The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 156: Fortress Attack and Defense (Part )
Although the war fortress has a large reserve of magic stones, if the bugs continue to consume them in this way, they will be exhausted in less than a week.

And the consumption of ammunition is secondary. If nothing unexpected happens, this group of insects will continue to attack the fortress. This continuous and persistent harassment will also be a test for the quality of alchemical weapons.

No matter how good the quality is, it cannot withstand such continuous and intensive use.

Richard came to the command room and found Ivan sitting in the corner, smoking one cigarette after another.

Cigarettes and alcohol, which are in short supply on the battlefield, also exist in other worlds.

Ivan is now smoking a kind of magic tobacco provided by the logistics department. Smoking this kind of cigarette will make the wizard's brain more active and it will be easier to find answers to problems.

"Thinking about bugs?"

Ivan saw Richard and asked him to sit down next to him.

"Otherwise, these bugs have become smarter. We use the synthetic beasts as cannon fodder, and they use those little bugs as cannon fodder."

As he spoke, Ivan put out his cigarette, threw it hard on the ground, and then asked Richard:

"Do you have any ideas?"

At this moment, he still thought that Richard was an old wizard who liked to pretend to be young.

"Me?" Richard pointed at himself and laughed angrily.

"What can I think? You white wizards should be better at this kind of frontal battlefield."

Ivan scratched his head:

"That's right. I'm desperate and I'm trying everything. Wait, I've already reported this news to the headquarters. The logistics wizards should be thinking of a solution."

Richard couldn't help but slap him after hearing this: "With the help of the logistics wizard, why are you worried? The fortress has a lot of magic stone reserves, so it will definitely be no problem to hold out for a week.

That should be enough time.”

Ivan smiled bitterly and said, "You are really optimistic."

As a commander, he had to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Although the magic stones in the fortress can last for seven days, the magic stone cannon cannot be used for such a long time even with the help of spells to cool down.

Theoretically speaking, if a magic stone cannon is used continuously for six hours, the casting parts must be replaced and the magic circuit must be rebuilt, otherwise it will become a time bomb with an unknown duration.

However, the spellcasting parts are easy to replace, but rebuilding the magic conduction circuit is a technical job.

A wizard with great skills can accomplish this in just one or two minutes, but an average wizard may need one or two hours to complete it.

Although the level of the alchemy wizards in their team is not bad, their skills in reshaping the magic circuit are just mediocre.

But fortunately, the magic circuit only affects the energy consumption of the magic stone cannon, and generally there will be no problems. Moreover, the quality of the magic stone cannon itself is also very good, and six hours of continuous use is only a theoretical data.

In reality, there are many people who can use magic stone cannons for several days in a row without any problems.

Generally speaking, this kind of data is only known within the White Wizards, and is limited to some alchemy wizards who can repair magic stone cannons, as well as the White Wizards in command.

The information Richard had once told me flashed through Ivan's mind.

A three-ring great wizard was captured alive by bugs, and an entire nest of dark wizards was forced into hibernation.

The three-ring great wizards are all veterans of the battlefield, and they are absolutely familiar with the data of these alchemical magic stone cannons.

If he really betrayed, then they...

……

Deep inside the insect nest, a sacrificial insect wearing moon-white silk sat at the innermost side of the room. Around him, several golden-armored warrior insects and several two-star sacrificial insects sat in two rows.

"What's the situation on the battlefield?" asked the Yuebai Priest Insect.

A golden-armored warrior insect said:

"As the priest said, those wizard monsters are constantly using their "alchemical weapons" that can spray fireballs to destroy our cannon fodder."

When talking about alchemical weapons, the golden-armored warrior worm spoke very awkwardly.

Because this is a wizard term and there is no corresponding word in the black crystal worm language, it can only be transliterated.

"Very good, keep going." The Moon White Sacrificial Insect chirped happily.

"But sir," a two-star priest insect stood up and asked, "those cannon fodders are being eliminated very quickly. If we continue to consume them at this rate, I'm afraid we won't be able to last long."

The Moon White Priest Worm waved its tentacles and said, "Don't worry. Before our cannon fodder is consumed, the alchemical weapons of those wizard monsters will be 'melted' first."

Meltdown is another word exclusive to wizards.

"Sir, are you sure?" A golden-armored warrior worm suddenly spoke up, "We have not made any progress in our intelligence work on the wizards. We can't get close to the wizards' base camp, that floating city. Even if we drill through underground, we will be discovered by the wizards.

Where did you get your information from?"

This golden-armored warrior bug was once responsible for infiltrating the wizard-occupied area, but all his strategies were in vain due to the wizard's tight defense.

As a result, he lost a lot of elite black crystal insects.

The tentacles of the Moon-white sacrificial worm kept saying: "Are you questioning me? Or are you questioning the high priest!" "I dare not, I dare not!" The golden-armored warrior worm said repeatedly.

The priest's status in the Zerg is equivalent to that of a noble. This is a big hat to put on him. He can only wait to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder to atone for his sins.

The Moon White Priest Worm looked at the other worms and found that although the other worms did not ask directly, they all had some doubts. Seeing this, the black crystal between his eyebrows suddenly shot out a starlight, which spread in the air and instantly turned into a starlight barrier.

Under the starlight barrier, all means of eavesdropping, spying, and even stealing spiritual messages will be blocked.

This is also the response measure developed by the sacrificial insects after their intelligence was stolen by black wizards many times.

In the starlight barrier, the Moon White Priest Worm slowly spoke: "The source of the information is not something I deliberately kept secret, but there are many wizard monsters lurking in our insect nest. These wizards have all kinds of strange methods. Once they steal this information, it will inevitably affect the wizard's strategy.

But now that the war has begun, some intelligence can indeed be shared."

Upon hearing this, the other insects immediately perked up and prepared to listen to the priest's next words.

“During the Mother Goddess Temple operation, we captured many wizards. These wizards were very tough and had strong souls, but the high priest still used the power of the Mother Worm God to find a lot of information from their souls.

Some of this information is incomplete, but it still provides us with a lot of intelligence.

All our current intelligence comes from this."

……

The harassment of the Zerg never stops day and night, although there is no day or night in the Zerg hive world, only eternal darkness.

In order to deal with the harassment of the insect swarm, the white wizards were divided into two groups, taking turns to operate the alchemical magic stone cannon.

Although the Alchemical Magic Stone Cannon does not require the wizard to organize the spell himself, it also requires the wizard to use mental power to guide the trajectory of the spell. Such high-intensity guided spells will also cause the wizard's spirit to become fatigued.

The two groups of wizards took turns to maintain the firepower of the battle fortress.

During this period, Richard also tried to let Ulysses kill the bugs. The first time he did this, the effect was very good. The bugs that were less than level one had no power to resist under Ulysses' flames and were all burned to ashes.

But when Richard tried to repeat his old trick, the bugs had a countermeasure.

Seven or eight second-level sacrificial insects were hiding in the insect swarm and they cast the Starlight Seal on Ulysses almost at the same time. At the same time, dozens of second-level warrior insects also attacked Ulysses at the same time.

The ground battlefield is not the narrow environment of the underground insect nest. In the underground insect nest, the insects' range of activities is extremely limited, and Ulises can easily kill the level 2 insects. But on the ground battlefield, especially this wide plain battlefield, these insects have enough space to dodge, and there are so many teammates.

If Ulises Riko wasn't the master of the world, even a third-level creature would have died on the spot from an attack of this magnitude.

"Huh, I didn't think these bugs were that powerful when I was with the main group before, but now that I'm alone, I realize that these bugs are really good." Ulysses, who escaped back, said stubbornly.

Although he was chased by insects and was in a very miserable state, he still had to put on a superior attitude.

Richard glanced at him and said, "Okay, you almost had to use the power of faith when you were attacked by a group of bugs. If you had been more careful, you wouldn't be in such a mess."

In addition to the insect countermeasures, Ulysses was tricked by his own arrogance after possessing a secondary body, which was also a big part of the reason.

When he arrived at the command room, Ivan was sitting in a chair, staring at the crystal ball on the table in front of him.

This crystal ball is his communication crystal ball. As long as it lights up, it means that there is news from the command center.

"No news from the command center yet?" Richard approached Ivan and asked.

Ivan pointed at the crystal ball with a calm expression, but the tone of his voice sounded like a dying cancer patient.

"As you can see, this crystal ball hasn't lit up for three days. If it doesn't light up in another three days, we'll have to abandon the fortress and prepare to flee."

Abandoning the fortress is the last resort for this group of wizards. So far, the command has not given them the order to defend it to the death. In the face of force majeure, retreat is also feasible.

But once they abandon their defense, the Great Wall built of war fortresses set up by the command in the Third War Zone will be breached first.

This is likely to cause a chain reaction, leading to the collapse of the entire line of defense.

"Don't do anything bad." Richard stepped forward and took the crystal ball in his hand. "Didn't you throw this thing on the ground yesterday when you were crazy?"

"Uh..." Ivan looked a little embarrassed. The pressure of the war made him a little irritable. Yesterday, when he saw that the crystal ball didn't light up, he angrily threw it to the ground.

But after he dropped it, he immediately regretted it and picked it up right away and treated it like a treasure.

Being rude at first and respectful later is really laughable.

The material of the communication crystal ball is very good, and even after Ivan dropped it, there was not a single scratch on it.

After Richard used his universal repair technique to tap the crystal ball twice, there was still no movement.

"What kind of detection method is that?" Ivan laughed. Alchemists use magic armor probes to check magic armor, not like Richard who just takes a few shots.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the crystal ball in Richard's hand suddenly lit up.

"Wow, master, this is amazing!" Ivan said in shock.

As expected of an old wizard who had experienced many battles, even a casual shot contained principles and mysteries that a newcomer like him could not understand.

After the crystal ball lit up, it conveyed instructions from the command center.

"The supply convoy will arrive in twelve hours. The cursed virus inside can deal with the cannon fodder of the Zerg."

(End of this chapter)