Chapter 276: Single-handed Combat

"What on earth is going on?"

Elliot was utterly bewildered.

However, no one answered his question. The others were also completely confused at this moment.

It wasn't until the monotonous, cold voice of the tower spirit sounded again that everyone suddenly snapped back to attention.

[Detecting a large number of life forms approaching, position 12 kilometers southeast, estimated contact in 3 minutes.]

Elliot looked at the army in the image with a gloomy expression and gritted his teeth as he issued the order.

"Engage!"

At this point, there was no turning back. They could only fight it out.

They had twelve wizard towers on their side, so their chances of victory were still very high! Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

The two armies soon met on the vast wilderness, like two surging floods crashing together. Without any communication, the battle erupted in an instant.

Deafening battle cries immediately rose to the sky!

Looking down from high above, the front ranks of both armies had already become entangled in chaotic melee, slaughtering each other like a meat grinder.

It was as if red ink had been splattered like raindrops on a sheet of white paper, slowly spreading out. In the blink of an eye, the vast wilderness was soaked in blood.

At the same time, the battle in the sky above also entered a white-hot stage.

Crack! The black iron chains on the hull of the Black Chain Dreadnought suddenly broke free, their surfaces gleaming with dazzling magical light. They rapidly extended like iron whips, viciously lashing at the Star Fortress, causing its surface energy field to ripple and distort visibly with each strike.

The Star Fortress did not back down, firing dense beams of runes and dissociation rays that swept towards the Black Chain Dreadnought in an overwhelming barrage.

At the same time, the wizard towers on both sides also opened fire simultaneously.

Points of starlight appeared near the tops of the towers, rapidly expanding until they became dazzling spheres of light as bright as suns.

In the next second, countless crimson beams shot out from the light spheres, densely firing towards each other.

At the same time, large numbers of golem puppets flew out from the wizard towers, engaging in fierce combat high in the sky.

Compared to the Black Chain Towers, the Star Alliance side was clearly inferior in terms of numbers, whether it was wizard towers or war constructs.

But the Star Alliance had the advantage of also having an air fleet.

Thousands of flying magic ships charged aggressively towards the Black Chain Towers' wizard towers and dreadnoughts, launching suicide attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Dozens of ships turned into fireballs and fell to the ground in an instant under the covering fire of the Black Chain wizard towers.

However, the magic ships showed no fear. The rune turrets and mana cannons mounted on the ships all opened fire, instantly engulfing a Black Chain Dreadnought in dense beams and shells! BOOM!

Although the firepower of the magic ships was not strong, many ants can bite an elephant to death. Under the saturated bombardment of the air fleet, the Black Chain Dreadnought that was concentrated on only held out for two or three breaths before violently disintegrating, falling to the ground as scrap metal.

"Damn it!"

Elliot stared at those flying magic ships with an ashen face, cursing inwardly.

In just this short moment, four Black Chain Dreadnoughts had already crashed, while the other side had paid the price of over a hundred magic ships.

Although from the perspective of battle losses, their side held a huge advantage.

But in reality, it wasn't calculated that way.

The Black Chain Dreadnoughts were extremely expensive to build, far exceeding those flying magic ships. Even if only one crashed, Elliot felt somewhat distressed.

These were all his assets! "Have the puppet army prioritize taking out those airships!" Elliot issued new orders in irritation.

But as soon as he finished speaking, a subordinate beside him said with a bitter expression: "My lord, I'm afraid that's not possible. Our puppet army does not have the advantage and cannot disengage to deal with those airships."

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Elliot looked at the speaking wizard with a shocked gaze.

Their twelve wizard towers' built-in puppet armies added up to over 100,000, with over a thousand wizard-level puppets. The Star Alliance only had six wizard towers, so their built-in puppet armies couldn't possibly outnumber them no matter how you looked at it.

But when Elliot turned his view to the battlefield of the puppet armies, he was stunned to find that this was indeed the case.

The total number of puppet armies on the Star Alliance side was less than theirs, but the number of wizard-level puppets that served as the main force was almost the same.

Even more shocking was that the Star Alliance's wizard-level puppets had some kind of trick - whenever they were about to be destroyed, they would suddenly explode, taking their opponent down with them!

For every Star Alliance wizard-level puppet the Black Chain Towers destroyed, they had to pay the price of equal or even greater losses of wizard-level puppets.

As this went on, the rate of losses for the Black Chain Towers' wizard-level puppets far exceeded the Star Alliance's, naturally putting them at a gradual disadvantage.

Seeing this, Elliot was both shocked and furious. He also vaguely understood why Yuki's army had been defeated by the Star Alliance when the Star Continent's seal was first lifted.

He had thought it was because Yuki was too incompetent, but now it seemed that the Star Alliance was simply too powerful!

As time passed, the war grew increasingly fierce.

Almost every minute, magic ships or war fortresses would plummet trailing black smoke, like meteors with flaming tails, crashing to the ground with a thunderous boom and exploding into huge balls of flame.

The intense flames and violent shockwaves disintegrated many golems that couldn't dodge in time.

However, no one paid attention to the battlefield on the ground. Everyone's gaze was fixed tightly on the battle in the sky above.

They all understood that the outcome of the battle in the heavens was the key factor that would truly determine the course of this war.

And when the war had been going on for about half an hour, the first wizard tower to crash finally appeared.

On the Black Chain Tower side, a medium-sized wizard tower fell towards the ground trailing smoke, its body battered and covered in cavities left by dissociation rays and scorch marks from plasma cannons.

Elliot's face was so dark it looked like water was about to drip from it.

The atmosphere in the hall was stifling, and the wizards all wore grim expressions.

The combat power of that large Star Alliance wizard tower was unusually formidable. Even while withstanding the siege of one of their large wizard towers and three medium towers, it was still able to destroy a medium tower in return!

It was simply inconceivable! "That wizard tower's mirage protective energy field and elemental pool must have been enhanced!" a wizard said through gritted teeth. "And its firepower is ridiculously strong too, with over 300 rune turrets alone!"

Elliot glared at the speaking wizard, ignoring such obvious nonsense.

He wanted to concentrate firepower to destroy the Star Alliance's only large wizard tower first, but the other wizard towers were either entangled with Star Alliance wizard towers or overwhelmed by the suicide attacks of those flying magic ships, unable to break free.

The situation reached a stalemate for a while, and even seemed slightly unfavorable for the Black Chain Towers! Before starting the war, Elliot never imagined his side would end up in this situation.

The confidence and certainty of victory he had felt not long ago had now completely dissipated.

If he had known the Star Alliance had such power, he definitely would have acted more cautiously, at least uniting with other wizard factions before making a move against the Star Alliance!

Unfortunately, realizing this now was too late.

After his expression changed indecisively for a while, Elliot's gaze hardened as he made up his mind.

"Hand over control of all wizard towers to the tower spirits. All wizards deploy immediately!"

Since they couldn't gain an advantage in basic combat power and war constructs, they would have to rely on high-end combat power! He refused to believe the Star Alliance's number of wizards could exceed the Black Chain Towers! It should be known that for this operation, in order to seize as many benefits as possible, he had brought over 400 wizards!

There were even over 20 level 2 wizards!

By now, the energy of both sides' wizard towers had been largely depleted, greatly reducing the threat to wizards.

So upon hearing Elliot's order, the Black Chain Tower wizards did not resist, but rather rubbed their hands in eager anticipation.

From the outbreak of war until now, they had been constantly suppressed by the Star Alliance, and their hearts were long filled with frustration. They couldn't wait to launch a counterattack.

Soon, a group of wizards rushed out from the wizard towers.

Inside the Star Light Wizard Tower, Su Nan, Lize and the others also noticed this scene.

"Those guys have lost their patience," Lize looked at Su Nan. "Shall we go out to meet them in battle?"

The others also looked at Su Nan with solemn expressions, waiting for his orders.

The Star Alliance had only deployed just over 200 wizards this time, far fewer than the Black Chain Tower side. Even with the advantage of wizard-level puppets, it was foreseeable that it would inevitably be a bitter fight.

But if they stayed holed up in the wizard tower without counterattacking, with so many Black Chain Tower wizards joining the battlefield, it would inevitably greatly affect the situation on the battlefield, causing the Star Alliance to lose the advantage they had worked so hard to establish.

To deploy or not to deploy - this was undoubtedly a difficult choice.

Faced with everyone's gaze, Su Nan's expression remained as calm and composed as ever as he calmly issued orders.

"I'll make the first move. The rest of you deploy later."

This strange order made everyone pause. Before they could react, Su Nan had already left the Star Light Wizard Tower.

Everyone looked at Lize.

With Su Nan absent, Lize was the highest-ranking person.

Scepter frowned and said, "Is Lord Su Nan planning to face the Black Chain Tower wizards alone? Isn't that too risky?"

"Yeah," Rose said with some concern, "The Star Eye monitoring network shows that the Black Chain Towers deployed over 400 wizards!"

Lize hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Let's wait and see."

Although she was also puzzled by Su Nan's actions, past experiences still made her choose to trust Su Nan.

Seeing that even Lize said so, everyone looked at each other, not saying anything more, and turned their gazes to the light screen in unison.

In the image, Su Nan had already arrived above the battlefield.

By now, the Black Chain Tower wizards had also noticed Su Nan's arrival.

When they saw it was only Su Nan alone, Elliot and the others all showed bewildered expressions.

"Just one person?"

"What is the Star Alliance planning?"

"They can't be planning to stop us single-handedly, can they?"

"What a joke, this is too disrespectful!"

Elliot snorted coldly, interrupting everyone's words, and said with a sneer, "Whatever they're planning, just kill him and be done with it. If the Star Alliance wizards want to hide in their wizard tower and not come out, all the better!"

The others thought about it and cold killing intent flashed in their eyes.

Over 400 wizards hovered in the air, without dazzling armor or an imposing aura, but the mental field formed by the interweaving and convergence of countless externally scattered spiritual energies covered most of the battlefield. The heavy pressure made people feel as if a huge stone was pressing on their hearts, making it difficult to breathe.

The soldiers on the ground below unconsciously retreated, avoiding the center of the wizards' confrontation.

As the direct target of the mental field, Su Nan immediately felt an invisible heavy and stagnant pressure hitting him head-on.

He smiled faintly, expanding his Absolute Forbidden Zone field, instantly dispelling the invisible pressure enveloping his body.

Immediately after, [Talent Specialization] activated! After breaking through to level 3 liquefaction, the [Talent Specialization] alchemy engraving was strengthened again, with the amplification effect on talent abilities reaching more than three times, approaching four times the power.

Before the Black Chain Tower wizards could make a move, Su Nan struck first.

And his opening move was his greatest killing technique! Falling Star Rain!

The sky instantly darkened!

Endless darkness rapidly engulfed the entire sky, and countless dazzling stars suddenly appeared, twinkling with cold silver light in the night sky.

"What is this?"

"A talent ability?"

"What are you standing there for? Kill him quickly!"

Elliot's cold shout awakened everyone. The Black Chain Tower wizards also realized the risk and launched attacks towards Su Nan one after another.

Magical light of various colors surged towards Su Nan like a flood, but suddenly stagnated upon entering within hundreds of meters of him, as if hitting some kind of invisible object. They mutually annihilated and dissipated, finally disappearing completely when still over ten meters away from Su Nan.

This scene left the Black Chain Tower crowd dumbfounded!

"A protective field? No, that's not right. A protective field couldn't be this powerful. It must be some kind of defensive talent ability!"

"And that, it's an alchemy engraving!"

Elliot was inwardly shocked.

What kind of defensive talent ability could block a joint attack from over 400 wizards without a scratch? Even with the enhancement of an alchemy engraving, this was too exaggerated!

And Elliot quickly realized that if the opponent's defensive talent ability could have such terrifying defensive power with the enhancement of an alchemy engraving, then how powerful must this talent ability before him be?

In an instant, a strong sense of unease arose from the depths of his heart.

In the next moment, the tens of thousands of stars in the night sky began to vibrate simultaneously, pulled by an enormous force as they traced dazzlingly brilliant trajectories through the void, crashing down towards the crowd with an overwhelming momentum!

Such a terrifying and shocking display caused the Black Chain Tower wizards to turn pale with fright in unison.

They activated the magic items on their bodies without hesitation, while frantically casting various spells and talent abilities in an attempt to intercept the falling stars!

But it was all in vain.

The brilliant stars tore all attacks to shreds, trailing flames as they smashed into the crowd with a thunderous boom. In an instant, miserable screams rose and fell, as wizards were rapidly purified by the dazzling light, disintegrating and annihilating piece by piece!

The falling stars continued for a full dozen breaths before the night sky dispersed and the sky returned to clear again.

Elliot dispelled the black flames on his body and immediately looked around. What he saw made him feel ice-cold all over.

Of the over 400 wizards who had been following behind him, now less than 200 remained! Nearly 300 level 1 wizards had died in that single attack just now!

Inside the Star Light Wizard Tower, Scepter and the others watched the scene on the light screen, feeling their mouths and tongues go dry as their minds reeled, unable to speak for a long time.

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