But the poor imitation doomed the reactor to a tragic failure. After providing a portion of the magic power output, not only did the high-level demons inside die directly due to the excessively dense magic power of the reactor, but even the demon larvae that made up the entire reactor turned into mummified corpses...
Rather than "producing magic power", it is more like "squeezing" magic power - but at the moment, the mother nest can no longer care about the difference between the two.
It needs more magic power and the Colossus weapon needs to fire two more shots at the enemy army to resolve the current danger.
In order to survive the life-and-death crisis of their species and go through the final evolution, the demons have reached the point where they have to sacrifice their own kind.
Under the control of the mother nest, another new demon reactor began to be built at a very fast speed.
There is still about half an hour before the entire hive area recovers its magic power. During this half hour, the hive may be hit by a round of shooting from the Eden Colossus weapons...
But the mother nest is ready. The only weapon that can cause devastating damage to itself from a very long distance is Eden's Colossus weapon!
The weapons of Eden's colossus are magic weapons. In other words, as long as he evolves all his defenses into anti-magic defenses, he can forcibly withstand this round of attacks even if he loses half of his body functions...
All that remains is to ensure that the demons on the surface can stop the enemy's advance.
The demon matrix let out a high-pitched howl.
With its horn, all the mobile demon larvae and high-level demons gathered on the route that the enemy must take, and all the demon larvae evolved magic-resistant skin, using themselves as shields and stacked on the surface of the mother body, hoping to withstand the direct shooting of the Eden Colossus weapons.
At the same time, on the magic network that the Kingdom of Eden was constantly repairing, Yang Hao and Elena decided on a tactic after a brief discussion.
"We must destroy the demons' cannons and reactor-like facilities before they launch a second round of fire."
Yang Hao pointed to the two places on the magic screen projected by Fen, where the giant biological gun barrel and reactor were observed by the Hippogriff Knight from a high vantage point.
"We need to get close enough to start firing our howitzer golems. But if we only use the howitzer golems, it will be difficult to kill these two key targets with physical damage alone, given the enemy's thick skin and flesh."
"Confused: So what do you want to do, Mr. Yang Hao?"
"Elena, I need you to produce a cone-shaped "bomb" for my Hippogriff Knights in the area covered by the magic network, weighing about 500 kilograms, which will explode as soon as it hits the ground from a high altitude."
Yang Hao explained seriously, "My Hippogriff Knights will try to bomb two key targets above the Demon Nest, but it is still unknown whether they can cause any damage to the enemy after a round of bombing - so our front line must also begin to advance during the bombing."
"It dawned on me: We can produce bombs on the spot, and if we can break down the structure of the howitzer golem, we can also produce similar golems—
But what they launch will be magic balls instead of what you call artillery shells, and the range will be longer, but it will also pose a threat to the United Nations' golem advantage in the future."
Elena stared at Yang Hao with her sparkling red eyes.
She knew that this request she made was something that ordinary people would find very resistant.
But at the moment, if the Howitzer Golem can be disassembled and reconstructed by itself, then Eden can produce a large number of similar products and allow them to cover and attack the mother nest from a farther distance.
But this is like a stranger wanting to learn the most exquisite skills directly from a master.
For the old masters who make a living from this craft, this is absolutely unacceptable...
However, Elena still hoped that Yang Hao would accept this condition, because the devil was an enemy within reach.
She was already prepared to make Yang Hao and others angry.
"That's it, we have to be prepared for both situations."
But surprisingly, Yang Hao and his women didn't seem angry at all.
Apart from the black dragon showing an envious look, he simply nodded and immediately asked Naruga to order a few howitzer golems to come over. There were even two machine gun golems coming over.
Aren't you worried that if we gain the advantage over modern golems, you will lose the ability to earn money and support your family
Elena looked at Yang Hao in confusion, and as for Yang Hao, he was actually worried about the problem of [having to starve after passing on his lifelong skills to others].
But on second thought, if he doesn't even have this kind of courage, how can he withstand the attacks of even more terrifying waves of demons in the future
(If Benjamin were here, he would probably do the same.) Yang Hao thought about his brother's past.
(Although we are at civil war on this planet... But in the end, except for the Roman barbarians, we need to unite to fight against the common enemy...
In this case, what if the technology is leaked? As long as we can maintain the current rate of progress and bring the countries that have acquired our technology into the federation... then everything will be fine.)
He took a deep breath. After turning around and finding Elena looking at him in confusion, he nodded and explained to the doll girl in front of him:
"Don't get me wrong, Elena - we have to face our common enemy first, and then deal with our internal problems. Besides, our two countries will probably be inseparable allies in the future, so why should we worry about the issue of technology leakage now?"
"I understand. You're right."
She gave a stunned reply, and it was visibly that her eyes, which almost showed no emotion, softened a little.
Under the control of the Eden people, the howitzer golems and machine gun golems were quickly decomposed into their most basic elements.
Afterwards, the Eden people tried to reconstruct the two types of golems based on the records in the magic network. Finally, what appeared in front of Yang Hao and others was an extremely luxurious golem made purely of magical materials.
If placed on the surface, a golem from the Kingdom of Eden could buy a town in the Roman Empire—
Yang Hao sighed like this, and in the next moment, several 500-kilogram bombs appeared on the surface. Yang Hao nodded to the Hippogriff Knights on standby in the sky.
The war on the floating continent is about to come to an end. What remains is to see whether our side can destroy the demons faster or the demons can evolve faster.
Chapter 13: Colossi on Both Sides - 5/6 8K
The golems made by the Kingdom of Eden are called "magic puppets" by Elena. According to Elena, magic puppets are more powerful and advanced than regular golems. To put it in a metaphor that ordinary people can understand, the relationship between magic puppets and golems is like that between a young man who has gone to college and his old father with a low level of education.
The former has stronger capabilities, but relatively speaking requires greater investment—
Although the latter's abilities are mediocre, they are indeed the cornerstone of the former's creation. But in general, they are still derived from the same golem structure.
These magic puppets are very powerful, but they come at a price.
Their production does consume too many resources.
"Helpless: The production of magic puppets consumes a large amount of artificial magic power... In order to prevent the artificial magic reactor from shutting down again, and to avoid damaging the pipeline by extracting too much seawater from the surface in a short period of time, we must give up after producing 200 magic puppets and prepare for a decisive battle."
Elena sighed.
Yang Hao and the others were silent with strange expressions.
Elena sighed that the Kingdom of Eden can only produce 200 magic puppets nowadays because the artificial magic reactor has not yet been fully activated.
200 luxurious magic puppets that do not consume material shells but instead launch concentrated magic balls. In Ishgard, just one of these things is enough to equal a city's GDP for one month.
Yang Hao and others were silent: You can actually produce 200 of these things in two minutes, and the cost is just the chaos of magic power on the floating continent and the consumption of a large amount of seawater
Are you Eden people really the race in this world as we understand it? You monsters actually think that this production capacity is not enough?!
Fortunately, I didn't plan to take advantage of the situation! At this moment, Yang Hao and others were extremely lucky, and on this basis, Black Dragon was even more determined to make Yang Hao the core figure of Ishugard.
After all, in Black Dragon's eyes, Yang Hao and Elena's relationship was progressing very fast... Nia wasn't sure if Yang Hao's relationship with other women was progressing so quickly, but Black Dragon's intuition told her that the synthetic doll, which was gradually becoming somewhat humane, would probably not let Yang Hao go...
After considering that the Kingdom of Eden might also join the United Nations due to its own problems in the future...
…
Sure enough, it would be better to act more hastily. Black Dragon muttered, and after simply confirming that the magic puppet could function normally, Elena said that they could move forward.
"Tense: We must fight for every bit of secret. So please, Mr. Yang Hao, let your army advance under our protection. After all, even if the magic puppet dies outside the magic network, there will be no substantial damage. Moreover, we have transformed the feet of the magic puppet. Each of them is now a small magic network node, which can ensure the safety of our Eden people."
"What you mean is, let the Eden people be the vanguard?"
"affim."
Elena nodded, ordered the magic puppets and magic dolls to move forward in a mixed formation, and considerately provided enough gaps for the United Nations' army to provide supporting shooting.
The magic network seems to be able to move through "nodes" - as long as they are within the coverage of the "nodes", the Eden people can "download" the resources they need from a distance to their location at any time.
This technology is really too convenient! Yang Hao sighed. With this technology, the most important department in the logistics department, besides the maintenance personnel and loaders, is probably the chef who is responsible for the meals, right
The magic network technology must be in our hands no matter what... He muttered, and asked the commanders of the United Nations to order their troops to follow. Then he and Finn and others rode on the back of the black dragon again, intending to observe the final offensive of the entire battlefield from a high vantage point in the air.
But before that, Elena used the remaining artificial magic to prepare the things that the Hippogriff Knights were about to use.
Ten heavy 500-kilogram magic bombs—the outer shells appear to be made of metal, and the location of the end impact fuse is thoughtfully marked with red mineral.
"Explanation: For every ten bombs, one Hippogriff Knight can bear the burden of one, and we can also have a large number of Hippogriff Knights as mobile escorts. This is our best plan." Elena also jumped onto the black dragon's back and explained.
"Besides that, considering that the bomb only explodes on the surface and cannot pose a threat to the demon's colossus and reactor, I adjusted it to a "delayed fuse"... Is there any problem?"
"No. That's all right—let's go."
"affim… "
With Yang Hao's nod, the black dragon of Ishugard flew into the sky carrying important personnel from the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Eden.
After the Hippogriff Knights landed, ten of them unloaded all their heavy equipment. Then they let the Hippogriffs effortlessly fish the bombs into the sky, and followed the armies of the Kingdom of Eden and the United Kingdoms towards the demon's nest.
Now that the offense and defense have switched, the demons have completely lost their intention to take the initiative to attack.
They huddled in the land around the mother nest that had been transformed by demonic roots. They hid behind various shelters, quietly waiting for the coalition forces to attack.
But whether it was Yang Hao or Elena, no one was stupid enough to decide to step into the devil's trap - although it was true that they had to hurry up, they still maintained a cautious attitude in their progress.
First, the magic puppets showed their power - accompanied by muffled sounds, the magic puppets threw beams of energy balls obliquely into the sky, and then let them fall to the corrupted ground where no demons could be seen.
Elena and the Edenians seemed to be taking this opportunity to learn the United Nations' projectile tactics—
They learned quickly, not only because they were good at calculating and processing data, but more importantly, Elena herself was a mechanical lifeform.
Mechanical life has a natural advantage in calculating data - just as Yang Hao was thinking about this, a ball of magic launched by a magic puppet hit the back slope behind the hill in front.
Along with the sizzling sound of magic, there came the wailing of demons. A demon larva rushed out of the cover of the ramp, its burned and swollen body covered with pustules.
"It's less powerful than our howitzer Golem." Yang Hao thought, "but the killing range seems to be larger?"
Since the elemental balls fired by the magic puppet have no entity, they can only cause limited damage to the surrounding area when they do not hit directly.
But to compensate, it has a larger damage radius than the Howitzer Golem's Explosive Mine Grenade, and can also cause great damage to the unit it hits on a direct hit -
At least according to the observations of Yang Hao and others, those high-level demons who would not die immediately if they were hit directly in the weak points by grenades would die miserably after being hit directly in the weak points by magic puppets.
But as a price to pay for the expanded killing range and greater direct hit power... Every time the magic puppet launches an elemental group, even the most insensitive mortals can feel the magic power of the entire area being drained piece by piece...
In general, if they are to be used as the mainstay of golems, they can only be used on a large scale in areas with strong magical power such as the Kingdom of Eden.
If they are on the surface, they can only serve as a supplement to other golems. They are a new unit with terrain restrictions.
Yang Hao was thinking that after suffering a series of attacks, the demons on the ground had given up on continuing their ambush.
They are buying time for the mother hive to recharge the Colossus' weapons - but the only way they can buy time is to expose themselves to the coalition's firepower network and use their own flesh and blood to stop the coalition's attack!
This is undoubtedly worthless.
Because the soldiers of the United Nations have used the machine guns in their hands to prove the fact that demons without evolved armor can only die in regret in the hail of bullets.
Even if the demons evolved armor, the magic weapons in the hands of the Eden people could easily cut through the protection of their armor and strangle them to death at a faster speed.
In this situation, the demons were left with only two choices—either being killed by guns or being killed by magical weapons.
It is not impossible for them to rush to the combat distance together with the demon larvae, but the special abilities of the high-level demons are simply vulnerable to the magical technology of the Eden people.
The flames spewed out by the fire-breathing demon were directly dissolved by the Eden people's artificial magic and used by me. After the petrified demon opened his eyes desperately, he was blinded by the sharp blade generated by artificial magic before he could even petrify the enemy.
Only a very small number of rare high-level demons that could summon magic meteorites would cause some trouble to the coalition forces, but those demons were either shot and killed by the machine guns of the magic puppets, or were countered by Elena on the back of the black dragon halfway through summoning the meteorites.
Elena said that the first baptism every Eden person receives after birth is to become familiar with artificial magic—
Every Edenite is born a master of magic technology. Naturally, the primitive application of magic by demons and elves is nothing compared to them... but it is also worth studying.
“Confusion: The demon’s “concept” ability seems to be essentially the product of purified magic power… By “giving” certain objects specific properties and then attacking them based on these properties, the demon can “petrify” stones and “kill” things that originally had no concept of death.
Although their application of magic power is still very primitive, the general structural framework they have evolved can clarify a new direction for our future development... What a pity. I wanted to capture some demons for live research, but now that things have come to this, the demons must be annihilated. "
The devil's "concept" ability seems to be a further application of magic power.
But overall it is still very primitive. To put it in terms that Earthlings can understand, it is a spiral happy cup made with an electric drill.
Although it looks like an advanced charging and rotating happy cup with more than 20 modes, in fact, its essence is a rotating electric drill drilled at the bottom of the cup.
But even so, the magic application framework evolved by the demons still gave Elena a lot of inspiration.
After she once again used the artificial magic power provided by the magic network to "disperse" the magic meteorites summoned by the high-level demons, she looked at the petrified demons fighting with the Eden people and fell into deep thought.
Not all petrified demons were attacked the moment they appeared. The direction the coalition was heading was originally the demon ambush circle. Except for some high-level demons who could not resist the desire to leave the ambush circle and were shot immediately, the rest of the high-level demons who were still patient were still hiding in various places waiting for a more suitable opportunity.
Some of the petrified demons simply buried themselves underground - now, when they came out with their eyes open, they caught the Eden people off guard.
Under Elena's gaze, the magic puppet, which was originally a mixture of minerals and magic power, gradually turned into hard stone under the gaze of the petrified demon.
This ability to directly and conceptually give a magic puppet "life" and then cover the "life" with the ability to "petrify"... If it can be used in Eden's future magic industry, it should provide a lot of convenience.
She just watched, and after the petrified demons were annihilated once again, but the magic puppets also left behind a few stone statues, she raised her head and said to Yang Hao:
"Confused: The demons' ambush doesn't seem to have caused us much damage... If this continues, we can enter the bombardment site at the specified time and launch projectiles at the demon nest—
We have shot and killed more than 40 high-level demons. There shouldn't be too many high-level demons protecting the Demon Nest. What are they preparing for?"
"Perhaps we are expecting the demon's colossus weapon to deal us a heavy blow."