Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 678 How to employ people
Boom——! !

In the wilderness, a huge roar exploded from the surface of a huge black fortress like a mountain behemoth. The bombardment formed by the dark brown pyroxene energy collided with the energy barrier that emerged on the surface of the fortress, like a meteorite impact, causing the movement of the entire Dika Fortress to pause.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!" "Damn it! What's going on! Why did the slug-class pyroxene cannon fire like this? Rangefinder, where is the rangefinder?!"

"I... I don't know! At this... at this distance, it shouldn't be possible to be bombarded..."

Various loud roars were heard from inside the Dika Fortress. In the core tower in the middle area, a horned beastman with horns was cursing angrily, while the scaled man who was responsible for determining and calculating the enemy's position explained in a panic, his face full of anxiety.

"Report... Report, Lord White Demon, we have encountered some unexpected situations. The enemy's fortress artillery seems to have been improved!"

In the communication hall in the upper area, a forest spirit woman with elk antlers reported to the white-haired young man sitting in a seat nervously, causing him to frown slightly.

"What about the damage?"

"6.3% of the energy used to maintain the defense wall was consumed."

"Can we fight back?"

"This... I'm afraid it's impossible. The enemy is still 40 kilometers away from our range, and the enemy's fortress moves faster than ours."

The elk-horned woman who was in charge of conveying the information answered nervously, feeling the cold oppression emanating from the white-haired young man, and a fine layer of cold sweat seeped out of her forehead.

The white-haired young man... or the White Demon, fell silent after hearing the other party's words. After thinking for a while, he said:

"How long until the next round of shelling?"

"This one should have 20 teeth..."

boom--! !

Before the elk-horned woman could finish the rest of her words, a dull thud came from under their feet again, causing the entire core tower to shake violently. The elk-horned woman's face also changed slightly, with a hint of fear in her eyes, and she murmured:
"How is that possible? The bombardment should still be cool down..."

"..."

The White Mage sitting in his seat glanced at the shocked woman with elk horns and said nothing more, but he had a rough idea of ​​the current situation in his mind.

A main gun that is faster, farther, and more powerful?
"Tsk tsk, it seems that Brother Bai's guess has come true. The guys in the Holy Land are not easy to deal with~!"

A frivolous voice came from the side, and a werewolf youth wearing a hideous silver wolf armor, who was squatting on the metal beam used to stabilize the core tower, smiled, and a dangerous look appeared in his pupils that showed obvious signs of bestiality.

"I'll leave this to you. I'll be out for a while."

The White Demon did not say anything about the werewolf youth's words. He just gave an indifferent order, then drew out the long sword that exuded a strong bloody aura, stepped forward with his right leg, and rushed out in an instant with a deafening explosion, speeding towards the gate of the Dika Fortress.

Obviously, after being hit twice, the white-haired young man realized that if he didn't do something, they would be driven out of the war before it even officially started.

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Nott's Fortress.

[Ding~ Fortress-level pyroxene heavy artillery·Changed hit confirmation! ]

[Charging progress 10%...15%...20%...! ]

"Haha, finally those alien bastards know how powerful we are!!"

A pleasant electronic sound rang out. In the conference room, An Wen, a blond young man who served as deputy chief of staff, looked at the picture on the screen and clenched his fists excitedly.

Ryan and Tafina, who were standing aside, looked at this scene. Although they didn't say much, the joy in their eyes was beyond words.

Especially Tafina, who was born in the lower zone. Although she did not oppose the Inhumans whose genes had mutated due to the influence of pyroxene, she did not have much good feelings towards the Gusa Federation composed of Inhumans, especially after she witnessed the tragic death of people she knew at the hands of the Gusa Alliance's pyroxene warriors, and she was wondering what would happen to the humans and pyroxene disease patients who fell into the Gusa Federation.

[Ding~ Enemy fortress-level units approaching, current movement speed calculated: 190.8km/h...]

A new electronic sound rang out, and a large number of blue-green dotted lines and a series of numbers appeared on the screen, presenting the situation on the battlefield in an extremely intuitive way.

"This direction... is too straightforward, Nott! Move toward the northeast 39.7°, and maintain a speed of 60 terai!"

Ryan, sitting in the Chief of Staff's seat, looked at the information appearing in front of him, analyzed it quickly in his mind, and spoke quickly.

[Command confirmed, start changing the trajectory]

As soon as the words fell, the huge green arrow representing their side on the screen suddenly moved towards the direction Ryan had just indicated at a speed visible to the naked eye, re-distanced itself from the huge red arrow that was approaching, but would not let it really move away from its range.

So flexible...

In the conference room, Ryan looked at the green arrow on the map that completed the trajectory adjustment in just a few seconds, and couldn't help but reveal a burning look in his eyes.

Although he has adapted to what he sees now after more than ten hours of knowledge indoctrination, he still feels an indescribable shock every time he sees the response speed of commands that far exceeds his cognition.

You know, even in the sandbox games he played in the past, the game rules for fortress-level commands required at least 20 seconds to complete a response, and this was already an extremely ideal number.

But now, they only need to sit in such a small conference room and don’t even have to worry about the situation inside the core tower. They just need to give instructions according to their own ideas, and the fortress in front of them will be able to understand their intentions and respond in just a few seconds, just like a living intelligent life.

This may sound like a small thing, but on the battlefield, the advantage that this response speed difference of more than ten seconds can bring is absolutely enormous. This is equivalent to that when they have completed several commands such as loading, firing, changing targets, moving and avoiding... the fortress on the opposite side may have just completed a loading link.

It can be said that relying on this advantage alone, Ryan is even confident that he can sink the opponent's fortress in advance without engaging in a boarding battle. Of course, the premise is that the opponent does not have other extraordinary means, such as -

[Charging completed, target locked, automatic launch command in progress...]

A pleasant electronic sound rang out, and the main gun model on the 3D fortress model on the side of the screen quickly changed from light green, indicating that it had been fully charged, to light yellow, indicating that it had executed the firing command. At the same time, the pyroxene energy storage bar displayed on it also quickly slid down, and then...

boom--! !

A huge roar erupted. If you were to watch from a God's perspective, you could clearly see that when the more than 300-meter-long barrel of the railgun-like gun mounted on top of the fortress was ready, an extremely dazzling dark brown beam of light directly cut through the sky amidst circles of air waves visible to the naked eye, and rushed straight towards the Deka Fortress at the end of its path. Just as it was about to hit the Deka Fortress, a bit of pitch-black color suddenly spread from the surface of the Deka Fortress -

Boom!
The next moment, a collision broke out. A terrifying bombardment formed by high-concentration pyroxene energy heavily bombarded the surface of the Dika Fortress. The power of the explosion swept across the surrounding area of ​​hundreds of meters. Several mountains within the affected range also disintegrated and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye under the impact of this dark-brown energy.

And when all this calmed down, what appeared on the screen was no longer the pyroxene energy protection wall that fluctuated violently like the previous two bombardments, but a huge crystal barrier that was about three hundred meters wide and had an overall prism shape, just like the blackened version of the Aoge Shield that Xin Lailai had experienced in the White Night Contract.

Sure enough! Just as the information given by Lord Black Sword said! The enemy on the opposite side who is of the same level as Lord Black Sword will not sit idly by and watch their bombardment.

However, the fortress-class main gun that even the Grand Mages dared not face head-on was able to withstand it without any damage...

Is this the enemy that Black Sword-sama mentioned, who is even more powerful than the Grand Sorcerer?

In the conference room, Ryan looked at the black crystal that was almost identical to the one in the information Xin Lailai gave him. Looking at the smooth surface without even the slightest sign of wear and tear, his breathing was slightly blocked and his hands unconsciously clenched a little.

Although the black-haired young man had already affirmed his ability, and he had already prepared himself mentally, the thought of an ordinary person like himself having to fight on the battlefield against a terrifying enemy more powerful than a Grand Warlock made him feel nervous and his heart beat faster.

Fortunately, perhaps because the first two bombardments had completely ignited the desire hidden in the chest of the young man in the lower class, he was shocked for less than a second before he quickly came to his senses. The accelerated heartbeat due to nervousness also helped promote his blood circulation, causing the temperature of his blood to rise again. After taking a deep breath, he quickly gave the order:

"Nott! Keep charging, keep calibrating, but stop firing!"

"Continue to move northeast, while ensuring the radius is over 100km! Don't give the enemy a chance to use their main guns!"

[Command confirmed, automatic launch command has stopped, and the trajectory is being replanned...]

The two orders were quickly issued, and Ryan's eyes moved back and forth quickly between the overall terrain map of the battlefield and the front view displayed on the screen. His brain's thinking speed reached its peak at this moment. According to the information given to him by Lord Black Sword, once the black crystal shield appears, any artillery fire within the next 10 minutes will be resolved by the opponent, and will not cause any actual physical and energy loss to the opponent...

In other words, once the opponent starts to attack, their action logic needs to immediately switch from consumption-based attack to continuous pulling, ensuring that the opponent does not leave their shooting range while avoiding being pulled into the opponent's shooting range.

However, considering that this war is not a simple two-on-two confrontation, but a three-way melee...

[Ding~ Approaching reaction detected from the fortress unit in the southwest! ]

Suddenly, a cold prompt sound was heard, and another huge red cursor that had been motionless at the lower left corner of the map suddenly moved, approaching them from behind without any concealment.

Sure enough, wouldn't the enemies on the other side allow them to establish an advantage?
Ryan saw this without any surprise in his eyes, as if he had expected this scene. At the same time, he quickly pulled up the map, held the electronic pen and quickly drew a few arrows on the screen, then quickly spoke:

"Nott! Move in this direction! At the same time, aim the 2nd and 3rd main guns at the Shulan Fortress and continue calibration!"

"Also, activate all the city defense cannons in areas 5 to 8. After the 239th tick, fire them at these locations..."

"An Wen, please help me calculate it..."

In the conference room, the young man from the grassroots area who served as the chief of staff seemed to have completely entered the role. He gave instructions one after another at a rapid speed. At the same time, the hand holding the electronic pen continuously circled one position after another on the rugged battlefield map projected on the virtual screen. Together with the blond young man next to him who was also fully engaged, he continued to control the actions of the fortress, giving people a sense of commanding power.

Xin Lailai, who was sitting on the main seat, watched all this quietly without saying a word the entire time. At most, he would occasionally linger on the picture displayed on the screen for a while.

For him, from the very beginning he never intended to win this war by himself.

In other words, Xin Lailai is very clear about his own talent for war. From the perspective of morale motivation and overall battle coordination, he may be able to rely on his high charm attribute and the experience learned from books. However, once he gets into the specific manpower deployment, temporary planning... and various immediate operations that require superb war qualities to cope with, a half-baked person like him can basically find no other way except to ask Xiaobai to find an AI to help host it.

After all, the detailed manipulation on the battlefield is different from the overall coordination of the battle situation. It is truly changing rapidly. In this case, if he really hopes to copy the answer from the book, the opportunity may have been missed by several minutes, and he has not yet found the optimal solution from the book.

Fortunately, for Xin Lailai, the solution to this shortcoming is also very simple -

Since he doesn't have that ability, then just find someone who has that ability.

There are so many people in this world, even if 99.9% of them are as untalented as he is, as long as the base continues to expand, there will always be one or two top geniuses who can easily achieve 'the more the better' and 'one thousand against ten thousand'. If you can't find them among ten thousand, then one hundred thousand, if you can't find them among one hundred thousand, then three hundred thousand, five hundred thousand...!
After all, even if the person he is looking for is a top genius who only appears once in a million people, it will not be a big problem in the face of a large enough population base.

You don't need to be a horse that can travel a thousand miles a day. You just need to be a Bole who can find the horse from the crowd. You need to make the best use of the right time, right place, and right people... and try to grasp all the seemingly subtle advantages, instead of relying on your own strength to do things recklessly and try to accomplish everything by yourself. This is what Xin Lailai does.

In the conference room, the urgent commands continued to sound. The black-haired young man sat quietly on the main seat, taking in the scene on the battlefield with his pupils as deep as the abyss, like a king overlooking his own territory.

Emperors are good at using people.

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Half an hour later, at Fort Hullan.

boom--! !

A huge roar exploded from Randy's eardrum, and a column of light full of oppression rushed in from a distance, and then deflected to the side by the interference of the space miasma that permeated the surroundings of the Xiulan Fortress, and finally exploded in a mountain area, forming a dark brown light ball with a radius of more than 300 meters, which would annihilate all the mountains and forests affected by it.

A dull humming sound continued to sound from all directions, and thick dust and haze were swept upwards along with the strong wind. The entire battlefield was shaking due to the movement of the three fortresses.

"Xiao Yun, how is the advance team sent out by Huiyuan Sect?"

Distant shouts of killing were heard from afar. The young nobleman looked at the huge gray-black fortress at the end of his sight that had not suffered much damage at all, and said to the white-haired little Lolita beside him.

"Already...already completely wiped out."

"Tsk, they boasted so much before the fight, saying that we can just leave it to them, but they can't even force the enemy to mobilize their forces?!"

Hearing the answer from the little white-haired girl, Randy's mouth twitched slightly. He greeted the people of Huiyuan Sect with a click of the tongue, but did not continue talking. Instead, he looked solemnly at the huge gray-black fortress in the distance, which almost reminded him of the unattainable and terrible feeling he had when he was chasing his first love. He even had the urge to curse.

Can't touch it.

From the start of the war till now, they have been teaming up with the guys from Samsara to block the other side for nearly half an hour, but they haven't even smelled a fart from the other side.

Although they were both mobile fortresses, the one on the opposite side gave him the feeling that it was a spirit. Not only did it run very fast, but it was also very flexible when it moved around. Because of the mountainous terrain, they and the Deka Fortress had accidentally hit the "wall" several times. As a result, the fortress on the opposite side could even show them what the fortress drifting technique was.

And that damn moving trajectory, every time it gave them the feeling that they could catch up and corner the opponent, but every time they were hit by a shot, they were penetrated through the blind spot of the two fortresses and had a fucking experience. Not only that, the advance troops sent out by both sides were inexplicably wiped out before they could even touch the opponent's fortress twice, which even made Randy feel that there was a traitor between him and Samsara.

"This is really fucked up. Don't tell me that those two guys in the Sanctuary know how to fight?"

Randy greeted him with curses. In his impression, those contractors who were good at fighting would be recruited to Watch Paradise to do big things at level one or two. Who the hell was still here with them for such a petty fight that couldn't even get two mahjong tables together?
"Brother Randy!"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Whirl... Samsara over there! Look!"

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the white-haired little Lolita beside the young nobleman. She looked in another direction, pointing at the shadow of a huge fortress that seemed to be located at the other end of the earth, and hurriedly reminded.

"Which side of Samsara? That White Demon guy got blasted again... What the hell? Is this guy getting angry?"

Hearing the reminder from the little white-haired girl, Randy quickly looked in the direction of the Dika Fortress, and then he cursed directly, as if he had seen something incredible:
From afar, one could see that in the distant land, a torrent of blood energy suddenly rose up from the scarred black fortress. The black fortress, which was originally chasing the gray-black fortress, suddenly stopped its encirclement and turned around under the gaze of everyone, and rushed towards the silver-white light column surrounded by large mountains without hesitation.

It was obvious that he was fed up with this endless tug-of-war, and would rather risk being at a disadvantage and becoming the defender, than drag the war into the offensive and defensive stage.

then……

boom--! !

An earth-shattering roar sounded.

But that was not the sound of the Black Fortress crashing into the mountains, but...

“It collapsed…”

There was a rumbling sound as the entire fortress suddenly collapsed into the ground.

Yes.

As if someone had seen through its thoughts, when the Dika Fortress rushed towards the space coordinate light column and tried to force its way through, the ground on the other side it was passing by collapsed without any warning, as if someone had dug a huge pit several kilometers wide there, and then the Dark Fortress stepped into it.

"..."

He remembered that at that location, when he walked past the fortress of the Holy Land before, it was still safe?

On the Xulan Fortress, Randy looked at the pitch-black fortress that was tilted as if it was stuck in the ground. His eyelids twitched twice, and the next second, the operation of the gray-black fortress in his sight completely silenced him.

Almost at the moment when the pitch-black fortress fell into the huge pit that appeared inexplicably, the gray-black fortress that was still pulling there in the previous second suddenly drifted back. After leaving a trace of drifting around the corner on the battlefield that had been flattened long ago, it rushed towards the direction of the pitch-black fortress without hesitation and began to pour artillery fire at it frantically.

The roar of artillery fire rang out in the sky. Hundreds of pyroxene heavy artillery fired in unison, bombarding the huge black crystal shield that unfolded out of thin air. However, due to the angle problem, the fortress that had fallen into the pit was completely unable to launch any artillery counterattack against the gray-black fortress. It could only watch it pass by at a position less than 40 kilometers away, and watch it smash through the mountains with great force and rush into the silver-white light column.

[Notice (Void Tree): Space coordinates 001 have been occupied, current occupant: Nott Fortress (Sanctuary Paradise)! ]

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(End of this chapter)