Chapter 71: The First Shot of the War Huge steel ships are sailing in the air.
For this general attack, the Guardian Wing Army brought out all the main ships of the five combat divisions to form the most powerful fleet in the history of the Floating Continent Island - the [Pioneer Corps].
All 250 super soldiers who had integrated spirit crystals went into battle, three quarters of the golden fairies also traveled with the army, and the Guardian Wing Army brought out all of its most
elite veterans.
This time, the Floating Continent Archipelago has invested a huge amount of money.
If you fail, you will die.
On the deck of the first flagship, William leaned on the railing and looked into the distance.
Squinting his eyes, he seemed to be able to see a city looming in the distance on the horizon. "We're almost there."
William muttered to him Spirit as familiar memories emerged in his mind.
Counterattack the ground and retake the homeland, this is the main goal of the pioneer corps's operation. And their first stop is the most prosperous and powerful human city - the Imperial Capital.
He still remembered when he was summoned by the King and the Pope to the Imperial City and was crowned as a hero with his companions. That was his first time to the Imperial City and also his first time away from his hometown.
The king promised him a generous reward, and the pope gave him a noble mission, allowing him to embark on the road to slay the devil. Unfortunately, these were all lies.
Without reward, the mission is not noble. He gave up everything for a lie.
I even failed to fulfill the promise I made to my family when I left my hometown.
"Are you feeling complicated?"
Just as William was staring at the city in the distance and thinking about something, a voice came from behind him. Looking back, he found Yatogami Tohka standing behind him.
"After all, it's been such a long time since I returned to the ground." William forced a smile, "I remembered some things in the past, and I feel a little complicated."
"Do you want me to call Cordelia for you?"
"I'm not such a fragile person." William shook his head. "But, then again, I thought you were very busy. How can the leader of the
Pioneer Corps have time to chat with a nobody like me?"
"Although I'm the captain, the lieutenants are the ones doing all the work." Yatogami Tohka scratched his head, "Even if I want to help with some documents or something, they won't let me help."
"Ah, that's true." William nodded in agreement. "After all, she is the one who missed a zero when processing the total amount of supplies and almost delayed the battle for two weeks. She really can't be allowed to handle the documents."
"Well, that can't be considered my fault." Yatogami Tohka curled her lips guiltily, "Numbers and such make people dizzy." "Yes, yes." William echoed casually, "Anyway, you should just take care of the fighting, and let other experts handle the logistics and paperwork."
"Oh!" Yatogami Tohka patted her chest confidently, "Fighting is what I'm best at, just leave it to me!" "Well...fighting is indeed the only thing I can leave to you."
William sighed helplessly.
He still had doubts about many things about Yatogami Tohka . But William would never doubt her fighting ability.
When she only had one spirit crystal, her fighting power was no weaker than when she was at her prime. Now that she had merged with another spirit crystal, and it was a spirit crystal with even more incredible power, and gained the ability of the time system, her fighting power was even more unquestionable.
He even suspected that if Yatogami Tohka was given enough time, this guy could come to the ground alone and kill all the seventeen beasts alone. When he thought of this, he couldn't help but look at the other warships not far away. On other warships, Yatogami Tohka clone was in charge.
These clones look exactly the same as the original, both in appearance and in their thought processes. Putting them together, even Nephren, who is most familiar with Yatogami
Tohka, cannot tell which is the original and which is the clone.
Moreover, the combat capability of each of them can at least reach the level of half a quasi-hero. As for why half?
Although their appearance and thinking circuits are the same, their abilities are greatly limited. Whether it is the silver giant sword named Sandalphon or the double guns named Zafkiel, they cannot use their full strength. Sandalphon cannot use the Last Sword, and Zafkiel cannot use the ability bullets. Compared with the original body, their upper limit of strength is much lower. But even so, they should not be underestimated.
After all, it takes a lot of resources to train a quasi-hero. When the kingdom and the church searched the whole country, they only found one hero and five quasi-heroes.
However, Tohka Yatogami's clone can be mass-produced.
According to her, as long as there is enough time, making hundreds of them is not a problem.
Hundreds of Yatogami Tohka ...
William's eyes twitched when he thought of this scene.
If there were really hundreds of Yatogami Tohka , this battle wouldn't have to be fought. Just preparing food for them would be enough to drag down the entire logistics of the Guardian Wing Army. At that time, the first difficulty that the pioneers would face would not be the Seventeen Beasts, but the shortage of food. However, it doesn't matter if there are not hundreds of clones.
One god-level combat power, six clones, fifteen golden fairies, two hundred and fifty super warriors, and two thousand elite soldiers. Even if William himsSpirit had no combat power and could only do the logistics work of repairing the holy sword, he still believed that this battle was destined to win. Looking at the human imperial capital getting closer and closer, William put his hand into his arms and took out a translucent crystal.
Inside the crystal was a thick, pitch-black curse.
This was what Ebon Candle gave him before the Pioneer Corps set out.
A relic belonging to Suowong, the original curse sealed by Lord Black Candle.
The Floating Continent Island still need someone to look after them. Now that the Guardian Wing Army and the Golden Fairies have mobilized most of their personnel, this task has naturally been temporarily handed
over to Lord Black Candle.
Unable to leave the Floating Continent Archipelago, Lord Ebon Candle gave Suowong relics to William, asking him to fulfill Suowong last wish.
The soul returns to its homeland.
"I didn't expect that our unpleasant parting would actually become a farewell forever. What a pity." Staring at the crystal in his hand, William murmured in his heart: "But your last wish will come true soon, I promise." "Swoosh————!"
At this moment, a whistling sound of breaking air came from the distance.
William looked towards the location of the imperial capital, and saw a beam of light with a radius of at least five meters coming from that direction, directly hitting an airship. Before anyone could react to what happened, the unfortunate airship exploded in the air.
Except for a golden Fairy who was escorting them, none of the other orc warriors survived. "Target confirmed, target confirmed, the enemy is the Fourteenth Beast of Weaving Light!" In the airship, the orc observer saw through the telescope the beast entrenched in the imperial capital, wearing crystal armor like a knight, with spikes on its head that focused light beams, and immediately sounded the alarm.
That was the extremely huge fourteenth beast.
It was more than ten times bigger than the one encountered in the Battle of the Fifteenth Floating Island two months ago. "The battle has begun! Everyone, open your eyes!"
Yatogami Tohka flew in front of the fleet and pointed the tip of the sword towards the Imperial Capital. "I'm going to deal with that big guy. All the ships of the Pioneer Corps, listen to my command and move at full speed towards the Imperial Capital!"
Chapter 72: Gun in the left hand, sword in the right hand
Before the war began, one of the thirty steel giant ships was shot down.
No one expected that the Fourteenth Beast could sense their approach from such a long distance. In order to prevent the warriors from dying meaninglessly here, Yatogami Tohka led his six clones and rushed towards the huge Fourteenth Beast with the Sandalphon in hand.
"roar----!"
Sensing the approach of several powerful auras, the Fourteenth Beast roared instinctively. And with this roar, countless sleeping beasts in the imperial capital opened their eyes filled with murderous intent and chaos. The prosperous city that once belonged to humans has long become the nest of the Seventeenth Beast.
Now, this long-silent city has awakened again, and the soulless beasts are casting bloodthirsty eyes on the living.
The fourteenth beast had already changed its target, aiming the horns on its head at Yatogami Tohka . It had successfully attracted its attention, and just before the magic beam was about to be shot out, the main body and the six clones immediately dispersed. The beam of light with a radius of five meters shot straight at the main body in the middle, but Yatogami Tohka was not afraid at all, holding the Sandalphon in her hand high. The violent spiritual power had already accumulated in it.
When it comes to fighting, she has never been afraid of anyone!
Yatogami Tohka shouted loudly, and the sword light transformed by her spiritual power collided with the light column, causing a dazzling light. The light column that was enough to destroy the airship with one blow and the sword energy emitted by Sandalphon vibrated a visible shock wave that spread in all directions. "Boom boom!"
In the imperial capital, many buildings that had been in disrepair for a long time and were nearly collapsed by the beasts could not withstand such fluctuations and collapsed. The rubble and bricks buried the newly awakened beasts, and some unlucky ones were directly crushed to death.
The other six clones also approached the 15-meter-tall knight monster at this moment. Based on previous experience, the crystal armor on the Fourteenth Beast had amazing defensive power, so they were not prepared to show mercy from the beginning and released their maximum spiritual power to slash at it.
As the roar of an explosion sounded, the Fourteenth Beast let out a shrill scream. The six clones cut six deep wounds that could be seen to the bone at different locations, and blood gushed out to the ground like a fountain. The intense pain made the Fourteenth Beast fall into a frenzy. It waved its arms, and the spikes on its head shot out countless beams of magic power, forcing the clones to temporarily avoid the sharp edge.
But the only one who needs to temporarily avoid the spotlight is the clone.
The next moment they created chaos, the real body of the Sandalphon appeared in front of the fourteenth beast at lightning speed.
At the scar left by a clone on the head of the Fourteenth Beast, Yatogami Tohka thrust Sandalphon into its body. As the spiritual power poured in crazily, Sandalphon sword energy chopped down directly from its head, tearing its huge body apart from the middle. "This should be the strongest beast in this area, right?"
After dealing with the fourteenth beast, Yatogami Tohka looked around, but did not find any beast bigger than it. The next moment, the ground cracked.
Dozens of spikes emerged from the ground, with strange green lights flashing on the tips. They pierced towards Yatogami Tohka and her clone at lightning speed.
The spikes collided with the divine spiritual armor, making a crisp echo.
The power is not that great.
However, the black and red battle armor was infused with an ominous color. The dark green of decay spread across the armor, quickly corroding the entire armor and even spreading to their bodies. Curse!
The one who attacked them was a beast they had never seen before!
As this realization came, the bodies of the clones shook, and dark red blood flowed from the corners of their mouths. The original body also felt a slight dizziness, and the world in front of him became blurry as if a phantom appeared. "Shameless!"
Yatogami Tohka roared, and Sandalphon gathered her strength again, slashing at the ground frantically with anger. After more than a dozen swings, the ground beneath her feet had already broken into pieces.
Minced meat and dirty blood gradually seeped out of the cracked ground.
The unknown beast hiding underground and attacking had obviously been chopped into pieces. However, just when she thought the crisis was over, heavy roars came from all directions of the imperial capital. The ground began to shake.
A trace of solemnity appeared on Yatogami Tohka heroic face.
Those that have just awakened are only some of the most superficial beasts.
But as she hacked away, the more powerful beasts that had been sleeping deep underground were awakened. Looking at the huge creatures that broke through the ground and crawled out from the ground, Yatogami Tohka couldn't help but tighten her grip on the weapon in her hand. The fourteenth beast just now was already huge.
But compared with these guys, I am still a dwarf.
Seven beasts as huge as mountains appeared in different locations of the imperial capital.
In addition to those living on the surface of the capital and those constantly crawling out from the ground, the city is now engulfed by all kinds of beasts.
"Tohka, we are here to help you!"
Just when Yatogami Tohka was surrounded in a bad state, the golden fairies finally arrived. With their help, Yatogami Tohka finally got a chance to breathe. Taking this opportunity, she immediately used the Four Bullets that could rewind her body's time, and rewinded her and her clone's body time to the time before the curse. With the appearance of the golden fairies, the airships of the Pioneer Corps also appeared one after another over the imperial capital.
They cast a huge black shadow, and the deterrent effect brought by the fleet that covered the sky was no less than that of the Ten Thousand Beasts.
"Deploy the airborne troops!"
As preparations were completed, the commanders on the battleship gave the order to start the battle. "Glory will be with you!"
The hatch opened, and two hundred and fifty fully armed tin cans, armed with swords, axes, guns and knives, stepped out of the deck without hesitation and fell at an extremely fast speed.
Hard landing!
As dull sounds like comets falling to the ground were heard, these super soldiers that had merged with soul crystals fell into the beast tide, killing the beasts where they landed and also stirring up large amounts of dust.
They had no intention of resting, and rushed out of the dust that obscured their vision, charging into the beast tide and engaging in a brutal melee. "Well, this area is left to you."
Seeing that the battle situation nearby had stabilized, Yatogami Tohka looked in the direction of the special individuals among the seventeen beasts. The beastmen who had merged with the spirit crystals were warriors who could fight ten beasts at once, but that was only for beasts of normal size. Individuals that exceeded the standard still needed her to deal with them.
"Seven special individuals, you go hold them back, I'll deal with them one by one!" Yatogami Tohka gripped the hilt tightly, looked at the other six clones, and immediately dispersed. Under their feet, the scarlet field moved with them in the imperial capital. That was the City of Eating Time.
Feeling the time that was snatched from the beast, Yatogami Tohka held the Sandalphon in her right hand, raised her left hand, and a short flintlock appeared in her hand.
"Zafkiel , Bullet of Seven!"
Holding a sword in one hand and a gun in the other, Yatogami Tohka shot a bullet that could stop time, freezing the huge beast in place.
A dark gold throne appeared out of thin air beside him. Yatogami Tohka slashed the throne with a sword, turning it into countless fragments. As the fragments were attracted by some kind of force and attached to Sandalphon, its aura increased exponentially in an instant. "Sandalphon, the last sword!"