Clancia, Jiansong City.

It has been nearly a year since the last time the Golem Legion united by Hanfrost came to the city. Now this mountain city has changed a lot.

The gray and white stone walls closed the entire valley, and there were extremely thick steel fences on the river below to block the enemy's advance.

Turrets are distributed on the fortress, and some are built on the hills on both sides overlooking the canyon below.

It is now early February, and the quiet mountains and canyons had long been broken by the extremely noisy war. Metal golems stepped heavily on the broken goose warm stones by the river, aiming the muzzle at the strong and towering canyon fortress, and the torrent of crimson magic poured out like money.

As dusk approaches, highly compressed magic shells rush rapidly in the air. The original spherical shape also deforms into an elliptical shape due to the compression impact. They fall on the city wall and explode violently.

The blown stones and sound waves spread outward, causing gray dust to fog, and then left ugly cracks on the fortress.

The golems that attacked Jiansong City this time were not as old as before. These golems that roared and shot out artillery fire on the ground were at the lowest level of Sequence 4, and many were elite golems that were equivalent to Sequence 5. There was also a high-level giant golems with Sequence 7 behind that were supervising the battle, and they did not take action easily.

In Jiansong City, a hidden command point in the fortress.

Digital staff were moving various signs on the map, quickly discussing possible situations and opportunities. At the open door, commanders came in from time to time to report the current situation and situation. After receiving responses from the staff and generals, they quickly left.

After the discussion was over, a general wearing silver-gray armor held a telescope and observed the battle situation ahead, and then issued new orders to the waiting messengers around him.

"Let the cannons on both sides prepare, and when the turret in the middle sends a fire signal, fire together, and strive to kill a large number of golems that will damage the enemy within the best range."

"Yes, General Seg!" The soldier immediately walked out of this hidden observation point and conveyed orders to the hills on both sides.

At this time, the general with a firm appearance put down the telescope in his hand and looked at another young man in different clothes in the room.

"What does Mr. Tuge thinks will be the outcome of this battle? Should we defeat the enemy as before, or should we have to give up this fortress."

The young mage leaned against the wall, closing his eyes to rest. He was wearing a dark blue and white mage robe, and a badge and a gold chain on his chest.

After hearing the general's inquiry, Tuge opened his eyes, looked at the huge moving golems in the distance, and sighed.

"This time it's different. It seems that Hanfrost Rose is determined to open up the battle."

"Look." He raised his hand and pointed to the tall golem that kept roaring in the valley with magic torrents.

"That is the 'Anger-3r' type golem. This high-level golem has abandoned its powerful shells and used the impact torrent processed by magic power to shoot, making it have a lower demand for logistics. Continuously rotating mages with Sequence 5 or above can achieve uninterrupted attacks. Just one golem can have nearly 10 artillery guns, and its defense is also very strong."

"Even the former Rurnard, there are not many such elite and expensive golems. They used to be on the border to defend against the green invasion. Unexpectedly, they dared to take such a risk this time and dispatched the legion."

"If we keep fighting, I'm afraid the soldiers in the entire fortress will die under the hot torrent of its bombing."

Hearing this, Seger's expression gradually became solemn, he asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Tug tapped his finger and paused for several seconds before continuing to answer.

"If the southern route is not blocked now, we can ask the group of Bakongli Ankylos to help and destroy these golems, but now... we don't have a good idea. The power we can use is too weak to destroy these strong golems under fierce artillery fire."

"So, I still recommend that you prepare for retreat in advance and try to transfer soldiers in the fortress to avoid unnecessary casualties."

"Retreat, then retreat." Seger angrily smashed his fist against the wall beside him and said gritting his teeth.

During the last retreat, many people he knew died in the battle. Unexpectedly, after two years, the result is still the same. So what are the fortresses and defenses he has worked hard to build over the past two years? The familiar faces of the past appeared in his mind, causing a burst of sadness to surge in his heart.

Is everything futile? He can't accept such a result. He smashed his fist heavily against the stone wall, whistling after whistle.

The several staff officers on the side were also shocked by their momentum, stopped the previous discussion and looked at the general who was out of control.

Time passed slowly, and the sound of artillery fire from the outside world continued. After a long time, the general took a deep breath and then turned around.

"Sorry, I'm making you laugh, it's because I'm not in control." His pupils turned red and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Nothing." Tuge shook his head slightly, expressing his disregard. He understood the general's feelings.

Since coming to New Verga and Clancia, he has seen those brave and respectable soldiers die on the battlefield more than once. These people may have never left their hometowns before, nor have they known strangers, but for the sake of today's country, they are willing to sacrifice their lives and fight for their homeland and dignity.

In the army, these comrades who experienced life and death together had a particularly deep emotion, and were not comparable to those of temporary recruitment of soldiers in other countries.

"If you still have to retreat in the end, what do you think we should do to give the opponent the greatest damage and block it for a longer time." He asked again.

"About this..." Tuge pushed the glasses on his nose, opened the thick blue and white book in his hand, picked up a pen and began to outline and calculate the draft.

After that, the two continued to discuss with the several staff officers in the room and finally made detailed plans.

———

The difference between the orderly Clancian defenders is that the attack on the Frost Rose is much more rapid.

A series of hot torrents cut through the sky and flooded the shooting ports on the fortress. Then, under the cover of some cheap earth-rock golems, soldiers of the frost combined began to approach the bottom of the fortress. They climbed up along the stone wall of the fortress with the help of the ropes ejected by the golem, and their feet were wearing special shoes to prevent slippage.

These elite soldiers carried mechanical guns and swords with them, climbed into the bombed shooting holes, took advantage of this to enter the internal lanes of the fortress, preparing to directly attack the garrisoned artillery and kill fragile enemies inside.

"This time it was finally successful." A woman in her 20s put down the telescope in her hand and said happily and proudly.

The woman's name is Hedley, the commander of this group of golemtroopers and the best among the younger generation of the alchemy faction's "Black and Red Flame". Although she is only 28 years old, she has reached the level of Magic Sequence 7 and is favored by all parties, thinking that she may be able to reach the extreme of Sequence 9.

This time she went to the battlefield was her first time to command a battle. Even though she was born in a famous family and had extraordinary strength, she still felt upset.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, this is already a rare genius. Not only did she graduate from Emenas, she was also the daughter of the leader of the Rurnese faction, and she had a bright future. But she also had to face competition from many more outstanding peers.

I don’t know why, since the past few years, geniuses that were rare in the past have emerged in various places and countries. At the same age, they are more dazzling and stronger than previous generations.

"After going back this time, I must slap that bitch Tilella hard in the face, and dare to compete with me for a man."

She watched the shooting mouths burst out from the fortress in the distance, and then returned to silence, with a tilted smile on her face. Thinking back to the scene of the same genius who had a tempting figure in others, she began to imagine how to become the other party's boss with military merits after she went back, and then suppress the other party wantonly.

"Hahaha, Tirela, I want to see, besides the appearance of seducing a man, what else is worthy of praise? Isn't it just that you advance to Magic Sequence 7 a year earlier? See if I tear your hypocritical mask away in the future and reveal your true colors."

As a genius who graduated from the same academy as Tirela in the same year, the relationship between the two is bad. Although Hedley is powerful in his family, more people prefer the gentle and understanding Tirela. Every time people around him protect Tirela, Hedley will be even more resentful to her, believing that it was her blocking her own glory.

And just as this genius alchemist was imagining the future, the battlefield ahead suddenly changed.

On the hills on both sides, the soil slopes where trees grew up suddenly collapsed, revealing dark shooting artillery inside. With a command from it, a fierce fire light suddenly lit up, and heavy shells directly hit the golem army formation below from the side.

Gravel splashed, and some golems were directly shattered by the artillery fire shot from the back. Black smoke and broken metal were scattered everywhere, and the smell of rushing smoke filled the valley.

The poor earth and rock golem that had covered the troops to climb and attack were also shattered by artillery fire, blocking the road in which Hanshuang combined soldiers continued to attack the inner world.

Inside the fortress, Seger and his elite guards began to sweep away the enemy troops who came in to destroy them.

Several Hanshuang joined forces with mechanical guns and swords to run in the alley. They kicked open closed doors one by one, then pressed the button on the hilt of the sword. The magic crystal stones were connected to the engraved magic circle. A dark red light covered the sword body to increase the effect of armor-breaking. Then they slashed and killed the enemies in the room, trying to catch them off guard, and then greatly destroyed the cannons and other supplies in the fortress.

Ping-pong, metal clashing sounds everywhere, bursts of explosions came from the room, and then they walked out and rushed to the shooting port in the next fortress.

"That's all you can do!" Seger pulled out the dark golden short sword around his waist and looked at the small and elite enemy army in front of him.

"Kill!" With a loud shout, the red light marks and golden sword lights collided with each other, and the two sides began a fierce battle in the alley.

Snap-

A fierce sword light flashed by, and several soldiers from the frost combined were directly knocked to the wall behind them, then slowly slid down, and bright red blood flowed out, and then there was no sound.

Although the equipment of this group of people is very good, as a general of Clancia and an outstanding meritorious person, Seg is not only stronger, but also has received the gift from the sage. Now he has reached the level of Sequence 7, so he can naturally be easily defeated against such enemies.

———

Outside the fortress, with the artillery on the hills on both sides crossing, the Golem Legion had to suspend the attack on the fortress and instead deal with the castle in the mountains.

As he stabilized his position and blew away the muzzles on the mountain, the situation slowly turned to the Han Frost United side. What was even more fatal was that there were roars of roaring sounds breaking through the air on the other side of the sky.

Airships slowly approached in the purple sunset, and then dropped heavy bombs, directly blowing out huge gaps in the center of the fortress.

Seeing this, the defenders in the fortress finally began to retreat, and the shooting ports slowly stopped.

A group of cheap earth-rock golems stepped forward again and cleared their way out. Then the soldiers and subsequent elite golems of Hanfrost continued to enter the fortress.

"Do you need to pursue, Lord Hedley?" A mage flew up from the side and landed next to the commander of the Golem Legion.

"Of course, we must massacre all these people." Hedley showed a cruel smile on her face.

"Yes." The mage returned to his golem, and then a rapid pursuit order was passed around.

Under the towering fortress is a dark and dense jungle of valleys, where Clancian soldiers are hiding in it, retreating to the north, and they gradually dispersed to avoid enemy bombing.

But Hanfrost United obviously did not want to let these opponents go so easily. Their airships drifted across the sky like death in the night, and then huge flame meteors fell from the sky and smashed into the dark earth, raising countless orange lights and airflows.

The flames licked the air, and the crackling heat wave began to spread, illuminating the earth like daytime. Many soldiers were wailing and running around. Even though they had already made preparations and arrangements in advance, they still could not guarantee that everyone would be spared.

Faced with this unrestrained destruction and burning, the sound of cold and cold breaking through the air came from the distant sky.

When the advanced mages such as Hedley noticed it, there were a group of rapidly flying figures in the sky. These birds, which were only half a meter wide, had deep blue and sharp winged feathers, like flying sharp sickles, cutting the atmosphere and everything.

"That's..." They guessed in surprise, and in the dark jungle, a mage from the Southern Islands gave the answer.

"They are beheaded croakers from the Tisiran Mountains."

With the help of the cover of night, these beheaded birds flashed through the magical shooting that was released randomly, easily splitting the metal shell of the airship, and a sharp sound sound rang in the night sky. Then the fragile mechanical structures inside the airships were exposed and then continued to be damaged.

More than 30 airships swayed in the sky like drunkenness, but finally couldn't hold on. They fell into the sea of ​​fire below and smashed it into pieces. Various structures were lifted up in the flames and then scattered. As the flames spread, many of the ordinary people who had no time to escape made painful wails one after another.

"Fuck!" Hedley couldn't help but swear.

She drilled into the huge golem under her, and then an extremely magnificent golem slowly rose on the ground. She stepped through the fortress covered with gravel ruins, walked into the sea of ​​fire and forest behind her, and looked into the night sky from afar.

This golem has a sharp outer armor. As the surface light flows, steam spews out, and the hatch doors open, and the rapid flying silver and blue swords flew out from behind and penetrated into the night sky.

These silver-blue swords flashed with lightning, and their blades were extremely sharp. After sweeping across the night sky, they directly strangled the beheaded birds in the sky one by one, and their feathers and blood fell like rain.

"Can't continue like this anymore." A faint sigh sounded in the dark mountains and jungles. He turned on the fluorescent book in front of him. The ordinary books on weekdays burst out with bright blue light as transparent as they were. The pages were turned, and spells appeared in the air, as if hundreds of voices were singing together.

But if you listen carefully, you will find that these sounds are just one person.

Tug opened his hands and let the book in front of him slowly float up. A striking green and cold whirlwind surrounded him. A striking column of light rose from the earth, penetrated straight into the sky, and continued to spread outward.
To be continued...