Chapter 790 [0778] Insecticide and Tonic Pills
Qir Aza and the accompanying great elementalists, under the cover of Malphite, finally succeeded in breaking out of the siege.
During this process, two unlucky people were hit by the ground surge head-on and were infected by the void on the spot. In the end, Qir Aza put an end to their suffering. After escaping, the others were more or less overdrawn in magic power. They all looked pale and looked like consumptive ghosts.
There were less than a hundred great elementalists in the whole of Ixtal. Losing two of them here was already a very painful price - and all the great elementalists who escaped by chance knew in their hearts that if Malphite had not taken action, the whole team would probably not be able to come back intact.
In this way, when the expedition team returned to the Ixtal camp and told the experience in detail, the Ixtal people, who had felt the pain, finally became completely serious.
The experiences of the great elementalists finally made them realize that closing the void rift was not a political issue, but a real war. The void rift, like the original axiom, was objective and not subject to the will of the Ixtarians. It was foolish to take political means, to have a sense of superiority or to consider the division of results before the rift was closed.
Of course, there were some fools who thought that "Qil Aza was too weak" and caused the team to fail, but there were only a few who could become great elements and have a say. Their insignificant opinions were not enough to change the direction of the Ixtarians.
Don't rush!
You must start from the periphery steadily and clean up the void creatures bit by bit until the void rift is completely closed!
The Ixtarians, who had adjusted their attitude, quickly came up with a battle plan that was completely cautious even in Karya's eyes.
In the battle plan, the Ixtar people will start the cleanup of the void worms from both the air and the ground.
Gaining air supremacy is the prerequisite for the cleanup.
Although the void worms may shed wings at any time and transform from ground-walking chickens to flying mantises, this requires a process, so the void worms that can already fly must be suppressed first to prevent them from further evolution.
In the battle plan, the air part is mainly responsible for the elemental dragons and elemental dragons gathered by the Ixtar people - although the Ixtar people failed to fully inherit the dragon covenant of the Shurima Empire, they can only control the elemental dragons by breeding to a limited extent, but even if they follow the incomplete dragon covenant, if the enemy is the void, even if there is no breeding relationship, they can mobilize the elemental dragons.
Once the void worms in the air are suppressed, the ground cleanup can begin.
According to the experience of Qi'er Aza and his team, the effect of the original axiom that takes effect directly will be greatly reduced when facing void worms, so the fighting method that the elementalists are used to before needs to be changed.
Don't cast spells directly on void worms. It is best to deal with elemental creations first, and then cast spells on these elemental creations to cause indirect damage to void worms.
Moreover, since the number of void worms is too amazing and the types are countless, if you want to clean them up more efficiently, you have to use large-scale AOE spells.
Void worms themselves have long legs and can run. If you want to achieve better results with large-scale spells, it is best to encircle and divide the void worms.
So, following this idea, the ground attack plan proposed by Xutar is to first send elite troops, cooperate with the Malphite network, first break into the void worm gathering place, build an encirclement position, and then send elemental missions to bombard the dense void worms with spells.
It was a very safe and reliable plan. Its implementation was like pumping water from a fish pond. First, build a dam in the fish pond, divide the pond into small pieces, and then release water to catch fish piece by piece.
The biggest advantage of doing this is that it can prevent the void worms from running everywhere during the battle. Besides, except for the elite troops and Malphite who broke into the position and the final spell bombardment in the early stage, most of the time, the Ixtal people took a defensive posture, and the pressure of the battle was less.
Of course, this plan was not without problems.
The size of the encirclement must be carefully controlled, not too large or too small, and ways must be found to avoid the destructive damage caused by the ground surge, so as to avoid the encirclement that had just been built being completely destroyed by the ground surge, which would be a loss of both the wife and the army.
Therefore, on the basis of this plan, Karya also added a little part of luring the enemy. First, pretend to send people to raid the core of the void rift to "cheat" all the ground surges out, and then carry out encirclement and division, and then annihilate them.
In addition, the Ekassia Guards would also take action when building a siege position and withdraw from the battle in time to prevent the void creatures from producing targeted evolutionary results. Although the Eternal Flame in their hands might be the natural enemy of the void creatures, the Ekassia Guards' fighting style was not impeccable.
In this way, after obtaining the unanimous consent of Qiyana and Jilan, the [Insecticide Plan] for the debridement surgery was finally officially launched. After Qiyana activated the ancient Dragon Covenant as Queen Ixtal, in the next two days, elemental dragons and elemental sub-dragons were summoned by the covenant and arrived at the outer area of the void rift.
At the beginning, these elemental dragons and sub-dragons were a little restless, but after Kalya took action, called an ancient dragon to appear, and simply controlled him, the originally noisy elemental dragons and sub-dragons quickly calmed down completely.
This can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.
Originally, Kalya hoped to call an unlucky ancient dragon and beat him up himself to establish his prestige - although dragons are strong, they are beasts after all. Unless they reach the stage of ancient dragons, they will only succumb to power.
But what was unexpected was that the ancient dragon that Kalya called... knew Kalya.
Even though Kalya didn't know him, even though he was not an ancient dragon when he saw Kalya last time, but just an ordinary mountain dragon, but as a "young talent" of the dragon clan, after having the honor of meeting Kalya, he was quite impressed by this ascender.
Although Kalya is completely different from the past, his image in the past is a bit special. After confirming that the caller of the covenant is Kalya, this ancient dragon cooperates with the work. If other elemental dragons and elemental dragons dare to show off, he will directly summon Stone Claw to lock them in a cage. The originally noisy dragon group soon became well-organized.
Seeing this scene, Qiyana was so envious.
Qiyana, who has her own private dragon farm, also likes these big treasures with elemental blood, but it is obvious that not to mention the ancient dragons, even the elemental dragons will not buy her account. Only those elemental dragons who live in her dragon farm will have such "intimacy" with her.
Sure enough, the elemental queen of Ixtal is far from enough!
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At the coalition camp, elemental dragons began to gather in large numbers, and even Qiyana had to arrange people to deal with dragon feces separately.
And in the void rift, Malzahar did not stop.
In his opinion, although the number of the coalition forces is large, with the anti-primordial axiom void worms, their frontal combat power is just so-so - my swarm of worms is endless, and I will wear you out!
The real trouble is those large deformed puppets. Since the void creatures have a very obvious "weak inorganic matter" characteristic, these large puppets can only be dealt with by brute force.
It just so happens that the void worms that Malzahar has specially bred have always been anti-primordial axioms. He has never spent any time on gigantism. Now he has to cram at the last minute. The only way is to directly summon those large void worms.
However, the larger the size of the void worms and the more void energy they contain in their bodies, the more difficult it is to summon them. In addition, this void rift is not large, so it is not easy to summon large void worms once and for all.
After thinking about it, Malzahar's only solution was to take a detour - are there any void worms that are average in strength and not too big, but can grow rapidly as long as the environment is right?
Oh, what a coincidence, there really are!
As far as Malzahar knows, there is a kind of void worm that can grow quickly by swallowing.
The ignorant people in Runeland call it void terror.
And their unlimited growth ability is indeed worthy of the name of terror!
As long as he summons a group of void terrors and lets them swallow them unscrupulously, he will soon have a way to deal with those deformed puppets!
The only problem is that at this critical moment, after Malzahar successfully summons them, it is not easy to take them out for food in a short time. If they are allowed to evolve by swallowing void creatures, they may have symptoms of malnutrition...
Just when Malzahar was struggling, the elemental dragons and elemental sub-dragons began to gather.
After receiving this news, Malzahar was not surprised but happy.
Elemental dragons and elemental sub-dragons, those are good things!
Great tonic!
As long as they devour a few elemental dragons, these void terrors will quickly grow into giants that are difficult to match on the front battlefield!
So, he no longer hesitated, summoned a group of void terrors on the spot, and began to mobilize a large number of troops to prepare to give the elemental dragons and elemental dragons a fierce blow.
You are the only half-element creature?
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According to the battle plan, when the number of elemental dragons and elemental dragons reached the basic requirements, the air battle officially kicked off.
As the dragons officially took off to participate in the battle, the army of void flying insects that had covered the sky like black fog soon suffered heavy losses.
Air combat has always been the weak link of void creatures - for these void insects that came from other worlds and only had bodies in Runeland, flying is a very difficult thing.
As we all know, the evolution of void worms requires devouring. Compared with creatures that move on land, it is undoubtedly much more difficult to devour flying creatures. In the absence of sufficient samples, the flight evolution of void worms can only be described as crooked.
In summary, they can fly, but that's all.
In front of the dragons that can use elements to assist in flying, the void worms, whose flying ability is similar to that of pheasants, really have no good countermeasures. At most, they rely on their absolute advantage in numbers to hang themselves on the gaps of dragon scales, or simply explode themselves, so as to achieve their pitiful lethality.
Even though they had an absolute advantage of at least four orders of magnitude in numbers, the situation in the air battle was one-sided. The elemental dragons and sub-dragons that swooped down after spreading their wings were no longer simply like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. If you had to compare them, they were more like a group of whales with their mouths opened wide, wantonly filtering out the insignificant plankton.
After almost every elemental dragon swooped down, a bright gap would appear in the dark sky that was originally covered by void worms.
In just one day, the "worm cover" covering the air around the void rift became visibly sparse.
If this continues, in a few days, the void worms with flying ability will become scattered soldiers, and the ground troops can not only advance smoothly, but can even call for their own air support!
Of course, after achieving such a brilliant victory, the dragon army did not suffer no losses.
Relying on the method of ants biting elephants to death, three unlucky elemental dragons and one elemental dragon fell on the spot, leaving no bones - compared with the results of the battle, this loss can only be regarded as negligible.
Unfortunately, this extremely smooth battle only lasted for one day.
Starting from the second day, the void worms on the ground began to take the initiative to attack the air - they would take advantage of the elemental dragons diving to spray venom or corrosive void plasma into the sky, even if they accidentally hurt friendly forces.
Caught off guard, seven or eight dragons flying close to the ground lost balance in the air and fell.
After discovering something was wrong, the dragons chose to increase their "safety altitude" for diving to avoid being attacked by ground fire.
It turns out that raising the flight altitude is a good self-protection measure, but the price of doing so is that the speed at which the dragons clear the void flying insects is visibly reduced.
When they cannot dive close to the ground, they even need to increase the damage by breathing, and the originally easy battle soon becomes strenuous.
Fortunately, even if the efficiency has been reduced, the number and density of void flies are still steadily decreasing. In addition to spraying venom and plasma on the ground, void flies have no more countermeasures.
So, after six days, the density of the insect cover above the void rift finally dropped to the point where it no longer affects the depth of the troops.
After riding the elemental dragon in the air and confirming that the information was correct, Qiyana and Jilan finally began to mobilize elite troops and prepare to build a salient in the northeast corner of the void rift.
The operation of pumping water around the lake officially kicked off.
Karya's small class · Evolution direction of void flies:
Relying on swallowing, void flies have many different evolutionary directions.
They can grow their own size, obtain the organizational structure and even special skills of the swallowed, digest the swallowed into void energy, learn to control and infect the swallowed, etc.
However, these evolutions cannot be achieved at the same time. The swallowing technology tree of void flies seems to be omnipotent, but it is extremely difficult to light up.