Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1278 - 1271: Battleship Fall

Chapter 1278: Chapter 1271: Battleship Fall

On the chaotic battlefield, aside from those around him, nobody knew what was happening. At this moment, the battlefield roared with cries of battle and thundering drums, accompanied by the booming sound of gunfire.

Looking out, the Dongsheng army’s flags fluttered as they marched in well-ordered columns toward the city walls. Covered wooden carts formed a long corridor that allowed the government to transport soil to the moat in an attempt to cut it off and clear a path.

Although the Helrandum was advantageously supporting the ground battle, facing pursuit from more than thirty Kunzhou vessels left it too busy to fend for itself, forcing it to keep dodging the charging Kunzhou.

In this battle, the Dongsheng army’s formation remained unchanged, but the intensity of the fight had greatly increased from the last two days. The city walls changed hands several times, each time fiercely reclaimed by the Beast Head Tribe’s warriors.

The reason for such a scenario ultimately came down to the involvement of Dongsheng’s generals in the siege battle.

The intense clashes between the Dongsheng army and the Demon Clan army reminded Luo’er of the battle thirty years ago between the Otherworld Allied Army and the multinational forces.

In a similar battle, one side had the home ground advantage with a magic army, while the other side, a technology-driven army, was at an away disadvantage, ending in a disastrous defeat for the multinational forces.

However, it should be noted that although the multinational forces suffered a crushing defeat, they also inflicted significant damage on the Otherworld Allied Army. However, the Demon Clan’s allied forces currently found it hard to gain a strategic advantage over the Dongsheng army.

Ultimately, this was due to a gap in generations.

The multinational forces that had deployed to Otherworld belonged to an era of beyond-visual-range warfare, adhering to tactics of the same.

Upon entering Otherworld, the away disadvantage of Otherworld magic turned the multinational forces into a near-sighted warfare army. Still, the military officers of the time struggled with this adjustment, and coupled with a severely disorganized command structure, this led to their severe defeat.

Nevertheless, even as an army adapted to near-sighted warfare, the multinational forces belonged to the late stages of near-sighted warfare, where the doctrine of firepower superiority was deeply ingrained in them. This is why the intense artillery barrages from the multinational forces left a lasting impression on the Otherworld Allied Army during their clashes.

The current Demon Clan army, although also a near-sighted warfare army, belongs to the early stages of near-sighted warfare and pales significantly in comparison to the multinational forces of the past.

It has been emphasized repeatedly that although military generational differences are described in terms of visual range, each upgrade in wars incorporates enhancements, not only in visual range but also in powerful firepower and modern tactical maneuvers.

Therefore, although both are stages of near-sighted warfare, the Demon Clan allied forces and the multinational forces were incomparable; the latter typified the late stages of near-sighted warfare, whereas the Demon Clan allied are only at the early stages.

The noisy yet orderly battlefield made the firepower of the Advance Team seem particularly weak. Although every shot from a Yuanzi weapon caused a small explosion, such explosions seemed negligible compared to the current battle.

The Advance Team had to be particularly wary of the Ba Path generals scaling the city walls, these individuals, like human mechs, stormed the ramparts and slaughtered relentlessly, with almost no one able to stop them save for the physically robust Beast Head Tribe fighters.

Thus, Luo’er’s main task had become to deal with the generals climbing the city walls, aiming to use his Origin Submachine Gun to shatter their Dantian, subsequently turning the generals into sieves as the surrounding Demon Clan soldiers swarmed them.

These generals, clad in heavy armor, moved freely with a magic-enhanced BUFF even without protective True Qi. Their armor alone was enough for the Demon Clan soldiers to hack at them for a long time.

Hu Daoke, wielding an Origin Machine Gun, relentlessly swept the area below the city walls with gunfire. His Origin Machine Gun grew increasingly hot, and despite replacing several cooling components, they were still ineffective; the gun was on the brink of failure.

Nevertheless, the dense fire seemed weak compared against the crowd below which resembled ants. This was the first time he felt such powerlessness; if his firepower could increase tenfold at that moment, it might have made a significant impact on the battlefield’s dynamics, but the effect he could currently achieve was far too weak.

Hu Daoke’s wild shots differed from Baiyue’s calm, methodical scans of the battlefield from high in the tower for emerging opportunities. After killing the individual trying to command birds and beasts, she successively shot down several commanders at the front line, causing chaos in the Dongsheng army.

She noticed that the Dongsheng army generally used banners as signals; wherever the banners pointed was the direction of the army’s attack. Thus, she targeted and killed several banner bearers from Dongsheng.

However, soon enough, the Dongsheng army caught on to her intentions and had their Royal Dao generals take charge of the banners, which made Baiyue abandon her targets.

In the sky, a fleet of thirty Kunzhou were charging towards the Helrandum, which was simultaneously deploying planes and heading west to meet up with supply ships and form a fleet formation.

Meanwhile, on the Helrandum, the Origin Submachine gun had locked on a distant immobile Kunzhou. Upon Reimer’s order, the Origin Submachine Gun let out a deafening roar, and the invisible anchors and projectiles instantly struck the Kunzhou.

Without warning, the Scouring Sky Beast within howled in agony and crashed into the ground amidst its mournful cries.

Seeing their kin struck down, the other thirty-plus Scouring Sky Beasts, empathetically terrified, let out fearful wails and turned to flee.

But soon after, they cried out in pain once more and turned back around, charging towards the Helrandum again.

Clearly, the Scouring Sky Beasts were indeed frightened by the death of their kin, so seizing the moment, Reimer rerouted the main gun and took down another Scouring Sky Beast.

Seeing another companion fall, the Scouring Sky Beasts let out continuous woeful cries, so heartrending that it moved listeners to tears.

One Scouring Sky Beast continued to wail, its loud cries overshadowing the battlefield’s shouts, drawing everyone’s attention upward.

It was at that instant that they saw what appeared to be a second sun appear in the sky, its brightness obscuring the soldiers’ vision, enveloping everything in a ghastly white light.

What followed were intense magical fluctuations, visibly emanating from that sun.

It was the self-destruction of the Scouring Sky Beast. Luo’er could never have imagined that the Dongsheng army could somehow induce the Scouring Sky Beast to self-destruct.

The body of a Scouring Sky Beast contained a high concentration of magic; the energy released from its self-destruction was nearly equivalent to a tactical nuclear bomb.

Although the explosion occurred several kilometers away and above the battlefield, the resultant shockwave and magical fluctuations still impacted everyone on the battlefield.

The Scouring Sky Beasts and airboats within the blast radius couldn’t avoid it. Amidst everyone’s astonished gaze, the Helrandum slowly fell from the sky and crashed with a deafening explosion, followed by the descent of those thirty-plus Kunzhou.

"It’s over, all over..." Watching the Helrandum slowly crash and burst into flames, Luo’er felt something shatter inside him, his body involuntarily kneeling down as his eyes widened in a silent scream.

That shattered thing was called hope, the hope of going home. Their hope of returning to the West Continent rested entirely on the Helrandum, as long as they could find enough Magic Crystals. But now, everything that unfolded shattered the hope of all Advance Team members.

Following the Scouring Sky Beast’s self-destruction, the Dongsheng army’s offensive finally faltered, and the sound of urgent gongs rang out from the rear. All Dongsheng soldiers and generals rushed to retreat, not daring to linger a moment longer.

However, by then, the Advance Team members were no longer concerned with the battle, watching in the direction of the falling Helrandum, staring as the forest fires ignited by the explosion’s intense heat spread. Everyone felt a profound heaviness, a strange panic permeating through their hearts.

In the distant sky, those four supply ships remained unaffected. Yet, despairingly, after witnessing the fall of the Helrandum, they turned to flee westwards, neglecting the potentially surviving comrades and the forgotten Advance Team members left in the city.

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