Yang Hao took the lead.
"After all, that ball of fire looks like it has a huge killing area. If they are really aiming at our army, then it is almost certain that our army will be wiped out in one fell swoop..."
Finn answered.
"It's scary... But if you think about it, it seems more likely that they will attack the library area, right?"
Then came Naluga's uneasiness.
"Instead of worrying about the library and the troops below who shouldn't be taken care of being bombarded, why not worry about us flying in the sky being shot directly?"
Finally, there is the black dragon flapping its wings and making a purring sound, not sure if it is trying to relieve stress or if it is really worried about what might happen.
"Suspicion: Perhaps the demons intend to completely destroy the Great Library in one fell swoop... In this way, they can perish with us, and even destroy our artificial magic reactor... right?"
And Elena's suspicion.
No one knew what the Demon Mother was planning to do. After all, based on current observations, the number of ambushes sent out by the Mother was a bit too large, and their nest must lack high-quality protectors. In a sense, after the Hippogriff Knights flew over, they could even continue to tease the immobile demons on the Demon Mother after dropping bombs without being counterattacked.
But why would the demons do this
Everyone fell into deep thought. Down below, after clearing out the last of the demons, the coalition forces continued to advance forward.
They soon arrived at a place about 10 kilometers away from the demon's nest.
The soldiers of the United Nations have already kept a long distance from the Edenites. This was an order Elena deliberately gave.
"Explanation: This way, even if our army is ambushed, there will be no casualties among the flesh-and-blood United Nations soldiers."
Elena judged rationally that the Eden people were not as important as the people of the United Nations, at least in this war.
After all, even if the Eden people's bodies were destroyed, as long as the magic network nodes were not destroyed, they could always upload their consciousness back into the magic network, and then use another body to complete the "resurrection" -
In a sense, the Eden people will never die, so it makes sense to let them do the most dangerous work.
No matter how strong the physical fitness of the soldiers of the United Nations is, they are still flesh and blood after all.
As long as they were made of flesh and blood, they would inevitably die. As mortal beings, they were naturally more important than the Edenites.
But one thing Elena didn't say was... She noticed Yang Hao's care for his soldiers.
She realized that if she wanted to improve the relationship between the Kingdom of Eden and the United Nations, then avoiding casualties in the United Nations as much as possible in this war would become the key to the next diplomatic work.
Although Elena still doesn't quite understand how the current political diplomacy of the surface world is operated -
But what is certain is that the Kingdom of Eden will not be able to be separated from the help of the United Nations for a long time.
Not only because the Kingdom of Eden still needs a lot of resources from land in addition to seawater and the production of artificial magic, but more importantly, the Kingdom of Eden has been in a predicament of insufficient population for a long time...
Although 400 "seeds" were left, to be frank, these "seeds" were selected for the purpose of artificial conception, so almost all of them were female...
But unfortunately, with the Great Library being the only core building in the entire kingdom still intact, the vital "Male Gene Seed Bank" had long been lost or contaminated due to years of war, or had "deteriorated" due to the loss of storage space due to the previous "shutdown" of the artificial magic reactor.
Under such circumstances, if the Kingdom of Eden still wants to increase its biological population to the original hundreds of thousands, then inevitably, the time will come for them to intermarry with the people on the surface...
Therefore, building good relations with the United Nations is not only for obtaining resources on the surface—
More importantly, the Kingdom of Eden needs healthy and mature men from the United Kingdom to add strength to the reconstruction of the country...
(And the total number of magic puppets with intact consciousness is actually less than 10,000... and most of them are scientists. When the next magic disaster occurs, we can't stop it alone... So we must build a good relationship with the people of the United Nations.)
Elena watched the magic puppets on the surface stand in their respective positions, watched them raise their guns high and aim at the sky, and then fire round after round of elemental groups towards the valley where the demon's nest was located.
(By making friends with the United Nations, we can obtain resources, conduct technological exchanges, and then become a business alliance, and finally become an ally to obtain the help of outstanding adult males in the other country...
The beginning of this road is to ensure that the casualties of the United Nations soldiers are not too high. The second key point lies in Mr. Yang Hao...)
It was difficult for Elena to say that she really had a "good impression" of Yang Hao, but she would not deny that when Yang Hao had allowed her to analyze their golems without hesitation, she did feel "admiring" and "happy" for this man who understood the general situation and their common enemy.
In this situation, although Elena knew that the key to the next diplomatic work lies in Mr. Yang Hao, she didn't know how she should treat this crucial figure...
Bang, bang, bang—
The sound of elemental explosions could be heard from the location of the demon's nest. The demons were very quiet, as if they were dead, and there was no noisy sound at all.
The Golems of the United Nations resumed their advance, while the soldiers of the United Nations stopped to rest about 500 meters away from the Eden people.
(As a "friend"? Or as an "ally"? Or as a "stranger who has to be dealt with"... Or, in other words, as a "mentor and mentor"?)
The petite doll pondered. And just when she was using her rational thinking [perhaps using the common sense of human beings to treat each other like lovers would be more beneficial to Eden] -
Her brows furrowed suddenly, and then she jumped directly downwards on the dragon's back.
"Elena?!"
Everyone on the dragon's back was stunned.
In the air, Elena's face changed drastically as she shouted, "Warning?! Underground—No! Are they the high-level demons hiding underground after using optical camouflage?!"
The surface where the magic puppets are located;
Demons are indeed very clever.
Not only did they ambush the first batch of troops that were sent to die, they also ambushed a second batch of more elite troops composed purely of high-level demons behind the first batch!
These high-level demons allowed the magic puppets to stand on their heads and attack the mother nest. Only after they confirmed again and again that these magic puppets had no intention of moving for a while did these high-level demons, who had evolved optical camouflage and buried themselves shallowly in the soil, take advantage of the opportunity to attack.
About fifty high-level demons crawled out from the ground. The magic puppets standing on their backs were toppled by the sudden and violent shaking, not to mention the condition of the magic puppets.
Before the magic puppets were completely destroyed, the magic puppets "uploaded" their bodies to the magic network to avoid being killed by the demons.
But those expensive and bulky magic puppets do not have the ability to easily avoid the attacks of demons.
Under the sudden attack of the demons, before the soldiers of the United Kingdom could react, before the Golems of the United Kingdom came into contact with the position of the magic puppets, and before Elena fell from the sky—
The high-level demons dealt with most of the magic puppets in a very short time, and tried to use their special abilities against the United Nations' positions when the Eden people left.
Fortunately, Elena arrived in time! She used the magic net to directly dissolve the special abilities of the demons, but those magic puppets were completely annihilated by the demons in the next moment.
Faced with this group of armored ambushers, Elena knew that the soldiers of the United Nations could not withstand the special abilities released by these demons before the Eden people arrived from the magic network terminal. She had no choice but to force the obelisk on the top of the library to provide support.
She did have a magical weapon in her hand, but she couldn't fight fifty high-level demons alone.
Instead of using Colossus weapons to attack the Demon Nest after the United Nations suffers heavy casualties, it is better to make the Colossus weapons come into play now.
"Warning, stay away from the front immediately." Elena gave orders in the magic network, and also warned the soldiers of the United Nations and their golems to retreat. "The Colossus weapons are about to fire - leave quickly! As fast as possible! Quick!"
The soldiers were stunned, and then ordered the golems to retreat as quickly as possible. At this time, several high-level demons in the front released their special abilities again. Elena used artificial magic to decompose all the magic attacks, but the artificial magic in this area was also wasted by her.
Although I have magic power plundered from demons, it cannot be used for "decomposition".
Elena could only hope that the Colossus weapons would be ready to fire before the high-level demons cast their third spell.
Fortunately, she waited.
The Colossus weapon of the Kingdom of Eden was hastily ready to fire. Its top was gleaming with a deep blue light, and in the daytime, on the floating continent without clouds, the flickering blue light even overshadowed the brightness of the sun in a sense.
This was a sign that the Colossus's weapon was about to fire - before Elena's thoughts were over, a blue light instantly penetrated a distance of dozens of kilometers and directly hit the area where the magic puppets had been.
That is the colossus weapon that the Eden people call "Magic Torrent".
When it was first designed, it was an extinction weapon to be used to efficiently eliminate all life on the surface of the earth after it was occupied by demons.
But the Kingdom of Eden does not have that technology, so this weapon, which can theoretically exterminate almost all life on the surface of the planet, can only carry out saturation magic bombardment on a certain area, or carry out precise killing against a large target after it is successfully built.
Although its power did not reach the expected value, as a large-scale "magic" lethal weapon, "Magic Torrent" is undoubtedly the only weapon that can save the soldiers of the United Nations from danger and can instantly support the front line.
Under Elena's gaze, the blue light that appeared instantly turned the area where the high-level demons were located into a blue and white space.
The ground was transformed into transparent, glowing crystal by magic, and the armor on the demons could not protect their bodies from the damage caused by magic.
In a very short period of time, the bodies of most demons turned into crystal structures that were like ice sculptures but would not melt. Only a few demons near remote areas could barely maintain half of their flesh and blood bodies.
But even so, they are already dead.
(If it is fully charged, the entire area will probably turn into crystals…) Elena thought, watching the blue light begin to spread in the direction of the mother nest.
(But now that the energy is insufficient, the killing power is limited. After annihilating the high-level demons in this area, it may at most pose a slight threat to the mother nest in the distance...
But if it's just a slight threat, it may not even be able to cause "serious damage" to the mother body - then we need more replacement weapons...? )
Elena thought that now that the Colossus weapon had wasted its charged attack, perhaps the only weapons left in the Kingdom of Eden that could pose a threat to the Demon Nest would be the ten 500-kilogram bombs in the hands of the Hound Knights.
But just as Elena was about to inform Yang Hao above to order the Hippogriff Knights to change their target of attack—
As the blue light touched the valley where the demon's nest was located, angry screams were heard from there.
What followed was a familiar red light, and the last red light that emerged was a slightly thinner red light than the one seen before.
Are the demon's Colossus weapons also under threat and forced to fire early
Elena's face froze. She didn't care that the black dragon was landing towards her. She turned back to confirm the weakness of the red line, but the explosion behind her told everyone present the bad news directly.
The Demon Colossus's target is still the obelisk-shaped Colossus weapon on top of the Great Library.
Although the power was greatly reduced because it was fired without being fully charged, even if the power was reduced by more than 90%, the power of the Colossus weapon was still enough to blow up the bottom of the obelisk.
Following the violent explosion, the light of the obelisk that was emitting blue light dimmed.
Its roots collapsed due to the explosion, and it fell straight towards the ground in front of the library. Even the Kingdom of Eden with its magic network could not quickly rebuild the Colossus weapon in a short period of time.
Although it is unknown how much damage the Colossus weapon caused to the Demon Nest in the end, it is certain that the Demon Nest directly destroyed the Kingdom of Eden's ability to use the Colossus in a short period of time.
In order to achieve a balance, and to prevent the Demon Hive from going crazy again and using their Colossus weapons to shoot indiscriminately, Elena must get rid of the Demon Colossus before it shoots for the third time. At the same time, she must make the Hippogriff Knights who are still flying slowly change the direction of their attack!
So after Yang Hao and the others jumped off the dragon's back, Elena jumped onto the black dragon's back with a drastic change of expression:
"Request! Your Majesty Yang Hao, I need the control authority of the Hippogriff Knights." She shouted to Yang Hao urgently, "I must go and destroy the demon's reactor or Colossus weapon, and let the Hippogriff Knights throw the ten bombs in their hands over the mother nest - but I need your authority."
She looked at Yang Hao, who nodded, knowing the urgency of the situation: "I'll leave it to you."
The black dragon took off into the air again.
Elena anxiously moved quickly with the black dragon towards the demon's nest.
In the sky, she could clearly see that a crack made of magic crystals had appeared in the valley where the demon's nest was located.
On the left side of the rift, the demon's Colossus weapon was gushing blood, obviously affected by the power of the Colossus weapon of the Kingdom of Eden.
Chapter 14: The Nature and Destruction of Demons—6/6 8K
The Demon Colossus was affected by the obelisk - perhaps the obelisk's target was not the Demon Colossus from the beginning, but in short, the Demon Colossus was too close to the obelisk's attack route, so that after being unfortunately affected, the Demon Colossus, which also failed to complete the charging, had to fire a round of shots in the preset direction in a clumsy posture. Fortunately, it destroyed the obelisk of the Kingdom of Eden before it was affected and destroyed.
Elena immediately realized that there was no high-level demon guarding the entire demon nest.
In other words, all the high-level demons combined in a twisted posture to form the demon's colossus weapon. Now the colossus weapon that is constantly erupting is the best reflection of the overall weakness of the demon hive.
"Confirmed... There are no high-level demons in the hive now." Elena said, "I plundered from the sky above the Colossus and let me drop from the sky. I can take this opportunity to destroy the severely injured Colossus's weapons and the suspected reactor building. The remaining larvae in the entire hive cannot withstand my breakthrough."
"Are you serious? What if there is something like the "optical camouflage" Yang Hao mentioned earlier in the mother nest? What should we do?"
"Explanation: After high-level demons evolve into "Optical Camouflage", they will become extremely vulnerable - their physical and magical resistance will be greatly reduced, and even the power of their attacks will be reduced...
The demons that were ambushing underground were protected by loose soil, and their armor began to evolve during the raid, so it was so strong.
But if the high-level demon in the demon nest also intends to do this, I am confident that I can kill it directly - what's more, Ms. Black Dragon, your collision is a physical attack."
"But after all, I am an Isurgardian, an Isurgardian. Why would an Isurgardian fight for the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Eden..."
The black dragon's complaint made Elena tilt her head.
She confirmed again that the Hippogriff Knights in the rear could only fly slowly because they had to protect the heavy bombs. After confirming that the United Nations' army in the distance had advanced to a location where their golems were suitable for projectile bombardment, she watched the black dragon gradually approach the sky above the Demon Colossus.
As the rumbling of cannon fire was heard behind her and she could see the shells rising high into the sky and then falling with their tails of flame, Elena spoke:
"Question: Ms. Black Dragon, don't you still have second thoughts about His Majesty Yang Hao? Do you want to pull him into your country?"
The synthetic doll's question froze the black dragon.
An awkward atmosphere enveloped the sky. The explosion below blew the demon larvae to pieces and forced the last few demons in optical camouflage to evolve physical armor to resist the artillery bombardment from the United Nations.
The black dragon glanced down and just laughed to change the subject: "Ahahaha—let's kill the people down there first! I'll swoop down directly, get ready!"
Before Elena could make any reply, the black dragon dived into the low sky below.
The attack route she chose just happened to cover the locations of all the high-level demons. Red dragon breath accumulated in her throat, and when she got close enough, she sprayed her mouthful of dragon breath directly onto the bodies of those high-level demons that had evolved physical armor.
The dragon's breath burned the demons' chitinous shells, causing the flesh inside the shells to crackle.
The air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh. Elena glanced at the high-level demon struggling in the flames but unwilling to leave, and she came to a conclusion:
"I suddenly realized: the high-level demon is protecting the reactor... The reactor is right under the high-level demon. However, we must first deal with the Colossus weapon."
"Can't we just kill the mother?" The black dragon muttered as it flew towards the colossus. "After all, the mother looks easier to fight, right?"
"I can't. The Matrix is too large, and the wounds we can inflict are so superficial that they are meaningless—I'm going down."