Chapter 174: Targeted Destructive Magic and Rout

On the wizard "ship" plane, the camp's alarm echoed in the cold void like a funeral bell.

Gao Jie Ming and Sister Wei Ao, along with over two hundred other logistics wizards, floated quietly in the sky of the plane.

Their figures appeared insignificant before the massive space crack that had torn the sky.

As soon as the alarm occurred, they were recalled to the "ship" plane by the commanders.

This was the last retreat of the wizard expeditionary force and their safest brain.

Above, through the huge space crack where the sky was torn, the war happening on the Flame-Frost Plane was clearly visible, presented intuitively before all wizards.

At this moment, the battle situation was already showing a complete disadvantage for the expeditionary force.

The billion-strong army gathered by Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, with their numbers and the advantage of fighting on their home turf, was crazily squeezing the wizard's battle line.

The three strategic volcanoes of Lava Giants charged by earth vein magma would spray red light every once in a while, turning most of the battlefield into a thousand-degree purgatory.

High heat made the Lava Giants' strength surge, turning them into pure liquid lava, almost immune to physical attacks and most elemental magic.

And the surviving Snow Monsters took the opportunity to use ice-type magic to launch a charge on the other side, cooperating with the Lava Giants' offensive to split the wizard's cannon fodder group.

Unlike Lava Giants and Snow Monsters fighting on their home turf, which could continuously gather and replenish troops from the entire plane, their reserve army numbers were in the hundreds of millions, almost endless.

The "material reserves" carried by the wizards who came on an expedition were limited.

Their biochemical beasts and golem cannon fodder needed to be transported by air, cultivated, and manufactured by alchemy; once consumed in excess, they could not be replenished in a short time and could only rely on remote transport from the plane workshop far away at the junction point.

That was time-consuming and laborious, and remote water could not quench near thirst.

At this time, the second round of war on the Flame-Frost Plane had lasted for a full three days, and the corpses piled up on the battlefield could already be counted in the millions!

The wizard's cannon fodder legion had visibly reduced by more than half in the tide-like impact.

Clearly, no elite enemy units had participated in the war, but facing simple numerical oppression and the disadvantage of the strategic environment, even some unlucky combat wizards had suffered casualties.

The wizard's battle line had been squeezed by the flood of Lava Giants and Snow Monsters until it was unbearable, and the energy shield outside the camp emitted bursts of humming sounds under continuous bombardment.

From time to time, areas flickered with unstable rune light, crumbling, as if they could be completely pierced at any time.

However, the wizards in the rear, even witnessing such a dangerous battle situation, did not have much fluctuation in their expressions.

Gao Jie Ming saw the cold profile of Sister Wei Ao beside him, as well as the calm and composed faces of other logistics wizards in the distance, and understood in his heart.

It seems that for these wizards who often participate in plane wars, the current disadvantage and even casualties were all within the calculations of the high-level commanders.

This was just the prelude to the plane war, and a bigger storm was brewing.

Gao Jie Ming subconsciously looked behind him, where, in the barren land on the wizard "ship" plane, a huge cannon barrel suddenly protruded from the originally flat black scorched earth!

"It's really—exaggerated, this thing can no longer be called a cannon barrel—" Gao Jie Ming looked at the astonishing caliber of the cannon barrel and couldn't help but think in his heart.

That caliber of over one kilometer was completely beyond all his cognition of "cannon barrels."

At this time, inside this terrifying cannon barrel, energy was constantly accumulating.

Looking from deep inside the muzzle, light clusters emitting strange colors were gathering at the center of the cannon barrel at an astonishing speed.

That was a spectacle formed by pure and vast elemental energy being compressed to the extreme; every bit gathered was accompanied by faint humming and distortion of the surrounding space, as if even the void felt uneasy in front of this power.

This energy was so huge that Gao Jie Ming could clearly feel the power contained within it, enough to destroy stars.

With the destructive power of wizards, if this shot were pure attack-type magic, it could probably blow the Flame-Frost Plane into pieces!

But doing so would completely destroy the plane itself, which was not the purpose of the wizard workshop's invasion.

So the magic loaded inside was not that kind of pure attack-type magic from the beginning, but targeted destructive magic.

It sounded like these two types of magic were very close, both carrying the word "destruction," but in fact they were completely different.

Attack-type magic was pure physical or elemental macroscopic destructive power, aimed at destroying all visible matter and energy.

And targeted destructive magic was "precise" destruction; it was not indiscriminate strikes, but the deconstruction and annihilation of specific targets. At this moment, the magic filled in the cannon barrel was precisely the magic carefully modulated and aimed at deep destruction of Lava Giants!

This was the latest result that Master Aierwen from the Plane Nuolun Workshop had been researching day and night in the past less than ten days.

Both were researching Lava Giants; Gao Jie Ming's research topic was to discover the weaknesses of Lava Giants and formulate methods of restriction and technology based on this.

And Master Aierwen's research direction was even more profound; he focused on targeted destruction of the most basic elemental structure of Lava Giants!

Simply put, this was a targeted attack that decomposed from the most basic particle structure of Lava Giants.

It could gain insight into the most microscopic level of the Lava Giant's living rock and lava plasma, disintegrate its molecular structure, and make it annihilate in essence.

According to the intelligence Jie Ming knew, besides the targeted destruction spell model of Lava Giants researched by Master Aierwen, another Tier 5 wizard participating in the expedition this time also researched a targeted destruction spell model for Snow Monsters.

However, this time because of the small thoughts of the Lava Giant Kalamus, the Snow Monsters who came to participate in the attack also suffered heavy losses, so there was no need to target Snow Monsters for the time being.

Boom—

Not long after, the distorted light clusters in the cannon barrel condensed to the extreme, suddenly turning into a terrifying energy beam with colorful light!

The light beam tore through the void, emitting a deafening roar, directly crossing the other side of the sky crack, bombarding toward the battlefield on the Flame-Frost Plane.

The light beam expanded rapidly after leaving the muzzle, and when crossing the space crack, it expanded directly to tens of kilometers!

Its light instantly covered most of the battlefield, enveloping all creatures present in a strange and pure halo.

A dead silence·

Facing the sudden attack, the clamor at the center of the battlefield suddenly stagnated.

However, an unbelievable scene happened!

In that grand and colorful light beam, whether it was the wizard's cannon fodder legion, or the Snow Monsters of the Frost-Dark Realm, or even the fragile flowers and plants and hard rocks, none suffered any damage.

They still stood in place, not melting, not freezing; this light seemed to be just natural light with somewhat gorgeous colors.

But only those Lava Giants who were majestic before, turned into liquid in high temperature, and swept everything, underwent a huge change.

The moment they touched the light beam, their bodies began to tremble violently, subconsciously emitting painful wails, and those wails were filled with despair and indescribable fear!

Their lava bodies collapsed like sandcastles, the flowing lava blood boiled and decomposed, and they were decomposed into nothingness in the light beam in an instant!

They were not shattered, nor were they burned, but were directly disintegrated into the smallest particles from the material level, and finally returned to nothingness!

The number of Lava Giants, which had grown to nearly ten million, completely disappeared from the battlefield in just a few seconds!

This sudden precise strike shocked all the indigenous people participating in the war on the Flame-Frost Plane; they had never seen such a strange and efficient annihilation method.

But the wizards were not dazed!

"All combat wizards, advance with everyone! Cannon fodder troops, press up! Annihilate the remaining enemies!" While the aftereffects of the light beam bombardment had not yet dissipated, Augustine's order was clearly transmitted to every combat wizard through the Magic Net.

The combat wizards were well prepared; they were like hunting falcons, taking advantage of the Lava Giants being "evaporated" and the battlefield being in chaos,

and the moment the Snow Monsters were also in a daze, they commanded the cannon fodder army to launch a full-scale attack.

The wizard cannon fodder legion emitted sky-shaking roars; they mercilessly crushed over the scorched earth left after the Lava Giants disappeared, aiming directly at the Snow Monster legion that had not yet reacted from the shock.

Various magic poured down like rain, and steel golems and flesh-and-blood giant deformities charged regardless of everything.

The wizard's attack, like a flood that destroyed the withered and decayed, pressed all the remaining Lava Giant and Snow Monster troops on the battlefield back at once. Soon, the indigenous army suffered a comprehensive rout.

The huge legion that was still high-spirited before had completely lost its fighting spirit at this moment.

Whether it was the remaining Lava Giants or the Snow Monster army, they threw everything behind their heads and fled in a panic toward the direction they came from. The original formation ceased to exist, leaving only the wolf-fox fleeing without organization or discipline.

The two monster kings who were always irritable outside the battlefield—Kalamus and Agron—even seeing their subordinates defeated, had no intention of blaming their subordinates.

They were both shocked by the terrifying destructive power of that light beam just now.

That was not fire, nor was it ice frost, but it could make millions of Lava Giants disappear instantly!

This had already exceeded their cognition of the inherent laws of this plane and was a power that could not be understood.

Their eyes were full of solemnity and fear, and they dared not act rashly again.

On the "ship" plane, Sister Wei Ao looked at this scene happening on the Flame-Frost Plane through the crack in the sky, watching millions of Lava Giants disappear instantly, watching the Snow Monster legion defeated under the iron hooves of the wizards, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of her mouth.

She looked at Gao Jie Ming beside her, whose eyes were also flashing with amazement, and said softly:

"Now, the war has entered the second stage." ===== CHAPTER 175 =====