Chapter 173 War Breaks Out Again
The shrill beeping alarm suddenly tore through the tranquility of the wizard camp, interrupting Jemin's further in-depth research on the lava giant.
The alarm was sounded less than ten days before the landing battle, which was much shorter than expected.
News came from the intelligence center that the two sixth-level creatures, the lava giant Kalamos and the snow monster king Agron, once again gathered a huge army and launched a general attack on the wizard camp like an unstoppable torrent!
The location of the wizard camp was strategically chosen from the very beginning.
It was deliberately built at the junction of the Burning Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm, on the edge of a huge mountain range filled with a chaotic energy field.
This position means that once the wizards go to war, they will face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides by two hostile races.
However, this was not an accident, but a deliberate plan by the wizarding high command.
Just as the wizards always do: only by giving the other side hope and making the natives mistakenly believe that there is an opportunity to take advantage of, will they launch continuous attacks and continuously throw their own troops into the meat grinder set up by the wizards, so as to achieve the purpose of consuming their essence.
But during this period, the wizards were not idle.
Not only did it strengthen the camp's defense system, it also upgraded the temporary fortifications built in the early stages into rune walls and energy barriers.
What is more important for the combat wizards is to replenish the cannon fodder lost in the previous landing battle, or even greatly increase it!
The wizards' biochemical beast gene banks and puppet factories were fully operational, producing a cannon fodder army several times larger than before in a short period of time.
These cold tools surged to the front of the camp like a tide, ready to fight at any time.
Compared with the previous brief encounter in the sky, the power of the two monster races from the Flame Frost Plane this time was even more astonishing.
After all, fighting in the sky requires professional strongmen or air units, which itself restricts their performance.
At this moment, fighting on solid ground is what the two races are best at.
Their legions surged in like a tsunami, the earth trembled, fire and frost intertwined, and even the distant sky was dyed with a doomsday color by their respective elemental energies.
This time, in addition to the elite generals and elite troops that are more numerous and stronger than in the previous landing battles, each race also has several million ordinary troops at the first-level peak creature level!
The army of lava giants is composed of ordinary lava warriors. They are huge and powerful, holding burning hammers and rock shields, stomping on the hot earth and making deafening roars.
The Yeti Army is made up of giant frost dogs and fur-covered Yeti hunters. They move silently through the ice and snow, their claws flashing, cold and deadly.
And this is not the limit!
According to the information sent back by the wizards who had penetrated deep into the enemy area, there were endless streams of monsters heading this way from farther away.
Lava giants emerged from underground lava tunnels, and snow monsters emerged from the depths of the glacier, one after another, like a tide of ants.
The two hostile races combined probably have hundreds of millions of reserve troops!
This means that the wizards are facing an unimaginably large local military force. Even if their individual quality is not as good as that of the wizards, their advantage in numbers cannot be ignored!
"Everyone! Prepare for battle!" The cold voice of the wizard Augustine resounded throughout the entire camp. He stood on the top of the command tower, with the laws surging around him. He looked extremely small yet extremely powerful.
With one command, the wizard camp instantly transformed into a functioning war machine.
Those golems made of metal and bones, as well as the biochemical beasts formed by the fusion of countless remains of alien creatures, let out silent or low roars.
They lined up in two neat rows and rushed out without hesitation, facing the charge of the lava giants and the rain of arrows from the snow monsters.
They have no fear, no retreat, only preset instructions - charge, consume, until destruction.
A torrent of flesh and steel slammed heavily into a storm of lava and ice!
Boom!
The huge crash instantly ignited the battlefield!
Intensive explosions continued at the front line of the defense line. High-temperature magma and piercing ice flakes splashed everywhere. Corrosive acid and highly toxic ice chips mixed together to form a purgatory of death.
The lava giant swung its huge rock fist and bombarded the biochemical beasts and golems. Each attack was accompanied by a splash of magma, tearing flesh and smashing steel.
However, the inner core of the golem was still flickering, and the broken remains of the biochemical beast were also wriggling rapidly. They were not afraid of death. Even with their limbs broken, they still tried their best to hold on to the enemy and detonate the last strength in their bodies.
On the other side, the army of snow monsters shuttled through the ice fog like ghosts.
Their movements were swift and silent, the ice crystal bowstrings in their hands were fully drawn, and the whistling ice arrows were as dense as raindrops.
Each ice arrow has strong penetrating power and can easily penetrate the energy shield of the wizard cannon fodder.
And those strong yeti warriors, wielding sharp claws and ice axes, fought a desperate battle with the wizard's flesh and blood monsters.
The ice blade collided with the bone spur, making a sound of metal clashing, and blood plasma and white ice crystals mixed on the battlefield.
The combat wizards also showed their strength at this moment.
They stood behind the second line of defense, casting various powerful spells and providing remote support.
Elemental energy surged in the air, witchcraft runes intertwined into a web, and thick beams of energy pierced the sky.
Every hit will cause a small explosion.
However, the monster army was huge in number and the battle line was extremely long. Even if the wizards gave their all, they could only maintain the stability of the battle line and could not push back.
For a while, the situation was at a stalemate.
Just as the wizards and the monster army were engaged in a bloody tug-of-war at the front line of the camp, deep in the heartland of the lava giant race, in the area where magma was rolling and volcanoes were everywhere, a strange change quietly occurred.
Three seemingly ordinary active volcanoes have become hubs located in the core earth veins.
At this moment, their tops, which had originally only emitted a slight smoke, began to emit a strange crimson light.
Countless lava giants, expending countless amounts of energy, secretly changed the direction of the magma flow in the surrounding veins.
They gathered the magma containing pure fire elements and the power of the earth to the bottom of the three volcanoes like rivers, and charged them frantically.
A suffocatingly huge amount of elemental energy is condensing terrifyingly inside these three volcanoes.
This is the strategic weapon of the lava giant clan!
It is a powerful weapon that they secretly developed during the long war with the Yeti tribe, which can change the local battlefield environment!
As enough energy filled up, the energy fluctuations inside the three volcanoes reached their peak.
The next moment, accompanied by three dull roars, three extremely thick red beams of light shot up into the sky like three burning spears, directly hitting the area where the wizards and the monster army were engaged in a bloody battle!
Three beams of light drew perfect parabolas in the air, landed precisely in the center of the battlefield, and then exploded and spread out almost at the same time!
A visible ripple-like halo, mixed with terrifying high temperature, suddenly swept outward with three landing points as the center.
The temperature of the entire battlefield soared in an instant, reaching a suffocating level of thousands of degrees Celsius!
The sudden extreme high temperature alone caused devastating damage to some unsuspecting wizard cannon fodder and monsters from the Frost Dark Realm!
The shells of some biochemical beasts and golems that were not good at endurance instantly turned black and curled under the high temperature of a thousand degrees, and the internal energy cores quickly overloaded.
Many of them let out wails, emitted green smoke, and then collapsed to the ground.
Those snow monsters that couldn't stand the high temperature let out shrill screams.
Their icy bodies quickly melted and evaporated under the high temperature, turning into black liquid, and many of them turned directly into a pool of blood.
The air was instantly filled with a burnt smell like barbecue and the pungent smell of sulfur.
What is even more despairing is that the desolate and dark ground at the junction of the Flaming Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm suddenly cracked under the high temperature!
Large amounts of hot magma gushed out from deep underground, like a gaping wound, turning the battlefield into a flowing sea of magma!
In such an extreme environment, the lava giants who were originally suppressed are like fish in water!
They roared with ecstasy.
The scorching heat and flowing magma not only did not harm them, but instead became the source of their strength.
Their bodies suddenly expanded under this high temperature, and the lava blood flowing on their surface became even hotter and thicker.
Some lava giants have even evolved directly into pure liquid lava forms, moving freely in the magma as if they have become one with the earth.
Their body tissues absorb heat and magma from the surrounding environment, and their strength is greatly enhanced in a short period of time!
In an instant, the originally evenly matched battle situation suddenly changed!
The lava giants swept in with a frenzy, and coupled with the magma gushing out from the ground, they pushed the wizard cannon fodder's front line back several kilometers with almost no effort!
The wizards' defense began to waver on a large scale.
At the rear of the battle line, the lava giant Kalamos was enveloped in a fiery lava storm. "Hahahaha!!! That's it! Tell those guys back there to recharge quickly and keep attacking!"
His huge body bathed in the three red rays of light shooting out from the center of the ground, appearing even taller and more terrifying.
He commanded his lava giants to continue charging the three strategic volcanoes to ensure that the advantage on the battlefield could continue to expand.
Kalamos looked at the temporary defeat of the wizard army and the ugly howling of the snow monsters in the high temperature, his eyes full of complacency.
He felt extremely proud of the idea that this move of his could not only severely damage those damn "white-haired monsters", but also defeat the foreign invaders.
However, at the moment when this pride reached its peak, suddenly, his entire huge body shook violently!
This is not an attack from the outside world, but a warning sign derived from biological instinct, like the most dangerous premonition.
As a sixth-level creature, his keen intuition, which can communicate with the origin of the plane, is now issuing a sharp alarm.
Karamos's biological instinct, which had not been sharp before, felt that at this moment, a terrifying force was quietly gathering in the center of the battlefield - under the torn space rift!
The power was so strong that it even caused an unprecedented tremor to surge in his heart.
"What the hell?!!"
(End of this chapter)
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