Mighty Lord

Chapter 2892 - 926: Southbound (Part 2)

Thus...After making a decision in his heart, Zhou Tian quickly rushed towards the southern location.

Compared to Earth, aside from the Antarctic and other places, most of the southern climate is hot and rainy. For this reason, the south is often a major food-producing area. Even though the number of strong warriors in the south is certainly fewer than in the north, in terms of importance, the south is by no means inferior to the north.

War isn’t fought without money and food!

The forces Zhou Tian currently commands mostly don’t need much food supply, because the Abyssal creatures do not consume much in the short term. If all else fails, the warlocks could send the Abyssal creatures back to the Abyss World to solve the food problem. Even with a small demand for food, the forces cultivated by Zhou Tian could obtain the needed supplies through plundering or other methods.

Though the forces Zhou Tian has nurtured might not need food supplies, this doesn’t mean other living beings mobilized for war won’t need them either.

In stark contrast to Zhou Tian’s situation, if the warlocks he trained were to engage in warfare with other forces in this world, those other forces would certainly need to gather a large amount of military power and a considerable number of fighting qi warriors to defeat the warlocks.

There’s no doubt, based purely on the necessary emergence of the situation at the time, that the Allied Army would certainly need a large amount of food. Considering how much ordinary troops consume daily, the cultivation warriors, who are quite the gluttons, would alone consume an unknown amount of food.

Thus, the problem arises: if the future battlefield indeed requires the current world’s Allied Army to consume large amounts of food, then if Zhou Tian uses some tactics to cause them to lose their food supply before forming, he might achieve a partial victory without fighting.

The purpose of Zhou Tian’s proactive southward movement this time is essentially to destroy the southern food-producing lands.

The south may not cover much land, but due to the climate, it produces about 60% of the world’s food annually. Undoubtedly, if the southern food-producing areas encounter problems, even if Zhou Tian does nothing, the Allied Army’s food issue in the future could be enough to give them headaches.

Especially if that battle turns into a long-term war, after destroying their food supplies, the Allied Army’s food issues would become even more severe. If nothing unexpected happens, simply by the situation at the time, it would be sufficient to halve the Allied Army’s winning odds.

Of course, if Zhou Tian could truly achieve his purpose in going south, it would surely influence the future battle situation. However, achieving that purpose is by no means an easy task. At least, from Zhou Tian’s perspective at the time, causing destruction in the south wasn’t difficult, but achieving the goal of destroying the southern food-producing areas without consuming too much energy posed some difficulty.

No one in the world is stupid. While few high-level living beings know of an upcoming major battle, others are unaware of the current world situation. But even if they don’t know what might happen in the future, this doesn’t mean that the southern food-producing areas are easy to destroy.

Everyone knows the importance of food. Therefore, given that knowledge, even if no war occurs, every southern food-producing place must be closely guarded.

Destroying a small portion of the southern farmland isn’t difficult, but if one wants to commit widespread destruction, then unforeseen obstacles would likely arise.

Based on the current world’s power, if Zhou Tian faces the enemies’ full resistance when taking action, he might forcefully achieve his goal. Yet, in achieving it, the energy consumption might be so extensive that he’d be incapable of undertaking other ventures in this world.

Destroying the Allied Army’s food-producing areas was indeed the method Zhou Tian devised to counter them, but he never intended to achieve that purpose at any cost. After all, even if the Allied Army was short on food, they’d only lose some odds of victory. It’s impossible to think that the successful execution of this plan could allow Zhou Tian to annex the world.

Thus, although Zhou Tian didn’t see anything wrong with his plan at the time, he certainly wouldn’t drain his energy just to destroy those food-producing areas. Under such circumstances, Zhou Tian would definitely use other methods to achieve his goal, even if it required extra effort.

Overall, Zhou Tian decided to use an old method to achieve his objective.

Without attempting it, Zhou Tian knew that forcibly running to destroy those lands wouldn’t yield a good result. As those areas had strong guarding powers, Zhou Tian directly attacking would only make those forces resist. Whether Zhou Tian could win or not, he wouldn’t gain much even from victory.

In those circumstances, if Zhou Tian could find an opportunity to start from within, incite internal chaos within the southern forces, and ultimately lead to barren lands, it would certainly require less effort.

Without a doubt, while such a plan would certainly require more time, considering the current situation, Zhou Tian believed he must proceed in this manner. After this idea took root in his heart, Zhou Tian made his decision and promptly took action.

First, since Zhou Tian intended to incite internal chaos among the southern forces, he naturally needed to understand the specific information of the southern forces. Otherwise, without knowing the opponent’s situation, no matter what plans Zhou Tian had, nothing would be realized in the south.

In fact, it was fortunate that Zhou Tian familiarized himself with the southern situation, or else, with a direct approach, he might face a disastrous outcome.

In most of the world, the south usually belongs to the Human Race or the Elf’s territory, whereas the north mostly belongs to the Beastman Tribe. Based on Experience, if Zhou Tian acts without reconnaissance, he would naturally follow this territorial layout. While the decision may seem unproblematic, if Zhou Tian truly acted on it, he would face dire consequences.

In most situations, racial spheres of influence indeed align this way. But that’s in general, whereas in this particular world, the circumstances are entirely different.

The Beastmen wouldn’t just rest easy in the north.

In other worlds, one major reason Beastmen live in the north, besides originating there, is that despite wanting to move south, the living beings in the south wouldn’t consent.

As a result, Beastmen moving south often encounter resistance from the Human Race and Elves. Due to the Beastmen generally lacking the ability to defeat the Humans and Elves, they can only live honestly in the north when unable to move south.

But just because the Beastmen lived in the north doesn’t mean they didn’t want to go south. In fact, if it were possible, no race would refuse to live in the south.

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