The Admiral's Operational Staff had envisioned the possibility of encountering teams of vulture riders, roaring dragons, and buzzing swarms of locusts, but he did not foresee the blizzard that the fleet was experiencing at this moment.

In its planning, the ice rain that slapped indiscriminately on the faces of the lookouts was the most extreme weather - whether it was in Medici or Uso, people were so accustomed to the long yellow sand that they had never seen the snow at all.

It was also somewhat surprising that his advice was taken and implemented so thoroughly. When a marshal, a general, and two Pasha were summoned to the city of Beit by magic, the Pharaoh immediately announced the adoption of the military decision.

Several coal-producing cities that the U-sang airship could pass along the way were heavily defended by heavy troops, and the Spell Research Institute of Beit City sent fifty black-robed mages under the leadership of several mentors to start calling for wind and rain. Grey-robed mages from all over the country take to the skies on flying carpets to take on the duties of scouts, but they only need to use their Eagle Eye to keep an eye on the airship troops from afar.

The dragon Pasha followed Potbelly and the old marshal to the temporary Medici mage camp, which had already exceeded the territory of the province under its jurisdiction, and the power of military command naturally ceded to the highest-ranking Marshal Medici.

Quest had come alone—Sneijder was intrigued by the mechanical artifact that the fallen tengu carried, and he wanted to see how the Medici mages were doing. So the mage advisor stayed in Rusty City for the time being, collecting the parts that had been scattered around when the "Cloud Wing" crashed, while waiting for the employer's order.

The Medici mages first lit tens of thousands of candles in the camp - a ritual magic in which the oil extracted from the bodies of the willing devotees after death was mixed with alchemical spices, which was the most important casting material.

The noble sentiment of "voluntary dedication" gives the "Spiritual Candle" the power of great wishes, which can be used both to dispel unclean curses and to force powerful minions to "willingly" serve the Medici caster:

The clay pots carved with various patterns were broken one by one, and for a moment the wind was fierce, but it failed to blow out the subtle flames mobilized by the "spirit candles" in the matrix - dozens of qi giant spirits revealed their bodies, and they began to bargain with the mage who had been waiting for a long time, led by a nobleman;

Moire-patterned stone slabs were piled up in layers, mages had created a huge doorway arcade, honey-smeared pieces of meat had been erected over campfires, sweet scents emanated, and a rumbling sound emanated from the arcades—the cloud giants had slammed their bellies on the other side of the portal, and they had come here to feast on the name of their presiding god, Manno.

Air Giant, Cloud Giant...... There were even two seduction demons that appeared in a corner of the camp in Quest's surprised eyes. Of course, they probably don't know that they came to the material plane this time to buy a "one-way ticket".

Under the combined power of several spellcasters, the Tanari demons from the Abyss were packed into special pottery like human beings, and their "limited invocation" spell abilities were extracted to sound the horn of the storm.

The wind and sand gathered in this area, and the well-fed cloud giant put away the high-quality honey in the clay urn and began to chant a powerful spell to change the weather in the giant's language.

"It's probably not enough. Quest looked at the operation of the Medici spellcaster, thought about it for a while, and gave a pertinent evaluation.

On the way here, he had seen images of the Uzaan airship fleet, and a gray-robed mage who was brave as a scout quickly approached and swept past the "Flying Fortress" with the flying carpet - there was no doubt that he had died at the hands of the Uzeans.

However, the spell image that he transmitted back before his death still gave Medici first-hand information about the enemy's new weapons:

The balloon that provides lift to the airship is not a single unit, but consists of a number of smaller airbags scattered in the shape of grapes. The pipes that carry the hot gas connect each of the airbags, and breaking one or several of them alone will not cause the airship to fall.

A large number of ships were suspended under the balloons, which were instead connected by thick hemp ropes mixed with animal tendons, or simply iron cables. Between the overhanging ships, bridges are either built by wooden planks or rope nets that can be climbed, and personnel and materials can be deployed and exchanged at any time.

Compared with the size and tonnage of airships, it is completely possible to use this air combat platform as a small fortress. Each of these "flying fortresses" was hung with a banner painted with different aristocratic ornaments, apparently belonging to a different Usato noble, but now assembled into an alliance under the command of the commander-in-chief.

The "Flying Fortress" also has a small boat dedicated to feeding eagles, and between the various "Flying Fortresses" and the flying boats suspended in the air with anti-gravity magic, these eagles should be used for communication - some important information will also be transmitted by spells, but less urgent information still relies on the "Eagle Vulture Message".

It is precisely by virtue of good communication that more than 30 airships can always maintain a "goose-shaped array" queue forward. The "Flying Fortress" with good stability is like two solid arms, firmly protecting the flagship of the flying boat, which is more flexible but difficult to resist strong winds, in the "arm bend".

Based on the analysis of the spell images, Quest felt that although the arrangement of the Medici mages could work, it was difficult to achieve what he had expected. If you want to rely on cold air to make these "flying fortresses" fall into the clouds, you must at least prepare for more violent storms.

But in fact, these academic black-robed mages were more extreme than the young blue dragon imagined. Their original plan didn't stop at the storm, they wanted to show the Usang people a rare ice storm in the world of ashes.

Two more creatures emerged from the latest summoning circle laid by the Medici mages.

One of them looked like a large, beautiful woman carved out of pure, transparent ice - her eyes shimmered with white flames, and the mist spilled from her body and evaporated into the air. Underneath its torso, its body transforms into an ever-changing icicle that connects it to the ice below;

The other resembled a large, beautiful woman made entirely of bright white snowflakes - her silver eyes were so bright that they could not be looked at, and the snowflakes loomed around her, like a hazy veil to block the view of the peeping eye. Underneath her torso, her body turned into a swirling blizzard that connected her to the snow.

The Ice Prophet and the Snow Prophet, two powerful elemental summons, entered the material plane from the ice-side elemental plane of the inner realm.

Seemingly dissatisfied with the dry and hot climate of the Ember World, the two elemental creatures glanced at each other, and the elemental pool beneath their feet intensified.

The elemental ice that was constantly stirring and grinding was spread with the constant swirling elemental snow, and the ice and snow complemented each other, freezing the air into a bitter cold wind, and the mortal mages couldn't help but shiver.

The black-robed mages who had been prepared for a long time took out two talismans and held them high above their heads before stepping into the area covered by the Ice and Snow Elemental Pool.

Without the permission of the Ice and Snow Prophet, any creature that enters the Elemental Pool must be exempted from the elements, otherwise they will continue to be damaged by the cold, and even risk being frozen into powder immediately. But even though the talisman in his hand could give protection to the black-robed mage inside the elemental pool, he still froze and his teeth trembled.

Since any heat could be seen as an offense by creatures on the Ice Elemental Plane, he had to resist the urge to cast spells to keep warm, while restraining the numbness of his tongue in conversation:

"Distinguished guests visiting from the Ice Elemental Plane, please fulfill the terms and conditions agreed with Medici Davish......"

As the Ice Prophet reconfirmed the talisman in the black-robed mage's hand, the two powerful elemental creatures that responded to the summons began their own "performance"-

The elemental pool of ice and snow stopped expanding, but its height skyrocketed. First, the thick ice ridge grew into the main trunk, and on top of the main trunk sprouted branched ice branches. Swirling snow clumps climbed to the top of the tree, filling the gaps in the branches like leaves.

When the huge tree of ice and snow plunged into the clouds, everyone in the Medici mage's camp had to withdraw from the "shade" shroud to escape the cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, except for Quis, who insisted on admiring the magnificent landscape created by the spell up close.

The power of the Ice Prophet gathered again, and the canopy of the tree with snowflakes as leaves and ice ridges as branches suddenly boiled. It was as if you were taking a bubble bath, and as the "bubbles" made of snowflakes continued to break, a large number of elemental creatures crawled out.

One by one, the "little devils" carved out of ice came to the people, but the Quest, who was more familiar with the Batzu clan, would not be as uninformed as the "Buckles" in the material plane, he knew that this little guy with a long nose and flapping wings was actually an ice demon bat.

These primordial elemental creatures of the ice-side elemental plane rushed to the sky under the guidance of the creator's will after being born from the Ice Tree. Tens of thousands of ice demon bats spread out and turned into condensation nuclei, gathering water vapor in the air at their sides.

It didn't take long for the preparations for this deliberately brewing blizzard to be completed.

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