Chapter 296 Tearing the Barrier

The sudden reversal of the battle situation did not bring all benefits.

With the violent firepower of [Great Light Phase] and the Black Giant's self-detonation charge that could be called a "first sight kill", Benjamin tore a valuable gap in the stalemate, making his wizard corps the first pioneer to break through the last line of defense of the Giant Spirit Realm.

This should have been a victory worth celebrating, but it also led to an unexpected trouble - the center of gravity of the regional battlefield shifted.

Originally, the sixth-level wizard in charge of coordinating this vast war zone, "Star Breaker" Balsa, focused his main attention on another main legion with more than a dozen fifth-level wizards.

The legion's attack was so fierce that it attracted most of the defensive forces of the Giant Spirit Realm.

According to the plan, that should be the area where the breakthrough should take place first, and Balsa should personally take action to consolidate the victory.

However, the sudden rise of Jieming's "detachment" completely disrupted the established rhythm.

When Balsa realized that the defense line here had been torn apart, the opportunity on the battlefield had already slipped away.

It was just a moment's delay, and the reinforcements from the inside of the Giant Spirit Realm, like an endless stream of beehives, had already surged up again.

They quickly filled the gap created by the black giant, and even launched a fierce counterattack against the wizard vanguard troops that had just advanced and were not yet stable.

Rumble!

Energy artillery fire fell like a torrential rain. The wizards who had just rushed in commanded their respective cannon fodder legions to fight to the death.

However, even though the enemy relied on the plane barrier and had almost unlimited military reinforcements in the rear, they were still beaten back step by step and were about to be pushed back into the chaotic void.

An invisible pressure suddenly descended.

The space twisted slightly, and Balsa, the "Star Splitter", wearing a wizard robe dotted with star runes, appeared silently beside Jemin.

He has an ancient face and his eyes are as deep as the universe.

At this moment, he frowned slightly, looking at the entrance to the plane barrier in front of him, which was once again occupied by dense enemy warships and behemoths.

His eyes swept across the battlefield and instantly locked onto Benjamin, who had been maintaining the [Great Light Phase] array and was obviously the core and fulcrum of this legion.

"This wizard." Balsa's voice rang directly in Jemin's mind, calm but with unquestionable majesty. "Your performance has exceeded expectations. But now, the situation has changed."

He pointed toward the bustling battlefield ahead. "I need to tear this barrier apart with my own hands to open a passage for the army. However, while the spell is being cast, I cannot move and can only withstand the attacks. Ranged energy strikes are fine, but if an enemy above level four breaks through the barrier and harasses me at close range, it will disrupt the spellcasting process."

He looked at Jieming and asked directly, "If I clear out the enemies in this area ahead, how long can you hold off the subsequent reinforcements while I tear down the barrier? We don't need to wipe them out completely, just buy enough time."

Benjamin's heart trembled, and his brain worked rapidly.

His consciousness sank into the space within his body, quickly counting the inventory of all the "Patrol" cannon fodder units, while calculating the concentration of elements in the surrounding environment that was still raging due to the previous series of battles.

In an instant, he raised his head, met the gaze of the sixth-level wizard, and replied in a steady voice, "Three breaths. That's the maximum time we can buy you to ensure that no units above level four get close to you."

A hint of surprise flashed across Balsa's eyes, then turned into a hint of appreciation.

In this situation, if a low-level wizard dares to give a specific time with such certainty, he is either arrogant or really confident.

Judging from Jemin's previous performance, he tends to the latter.

"Very good." Balsa said no more.

He slowly raised his right hand and pressed it lightly, seemingly casually, towards the reinforcements from the Giant Spirit Realm that were rushing in like a tide.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no brilliant flash of energy.

But at the moment when his palm came down, the void in front of him with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers seemed to be erased by an invisible giant eraser.

Those ferocious warships, roaring beasts, lasing energy beams... everything was silently decomposed and annihilated in an instant, turning into the most basic particles and dissipating into nothingness.

With one strike, the vision becomes clear!

The power of a sixth-level wizard is so terrifying!

Without any pause, Balsa took a step forward and appeared in the center of the cleared area, facing the giant spirit world's plane barrier that had no specific dividing line like the atmosphere.

He raised his hands in the air, and terrifying, heart-pounding energy fluctuations began to emanate from his body. A huge force began to gather, ready to forcibly tear apart the fetal membrane of this world.

Almost at the same time that Balsa started to clear the area ahead, Jemin also moved.

He urged his mind wildly, and the reserves in his body's space gushed out like a floodgate.

Tens of thousands of "Patrol" cannon fodder units, like living missiles, appeared in the void like a swarm of migrating bees.

These second-level patrollers are the basic units carefully built by Jemin for the air combat system.

As soon as they appeared, they burst out at an astonishing ten times the speed of sound under Benjamin's command.

They transformed into streaks of death and fearlessly rushed towards the reinforcements from the Giant Spirit Realm that were pouring out of the plane barrier again!

"burst!"

Following Benjamin's order, the group of patrollers rushing in the front suddenly burst into a destructive light!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—

Self-destruct!

Continuous self-explosion!

These shuttle patrols are consumables designed for extreme one-to-one exchange. Under normal circumstances, the power of their self-destruction is comparable to that of third-level witchcraft.

But how could the "sea, land and air combat system" that Benjamin spent fifty years to build be so simple?

The core of each patroller incorporates some of the technology of talismanic magic weapons.

Their self-destruction is not simply the result of activating their own energy, but rather a subtle way of violently detonating the free elements in the surrounding environment!

At this moment, this area has just experienced the baptism of collective self-destruction of black giants, the explosion of warships, and the bombardment of wizards. The concentration of elements has already soared to an extremely terrifying level!

Thus, under the horrified gaze of the enemy, the self-explosion of the shuttle patrol produced a chain reaction of terrifying effects.

Especially in the areas where the elements are most concentrated, the detonation of the elements caused by the explosion of the patrollers has a destructive power that exceeds the level of fourth-level witchcraft!

This was almost equivalent to the destructive power of a salvo from a small army of wizards, making the vanguard of the reinforcements from the Giant Spirit Realm feel like they had hit an invisible giant wall.

The army was torn apart and evaporated in an instant, abruptly interrupting the enemy's support momentum once again!

The reaction of the Giant Spirit Realm was extremely fast. The combat power of other defense zones immediately began to be diverted here, trying to encircle this fatal gap.

The subsequent reinforcements were also regrouping and trying to charge again.

But, that's enough.

Jemin looked at the enemy formation that had become chaotic again. He and other wizards began to command the cannon fodder army to retreat synchronously and break away from the front line.

Because in front of them, the sixth-level wizard, "Star Splitter" Balsa, had completed his preparations.

He suddenly stretched out his hands forward!

Swish!

A loud noise like cloth tearing, but a billion times louder, shook the entire battlefield!

The extremely solid barrier of the Giant Spirit Realm was torn open into an irregular space crack that was a thousand miles long by Balsana's hands containing the power of law!

Chaotic energy flows flickered at the edge of the crack, and through the crack, one could clearly see the metal continent inside the Giant Spirit Realm.

The plane barrier was forcibly torn apart!

From now on, there is no need for these low- and middle-level wizards and cannon fodder to fight for their lives anymore.

The remaining time will be a stage for high-level wizards to perform.

Jeming was suspended in the void a little later, retrieving the [Large Light Phase] array that had suffered considerable damage. He silently felt the space in his body accelerating the production and replenishment of the factory, and his heart was calm.

With the participation of high-level wizards, the battle situation has stabilized.

Next, it’s time to reap the spoils and military merits.

(End of this chapter)