Black Forest.

There are countless versions of Ansu folk legends about this strip forest located in the southern foothills of the Dark Mountains and adjacent to the wasteland—for example, every tree in the forest is transformed by those who failed to escape from the wasteland, for example, there is a passage to a chaotic world buried under the Black Forest, for example, the Black Forest as a whole is actually a huge monster with evil intelligence, and it is spreading towards the civilized world every moment, in order to complete the business that the demon tide failed to accomplish and completely destroy the civilized world created by mortals......

But Gawain knew that the birth of the Black Forest was not that complicated.

It was once just an ordinary forest, on the border of the Gondor Empire, separating the mountains and wastelands of the north.

It was the power of Chaos Magic that turned a harmless and fertile forest into a forbidden area for life.

The power of the magic industry is forcibly carving out a wide avenue from this forbidden area of life.

Hideous and twisted demonic trees grew wildly on the barren land, the tall, withered canopies weaved a jagged web high in the sky, the thin mist characteristic of the Black Forest floated faintly close to the ground, the slowly wriggling vines and shrubs carefully concealed themselves in the mist, as if ready to hunt for the prey that had accidentally entered their hunting range, and between the shrubs and the mist, the demonized creatures whose flesh and blood were festering and had been between life and death were also dormant, Wait quietly for your prey to enter their prey circle.

Outsiders are coming to the forest, the breath of life is spreading in the mist, and the predators are getting excited.

Then, a shrill whistling sound breaks the rules of the Black Forest to "wait for the hunt".

Powerful bombardment grenades and field artillery shells rained down from the sky, tearing apart the mist and predators hiding in the mist, towering ancient trees swaying and falling in a continuous blast, and wriggling poison ivy panicked as it tried to burrow into the ground – then was captured by deadly heat and blast waves before escaping.

The surviving monsters roared in the smoke and dust, and the sane began to flee frantically, while the lost instinctively rushed in the direction of the threat, and in the cloud of smoke, a dense stream of scorching rays and lightning arrows quickly stopped their final charge.

Hoplites in heavy armor and armed with bursting thermal ray guns or lightning generators pushed forward step by step and stopped at the edge of the visual range, suppressing all possible counterattacks in the smoke with dense fire, while the grenade-carrying Steel Rangers interspersed between the hoplites, clearing the corners with the most powerful grenades.

After a period of intense firing, the magical reactions observed by the warriors' tactical eyepieces were extinguished one by one, and the hoplites immediately scattered and retreated, while the taller, more heavily armored white knights stepped forward with heavy burners.

"In the name of the Light—perform the purification!"

A low, majestic roar came from under the squad leader's helmet, and the White Knights immediately activated the heavy burners they were carrying—the front ends of these weapons, which resembled flat cylinders and were connected by rune chains and White Knights' armor, immediately erupted flames tens of meters long, burning everything in the knights' line of sight.

The most basic "greasy technique", combined with the burning hand and the blessing of the wind element, the flames formed can burn almost all organic matter. If the opponent is an extraordinary person and can use protective spells, then the effectiveness of these burners will definitely be greatly reduced, but if they are used to clean up "organic waste", then there is nothing better to use than these heavy burners.

Outsiders are in the forest, the smell of iron and fire spreads in the mist, and predators are ...... Close to eight mature.

"Keep going!! The Light blesses your burners - keep going!! ”

Under the effect of the squad leader's "Holy Light Inspiration" (roaring version), the White Knights began to move forward, incinerating areas that could remain threatening, while the hoplites followed closely behind, using their own firepower to carry out the task of covering and advancing together, and the Iron Ranger warriors who had completed the fire support mission quickly moved around the line, using their state-of-the-art tactical eyepieces and trained reconnaissance techniques to provide alert to the entire team.

The fighters were skilful and well-coordinated, with a clear division of labor, and they advanced extremely quickly, and it was clear that this was not the first time they had done so.

There is no doubt that carrying out missions in the Black Forest is the best training for these soldiers.

Behind the fighters, the multi-purpose vehicles and towed artillery begin to move on, and these vehicles will re-enter the vanguard of the team at the next advance point and carry out the next round of fire bombardment with their own armament, and then the fighters will perform the next stage of "cleansing" and "purification" in the area after the bombardment, and so on, so that the road continues to extend until the end of the Black Forest and into the wasteland.

Gawain sat in a chariot and watched the white knights who used heavy burners shouting the slogan of the Holy Light while setting fire everywhere, and couldn't help but sigh: "To be honest, this is the ...... Their methods really have nothing to do with the Light......

"Didn't Wright say that the important thing is faith," Amber said casually, sitting next to her, "in other words, as long as you claim to be blessed by the Light, even if you spew baked potatoes out of your cannon, it is the will of the Light......

"I don't think that's what Wright meant by 'faith'......" Gawain glanced at Amber before sighing, "But then again, these burners do work well......"

Amber blinked her eyes, looking at the flames and smoke rising in the distance, and couldn't help but shrink her neck: "I just feel terrible...... This weapon...... Only Rebecca, the guy who can rub fireballs into dozens of suits and shapes, can think of it. And let's be honest, using something like this that breathes fire in the forest really doesn't cause a fire that gets out of control? ”

"This is the Black Forest, it's different from a normal forest," Gawain shook his head with a smile, reminding Amber to keep an eye out for the distance, "Of course the burner can't be used casually in the forest, but you didn't notice it...... Will the flame burning here be extinguished soon? ”

Amber noticed that the fire created by the white knights did not spread outward, and the flames burning on the ground would soon be extinguished, and she couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Really...... How? ”

"The chaotic magical environment of the Black Forest has stopped the spread of fire - the flames from the burner are magically created, and while it can indeed cause natural fires, only if its magical response lasts long enough, however, most magical reactions in this place can't last long - unless it can be supplied with a constant supply of mana."

“…… The Black Forest is such a strange place," Amber scratched at her hair, "No wonder you insist on using this way of blowing everything flat to clear the way, this strange environment, after the regular team of transcendents penetrates, I am afraid that it will be gone in minutes." ”

Gawain smiled and didn't answer.

Blowing everything up is the only way to deal with the Black Forest, but to achieve this, it only requires a strong enough force.

In order to deal with the threat of the wasteland, in order to fight against potential enemies in the future, he has never slackened in the slightest in "force", although the weapons and equipment of the Cecil Combat Corps are actually the apex of the human army in the current era, but to deal with those strange and unpredictable aberrations, no amount of firepower is too much.

Cecil's weapons design department has never stopped research and development, and while "big projects" such as the magic guide car, the magic network communicator, and the magic guide train continue to make progress, the equipment in the hands of the soldiers is actually improving rapidly.

For the early days of the Magic Age, the birth and development of many things was actually "the existence or absence of ideas", without ideas, then a new thing, or even a whole field would be a blank, and as long as there were ideas, then things in this field would develop like a blowout.

After the success of the thermal ray gun, the technicians discovered a "key idea", that is, "low-level magic in the traditional sense, as long as it is used properly, combined properly, and then achieved industrial mass production, will exert a shocking effect".

This idea is called "minimalist practical thinking" by Gao Wen, that is, under the premise of controlling the cost and system complexity, as far as possible to arrange and combine stable and reliable basic spells to achieve the highest possible practical effect.

Low cost, high stability, mass production.

Based on this idea and the Thermal Ray Gun, a series of weapons with the universal magic terminal as the carrier and the low-level offensive spell base as the core were quickly designed, by replacing the modules in the magic terminal, the soldiers' offensive means can not be limited to scorching rays, acid arrows, lightning arrows, ice bullets and even weak healing and auxiliary spells, as long as the energy level meets the requirements and can be compatible with the infrastructure of the magic terminal, then it can be realized.

And the heavy-duty burner in the hands of the white knights is the thing that Rebecca drummed up not long ago, and it is also an extension of this "minimalist practical idea".

Inside those new weapons, Rebecca and her technicians stuffed the rune substrates of the Greasy and Burning Hands, and used the "Wind Elemental Blessing" to increase the range of the Greasy spray, which proved to be surprisingly effective.

Three basic spells combine to form a powerful weapon of war.

Gawain didn't mind that the essence of these weapons was just some "permutations of inferior spells", and for him, these things were just good to use.

On the 40th of the Harvest Month, the Pioneer forces burned the last trees on the southern border of the Black Forest.

The entangled poison ivy and ancient wood turned to ashes, the monsters corrupted by the chaos magic energy gradually turned into smoke drifting through the air, and the magical flames generated by the heavy burners quickly extinguished in the chaotic magical environment on the land where the white knights treaded, and when the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the scene at the end of the forest instantly became open.

Endless plains of corruption stretched ahead, and the vast curtains of light of the Great Wall connected the heavens and the earth in the distance.

With the sound of the mechanical device running, the specially modified magic guide cars that can adapt to the complex road conditions of the wasteland drive out of the forest area and come to this scorched earth polluted by the demon tide.

Gawain stepped out of the car and stepped onto the barren land, where he saw that several elves, including Sonya, had left the convoy earlier than he did, and were waiting for him at the moment.

The elves are the "technical guides" in the process of the barrier repair project, so they naturally have to come along.

When Gawain approached, Sonia said with emotion, "We're finally out of the Black Forest—it's torture for elves to walk through that desecrated and twisted jungle." ”

One of the high-ranking rangers couldn't help but say, "That's true—but thankfully with the cars, we're separated from the fallen forest by at least a layer of crystal and steel." ”

"yes, the magic device ......," Sonia glanced at Gawain, "I have to admit that these things that you led the humans to make are really good." But I think you'd better be cautious about what is called a heavy burner – especially in the forest. The Black Forest is okay if you use them to burn healthy forests...... First of all, I personally don't accept it emotionally. ”

"Set fire to the mountain, sit in the prison - this sentence is written in the Cecil Civilization Pact," Gawain spread his hands with a smile, he knew that Sonya, as an elf, would say this sooner or later after seeing that thing, "Don't worry, we are not crazy people who only know destruction." ”

As he spoke, he still felt a little emotional: Sonya, these elves, would instinctively mumble a little after seeing the burner, but Thorderlin, who was also a genuine elf, had no similar reaction after touching the burner for the first time, in fact, he was quite excited......

That guy hadn't been in the human world for too long, and he had forgotten that he was a child of the forest......