Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 683 Restart
Wow——! !

The biting cold wind blew across the fortress's armored platform, which was more than 2,000 meters high, causing layers of night frost to form on the gray-black armor plates, but soon it melted back into a layer of fine water droplets under the action of the pyroxene circuit inside the armor plates.

For normal buildings, a giant structure like a medium-sized fortress with a height of three thousand meters, the huge temperature difference caused by the height, the stress of the materials... etc. should be problems enough to make engineers despair. However, in the extraordinary world, only a small ritual and a simple extraordinary energy conversion formula are needed to easily solve this almost despairing problem on the material level.

"Are you finally going to take action?"

On the armored plate, Xin Lailai, who was sitting cross-legged on the edge, slowly opened his eyes. The heat emitted from his body collided with the cold wind and turned into wisps of light white steam.

Looking from this angle, you can see that at the end of the barren land, there is a black shadow as huge as the Nott Fortress standing there. On the dark brown armor surface, traces of various artillery bombardments can be faintly seen.

Buzz, rumble—! !

A faint buzzing sound came from a very far distance, spreading along the ground to the armored plate under Xin Lailai's feet. The huge fortress in the distance was approaching at a very slow speed. Every step forward would leave deep tracks on the ground that could not bear the weight.

"Lord Black Sword, the power armored troops, earthshaker troops, long-range firepower troops, stealth troops... as well as four warlock suppression troops and ten great warlocks are all ready and can launch fire suppression at any time."

"According to the intelligence we have obtained previously, the Gusa Federation and the Huiyuan Sect seem to have formed a coalition. If nothing unexpected happens, there is a 95% chance that the enemy intends to use the Xiulan Fortress to launch a charge attack and force us to engage in a boarding battle. Anwen and I have determined that we may need to lower the armor plates in advance and deploy the defense wall."

High in the sky, Ryan's voice came from the communication device worn next to Xin Lailai's ear, reporting to him the preparedness of the armed forces in the fortress and the movements of the enemy, and expressing his own judgment.

"Well, just do as you judge. I'll be down in a moment."

Faced with the application from the young man from the grassroots area who had gradually adapted to the position of chief of staff, Xin Lailai did not say much. He just pressed the reply button on the communication device and told the other party a sentence that allowed him to express himself freely. Then he released the communication device, glanced at the huge height difference in front of him that was enough to make people with acrophobia faint on the spot, and leaped forward calmly. The iron-scale cloak on his back unfolded in the strong wind, and his figure instantly broke through the sound barrier in a circle of gas explosions that rose out of thin air, and dived downwards at an extremely fast speed.

The biting cold wind cut through his robe, causing it to whistle all over his body. As the altitude decreased, a spectacular scene gradually unfolded before his eyes:

On the attack platform located between the lower and middle levels of the fortress, tens of thousands of warlock apprentices wearing special armor stood there in a neat and uniform manner. Thick and heavy metal chariots were located on the armor plates on the lower level. Further up, there was a new armored force consisting of 2,000 power armors, as well as city defense-level fortress cannons emitting terrifying waves.

The tall power armor stood in the cold wind like an indestructible wall. Around the power armor, one could see five groups of warlocks positioned on different armored platforms. Except for the bottom group of warlocks which looked a little flustered and scattered, the warlocks in the other four groups were all on high alert, holding pyroxene staffs in their hands and muttering something in preparation.

boom--! !

Suddenly, a huge roar sounded from the sky, followed by a series of deafening mechanical sounds like thunder. Looking around, one could see a crack slowly beginning to appear in the armored wall originally located on the outer layer of the fortress, and the gap began to grow larger and larger. Finally, under the gaze of everyone and an extremely dull thud, the armored wall that was more than three meters thick fell down like a peeled grapefruit, and a super-large armored bridge nearly three thousand meters long and more than one thousand meters wide unfolded from the middle and lower section of the fortress.

[The No. 4 area has been lowered and is about to undergo docking calibration. Please make sure that all personnel in each area are ready! ]

A pleasant electronic sound rang out from the communication device. When the armored bridge... or the fortress side used to deal with the enemy's suicide ramming attack with the entire fortress was lowered, the huge fortress that had been motionless suddenly began to rotate slowly, constantly adjusting the direction of the fortress side towards the dark brown fortress that was approaching this side, to ensure that both sides were in a perfect straight line with the fortress side.

Boom!

Finally, the huge gangway that was about to become a new meat grinder suddenly froze with a loud bang, and the dark brown fortress in the distance, like a scarred beast, suddenly stopped about a hundred kilometers away from the Nott Fortress.

For a moment, the entire scene on the battlefield seemed to be frozen here.

Tiny glimmers of light slowly rose from the endless barren land around them, like sparks that set the prairie on fire, and quickly spread in all directions in the cold wind that symbolized the end of the night.

In the cold wind, the thick darkness that blocked the sight of both sides was like a veil that was getting thinner and thinner. At a speed visible to the naked eye, the dark brown fortress in front of everyone changed from a rough outline to a clearer and clearer one. When the light emitted by the pyroxene dust in the air was enough to illuminate the entire earth, the scene on the dark brown fortress was completely exposed to everyone's eyes:
Boom! Boom! Boom——!!

The sound of heavy and powerful war drums slowly rang out from midair. With the amazing vision brought by the high agility attribute, one could clearly see that on the surface of the Xiulan Fortress, a scene that was no less breathtaking than... or to be more precise, a scene more breathtaking than the soldiers and warlock phalanxes in the high tower was being displayed there.

The first is the middle and lower layers of the armored wall. At a glance, one can clearly see that there are 5,000 war beasts scattered throughout the armored plates of the dark brown fortress. On the back of each war beast, one can see something shaped like a carriage. Apparently, those invisible Inhuman soldiers and the fanatics of the Glorious Source sect are hiding in them.

On the deck above the herd of war beasts, ten-story-high Moon Demon Wolf Spiders were hanging there in an orderly manner. Their densely packed scarlet compound eyes were like a dark red crystal, neatly arranged together, reflecting an inexplicably disturbing light.

As for the two sides of the Moon Demon Wolf Spider, there are strange towers with huge eyeballs. The eyeballs with blood vessels are slowly rotating from the top of the tower, following the tower body that obviously has biological activity to look in the direction of Xin Lailai and a group of tower soldiers. The vertical pupils flashing with pale light and the faintly distorted light around them all show the danger of these eye-like things.

Not only that, if you look up, you can see tall humanoid creatures shaped like hills standing on the top armor plate. The rotten flesh and blood emerging from their surface, as well as the multiple limbs that are full of incongruity, make people feel inexplicably nauseous just by looking at them.

“Gurgle…!”

The sound of swallowing saliva could be heard in the wind. In the warlock phalanx and the ordinary troop phalanx composed of apprentices, many high tower warlocks and soldiers who had newly arrived or recruited in the past two days looked at the ferocious army in the distance that had a completely different style from their own, and there was obviously a bit of panic in their eyes.

Although the people at the fortress and other people had already told them about the enemies they would face, when they saw with their own eyes the army of monsters that were beyond human common sense, the tension and fear they felt could not be overcome by momentary preparation.

Faced with the obviously shaken morale of the army below, Xin Lailai, who was sitting on the top armored plate, did not pay too much attention to it. Instead, he fixed his eyes on the two figures on the top of the Xiulan Fortress a hundred kilometers away. A dark pressure rose from his body, silently covering the entire sky above the Nott Fortress.

Boom! ...

In the wilderness, the heavy sound of war drums continued to beat, and as time went by, it became more and more intense and dense, and finally...

Boom! ! !
A shocking drum sounded, and the animal skin drum on the armor plate of the dark brown fortress burst open. The dark brown fortress that supported it seemed to have received some kind of signal, and like an ancient behemoth revived from the depths of the earth, it rushed madly towards the direction of the Nott Fortress with the roar of the fortress's power reactor running at full capacity.

"Nott! Fire!!!"

In the conference room, almost at the moment when the Shulan Fortress launched the action, Ryan, who had been tightly holding the electronic pen, shouted without hesitation in a voice that was almost like a growl.

In an instant, three extremely dazzling dark brown light beams shot up into the sky from the three main guns on top of the Nott Fortress, and the surface of the dark brown fortress at the end of the earth instantly unfolded three huge black crystal shields and a layer of gray-white strange mist.

Boom——! !

With a deafening roar, three dark brown beams of light exploded from the surface of the Xiulan Fortress, and a huge storm symbolizing destruction and war was set off from its surface, making the shaking sensation from the ground beneath the feet even stronger. The next second, the dark brown fortress rushed out of the storm with three black crystal shields on its top, like a mad beast, rushing towards the Nott Fortress under the bombardment of hundreds of pyroxene heavy artillery.

"The fire of disaster hidden deep in purgatory, the lord of misfortune buried in nightmare."

"With this suffering body, I sincerely invite you to wake up here and surrender ninety-nine thousand nine hundred...!"

A cold chanting sounded quickly, and a large amount of fire and earth elements gathered from the sky, forming a huge dark red flame vortex in the sky. Not only that, Tafina and several other great warlocks below Xinlailai also struck their staffs together and chanted:
“,!” “!”

Buzz, rumble—! !

On the earth, as the chants of several great sorcerers including Tafina, who were proficient in pyroxene spells of earth and fire, fell, the ground around Nott Fortress began to tremble violently. Huge cracks that were big enough to swallow high-rise buildings appeared on the ground. As the strange formation composed of five huge rune belts rotated, it spewed out dozens of meters high magma columns, coupled with the huge flame vortex in the sky that was more than two thousand meters wide, rendering the whole world as if the end of the world had come.

As a warlock force that has been passed down for thousands of years, although there are not many top warlocks inside the tower who can independently release five-ring pyroxene spells equivalent to fourth-level large-scale magic, there are many pseudo-five-ring pyroxene spells that can be released through the cooperation of multiple great warlocks.

This is also an important reason why the Tower of Order has been able to sit firmly on the strongest throne of the three major forces. Although in terms of single combat ability, a great warlock is at best only 20% to 30% stronger than a Blood Warrior of the same level, in terms of warfare ability, the destructive power of the great warlocks who are proficient in various large-scale pyroxene spells in war is far beyond the reach of those Blood Warriors who even need the help of war beasts or blood talents to fly.

"Burn the souls of thirty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-seven, and bury the souls of sixty thousand three hundred and forty-two..."

“,!…!”

"Roar--!!"

A furious roar sounded, and on the ground, a dark red giant claw with flowing magma rushed out from the cracked ground, and slowly rose from the broken earth like a giant whale emerging from the sea. It broke free from one shackle after another in the shock caused by the charge on the Xiulan Fortress, revealing one huge head after another as big as a hill.

Pyroxene Elemental Spell: Dirty Earth Flame Burial

Different from the summoning of the Hades Giant that Xin Lailai had used on the White Frontier, this large-scale spell jointly cast by multiple great warlocks is not as strong as the Hades Giant he summoned alone, but it has great destructive power and does not require too much effort to control after it is formed. This is why Xin Lailai asked great warlocks such as Tafina to release this spell first.

As for why they didn't cast some auxiliary spells to buff their own members first? This involves the underlying problem of the spell system of the Order Tower.

Due to the lack of as long a heritage as the Astral Spell System, the spells developed by the Tower of Order have extremely obvious differences in stability, controllability, and spell consumption compared to the magic they learned. In addition, due to the use of pyroxene technology to replace functional spells, the development direction of their spells is more inclined to various killing and war spells that focus on simple violence and destruction, rather than various range gain and functional spells.

Of course, this didn't really have much of an impact on the current war. After all, he and Ling Yuzi had already used their alchemy and magic knowledge to set up a number of 'fountains' that could automatically buff and restore the soldiers before the war began. So the only thing left was...

"Finally, I hereby pronounce the verdict—"

"!"

Boom! !
In the sky, a huge vortex of fire was completely formed, and a huge meteorite burning with blazing flames slowly rushed out of the vortex, cooperating with the five-headed four-winged flame dragon on the ground that was more than 500 meters high. They all locked onto the Xiulan Fortress that was rushing towards them at an overloaded speed.

"Hey, hey, this is still dozens of kilometers away. Isn't this a bit too big of a fuss?"

On the dark brown fortress, Randy, who was twirling a pure white revolver, looked at the scene in the distance, rubbed his temple, and sighed in distress:

"And that Black Sword, does that guy have endless mana? He actually casts spells of this level as if they were normal attacks? Or are all mages in the lower echelons so abnormal? Or does he have some talent for multitasking?"

In his opinion, even a wizard at the top level would have to prepare for a considerable period of time if he wanted to cast a spell of this magnitude, and would basically have to use formations or other auxiliary means of casting spells. At the very least, he would have to focus on casting the spell, instead of being like the black-haired young man, who could cast all kinds of large-scale magic spells as if they were normal attacks, while holding a sword and fighting a blackened version of the Shadow of Destruction.

However, the black-haired young man and the group of great warlocks on the opposite side obviously could not hear the young nobleman's complaints. In other words, in the current situation where they would enter a boarding battle in at most ten minutes, Xin Lailai could only give one response -

"This place must be destroyed!!"

"!"

boom--! !

The next moment, a huge meteorite more than two thousand meters wide, carrying an extremely terrifying power, streaked a dark red flame tail from the air, and slammed towards the dark brown fortress at a speed of over a thousand meters per second. The magma dragon roaring on the earth raised its five dragon heads, and the five breaths gathered together to form a red light column more than a hundred meters wide, which slammed towards the chassis of the dark brown fortress at an unimaginable speed.

"Tsk, there's nothing we can do! White Devil! Leave the upper one to you, and I'll take care of the lower one. Just find a way to chop it up a little, and I'll take care of the rest!"

On the Xiulan Fortress, Randy took a look at the red light column that rushed over a thousand meters away in an instant. After saying something to the white devil beside him with a click of the tongue, he took a step and disappeared from the spot in a flash of space fluctuation and appeared right below the dark brown fortress. Then he raised his right hand, aimed the white revolver at the rapidly expanding red light column in his sight, clicked his tongue lightly, and pulled the trigger!
boom!
The next moment, there was a loud sound of ammunition being fired from a gun, and a spell formation emitting strong spatial fluctuations emerged from the muzzle of the gun. A silver-white bullet rushed out of it, spinning and exploding about a hundred meters away from Randy, turning into a large number of silver-white lines, and in a circle of violent spatial fluctuations, the entire piece of space was shattered, leaving only a dark spatial hole.

Peng——! !

Almost at the same time as the space hole was formed, above the dark brown fortress, the white-haired young man who was originally standing on the top of the fortress with a knife in his hand suddenly took a step forward and rushed into the air on the pitch-black crystals under his feet. The rapidly approaching fire was reflected in his dark eyes flashing with blood, and a huge amount of blood energy burst out from his body, transforming into a dark red blood-colored phantom behind him, following his movement and slashing forward!
Abyssal Blade Flow·Blood Fall!
In an instant, a huge amount of blood and energy burst out, and the blood-red long sword in the white-haired young man's hand left afterimages in the sky. Amid a series of sharp explosions, he swung out thousands of blood-red sword beams hundreds of meters long in one breath, interweaving into a dense slashing net in the air, which collided with the whistling meteorite.

boom--! !

The next moment, a terrifying collision broke out. The huge meteorite flowing with magma collided with the slashing net woven with blood and black energy. It penetrated through the slashing net with a series of explosions, and then paused slightly in mid-air. From the brief pause, it exploded into tens of thousands of small meteorites, forming an extremely spectacular rain of fire in mid-air.

"Well done, White Devil."

A somewhat wanton laugh sounded, and the noble young man at the bottom of the fortress grinned, ignoring the red light column that was swallowed by the space hole. Instead, he raised his right hand and controlled the gray-white space miasma to sweep towards the rain of fire in the sky.

Rumble——! !

A few seconds later, a roar like a rainstorm was heard, and tens of thousands of small flaming meteorites deviated in other directions under the interference of the gray-white miasma. They bombarded the ground on both sides and behind the dark brown fortress in the air that emitted a strong smell of burning, and smashed into small mushroom clouds from the ground.

"Done~!"

In mid-air, after dealing with the attack, Randy spun the revolver in his hand, whistled, and smiled a showy smile.

But the next second, the scene before his eyes made him stunned, and the smile on his face froze:
Om-! !

In the sky, a huge dark red flame vortex was still spinning, and below the flame vortex, one could see two newly-forged huge meteorites, continuing to smash towards the direction of the dark fortress with extremely terrifying power.

The young nobleman standing in mid-air looked at the scene in front of him, and only one sincere curse remained in his mind:

No, he just said that. Do you really think it's a basic attack?!
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(End of this chapter)