Chapter 273 The battle begins
The boundless wasteland stretched to the end of the world, and the wind howled and raged.
The blood-red sky almost completely covered the setting sun.
The devastated land was covered with crisscross cracks, and faintly visible pale green liquid was flowing in it, from which bursts of green smoke emerged.
As far as the eye could see, there were only scattered dead trees and countless rotten, cyan-skinned hideous creatures wandering in the desolate wilderness.
In the sky, six wizard towers stood majestically.
Sunan and Lizhe floated side by side on the top of the tower, overlooking the hellish scenery below.
"The entire plane has been eroded and infected."
Lizhe marveled at the horror of the gods.
Just one god corpse could turn an entire plane into such a ghostly appearance. The gods were indeed like viruses.
Sunan released his mental power and sensed the surrounding environment.
"The concentration of energy particles is very high, and the activity is much higher than that of the Starlight Continent. It should be the influence of divine power."
"But the energy particles here are infected with toxins. If absorbed, it will damage the body."
"The concentration of toxins in the air is also very high. Even a knight can't last for a few days in this environment at most."
Lize frowned and said, "That's troublesome. The army's sustained combat capability may be greatly affected."
Before entering the Earth Crystal Plane, Sunan and Liz had already anticipated this situation, but they didn't expect the situation here to be much worse than they imagined.
Fortunately, the main force of the army entering the Earth Crystal Plane this time is the Golem Corps. Their immune to toxins make them more suitable for fighting and surviving in this environment.
As for the Magic Pattern Knights, they can only take turns to enter the Wizard Tower to rest and recover.
"Without the Wizard Tower as logistical support, it is impossible to fight for a long time in this environment." Liz sighed and said.
The energy particles of the plane cannot be absorbed, so they can only be restored through the element pool of the Wizard Tower.
Otherwise, after one or two slightly more intense battles, the entire army will be almost paralyzed.
"Without further delay, let's start building the plane channel."
Su Nan waved his hand, and the 9,900 golems stored in the magic cube suddenly appeared in the wilderness and began to clear the surrounding monsters.
At the same time, many wizards and wizard apprentices flew out of the wizard tower, landed on the ground and began to build the plane channel.
It took only two hours to complete the construction of three large plane channels.
Three huge doors suddenly appeared in the empty wilderness.
Following closely, huge star fortresses and flew out from behind the door, followed by large-scale flying fleets.
Each star fortress and each fleet carried thousands of magic pattern knights and clay golems.
As the star fortress and flying fleet stopped, magic pattern knights and clay golems got off the fortress and magic ship one after another, and began to level the land and build camps.
Su Nan also began to cross the plane channel back and forth, using the magic cube to transport puppets.
As time passed, more and more plane channels were built, and the Star Alliance's army raced against time to cross the plane channel.
When the time came to the last second of 24 hours, the plane channel suddenly trembled, followed by violent twisting, and soon dissipated in the air.
At the same time, Sunan keenly felt an invisible confinement covering the entire plane.
Obviously, the True Spirit Wizards outside have begun to block the entire plane.
This special battle for the corpse of the god began from this moment.
"How many troops have been transported in total?" Sunan asked.
Li Ze glanced at the list in her hand and said, "A total of 53 star fortresses, 13 flying fleets, and two golem armies."
After the plane blockade was lifted, the Star Alliance began to expand its military power.
With sufficient resource support, the progress in this regard was very smooth.
Mainly reflected in the Golem Corps.
When the Golem Corps was formed, Sunan had an idea of a group army above the large Golem Corps.
A group army consists of eight large Golem Corps, with a total number of one million.
But at that time, the military strength of the Star Alliance was still very weak, and it could not form a complete group army, so it was temporarily shelved.
But now the Star Alliance has this ability.
Currently, the Star Alliance has a total of four armies, plus five large golem corps.
Considering that a part of the army must be left to guard the Starlight Continent, Sunan only brought two armies this time.
But even so, that is a full two million puppets.
More than the total force that the Starlight Continent sent out when it fought against the Wave Plane!
That is to say, there is a magic cube, otherwise it would be a fantasy to transport such an astonishing number of golems within 24 hours.
"The Magic Pattern Knights sent a total of about 120,000 people. Considering the harsh environment of the Earth Crystal Plane, no backup members were sent out."
"The core force of the sub-dragon knights are all dispatched, in addition to more than 30 giant dragons, plus 285 wizards and 1,363 third-level wizard apprentices, the latter mainly serve as logistical assistance and do not participate in the battle."
Sunan nodded with satisfaction: "Enough."
The army sent by the Star Alliance into the Earth Crystal Plane is almost equivalent to half of the total military force.
Even large wizarding forces like the Deep Blue Alliance and the Wisdom Codex did not send in much more military forces than them in just 24 hours.
As for other wizarding forces, the troops sent in were even less, probably not even one-tenth of the total military force.
And this is the normal situation.
The reason why those true spirit wizards limited the troop transport time to 24 hours is to control this war within a certain scale.
Otherwise, without any restrictions, all wizard forces are allowed to devote their troops to fight, which will sooner or later evolve into a large-scale war.
This is obviously not in their interests.
What makes Sunan a little confused is that under this situation, how did this war eventually evolve into a wizard civil war?
"Forget it, we will stop the enemy and cover the water with earth. Let's do the things in front of us first."
After thinking for a while without any results, Sunan shook his head and stopped struggling. He turned to Li Ze and said:
"Start searching for the corpse of the god, and arrange the star core."
"I know."
Lize turned around and gave orders.
The huge army quickly took action.
With the camp as the center, the Magic Pattern Knights and the Golem Legion swept in all directions like a torrent, crushing all the infected monsters along the way.
In the sky, the Star Fortress and the flying fleet followed the army slowly. Once they found a large group of monsters, they immediately fired a burst of artillery fire and instantly blasted them into ashes.
Every time they expanded a certain distance, a wizard would fly away from the magic ship with his wizard apprentice and start to install the star core.
As time passed, the area occupied by the Star Alliance became larger and larger, and the Star Eye network gradually took shape.
But at this time, the Star Alliance army also encountered real resistance.
"What is that?"
In the Star Fortress, Fleming frowned and looked at the creatures rushing in from a distance, with surprise flashing in his eyes.
It was a group of short humanoid creatures.
They were only about 1.34 meters tall, but their bodies were extremely strong, and their body width was almost the same as their height. Their heads were thick and long, and their chins were covered with a thick layer of protruding crystal beards, and two small crystal fangs turned upward from their lower lips. In addition to the chin, their shoulders, joints and palms were also covered with thick crystals.
He was wearing heavy armor, and the skin exposed was black and gray, with many places festering and revealing the corroded flesh underneath.
His face was tinged with a greenish-blue color like poison.
"It's the Earth Crystal People." Tatjana looked solemn, "They are all infected and have become monsters now."
The Earth Crystal People are the main indigenous race of the Earth Crystal Plane. They are good at fighting and can naturally control rocks and soil.
An adult Earth Crystal People has the power of a knight.
Some elites can reach the level of a great knight.
And because of their natural ability to control rocks and soil, Earth Crystal People can easily sense the power of the earth element, so there are many legendary strongmen among Earth Crystal People.
A race that was originally very powerful in combat, now after being infected and strengthened by divine power, its strength may have skyrocketed a lot, and its terrifying degree can be imagined.
Looking at the densely packed poisonous Earth Crystal People rushing in like a tide, the faces of all the wizards in the fortress were solemn.
"Fire the spell turret!" Fleming gave the order decisively.
The starry sky fortress suddenly hummed, and a dazzling light burst out from the top of the fortress, like the rising sun, instantly dispelling the blood color of the sky.
The next second, hundreds of spell turrets fired at the same time, and dense spell rays tore through the void and shot out, instantly crossing a distance of thousands of meters and hitting the earth crystal army.
In the piercing whistle, hundreds of earth crystal warriors didn't even have time to scream, and they were instantly wiped out!
Looking down from a high altitude, the crowded and dense earth crystal army seemed to have been plowed out of hundreds of blank tracks out of thin air.
At the same time, the golem army and the magic pattern knights on the ground also launched a charge, and hit the earth crystal people like a surging torrent, and blood and flesh splattered in an instant, and limbs flew everywhere.
The same scene also happened in the wilderness in other directions.
The highly toxic earth crystal people and infected creatures within a thousand miles were gradually attracted by the huge movement of the Star Alliance, and gathered towards the Star Alliance camp from all directions.
In the meeting hall of the Starlight Wizard Tower.
Everyone sat around the long table.
Sunan sat at the top, with Liz on his right.
Down to the left and right were the second-level wizards such as the Scepter, Rose, Falkado, and Tulio.
The second- and third-level wizards of the Star Alliance had gathered together at this time.
Above the long table, a three-dimensional model was suspended, which was a panoramic view of the Earth Crystal Plane.
As the Star Alliance army continued to expand, the area of the panoramic view continued to expand.
"The advancement is going smoothly." Falkado smiled, "Although those Earth Crystal people have become much stronger, they are not the opponents of the Magic Pattern Knights and the Golem Legion after all."
The Scepter nodded in agreement and smiled, "After all, the individual strength of these two legions is not worse than that of the Earth Crystal people."
The Stone Golem, the most basic soldier of the Golem Legion, is also a knight-level combat force, not inferior to the Earth Crystal warriors.
Not to mention the Magic Pattern Knights, any one of them has a legendary power, and it is no problem to crush the Earth Crystal people.
Not to mention the firepower support from the Star Fortress and the flying fleet.
"The Earth Crystal People are easy to deal with, but the really tricky ones are the Divine Creatures."
Liz looked at the panoramic view above the long table. After the Star Eye network was established, the number and intensity of energy particle fluctuations at each location could also be seen from it.
At this moment, there was a very conspicuous light spot on the edge of the northwest.
[Unknown name, Divine Creature]
[Energy Level: 25 (Level 1 Gasification Wizard)]
[Damage: High]
Everyone's eyes were also cast on the light spot on the light screen.
The Earth Crystal Man can only be regarded as a kind of creature infected by divine power at best, only slightly stronger than other infected creatures, and is not a threat to the powerful Star Alliance.
But the divine creatures are different.
These creatures that have absorbed the divinity contained in the fragments of the God Corpse by chance and survived the mutation without dying will inevitably undergo a qualitative change in strength, and it is not surprising that they have wizard-level power.
Especially the death priesthood of the Toxic Dead King, even if the creatures that absorb divinity cannot resist the mutation and die, there is a certain chance that they will be resurrected as undead creatures.
Therefore, the number of divine creatures in the Earth Crystal Plane must be exaggerated!
These divine creatures are the real threats that many wizard forces need to face in the process of searching for the fragments of the God Corpse.
"Who is responsible for that direction?" Su Nan asked.
Liz replied, "It's Atil. She controls a starry sky fortress. It should be no problem to deal with a first-level gasified divine creature."
Sunan pondered, "There is a high probability that there are fragments of divine corpses near where divine creatures appear."
The Scepter immediately volunteered, "I'll go there."
The others were also eager to try, but they were a step slower than the Scepter and felt a little regretful.
Unexpectedly, Sunan shook his head.
"I'll go there myself."
No one present had ever seen a divine corpse in person. Who knows what side effects the fragments of the poisonous dead king's corpse would have. Just in case, he would go there in person.
When it comes to gods, no matter how rigorous it is, it is not too much.
Sunan didn't want his wizards to suffer non-combat casualties in vain.
Soon, Sunan came to the place where the divine creature appeared.
At this time, the battle was over.
Under the artillery fire of the Starry Sky Fortress, the divine creature that looked like a frog magnified countless times, but with a pair of wings and disgusting tumors on its gray-white skin, soon turned into a tattered corpse.
The sticky and disgusting venom flowed out of the wound of the corpse, and after falling on the ground, it sizzled and emitted green smoke, corroding shocking pits one by one.
"Teacher."
Seeing Sunan appear, Atil immediately flew out of the Starry Sky Fortress and greeted him.
"Send the corpse to the Starlight Wizard Tower Laboratory. In addition, with this place as the center, search all areas within a radius of 200 kilometers, and don't miss any place. Once you find the fragments of the divine corpse, tell me immediately."
"Yes, teacher."
With Sunan's order, a large number of magic ships scattered around and began to search for the traces of divine creatures.
As long as you find the place where the divine creatures appear most frequently, you can basically find the fragments of the divine corpse.
"It's a pity that time is too tight to make more star cores and bring them here. Otherwise, it would be easy to spread the Star Eye network across the entire plane and locate the fragments of the God Corpse."
Sunan thought secretly.
But he also knew that this was just a thought.
Not to mention how huge the project of laying the Star Eye network in the Earth Crystal Plane is, it is impossible to complete it in a short time. Even if it is possible, other wizard forces will definitely not turn a blind eye and will definitely sabotage it.
Sunan doesn't think those black wizards will compete with him openly.
In the Earth Crystal Plane, in addition to infected creatures and divine creatures, wizard forces on different fronts are also objects that need to be vigilant.
More than an hour later, the magic ship made a discovery. (End of this chapter)
