Chapter 924 - Blow to the Face
Chapter 924 Blow to the Face
A dragon’s power was not to be underestimated!
In particular, once the prideful dragons learned to engage in guerrilla warfare themselves, the expedition army’s casualties began to skyrocket.
Upon learning that the ordinary dragonborn and locals were incapable of threatening the fully-armed magical machines, the First Grade dragons let go of their dignity, put away their pride, and turned themselves into guerrilla soldiers. These dragons started to harass the scouts of the army frequently.
They soared toward the adepts in flights of three to five and left soaring just as quickly. They never tried to approach the magical machine army, only ever keeping a close eye on the eyeball machines. They used the native tribes to draw out the eyeball machines before they took to the skies and use their sharp claws and boiling breath to destroy the machines.
They didn’t linger either when the army sent chariots after them. They scattered and escaped with their superior speed, never getting drawn into a fight with the goblin chariots.
If any of the goblin commanders became impulsive and dared to chase after them with a goblin skyship; hehehe, these scattered dragons would immediately converge upon them the moment they left the reinforcement range of the army, teaching the goblins a vicious lesson with their powerful might.
Even with an adept defending the skyship, these ordinary goblin planes could not endure the attacks of two or three First Grade dragons!
The skyships in the air also blazed with flames as goblin missiles whistled toward the crowd along with the fireballs.
It was a rain of energy fireballs and goblin missiles at the very start of the battle!
In all honesty, the natives of Lance had probably never seen such a beautiful and awe-inspiring scene. Many creatures which were in the middle of their charge couldn’t help but slow down their movements, raising their heads to behold this magnificent sight with bated breath.
They watched as the pretty fireballs and roaring metal sticks approached from a distance until they finally landed in their midst.
It was almost as if their world suddenly collapsed in the very next second. The constant explosions filled their ears, and their eyes were flooded with the images of erupting red light and the shredded bodies of their companions.
The native creatures that had survived the extreme heat and violently explosive shockwaves were still devoured by the waves of fire. These creatures had most of their bodies instantly vaporized by the multiple crashing streams of elementium. The occasional limb that avoided the most intense of the elementium explosion was be reduced to cinders by the fires dancing through the sky.
Only those who were fortunate enough to be at the edge of the explosions could leave with their body parts intact.
However, as the magical fires started to ignite everything that could catch on fire, the frontline turned into a fearsome field of flames. There was no longer a path of retreat for them.
While the surviving natives still swayed between their fear of the destruction and their joy in surviving, rows of towering magical machines stepped into the flames, brushing past the smoke and appearing in their line of sight. These metallic monsters raised their arms, and black barrels appeared at the ends.
They strode forward, firing beams of nearly translucent energy.
Compared to the magical beams with their unique effects, these transparent energy beams were more destructive and had a shocking penetrative effect.
There was no such thing as an elementium counter or magical immunity. Pure-energy beam attacks like these had even more horrifying offensive strength!
It didn’t matter if it was the tough skin of the trolls and ogres, the mortar armor of the quillboars, or even the thick fur of the hairy rhinos. None of them could stop the energy beams from penetrating.
A bloody hole that ran through the bodies of the creatures would appear where the beams traveled. They could not be blocked, and they could not be dodged.
For a moment, these survivors still could not understand what was happening. Their bodies were riddled with holes by these ‘invisible attacks,’ and they crumpled to the ground, soaked in blood.
The momentum of the war was forcibly halted by such terrible bloodshed the moment it started!