High Above

Not only the main battlefield in the Golden Plains, but also the major towns in Nanling that have been under martial law have also been attacked by many crazy monsters.

As long as even one town is attacked by a monster, causing huge casualties, the cursed soil will spread there - and the demon army will get an accurate coordinate and can jump there directly from the golden plain.

But such a jump cannot be done at will. If the people of Nanling deliberately abandon a town and induce the demon army into a trap, they will not be able to return to the virtual realm immediately to avoid the artillery fire after jumping... Some defenders in the western realm have sacrificed themselves. He deceived the demonic army into a trap and achieved considerable results.

Therefore, we must not give up on the frontal battlefield. The demon army needs to attract the troops from Nanling to the front line, and then use various means to create jumping points in the rear to carry out leapfrogging strikes.

But the unmanned troops responded at this moment - the unmanned armor may still have some flaws in facing the enemy head-on, but within the extremely familiar Nanling, it is enough to accomplish tasks such as "clearing out monsters" and "suppressing riots" .

In fact, with Xio's precise control skills, she can even achieve things like "the second group of the southwest formation moves fifteen meters to the left" and "the angle of the second fire armor of the northern formation adjusts fifteen degrees" which are a bit too precise. Micromanipulation ability.

Not only that - when the lemures want to attack these unmanned armors, she can even control the surrounding drones and armors at the same time and then withdraw A.

While moving and attacking, each of the hundreds of drones scattered to avoid the attack, while those that were not attacked continued to attack. Such an outrageous thing could actually happen, and only a true dragon could do it.

No, maybe this is what real dragons do? No one said that real dragons can only go to the front line themselves - as the essence of a civilization, it is natural for real dragons to be proficient in war!

However, Xio's Dragon Soul computing power is not as good as the Heart of Terra.

Focusing on the operation of drones and armor will inevitably be lacking in other aspects.

For a time, the artillery bombardment of the Nineteenth Legion temporarily stopped because they were unable to track the continuously moving demon legions in real time and use firepower to cover the real-world coordinates corresponding to their virtual positions.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Demon Legion also began to march with all its strength, rushing towards the direction of the Nineteenth Legion, vowing to destroy this firepower point that could pose a threat to them.

Without the constraints of the Giant of Light and the heavy artillery of the Legion, the demons marched at an extremely fast speed, especially since they were directly divided into ten different troops. Under the leadership of their respective officers, they raided in different directions. The firepower of the Nineteenth Legion Without the support of artificial intelligence, it is impossible to track such complex action trajectories in real time.

Under the leadership of demon officers, each army of lemure demons, beast demons and demonized demon beasts has thousands of combat units. Even the weakest demonized demon beasts have strength close to the first level. Most of the Nanling soldiers None of them have this strength. Each of their troops can capture the city and cause massacre.

The only thing the Nanling side can rely on is equipment and fortifications.

Just on the southern edge of the Golden Plain, concrete fortifications were erected in just ten days. This even formed an astonishing Nanling Great Wall. The key nodes of this Great Wall are a large number of defense fortifications and automatic firepower nodes.

The first time these fortifications come into play is in an all-out confrontation with the devil.

Entering the distance of hand-to-hand combat, the ability of demons to move into the virtual realm to avoid fire is also weakened, because they need to be guided in place for a second or more before entering the virtual realm. They will also become stiff when they emerge from the virtual realm. This is still possible with the blessing of cursed soil. Without the cursed soil, they would have to stand there in a daze for ten seconds or even a minute or two to do it.

In the process, the defenders, who had been on guard for a long time, could use firepower to instantly destroy their bodies.

The time has come for a head-on confrontation.

With the buzzing of steel, when demons and monsters had already rushed into the range of hand-to-hand combat, the elites of the Nineteenth Legion who had completed mechanized modifications attacked. These little giants wearing metal armor temporarily built a silver line of defense, blocking the way. The attack of demons came like a tidal wave.

Then, there was an extremely brutal fight.

With the power of exoskeleton armor, elite human soldiers can kick away those monsters that are usually extremely feared. Even lemures can cooperate with each other to repel them, and even use close-range melta guns and magnetic storm generators. 'Expelling' it from the material world.

But the most terrifying thing is not these pioneers: the real killers are the snipers who accept the guidance of the Dragon Soul version of Terra's Heart to shoot.

In ordinary people's perception, one shot of a sniper can save a life. This is actually an exaggeration. Even the most professional snipers cannot guarantee that they will hit the target on the battlefield, and the firing speed is extremely slow and they need to wait. Only when you have the opportunity can you accurately shoot your target.

But now, from now on, the era of snipers has changed - as tiny high-heat beams pierce the air, hundreds of light beams intersect on the battlefield, forming a huge web of death.

In this net, every monster that was hit was killed on the spot, and every lemure that was targeted suffered a severe blow. This terrifying accuracy was simply a disaster for the enemies of the war.

Moreover, these snipers are designed to shoot extremely fast. They only need to aim the 'frame' in front of their eyes at the enemy, and then wait until the lock is completed to fire. It is automated from beginning to end. As long as they remain stable, the attack will be sure. Will hit!

With just three rounds of shooting, the demon army that was about to attack the fortification wall left behind a group of corpses and dissipated demon smoke.

But the severe blows suffered by the forwards immediately attracted the attention of the demon officers. They were confronting the Ascendants of the Nineteenth Legion just now and did not directly participate in the battle. But now, the unfavorable battle situation made them determined and issued a call.

Then, in the real world, as a huge phantom appeared from the dark mist, a beast monster twenty to thirty meters high, like a giant siege machine, appeared on the front line.

These shapes resemble giant bulls, giant bears, and various ferocious monsters, but the terrifying beast monsters that are nearly ten times larger raise their heads and roar to the sky. The terrifying psychic impact begins to spread in all directions, and the 'aura of fear' and The 'Fearless Aura' blessed both the enemy and ourselves at the same time.

Then, these giant beasts began to charge!

However, the demonized monsters and evil spirits were not affected by these forces, and the soldiers in the mechanized troops who were loaded with 'information filtering equipment' were not greatly affected. However, the ordinary soldiers of the Nineteenth Legion who were not mechanized were suddenly trapped. Uncontrollable panic and gaffes.

Some of them peed their pants, some dropped their weapons and started running around as if they were insane, and some even pointed their guns at other teammates, as if they thought they were enemies, and then opened fire!

The firepower in the rear became sparse in an instant, and some people even exploded the ammunition depot next to them under extreme nervousness for unknown reasons.

boom! ! ! Huge balls of flames exploded behind the defense line, greatly reducing the morale of the Nineteenth Legion. The beast demons took advantage of the situation and smashed the defensive fortresses and firepower networks, creating a gap for the demon army to break through.

No, not somehow.

Because some elite demonic troops have already sneaked into the battle formation and started to trick the imperial soldiers into killing each other!

For a time, the defense line that could still be supported collapsed in an instant. The Imperials abandoned a large number of corpses. The snipers also encountered precise point kills from the flying demon elites. Only a small part of them escaped quickly under the automatic retreat program of the exoskeleton armor.

The situation took a turn for the worse.

After the demonic officers and the beast demons entered the battlefield, the situation immediately became dangerous.

This is an army that cannot be stopped by the defense line at all. They can change the enemy's thinking at will, create fear and despair, invade the enemy's rear and destroy the enemy's logistics. This is the 'extraordinary army' technology that must be developed in the future world of Terra. For them, any army in the ordinary sense will be easily wiped out.

But the Nanling side is not without back-ups.

In areas heavily infested by demonic forces, groups of unmanned armored troops appeared that were so crude that their outer armor shells had not yet been polished.

The moment they appear, they will bring a large amount of terrifying fire support. After stabilizing the situation, they will not hesitate to look for elite demons to explode without wasting any time.

Although they could not prevent the Trollocs from destroying city walls and razing small fortresses, they also bought time for the Imperial legions to retreat.

Behind them, the second line of defense composed of the fully mechanized troops of the Silver Peak Leader is waiting. They are about to have a head-on confrontation with the demon siege army headed by the beast demon.

And the battlefield is much more than here.

In the distance, the Silver Peak Leader's elite force "Steel Feather" led by Qingchao launched a long-distance attack and directly attacked the beast demon hatchery behind the demon army, a sea of ​​flesh and blood.

Here, there are still beast demons that are being bred and hatched - the monsters and demons that died on the front line will not wait for a long time to turn into lemures after returning to the virtual realm, but will be directly thrown into the incubation pool as raw materials to serve as the beast demons. raw materials.

And those monsters with weak combat power will naturally not be used as combat power, but will become the biological matrix of the monster monsters.

After hatching, these beast monsters will escape into the virtual realm, and then rush to the battlefield from the virtual realm to continue fighting.

Of course, as an extremely important place, there are also a group of elite lemure guards and demon officers patrolling around the beast demon incubation pool... But even the demon army is converted from humans, and their thinking is still limited to confrontation. Artillery and the enemy's cavalry quickly struck.

But just like the era of giant ships and cannons was replaced by aircraft carriers... the Silver Peak Territory has also entered a new era in this regard.

After arriving at the designated location, Qingchao and others began to release a large number of drones on the spot - at one time, more than 300 drones rose into the sky like a swarm of bees, and then headed towards the beast monster hatching pool Swoop away!

But this is not the end. Every demon officer and lemure with anti-air capabilities has anti-aircraft firepower, so without any hesitation, after releasing the drone he carried, Qingchao drew his sword and led his team forward to fight with Discover their demonic defenders engaged in battle!

For a moment, the sound of swords clashing became a song in the plain area. Qing Chao even fought against the five demon officers with his own strength, and he did not fall behind!

"Your swordsmanship is not even one percent as good as that of the boss!"

He laughed and swung his sword, forcing a demon back, and then chopped off the head of a monster. Purple-blue blood spattered on the armor, making the silver shell even more ferocious.

Recently, in addition to practicing meditation, Qingchao has been practicing sword practice, and the object of his sword practice is 'Swordsman Ian' simulated by the Heart of Terra!

Faced with the simulated AI Ian who always uses perfect tactics, predicts the unknown, and makes no mistakes in every action, Qingchao has learned the essence of true perfect swordsmanship despite repeated defeats.

Just like the chess players who played chess with Xio later improved greatly, this was Qingchao's opportunity!

In the future, all swordsmen and practitioners in the Silver Peak Territory will be able to simulate battles with AIs that have fixed routines. Even after collecting enough data, it is not impossible to simulate demons - although it is not possible to truly simulate extraordinary power. , but for simple swordsmanship and fighting skills, combat experience has been greatly improved.

Compared to those unidentified drones, the demon defenders naturally paid more attention to these powerful and elite swordsmen groups in front of them. However, as everyone knew, the moment their attention was diverted, every swooping drone would be shot. They all lit up with a dazzling magnetic storm light.

For a time, hundreds of drones that turned themselves into plasma bombs fell like waterfalls. Hundreds of plasma pillars flashed one after another like thunderstorms between the sky and the earth, and every flash would be in the sky. The monster monster hatching pool was bombed with large gaps, and the half-formed monster monsters died tragically in mourning, and once again turned into black mist and dissipated.

When the plasma network was at its peak, it even turned into a sea of ​​thunder. Under the surging tide, all the flesh and blood nests were burned into black carbon or a thick black liquid like asphalt.

At present, the overall situation is still a stalemate, with both sides winning or losing.

But the strategic direction is that the Demon Legion is more dominant.

Although the troops of the Silver Peak Leader reorganized the second line of defense with the retreating troops of the Nineteenth Legion, the Demon Legion had indeed broken through the Golden Plains blockade and entered the interior of Nanling, and the Nineteenth Legion had also lost considerable combat power.

Nauman City, the capital of Nanling, is very close to the second line of defense. Several evil demons have even teleported to the edge of the city. Although they were shot down by the defenders, this is enough to prove that it is almost impossible for the formed Cursed Earth and Demon Legion to be defeated by a few people. A line of defense was held.

But even so, the demon army was unable to expand its advantage - their Warcraft troops wanted to harvest the population of the surrounding ordinary villages and towns, and when they continued to expand the cursed soil, they found that all the villages and towns within Nanling had become no man's land, and everyone They are all integrated into large cities with strong defenses.

After all, unlike the knight lords and fringe nobles in the Golden Plains, Ian and Marquis Barton can completely control the actions of all nobles and villages within South Ridge - even if someone does not want to leave their hometown, the gendarmerie will forcibly detain them, but they will not What do you mean by human rights and free choice?

However, similarly, as the Nineteenth Legion retreated and most of the heavy firepower was destroyed, the demons in Nanling no longer need to be trapped in the virtual realm, but can move freely in the real world and try to attack the city.

However, unlike other cities in the Western Territory, the citizens of Nanling would not have any fear even if they saw a huge demon flapping its wings and spinning around over the city.

On the contrary, even ordinary people, as long as they have weapons in their hands, will chant fanatically and shoot into the sky.

This fear that cannot be spread also curbs the spread of the cursed soil.

Under the fanatical war consciousness and religious propaganda, even the devil cannot easily invade.

When the war has reached this point, it all depends on which of the troops on both sides collapses first, or whether the stronger ones on both sides will win.

At this time, the battlefield was gradually approaching, and the people in Nanling who were still watching the live broadcast of the battlefield once again had a second wave of 'prayer' power.

What was first catalyzed by Ian's use of false images was just an introduction, giving the people of Nanling a sense of identity. But now, as the 19th Army Corps, which has been stationed in Nanling for a long time, retreats to the second line of defense, the real The 'sense of crisis' and 'fear of death' began to emerge.

However, under Ian's long-term propaganda, this fear did not last long and was transformed into a hope of a desperate counterattack by the Nanling Army.

A power that once again reunites the giants of light, roaring in the virtual realm and attacking the demon army!

[The old trick is repeated! 】

At this moment, Deathstroke, who was fighting with Ian in the real world, sneered: [Without the firepower of the 19th Legion, and without the support of the super-heavy artillery of Issa's territory, what are you going to do to destroy our Demon Legion! 】

Along with his words, as the light in the virtual realm suddenly lit up, a large amount of black mist transferred from the virtual realm to reality - the demon army that was repairing in the virtual realm has all moved from the virtual realm to the real world. They are preparing to launch an all-out attack on the second line of defense.

The Giant of Light cannot penetrate the virtual world and reality with one blow. Without heavy fire coverage, the demons can easily transfer to the real world and wait until the Giant of Light's strong period is over!

"A complete set of demon tactics, this is definitely not something Feiyandi can develop."

But Ian was saying something completely unrelated to the war at this moment: "Sure enough, you guys got the fire of the abyss - you got the entire database of an alien demon civilization, and you analyzed them and absorbed them for your own use."

"Is it the Demonic Dragon? The monster you hide in the deepest part of the Western Realm is the Abyss Demonic Dragon?" he said firmly.

Deathstroke was stunned for a moment, then laughed and charged towards Ian: [You actually know that too? Sure enough, will He be successfully born in the future? This war is really the most painful one I have ever fought. It turns out that the prophet can even know your trump card early]

[But this time, you will be defeated by me without Him appearing at all! 】

"wrong."

Goblin Ian swung his sword, forcing Deathstroke back, and then flipped back lightly, avoiding the sonic cluster cannon that secretly erupted from Deathstroke.

He smiled and said: "Why do you think I want to hold you back, and why do I have to build two defense lines that are obviously impossible to stop the devil, forcing you to concentrate your main forces around the defense line?"

"I'm waiting for space-based weapons to target, what are you waiting for?"

【What? 】At this moment, Deathstroke was stunned. Then, with the blessing of Cursed Earth, his powerful telepathy ability made him aware of an extremely terrifying crisis.

A... crisis that cannot be stopped, cannot be evaded, no matter where it is on the Golden Plains!

【Oops! 】

At this moment, Deathstroke opened his eyes wide and raised his head to look at the sky.

As early as ten minutes ago, when Ian mobilized Terra's mental arithmetic power and turned on his full power to fight him, the attack in the sky had already begun.

It takes about fifteen minutes to aim from the Terra satellite orbit and fall to the surface. During these fifteen minutes, it is necessary to ensure that the enemy is in the same position and does not move, the enemy must not be able to move to the virtual realm, and the enemy must not even have time to notice Crisis strikes.

Therefore, in these fifteen minutes, the demon army was caught in the most intense offensive and defensive battle on the second line of defense in Nanling. When they noticed that the Silver Peak Army and the 19th Army on the second line of defense were hiding in underground bunkers, fighting with them When all of them were unmanned armors and drones, they had no time to retreat.

In the virtual realm, Adelbert, who struck just right, was forcing all the demons to withdraw from the virtual realm - compared to the unknown danger in the sky, the heavy punch of the Giant of Light was indeed more terrifying.

As of now, 70% of the demon army is located in the middle of the first and second defense lines of Nanling... an empty no-man's land without any bunkers!

And at this moment, they saw the stars!

Everyone saw the stars.

Nanling, the Holy Mountain of Steel, is building the second super-giant magnetic storm tower. Elder Manya, who is preparing for the possibility of fighting the devil in the future, stares at the hundreds of densely packed flame stars that suddenly light up at the top of the sky. These stars drag the long The long tails are continuous and even merge into a whole.

"The fire of calamity fell from the top of the sky...and the judgment came."

Elder Manya, the former priest of the Dragon God and now the Archbishop of the Chongling Sect's mountain village, silently recited the prophecy that Ian had announced to everyone before, but found that everyone around him, even his own grandson, was kneeling on one knee. Bow your head and pray devoutly to the flames of destruction that descend from the sky.

"It seems that the prophet's prediction has been fulfilled." He stared at the dark virtual realm in the distance, and the old man who had reached the third energy level smiled: "Then, it is time to set off."

"Behold. Kermit, my child..."

At Harrison Port, at the top of the Viscount's Mansion, Viscount Grant held his one-year-old child in his arms and stared at the skyfire that had formed a line in the distance: "This is the power that your teacher can call out...a true prophet, a true prophet." His genius far exceeds your father's existence."

"And now, I will fight for your future capital."

After completely inheriting the bloodline of the Abyssal Lizard Whale and having a head of blue hair, Komit was handed over to his mother's hands. Viscount Grant drove the ether weapon and set off.

And his strength... is far beyond that!

Whether it was Nauman City or Xia Hui City, whether it was Harrison Port or the Agate Stone Plain, whether it was the mountain people or the imperial people, everyone saw the continuous calamity fire falling from the top of the sky.

No need for live broadcast, no need for a screen, just look up and you will see that everything is just as predicted by the prophet - nearly endless meteors dragging red lines of fire, filling the entire sky, and they continue to fall until...

Falling to the earth!