Chapter 314

Fortunately, that crew member didn't have time to care about these things, just said in a intermittent voice:

"Don't—go out—the people who ran out found that the situation in the city outside—is even worse than in the camp! That strange disease has long since spread! The whole city—is almost becoming a dead city!"

As if to verify the crew member's words, a non-human, terrifying roar mixed with metal friction and flesh tearing came from a nearby building, then stopped abruptly.

"Sir—I'm so tired—"

Endi was struck by lightning and stood there blankly.

He suddenly remembered his inexplicable fatigue... a terrible thought bit into his reason like a poisonous snake.

He couldn't hear what the two people next to him were saying anymore; Endi pushed the adjutant away and stumbled back to the military camp, running toward the warship docking port.

His luck was good; he didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, as if those fellow creatures who had already gone mad ignored him.

Finally, Endi rushed to his warship and used his last strength to activate the emergency symbiosis protocol.

The cold mechanical interface pierced into his body, and the familiar sense of connection came, but this time, it didn't bring a sense of power, but a kind of... out-of-control strange feeling.

He looked down and saw his semi-fluid body metalizing at an unprecedented speed.

And this metalization carried a chaotic, twisted characteristic, which violently conflicted with the mechanical arm he had originally meticulously tuned, as if two different wills were fighting for control of his body.

"Damn—wizards!!!"

Endi used his last consciousness to let out a curse filled with endless regret and resentment.

The next moment, his thinking went completely dark.

His body merged with the warship, turning into a stationary sculpture of metal and flesh.

And Endi, as well as this military camp, this city, were just the starting point for the spread of the "Symbiotic Disaster."

Jie Ming's bacterial colony, which had become slower to take effect due to simplification, had instead become a greater disaster by mistake.

Thousands of kilometers behind the Giant Spirit Realm defensive line, a city called "Silver Glow City" still maintained its superficial prosperity.

Although it was only a small city, its scale was comparable to a medium-sized country due to the vastness of the Giant Spirit Realm.

This was a gathering place for many officers' families and elite descendants, so it appeared more extravagant than many large cities.

Luxurious neon lights flowed on the surface of the skyscrapers that towered into the clouds, and gorgeous private flying shuttles shuttled through the aerial lanes, as if the tragic defeat on the front battlefield and the spreading terrifying plague had nothing to do with this place.

Inside a soundproof room of a luxury residence, a relatively petite young native was nervously confirming that all doors and windows were sealed.

It sneakily took out two exquisite containers, which contained viscous liquids of different colors that glowed slightly.

Then, under its excited gaze, it carefully poured these two cups of liquid slowly into one cup.

As a slime-like creature whose reproduction method was to merge with a part of the partner's body to give birth to the next generation, in the culture of the Giant Spirit Realm, mixing two liquids was a rather lewd behavior.

While it was indulging in it—

Bang!!

The heavy alloy door was violently kicked open by a huge force!

The young native trembled all over in fright, and the liquid almost spilled out.

It just wanted to explain stutteringly, but saw that the parents who broke in didn't have angry faces, but unprecedented terror!

"Run!!!" The parents' mental scream was filled with despair.

The next second, blinding light swallowed its vision.

A deafening explosion came from overhead, the whole room shook violently, and the gorgeously decorated dome shattered inch by inch!

Above the sky, the clouds of war had arrived.

Wizard cannon-fodder units, like floating mountains, had broken through the long-range warning network at some point.

They appeared abruptly over the city, and the shadows they cast instantly shrouded the former prosperity.

Immediately after, countless sorcery beams of different colors, but all containing the aura of destruction, fell from the sky!

Boom! Boom! Boom—

The towering metal buildings twisted and collapsed in the beams, the luxurious airships turned into fireballs in the air explosions, and the meticulously maintained sky gardens instantly turned into scorched earth.

Under this sudden saturation strike, those hastily organized anti-aircraft fires were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Any aircraft attempting to take off and escape was precisely targeted and shot down by the wizards, turning into fireworks in the night sky.

Jie Ming hovered in mid-air, indifferently overlooking the city below that was being rapidly "formatted."

After completing the first round of attacks, he, along with other wizards, directed his cannon-fodder units to land.

The black giants under his command were like a demolition team, their massive bodies carrying invincible power, directly flattening and crushing large areas of buildings, ensuring there were no blind spots.

The "Symbiotic Disaster" bacterial colony developed by Jie Ming had effects far exceeding expectations.

In less than a month, the once-solid Giant Spirit Realm defensive line had collapsed from within on its own.

The plague destroyed the cornerstone of the army—those hundreds of millions of low-level units.

Powerhouses above Tier 5 could certainly rely on their own powerful energy and mental power to forcibly expel or suppress the bacterial strains, but their numbers were too few relative to the entire civilization.

Without the support of a massive army, relying only on these high-end combat forces, resistance became pale and weak in the face of the wizards' highly targeted sorceries.

Thus, the war entered the second stage: systematic physical clearance.

With each Tier 6 wizard as the core, large wizard legions advanced steadily like a comb.

Their goal was clear: to destroy every city and stronghold of the Giant Spirit Realm that had strategic value or population concentration, and completely obliterate its war potential.

Jie Ming was now executing such a mission.

With the violent cleanup of the black giant legion, some high-level natives hiding in ruins or underground bunkers were forced to appear and flee in a panic.

But they were often destroyed instantly by the wizards who had already locked onto the targets with precise sorcery fire as soon as they showed their heads.

Just then, Jie Ming's peripheral vision caught a figure squirming in terror in the shadows of a broken wall to the side, trying to escape.

His attention had just been drawn over—

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

Four sharp attacks, wrapped in a desperate will, suddenly erupted from the shadows directly below him!

Energy blades, corrosive liquid, mental spikes, and high-frequency vibration waves attacked Jie Ming from four tricky angles simultaneously.

However, not even a ripple appeared on Jie Ming's face.

"Old tricks." He didn't even bother to strike a defensive pose.

During the initial landing battle, this kind of lurking assassination relying on shadows or visual blind spots had indeed caused some trouble for the wizards.

But as the number of engagements increased, this type of ability of the Giant Spirit Realm natives had long been thoroughly studied by the logistics-tier wizards, and various counter-detection sorceries and early warning formulas had been developed.

Almost at the same moment the attack was launched, the largest black giant leader beside Jie Ming moved.

Its innate ability was activated, and the flow of time around it was suddenly distorted!

Its own speed soared in the time-disorder field, while the incoming attacks seemed to fall into a quagmire in the invisible deceleration field.

Four muffled explosions sounded almost simultaneously.

The black giant leader appeared instantly beside the four lurkers like a ghost, and its giant palm covered in liquid metal crushed them like crushing foam, easily crushing three of the assassins along with the shadows they were hiding in!

When it grabbed the last native whose aura clearly reached Tier 4, the other party let out an angry and puzzled mental roar in despair:

"Why?! Why invade us?! What did we do wrong?!"

Jie Ming glanced at the struggling slime, with no pity in his eyes, only a trace of disdain and indifference.

He didn't even bother to waste words explaining the wizard civilization's logic of "discovering potential competitors, must strangle them," or mentioning the "dark history" of the Giant Spirit Realm itself enslaving dozens of planes and evolving by plundering others' limbs.

In the endless void, the law of the jungle was the most basic rule.

Whether it was just or not often depended on which side you were standing on.

Even many times, there was no concept of justice at all.

The relationship between civilizations was more like a food chain in an ecosystem.

The process of one civilization destroying another was just as natural as biological feeding.

"If you really want to talk about problems, it's probably just that you are too unlucky." Jie Ming whispered to himself.

The black giant leader closed its five fingers, and the mental fluctuations of the last assassin stopped abruptly, turning into a pool of mucus mixed with metal debris.

Looking up, not only on Jie Ming's side, but wizard squads landing in other areas also encountered similar desperate resistance or suicide assassinations to varying degrees.

But under the various detection, early warning, and counter-measures the wizards had prepared, these resistances were meaningless except for increasing casualties and highlighting the despair of the Giant Spirit Realm natives.

The wizards' attitude toward the remaining natives who hid and no longer showed themselves was also quite "casual."

As long as they didn't jump out to hinder them from executing their missions, the wizards were too lazy to spend energy on carpet searches and kills.

Their main goal was to flatten cities, destroy strongholds, and erase all infrastructure that could support the war.

And Jie Ming's attention quickly moved away from this small episode, immersing himself in his internal space.

There, a special talisman was flickering with an imperceptible misty light, and wisps of "Red Dust Qi" containing the obsessions, desires, and traces of civilization of all living beings were being drawn and gathered from the ruins of the city destroyed below.

The highly developed and populous civilization foundation of the Giant Spirit Realm provided him with a large amount of high-quality Red Dust Qi for the first time in a long time.

"It's a pity that the scope of the entire battlefield is too large, and many areas are beyond the effective absorption range of my 'Red Dust Pull' talisman." Jie Ming thought with some regret.