Chapter 207

War, on the verge of breaking out!

Jie Ming stood on the cold metal platform of the third-layer defensive node, his gaze like a torch, looking toward the end of the horizon.

That "sea of elements" composed of fire and lava was slowly and firmly crushing toward the wizards' defense line with an unstoppable posture.

The air was filled with a scorching aura mixed with sulfur and coke, and the earth emitted a low and rhythmic groan under the march of the billions of tons of giant objects in the distance.

Relying on the "Time Sequence Stability Anchor" already installed inside the node, Jie Ming did not feel himself affected by that strange time power.

The invisible fluctuations emitted by the anchor point were like a sturdy dam, firmly locking the surrounding space and time flow rate, creating an absolutely safe "pure land" for the wizards.

However, judging from the dust that had been suspended in mid-air for a long time in the far distance, as well as the strange distortion of light in that area, the intelligence he had risked his life to bring back was indeed correct.

That was a moving time-stagnation domain; any unprotected living being that stepped into it would instantly lose all ability to think and resist, becoming a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Roar—!" "Hiss—!"

Under the silent command of the wizards, outside the node, those biochemical monsters of various forms and ferocious appearances shook their deformed and massive bodies, emitting chaotic and bloodthirsty roars.

They dragged their huge bodies, crowding around the periphery of the node like a moving wall of flesh and blood, staring fixedly at the approaching tide of destruction in the distance with their turbid and crazy eyes.

This was a cannon fodder army created by the wisdom and cruelty of the wizards; their destiny was to buy even a second of precious time for their masters behind them in the upcoming collision.

As the vanguard of the lava giant army, blocking the sky and the sun, crossed a certain invisible boundary pre-set by the wizards—

Boom!!!

In an instant, the whole earth seemed to wake up!

With dozens of defensive nodes as the core, the vast and vast elemental power visible to the naked eye was frantically extracted from the earth and air in all directions, as if summoned by an emperor.

Countless colorful energy streams gathered into roaring rivers in the air, finally frantically rushing toward the main energy cannon that had long been hungry and thirsty at the core of the node!

The runic magic circles around the muzzle lit up one by one, from dim to scorching, the whole process taking less than a second.

The dazzling light made the sky pale in comparison!

Immediately following, one after another, destructive beams capable of tearing the sky were blasted out fiercely!

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

That was not the explosion of shells, but a pure energy torrent capable of annihilating matter!

Dozens of light beams tore through the boundary between earth and sky, and at a speed exceeding sound, accurately blasted into the densest vanguard array of the lava giant army!

There was no screaming, nor any struggle.

Where the light beams passed, hundreds and thousands of lava giants, along with the earth beneath their feet, were completely "erased" in an instant.

Their sturdy rock bodies, under that terrifying energy impact, didn't even have the process of turning into ash, and were directly decomposed into the most primitive elemental particles, dissipating in the air.

One round of volley fire cleared dozens of huge fan-shaped areas in the steel torrent of lava giants.

Its momentum was enough to make any living being's liver and gallbladder split!

However, the number of lava giants was simply too many!

The huge gaps blasted out by the energy cannons were quickly filled by the endless wave of giants from behind in just a few seconds!

They seemed to have no emotions, no fear; the instantaneous evaporation of their companions could not make their pace pause in the slightest.

They continued to approach the wizards' nodes frantically like an untiring tide!

"All personnel, prepare!"

"Biochemical beast army, intercept!"

The cold order was conveyed to the mind of every wizard through the magic network terminal.

A cold light flashed in Jie Ming's eyes. Together with the wizards at other nodes, through spiritual connection, he simultaneously manipulated the biochemical beasts under his command, charging head-on toward the lava giant army that had already approached within a few kilometers!

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

The heavy footsteps were like the drums of doomsday, beating on everyone's heart!

Two torrents composed of monsters collided fiercely under the cold gaze of countless wizards!

Boom!!!

That moment of collision erupted into a primitive slaughter that was tragic to the extreme.

The edge of the Time Sequence Stability Anchor's force field instantly turned into a giant meat grinder of blood and fire!

The multi-armed lava giant beast manufactured by Jie Ming waved its six giant arms burning with alchemical flames, frantically smashing toward the lava giants on the opposite side.

Every heavy blow could smash an ordinary lava giant until its rocks cracked and lava splashed everywhere!

However, the next second, three or four lava giants swarmed up from the side, using their even hotter and heavier bodies to pin down this powerful biochemical beast.

Then, in the most barbaric way, they tore it into pieces.

A rotten flesh stitch monster with a body like a hill opened its giant mouth composed of countless corpses, spraying out a large area of highly corrosive venom.

The venom landed on the lava giants, making a "hissing" sound, instantly corroding large pits.

But the lava giants directly sprayed the boiling lava inside their bodies like high-pressure water guns, instantly evaporating the venom, while also igniting the rotten flesh stitch monster into a giant torch!

The battle situation was exceptionally tragic.

The biochemical beasts, under the manipulation of the wizards, were fearless of death, using biting, charging, self-detonation, and all other means to frantically consume the enemy's numbers.

However, the lava giant army, relying on their overwhelming individual strength and numbers that were despairingly exaggerated, was still advancing steadily!

Lava giants were continuously breaking through the defense line of the biochemical beasts that was collapsing rapidly, approaching the defensive nodes where the wizards were with the momentum to burn everything!

"Prepare for battle!"

The node commander issued the final instruction.

Jie Ming's eyes narrowed; he knew that the mission of the cannon fodder had ended, and next, it was time for the wizards to enter the field themselves!

Just as an elite lava giant over thirty meters tall, holding a huge lava battle axe, broke through the defense line and roared toward the node where Jie Ming was—

Jie Ming unfolded his "Great Da Guang Xiang"!

Hum!

A huge light wheel constructed of thousands of precision runic wizard tools unfolded behind him.

The fully operating light wheel was like a small sun, exuding a dazzling light that one dared not look directly at!

Vast energy, under the guidance of Jie Ming's spiritual power, frantically poured into every node of the Great Da Guang Xiang!

"Die!"

Jie Ming's killing intent boiled, and he pointed forward!

In an instant, a dense torrent of energy bullets, like a broken galaxy, blasted out from the "Great Da Guang Xiang."

Each energy bullet accurately locked onto the lava giants that dared to approach the node!

Swish swish swish swish swish!!!

The piercing sound of breaking air connected into one!

That elite lava giant charging at the very front didn't even have time to swing the battle axe in its hand before its entire body was instantly pierced through by hundreds of energy bullets.

Its sturdy rock body, like cheese hit by bullets, was instantly covered in dense holes.

Immediately following, under the internal explosion of energy, with a "boom," it exploded into a pile of rubble and lava on the ground.

Jie Ming's firepower did not pause in the slightest; he was like an untiring war fortress, starting to frantically attack, clearing every lava giant that dared to approach the defense zone he was in.

At the same time, except for the wizards who needed to focus on operating the node's main cannons, all other wizards also released the powerful wizard spells they had prepared for a long time.

Curses, acid rain, gravity fields, spatial rifts—various wizard spells with extraordinary power erupted simultaneously along the entire defense line!

For a time, the brilliance of elements completely obscured the sky, and the whole world turned into a gorgeous war movement composed of death and destruction!

The war entered the most white-hot stage almost in the blink of an eye.

Don't look at Jie Ming fighting happily, but in reality, the wizards were retreating steadily.

That defense line, which should have been impregnable, was like a fragile sandcastle in front of the endless wave of lava giants, and was quickly compressed to a distance of a few hundred meters around the defensive node!

In just an instant, the biochemical beast army that had been exhausted layer by layer was completely submerged.

In a short time, countless lava giants had already ignored the lethal but insufficient-to-block energy cannons and wizard spell attacks around the node, crossed the battlefield boundary, and ran straight toward the depths of the camp.

However, Jie Ming, who was inside the third-layer defensive node, was not as excited as he was when the battle first started.

Instead, he appeared quite calm.

Although he was also busy manipulating the Great Da Guang Xiang to clear the enemies in front of him, there was no panic or tension on his face.

After firing several accurate energy bullets in succession, shooting down several lava giants that tried to bypass the biochemical beast defense line and climb the node's magic circle.

Jie Ming even had the leisure to ask a wizard operating another energy cannon during a brief interval: "Can we stop them? Those giants rushing past."

That wizard was a senior Tier 2 wizard, and like Jie Ming, his face also carried a kind of near-indifferent calmness.

While quickly adjusting the muzzle angle, he shook his head helplessly, "How is that possible."

He paused and continued: "With our node's maximum safety as the final consideration, and while maintaining the existing range of the defense line, we can only clear out part of the first wave of impact at most."

He pointed to the giants rushing away in the distance: "As for those bypassing from the flanks and rear, we can only let them pass."

"With node safety as the highest priority, what we can do is consume the enemy's strength as much as possible and ensure that the node itself is not directly destroyed."

The other wizards, hearing the conversation between Jie Ming and that Tier 2 wizard, also appeared exceptionally calm.

There was no fear or despair on their faces, only a focus on executing the mission.

After all, each of them had received the most direct order from the command headquarters.

This mission was to "assist in the battle," not to "intercept the enemy."

This meant that the camp's order, when issued, had already set protecting the wizards themselves and the safety of the nodes as the first and most important condition.

As for those enemies bypassing the defense line—that was already a game at a higher level, not something they, the frontline operators, needed to consider.

Moreover, as time passed, Jie Ming also discovered a more bizarre situation in this battle.

Although the momentum on the battlefield was extremely vast, and the light of elements and explosions occurred one after another, as if a life-and-death battle determining fate was taking place.

But how to put it—in the actual engagement, both sides appeared quite "perfunctory."

"It feels like an old married couple dealing with their duties—" Jie Ming muttered to himself.

For example, on the wizard side, the three Tier 5 wizards stationed in the camp did not take action at all!

Clearly, with their power, they were enough to instantly kill any enemy that broke through the defense line, or even turn the entire battlefield upside down.

However, they were just watching all this quietly like bystanders.

Up to now, there had been no movement.

Similarly, on the lava giant side, don't look at the extremely large number of lava giants appearing before us.

But Jie Ming keenly scanned a circle and found that the highest level they faced was only Tier 2 and Tier 3 lava giants.

As for the more powerful combat units above Tier 4 that could cause greater damage, they didn't appear at all!

It's not that these lava giants didn't follow the army out; on the contrary, Jie Ming didn't even need to use his eyes to see, just sensing from afar was enough to feel the high-tier lava giants that had been hiding at the back of the lava giant army.

Although the aura on these lava giants was intense, they were indeed honestly staying at the back, watching their subordinates charge one after another.

And even the lava giants that had broken through the defense line seemed to ignore the existence of these defensive nodes; their "goal" was very clear, just rushing forward blindly.

It seemed as if every node here was not an obstacle to intercept them, but merely a "road sign" to a more distant goal.

Just like now, anyone with eyes could see that the entire defensive node was almost surrounded by countless lava giants.

The front and rear defense lines had been breached, but Jie Ming still had the leisure to chat with the wizard beside him and be curious about some technical issues.

"Speaking of which," Jie Ming, while accurately manipulating a biochemical giant beast attached with the "Earth Pulse" skill to smash a giant rock giant into mud, changed the topic and threw it to that Tier 2 wizard: "The effect of this 'Time Sequence Stability Anchor' is indeed good."

He praised: "To be able to withstand such a scale of time interference in such a short time, I wonder whose masterpiece it is? The exquisiteness of its runic structure and energy conduction is something I've seen for the first time."

Jie Ming was sending a signal very common among wizards: "wanting to exchange knowledge."

In the wizard world, being curious about technical details and taking the initiative to communicate is considered a very normal "pastime" behavior among the wizard group.

This side-noted that Jie Ming really didn't feel pressure.

After all, clearly the surroundings were already full of enemies, but the other side didn't treat the node as a main attack target at all.

Jie Ming even had a feeling that if the node hadn't blocked part of the lava giants' way, I'm afraid those charging lava giants wouldn't have even bothered to look.

However, the Tier 2 wizard with the highest level among this group of wizards shook his head regretfully.

He felt somewhat apologetic about Jie Ming's question: "The Time Sequence Stability Anchor wasn't installed by us; it—a long time ago, had already existed stably on this node."

He paused, his tone carrying a hint of emotion that was difficult to explore: "What we need to do is merely to activate it and cooperate with our own wizard spells to form a complete defense system."

"Oh?" A flash of curiosity crossed Jie Ming's eyes.

This implies that this thing was already laid out at the beginning of the design?

However, it was too late for them to continue chatting in detail.

Just as that Tier 2 wizard finished speaking, from the rear of the node position, which was the flank of the defensive area where Jie Ming and the others were, a more chaotic and sharp alarm suddenly sounded!

Jie Ming didn't need to look back; his keen perception made him immediately feel the frost elemental aura surging from the rear.

Being able to feel such a clear elemental aura from so far away, it was clear that the wizards on the Frost Dark Realm side had also encountered the same situation as them.

"? In that case—" Jie Ming blinked, suddenly thinking of something.

Before he could think carefully, what he imagined had become reality:

The lava giant army that had broken through from the frontline battlefield and the snow monsters that had rushed over from the Frost Dark Realm direction, also bypassing the defense line on the other side with equally terrifying numbers, met head-on!

Although because the camp's protective magic circle had not been lifted for the time being, these monsters did not substantially contact.

The problem was that both sides carried energy fields capable of solidifying time!

Then, at the moment when the monster armies on both sides met, these two energy fields with time-stopping capabilities, pulled from the edge of the plane to the center, also intersected at the same time!

!!!

At that moment, there was no earth-shattering loud noise, not even the light of an energy explosion.

There was only a kind of unimaginable "distortion" acting on the most essential level of time!

Jie Ming and these wizards, because they had activated the "Time Sequence Stability Anchor" in advance, were not directly affected too much.

But Jie Ming could clearly feel that at the moment the energy fields intersected, the entire plane seemed to have undergone some kind of indescribable, essential change!

Rumble—

At the same time, the atmosphere of the Flame Frost Plane suddenly began to vibrate violently!

Jie Ming's pupils contracted, and he raised his head in shock, looking at the distant sky.

The sky, collapsed!

(Something came up, that's all for today)