Soul of Searing Steel

Chapter 279: Crisis and turnaround

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In fact, it’s not just the province of Babel.

As the Apocalypse Formation released the beam of light and tore out a space rift, various horrific disasters occurred in the Gulf Federation, and even in the entire world of Ilgona. Countless stone demons fell from the sky along with meteorites, and armies from various places Tired of running for his life, after finally clearing one place, a monster appeared in another place.

The central area of the bay is one of the few areas that has not been attacked by stone demons. Of course, it is also the most heavily guarded place. Even if there is a stone demon invasion, it will definitely be repulsed.

The commander-in-chief, who finally arrived at his office in an airship, sat tiredly on his chair, but he had no time to rest. After taking a sip of water, Urken quickly opened many observation circles. Let dozens of light screens appear in front of you.

Watching the scenes in each light screen nervously, the red-haired elf's heart sank. He found that the situation was worse than he imagined.

All nine provinces of the federation were attacked by stone demons of varying intensity. Their number and density were second only to the Battle of Cold Wind Valley three years ago, but that time all the stone demons gathered in one place. , but now almost equal numbers appear in nine or even more places at the same time.

The armies in various places were exhausted, spending all their energy and manpower just to defend against the stone demons in their own territories. The central region relied on fortifications and had no problem holding on, but it was powerless to go out to help other provinces.

Storms blew across all the seaside provinces, port cities were hit by huge waves, earthquakes occurred in all the hilly areas, while sleet and blizzards washed back and forth across the northern provinces, and within a few hours, the ice in the northern provinces With half a meter thick, even armored vehicles were completely frozen and unable to drive. All parts of the country were suddenly filled with grief and fell into the most critical moment.

Various natural disasters are accompanied by countless stone demons, who are carrying out fierce attacks as if they want to destroy the Gulf Federation in one fell swoop. The Delang Province, which has the weakest military strength, has been devastated. Countless meteorites have fallen from the sky, causing cracks in the earth and making the original The wilderness full of green grass and forests turned into scorched earth full of cracks and huge pits. Under the siege of thousands of stone demons, the defenders of Delang Province had completely retreated to various large cities, and countless people were walking in the abandoned cities. Gray rock puppets, they destroyed all temporary fortresses and slaughtered local civilians who had no time to leave.

The ground was covered with horrific corpses. The fleshy remains of elves and the fragments of puppets were mixed together, exuding a tragic smell of blood.

There was nothing to say, absolutely nothing to say. Urken gritted his teeth, veins popped out on his wrinkled forehead. He single-handedly led the Federation to rebirth from the ruins of the war of the last dynasty. He loved all elves and any city. He would go to bless every establishment. Seeing those bloodless and tearless monsters silently slaughtering the remaining elven civilians, his heart was filled with uncontrollable rage.

But what can be done? Helplessness filled his body, and even though the commander was so angry that his hands were shaking, he was unable to do anything.

The Federation indeed has no remaining strength... Could it be that the Federation is about to perish here

Forcing himself to shift his gaze, the commander turned to look at the light curtain of the Babel Province. Since it was the location where the Array of Apocalypse came, there were far more stone demons here than in other provinces, nearly five thousand, mixed with flying The Stone Demon's puppet army is fighting on two sides. One side is defending near the capital of Babel Province, while the other side is besieging the armored convoy near Sapphire Port.

On the hills around Sapphire Port, an army was making a difficult breakout towards the capital of Babel with the assistance of a black half-dragon. From time to time, thunderous noises could be heard on the hills, accompanied by the huge dragon that shook the world. Roar, one beam after another penetrated the haze caused by volcanic ash and water vapor. It shattered the bodies of countless powerful stone demons, allowing the armored army on its side to fire safely and destroy the weaker stone puppets. The attack formed a huge firepower net, covering all entities blocking the front.

It has to be said that the cooperation between the two is still a bit awkward, and occasionally a few stone demons will be missed jumping over the fire net, but this is not harmful. The huge dragon beast waves its giant claws, and simply and neatly kills a few stone demons with good luck. The gray puppet was smashed into pieces on the ground, and the flying stone demons flying in the sky occasionally wanted to attack the half-dragon while it was attacking other places, but they never expected that the red mist surrounding Hei's body was caused by Composed of extremely high-temperature fire elements, simply being close to them risks deactivating them.

With the help of the Volcano Dragon, the situation has almost stabilized? !

The commander took a deep breath. He was once again glad that he did not order the killing of this giant beast. Otherwise, not to mention the many troops, it would not be of any help in the face of such a terrifying invasion. The province of Babel is destined to fall, and other places will collapse like dominoes.

"We must win! Volcano Dragon!"

Crossing his hands and clenching them tightly, with his fingers so hard that his joints turned white, Urken stared at the light screen and said word by word in a heavy voice: "You are... the only hope!"

And on the other side of the light curtain.

The half-dragon calmly judged the situation and unleashed its powerful firepower to destroy enemies one after another. While Hei was estimating whether his remaining magic power could break through the stone demons, he was a little surprised to find that the magic power in the surrounding atmosphere was actually It has become a lot thicker. Although it is still not as high as the concentration of magic power in the Great Ajax and Sigma volcanoes, it can still fire a lot more beam cannons.

But why? Why is there suddenly so much magic power? The half-dragon was a little puzzled, but it didn't care. As long as it could destroy the enemy better, who cares about such a small thing? It continued to send out light cannons one after another, then waved its claws, and even hit them directly, destroying a head. Another powerful stone monster.

Most of these stone demons are extremely weak. They can't even resist the flame shield that comes with half-dragons. But the more powerful ones, such as steel and mithril level stone demons, have intermediate silver and peak silver levels. Strength, their power is enough to penetrate the black fire element shield and dragon scales, causing great damage to the half-dragon. After the concentration of magic power is increased, it does not have any impact on the stone demon, but whether it is the power of the armored vehicle's magic crystal cannon or The half-dragon's elemental shield will be more powerful, leaving those weak stone demons with no room to resist.

Hei didn't seem to care about this very much, but many people did.

"What? You said that the magic concentration in Babel Province suddenly increased by 42%?" Urken was in his office, while staring at the battle situation in Babel Province from the first perspective of the armored vehicle. He was on the phone with the research institute, but the first words the other party said made him look back and said in shock: "Why? Why did it suddenly increase so much? This concentration is enough to support a lot of great magic!"

However, the research institutes questioned also stated that they did not know the cause. They only discovered abnormal data from observations. After several calculations, these scholars also gave two possibilities this time.

After the death of the stone demon, a large amount of magic power will appear - this is unlikely. Although there are many stone demons in Babel Province, there are also many such rock puppets in other places. Defeating them will only yield a piece of waste stone without any gain. .

The second point is more bizarre, but surprisingly makes sense.

"The opening of the space-time rift... brought the magic of the outside world?" Urken repeated the sentence he just heard in a low voice, and then repeated it softly.

He is thinking.

The attack launched by the Apocalypse Array completely flattened a mountain peak and the surrounding cities. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of elves were turned into ashes and dispersed in the world. The terrifying power even tore apart space, and outside the world. A huge wound opened up.

Even though the surface has healed, the structure of the space is still fragile, and countless magic powers seep into it, gradually increasing the concentration of Ilgna's magic power. Those who benefit the most are the mages in the Babel Province, who could only use some small tricks. , but now with the help of the suddenly enhanced magic power, these mages have regained the ability to use advanced magic.

In the capital, the defenders who were engaged in an arduous tug-of-war with countless stone demons suddenly discovered that they had several buffs on their bodies. Each of them felt full of physical strength and strength. When aiming and shooting, The shots were always on target, and the firepower was 30% higher than the original in an instant. This sudden explosion instantly defeated the strongest wave of the Stone Demon's offensive. The defenders successfully protected millions of people behind them. level capital residents.

These are all due to the mages who are suddenly able to cast buff spells. Their knowledge is extremely rich. If the environment had not restricted them, these guys would have been able to advance long ago.

Professor Nelson, before becoming a master scholar of linguistics, was also a mage, and a great mage at that.

The white-haired elf old man shifted his goals decades ago when it became increasingly difficult to cast spells and focused on learning all known languages. But even so, he was still an archmage. This is why the army She was extremely polite to him and was even willing to tell him her plan of action.

He was originally a powerful mage, but due to the decrease in magic concentration in this world, his spell-casting ability was greatly reduced, and he could not even use auxiliary spells. This suffocating feeling was something Nelson would never forget for the rest of his life, but It was different now. The old elf closest to the space rift was shocked to notice that his power was rapidly recovering.

He didn't have time to care about the reason, and simply ran out of the armored vehicle. The elf professor immediately cast a high-level agility for Hei. As the spell ended, Hei suddenly found that his actions were faster. Hei looked at Bai beside him in surprise. The hair elf, the half-dragon discovered that although the guy in front of him was far from Master Nostradamus, he still had a familiar aura.

The aura of a silver-level mage.

An elf and a dragon looked at each other, and then laughed in the same way.

"Your Excellency, Dragon of the Volcano, let's break through the encirclement of these monsters together!"

The old mage laughed and said: "Don't think about holding them back. Let's rush out and rush back to the capital of Babel Province. We will help them solve their troubles first, and then we will go back together to deal with these damn monsters!"

"Roar!"

There was no smile on the half-dragon's face, but his voice was full of fighting spirit. Although it was still in danger of being surrounded, it didn't have any fear. After attacking, the armored car and the half-dragon began to move towards the distance with all their strength. Speeding up and running, the huge tilting gunfire and explosions sounded like ten thousand beasts running wildly on the ground. Under the attack of the giant dragon, the mithril-level stone demon carapace cracked one after another and collapsed into fragments on the ground. The stone demons who were still flying and watching were also shot down by beams of light one after another. The aftermath even shattered the clouds in the sky, causing many large holes where the stars could be seen to appear in the dense clouds.

The breakout became smoother and smoother. The entire armored convoy was like a cone, easily penetrating the encirclement of the stone demons. Just as the old mage and the commander behind the screen breathed a sigh of relief.

A golden giant statue that was much taller than the other puppets suddenly appeared and blocked the front of the armored convoy.

(End of chapter)