Equipment Printing School Mage
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The number of dragons around Stannis was visibly decreasing - the only ones he could command immediately were his staff.
Of course, on Abel, no matter how you command, your own strength is essential. Stannis is a powerful ancient dragon, and his advisors are at least elderly dragons...
If Abel doesn't rely on his seniority, he might really end up being a lone commander.
There is a common sense in fighting against the Holy Church of the Elements: although the Holy Church of the Elements' command is somewhat rigid and their combat is somewhat slow and bloated, their large-scale army is difficult to be eliminated in an organized and silent manner.
The tug-of-war between the two sides is due to this: the Fritia Alliance finds it difficult to silently mobilize enough forces to annihilate the Holy Church of the Elements, while the Holy Church of the Elements simply cannot find the main force of the Fritia Alliance.
Under this premise, Stannis and the dozens of staff officers around him were already a considerable force, extremely difficult to behead. Therefore, he had boldly deployed nearly a hundred guards to act as temporary eyes.
To paralyze this command node, at least hundreds of dragons would have to be sent out - and an attack of this scale would be difficult to hide.
Not to mention, there was no way the Fritia Alliance would know his exact location.
He should be safe! If someone was heading his way, he could react immediately. Whether it was to fight or retreat, it would be completely in time.
but……
Stannis watched the elemental storms swirling across the sky, feeling uneasy.
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Heavy rain, thunder, clouds, and even acid rain.
The climate near Tianhe has deteriorated severely after a large number of dragons moved in.
After entering the world war, the Holy Church of Elements would use elemental storms to clear the way when attacking, and when defending important locations, they would also directly launch endless elemental storms to block the path of the Fritia Alliance.
However, this elemental storm also had an impact on the dragons of the Holy Church... They had to be extremely careful when traveling through it, so as not to be accidentally caught in the storm.
These storms may not be fatal to them, but there is still a possibility that they will suffer serious injuries.
The scouting teams just sent out by Stannis felt as if they were moving through a maze.
There were no living people in sight ahead, no living people behind them, and acid rain and thunderstorms occasionally sent a hostile surge in their direction.
The worst part was that they had no idea what they might encounter - perhaps nothing would come of it, or they would run headfirst into a horde of enemies and be forced to flee in panic as the air elemental dragons pursued them.
As if to prove their guess, a young rock silver dragon soon bypassed the storm and flew towards them in panic.
Earth elemental dragons generally dislike armor because they are confident that their scales and flesh are more reliable than crude armor. They only dye their chests to prove that they are loyal believers of the Holy Church.
However, the Rock Silver Dragon's body was now covered in pitch-black burn marks, with large areas of scales peeling off, revealing its flesh and blood. Even its wing membranes had many scars, and it was obviously seriously injured.
When she saw the team, she was surprised and her flight became unstable, almost plunging to the ground. Even if she managed to recover, it was difficult to regain altitude, and she could only glide at a low altitude.
The reconnaissance team that was still advancing was also shocked: a friendly soldier was so wounded, could there really be an enemy ahead?
They dispersed cautiously on the spot, circled for a while, and only began to dive hurriedly after making sure there were no enemies ahead - although they did not know this Rock Silver Dragon, it was obvious that she was one of their colleagues and a valuable source of information.
They no longer cared about the formation and dived down one after another: "What happened?!"
The Rock Silver Dragon then slowly raised its head and said something in a weak voice.
But her voice was too soft. Even the dragon couldn't hear it amidst the raging waves. They could only continue to lower their altitude.
It was not until they came within a few dozen meters of the Rock Silver Dragon that a giant dragon in the reconnaissance team tilted its head slightly, looking a little confused.
It seemed like he just passed through a layer of black dust?
However, the layer of sand and dust disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if it was completely his illusion.
At this moment, they finally heard what the Rock Silver Dragon said: "...I will save you."
what?
This statement was so unexpected by all members of the reconnaissance team that they were all stunned for a moment.
Who saves whom?
At this moment, a deafening sound of air explosion came from behind the reconnaissance team.
The dragons raised their heads in astonishment, but only saw a dozen conical metals breaking through the empty sky and whistling from behind the dragons.
The Rock Silver Dragon in front of them seemed to have anticipated this and began to chant in advance.
The dragons are not very maneuverable in the air, and those in a dive are extremely clumsy. Without any leverage, it is difficult for them to make very effective maneuvers.
The Halruaan were already adept at this. Over a dozen solid shells effortlessly pinned all the dragons in the scouting team to the ground.
The Rock Silver Dragon that had been luring the enemy seemed to have anticipated this and let out a mournful cry, "Be gentle! Why are you going for the brain, spine, heart, and lungs again? Didn't we say we'd capture him alive?"
Her chanting also ended at this time, and a faint golden light sprinkled on the dragons around her - what she had been chanting was actually a healing spell.
The Rock Silver Dragon's bloated body peeled off layer by layer, revealing the slender form of the Singing Dragon. She anxiously cast a spell, then mentally cried out, "Master Metatron, help me! These Halruaans are all from the Jaeger Cult, and they're out to kill the dragon! I can't save them!"
Of course, the so-called Rock Silver Dragon is actually Sig.
Pretending to be a dragon to deceive mortals is different from pretending to be a dragon to deceive a dragon. All the great wizards' Transfiguration were mercilessly ridiculed by Sig: their behavior and habits were still too different from those of a dragon. In front of a real dragon, their dragon form was like an ape in human skin.
It's not flawless, but it's also completely useless.
Finally, the great task of disguising and deceiving the dragon fell into Sig's hands.
The elemental reactions of the Abel dragon were difficult to simulate; their changes were too complex and continuous, even Shadow Sand couldn't keep up. In this case, an earth dragon, which only appeared to become tougher and stronger, was much easier to imitate.
From the current perspective, the results are very encouraging: Sig's disguise as an Abel dragon has not aroused any suspicion from the Holy Church of Elements.
But Emia's group never anticipated that the Halruaan, after only a few days of slaying dragons, had already become adept at it... Or perhaps they'd underestimated the power of armor-piercing rounds. Even for the sake of capturing prisoners, even if the Halruaan only launched a single attack, the dragons' massive bodies almost always absorbed the full force of the shells. Consequently, after each ambush, they were left with only a pile of corpses. By the time the airships carefully landed, the dragons were already beyond rescue.
After all, you can only ask three questions when talking to the dead, and you may not always get a corpse with an intact head.
No dragon could survive with several armor-piercing bullets in its body. With this situation happening repeatedly, the airships were forced to reduce their explosive charges.
Sig's eyes darted around in the light of the healing prayer, hoping they would be luckier this time.
Metatron instantly teleported from the airship to the surface, then shook his head. "...The Halruaans enchanted most of their shells before they set out. Now they probably don't have any less powerful shells. They're all dead."
As if to protest Metatron's death sentence, the eyelids of a steel red dragon trembled slightly, and it opened its mouth with difficulty, but only internal organs and blood were squeezed out of its mouth.
"Hey! There are still people alive!" Higg was overjoyed.
"...Then, let's do as we agreed." Metatron urgently used his precious healing skills on the lucky steel red dragon, temporarily saving it from death. "You use healing spells to maintain his life, and I will urgently extract his memories."
Soon, they came to a surprising conclusion, and the news quickly spread throughout the fleet at the front.
The supreme commander of the Holy Elemental Church's central line was actually dozens of kilometers away, standing between them and Tianhe.
At the same time, there were only dozens of giant dragons around him!
When she heard the news, even Emilia couldn't help but feel her blood rushing.
...an opportunity.
An opportunity to defeat the Holy Church of the Elements in one fell swoop.
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Emiya seems very calm, very calm when carrying out tasks, and very calm when encountering difficulties...
But he is a crazy person when it comes to making plans.
When they learned that the commander was so close, the whole team guessed that he planned to go straight for the enemy's vital points, and the result was exactly what happened.
In fact, no one can resist this temptation.
The airship is where the most elite personnel of Halruaa and even Toril are located... Losing dozens of high-level mages and clergy in one war?
Even when the Arcane Blight broke out, Halruaa did not lose so many key players in one go.
Knocking down the commander in advance may avoid this unacceptable loss.
In fact, the elders would not easily agree to such a risk - they are responsible for the future of the entire family, and the loss caused by their death is absolutely irreparable.
But this is Halruaa.
Everyone who boarded the airship had already seen the elemental storm that covered the sky.
They were clearly traveling between heaven and earth, but the high walls called elements had already erected high walls in the open world.
If these violent elements were to overtake Mount Talas and pour down upon the land of Halruaa...
The entire country would be literally rendered barren, and every tract of land outside of Halruaa would be scorched to ashes by the dragons rather than allowed to fall into enemy hands.
Although Abel was huge, he left no room for the Halruaan people to breathe - they had been forced into a dead end.
Moreover, they have been enduring humiliation for nearly a hundred years. Now that they have just regained their strength, they have to pack up their belongings and live a miserable life again?
Their patience has run out and they will not take another step back.
Soon, Emiya's plan was approved.
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"…Isn't there something strange over there?"
Just as Stannis was looking at a handful of intelligence, racking his brains to figure out what the Holy Order of the Elements was going to do, a staff officer's words suddenly broke the noisy silence and attracted the attention of his colleagues.
"What's so strange?" Another staff officer followed his colleague's claws and looked in the same direction. "Isn't it just a water element phenomenon? Precipitation falling from the sky like rain and fog. This is nothing unusual."
However, that direction happened to be the direction the reconnaissance team was going to investigate.
"...No," said the staff officer who initially raised the question, "I feel like the rain curtain over there seems to be..."
The dragon took a few seconds to organize his words. "There... it's as if time has been frozen for tens of seconds. It's as if the same events from those tens of seconds are happening over and over again."
"Huh?" This description was still a bit too abstract for Abel's dragons. They looked at each other, completely unable to understand.
Stannis, however, looked up and snorted, "So, you watched the storm for several minutes?"
The staff officer couldn't help but rub his head: "...I'm just...worried about when those reconnaissance teams will be able to return."
Stannis waved the matter away, not pursuing it any further.
Isn't he also worried about this matter?
However, just as Stannis rolled his eyes, he caught a strange sight out of the corner of his eye.
But he couldn't understand that scene - in his common sense, it was a scene that did not exist on this planet.
In the silent wind, dozens of humans wearing long fabrics suddenly appeared in front of them.
How did they get here? How did they conceal their whereabouts? How did they get so close?
Why did they know to attack here?
——What do they want to do and what can they do?
The Freetian Alliance gained the lands of Maztica and Lantan, while the Elemental Order gained Unther.
There are rumors that many of Enther's ideas are very popular among the wild spirits, and the Holy Church is really getting closer and closer to a "religion".
However, there is one thing that everyone agrees on: humans are very weak, so weak that they cannot pose any threat to dragons.
However, it was obvious that the humans who had come to the dragon's vicinity did not think so.
The ivory figures on their bodies fluttered in the wind.
A silver-haired girl stood in the crowd, her body overflowing with blue-silver flames.
As dozens of commands were recited, the ivory statues shattered in the wind amid the dragon's shock, anger and roar.
Before the dragons could react, magic weaved a series of gates leading to the demiplane around them, and on the other side of the gates were countless intricate force field mazes, throwing all the dragons present into them.
What caught Stannis's eyes were countless lavender transparent walls, but these walls still provided passages.
...It's like a deep cave in the mountain.
Only the youngest and most playful of dragons have ever ventured into the mountains and been captured by the darkness, and Stannis was one of them.
He understood almost subconsciously what was happening: he was trapped in some kind of maze, and as long as he found the exit, he could get out.
As long as there is an exit.
Fortunately, the exit does exist.
Stannis's wisdom and experience quickly helped him find the other shining door, and when he squeezed through, the world became bright.
What came into view were the looks of astonishment and surprise from the dozens of mages.
He couldn't understand what they were saying: "He broke out of the labyrinth so quickly? He must be the commander!!!"
Stannis's final counterattack was easily suppressed by Metatron, and he was tied up and prepared to extract the information in his brain.
The number of Nine-Ringed Mages in Halruaa had already far exceeded double digits. After confirming that Stannis was only accompanied by more than twenty dragons, the archmages urgently switched their chain triggers—
As for Stannis's exact location?
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