Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 584: Bombardment of Opfer
At this time in the city of Opfer, the fire had been extinguished, but a thick haze had descended.

It is hard to tell what is shrouding this place. The thick smoke is the tiny particles left after burning, and those who have resurrected from the dead are also spreading clouds of poisonous mist.

The cultists gathered in large numbers, and the city's high-ranking officials and nobles had long been infiltrated. They were either tempted to voluntarily join the underground cult, or were threatened and controlled by divine magic.

The crowd began to fall into illusion and carnival. Some people's fearful nightmares and some people's desired dreams intertwined and overlapped at this moment. They could not see each other clearly in the thick smoke, but just danced and vented their desires.

Bang! A crazy cultist had half of his ribs blown off by the firewood carrier's [Magic Missile], but he continued to run wildly, beyond the caster's expectations.

Soon the man who was running wildly succeeded. He looked emaciated, with long, charred hair that made it impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. His long hands were almost like claws and quickly grabbed the wizard's face.

"Ah" The firewood bearer didn't know why, the other party easily penetrated his magic armor, and began to dig into his eye sockets and pierce his eardrums. The attacked person lost his original senses, but he saw and heard new things.

The blood flowing out of the hole gradually turned black, the skin of the injured firewood carrier began to crack, and the wounds gradually formed dense runes.

Soon he lost his original sanity and began to chant blasphemous ancient poems, and the "holy marks" on his body burst into more black mist and pus and blood.

Every spellcaster who is "blessed" and whose magic power reaches a certain level will undergo such a change. They will become the "radio station" of the Mother Goddess, spreading the "gospel" that She sends from deep underground.

The original nobles ordered their servants to kill each other to please the "mother" and pray for her mercy. The noble ladies now used limbs and bone fragments instead of gold, silver and jewelry to decorate themselves, and their children were thrown into the fire, making a bursting sound.

The city fell into chaos, with abnormal life and death alternating rapidly.

The biggest difference from the pollution in the past is that almost all the polluted people can hear the call of the Mother Goddess. In the past, only the ambitious people who hated society used the power of the Mother Goddess to penetrate into the main material world to achieve their own goals, and most of those powers were chaotic and foolish.

This may be a landmark moment. The Oracle is no longer the exclusive domain of a few fanatical people who delve deeply into the ancient sects. A part of Him has awakened, and with the efforts of the Northern Sect represented by Gregory, He has found the first window to speak to the world.

Shrouded in black fog, the entire city began to "drift". With blasphemous chants, non-stop large-scale sacrifices and rituals, it was gradually imbued with the power and will of the Mother Goddess and dragged into a special quadrant in the symbolic world, belonging to Her kingdom.

Opfer's abnormality was noticed by all the assembled troops.

The imperial army has surrounded the city in accordance with the emperor's orders, and even asked the army's magicians to cut off the Oder River.

Next they cleared the village. Because the firewood bearers had previously dealt with the most troublesome group of believers, the Imperial Army had an easy time - wherever they came to a settlement, the entire population was shot and all the buildings were burned down.

Finally, the cannons were positioned and aimed at the dark city that was shrouded in ominousness and blasphemy.

The unit Richard was in was an exception. The emperor specifically instructed the command not to tell him the "clean up" order. In addition, the railway gun had a long range, and Richard's position could even be said to be far away from the front line. He could only see thick smoke rising from various places on the horizon, and could not even see Opfer.

The artillery had a range of 120 kilometers, and his troops were at the end of a railway network, about 84 kilometers from their objective, Opfer.

No, in fact, it is possible to know something. For example, Richard, with his perception equal to that of a great wizard or even surpassing that of ordinary high-level spellcasters, has fully realized the filth and evil forces spreading in the environment.

He focused his perception from the circular diffusion to the direction of Opfer, and could actually hear countless wailing and the low hum of a certain existence. Richard was startled and stopped his action immediately. As expected, what the emperor said was true. Opfer was already a dead city. Perhaps William II had anticipated it a little too late - the Grand Master and the Guild were not that tenacious, and now it was clear that the Order had the upper hand.

In Richard's hand, there were still a few pages of the emperor's handwritten letter that he had not read yet, but William II had specifically written at the end of the first page that he should give priority to executing the order and not be delayed by other things and miss the opportunity to fight.

His temporary attendant was Franz. As the war situation in the empire was not going well and he was no longer trusted by his colleagues, Richard was afraid that if Franz continued to stay in the military academy he would be treated unfairly and suspected like himself, so he simply brought him to his side.

"Pass my order and prepare for the first round of artillery fire." Richard ordered Franz.

The railway gun itself was ridiculously large, so the shells were naturally not small, each one was about the size of a four-wheeled carriage. The first round of ammunition prepared was a very special alchemical shell.

It looks no different from other artillery shells on the outside, but the warhead inside is filled with transmutation dust instead of gunpowder, and behind the firing pin is a multi-layer oscillating crystal core similar to the first-generation anti-magic device. Once the firing pin is squeezed and touches the core, the transmutation dust will be released instantly, detonating the layers of oscillating crystals.

It can be said that it is the pinnacle of the Empire's current anti-magic technology. Compared to the outdated machines carried by the airship, it can only be used once, but all its power is concentrated at the moment of blooming.

After several months of intensive study, Franz had learned the Imperial Army's commands well, regardless of how many words he had learned. At least he had been on the battlefield before: "All six guns, load No. 1 shells."

Richard watched his men busy on and off the railway gun and around it. They first used a winch and a crane to deliver the shells to the operating platform of the loading port, then pushed them onto the slide rails and slowly fed them into the gun barrel.

Then you have to tighten a series of valves and flanges to make sure that nothing will easily fall apart and be pulled out due to the huge recoil force.

"Adjust the position and position." The second command sounded, followed by the sound of steam engine transmission and iron wire hinges. Because their barrels were too thick, long, and heavy, they even needed a tower crane-like cable structure to help lift the barrels, and the torque required for pulling was also provided by the winch driven by the train engine.

"preparation."

"Wait." Richard stopped Franz from giving the last command. He flew into the air and touched the six cannons one by one. This was to consecrate them and give them the [Guided Shooting] function.

Low-level wizards may be able to enchant bows and arrows and bullets and ensure a certain degree of accuracy; on the battlefield, well-trained imperial spellcasters can manipulate field artillery shells. Now Richard has to enchant several tons of artillery shells that need to fly more than 80 kilometers, which is far beyond the concept of "one-ring magic".

So he let the artillery crew aim first, and he just added the icing on the cake as a correction.

Everything is ready, the last step is to put on earplugs, keep a safe distance, or go to the control room, or under Richard's protection.

"fire!"

Boom! The sound of the shell leaving the barrel and the recoil alone was louder than the sound of an ordinary shell exploding.

The emperor's six judgments streaked across the sky.

(End of this chapter)