Chapter 297: Hold on
After a brief lull in the fighting, Benjamin quickly brought his consciousness back into his body to check his condition.
[Great Light Phase] The array's energy reserves have been consumed by more than half, and the talismans and magical instruments have also consumed a lot, but fortunately, there is a factory in the body that can replenish them quickly.
The core of the black giant is being nurtured inside the nest, waiting to be reshaped.
At the same time, the nest's gestation area is also running at full speed to make up for the consumption of the patrollers...
Overall, the foundation is still there, but the loss of conventional cannon fodder is huge.
He let out a light breath and then turned his attention to his comrades around him - or rather, the remaining colleagues.
Seeing this, even though Benjamin was a calm person, he couldn't help but be secretly shocked.
In the void, the originally mighty army of tens of thousands of wizards now seemed much sparser.
The originally shining magical lights of various colors dimmed a lot, and were replaced by a depressing atmosphere.
The cannon fodder units controlled by the wizards, such as the rock golems, crystal creatures, and ghost legions, suffered heavy losses. Their wreckage floated in the void, forming desolate cemeteries. This was expected.
But the wizard's own losses were shocking.
With a rough perception, Benjamin discovered that at least one tenth of the spiritual fluctuations around him had disappeared!
That is to say, at least a thousand official wizards died in the brutal battle to break through the barrier just now!
This number made Benjamin feel heavy-hearted.
He had read the Plane War archives of the Star Ring Federation and was well aware of the cruelty of wizards' first participation in a Plane War—the overall survival rate was less than half, and that was experience built on the corpses of countless geniuses.
However, that is usually a statistic for the entire long expedition cycle.
Moreover, after participating in the plane war for the first time, the survival rate of wizards began to increase significantly because they had obtained sufficient resources and combat experience.
For a complete expedition of this scale to the Giant Spirit Realm that may last for decades, the total mortality rate is only controlled at about one tenth.
But now, just in the landing battle, just in the battle to tear open the enemy's outermost line of defense, a legion of 10,000 people suffered one-tenth of the casualties!
Moreover, the 10,000-man army that Benjamin was in was only a detachment of the million-man expeditionary force. The real main force was led by a seventh-level wizard and was fighting fiercely with the enemy.
"A civilization that can be guarded by high-level wizards... is indeed worthy of its reputation." Benjamin felt awe in his heart.
The difficulty of this expedition is far beyond ordinary.
No wonder such a huge force was mobilized and the order of "total destruction" was issued.
"However, 'complete destruction' also means that high-level wizards will no longer be overly concerned about spoils, and their attacks will become more frequent and powerful," Benjamin analyzed calmly. "As long as we can stabilize the passage through the dimensional barrier in the early stages, subsequent battles may become... relatively 'easier' due to the direct intervention of high-level forces."
In the chaotic void, high-level wizards have little power to spare because they have to maintain a domain with solidified laws.
Once they are able to invade the interior of the plane, the high-level wizards will be free up, and the combat pressure on the expeditionary force will be greatly reduced.
He cast his gaze into the distance, looking at the huge crack that was forcibly torn open by "Star Splitter" Balsa.
At this moment, Balsa's figure had disappeared from his original position. He had obviously followed the crack and entered the interior of the giant spirit world.
However, judging from the energy fluctuations coming from inside, his situation does not seem optimistic.
Benjamin used all his eyesight to vaguely see Balsa's figure through the twisted energy turbulence and the space ripples that had not yet completely subsided.
After breaking into the giant spirit world, he did not go on a killing spree in the enemy camp as imagined, but instead adopted a defensive stance.
Inside the Giant Spirit Realm, without the interference of the chaotic void, the enemy's numerical advantage was brought into play even more fully.
Looking around, you can see a truly overwhelming torrent of steel!
Warships of various shapes, living metallic behemoths, and some indescribable giant constructs rushed towards Balsa like a boiling metal ocean.
Energy beams, physical shells, strange force fields...
Various attacks poured down like a rainstorm on the location of the sixth-level wizard.
What was even more shocking was that among the dense group of enemies, there were several powerful auras that were no less powerful than Balsa's - they were the sixth-level existences in the giant spirit world.
Even in the distant sky, an even more terrifying and vast pressure, as if the entire heaven and earth were resonating with it, was approaching this side at an astonishing speed!
That's a level seven creature!
Even the top combat power of the Giant Spirit Realm was alarmed by the commotion caused by the wizards!
Balsa's situation is extremely embarrassing.
In order to prevent the breach in the plane barrier from healing quickly, he had to use his own body as the core and forcibly "get stuck" in the crack that was thousands of miles long.
From a normal perspective, although Balsa's body is strong, it is insignificant compared to the rift that spans hundreds of kilometers.
But in Jemin's perception, although Balsa's humanoid body was tiny, the presence he exuded was like a towering pillar, as if there was an invisible giant behind him, holding up the barrier passage that was constantly shrinking and healing.
The problem was that this posture made him feel like he was bound by invisible shackles, unable to move flexibly, and could only passively endure the crazy attacks from all directions.
He waved his hand casually, and the surge of power could easily wipe out large groups of enemies and clear a large area.
But the next moment, more enemies will fill in fearlessly.
Some even resorted to suicide attacks just to land the attack on him.
A swarm of ants can kill an elephant, not to mention that among these "ants" there are those that can hurt the "elephant".
"What an annoying bunch!"
Balsa's protective force field continued to ripple violently. He let out an angry roar, and the sound waves shattered the approaching low-level units, but it still couldn't hide his passivity and frustration.
He had a hard time defending, but he never retreated a step. He tried his best to block all attacks outside the gap and buy time for the rear.
At this moment, another level six wizard finally completed the arrangement of solidifying the laws of his own area, and appeared in front of the crack in the plane barrier like teleportation.
The plane barrier is not a thin film, but a boundary layer between the plane element circle and the chaotic void. Its depth may stretch for tens of thousands of kilometers, and it is more like a special "elemental atmosphere".
Therefore, tearing the plane barrier is actually opening a temporary passage through this thick "atmosphere".
And this channel will always be tried to be repaired and healed by the plane itself.
This also explains why Balsa is in such a predicament.
In just a short while, the edges of the huge crack that originally spanned thousands of miles began to blur and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
If Balsa had not used his own great strength to support the passage, the passage would have been closed long ago.
(End of this chapter)
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