Chapter 86: War has arrived

In the meeting room, all the professionals who heard Commander Duan’s explanation paused and began to whisper to each other.

"So this is the condition for victory?"

"To put it simply, it's just stalling for time, right?"

Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei were also whispering beside Su Ming, which made Lei Hao and Ye Bai unable to help but talk in a low voice.

An Zijin kept holding on to Su Ming's clothes, as if that was enough and he didn't feel nervous at all.

Su Ming did have a question to ask.

But he didn't choose to be the first to speak out.

I believe that many people will have this question and can't help but ask it.

Sure enough , "Can I ask how long it will take for the Warlock Guild to seal the entrance?"

The person who said this was none other than Xu Yanyan.

She seemed to represent all the professionals present, and even in this occasion, she asked questions to Commander Duan with dignity.

Everyone looked at Xu Yanyan, but no one raised any objections.

As the eldest daughter of the Xu family and a three-star hunter, Xu Yanyan is among the best here in terms of both strength and family background. Except for Gao Xu, no one can compete with her.

Even Xu Qianqian is currently inferior to Xu Yanyan. After all, she is still just a student. No matter how talented or noble her bloodline is, she is still a little immature and green in front of many professionals who have debuted for a long time.

Naturally, the same is true for Levi.

Therefore, it is not excessive to let Xu Yanyan be the representative.

Commander Duan also gave a positive response to this.

"According to the detection department's prior testing, the entrance this time is medium-sized. It's not big, but it's not small either. Even if all the top professionals of the Warlock Guild are fully deployed, it will take a whole day to completely seal this entrance."

There is nothing we can do about it.

There are only a few people who can use the highest-level sealing technique like [Distant Realm Gate]. Even if you search the entire Warlock Guild, there will be no more than five such people.

[Distant Realm Abyss] is the 84th spiritual technique in the sequence ranking, which is at the back of the list among high-level spiritual techniques. In addition, the casting of sealing spiritual techniques is rather troublesome, and the senior professionals of the Warlock Guild have to consider mutual coordination and the output, storage, consumption, and replenishment of spiritual power, etc., so it takes a lot of energy to cast it.

In addition, once the entrance is opened, the army of phantom demons will invade. The caster wants to seal the entrance, but he has to withstand the attacks of the phantom demons at the nearest position. He can only divide his attention into two or even three tasks and resist together with the professionals on the front line.

Due to various reasons, the sealing time has been repeatedly extended.

If there is any accident or problem during the journey, the time may be further extended.

That's why it's necessary to build multiple lines of defense so that people can work hard to resist the army of phantom demons.

Of course, the greatest pressure is still on the front line, and the pressure on the defense line here is not really that great.

"Professionals, you can go to the front line without worry. Our army will support us from the rear. If any phantom demon breaks through your defenses and reaches the rear, we will suppress it with firepower."

Commander Duan began to talk about his countermeasures against the enemy.

"For this battle, the base city has opened up its arms to us. Ordinary weapons may not be effective against phantom demons, but with alchemical bullets, even we can effectively kill phantom demons."

The so-called alchemical bullets refer to the spiritual bullets made by alchemists. They have some spiritual magic properties and are made of special extraordinary materials. They can inhibit the regenerative ability of phantom demons.

Although the killing power is not as great as that of spiritual magic, it is an attack that can be effective against phantom demons. As long as it can hit the vital point, let alone the higher-level phantom demons, even the lower-level phantom demons that are just small fry in the Spirit Demon Prison should be able to be defeated.

There was a time when humans attached great importance to these alchemical ammunitions, believing that they were important weapons that could change the current situation.

If every member of the human army is equipped with sufficient alchemical ammunition, then ordinary people will be able to defeat the phantom demons, and humanity's combat effectiveness against the phantom demons will be greatly enhanced.

Unfortunately, this idea was ultimately shattered.

The reason is simple.

Not everyone can become a professional, and warlocks are a minority among professionals. Warlocks who choose to become alchemists are an even smaller minority among the smaller ones.

The scarcity of talent and the importance of technology make the status of alchemists more transcendent than that of ordinary professionals.

Such a group of talents usually have to research potions, new weapons, and more props with miraculous effects. In addition, they receive manufacturing commissions from various fields, and need to refine countless extraordinary items every day. How can they possibly refine large quantities of ammunition for ordinary soldiers like an arms dealer?

Isn't that a waste of resources?

Therefore, alchemical bullets cannot be manufactured in large quantities, and the idea of ​​mass manpower is self-defeating.

Nowadays, alchemical bullets have become a strategic weapon to some extent. Every base city is trying to store them, and they are never taken out on weekdays to provide to the military for use.

This time, Longyao City opened up the supply of alchemical bullets, allowing ordinary soldiers to go to the battlefield to fight against the phantom demons.

However, this is certainly not without limitations.

The ammunition is limited and there are so many battle lines. Even if a large amount of alchemical bullets are needed, the demand on the front line is ten or even a hundred times that of the rear defense line.

Under such circumstances, the alchemical bullets available to this line of defense are very limited and cannot be used unless necessary.

The soldiers could only stay at the rear and do the final rearguard work.

As for the combat of professionals, there is actually a fixed pattern.

Because of the clear distinction between professions, professionals usually do not change their combat mode when dealing with large-scale battles.

The first thing that must be done is that the warlocks use large-scale wide-area attack spells to attack the army of phantom demons before the army of phantom demons appears and comes into contact with their own front line.

Hunters can usually only fight with phantoms in close combat. When they rush forward, in order not to affect friendly forces, warlocks will definitely not be able to use large-scale spiritual attack spells.

In view of this, once the war begins, the warlocks must first use large-scale attack spiritual magic to launch a wave of strikes to reduce the number of phantom demons as much as possible. When the army of phantom demons rushes to a relatively close position and the hunters rush forward to fight, the warlocks must stop this wide-area attack and use small-scale or even single-target attack techniques that save spiritual power and can accurately snipe.

The hunters must block all the phantoms and protect the warlocks behind them, so that the warlocks who can use spiritual magic to cause damage to the phantoms with the greatest efficiency can attack with confidence.

This is a common combat mode used by professionals when a large-scale war breaks out.

Although simple, this combat mode is undoubtedly the most efficient.

Although Commander Duan is an ordinary person, as a commander and commander, he naturally knows everything about the combat mode of professionals.

The commander had already arranged the battle formation, expanded the map on the screen to his own defense line, and gave instructions one by one.

The students of the Demon Hunting Academy listened very attentively.

This is their first time participating in such a large-scale battle, so they have to take it seriously.

Even Su Ming listened carefully, confirming the subsequent deployment of this line of defense while thinking about his own things.

"In this way, I can use the time between intervals to do what I want to do."

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Su Ming made a plan in his mind.

On the other hand, some of the professionals were quite absent-minded. It was unclear whether they were dismissive of Commander Duan's instructions or were already very familiar with this combat mode. They would whisper to each other from time to time, causing many of the soldiers around them who were strict in following orders to frown.

On the contrary, the Xu family hunters brought by Gao Xu and Xu Yanyan all stood there quietly without saying a word, like sophisticated machines that could execute orders at any time. Their quality was much higher than those of the individual professionals.

Afterwards, Commander Duan made some detailed arrangements.

For example, after the situation became relatively stable, they began to garrison in batches using a shift system.

For example, if the entrance to the Demonic Prison is successfully sealed, how should we advance the battle line and merge with the front line?

By the time Commander Duan finished his story, it was already evening.

At this time, a hint of sunset glow appeared in the dark sky, making the scenery more beautiful.

But the depressing atmosphere of the impending storm not only did not subside, but became even stronger.

Commander Duan glanced at the time and his expression became heavy.

"Time is up."

As these words were spoken, a live broadcast began on the big screen.

That was the image received by the drone at the front line.

Everyone could see that in an uninhabited area, the space suddenly began to distort.

Then, a strange phenomenon occurred.

At first it was just a dot.

A small dot appeared in the void, as if compressing all the darkness in the world together, causing the surrounding space to continue to distort.

The black spot grew bigger and bigger, and gradually rotated, and gradually turned into a black hole.

Inside the cave, countless scarlet eyes lit up one after another.

Those are the eyes of a hunter.

Those were the violent, cold, and cruel eyes of a wild beast.

"roar"

“Ah!”

"Gah"

Suppressed roars sounded one after another, and the sound became more and more chaotic and louder and louder.

When the black hole expanded to a diameter of about ten meters, the monsters arrived.

"roar!"

“Ouch!”

“Gah!”

Amid the terrifying roars, phantom demons began to pour out of the black hole.

Some were running wildly on the ground.

Some are flying in the sky.

As soon as they come out, they dive into the ground or into the water.

Beast-shaped, human-shaped, alien-shaped, deformed, all kinds of phantom demons appeared in the world while roaring.

Looking at the scene that was like the beginning of hell, everyone had to realize it.

War has arrived.

(End of this chapter)