Translator: AnubisTL
Centered on the squad's position, the cyberpunk steel jungle of countless metal skyscrapers within a radius of several hundred kilometers... had vanished!
In its place lay an endless, flat wasteland of scorched earth, riddled with vitrified craters and twisted metal debris.
The field of vision was completely cleared.
Jieming hovered at the center of the wasteland, the radiance of his [Great Light Phase] slightly dimmed.
The first step to breaking the stalemate had been taken.
Next, he had to find the hidden "beehives."
And then, destroy them completely!
With the battlefield forcibly cleared, the task of locating the enemy's troop deployment nodes had become so simple it was almost tedious.
Under Jieming's devastating saturation bombardment, ordinary metal structures had long since been reduced to ruins or slag.
Now, the only high-rises still standing tall on the scorched earth, relentlessly spewing out servant armies, were as conspicuous as lice on a bald man's head.
Across the plain, shrouded in gunpowder smoke and metallic steam, a lone tower or a small cluster of them stood stubbornly every kilometer or two.
Their metal shells were scorched and deformed, but their structures remained largely intact, their surfaces shimmering with an abnormal energy glow.
Vast numbers of enemies continued to swarm from within, like bees spewing from a hive.
"Targets locked! Prioritize destroying these nodes!" the fifth-tier wizard declared, his voice carrying a hint of ease as he marked the five nearest surviving towers.
With clear objectives, the wizards' efficiency soared instantly.
With a thought, Jieming retrieved three brand-new metal discs from his internal space, their surfaces flowing with elemental radiance.
Three Elemental Storage Runic Artifacts flew behind him, swiftly replacing the three old disks in the center of the [Great Light Phase] that had dimmed from excessive energy drain.
Abundant energy once again filled the array, causing the Great Light Phase's radiance to flare up... No! It should be said that it was even more dazzling than before.
This was because the number of rune-imbued magical artifacts embedded in the array had already broken through the ten-thousand mark, thanks to the continuous production and replenishment from the internal automated factory.
With preparations complete, the wizards launched their attacks one after another.
The leading fifth-tier wizard clenched his fists, five highly condensed destruction rays of different colors dancing at his fingertips.
After a brief charge, the five rays instantly crossed space under his control, precisely hitting five different towers simultaneously!
The two fourth-tier wizards coordinated with tacit understanding: one summoned a massive elemental formation to condense energy, while the other guided and compressed it into a giant thunder spear that spanned the sky, hurling it violently at another tower with terrifying force.
The remaining wizards, based on their respective strengths, formed teams of either ten-plus or four to five people, unleashing their most powerful single-target or small-area siege spells.
Streaks of lethal light tore through the sky above the scorched earth, crashing down upon the conspicuous targets.
Jieming, after replenishing his energy, displayed an even more astonishing siege capability.
His spirit was intensely focused. The massive [Great Light Phase] array behind him subtly adjusted its angle, locking onto ten towers within the range of his mental power!
The next moment, the [Great Light Phase] unleashed a barrage.
Under Jieming's control, this barrage split into ten dazzling energy whips. They tore through the air with piercing shrieks, violently lashing the surfaces of the ten towers!
Buzz!!!
The instant they were struck, translucent energy barriers with flowing, complex geometric patterns materialized on the towers' surfaces, attempting to resist the external destruction.
However, under Jieming's relentless bombardment—a veritable "torrent of energy"—these barriers held for less than two seconds before shattering like fragile glass, letting out a series of strained, agonizing shrieks!
With the barriers broken, the energy whips met no further resistance and struck the towers themselves!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ten explosions, nearly merging into a single roar, erupted!
The ten towering buildings—along with their internal teleportation devices, energy cores, and the servant army yet to emerge—were completely vaporized by the extreme heat and destructive energy the moment the whips touched them.
In a single volley, ten nodes were obliterated!
Only ten bottomless, vitrified craters remained, with faint wisps of smoke drifting upward—Jieming had completely eradicated even the deepest foundations.
This terrifying siege efficiency drew the gazes of the other wizards, who were still in the middle of their own spells. Their eyes betrayed no attempt to hide their admiration and astonishment.
The fifth-tier wizard leading the team stared at Jieming, clicking his tongue in amazement.
With his keen eye, he could immediately discern the strengths and weaknesses of Jieming's attack pattern.
Though the energy whip possessed unparalleled power, its speed and flexibility were critical flaws.
Not only could a fourth-tier wizard evade it with ease if prepared, but even a seasoned third-tier wizard could do so.
However, when it came to dealing with fixed targets and storming fortified positions, this pure display of overwhelming force—a relentless torrent of energy—was even more efficient than anything the fifth-tier wizard himself could muster!
"The drawbacks..." the fifth-tier wizard mused, watching Jieming down two more tubes of high-grade mental power potions without a moment's pause. "Must be the immense strain on his mental power and the bottomless consumption of that special energy pool."
But possessing such terrifying instantaneous destructive power is enough to make up for those shortcomings, he concluded. What a... monstrous little brat.
He said nothing more, but the look of approval in his eyes deepened.
Seeing that the node clearing method was effective, he immediately ordered his squad to lock onto all remaining tower nodes in their line of sight, determined to uproot the enemy's troop transport capabilities in this precinct!
Under the wizard squad's efficient and lethal assault, the servant army, which had been surging like a tide, visibly weakened, its once-dense formations thinning out.
Without the continuous reinforcements from the rear nodes, these low-level servant armies were severely crippled.
Faced with the merciless slaughter unleashed by Jieming and the other wizards, the servant army finally began to show signs of collapse. No longer charging fearlessly, they fell into chaos and started to retreat.
From a high-altitude perspective, the battlefield across the Giant Spirit Realm continent was now dotted with rising explosions.
Evidently, the other wizard squads that had landed on the ground had also quickly found their own solutions after the initial struggle.
Like Jieming's squad, they had begun large-scale operations to clear the "Soldier Bee Nests" hidden within the steel jungle.
The sharp decline in ground servant forces seemed to sap the Giant Spirit Realm's regular army of its core strength.
High in the sky and in the distance, the Giant Spirit Realm Fleet and mechanical legion, still locked in combat with the Wizard Cannon Fodder Legion, showed a marked decline in their resistance. Their formations began to loosen and gradually contract as they retreated.
The clamor of war shifted from intense confrontation to sporadic skirmishes and pursuits.
"The enemy in this area has been cleared. Next... let's collect resources first. We'll have plenty more to fight later."
Watching the last batch of routed servant army, the fifth-tier wizard began issuing new orders.
Jieming said nothing more. Each wizard took action, capturing the last of the servant army and storing them as spoils of war.
Realizing the most difficult part of the first phase of the battle was drawing to a close, the wizards began to transition to their new mission in an orderly manner.
Temporary resource collection magic array were deployed across the battlefield. Whether it was the wreckage of the Giant Spirit Realm's regular warships, fragments of mechanical giants, or the bizarre corpses of the servant army, all were drawn, collected, and sorted by an invisible force.
These materials and energy from the otherworld would become precious resources for the wizards to create cannon fodder for their next offensive.
Jieming also retracted the [Great Light Phase] and slowly landed on a patch of scorched earth, feeling the significant drain on his mental power and the humming of his internal automated factory.
He gazed at the scarred battlefield, now firmly under the wizards' control, and let out a soft breath.
The brutal, chaotic, yet efficient first phase of the landing operation had finally concluded, marked by the Giant Spirit Realm army's retreat and the wizards beginning to clear the battlefield.
(End of the Chapter)
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