Translator: AnubisTL
The piercing wail of an alarm tore through the Wizard Camp's tranquility, abruptly interrupting Jieming's in-depth study of the lava giant.
Less than ten days had passed since the initial landing battle, yet the alarm had already sounded—a far shorter interval than anticipated.
News from the Intelligence Center confirmed the worst: Lava Giant Karamos and King Agron of the Snow Monsters, both sixth-tier creatures, had once again amassed their massive armies. Like an unstoppable flood, they were launching a full-scale assault on the Wizard Camp!
The Wizard Camp's location had been strategically chosen from the outset.
It was deliberately established at the border between the Blazing Sun Realm and the Frostdark Realm, along the edge of the colossal mountain range permeated by chaotic energy fields.
This position meant that the wizards would face the predicament of being attacked from both sides by two hostile races in the event of war.
However, this was no accident, but a deliberate arrangement by the wizard leadership.
As was their usual practice, the wizards had given their enemies hope, allowing the indigenous races to believe they had an opportunity to exploit. This would compel them to launch relentless attacks, continuously funneling their forces into the wizards' pre-planned meat grinder, thereby depleting their plane origin.
During this period, the wizards had not been idle.
The wizards not only reinforced the camp's defenses, upgrading the initial makeshift fortifications into rune walls and energy barriers, but more importantly, they replenished their cannon fodder forces, which had been depleted during the initial landing battle, and even significantly increased their numbers!
The wizards activated their bioweapon gene banks and Puppet Factories at full capacity, rapidly producing a cannon fodder army several times larger than before.
These cold, mechanical tools surged forward like a tide toward the camp's front lines, ready to engage the enemy at any moment.
Compared to the brief skirmish in the sky, the combined might of the two monster races from the Flamefrost Plane was now even more terrifying.
After all, aerial combat required specialized elites or aerial units, which inherently limited their full potential.
But now, fighting on solid ground, the two races were in their element.
Their legions surged forward like a mountain collapsing into the sea, the earth trembling beneath their advance. Fire and ice intertwined, and even the distant sky was stained with the apocalyptic hues of their elemental energy.
This time, the monster army included not only a greater number of elite commanders and elite units, each stronger than those in the initial landing battle, but also an additional several million Peak First-Tier ordinary troops from each race!
The lava giant legions were composed of ordinary lava warriors, colossal beings of immense strength wielding burning warhammers and rocky shields. They stomped across the scorching earth, their deafening roars shaking the very ground.
The Snow Monster legions, on the other hand, consisted of giant frost hounds and fur-clad yeti hunters. They moved silently through the snow and ice, their razor-sharp claws glinting coldly as they stalked their prey with ruthless efficiency.
And this was just the beginning!
Intelligence gathered by wizards who had infiltrated enemy territory revealed an endless stream of monsters converging on their position.
Lava giants surged from subterranean lava tunnels, while Snow Monsters emerged from the depths of glaciers, their numbers swelling like an unstoppable tide.
Combined, the two hostile races likely possessed hundreds of millions of reserve troops!
This meant the wizards faced a native force of unimaginable scale. Though individually weaker than the wizards, their sheer numbers could not be ignored.
"All units! Prepare for battle!" Wizard Augustine's stern voice echoed across the camp. Standing atop the command tower, his body surrounded by swirling laws, he appeared both insignificant and overwhelmingly powerful.
At his command, the Wizard Camp instantly transformed into a well-oiled war machine.
The golems forged from metal and bone, and the bioweapons fused from the remains of countless otherworldly beings, emitted silent or guttural roars.
Forming two orderly ranks, they charged fearlessly forward, enduring the lava giant's onslaught and the snow monsters' arrow rain.
They felt no fear, knew no retreat, only the pre-programmed directives: charge, expend, until annihilation.
The torrent of flesh and steel collided violently with the storm of lava and ice!
Boom!
The cataclysmic impact instantly ignited the battlefield!
Explosions erupted in rapid succession along the front lines, sending scorching lava and razor-sharp ice shards flying in all directions. Corrosive acid and venomous ice crystals mixed, creating a hellish landscape of death.
The lava giant Karamos swung his massive stone fists, bombarding the bioweapons and golems with relentless fury. Each strike sent molten lava splattering, tearing flesh and shattering steel.
Yet the golems' internal cores continued to flicker, and the mangled remains of bioweapons writhed relentlessly. Undeterred by death, even with limbs torn away, they clung desperately to their enemies, detonating their final reserves of energy.
Meanwhile, the Snow Monster army moved like phantoms through the icy mist.
Their movements were swift and silent, the ice crystal bowstrings drawn taut, unleashing a hail of ice arrows that rained down with relentless precision.
Each ice arrow possessed immense piercing power, effortlessly shattering the energy shields of the wizard cannon fodder.
Meanwhile, the physically formidable Snow Monster warriors wielded their razor-sharp claws and ice axes, engaging the wizards' flesh colossi in a desperate struggle.
The clash of ice blades against bone spurs rang out like clashing metal, as blood and white ice crystals mingled across the battlefield.
The combat wizards now revealed their true power.
Positioned behind the second defensive line, they unleashed a barrage of potent spells, providing long-range support.
Elemental energy surged through the air, spell runes wove into intricate patterns, and thick beams of energy pierced the sky.
Each strike detonated in a small explosion upon impact.
Yet the monster army's sheer numbers and the vastness of the battlefield meant that even with the wizards' full offensive output, they could only maintain the line's stability, unable to push back.
For a time, the situation remained locked in a stalemate.
As the wizards and monster legions waged their bloody tug-of-war on the camp's frontline, deep within the lava giants' ancestral territory—a region of churning magma and towering volcanoes—a silent transformation was underway.
Three seemingly ordinary active volcanoes had become the nexus points of the core earth meridian.
At that moment, the faint wisps of smoke that had been rising from the volcanoes' peaks suddenly began to emit an eerie crimson glow.
Countless lava giants, having secretly diverted the flow of magma from the surrounding earth meridians with painstaking effort, had gathered the pure fire element and earth force-infused magma like rivers into the bases of the three volcanoes, frantically charging them.
An overwhelming, suffocating elemental energy was now terrifyingly coalescing within the volcanoes' depths.
This was the lava giants' strategic weapon—a powerful weapon secretly developed during their long war with the Snow Monster Clan, capable of altering the local battlefield environment!
As the volcanoes reached their energy saturation point, the elemental fluctuations within them peaked.
In the next instant, three muffled roars shook the earth as three colossal crimson pillars of light erupted skyward like burning war spears, hurtling directly toward the bloody battlefield where the wizard and monster legions were locked in mortal combat!
The three pillars of light arced through the air in perfect parabolas, precisely striking the center of the battlefield. Almost simultaneously, they exploded outward with earth-shattering force!
A visible, wave-like aura of light, infused with terrifying heat, erupted outward from the three impact points.
In an instant, the battlefield's temperature soared to a suffocating thousand degrees Celsius!
This sudden, extreme heat alone devastated the unprepared wizard cannon fodder and the monsters of the Frostdark Realm.
The shells of some poorly-durable bioweapons and golems instantly charred and warped under the thousand-degree heat, their internal energy cores rapidly overloading. Many emitted agonized howls, belched plumes of black smoke, and collapsed lifelessly to the ground.
The Snow Monsters, particularly vulnerable to heat, let out piercing screams. Their icy bodies rapidly melted and evaporated, transforming into black liquid, with many dissolving into pools of blood.
The air instantly filled with the acrid stench of burnt meat and the pungent odor of sulfur.
Even more despairing, the barren, pitch-black ground at the border between the Blazing Sun Realm and the Frostdark Realm suddenly cracked open under the intense heat!
Vast quantities of molten lava surged from the depths below, like gaping wounds, transforming the battlefield into a sea of flowing magma!
In this extreme environment, the previously suppressed lava giants thrived as if they were fish in water!
They roared with frenzied joy.
The scorching heat and flowing lava not only failed to harm them but became the very source of their power.
Their bodies swelled dramatically under the intense heat, and the molten blood flowing across their skin grew even hotter and more viscous.
Some lava giants even evolved into pure liquid lava forms, gliding freely through the magma as if one with the earth itself.
Their bodies absorbed the surrounding heat and lava, causing their strength to surge exponentially in a matter of moments!
In an instant, the evenly matched battle transformed into a rout.
The lava giants' surge swept forward, coordinated with the magma erupting from the depths, effortlessly driving the wizard cannon fodder's battle line back several kilometers!
The wizards' defenses began to crumble on a massive scale.
At the rear of the battle line, Lava Giant Karamos, engulfed in a searing lava storm, bellowed, "HAHAHAHA!!! Just like that! Tell those fools behind us to hurry up with the charging and keep firing!"
Bathed in the crimson light erupting from the three strategic volcanoes, Karamos's colossal form loomed even larger and more terrifying.
He commanded his lava giants to continue charging the volcanoes, ensuring their battlefield advantage continued to grow.
Karamos watched the wizard legion's temporary retreat and the Snow Monsters' hideous howls under the intense heat, his eyes brimming with smug satisfaction.
He reveled in the brilliance of his plan, which had both crippled the damned "white-haired fiends" and routed the invading forces.
Yet, at the very peak of his triumph, his massive body suddenly shuddered violently!
This wasn't an external attack, but a primal warning from his own instincts—a premonition of imminent danger.
His keen intuition as a sixth-tier creature, capable of sensing the plane's origin, now screamed a piercing alarm.
Even Karamos's usually dull biological instincts sensed it: a terrifying power was quietly gathering at the heart of the battlefield, beneath the rift in space.
The sheer magnitude of this power sent an unprecedented chill down his spine.
"What the hell is that thing?!"
(End of the Chapter)
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