Chapter 362 - 255: Anti-Air Array, All Out
Chapter 362: Chapter 255: Anti-Air Array, All Out
After the auxiliary Flame Bird Clan Corps withstood the first wave of triggered magical attacks from the Elf Mages, the battle line managed to push forward, but only after sacrificing nearly three hundred of their own.
As the Flame Bird Clan Corps flew onward, the Dwarf War Fortress in their sights grew from a tiny dot to the size of a city.
Then, disaster struck again!
In the area several thousand meters around the Dwarf War Fortress,
the runes of a massive Magic Array suddenly flared to life.
From the moment the Magic Array lit up
to the moment the Clan members saw it,
only an instant had passed!
Then, after the runes of the massive Magic Array lit up,
an invisible gravitational force filled the sky for thousands of meters around the Dwarf War Fortress,
attempting to pull everything flying in the air down to the ground.
"This is an Anti-Air Array!"
Stationed in the center of the Sun God Bird Clan Army, the Heroic Clan member Lifuyi’s pupils contracted sharply.
She recognized it.
She knew exactly what kind of Magic Array had appeared before her!
The very moment the Anti-Air Magic Array activated,
the Flame Birds of the auxiliary Flame Bird Clan Corps found their flight speed instantly slowed.
At the same time, it felt as if their wings weighed a thousand pounds, forcing their altitude to plummet!
The Flame Bird Clan Corps, enveloped by the Anti-Air Magic Array,
didn’t fall directly to the ground,
but they now had to focus all their energy on controlling their altitude and slowing their descent.
They had no spare capacity for anything else.
And so, seizing this golden opportunity,
an adjutant at the forefront of the Dwarf War Fortress, relaying Legion Commander Feiyana’s words via communication Magic,
issued the command:
"Magical Cannons, fire!"
This was the perfect time to strike them while they were down!
At the order from Legion Commander Feiyana’s adjutant,
a hundred Magical Cannons atop the Dwarf War Fortress roared in unison.
It had taken the combined efforts of Goblin Engineers and Dwarf Rune Blacksmiths over an hour to temporarily install them there.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Powered by Magic Crystals, the Magic Runes etched onto the cannons converted Magic Power into Magical Beams of the Wind and Ice Attributes.
They rained down like a torrential storm on the Flame Bird Clan Corps, who were struggling in the air to control their bodies and keep from falling.
"No!"
A Flame Bird soldier watched the attacks head for him, his sixth sense screaming at him to dodge.
He desperately tried to move his body, wanting to evade the incoming barrage.
But within just three seconds, the Version 2.0 Magical Cannons had already completed three full volleys.
Over a thousand Magical Beams.
How could the auxiliary Flame Bird Clan possibly defend against that?
No matter how loudly their sixth sense screamed warnings,
their bodies were firmly restrained by the Anti-Air Array.
They were utterly immobile,
and that fact could not be changed!
They could only watch, wide-eyed and helpless, as the deadly Magical Beams drew closer and closer!
"SHRRIP—!"
The Wind Attribute Magical Beams hit first.
With a shriek that tore through the air, the wings of dozens of Flame Birds were instantly shredded!
The Ice Attribute beams followed close behind, spreading a frigid energy through the air. Unscathed Flame Birds were frozen into ice sculptures on the spot, then crashed heavily to the ground.
"THUD! THUD!"
In just three volleys from the Magical Cannons, the Flame Bird Clan Corps lost over six hundred soldiers!
The surviving Flame Birds thrashed their wings desperately within the Anti-Air Array, but there was no escaping this death trap.
"Hold the formation!"
shouted the Sun God Bird commander, the Heroic Clan’s Lifuyi, from the rear.
After three volleys,
the Magical Cannons needed six to eight seconds to cool down.
’This is our chance to escape!’
The Heroic Clan’s Lifuyi keenly seized upon this opening.
But how could Feiyana, the Legion Commander, be unaware of such a flaw?
And so, during this exact interval,
the Elf Archer Legion, standing atop the Dwarf War Fortress, loosed their arrows on the Flame Bird Clan Corps, who were still steadily losing altitude and had already dropped below the level of the fortress walls.
Just as it seemed this second successive wave of attacks was about to wipe out a sixth of the six-thousand-strong Flame Bird Clan Corps,
at this critical moment,
an astonishing aura suddenly erupted from within their ranks!
It was an aura that could only belong to a Ninth Level Heroic Clan member!
"It’s Lord Ignis!"
Cries of joyful surprise erupted from the surviving members of the Flame Bird Clan Corps!
The Sun Goddess had long ago warned the Heroic Clan’s Lifuyi about the enemy’s strength. Of course, she would not disregard an Oracle from the Divine Being she worshipped.
Therefore, her hidden trump card was Ignis—a second Heroic Clan member from the Sun God Bird Clan, possessing Ninth Level Power—concealed within the Vanguard Corps!
He was there precisely to prevent a situation like this!
The Magical Beams from the cannons earlier had been too fast,
so fast that the Sun God Bird Heroic Clan member, Ignis, had been caught off guard and couldn’t block the attack.
But now, facing the slightly slower rain of arrows from the Elf Corps,
the Sun God Bird Heroic Clan member, Ignis, would absolutely not make the same mistake twice.
The Sun God Bird Heroic Clan member, Ignis, spread his wings,
gave a great shout,
"Sun Barrier!"
Brilliant golden flames soared into the sky,
forcefully carving out a safe zone of fire within the rain of arrows.