Rod, who suddenly switched states, surprised everyone's expectations.

When the Safron Flame Core was resealed, most of the flames on the battlefield simply disappeared.

All but the ignited combustibles were extinguished—all but the ones that came so suddenly that Ragours was a little stunned.

And the next moment, as the flames were extinguished, around Rod, the raging arcane energy instantly escaped.

Unlike the Ratchet Brigade, which could only be beaten passively because of lack of preparation after taking the initiative to provoke trouble, Rhodes has always had extremely clear tactical ideas.

When the enemy is far away, open the AOE after the elemental rises, and when the enemy enters, let it go and clear the Arcane Storm.

Poor Ratchet Brigade, after paying a heavy casualty, greeted them not with victory, but with a terrible arcane storm.

The turbulent arcane energy completely destroyed the mech's control system, and at one point rendered the Hex's body modder's Hex parts ineffective—and the results are understandable.

The out-of-control mechs collided with each other, causing an explosion that directly affected the Hex's body transformer, and the chain reaction combined with the surging arcane storm destroyed the ratchet team.

After a few lucky people were lucky enough to get out of the range of the Arcane Storm, the number of the Ratchet Brigade was completely canceled.

Annihilation.

The group of the ratchet brigade came so quickly that when the lava river disappeared directly, the friendly troops behind just wanted to step forward to support, but they lost the target of support and froze in place.

You can't enter, you can't retreat.

However, fortunately, someone sent the information back as soon as the ratchet brigade was doing something, and the instructions of the Supreme Council of Picheng soon came.

One word - hit!

In this case, it is impossible for the two sides to think about peace talks - even if Rhodes stops, the balance of the war will not be able to continue to maintain balance, because that means that Rhodes will have an absolute advantage in the negotiations, which is absolutely unacceptable to Piltover!

It just so happened that the Picheng Armament was also holding back the fire.

Seeing a brigade in such ashes is impossible for anyone to act as if nothing has happened - although the Ratchet Brigade is in a sense self-defeating, they are a member of the Leather City Armament after all!

If you leave like this, the Picheng Armament will simply be disbanded!

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While the Picheng garrison was waiting for orders and maintaining a state of siege, Rhodes secretly nibbled on a few mouthfuls of magic bread and poured a few mouthfuls of magic spring water.

What seemed like an easy fight was actually not easy, and underneath the hood, Rod's hair was once again quietly white.

The core of the Suffron Flame was fine, after all, it was a foreign object sealed in Rod's body, but that arcane storm was forcibly caused by Rhodes himself.

Although as a mage, using the power of arcane to pry the rules of the world to cause an arcane storm is a basic operation, but wanting to cause an arcane storm of this magnitude is really a serious burden on Rod's body.

If you have the opportunity to take a break, be sure to take advantage of it!

Then, before Rhodes finished eating, the attack of the Picheng armaments began.

The cannon is still in transport, the Hexvillary mecha can't be dispatched for the time being, and the Zuan armament has adopted the simplest way of attack - siege (cross out), I mean, crowd tactics.

Of course, when facing a mage, the crowd tactic is definitely not something that everyone is qualified to participate in.

At least the one who came to besiege Rhodes was Hex's body modifiers.

However, at this time, Zaan's self-defense forces were also assembled, and Ike, Zack, Victor, and Giggs could also participate in the battle, and although Rhodes faced a lot more enemies, the pressure did not increase much.

Although the Zuan Self-Defense Force can only provide some sporadic fire support, at least it ensures the safety of Rhodes's flanks, and in order to prevent accidental injuries, Rhodes, who has not turned on the Elemental Rising state, also needs this kind of flank cover.

With his teammates, Rhodes finally reverted back to the appearance of a sculptor mage, rubbing the fireballs in place, and occasionally mixed with one or two flamebursts, making the Picheng Armament who had been attacking forward and unable to open the defense matrix miserable.

A mage's firepower...... It's enough to catch up with a dozen Hex field guns!

Under the suppression of Rhodes' firepower, the Zuan Self-Defense Forces once had the upper hand.

Soon, however, the situation on the battlefield changed.

Because after the real move, Piltover's heavy firepower appeared.

Originally, the Hex field guns that had been placed behind the battle line had always been used as decorations - but now, after the real battle began, the Phi Cheng armaments activated these terrible weapons as soon as the real battle began.

Under the transport of the tracks, the Hex field gun quickly arrived at the prepared firing point, where it was debugged and corrected behind the bunker.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

After completing the initial deployment work, the first round of test firing of thirty Hex field guns began.

The heavy artillery fire directly blew up the Zuan Self-Defense Forces.

Although these armed Zuans have also experienced many battles since the Zaun Revolution, they have always been on the dominant side under the protection of Rhodes.

In other words, they've been fighting a tailwind fight.

In the face of the Night Raven Mage Regiment, there is a robot army to carry it; And before the fight with the Picheng Armament Team, everyone still has reservations.

Now, when the Zuan Self-Defense Forces really faced the bombardment of the Hex field artillery, they realized how terrible the war really was.

The roar of artillery fire signaled death like a death knell, and after the first wave of artillery fire poured down, the Zuan Self-Defense Forces were on the verge of collapse.

Don't overestimate the combat effectiveness of these non-professional soldiers, this is Zaun, not Noxus - it's okay for everyone to fight with the wind, but when you meet hard stubble, it's all a two-strand battle.

But fortunately, Zaun has Cana.

Now in his normal state, Rhodes doesn't need Jana's help at all, so Jana simply leaves Rhodes temporarily to provide shelter for the Zuan Self-Defense Forces.

The breeze blows, and the blue bird sings.

"The incarnation of the wind is with you—"

The cozy guardian phoenix dispelled the fear in the hearts of the Zuan people, and more and more members of the Zuan Self-Defense Force called Jana's name and held the weapon tightly in their hands.

"For Cana, for Zuan!!"

Once the artillery fire no longer caused a morale blow, the battle between Zaun and Piltover could not be divided in a moment, and it directly entered the stalemate stage.

It was also at this time that Jagu launched the final step of his plan.

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Once Rhodes has gained the upper hand on the battlefield, Piltover will have to carry it to the end, because that means that Rhodes has the upper ground in the negotiations, and in this case, the outcome of the negotiations will definitely be greatly beneficial to Zaun, which is beyond the bottom line of Picheng.

For Picheng, (the peace of Zu'an taking a small advantage) is greater (the expansion of the war) than (the peace of Zu'an taking a big advantage), and Jagu is right at this point, so he took the risk of war kidnapping.

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