Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1253 - 1246: Choosing to Cooperate

Chapter 1253: Chapter 1246: Choosing to Cooperate

"Working with the enemy is not necessarily out of the question," Luo’er suddenly thought of the commander from Dongsheng known as Xuan, and impulsively blurted out a sentence.

Zhuyan Yu clearly heard what he said but remained noncommittal, continuing to stare at the distant Helrandum, lost in thought.

The battle probably lasted more than five hours; by the end, not a single soldier from the Dongsheng Empire, whether in the sky or on the ground, remained.

By the afternoon, the Helrandum finally returned to the skies above Lingyuan City to receive supplies from the support ships, and at the same time, all fighter jets had returned to base, with only a few reconnaissance aircraft maintaining cruising status.

There really wasn’t much to say about such a fight. Ronisca’s air fleet, with the addition of Earth’s advanced weaponry, had significantly developed its aerial strike power, making the Dongsheng fleet no match for them.

Although it was the same technological overpowering, unlike in the year Earthlings invaded Otherworld, this war saw Ronisca’s air fleet’s advantage in the combination of Otherworld magic and Earth technology, so there was no significant disadvantage.

The return of the Helrandum caused cheers among the soldiers and civilians of the Demon Clan within the city, and the leaders were even more overjoyed.

Before the battle broke out, they had also speculated about the strength of these foreigners from the Western Continent. But after witnessing the battle with their own eyes, they realized that the combat power of these Western Continentals was beyond their imagination, and it was futile to think of resisting the invasion by the Dongsheng Empire. The Western Continentals were undoubtedly the best choice.

Soon, the Demon Clan warmly welcomed the Dwarves who had just been through the battle, treating them as honored guests. However, since most Dwarves were not familiar with the Demon Clan language, it was necessary for Luo’er and his company to accompany them throughout.

As for Reimer, he hadn’t wanted to get involved in this war, but he hadn’t expected the conflict to erupt in this way, leaving him no choice. So he could only go with the tide, agreeing to help Abisien guard Lingyuan City.

In return, Abisien had to provide them with Magic Crystals as an energy supply. Reimer had done a quick calculation and realized that their current Magic Crystal stores wouldn’t fly them back home. If they didn’t replenish their Magic Crystals soon, the entire fleet would run out of power.

One of the main reasons the Dongsheng Empire had invaded West Outer Heaven was because West Outer Heaven was rich in Magic Crystals, which they called Source Stones.

However, it must be emphasized that Magic Crystals cannot be used as an energy source unless they are activated. Fortunately, this expedition brought craftsmen familiar with Rune engraving. They could inscribe the Magic Crystals upon discovery to use them as an energy supply.

But the current situation in West Outer Heaven was not optimistic, and the Magic Crystal Mines in Abisien’s hands had also been gradually taken over by the Dongsheng Empire. To solve the Helrandum’s energy problem, they definitely couldn’t just defend Lingyuan City. Instead, they had to take the initiative to push the battlefront southward.

To celebrate the victory of this battle, Lingyuan City held a large-scale banquet to entertain their friends from the Western Continent.

Zhuyan Yu disliked such environments, so after letting Luo’er handle the socializing, she took the opportunity to discuss with the Dwarf scientists and see if they had discovered any clues from the carcass of the Overturning Beast.

The Dwarf scientists told her that they had dissected the carcass of the Overturning Beast and found an incredibly large Magic Crystal inside it, but it had shattered into pieces. If all the pieces were put together, they should be as big as a room.

Based on their speculation, the Overturning Beast’s ability to fly might very well rely on the magic provided by the Magic Crystal. The Helrandum’s blast had shattered the Magic Crystal inside the beast, causing it to fall.

Hearing this, Zhuyan Yu also fell into deep thought. The answer somehow confirmed her speculation, that Magic Crystals could possibly possess a Black Hole Effect, naturally attracting Yuanzi Groups.

The encounters of the past few days had shown that the Yuanzi Groups shot from Yuanzi weapons were attracted to Magic Crystals, and when two Odd Origin Particle Groups collided inside a Magic Crystal, they could produce a force powerful enough to shatter it.

Considering that cultivators from the East Continent generally have an inner core, which closely resembles the form of magic crystals, the Origin Submachine Gun, by some fluke, became the ultimate weapon against these cultivators.

No matter how commanding these cultivators were at controlling the elements on the battlefield, a single shot from the Origin Submachine Gun could cripple them, shattering the painstakingly cultivated dantian in an instant into deadly fragments.

However, there was still one point that needed to be confirmed by Zhuyan Yu, that is, whether the Yuanzi Group could penetrate shields, be they magic or physical.

Because she noticed that these cultivators from the East almost invariably used magic power to form shields around their bodies. If the Yuanzi Group couldn’t pierce these shields, then it meant they were still unable to handle these cultivators.

With the cooperation between the two sides finalized, the leaders of the Demon Clan began to establish helipads and barracks in Lingyuan City, deploying dwarf fighter jets and marine troops. With the addition of these advanced weapons and combat personnel, Lingyuan City was now relatively secure, no longer at risk of being breached.

According to reports from reconnaissance aircraft, the Dongsheng army’s vanguard had retreated hundreds of kilometers, moving beyond the range of the aircraft’s scouting capabilities.

Although the Dongsheng army’s retreat was good news, their relief did not last long, for according to the reconnaissance report, the Dongsheng army was still regrouping. Their retreating forces were about to join up with the main body and would soon launch another attack.

This time, it was serious. The Dongsheng army boasted hundreds of cultivators—a force that could not be overlooked. The Helrandum could indeed seize air superiority and provide ground support, but it was uncertain if it could hold off these cultivators.

Under the influence of the dwarves, the cultivators of the East were equivalent to the mages of the Western Continent. However, unlike the frail mages of the West, the Eastern cultivators were more troublesome. If a fight really broke out, there might be unforeseen losses. Caution was imperative.

Owing to different forms of warfare, the aerial fleet and the Dongsheng army had entirely different understandings of the warzone.

The Dongsheng army’s approach was that of visual-range warfare, considering only the area within eye-sight as the warzone, typically no more than one or two kilometers deep. In contrast, the aerial fleet was accustomed to near-beyond-visual-range warfare, regarding an area extending over a hundred kilometers as the battle zone.

This is because, with the development of modern long-range firepower, especially the advent of air forces, both enemy and ally territories spanning hundreds of kilometers came under the range of long-range fire, thus becoming part of the warzone.

Ancient warfare, limited by the delivery distance of long-range weapons, held battle zones to just a few kilometers in width, unlike the expansive ranges of modern conflicts.

That’s why, since warfare entered the modern era, countries with small land areas quickly became second-rate states.

The reason was that their territories did not have sufficient strategic depth to act as a buffer. Once war broke out, all national land would fall within the range of enemy fire, which is what’s referred to as the warzone, and they simply couldn’t afford such a cost.

Thus, although it seemed as though the Dongsheng army had escaped the enemy’s war zone, they had in fact not left the reconnaissance range of the aerial fleet, and therefore there was no real departure from the warzone.

Despite having a technological edge, Reimer remained very cautious in the face of the Dongsheng army’s large-scale invasion.

Due to the presence of cultivators on the East Continent, the war could not be understood in Earthly terms. It wasn’t a given that the aerial fleet’s technological lead would guarantee victory against an enemy force several times or even hundreds of times larger.

In the Otherworld, magic itself was a form of technology, and those cultivators were essentially different kinds of scientific practitioners.

Thus in terms of magic, there was not a huge gap between the two sides. The aerial fleet only had an edge over the Dongsheng Empire in the microscopic study of magic. If this were a few years earlier, whether they could have defeated the Dongsheng forces was still an open question.

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