "It's just that after the demon hunters demolished Odin's old home, they destroyed all the maintenance stations, which caused the Einherjar to either stop working due to malfunctions or lose their strength due to lack of maintenance. But the core of necromantic creations is not so easy to break. As long as their 'machine bodies' can be repaired, reactivating them is just a matter of recharging them. I left engineering machinery in Asgard to repair the various equipment there, and let that last Valkyrie be responsible for rebuilding the Einherjar Legion. Now everything there has been restored."

Lily looked at Hao Ren in surprise: "Wow—I never expected that! Speaking of which, when did you do these things, landlord?"

"Damn, I'm super busy every day! How can I slack off like you guys all day long!"

Lily looked puzzled: "But you're also slacking off when we're slacking off..."

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment before realizing what she meant: "...The slacking off I'm talking about isn't Doudou!"

"So, the Einherjar Legion can ignore the 'bandwidth limitations' of the Wall of Reality?" Finally, Izhaks, the conscience of the team, the last "defender of serious matters," spoke up and dragged the topic back on track.

"That's right, because they are not complete 'intelligent beings'. Although they are injected with souls, those souls have been washed and recompiled, and are actually equivalent to some kind of program. And the Einherjar armor controlled by the program is just an 'item'. In front of the Wall of Reality, the bandwidth they occupy is not much different from that of a piece of steel of the same mass. And in the Rift Nebula... the total amount of matter exchanged between the two universes every year is enough to stuff in countless Einherjar Legions."

Izhaks asked a crucial question: "How many Einherjar do we have available?"

"According to a report sent by the Valkyrie not long ago, there are currently about 60,000 Einherjar who can be put into battle, and she is now trying to restart an ancient armory from the Odin era. If the system there is restored, there will be another 20,000 Einherjar and some autonomous weapons from the mythical era available."

Having dealt with them once and collected detailed data, everyone present, regardless of whether they participated in the Yggdrasil operation at the time, had some understanding of the strength of those "Einherjar" – armor shells made of super-strong alloys, wielding beam weapons or super-alloy swords, possessing infinite strength and no vital points on their bodies, only stopping running when their energy was exhausted or they were completely shattered. They could be said to be perfect mechanical soldiers.

If the Einherjar Legion at the time had not been in disrepair, lacking energy supply, and with a commander who had gone mad, Hao Ren might not have been able to gain much advantage when he encountered that group of magical Terminator-like beings.

Now that they have been properly maintained and repaired, and some of their parts have been strengthened by Hao Ren, they are undoubtedly usable for dealing with "firefighting operations" on the planetary surface.