The soldiers of the United Nations, together with the Eden people, launched an attack on the demon's nest.
The offense and defense exchanged at this time.
Chapter 12: The Power of the Demonic Network and the Final Battle—4/5 8K
After the artificial magic reactor was completely restarted and began to release diluted artificial magic to the surroundings, the Kingdom of Eden could be said to have completely recovered from its desperate and depressed state.
They have regained abundant artificial magic power, and their magic network is slowly but firmly repairing. More importantly, at the moment when the magic network is restarted—
The magic puppets finally had enough energy to produce extra puppet bodies, and then released their companions who were trapped in the magic net!
"What year is this?"
A magic puppet that had just come off the production line patted his drowsy head, then immediately rushed to the weapon rack and inserted the magic weapons that were being produced in an endless stream into the slots of his limbs.
"I thought we would never have a chance to appear in reality again... But now we can not only reappear, but even blow the horn of counterattack? This is a damn good thing!"
The magic puppets that had just come off the production line were muttering to themselves. After completing all the basic preparations, they "decomposed" the structure and material of their bodies on the spot. Then, with the help of the "magic network", they "downloaded" their bodies to the place closest to the front line.
This is the "Magic Network Upload and Download" technology of the Kingdom of Eden - when the magic network is operating normally and there is sufficient magic power, all Eden people can upload their current structure and consciousness to the network, and then download the decomposed material elements to another area anytime and anywhere.
Even if you don't have a body, "downloading" is almost unlimited as long as you are within the range of the magic network.
But in most cases, the Eden people will first confirm "which body" they need to deal with different situations before downloading it to the battlefield.
Because this way, they would not appear in a place they are not familiar with and fight the enemy with an unsuitable body.
It's like the difference between fighting an enemy with preset equipment and fighting an enemy with blind box weapons -
The magic puppets prefer the former rather than the latter. Or rather, it is what all the troops hope for.
After making sufficient preparations, the magic puppets appeared behind the third line of the United Nations.
Before the soldiers who were trying to stop the demon army's advance on the front line could react, these magic puppets directly crossed the defense line and charged straight towards the demon army!
"Are they going to die?!" An elf's eyes widened. "There is no way we can stop shooting now?! Wait... do they want us to shoot at will? Shoot them and the demons together?!"
"It seems... Forget it! Open fire! This is a request from our allies, so we can't refuse!"
The United Nations' firepower network was not interrupted by the Eden's charge. The soldiers of the United Nations might find it difficult to understand the Eden's current tactics, but if they knew that the Eden were truly immortal as long as they were within the range of the "Magic Network", then perhaps they could understand the origin of the Eden's current tactics of risking their lives
In short, the Eden people rushed to the front of the demon army while taking bullets under the cover of the fire network behind them. After easily melting the barbed wire in front of them with the magic blades of their magic weapons, the Eden people killed their way into the group of demons, using their superb combat skills and powerful weapons to carve out a bloody path in the tide of demon larvae.
Each attack by the Eden people could cause casualties to dozens of demon larvae. However, due to the close combat, it was inevitable that their bodies would be severely damaged from time to time.
But before the body is completely damaged and unable to move, the magic puppet will use its advantage in the magic network to forcibly "decompose" its body back, and then wait for the fragmented body to be repaired, and they can use the next body to reappear in the place where they once "died"...
What's worse, some people don't even care whether their bodies are still worth preserving.
They rushed into the demon group and directly used artificial magic to detonate their cores before they were completely damaged.
Accompanied by bursts of azure explosions, even the United Nations soldiers who were hiding in the rear for defensive shooting could hardly hold back their passion, and shouted wildly as they prepared to rush forward together to fight the devil to the death.
Fortunately, someone pulled them back at the critical moment, and the people who pulled them back were Yang Hao and others who had arrived at some point in time.
"Even if the Eden people die, they can be resurrected, so you don't have to worry about them. Just shoot at them as you like after they hold the front line."
Yang Hao issued an order to the soldiers, "Now, everyone, keep at least a hundred meters away from the Eden people and move forward - it's time for us to counterattack."
Under the orders of their respective commanders, the soldiers of the United Nations left their hiding bunkers in an orderly manner.
Most of them were about one or two hundred meters away from the Eden in front of them. They used the guns in their hands to provide assistance to the Eden as much as possible, but they soon discovered that after the Eden had sufficient magic power, they seemed to be able to kill all around in the group of demons.
After all, one of the important reasons why the Eden people were suppressed before was that their single magical weapon was resisted or even immune by the demons.
However, with the support of allies who could project physical killing weapons from the ground, the demons could either choose to evolve their anti-magic abilities and be killed by the people of the United Nations, or choose to evolve their armor and be easily killed by the people of Eden.
No matter which one they choose, they cannot avoid their own death. Although it is not that no demons have tried to "have it all", "having it all" also means being incompetent and exhausted - in this case, the demons are inevitably defeated;
Those newly evolved projector demons were the easiest type to be killed with precision because of their slow movements.
The wheel demons, which had thick armor in the front but extremely fragile armor in the back, were inexplicably chopped off by the Eden people during their sudden advance.
The high-level demons were able to barely cover the retreat of the young ones by relying on their thick skin and flesh.
But in the final analysis, when they had to face the attack of two attributes at the same time, their proud evolutionary ability was ruthlessly crushed due to the problem of population limit.
In less than ten minutes, the Edenites led the people of the United Nations to cleanse the entire city ruins of the demons.
Then, along with the blue lines surging on the ground, witnessed by Yang Hao and others who climbed back onto the black dragon's back, the most powerful form of the Eden people's "downloading" technology was revealed before them.
The Eden people are directly using artificial magic to rebuild the walls and defense facilities of the entire city.
"Directly "synthesize" artificial magic power into building materials, and then rebuild it bit by bit within the range of the "magic network"..."
The little elf curled up in Yang Hao's arms, swallowing hard as he looked at the city defense system being rebuilt at a high speed. "With this reconstruction speed, it will only take two hours at most to restore the entire city to its original state. And the Eden people's consumption in rebuilding the entire city may just be a large amount of "artificial magic" made from seawater... Horrible ability. If Theresa were here, she would probably have cursed..."
"But on the other hand, the Eden people can only do this in their own land." Yang Hao also had a serious expression on his face. He held Fen's belly with one hand to prevent her from falling. He also held Naluja's hands tightly, which had been wrapped around her belly. He turned his head and looked at Elena standing on the back of the black dragon: "Ms. Elena - have your Colossus weapons been fully charged now? If possible, please fire one shot at the Demon's Nest immediately!"
Facing Yang Hao's question, Elena just shook her head amid the howling wind, then turned and pointed at the obelisk building on top of the library that was emitting a blue light:
"Helpless: The obelisk needs to be repaired to restart. It will take about 20 minutes." She stated, "So we need to rebuild the city defense system, let the automated golems and automatic defense mechanisms bear the pressure on our behalf, and then free up soldiers to launch an attack on the demon nest—
Now, the number of magic puppets has risen to 1,300, but the speed of the magic network's spread cannot keep up with the speed of the magic puppets' advancement. So we have to stop temporarily."
"Where has the magic network spread to now?"
"There."
Yang Hao looked in the direction that Elena's other hand pointed and found that it was about two kilometers away from the city wall.
After the magic network was restarted there, everything slowed down. It seemed to be because of the damage, or it might be because it was only built up to that point before.
All in all, the advancement of the magic network was visibly much slower than the speed at which the Eden people broke through the demon defense line.
The magic network is the lifeline of the Eden people. It is impossible for the Eden people to fight without the magic network.
At this moment, Yang Hao had already made up his mind, so what he did was very simple: that is to let all his troops follow the Eden people and advance until they reach the critical point of the magic network.
Afterwards, he ordered the Hippogriff Knights who had completed their repairs to go to the sky above the Demon's Nest for reconnaissance again. Yang Hao's command had been finalized.
The demons outside the city ruins were beaten back step by step. After the city defense system was rebuilt, accompanied by waves of beams that consumed magic power wantonly, the demons that evolved armor had no room to fight back.
Some demons planned to evolve anti-magic skin to survive the attack of the Eden before making any plans. However, these demons who evolved anti-magic skin were shot and killed by the machine guns in the hands of the machine gun Golem in the next moment. In a sense, they died even faster than being killed by the Eden's weapons.
(It seems that the damage caused by the Eden mana launcher does not strictly speaking have any "aftereffects".)
Yang Hao was looking at the battle situation below in deep thought, and did not notice that Elena had stood very close to him at some point and was being "cared for" by the two girls.
(It is true that their weapons have strong penetration power against units without magic resistance. But in the final analysis, these magic power launchers are at most "shooting a hole and then adding magical elements to the channel"... Compared with the mess of fragments after the bullet hits the body, it is completely different.)
(No wonder the demons can hold out for so long... Even for humans, as long as they are not directly pierced by high-penetration weapons, even a few more holes will be fine. In fact, as long as the bleeding is stopped, the safety of life can be ensured... In this case, the demons with thick skin and flesh can naturally hold out longer.
In other words, the weapons we research in the future must have "high penetration" and "sufficient post-penetration damage"... right?)
Yang Hao thought about the inspiration this war brought him. He watched the demons below fall one after another, and watched the Eden people use the "magic net" to quickly and effectively build positions in front, and even directly "downloaded" some automated defense facilities to the rear of the demon army to intercept their retreat route.
He became even more determined in his heart: the United Nations must get this magic network technology!
After all, this magic network technology is really too convenient.
On a smaller scale, the country's logistics industry will become extremely efficient after the magic network is fully popularized. For example, express delivery from Northeast China can be delivered directly to Nanhai on the same day, and can even appear directly on your desk.
Not only will the lives of residents become more convenient, but most importantly in the military field, this means that the logistical supply of the national army will have no weaknesses at all when defending its homeland.
In a broader sense, the value of magic network technology in industry is also unparalleled.
Although it is unclear what the original industrial system of the Eden people was, Yang Hao can now think of hundreds of industries that can be developed using the "Magic Network" technology.
Even in national infrastructure, as long as there is a "magic network", it will only take a thought to have roads, electricity and the Internet in every village.
Although "electricity" and "network" do not seem to have suitable self-produced products in the true sense on the continent of Elucia.
But to put it bluntly, Yang Hao definitely cannot give up this good thing that can provide welfare to the United Nations for thousands of years.
not to mention…
(If we can get the magic network technology, in fact, in a sense, the artificial magic reactor will also become ours... By then, our United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Eden will become the most powerful magic-dominated countries in the world...
In other words, we will become the most powerful country in the world in the true sense.
Apart from how powerful the Sirens' technology is, the only shortcoming of our United Nations is the population problem... )
But the population problem is no longer a problem after the addition of the Kingdom of Eden.
Because Elena herself was not a life born from the union of a normal man and a woman—she was a mechanical life! And Yang Hao didn't mind mechanical life!
Even if it means using a large number of mechanical life forms to fill the current population shortfall of the United Nations... As long as the population can be increased in a relatively normal way, then he can do anything!
Of course, nothing should be rushed.
Yang Hao shook his head slightly, and under the girls' strange gazes, he sighed and said, "There is still a long way to go," and then he turned his attention back to the battle situation on the ground.
There is no doubt that the one-sided battle situation has completely pushed the front line to the current largest range of the magic network.
There is no support here for the howitzer Golem to launch a projectile attack on the demon nest in the distance, so the commander on the scene ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot and conserve their strength for the next attack.
The Edenites were installing all kinds of bunkers and defense facilities to ensure the safety of the repair area, while the soldiers of the United Nations were sitting on the sea of blood and corpses of the demons, enjoying things like "biscuits" and "wine" to replenish their physical strength.
Watching from a high altitude with the help of Fen's magic, Yang Hao suddenly realized that although he had been strengthening the development of military weapons and optimizing organizational tactics, he had never allowed the soldiers to eat better food on the battlefield.
For the soldiers, biscuits and wine could at best restore less than half of the physical strength consumed during intense combat.
Rather than using them to replenish physical strength, it would be more accurate to say that they simply fill the stomach so that it stops growling.
Being able to eat hot or nutritious portable food on the battlefield is essential for soldiers.
Hot food can provide high morale, and nutritious portable food can keep soldiers strong in fierce battles. But the United Nations has neither of these two things.
In other words, hot food can only be eaten when the battle line is relatively stable. After all, stoves can only be used when it is relatively safe, and using magic to cook food is too luxurious and may even consume the magic power necessary to release key magic.
As for portable food… compared to the former “not allowed due to limited conditions”, it really only has hard bread and biscuits—even the elves have not developed more and better dry food.
Maybe after we go back, we should ask everyone to research things like "self-heating food" and "energy bars" on Earth.
Yang Hao was deep in thought, but at this moment, a strange red light flashed from the demon's nest in the distance...
What is that
Before Yang Hao could come up with a conclusion, Elena's face beside him changed drastically:
"Warning! Avoid immediately!"
The black dragon turned over without hesitation to avoid the possible rays of the red light. Yang Hao and others enjoyed the excitement of falling and being "caught" by Elena and the black dragon. Then they saw a flashing red light that hurt their eyes shooting out from the demon's nest...
"What is that?!"
Everyone exclaimed, and looked in the direction of the red light, and found that the target of the red light was actually the Colossus Obelisk weapon that was charging on the top of the library.
But fortunately, due to the problem of accuracy, the red light only "brushed" around the obelisk and disappeared into the distant clouds.
Then, accompanied by a flash of red light in the clouds and a red sun that suddenly lit up and swallowed the clouds, a loud rumbling sound was heard by Yang Hao and others more than ten seconds after the flash appeared.
"Is it a 'bomb' that is simply a large amount of magic power gathered and compressed and then fired directly?!" Fen's face was pale, and her body became weak and uncomfortable because of the chaos of magic power coming from afar.
"And... it's magic power that only demons have... Have they kept this magic power as their trump card and not used it until now?!"
"Denied." Elena stood on the black dragon's head, her face somewhat grim. "They... imitated our country's Colossus weapons... The source of magic power is most likely the artificial magic power reactor they imitated..."
"Can they even evolve this thing?!"
The elves and the Ling people looked at them in astonishment, so Elena could only nod in acknowledgment.
In the demon's nest, after a round of shooting, countless purple blood spurted out from the giant biological barrel formed by the fusion of a large number of high-level demons.
The Demon Fusion Evolution "Colossus Weapon" successfully fired a magic cannonball made by compressing a large amount of magic power.
However, because the Colossus weapon evolved from the fusion of demons is still made of flesh and blood, although it has the ability to fire shells, it itself is not stable.
At the moment of firing, the bottom of the barrel, unable to withstand the magic power of the launcher, began to crack. The final result was that the four high-level demons that formed the bottom of the barrel died directly from the pressure brought by the shooting.
Most of the other high-level demons that formed the various parts of the cannon barrel were also seriously injured. Even if they had evolved magic-resistant skin, the excessive compression of magic power would be an unbearable pressure for them.
It is like the strongest bulletproof vest on earth facing a 381mm naval gun shell. When the force exceeds the defense limit by too many levels, all protection will seem meaningless.
Fortunately, the demons did complete their first shooting in history. The Demon Mother Nest was greatly encouraged. After letting other high-level demons responsible for protecting themselves fill the vacancy in the Colossus' barrel again, it calculated how long it would take for the entire barrel to recover enough for a second round of shooting.
The bodies of high-level demons have the ability to repair themselves. When there is enough "food", the speed of self-healing will be much faster than normal.
In the floating continent with abundant magic power, the Demon Mother Nest had already made all the demons in the floating continent evolve organs to "absorb" magic power, and regarded the artificial magic of the Eden people as their own food.
In this case, a high-level demon would only need about ten minutes to heal its body injuries... But the problem was that the magic power reserves around the demon nest were seriously insufficient.
The shell that concentrated all the local magic power caused the entire area to be short of magic power. The demon reactor that produced so much magic power had already collapsed under the watchful eyes of the demon nest.
Unable to learn the Eden people's technology to extract magic from seawater, and without the conditions to do so, the Demon Mother Nest, after testing the only reactor structure that seemed to be able to produce magic, began to try to make the reactor successfully produce artificial magic belonging to the demons by putting magic-containing substances into the reactor and even letting a high-level demon enter it.