Chapter 509
Chapter 509 Poison Halo
Two days later, the first poisonsoul seed was finally born.
Bug Adept Billis became the first adept to leave the group.
The main party continued to advance towards the capital of the Goblin Empire, Anvilmar. Billis, on the other hand, brought the poisonsoul seed with him and went down south. The mission Greem had given to him was to soak the poisonsoul seed for fifteen minutes in the wells and water sources of every goblin town and city.
This mission wasn’t exactly difficult, but it wasn’t easy either.
The mission first required Billis to possess some means of remaining stealthed. After all, it required a non-goblin to walk into Empire territories and get close to vital water sources. That presented a challenge in and of itself!
However, this difficulty was nothing before Billis’ intangible body of bugs that could scatter and reform as he willed.
Greem had already drawn up a complete map of the Goblin Plane with the information he had gathered over the past few days. The capital Anvilmar was located right in the center of the entire plane. That place was surrounded by mountains and possessed steep and punishing geography. It was a stronghold that was easily defended and challenging for a siege. Ordinary creatures would find it difficult even to make it into the city.
After six days, the goblins had finally managed to catch up with Greem and the rest. The over one hundred magical machines immediately charged at them from every direction.
The first thing that greeted them was Endor’s Poison Halo!
Endor had set up a small altar in the wild and used this altar to amplify the radius of her Poison Halo, allowing it to go from its original hundred meter radius to the current five hundred meters.
The pilots of every magical machine that charged into the Poison Halo were unknowingly poisoned.
When Endor finally activated the poison rune, the sudden rush of poison damage instantly exterminated a hundred magical machines that were present.
For a moment, magical machines fell from the skies like pouring rain.
They crashed into the ground headfirst, and never moved again.
The permeating poison filtered into the air vents of the magical machines, where it poisoned and killed the goblin mechanics within. It didn’t matter how reliable the magical machines were. They were nothing but cold lumps of metal without the control of a mechanic.
That was why there was no hope of survival for the goblin mechanics as long as they still needed to breathe!
Greem and the others understood all the principles behind this, but the attacking machine army was utterly ignorant of it.
The commander that led the army was still getting more of his subordinates to enter the battlefield to avoid the evil adepts from escaping. Yet, who could have known? A single green light from the hands of the ugly and evil witch and nearly a hundred of their combat machines fell to the ground as if they had lost their souls.
It didn’t matter how much the commander yelled and screamed at the machines; he would not get any feedback or response from them. The few machines that he sent in afterward also collapsed to the ground moments after they stepped onto the battlefield, without any signs whatsoever. They became unreachable as well.
The commander almost went mad from the bizarre scene he was witnessing!
He could understand dying in the midst of an intense battle. He could also understand perishing in a harsh natural environment.
But a scene like the one before him, where everyone died with a single flash of green light from the enemy’s hand… it was impossible for him to accept such a thing with his dull brain!
The magical machine commander that had been paralyzed with fear of the unknown had no other choice left to him. He sounded the retreat!
The over a hundred magical machines that had blotted out the sun earlier had almost all died here. Less than ten of them had managed to retreat successfully. The disastrous losses caused the goblins to be utterly heartbroken. They only dared to return to the scene and take away a few of the magical machines after the adepts had left the place.
It was after the goblin doctors conducted an autopsy that they realized that all the goblin mechanics had died of poison.
It was only now that the goblins realized that such a terrifying flaw existed in the magical machines!