Translator: AnubisTL
On the horizon, the counter-attack legions of the Giant Spirit Realm advanced like a slowly moving metal continent.
The sky-darkening fleet of warships maintained their deadly formation, while massive war giants issued deep roars, their backs laden with mountain-like batteries.
Countless servant troops of varying forms mingled among them, like remoras clinging to a whale, their sheer numbers threatening to fill the entire sky.
On the wizards' side, their army also stood in battle-ready formation.
Compared to the initial landing battle, the wizards' lineup had undergone significant changes.
The massive Cannon Fodder Legion still formed the front line, but it was now bolstered by a large number of unprecedentedly bizarre units.
Some resembled haphazardly assembled wizard constructs, their gears exposed, wires tangled, and radiating unstable energy fluctuations.
Others were more twisted bioweapons emitting targeted energy radiation.
These were another product of the logistics wizards' efforts—new types of cannon fodder units capable of rapidly multiplying or assembling on the battlefield using enemy corpses, discarded metal, and even residual energy.
The goal was to achieve a state of "fighting to sustain the fight," continuously draining the enemy's resources.
Jieming was not at the main battlefield within the giant spirit realm, but had once again positioned himself beyond the planar barrier, in the vast expanse of chaotic void interwoven with elemental turbulence.
With the giant spirit realm mobilizing all its forces, they naturally wouldn't be content with mere defense.
The giant spirit realm had dispatched elite fleets with the intent of recapturing and sealing the massive, scar-like breach in the planar barrier.
Wizard Command responded by dividing its forces, assigning specific battlefield sectors based on each wizard's performance in the previous battle and their area of expertise.
Due to the destructive area-of-effect capabilities of Jieming's Great Light Phase, which could easily cause friendly fire in the confined internal battlefield, he was assigned to the more boundless external battlefield, where he could unleash his firepower without restraint.
In the void, the two massive legions faced each other from a distance.
On one side stood an orderly metallic tide, and on the other, a silent and eerie flood of wizard constructs.
The grim atmosphere seemed to solidify the turbulent energy currents around them.
The battle erupted the moment both sides reached their optimal firing range!
Behind Jieming, the massive Great Light Phase array had already deployed, its light swirling and flowing.
But unlike before, the tens of thousands of rune-imbued magical artifacts in the array no longer bore simple energy bullet or ray runes. Instead, they were etched with meticulously crafted witchcraft models, developed by wizards in the Chamber of Time Laws, specifically tailored to the physiology of the giant spirit realm's indigenous population!
This tactical shift was only possible thanks to the automated factory within Jieming's internal space operating at full capacity, providing the necessary hardware support.
"Fire!"
Without further command, the vanguard units of both sides charged headlong into the hail of fire, crashing into each other like two colliding torrents.
At Jieming's mental command, the long-accumulated Patroller cannon fodder swarm surged forward first.
Along with various self-detonating units released by other wizards, they detonated a chain of destructive light spheres within the enemy fleet, instantly clearing large areas and delivering a devastating blow to the enemy vanguard.
Under the cover of the cannon fodder's suicidal entanglement, the wizards in the rear began casting spells.
This time, it was a far cry from the cautious approach during the landing battle.
A flood of multicolored, varied spells poured from the wizard ranks, crashing down on the giant spirit realm's legions in a overwhelming deluge!
Corrosive acid mists, seismic waves that shattered metal structures, disruptive radiation that overloaded energy circuits, illusionary force fields that distorted soul perception, and Balthasar's "Resonant Disintegration Wave" that induced internal rejection and self-replicating diffusion...
These meticulously researched spells demonstrated astonishing effects.
In one precinct, dark green corrosive mists enveloped the giant spirit realm's warship shields, which melted like butter under a hot knife. The hulls emitted piercing hissing sounds as they rapidly dissolved.
In another sector, invisible seismic waves swept across, instantly stiffening the massive mechanical constructs. Sparks flew from their joints, and some unstable units disintegrated mid-air.
Most terrifyingly, these specialized spells, developed specifically against the giant spirit realm's indigenous forces, had minimal impact on the allied cannon fodder units mixed within the enemy ranks.
The wizards could finally unleash unrestrained, all-encompassing firepower!
Horrific scenes unfolded across the void.
Giant spirit realm warships lost power in droves, twisted and deformed, or exploded from within under the targeted spells.
Powerful war giants were bound by special energy shackles, then torn apart by the swarming cannon fodder units.
Even on the high-tier battlefield, where the few sixth-tier wizards faced a numerical superiority of the giant spirit realm's level 7 experts, they achieved an almost crushing dominance through their cunning and bizarre targeted spells!
The giant spirit realm's commanders, a mixture of fury and shock, attempted to launch indiscriminate area-of-effect attacks.
However, they discovered that their energy cannons and conventional munitions, while annihilating the wizard cannon fodder, also inflicted devastating casualties on their own units.
This crippling restraint left them so stifled they nearly vomited blood.
From the moment of contact, the battle had become a one-sided slaughter!
Jieming, positioned in a relatively safe area within the wizard formation, maintained the continuous glow of the Great Light Phase under the tacit protection of other wizards.
Hundreds of thousands of specialized spells rained down on the enemy like a torrential downpour every second.
Watching the enemy ranks collapse under the targeted strikes, he inwardly sighed.
"Pity... the symbiotic scourge fungus requires a biological host environment to take effect. In this void, it's utterly useless."
This meant he couldn't personally witness his "plague" wreaking havoc on the battlefield, which left him with a slight sense of regret.
Meanwhile, on the main battlefield within the giant spirit realm, the situation was equally dire, if not more so.
The narrow space amplified the wizards' area-of-effect spells, concentrating their impact.
The microbial agent developed by Jieming had been mixed into special artillery shells and fired into the enemy ranks at the start of the battle. However, its insidious influence, masked by the dazzling, immediate effects of the wizards' powerful spells, had gone largely unnoticed for the time being.
Under the wizards' "cheating"-like targeted strikes, the giant spirit realm's massive legions retreated even faster than during the previous landing battle!
When the real-time casualty report showed the loss rate had crossed the critical threshold of fifty percent, the commander of the giant spirit realm's frontline—the controller within a massive mechanical puppet whose qi had reached the peak of the seventh-tier—trembled violently with rage, his spirit waves filled with resentment and humiliation.
But he understood that continuing the fight would only lead to total annihilation.
"Retreat... Full retreat! Hold the second line of defense!" A mental command, seething with fury and despair, swept across the battlefield.
The remaining giant spirit realm troops, battered and humiliated, retreated in disarray like a receding tide, fleeing toward the deep-defense nodes within their homeland.
Beyond the planar barrier, Jieming watched the enemy forces retreat like a tide, slowly dimming the light of his Great Light Phase.
In this second battle, though the enemy had prepared even stronger forces than during the initial landing, the wizard civilization had secured another crushing victory through targeted research.
The power of knowledge had been demonstrated in its full glory.
(End of the Chapter)
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