Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 594: The Corruption Legion and the New Bomb

Because the command center in western Bomya was built, these constructs have stronger projection capabilities and can move to the front line of the expansion of the "Corruption Legion".

The only troubling thing is that these creatures blessed by the Mother Goddess naturally have the ability to pollute. When the scale of their gathering reaches a critical value, the communication between the construct and the operator will be interfered with, causing delays and confusion.

"The airship can carry a relay broadcasting station to keep the signal delay at an acceptable level, but those corrupt creatures also have air units, so they need escort." Andre explained the significance of the next mission to the air knights.

In comparison, performing "surgical operations" on the capital of Bomia and being an aerial welder were fairly safe jobs, and the enemy they were facing now was definitely more threatening.

Generally, a cleaning team consisting of twelve constructs needs an airship to strengthen the signal, and every three teams will be equipped with two additional spare boats to relay.

If they encountered a small group of enemies, they might just be villagers from a village who were sacrificed to the Mother Goddess and mutated into cannon fodder under the conspiracy of the cult. Then, there was no need for the coordination of the airship. The iron quadrupeds could be equipped with a spell launcher - usually one that spewed [Fireball] and continuous [Heat Ray], which could easily defeat them.

When the Legion of Corruption captures a town, or if they develop from a slightly larger population gathering area, not only will there be a large number of them, but there may also be members of the cult who, like Gregory, will turn into "ground flies" similar to humanoid insects. They are commanders, preachers of the Mother Goddess, and high-speed mobile hunters, which makes them a little difficult to deal with.

After the two teams were careless and the constructs were destroyed in an organized manner, the Allied Forces quickly summed up their experience and immediately combined several teams into a regiment to fight once they discovered a corrupt monster of this scale through reconnaissance.

First, there is long-range artillery bombardment to consume the flesh and blood they need for regeneration. Then, a few constructs need to maneuver quickly with the determination to be abandoned and infiltrate the corrupt army. Other constructs need to quickly rush into the enemy's flank. After the division, all constructs fire [Lightning Chain] at the same time.

At this time, most of the low-level follower monsters can be eliminated, and elite units with higher resistance or better evasion ability will naturally be exposed. Subsequent troops can then fill in and use the more powerful five-shot [Explosive Fireball] to concentrate fire.

At present, it seems that the ground fly and units that are more fragile than it can only dodge such attacks, and there is no explosion-resistant king who can withstand five fireballs.

However, in the end, two huge legions of corruption appeared in the central part of the empire. One of them originated from the gray elves infected with the plague spread by monsters. They unconsciously entered a medium-sized city. Some elves among them polluted the well water in the slum with their excrement for unknown reasons.

An entire city district quickly fell into mutation. At first they just suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, but later their skin began to fester, their hair fell off, and many people began to have hallucinations. In essence, the Mother Goddess began to influence them.

By the time the city hall reacted, it was too late. An army of corruption of unprecedented scale appeared. There were no high-level individuals like ground flies among them, but there were an abnormally large number of "meat balls". The rotten spheres with a diameter of more than ten meters rolled through the streets, leaving nothing unscathed in their passing.

This city is especially famous for its sausages. Now, large quantities of slaughtered livestock and minced meat have become an "arsenal" for producing monsters. Soon the entire city will be "digested" by these "giant meat mountains".

Finally, these huge rotten masses began to devour other monsters and each other. When they merged into one, the pus they secreted would gather into a small lake, becoming another wound for Mother Earth to penetrate into the world. The stench of this city alone formed a deadly field. All creatures would die first and then be reborn in a new form. The rotten gas and the degenerate magic mixed together, obscuring the vision and only seeing the yellow-green poisonous fog in the sky. When the airship approached, its engine would quickly fail and the frame structure would quickly rust and collapse.

In the end, no one knew what was happening inside, and they could only monitor from the outside to confirm that the space had not been broken.

The height of the second ring level can shield its influence, so the guild finally maneuvered the ladder system again and aimed the portal above the city.

This time, Rorschach was unwilling to create another human-shaped nuclear bomb, but instead experimented with a new type of bomb - the fuse ignited the spell string preset in the core - [Fireball] and [Wind Wall] were lit in sequence, fully providing sufficient temperature and pressure to the aluminum-containing explosives filled around the magic circuit in an instant.

These metal powder explosives will carry enough heat and kinetic energy to break the shell, come into contact with the oxygen in the environment, and form an aerosol group with a radius of tens of meters with the impact point as the center. The explosives and the oxidant in the air are fully mixed. Then, within the explosion limit, these powders will explode again with the heat given by the [Fireball].

The original idea behind the development was to use [Exploding Fireball] directly as the source of an explosion, but engineers from the Alchemy Department discovered that splitting it into [Fireball] and [Wind Wall], and utilizing the characteristics of the spell string, would help fine-tune the diffusion radius of the explosive powder, and that [Wind Wall] could provide a stronger initial pressure.

The first batch of trial bombs, totaling 36 in number, were dropped to the surface at once with the help of a portal.

Soon, flashes began to appear in the diffuse yellow-green mist, and in the blink of an eye, the poison was replaced by dozens of rising black and red mushroom clouds.

Another city of 10,000 people disappeared from the map and the guild's communication nodes. By now, most of the meat and monsters had been completely carbonized. The power of the Mother Goddess in them wanted to be activated again, but unfortunately the process was interrupted by the intervention of the spellcaster, so it was considered a successful elimination.

Afterwards, the engineers were divided into two camps over the fact that the new bomb was less powerful than expected. Some believed it was a design flaw, while others believed it was because of the low "oxygen" content in the poisonous fog. By the way, the Special Zone has accepted the term "oxygen", but alchemists and wizards in other places insist on calling it "primordial element".

The origin of the other corrupt legion is unknown. It is an extreme example of the first "Meatball Legion" that developed by sticking to the city. It roams around and even cleverly avoids many cities and abandons some villages, instead giving priority to infecting and devouring the flesh and blood in the forest.

When they expanded to a certain territory and even the mountains and forests were transformed into a corrupt and deadly environment, they were finally discovered. At this time, except for the rare flesh masses, they were mainly monsters mutated from animals. They had no specific shape, but after repeated decay and healing, these creatures stuck together and showed aggressiveness.

Only then did they dare to attack human settlements wantonly, and launch multiple attacks at the same time.

(End of this chapter)