From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 444 War of Attrition
After the main gun of the Jackdaw began to charge, the Jackdaw, which was already very large and still emitting strong energy fluctuations, became the most prominent and conspicuous presence on the battlefield.

Grom, who was rising in Winter City, also shifted his gaze from the former Elven Embassy, ​​the now empty area, and looked up at the Jackdaw in the sky.

He stretched out his huge body formed by divine power and pointed his right finger into the void.

The enormous force crossed the distance between him and the Jackdaw and landed directly above the Jackdaw. The blood-colored divine power visible to the naked eye gathered above the Jackdaw.

A red meteorite quickly formed and fell down with a sharpness that seemed to be able to cut through everything and an indescribable horrifying bloody aura.

"boom!"

The meteorite collided with the Jackdaw's shield, and violent energy fluctuations erupted.

"Complete calculations. This attack will increase the shield capacity by 9%. No threat of falling."

Facing Grom's attack, the core of the Jackdaw calmly calculated the shield damage caused by the attack. After confirming through calculation that there was no threat, it did not shut down the main gun to dodge, but chose to withstand the attack and continue to charge the main gun.

The energy shield of the Jackdaw is one of the pinnacle products of traditional magic and emerging mechanical technology, and the shield capacity is the upper limit of the damage that the Jackdaw's shield can bear. Before the shield capacity is penetrated, the shield core firmly protects the Jackdaw.

In addition, the shield capacity will decrease autonomously over time. Only by causing a certain amount of damage to the Jackdaw's shield within a certain period of time can the shield core be penetrated.

Although the shield capacity has increased by 9%, it will be reduced soon.

"The secondary main gun has completed charging and final calibration. Open fire."

As the core chose to open fire, the main gun of the Jackdaw opened fire while taking the damage above it and spreading the energy shock in all directions.

Huge amounts of energy passed through the layers of main gun arrays stacked on top of each other, continuously being transformed, compressed, and strengthened.

Soon, this huge amount of energy reached the muzzle of the gun. From a seemingly simple magic circle at the muzzle, a dazzling deep blue beam of light shot out and hit the false god Grom in the Winter City directly.

The five second-level main guns fired at full force, and a deep blue beam of light that was comparable to an eighth-ring spell streaked across the entire sky. The dazzling light illuminated almost every corner of the battlefield.

"boom!!!"

Five dazzling beams of light hit Grom, and the huge energy impact released by the collision almost instantly turned all the buildings within hundreds of meters around Grom into dust.

While the second-level main gun was attacking, the Jackdaw's only first-level main gun also completed charging. An even brighter beam of light shot out from the muzzle of the main gun and blasted towards Grom in the dust.

Just as the beam of light came over, a right hand formed by divine power stretched out from the dust, opened its palm, and tried to catch the beam of light.

"boom!"

The dark blue beam collided with Grom's right hand, and they consumed each other. The beam was stopped, but Grom's right hand, which was condensed by divine power, was also constantly consumed and decomposed.

At the same time, the Jackdaw's secondary guns also aimed at the green-skinned orcs on the ground. The muzzles roared, countless light beams swept across the battlefield, and a large number of green-skinned orcs disappeared in the light beams.

Down below on the Jackdaw, Tula also ordered the Council troops to advance.

Although it was their first time to encounter a false god like Grom, with the information provided by Roland, they knew very well how to deal with the false god and had already drawn up a battle plan in advance.

The Jackdaw dealt with the false god, pinning him down and wearing down his power, while the ground forces cleaned up the believers, cutting off the false god's channel for obtaining the power of faith from the believers.

With the information provided by Roland, the committee knew the true situation of the false gods, as well as their shortcomings and loopholes, even better than Grom.

Combined with the intelligence the Shadow Dancers had previously obtained during their investigation of Winter City, the committee had an absolute advantage in intelligence. They knew exactly who the false god was, and what his anchor and believers were.

Grom took on the identity of the fourth prince and disguised himself as a member of the royal family of the Northern Kingdom. Since the fourth prince nominally inherited the throne of the Northern Kingdom, he was the nominal master of the power of faith in the North.

In addition, Grom converted the northern orcs into green-skinned orcs on a large scale, controlled them with mental magic and made them permanently crazy and mindless, turning them into idiots who only knew how to fight and pray, in order to transform them into his most devout believers.

By wantonly eroding and assimilating the believers of the North, he distorted the foundation of the believers. In addition, he annexed and occupied the names of the four princes. In this way, he successfully usurped the faith of the North and used the power of faith that had been accumulated in the North for who knows how many years to complete his ascension to godhood.

Moreover, the power of faith will dissipate on its own if it is not deliberately preserved.

Therefore, although the power of faith in the North has been accumulated for many years, the amount is not particularly large, and most of it is stored in the believers themselves. After the death of God Gromden, the power of faith accumulated in the North had been sucked away and there was not much left.

Therefore, now every time a believer is killed, the power of faith in his body will leak out and dissipate. Grom will be able to mobilize less power of faith and his divine power recovery will become slower.

In addition to clearing out believers, threatening anchor points is also an option. After all, Grom used a skin to seize faith, and the faith he anchored does not completely belong to him.

As long as we find a transcendent who is qualified to compete with him, we can fight for his faith, tear off his disguise as the fourth prince, and shake his anchor.

However, the only ones who could compete with Grom were the leaders of the three civil war factions in the Northern Kingdom. It would be too troublesome and a waste of time to ask them to come over.

In addition, the concept and danger of false gods have not yet spread, and who knows whether they will also want to become gods. Therefore, the committee does not intend to threaten the anchor point, but plans to directly eliminate the believers in the north.

After being strafed by the Jackdaw, causing a large number of believers to die suddenly, Grom also released wind and waves in all directions, blowing away all the dust.

He looked down at the green-skinned orcs, and divine power covered them. Then, the green-skinned orcs who were kneeling on the ground stood up. They turned their heads and stared madly at the influx of the committee army with their frantic eyes.

Under the influence of divine power, the already short lifespan of the green-skinned orcs was once again forcibly activated, and their vitality was forcibly activated and pulled out of their bodies. At the cost of a significant decrease in lifespan, their bodies quickly expanded several times, and countless dark green blood and mist emerged from their bodies, forming a protective shield above the green-skinned orcs, blocking the secondary gun attacks of the Jackdaw.

The short distance between the two armies quickly shortened, and then the committee soldiers fought with the green-skinned orcs.

Relying on the stimulation of divine power and kryptonian life, the combat power of the green orcs has increased several times than before. Grom's madness and the authority of war also act on them, greatly improving the combat capability of the green orcs.

The crazy green orcs lost all sense of pain, and their already strong vitality became even more exaggerated at this moment. Even if they were chopped in half, or their brains and hearts were pierced, the bodies of the green orcs could still continue to move. Their vitality was infinitely close to that of a mid-level transcendent.

With their inflated combat power and vitality that is infinitely close to that of a mid-level transcendent, each of the crazy green-skinned orcs is terrifyingly strong.

But the committee was no pushover. During the ten years of the committee's three years of reconstruction and seven years of economic development, Roland's investment in the military was higher every year.

The strength of all soldiers has been significantly improved compared to ten years ago. There are countless second- and third-ring extraordinary people. Even the soldiers in the first ring have an extremely solid foundation at the very least. The number of mid-level extraordinary people has also increased significantly.

In addition to the extraordinary level, a large amount of extraordinary knowledge was first popularized within the army. Basically every soldier learned and mastered a set of extraordinary knowledge system. They were no longer the quick-learned extraordinary people during the Greenskin War. Their strength could be said to have made great progress.

In addition to strength, the committee's army has also made significant improvements in weapons and equipment. A large number of advanced strange equipment have been fully promoted, all soldiers are equipped with strange armor, and standard weapons have all been upgraded.

In addition, a series of advanced and strange equipment such as traction elemental cannons and magic bombs have also been fully equipped.

As for the Rune Rifle that was pulled from the Dwarf technology tree, it was not adopted because of its high manufacturing cost. Even if it was converted to strange machine technology, the cost-effectiveness was not high, and its lethality was insufficient.

The individual defense of the extraordinary people is too high. Only weapons such as the traction elemental cannon that can burst out the lethality of mid-level spells can cause effective long-range damage. The rune musket is at most only one-level, and the attack power of the second-level spell is completely unable to break the shield of the strange machine armor.

It's okay to use it against ordinary people, but if it is used to fight against extraordinary people, not only is the damage average, but the speed is also slow and it can be easily avoided.

Of course, the committee has not given up on the path of firearms. How to miniaturize the element array under the strange machine technology is still one of the committee's research projects, but the results are not very good, and the cost-effectiveness is not as good as letting the committee's soldiers do the cutting.

Therefore, the long-range arms of the committee's army are still mainly artillery and grenadiers, and there are no musketeers.

Of course, this does not mean that musketeers have no value. The conditions for using muskets are very low and ordinary people can use them. If the cost can be reduced and a mortal musketeer army that is not afraid of death can be formed, it is not impossible to use it to fight against the extraordinary army.

It is only for the War Council's army, whose members are all extraordinary and elite, that Rune Rifles are not worth equipping.

In short, musketeers can only be used as cheap cannon fodder, using the lives of countless ordinary people in exchange for those of the extraordinary people. However, the committee does not need this kind of cannon fodder, and the committee is reluctant to use its precious population as cannon fodder.

When the committee's army was about to come into contact with the green orcs, the artillery units behind the committee launched a massive bombardment on the densely populated areas of the green orcs.

Unlike the Jackdaw, which was built at a huge cost, the towed artillery equipped by the army were basically fixed element arrays. Therefore, colorful bombardments burst out among the green-skinned orcs. However, except for the green-skinned orcs at the center of the bombardment who were directly killed, most of the green-skinned orcs were merely blown to pieces.

After the close combat between the two sides, while the artillery units in the rear continued to bombard, the grenadiers on the front line also began to exert their strength. They activated the magic bombs and threw them forcefully towards the front line.

One magic bomb after another was thrown into the green-skinned orcs, exploding with a loud bang and causing damage to a large number of them.

Under the continuous bombardment, when the crazy orcs rushed to the legion soldiers, they were basically all injured.

When they rushed to the front, the legion soldiers who had already activated their strange armor and ignited their blades directly raised their swords and dismembered, crushed and completely killed the rushing green-skinned orcs.

Although the attacks of the green orcs also fell on the legionnaires, they could only hit the shields on the strange armor, consuming some of the shield's energy. Moreover, even if the shield energy was exhausted, the legionnaires could rotate and replace them with soldiers with full shields to reach the front line.

In this situation, although the combat effectiveness of the green-skinned orcs increased by more than ten times, they were still suppressed by the committee's army. There was no other difference except that they were a little more difficult to kill than before and required more hacks.

While the fight was taking place on the ground, the Jackdaw and Grom were also firing at each other.

Due to the limitations of the false god, the range of activities of Grom after he unfolds his divine body is actually very limited. When he ascended to godhood, his household registration in the world was revoked, so he would be rejected by the world.

If he hides himself, he won't be specifically targeted, but if he unfolds his divine body, he will be completely exposed, and the world will naturally reject him.

It was okay in Winter City where the power of faith was everywhere. The entire Winter City was polluted by the power of faith, so Grom would not feel a particularly strong rejection. However, if he walked out of Winter City, he would have to consume more power to fight against the world's rejection.

Therefore, in order to reduce consumption, Grom basically only moved around Winter City.

Knowing this, the Jackdaw did not take the initiative to approach Winter City, but moved around it.

The Jackdaw kept its distance from Grom and fired at each other.

In addition, although the Jackdaw's secondary gun attack was blocked, the Jackdaw did not stop attacking. While floating in the air and fighting with Grom, it also continued to attack the green-skinned orcs with its secondary guns.

When it comes to a war of attrition, the Jackdaw is not afraid at all. Its energy system is built by the committee using the most advanced technology and the best materials. It is a top-notch energy system that is currently completely unreplicable.

The self-recovery of the energy core made of the Tears of the Moon Goddess is enough to support the consumption of the Jackdaw, and even the energy reserves do not need to be called upon.

In addition, since he was not clear about the mechanism of the Jackdaw's shield, Grom was still thinking about slowly consuming and breaking the shield. Therefore, the shield capacity of the Jackdaw had been maintained at 30% and could not be penetrated at all.

After fighting for a long time, the combat effectiveness of the Jackdaw did not decrease at all, while Grom's strength had obviously decreased due to the consumption of his divine power.

(End of this chapter)