Chapter 312 Quick Victory
On the horizon, the counterattack legions of the Giant Spirit Realm resembled a slowly advancing metallic continent.
The massive fleet of warships, blotting out the sky, maintained a grim formation. The enormous war beasts let out deep roars, their backs supported by turrets as numerous as mountains.
Countless servants of various shapes and sizes were mixed in, like remoras clinging to a whale, their numbers so great that they seemed to fill the entire sky.
On the wizards' side, their army was equally prepared.
The wizards' lineup has changed significantly compared to the initial landing battle.
The massive cannon fodder army still led the way, but a large number of strange, never-before-seen units appeared among them.
Some resembled haphazardly pieced-together mechanical creations, with exposed gears, tangled pipes, and emanating unstable energy fluctuations.
Some are bio-engineered beasts with more distorted forms and emitting targeted energy radiation.
These are another achievement of the logistics wizards—new types of cannon fodder units that can be rapidly multiplied or assembled on the battlefield using enemy corpses, scrap metal, and even dissipated energy.
The aim is to sustain the war through war and continuously wear down the enemy.
At this moment, Jemin was not in the main battlefield inside the Giant Spirit Realm, but had once again arrived outside the dimensional barrier, in that vast space where chaotic void and elemental turbulence intertwined.
With the Giant Spirit Realm mobilizing all its forces, they naturally wouldn't be content with merely defending their own interior.
The Giant Spirit Realm also dispatched an elite fleet, intending to reclaim and seal the massive, scar-like gap in the dimensional barrier.
The wizard command deployed its forces accordingly and divided the battlefields based on each wizard's performance and areas of expertise in the previous battle.
Because of the devastating area-of-effect damage of his [Great Light Phase], which could easily cause friendly fire in the relatively narrow inner battlefield, Jemin was assigned to the outer battlefield, a space with more boundless space, where he could unleash his firepower to his heart's content.
In the void, the two massive legions faced off from afar.
On one side is an orderly, frenzied metal rush, and on the other is a silent and eerie torrent of wizard creations.
The somber atmosphere almost froze the surrounding turbulent energy flow.
The battle erupted the instant both sides entered their maximum firing range!
Behind Jemin, the massive [Great Light Phase] array had already unfolded, its light flowing.
However, unlike before, the surface of the tens of thousands of rune artifacts in the array is no longer engraved with simple energy bullets or ray runes, but with special magic models carefully developed by other wizards in the "Time Law Chamber" to target the physiological structure of the natives of the Giant Spirit Realm!
It was only thanks to the fully automated factory within the body operating at full speed that this tactical shift was able to provide sufficient hardware support.
"emission!"
Without needing further orders, the vanguard troops of both sides withstood the barrage of fire, colliding head-on like two raging torrents!
With a thought, Jemin unleashed the long-accumulated horde of shuttle cannon fodder.
Together with other self-destructing units released by the wizards, they detonated a series of destructive orbs in the enemy fleet, instantly clearing a large area and delivering a heavy blow to the enemy vanguard.
Immediately afterward, with the cannon fodder units fighting and providing cover for them, the wizards in the rear began to cast spells.
This time, the caution was completely different from that during the amphibious landing.
A dazzling array of magical lights, each unique in shape, poured out of the wizards' ranks like a flood bursting its banks, crashing down on the legions of the Giant Spirit Realm!
Various corrosive acid clouds, tremor waves specifically designed to disintegrate metal structures, interference rays that cause energy circuit overload, illusory force fields that distort the soul's perception, and Balthana's "resonance collapse wave" that can induce internal rejection and self-replicate and spread...
These specifically researched forms of witchcraft have demonstrated astonishing effects.
An area was covered by a dark green corrosive cloud of mist. The shields of the giant spirit's warships melted away as quickly as butter hit a hot knife, and the hulls emitted a piercing sizzling sound as they dissolved rapidly.
In another area of the air, an invisible shockwave swept across, causing the massive mechanical constructs to freeze instantly, sparks to fly from their joints, and some structurally unstable units even disintegrated in mid-air!
What's particularly frightening is that these witchcraft spells, specifically developed for the natives of the Giant Spirit Realm, have negligible effect on friendly cannon fodder units mixed in with the enemy ranks!
The wizards can finally unleash a full-scale barrage of firepower without any restraint!
Tragic scenes unfolded throughout the void.
The warships of the Giant Spirit Realm lost power, twisted and deformed, or exploded from the inside under targeted witchcraft.
The powerful war behemoth was bound by special energy shackles and then torn apart by swarms of cannon fodder units.
Even on high-level battlefields, those level six wizards, facing a vastly superior number of level seven powerhouses from the Giant Spirit Realm, managed to achieve a near-crushing victory by employing a variety of tricky and unpredictable targeted spells!
The commanders of the Giant Spirit Realm were filled with shock and anger, and they attempted to launch a similar indiscriminate attack.
However, they discovered that their own energy artillery and physical ammunition, while eliminating the wizard cannon fodder, also caused huge casualties to their own units.
This feeling of being restricted and constrained made them so frustrated they almost wanted to vomit blood.
From the very beginning, the battle was one-sided!
Jemin was in a relatively safe area within the wizard formation, and with the tacit protection of the other wizards around him, the [Great Light Aspect] continued to shine.
Every second, hundreds of thousands of specialized witchcraft spells are poured down on the enemy army like a sudden storm.
Watching the enemy formation crumble rapidly under targeted attacks, he sighed inwardly.
"Unfortunately... the 'symbiotic disaster' microbial community needs the internal environment of an organism to be effective, and it is useless in this void environment."
This meant he couldn't witness firsthand the actual effects of his "plague" on the battlefield, which he found somewhat regrettable.
The situation on the main battlefield inside the Giant Spirit Realm is equally dire, even more so.
The confined space allows the wizard's area-of-effect attacks to be more concentrated.
The microbial community developed by Jemin was mixed into special shells and fired into the enemy ranks at the very beginning of the war, but its subtle influence did not attract much attention for the time being due to the powerful witchcraft with its immediate and amazing light and shadow effects.
Under the wizards' targeted attacks, which were almost like "cheating," the massive army of the Giant Spirit Realm retreated even faster than during the last landing battle!
When the real-time battle damage report showed that the loss rate had exceeded the critical point of fifty percent, the highest commander of the Giant Spirit Realm front line—the operator inside a giant mechanical puppet whose aura had reached the peak of the seventh level—trembled violently with resentment, his mental fluctuations filled with unwillingness and humiliation.
But it knew that if it continued fighting, it would only end in total annihilation.
"Retreat... Retreat the entire army! Hold the second line of defense!" A command filled with boundless rage and frustration echoed across the entire battlefield.
The remaining army of the Giant Spirit Realm, like the receding tide, carrying wounds and humiliation, hastily withdrew from the battlefield and retreated towards the defensive nodes deep within their homeland.
Outside the dimensional barrier, Jemin watched the enemy army retreat like a tide and slowly withdrew the light of the [Great Light Phase].
In the second battle, despite the enemy's prepared strength being far greater than that of the landing operation, the wizard civilization, through targeted research, was able to achieve another victory with an almost overwhelming force.
The power of knowledge was fully demonstrated at this moment.
(End of this chapter)
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