$ Chapter 791 【0779】 The Ground Surge that Was Caused but Did Not Occur

As the number of the void insect army plummeted and no longer posed a real threat, the ground advance officially began.

The essence of this combat plan, which Karya jokingly called "encircling the lake and pumping water", was to use elite teams to break into the enemy camp, create a salient, and then use this as a basis to create a small area where spells can be used recklessly to bombard.

In this process, pumping water is not difficult, but encircling the lake is difficult - it is not easy to stably create a firepower pouring area.

Fortunately, the elite troops responsible for breaking into the encirclement have an absolute advantage over the void insects. Even if those insects completely obey the command and cooperate tacitly, they still have almost no decent resistance when facing the great elementalists and Ekassia guards covered by Malphite.

The void worms, which were at most the size of wild dogs, were really beaten like dogs under the impact of the great elementalists and the Ekassia guards. Although their chitinous shells could wrap their bodies well and provide them with relatively cheap defense, this level of defense was fine for dealing with wild animals in the desert. When facing the great elementalists and the Ekassia guards, they could only be described as thin skin and big stuffing.

Among these void worms, there were occasionally a few big guys. Some of them mixed in the swarm of insects, and some suddenly rushed out from the ground, trying to form a surprise attack and disrupt the coalition's outstanding progress. However, with Malphite responding, this impact was really quite limited.

It can only be said that the monolith is worthy of being the pinnacle of the Shurima Empire.

After using the golden wheel stone to realize the unified network, Malphite simply has a crushing advantage over the void worms - they are large, corrosion-resistant, deformable, and have tacit cooperation. They are also pure inorganic elemental creatures. Almost every characteristic is the most disgusting part of the void creatures.

Unless a giant void worm appears and launches a crushing attack on Malphite, and takes advantage of the fact that the hardness and strength of the monolith are not top-notch, the only way to paralyze or even destroy Malphite is to bet on the ground surge to spray Malphite head-on.

With Malphite as a guarantee and a stable front, even if the number of void worms puts a lot of pressure on all the participants, the result of the battle is very smooth.

The elite troops quickly wedged into the void worm activity area around the void rift and established a relatively stable position. After the two units moved forward in parallel, they quickly achieved convergence under the guidance of Malphite and successfully gathered and surrounded an area of ​​about five miles in radius.

Then, the bombing plowing began.

The effect of using the original axiom directly is poor, so after the original axiom is elementalized, it is attached to the eternal flame and used!

Even though the Eternal Flame looks like fire, it is actually difficult to ignite and the fuel needs to be specially prepared. But at least after it is ignited, as long as the fuel is not exhausted, it will not go out, and the void worms burned by it will show obvious energy and degradation characteristics.

After being attached with the Eternal Flame, the elementalists' spells seem to have additional "spell penetration", and the effect of dealing with void worms is more than a little better!

Malzahar, who has been paying attention to the battle situation, is bleeding in his heart.

After trying to resist, but the resistance is not effective, he can only choose to give the void worms a digging order. If you can't beat them, dig a tunnel and run away.

Not shameful.

But digging a tunnel takes time.

Even if the burrowing beast digs very fast, this is not the desert of Shurima!

Malzahar chose to summon the void rift at the junction of Icathia and Ixtal for confidentiality reasons. Usually, no one comes here, and there are enough creatures for the void worms to expand their scale. It is a very suitable place for the development of a base.

But this also means that the model of the void worms in other places cannot be easily applied and replicated here.

Here, the void burrowers can indeed dig underground space.

However, due to the compact soil and the presence of a lot of bedrock underground, their digging efficiency is completely incomparable to that of Icathia, which is full of hernias, or Kohalise, which is full of gravel.

Previously, Malzahar was able to set up traps to lure Zir Aza in, but ultimately failed to annihilate him, largely because the burrowers were not able to dig fast enough at that time.

Now, when the void worms are planning to retreat, the compact soil and the scattered rocks have once again brought great trouble to the void burrowers.

In desperation, Malzahar could only order the Burrowing Beast team to dig, use these guys as shield machines, and order some Voidworms to follow the rear guard order, trying to withdraw from the battle in this way.

In this way, the efficiency of digging is indeed improved, but with the expansion of underground space, the elementalists who are good at the original axiom of the earth also have a wider space to play.

An underground pursuit operation began.

They controlled the stone balls with eternal flames on the surface and rolled along the caves dug by the Burrowing Beasts. Wherever they went, the Voidworms had almost no room to fight back or resist.

Under the scorching of the eternal flames, their chitinous shells became extremely crispy, and the bodies inside almost turned into liquid, which can be said to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

These stone balls rolled over and the Voidworms were crushed into a paste all the way, and the speed of cleaning was even higher than that on the surface.

If the burrowing beasts gave up digging large tunnels and fled in all directions, the retreat efficiency of other void worms would be greatly reduced. Moreover, due to the limited control of Malzahar, the tunnels dug by the panicked burrowing beasts would intersect and interfere with each other, eventually causing overall collapse.

In the end, it took a whole morning to completely eliminate the void worms in this area, and even the ground became much softer as the burrowing beasts dug.

The battle was fruitful and the battle process was difficult, but the casualties were not large. Facing the peaceful and empty land after the battle, the participating elementalists and Ekassia guards cheered, and the observation representatives of other troops who came to watch and were about to start the battle in the afternoon also rubbed their hands, as if they were eager to try.

However, in this joyous scene, Karya's face under the mask was frowning.

Something was wrong, too wrong.

Until the first area to annihilate the void worms was surrounded and cleared, the ground surge he was most worried about did not appear.

No surges seem to be a good thing.

But considering the cunning of the void worms before, this "good thing" contains a lingering strong smell of conspiracy.

The previous experience of Zir Aza has proved that Malzahar has the authority and ability to create surges.

However, now he watched the void creatures in this area being cleared out, and did not try to launch a surge...

This may be because this area is relatively peripheral, far away from the void rift, and it is not easy to use surges directly.

But the greater possibility is that Malzahar is holding back something bad at this time.

Karya has never been afraid to speculate about the void with the greatest malice.

Those who have surrendered to the void can only be completely anti-human - this kind of people have no bottom line at all, and they can do anything!

However, after thinking about it, Karya couldn't think of any way for Malzahar to turn the tables, because even if Karya himself substituted in, he couldn't think of any way to deal with the Malphite network.

According to Karya's experience during the Ekathian War, the only way to fight against the Monolith Golem - or Monolith Elemental Creature - is to summon a super-large Void Creature and then crush it with physics.

(Of course, if Malzahar has a relatively deep foundation in magic theory and his achievements in advanced elemental theory can surpass Karya, then he may be able to find a way to specifically target Monolith Element through analysis. It's just that you can ask Malzahar to learn the so-called primordial axioms, but it's really a bit too much to ask him to learn from the basics of elements.)

Besides that, no Void Creature can stop Malphites from rampaging on the battlefield!

And according to Karya's knowledge, the size of the summonable Void Creature is proportional to the size and development of the Void Rift.

The Void Rift controlled by Malzahar can summon calf-sized Void Worms, which is almost the upper limit!

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There is nothing wrong with Karya's judgment.

Even his judgment of the ability of this void rift can be regarded as completely correct - Malzahar really can't summon a larger void worm.

But what he didn't expect was that there were void worms like Void Terror that didn't evolve after swallowing, but only grew.

Although the size of the void worm is indeed proportional to the organic matter it swallowed, in general, the efficiency of this "proportional" is not high.

During the Ekassia War, Karya also saw some worms that could grow by swallowing, and some of them were similar to the Kog'Gath in his impression, but their growth was never only reflected in their size.

But he didn't know that those void worms were not Void Terror.

Or, in the eyes of the monitor who commanded the battle at that time, summoning Void Terror was not a good choice.

This result caused a lot of interference to Karya, so that he misjudged the worms like Void Terror and misestimated the coefficient of their body expansion after swallowing.

While the coalition was advancing vigorously, clearing the void worms one by one and pushing the front line towards the main body of the void rift, the first batch of void terrors summoned by Malzahar finally completed the devouring and digestion of the corpses of the elemental dragons and elemental dragons at the hernia of the rift.

At this time, these hideous-looking void worms with irregular barbs on their chitinous shells finally opened their mouths again.

Malzahar once again read the hunger on their terrifying faces that looked like they were haunted by nightmares.

"Very good, very good." Looking at these big bugs that were more than 30 feet tall, Malzahar was quite satisfied, "This size is almost the same as those puppets!"

However, since the void terrors are the type that grow meat as soon as they eat, Malzahar is very excited, but he also knows very clearly that relying on these void terrors alone, he cannot confront Malphite head-on for the time being.

These "big cuties" need to continue to grow and grow to a larger size!

The dragons that had been obtained at a great cost had been eaten up. In order to allow these "cute creatures" to continue to grow, Malzahar had to prepare food for them.

So, where would the food come from?

Malzahar already had a plan in mind.

"Piece by piece, you foolish mortals, do you think that you can push the front to the rift by taking steady steps like this?"

"Or are you worried about the flooding of the ground surge, and want to reduce the magnificent power brought by the ground surge as much as possible by advancing in batches?"

"I guess these mortal commanders have been worried for the past few days, wondering why the ground surge that almost killed Zir Aza has not appeared again?"

"Now, I will give you this opportunity... The great void will always fulfill the humble wishes of every lost person. Since the ground surge is an unresolved danger, I will let this big stone fall to the ground..."

"Great void, unfathomable seer, I pray for your power here..."

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"..."

Under the ground hernia, Malzahar's voice turned from clear to vague, and finally gradually turned into a whisper like a dream, occasionally mixed with a scream that makes people explode.

As he prayed, a full, substantial force began to gather on the other side of the rift, ready to go and waiting for his further summons.

It seemed that in the void, the supreme being was very optimistic about Malzahar and gave him quite amazing authority.

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On the fifth day after the battle began, as the coalition's front line advanced more than half the distance between its initial position and the void rift, the intensity of the battle finally increased significantly.

Some hernias had appeared on the ground nearby, and with the support of hernias, even if the surprise attack on the ground was still smooth, the difficulty of subsequent clearing suddenly rose to a new level.

Moreover, in order to clear the hernias, the casualties of the coalition began to increase sharply - inside the complex hernias, the void worms were more likely to launch sneak attacks, and even if the hernias were filled, the burrowing beasts could still dig faster in the filled area, forcing the coalition to fill the hernias while also pressing the surface.

This is not the end.

That afternoon, when the ground cleaning was basically completed and the hernia filling work was mostly done, a sudden tremor came from under everyone's feet.

Before they could react, the ground was torn open with several large cracks that could swallow living people.

At the same time, streams of energy that looked pale purple to the naked eye gushed out from the cracks. Any organisms touched by this energy turned into liquid in an instant, and then solidified into strange empty chitin.

The ground surge... broke out!

I did a lot of tests, all the names were English abbreviations, and I couldn't understand any of them. I looked at pictures and blew air, and confirmed that it was otolithiasis and weakened vestibular function.

I did otolith repositioning treatment, prescribed Ginaton and Betahistine, and prescribed a lying position...

The treatment and medication were not expensive, but a series of functional tests were expensive!