Translator: AnubisTL
As wizards, they understood better than anyone the terrifying potential hidden within this seemingly unremarkable ability.
Moreover, intelligence reports indicated that their enemies had already developed the capacity for interplanar colonization.
If left unchecked, these three civilizations would become the next wizard civilization!
Without a doubt, this planar war was waged to eradicate that terrifying "learning evolution" trait, to crush any potential threat in its infancy.
Amidst this tense atmosphere...
Buzz!!!
The entire "Ship" Plane shuddered violently, as if colliding with an invisible barrier!
From an external perspective, the massive planar battleship was transmigrating through a chaotic void turbulence, a swirling maelstrom of vibrant colors.
At that moment, countless colossal fortresses, bioluminescent giant beasts, and energy body integrations, each radiating the distinct light of their respective civilizations, erupted from the void's shadows, launching a ferocious assault against the "Ship" Plane!
The defense array crisscrossing the earth instantly blazed to maximum intensity, dispersing, deflecting, and absorbing the incoming energy attacks.
Above, a crystalline shield, shimmering with countless geometric patterns, enveloped the sky, repelling the relentless barrage of energy blasts and physical projectiles.
A piercing alarm blared through the magic net terminals, echoing in every wizard's mind:
Warning! Enemy fleet engagement detected!
Mission issued: Clear the path ahead and secure the air route!
All combat personnel, deploy according to pre-assigned formations!
The wizards' original strategy remained unchanged: approach the enemy plane, then directly break through the planar barrier to launch an attack.
Considering the enemy's ability to navigate the chaotic void, the ship plane had been carefully concealing itself from the start, ensuring it wouldn't be detected by any reconnaissance systems the enemy might have deployed around their plane.
But plans rarely survive first contact.
The reason they were discovered was simply bad luck.
The wizards' meticulously planned stealth approach was completely disrupted by an unexpected "void collision." A fleet returning from conquering an unknown world, laden with spoils of war, collided head-on with the wizards' "Ship" Plane at a precise coordinate in the chaotic void!
Without warning or negotiation, war erupted the instant the two sides met, erupting in the most direct manner possible.
"Under attack! Initiating counterattack protocols!"
"Combat mode analysis in progress... Based on available intelligence, the enemy is highly likely a fleet from the giant spirit realm!"
Despite the urgency of the situation, the wizards quickly identified their attackers.
Upon hearing that the fleet belonged to the giant spirit realm, the eyes of the three seventh-tier wizards lit up. "Looks like our luck isn't so bad after all!"
The expeditionary force's high command had already decided to make the giant spirit realm their primary target.
Their reasoning was that while the enemy's combat power was formidable, their tactics were straightforward and lacked strategic depth, making them an ideal test for the expeditionary force's combat capabilities and a way to study the enemy's weaknesses.
"Lock onto the target—the giant spirit realm fleet! Annihilate them completely and clear the waterway!"
The icy mental command of the seventh-tier wizard "Adjudicator" Dixon resonated throughout the entire force.
No further mobilization was needed. On the "Ship" Plane's outer hull, tens of thousands of launch bays instantly opened!
The ready-to-deploy legions of wizard war golem, elemental creatures, contracted giant beast, and wizard legions surged forth from the "Ship" Plane like a flood breaching its dam, all protected by the rule domain of one seventh-tier wizard and over a dozen sixth-tier wizards!
The chaotic void was far from empty.
It teemed with bizarre elemental turbulence, where chaotic laws formed storms capable of disintegrating matter into its most fundamental particles at any moment.
For wizards below the third-tier, entering this place without protection was tantamount to suicide.
Even third-tier wizards and above, shielded by the laws, had to tread cautiously in such regions.
Prolonged exposure was fatal; as their power waned, their physical and spiritual essence would eventually dissolve into fundamental elemental particles.
However, sixth-tier wizards and above could operate here for extended periods.
This was because sixth-tier wizards mastered rule solidification, allowing them to solidify their own rules and ignore the various hazards of the chaotic void.
High-rank wizards could extend this ability outward, creating domains within the endless chaotic void where lower-rank wizards could operate. Though these domains lacked combat capabilities, they provided temporary operational zones for wizard armies in the void.
Within these stable, bubble-like rule solidification domains projected by sixth-tier wizards, wizard armies composed primarily of low-rank wizards gained the ability to wage war in the void.
These domains varied in color and, under the coordination of seventh-tier wizards, collectively formed the wizard legion's mobile fortresses and combat platforms in the void.
"For Kog! Crush these invaders!"
"Hahahaha! What luck! The little insects have come right to our doorstep!"
"Attack! Wipe them out! Plunder their knowledge and reverse-engineer their civilization's coordinates!"
Meanwhile, the giant spirit realm's fleet displayed remarkable military discipline.
Despite the sudden ambush, they swiftly deployed into combat formations.
The colossal metal fortresses, each resembling a mobile mountain range, lit up with countless energy runes as their massive cannons began to charge, radiating destructive auras.
Countless smaller, lightning-fast assault ships surged forward like swarming bees, circling the fortresses. As the fortresses unleashed their attacks, the assault ships broke free from the fortresses' protective law fields, launching fearless charges against the enemy.
In an instant, the once-silent void transformed into a seething furnace!
Behind the front lines, on the surface of the "Ship" Plane, thousands of massive batteries slowly rose into position. Runes glowed as they drew energy from the entire plane.
Woom!
Several main cannon beams, each over a kilometer in diameter and composed of pure energy, instantly spanned the void, slamming into the largest giant spirit realm fortress with devastating force!
The fortress's massive energy shield shattered like paper, its armor instantly vaporized. The colossal structure disintegrated in a silent explosion, scattering into fragments.
In the end, the entire fortress transformed into a massive, ever-expanding fireball, engulfing nearby assault ships in its fiery embrace. The secondary explosions erupted like fireworks, yet carried the chilling aura of death.
Startled by the wizard's terrifying destructive power, the remaining fortresses scrambled to evade the enemy's precise artillery fire.
In that single moment, the fleet's earlier boisterous clamor fell into stunned silence.
No joke! Our combined barrage barely scratched them, yet their first volley destroyed an entire fortress!
While it was clear from the start that this colossal warship possessed formidable power, the sheer disparity between the two sides was staggering.
After a moment of stunned silence, the fortress commander issued new orders: "Close in! All units, close in! Prepare for boarding action!"
On the frontline, under the cover of artillery fire from the ship plane, the vanguard war colossus legions clashed violently with the giant beasts of the spirit realm.
The wizard's War Colossi were the pinnacle of alchemy and enchantment, forged entirely from rune-etched metal. Armed with a diverse arsenal and shielded by impossibly durable barriers, they were masters of siege warfare.
The giant beasts of the giant spirit realm were body integrations of flesh and machine.
Covered in thick bio-metal armor, their claws could tear through the earth, and their roars carried a spirit-shattering impact.
Like primordial, savage gods, they clashed with the wizards' iron constructs in a brutal, direct contest of raw power.
Metal shards, severed limbs, and boiling energy fluids sprayed in all directions. Each collision erupted in deafening thunder, the violent energy surges reverberating through the senses of all present.
Slightly behind the front lines, the sixth-tier wizards began directing their subordinates to unleash combined wizardry, weaving a deathly net across the battlefield.
Hundreds of wizards chanted in unison, summoning a fire rain that blanketed vast stretches of the void. Burning meteorites, trailing fiery tails, crashed with pinpoint accuracy into the densest clusters of enemy warships.
ice wizard joined forces to freeze the void, creating massive ultra-low-temperature domains. Within these zones, enemy warships and their energy shields alike were frozen into brittle ice sculptures, then shattered into dust by the ensuing shockwaves.
Sinister cursed wizardry spread silently. Warriors aboard targeted giant spirit realm warships suddenly withered, their flesh decaying, or their minds fractured, driving them to attack their own comrades in a frenzy.
Jieming stood within the pale golden rule domain projected by a sixth-tier wizard, calmly observing the battlefield.
He refrained from immediately deploying the Black Giant Legion into the chaotic void boarding action—it wasn't their forte.
Moreover, now wasn't the time for individual wizards like him to act.
Scattered wizards like them were no match for the enemy's initial wave of coordinated attacks, especially compared to the wizard legions personally organized by high-level wizards.
Soon, as the enemy's offensive momentum stalled, the command center transmitted mission assignments to their terminals.
"Here it comes!" Jieming's spirit surged as he swiftly reviewed the mission details.
The high-rank wizards, well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of scattered wizards, hadn't assigned them specific combat objectives. Instead, they had divided the battlefield into precincts and tasked them with independently breaking through the enemy's blockade.
Jieming immediately focused his attention on the precinct assigned to him.
His gaze quickly locked onto the enemy fleet's motherships, those beehive-like vessels constantly launching swarms of small assault units.
"Shuttle Hunters, First Echelon, target—enemy mothership launch bays."
With a thought, the thousand Shuttle Hunters already poised in his internal space surged forth like a disturbed swarm of bees, screaming through the gaps at the edge of his rule domain!
Thanks to the earlier exchange of fire between the two sides, the violent energy fluctuations, though devastating, had briefly stabilized a region of the chaotic void into a relatively stable fairground of laws.
The Shuttle Hunters instantly broke the sound barrier, carving a thousand pale trails through the void.
Following impossibly agile trajectories, they ignored all intercepting fire and slammed into the most vulnerable launch bays of the enemy motherships!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A chain reaction of explosions lit up the giant spirit realm fleet's formation.
Massive holes were torn through the flanks of the motherships, internal detonations transforming them into floating coffins.
The Shuttle Hunters, employing the most extreme methods, effectively cut off the enemy's supply of small units in this precinct.
With the full force of the wizard legion unleashed, the war's ferocity surpassed all imagination.
In the final moments, entire formations of the giant spirit realm fleet were annihilated every second.
Yet the enemy's resilience was terrifying.
Even after suffering such devastating losses, even with their vanguard fleet nearly annihilated, the giant spirit realm's armies showed no signs of breaking.
On the contrary, from the distant but now clearly visible direction of their home world, countless dense clusters of light were surging forward—reinforcements from their homeland!
They swarmed like a fearless, relentless swarm of metal bees, their stingers relentlessly piercing enemy bodies even as their comrades fell in droves.
The void had become a true meat grinder, devouring the lives and creations of both sides.
(End of the Chapter)
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