“Heh, now they are showing their true colours.” Orc General Nubwort thought as he told the Orc Artillery Company to finish the last wave of chemical gas shells before switching them back to explosives. With the advance of more Armoured Knights and mages, it should not be long until it would lose its effectiveness.
“Master Jin, they are sending in more and more of their troops. Feel free to start your event at any point now.” Nubwort reported through the System Channel and Jin who had been playing with his phone, stopped his idling to verify the information with his binoculars.
The Collective Demon Army of King Baal continuously threw bodies into the safe zone and pushed their foot soldiers out of the area. Only, it appeared that instead of letting their soldiers sacrifice themselves for nothing, they had come up with a creative way to try and solve the problem.
Duke Crocell utilised Elephant type Monsters who had volunteered to work for the demon army to suck in as much yellow gas as possible. In the meantime, he had also stuck to his decision to send the air demon forces out of the yellow gas situation and eliminate the culprits casting or throwing them in.
“Heads up, Wyrstriker. It’s time for your debut.” Jin looked through the binoculars and told the System to continue taking videos of these demons and release some snippets of them on the Pandamonium forum to hype the customers up further. In the meantime, Wyrstriker had a wide grin on his face since his wyvern air force would actually be the first unit to engage the enemy directly.
“Remember guys, we’ll employ a fast hit and kill tactic, then return for resupply. These are just the first of the many waves incoming, and we will need to conserve our energy as much as possible. We are the only air force Jin has, so it’s up to us to prevent the enemy from gaining air superiority.” Wyrstriker’s encouraging speech was short and concise, yet he suddenly heard some giggling even though his pilots were scrambling on their wyverns.
“You totally forgot about me, didn’t you?” Que Er asked. She did not appear angry, more amused as she sat there at the corner with Muninn and Huginn resting on her shoulders.
“Not really, I just think that your explosive crows are better suited as a supplement to my air force,” Wyrstriker replied. He had yet to see the crows in action and had only heard about their capabilities. Thus he severely underestimated Que Er’s powers.
The Magpie Queen decided to keep quiet about it. After living for so long, she understood that the young ones, no matter the age or race, would always wish to prove themselves. Besides, she liked Wyrstriker quite a bit.
He, just as his two best friends who he had been so close with, who could also be regarded as brothers, had been the first subordinates Jin had captured. At that time they had merely been ordinary goblins. Now, each one of them went through a hard and tedious journey to evolve.
One had managed to become favoured by Death herself whilst the other similarly had encountered a godly being and entered a pact with it.
Wyrstriker had also evolved thank to his synergy with Ivan the Wyvern, but his was considered a side evolution, which was inferior compared to his peers step up evolution. Someone else might have fallen into envy and jealousy but not him. Instead, Wyrstriker wished to prove to himself, his friends and Jin that he could evolve without the help of a higher external power.
“So naïve… but such is the privilege of the young before one grows up. We shall meet later in the skies, little green flightless one.” Que Er said as she walked to the edge of the airstrip beside the hanger to watch the Wyvern Goblin Knights take off with the aid of the Lost Tech Boosters.
But what the Wyvern Goblin Knights did not know was that Que Er was also preparing her personal air force with the help of Odin’s ravens. And they were all sitting quietly at the dark corners of the ceilings, waiting for their turn to act. Even Que Er wants to be a heroine once in a while, its just a simple matter of when.
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The Armoured Gargoyles and Wing Hydras sped out of the yellow haze without too much trouble and just as ordered, they decided to look for the perpetrators of the chemical gas by following the constant distant booming sound.
However, as they were cruising in the dungeon skies, they noticed the majesty of the city which Lord Moloch had built. Floating city platforms from afar with a body of water right below it, made them doubt if Moloch was actually the person who created all of this.
Duke Crocell also received the transmitted images and came to the same conclusion. Lord Moloch should have neither the required resources to build such a magnificent looking floating city nor the knowledge on how to do so. Something like this would be a luxury not even King Baal could afford easily.
Suddenly, black smokes popped out of nowhere in the skies, and the Demon Air Force instinctively tried to avoid it. Unfortunately, those at the forefront had become too engrossed with ogling the city, so that their initial inaction resulted in a few units killed by the black smoke.
The anti-air Flak guns were working as intended, piercing the enemies with scattered pellets of steel. Before the Goblin Wyvern Knights engaged them, the company of Goblin Anti Air Defences had placed down some pressure to lower the enemies morale and ease the load for their ‘one and only’ air force available.
Naturally, the demon air force took some evasive measures. They were still flying towards the artillery albeit slower now worried that more of this black smoke could kill them. Some of them also got injured with bits of the metal shot into their skins. Unlike aeroplanes, these flying units were living, breathing organisms. Pain was still an inevitable fact to these air forces.
A few Winged Hydras closed in to retaliate against the flak gunners, but the anti-air defences had their very own magical shield up courtesy of the panda’s science labs. The magical shield generator copied the very same concept of the dungeon core shield, with the biggest difference being that it used the same batteries as the Fortress Golems utilised.
“To allow outgoing fire and block incoming attacks simultaneously while being portable? This remarkable contraption should be hailed as an invention of the year!” Ayse boasted as she saw her generators withstanding the brunt of the Winged Hydra’s toxic spit while the flak guns shredded it into pieces.
Of course, it could only take so much before the batteries wore out, but since it was still the start of the battle, so more than enough supplies were on standby to replace them and keep the generators working.
Logistics had been a nightmare for Qiu Yue, yet she had somehow managed to ensure that every team, squadron and company should not lack any supplies with the aid of her Empire Building System.
As odd as it sounded, the Empire Building had used the Adventurer Savants who had better logical processing because of the way they were ‘built’ to Qiu Yue’s advantage. They had mainly assisted her in creating a logistic protocol to sort the orders since there were no accountants or logistic officers to do the job for them.
Fortunately, this could soon change with Claire as the possible candidate to help them combat this. (But that is for the future.) Those Savants would undoubtedly get transferred under her leadership in such a case, yet for now, the logistic battle was not as pressing as the new batch of Horned Armoured Knights rushing through the yellow haze and jumping over the ditches.
Held in their arms were mages casting spells to remove the yellow haze and creating a temporary bridge to allow the troops to get over the ditch. They had learned from the mistakes of their predecessors, so the Armoured Knights blocked the front with their shield to stop the Royal Sniper from intervening. Alas, this only made it more of a challenge the Royal Snipers craved for.
“It’s time to enter phase two,” Kraft announced as he happily stared at the war room table with all the updates coming in.
