The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 726: Significant Results
The form of warfare on the front battlefield is different from that on the marginal battlefield.

In edge worlds like the Wilderness World, due to the quality issues of the legions, most of the filling-line legions in the edge worlds can only defend and not attack.

All offensive missions are the work of the elite legion, and the line-filling legion is really just filling the line.

But this scene does not exist on the front battlefield.

In this kind of war zone with extremely high army density, elite troops cannot come and go as freely as on the edge of the battlefield. The huge number of insect seas can easily hold back a legion, and then use the huge number to wear it down bit by bit.

In this battlefield, almost all wars will eventually become wars of attrition.

In this case, a large number of legions such as the Line-Filling Corps are more cost-effective.

On this battlefield, the role of the elite army is only to launch assaults when necessary and to be more combat-effective in a war of attrition.

The huge number of filling-in-the-line troops are the real main force troops.

……

At the earth vein node, a huge army of wizards and the galactic mayflies are engaged in a tug-of-war.

The wizards have now occupied the earth vein nodes, and the civil wizards are setting up large magic circles at an astonishing speed and building a fortress on its foundation.

Around them, a legion of wizards numbering more than 100,000 surrounded them and blocked the swarms of insects coming from all directions.

"Distance thirty, high-level ice mist arrows, seven or eight combos, three consecutive shots."

"Distance thirty, lightning chain, two four five six, large chain, delayed mass fire."

"Distance thirty, shield shock, one three combos, one burst..."

The legion commander issued orders in an orderly manner. The orders were transmitted along the legion's mental network and were delivered to the corresponding teams almost instantly.

Upon receiving the order, the wizards waved their staffs together, and the magic power followed the energy cycle into the rune array of the standard staff, and was then transformed into "gravity" that attracted the elements.

The water element gathered at the tip of the magic wand and turned into mist-like ice crystals.

The tiny ice crystals connected with each other in less than a second and turned into a translucent ice cone.

On this battlefield, wizards particularly favor stable elements such as water and earth.

The reason why these two elements were disliked in the past was simply that it was extremely difficult to form elemental storms. However, on the front battlefield, there were a large number of elemental gathering nests and corresponding subspecies of mayfly clusters within the mayfly army.

The elemental storm, the most commonly used weapon in wizard wars, does not appear here at all.

In this case, water elemental witchcraft and earth elemental witchcraft become particularly useful.

Moreover, due to the stability of these two elements, they can fire directly without removing the legion's shield.

shhhhhh!
As they chatted and laughed, two thousand ice mist arrows had already penetrated the legion barrier under the influence of the force field and flew towards the direction of the Mayfly Legion.

As they shot out, the first and third companies responsible for the shield shock also cast spells at the same time. Strange energy waves spread from the ends of the staffs, blending with each other, and finally turned into a shock wave that was almost visible to the naked eye.

Under the interference of this energy wave, the thick energy shield of the Mayfly battle group instantly became turbulent.

There were even many mayflies responsible for the defense module that exploded and died on the spot because their shields were shaken, which caused errors in the energy circulation in their bodies.

bang bang bang...

Two thousand ice arrows, with ice crystal trails, landed at the forefront of the mayfly cluster. The moment they touched the energy shield, they exploded instantly, turning into a kilometer-long ice mist barrier.

The characteristics of the energy shield mean that it cannot intercept low-speed objects, otherwise dust, air, and even free elements will be intercepted outside the shield.

If these things are intercepted, they will slowly accumulate on the energy shield.

Matter is fine, but those free elements will cause great interference and damage to the basic structure of the energy shield.

This cannot be overcome by either the wizard or the mayfly's shield.

The spreading ice fog penetrated the protection of the energy shield and instantly froze the outermost layer of Galaxy Mayflies into zombies, but both sides knew that these were just appetizers.

In the Mayfly cluster, General Mayfly's orders spread rapidly in the mental network like thunder.

They were very familiar with the methods of their old opponent, and decisively gave up the outer layer and the disturbed energy shield, and immediately reorganized the formation and re-established a defense behind the outermost layer.

Just as they were rebuilding their defenses, the wizard's lightning chain fell into the icy fog.

Lightning moved like a group of snakes in the ice fog. If there was no second line of defense, this instant would be enough to tear apart the shield of the mayfly cluster.

hum!
Almost at the same time as the lightning chain arrived, the counterattack of the Galaxy Mayflies was brewing. The besieging Mayflies were also subspecies, so their attacks had obvious biases.

Deep purple spears of light shot out from the cluster, their power reaching an astonishing 50,000 energy level.

And this is just the beginning.

buzzing...

Accompanied by the humming sound of energy vibrations, purple light spears shot towards the wizard army like beads.

Although both the Galaxy Mayflies and the wizards fight in groups, their thinking is completely different.

The wizard is more inclined to use sorcery with area damage, while the mayfly is more inclined to use high-intensity attacks.

The huge number and energy nest of the Mayfly Battle Group make their energy far higher than that of the wizard in terms of quantity. This makes the Mayfly Battle Group's burst combat power and defense very strong.

But success and failure are both in numbers. Even if the Mayfly battle group carries an energy nest, the energy it can carry at one time is limited. And the huge cluster is destined to cause their energy consumption to be greater than that of the wizard.

If they get into a war of attrition, the Galaxy Mayflies will soon run into a shortage of energy turnover, causing the huge colony to become a paper tiger.

Wizards are different. There are fewer wizards in number, and the magic power stored in each of them is very abundant. With the help of magic stones and potions, wizards are not afraid of wars of attrition.

boom!
The light spears exploded on the legion's shield, creating a wave of waves. The rain of light spears that followed made the legion's shield look precarious and could break at any time.

Once the legion's shield is broken, the wizard legion under the shield will be instantly submerged by the spears of light, leaving no trace.

But the legion commander was not at all panicked.

He asked in the mental network belonging to the legion commander: "Karak, how long will it take to complete the magic circle?"

"...don't rush me! There will be more than 20 of them soon. It will be over in no time!"

As he spoke, a burst of energy suddenly erupted in the center surrounded by the legions. Then, a layer of energy barrier rose above the legions.

With the endless supply of magic power from the earth vein nodes, this energy barrier became extremely thick in an instant.

The light spears of the Mayfly battle group could only cause ripples when they landed on it.

Looking at the barrier that suddenly rose, a legion commander sighed slightly: "The composite magic shield is fucking genius. As long as the energy is enough, even the Lord of the World can't break it."

The raising of the energy shield marked the end of this tug-of-war, but it also marked the birth of a brutal meat grinder.

The Mayfly Corps responsible for fighting for the earth vein nodes and the Mayfly Corps responsible for attacking the strongholds have completely different configurations.

Now that the node has been built into a fortress, the next attack will be by the assault corps.

Looking at the Mayfly Battle Group that was receding like a tide, a legion commander gave an order in the mental network:
"Reporting to the headquarters, the leyline node No. 12 has been captured."

"Yes, legion commander."

……

"Sir, this is a summary of the battle report on the new tactics."

At the West 11th War Zone Command, Great Wizard Qingguang looked at the latest battle report summary and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The new tactics really have impressive results. My judgment was correct."

The battle report shows that in the past seven days, twelve battles for vein nodes have taken place in the West 11th War Zone, and quite good results have been achieved.

Even though a few battles were not successfully fought, the legion's losses during the battle were reduced by nearly ten percent.

This is enough to prove the effectiveness of the new tactics.

But soon the great wizard Qingguang realized something was wrong.

He was looking at the battle report when he suddenly shuddered.

In these battles, he, the theoretical commander-in-chief of the theater, did not make any substantial arrangements. He just followed Richard's instructions and chose one of the options given by the staff.

But even so, the legion achieved quite good results.

Does that mean that he, as the commander-in-chief, is actually dispensable?

The Great Wizard Qingguang had no doubt that even if he had chosen another plan, the final result would not be much different.

But if this is the case, then the consequences of widespread promotion of this tactic are self-evident.

Since the General Staff can handle the bottom-level battlefield very well, can the command authority of the great wizards, who mostly do not have any command ability, be revoked?

On the bright side, even if it is not abolished, won’t the great wizard’s command authority be greatly reduced?
The Parliament of Truth has always been dissatisfied with the retreat of the front line. If this tactic is seen by the Corona of the Parliament of Truth, then...

When the great wizard Qingguang looked at the battle report, a cold sweat broke out on his back.

He seemed to be involved in something extraordinary.

"...What bad luck." The Great Wizard Qingguang muttered to himself.

"My lord, my lord, the battle report is on fire."

The secretary's voice woke the Great Wizard Qingguang from his thoughts. In his hand, the battle report summary had already started burning due to his unconscious exertion.

The Great Wizard Qingguang extinguished the flame in his hand expressionlessly, and then said to the secretary beside him: "Oh, write a new one for me... No, send it to the commander."

"...Is it still the same wording?" the secretary asked cautiously.

Just seeing the scene just now, he was really a little nervous.

"Of course... No, don't send the summary." Great Wizard Qing Guang suddenly changed his tone and said, "Send the specific battle details as well. We don't need to do a summary.

We are just experimental assistants, and the results of the experiment will be judged by the commander."

(End of this chapter)