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Jieming and his squad successfully landed on the surface of the steel city.
But this didn't mean the battle was over. Instead, it felt like they had just poked a giant hornet's nest.
Before Jieming's wizard squad could even survey their surroundings, the screech of metal grinding and the hum of energy weapons charging erupted from all directions.
The towering skyscrapers, clad in metallic plating, suddenly revealed countless openings of varying sizes on their surfaces.
The next moment, like a burst dam, a tide of creatures of all shapes and sizes swarmed out!
Some resembled upright lizards, clad in crude metal armor; others were multi-eyed, multi-legged arthropods wielding a fusion of biological and mechanical weaponry; and some were even phantom shadows composed entirely of energy, emitting mind-shattering screeches...
They had only one target—the wizard squad in the center of the block!
"Suppressive fire! Clear the perimeter!" the fifth-tier wizard leading the squad reacted instantly.
With a wave of his hand, Jieming unleashed a searing lava beam that swept across the battlefield, instantly vaporizing the first wave of enemies and slicing a large building in half.
The other wizards unleashed their own arcane powers—frost, thunder, corrosive acid, mental assaults...
The narrow street erupted in a kaleidoscope of magical light as waves of bizarre creatures were mowed down like wheat in a field.
The [Great Light Phase] behind Jieming flared again, its dense barrage of energy bullets plowing through the oncoming tide of enemies, leaving a trail of charred remains and wreckage.
As soon as he engaged, Jieming immediately recognized the nature of his foes. Their energy signatures were overwhelmingly weak, mostly at the first or second tier, and their wildly diverse forms betrayed their origins from countless different lifeforms.
"It's a servant army!" he declared grimly.
A servant army was a force composed of conquered indigenous beings from various planes, pressed into service.
The Giant Spirit Realm had conquered dozens of planes, so it was only natural for them to field such an army.
However, the Wizard Civilization had always preferred using fully controlled, custom-engineered cannon fodder—constructs often stronger than their creators—which was why Jieming hadn't immediately considered this possibility.
Compared to the wizards' meticulously designed "high-quality" cannon fodder—often one or two levels stronger than their masters—the individual strength of these servant soldiers was utterly pathetic.
But... their numbers were simply terrifying!
The Giant Spirit Realm was vast, its land area possibly comparable to the surface area of Saturn, a gas giant Jieming knew from his past life.
Though the wizards had already dispersed into small units of hundreds or thousands to fight separately, and were attacking only a small portion of the Giant Spirit Realm's territory...
The sector assigned to Jieming's squad of less than a hundred men was still as vast as a mid-sized province from his previous life!
And within this region, the enemy seemed endless.
Ten minutes!
Just ten minutes of fierce fighting!
Jieming roughly estimated that the number of servant soldiers killed by his squad alone had already reached a staggering ten billion!
Yet as far as he could see, enemies continued to roar and charge out of the seemingly bottomless metal towers.
They trampled over their comrades' corpses, lunging forward in a frenzy.
They built walls with bodies and soaked the metal ground with blood and energy, their onslaught never weakening for a moment.
For a moment, this elite wizard squad found themselves in a rather awkward predicament.
Looking up at the sky, the wizards' floating fortress and their main Cannon Fodder Legion were relentlessly hammering the regular army of the Giant Spirit Realm, maintaining an absolute advantage.
Yet on the ground, the wizards themselves—who should have been the masters of the battlefield—were being driven into a desperate struggle by a sea of low-level servant troops.
They could do nothing but hold their ground, continuously draining their wizard power and mental power in an inefficient war of attrition.
This was not to say the wizards were weak. On the contrary, it was a testament to the unique warfare philosophy of the wizard civilization: the belief in leveraging knowledge to amplify power.
They did not pursue extreme physical evolution. Instead, they devoted their energy to understanding and manipulating the Laws of the World.
The Cannon Fodder Legion was the ultimate weapon born from this philosophy.
To the wizards, the Cannon Fodder Legion was just like a spell—a crystallization of knowledge and resources. It was a living embodiment of using knowledge to leverage power, and it was common for its overall combat power to far exceed that of the wizards themselves.
This was precisely why such a "bizarre" scene had unfolded: the Cannon Fodder Legion was crushing the enemy's main force, while the wizards themselves were pinned down by the enemy's mere fodder.
Jieming unleashed another wave of energy bullets, clearing a brief vacuum zone ahead. But as he saw an even larger swarm of enemies pouring out from the building's breach like a fountain, he couldn't help but frown.
We can't keep going like this, he realized.
The enemy's objective was painfully obvious: to exhaust their forces with this endless tide of cheap servant soldiers.
The only way to break the stalemate was to find and destroy the enemy's troop-deploying outpost or teleportation node.
Otherwise, they would eventually be swallowed by this mire of flesh and metal.
He looked up and met the gazes of the fifth-tier wizard leader and the two fourth-tier wizards.
In their eyes, Jieming saw the same assessment and resolve.
"Clear our line of sight! Level all these eyesores—the ruins and the metal boxes!" the fifth-tier wizard commanded decisively, his voice cutting clearly through the roar of explosions.
Without hesitation, Jieming raised his hand and fired a highly condensed energy bullet into the sky above.
The energy bullet soared rapidly, and at several hundred meters, he detonated it mid-air with pinpoint precision.
BOOM!!!
The massive explosion bloomed in the sky, its violent shockwave slamming down like an invisible giant hammer onto the ruins of metal towers and crowded streets below.
However, the results were not as expected.
The metal used in the Giant Spirit Realm's architecture was clearly extraordinary.
Jieming's energy bullet, powerful enough to level a modern reinforced concrete city block, had only cleared an area about a hundred meters in diameter upon impact.
Compared to this vast battlefield, it was a mere drop in the bucket.
Most of the metal fragments blasted into the air were merely twisted and deformed, not completely vaporized.
"Tougher than I thought..." Jieming's eyes turned cold. "Then I'll just have to use more!"
With a thought, the massive [Great Light Phase] array behind him hummed once more.
This time, instead of precision strikes against ground enemies, it fired into the sky like a celebratory firework launcher, unleashing thousands of energy light bullets trailing dazzling streaks of light!
These light bullets didn't fly straight toward their targets. Instead, under Jieming's masterful control, they scattered in all directions, as if alive, filling the sky at every conceivable angle.
They traced elegant parabolas, blanketing the vast expanse of air around the squad.
The fifth-tier wizard and two fourth-tier wizards acted swiftly, casting a spell to erect a shield that enveloped the entire team.
When the light bullets reached their designated detonation points...
"Boom," Jieming whispered.
The next instant, heaven and earth fell silent!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
An indescribably terrifying roar of explosions merged into a single, devastating symphony that threatened to shatter one's internal organs.
Thousands of blazing spheres of light erupted simultaneously in the sky, between buildings, and across the streets!
Shockwaves collided and amplified, forming visible rings of distorted air that surged outward in a frenzied tide.
Metal buildings were effortlessly toppled and torn apart by the waves, like children's blocks.
The servant army on the ground and the wreckage from the previous battle were instantly vaporized or ground into the finest dust by this indiscriminate storm of destruction.
The blinding light illuminated the darkened battlefield as if it were day. Even the aerial combat raging nearby seemed to freeze for a moment, as if stunned by this sudden devastation from below.
The explosion's aftershocks lingered for over ten seconds before slowly subsiding.
As the billowing dust and dissipating energy shards cleared, the sight before them made every wizard catch their breath.
(End of the Chapter)
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