Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 756 The real purpose

The Starfire Warriors, who have fused with the soul of the Demonfire Source Beast, are a squad led by Baler.

Compared to the Bloodclaw Bear's berserk talent possessed by Sek and his warriors, they were slightly weaker in terms of strength and speed.

Similarly, compared to Santas's Serpent Griffin squad, the Source Beast Soul could not grant them strong defensive capabilities or the ability to launch invisible area-of-effect sonic attacks.

These source beasts, which were previously only domesticated and raised on a large scale by the demon race, are not even as powerful as the "demonic wolves" led by Galagrir in the wild, and are not good at group combat and tracking and hunting.

However, they possess a unique ability to continuously unleash elemental magic, much like spellcasters.

Although limited to a single fire-based attack spell, its power is not to be underestimated.

A series of enormous fireballs shot out, illuminating the entire mountain pass almost instantly... immediately attracting the hovercraft that were patrolling the surrounding sky to gather rapidly at this place.

After the magical fireworks exploded, they also served as a signal warning.

Faced with the overwhelming force that resembled a mass spellcasting, the evolved being could no longer dodge by maneuvering within a small area. He had no choice but to once again retreat into another dimension, his figure flashing several times before finally appearing on a boulder on the cliff face.

Once they lost the cover of the dense vegetation in the forest and were exposed on high ground, they immediately attracted the attention of the Starfire Warriors, who raised their guns and aimed. After escaping close combat, they no longer had to worry about accidentally injuring their comrades. Dozens of beams of light shot out, all heading towards the newly appeared enemy.

The black crystal shield was no different from buttered tofu under the attack of these concentrated energies.

The evolved being naturally wouldn't rashly raise its shield to defend itself, so its body once again disappeared into the spatial rift.

This time, it appeared in mid-air directly overhead!
As soon as it solidified its form, it raised its hand from above and released several beams of red light, which were aimed at the "Iron Can" on the ground that was aiming its gun at it.

Just then, a strong gust of wind suddenly came from behind.

It turned around abruptly and found a huge griffin, almost entirely encased in metal, silently swooping towards it. Its massive body was like a shadow silently passing through the night, and its flight speed was astonishing, reaching it in an instant.

The evolved being dodged the sneak attack with a quick sidestep, then opened his palm and conjured a long black water whip, which he then lashed out at the griffin's wing that passed him.

The steel behemoth remained unmoved, its body suddenly shrinking rapidly in mid-air, instantly returning to human form... Without a doubt, this was a true high-level spellcaster.

The evolved being's counterattack missed, and just as he was about to reach out and release red light to deliver another blow, his single giant eye on his chest opened wide, ready to erode any subsequent spells cast by his opponent and dissolve all the magic power within his body.

However, the spellcaster, having failed in his sneak attack, turned around without any hesitation and landed directly on the ground, hiding in the dense forest.

Before the evolved being could react, a beam of blazing white light shot out from the distant horizon. The target it was originally aimed at shifted slightly, and its trajectory twisted strangely in the middle of the way. Then, it struck the evolved being's arm squarely, shattering the limb covered in crystal armor.

This is a beam of light sniping launched from afar by a spellcaster aboard an airship.

Meanwhile, the shapeshifter Duncan, who had just brushed past the enemy, silently set up a timed-detonation force field spell in the air during the instant of their encounter. He was just waiting for the sniper to aim and then correct his position, while also predicting the location where the evolved human might hide.

The evolved being's arm was severed almost at the shoulder, and a mixture of red and black flesh gushed out, dripping onto the ground.

The sudden severe injury caused a brief disruption in the abnormal energy within its body, causing the red light on its crystalline armor to freeze abruptly, and then its body began to fall uncontrollably downwards.

The Starfire Warriors, who had been waiting below, seized the opportunity and rushed forward with their weapons raised. Before it had even landed completely, they had already formed a tight encirclement.

A strong sense of crisis surged through the evolved being once again. After struggling for a moment, it regained control of its body, dodging two broadswords that were slashing vertically towards it in a flash. When its body reappeared, it had only managed to move a distance of five or six steps to the side. Its most relied-upon spatial teleportation ability was now somewhat shaky due to its depleted energy and severe injuries.

The two "tin cans" lunged forward, but it parried their attacks with the black crystal weapon it had condensed. Suddenly, their figures froze, and then an invisible sound wave rushed straight to its face like a tidal wave. The high-frequency howling created visible ripples, causing the single eye on the evolved human's chest to tremble and become bloodshot, closing tightly as if it could not bear it.

"Continue with the sonic attack! Its single eye, which must be holding all its sensory organs, can't withstand this rhythmic magical tremor!"

The one who took command of the battle was Duncan, who had emerged from the dense forest again. As an experienced high-level spellcaster, he immediately saw the opponent's weakness.

The evolved being darted to the branch of a giant tree for cover. During a break in the battle, he couldn't help but glance at his wound—the edge of the shattered crystal armor, the fragile flesh and tissue writhing frantically, trying to heal the wound quickly.

Its true form, hidden beneath its crystal armor, is indeed several times stronger than that of ordinary black lizardmen warriors. Even if its outer armor breaks, it won't immediately rot and decay due to exposure to the air.

However, if the injury is too severe to heal on its own, the longer it takes, the worse it will be. Even if it manages to escape and return to its clan, its main consciousness will eventually need to rebuild its physical body.

The resources required to rebuild the physical body are already sufficient for the main consciousness to create a completely new evolved being; there is no need to invest further in the loser.

A low, rumbling sound could be faintly heard from the sky above, hidden by the tree canopy, as the air vehicles piloted by the spellcasters slowly closed in.

The evolved being finally realized that these humans intended to use a variety of attacks to keep it in place and wear it down until it died.

Once the desire to survive surges into one's heart, it completely replaces the burning will to fight.

The evolved being didn't hesitate for almost a moment, then turned and flew straight down the mountain... In order to avoid being locked on and pursued from the air, it kept its flight altitude at a distance of only a few meters from the ground, intending to escape again under the cover of the dense forest.

Unfortunately, Spark Warriors had already blocked their way at the entrance to the mountain pass.

Undeterred, the group of "tin cans" surrounded it, firing their beam weapons frequently, blocking all possible escape routes.

More and more Starfire Warriors rushed up to encircle and annihilate them. These "iron cans" have extremely strong defensive capabilities. As long as they are not hit head-on by the red light and lightning, ordinary black crystal weapons cannot cause them much damage. Even if they are occasionally knocked back and thrown away, they can immediately shake their heads, stand up, and return to the battlefield.

As the encirclement tightens, the space available for the evolved beings to maneuver swiftly becomes increasingly smaller.

In the end, as it desperately tried to avoid the two beams and used its dimensional travel technique one last time, Duncan, who had been watching from the sidelines for a long time, suddenly had a cold glint in his eyes. He took the beam sniper rifle handed to him by a soldier and fired in advance in the direction where it might appear.

The evolved being had barely emerged halfway out of the spatial rift when it came into direct contact with the beam of light shooting towards it.

The people in the battle immediately saw its deep red crystal armor, which covered its entire body, suddenly light up and then completely dimmed and went out. Its two legs, which had taken the first step, were blown to pieces. In the instant that the spatial rift collapsed and closed, it also severed its other arm, which it had not yet managed to detach.

With its crystal armor shattered and limbs destroyed, the enemy, completely incapacitated, lay on its back. The swollen single eye on its chest and abdomen slowly opened a crack, revealing only a patch of mottled blood red in its enormous pupil.

Duncan holstered his gun, stepped forward, and chuckled softly.

"We've finally completed the task assigned by His Majesty and the two chiefs. Before this fellow is completely dead, strip it of its crystal armor and send it back to the capital as quickly as possible!"

Their true objective in this meticulously planned operation was to capture a high-level evolved member of the Demon Lizardman alive!

(End of this chapter)