Chapter 1353 - Rescue (1/2)
Their city master, a level-3 Heaven Rank expert and a noble of the Blood Elves, had been instantly killed. Even his mount was instantly killed too. They couldn’t fight any longer…
Three minutes later, only the rain of blood was continuing to drop from the sky. The remaining bird riders had all returned behind the city’s shield.
With bloodshot eyes, Xiuban charged with Carnage, and smashed the city’s shield brutally. Ripples immediately spread out from the point of impact. The crystals on the tops of the three pointy towers in the center of the city unleashed dazzling brilliance, and the shield became significantly sturdier than before.
From behind the shield, the mages and archers of the Blood Elves began to cast spells and shoot arrows at Xiuban. The spells and arrows hit Xiuban and flung him backwards, but they couldn’t even break Xiuban’s skin.
“Xiuban, come back.”
Lin Yun’s voice came to Xiuban’s ears. Xiuban glared at the appalled Blood Elves with Carnage on his shoulder one last time, and flew back to the magic battleship.
Xiuban had left, but none of the Blood Elves dared to move beyond the shield anymore. They all hid behind the shield, and gazed at the five magic battleships vigilantly.
Lin Yun casually observed the city of Blood Elves, whose residents were almost exclusively Blood Elves. Members of the other races were all slaves or domesticated beasts. The half-beastmen and other races were no better than beasts in the eyes of the Blood Elves…
In the entire underground world, every intelligent race, including the dragons, was no different from a group of beasts in their eyes, except for other Blood Elves…
“Tear apart their protection.”
At his order, the alchemy puppets on the five magic battleships calculated quickly. In only three seconds, two secondary cannons on one of the magic battleships had been charged.
The two secondary cannons, which were a dozen meters long, were installed on the two sides of the magic battleship. The massive mana reactors began to work at full efficiency, injecting enormous amounts of mana into the secondary cannons, and making the air around the barrel twist. When too much mana was concentrated, the space inside the barrel was twisted and collapsed.
Three seconds later, the two secondary cannons shot at the same time. Bright pillars of light stretched from the cannons, and hit the city’s shield.
Instantly, the city’s shield was distorted. The crystals that were floating on the tops of the three pointy towers revolved crazily, and emitted dazzling brilliance, but they could not provide enough mana to sustain the shield.
A few seconds later, the rear half of the city’s shield was canceled, and all the power was concentrated in the front as an enormous mana shield to resist the two pillars of light.
But they weren’t able to resist for long. The crystals on top of the three pointy towers in the center of the city exploded one after another, and the brilliance of mana completely dispersed, while the enormous shield crumbled and turned into spots of light.
The city’s shield that the Blood Elves had always been proud of collapsed. They were so shocked that they all forgot about fighting. They stared at the three empty towers in the center of the city.
The shield was one of the Blood Elves’ masterpieces that they were the proudest of. The pointy towers were their defense towers. The more towers there were and the larger they were, the stronger the defense they would provide.
Also, all of the towers’ mana came from the crystals whose raw materials were the Blood Essence ores and several other materials.
That was the Blood Elves’ most powerful alchemy technology. Or rather, it was their only alchemy technology that was worth mentioning.
The crystals didn’t really contain a lot of mana. They were just mediums for the transmission of mana. The mana came from the Void Blood Pool in the Blood Elves’ capital. That Blood Pool could power the defenses of all the Blood Elves’ cities.
It was the Blood Elves’ most important Extraordinary Magic Tool, and contained a terrifying amount of mana. Unfortunately, it couldn’t be used in battles. It could only provide mana for city defense.
As long as the blood crystals continuously received mana, the city’s defense would never be broken. When enemies attacked the city, they had to drain the crystal’s mana instantly, break the city’s defense before more mana was transmitted, and then destroy the crystals. Only then would the city be defenseless.
The most important reason why few new cities were established by the Blood Elves was that the Void Blood Pool didn’t have infinite mana. Although it could constantly generate mana, it couldn’t power the defense of an unlimited number of cities.
The most effective way to break the defense was to use a continuous spell.
Xiuban might be able to weaken the shield by half with one strike, but by the time he struck again, the shield would have been replenished. He would never be able to break the shield…
The magic battleships’ secondary cannons might only be able to consume one-tenth or even less of the shield’s power, but their attacks were continuous and far more frequent than the shield’s recovery. So, the shield was torn apart in only a couple of seconds.
That was why the magic battleships were horrifying. Noscent’s insane rise in the age of colonization was all because of the invention of magic battleships.
If it had been before, Lin Yun would’ve had to attack in person in order to conquer the Blood Elves’ city as a level-5 Heaven Rank expert. Also, he had to be aware of spells that were suitable for the conquest.
However, at this moment, the magic battleships, which were under the control of a bunch of level-30 alchemy puppets that weren’t even capable of fighting, could break the city’s defense easily…
There weren’t many level-5 Heaven Rank experts, but it was possible to build magic battleships and alchemy puppets infinitely as long as there were enough materials.
Even 10,000 years later, it would be impossible to deploy level-5 Heaven Rank experts to attack such a small city. But as for magic battleships…
It wouldn’t be a problem to deploy 10 magic battleships that were as powerful as level-5 Heaven Rank experts…
The city’s defense was shattered, and the bloody crystals were destroyed. The Blood Elves’ city was exposed to everyone like a naked girl. The Blood Elves in the city were all dumbfounded. They had never been through anything like this in their long life…
When the five magic battleships gradually approached the city, the residents didn’t fight back. Rather, they fled crazily. They rode their birds and tried to fly away, only to be shot down by the weapons on the magic battleships.
The Blood Elves who resisted were instantly vaporized too.
In less than one minute, a lot of Blood Elves had surrendered. According to the rules of the underground world, anyone who surrendered would automatically become the victor’s slave.
The Blood Elves were ready to surrender, however frustrated, because that was the only way to survive. It was a custom of the underground world to kill whoever disobeyed.
After the Blood Elves’ city was taken down easily, Bulinwon rushed out impatiently.
“Where are my compatriots? Where are they? Where are my compatriots that you caught?”
Seeing that the lord he pledged loyalty to was so strong that the Blood Elves who terrified him in the past shivered and waited for their final judgment like the Cave Gnomes did in the past, Bulinwon forgot all his fear.
Unfortunately, one of the Blood Elves didn’t forget the Blood Elves’ pride. Or rather, he hadn’t quite figured out the new situation yet. He couldn’t help but sneer after seeing Bulinwon.
“You are just a filthy gray gnome, yet you dare to question a great Blood Elf. Goddamn idiot—”