Forty-five kilometers away, the formation of airships had descended to about 10,000 meters above the ground, and the battle ahead was taking place under the noses of almost every witch doctor, who clearly knew all the situation on the battlefield, and at this time they were also feeling a headache for those strange ancestral altars.

The target of the headache is naturally not the small city in front of him, but the power that those larger cities, and even the central main cities of various races, will have.

It was useless to think too much, under the cover of the night, under the surveillance of the four directions, the formation of airships began to descend, narrowing the distance in a straight line while also narrowing the vertical distance.

By 4:44 p.m., the airship formation was still about 25 kilometers away from 034 City, and its flight altitude had dropped to about 5 kilometers

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To the south of the city, 15 hunting groups, assisted by the fire of the unarmored machine-gun team that arrived later, after eating one-fifth of the strength of the breakout mixed unit, scared the sheltered people back into the city;

After losing the cover of the large army, the mammoth species also chose to retreat in the midst of the rapidly increasing casualties.

Turn your gaze to the east and west of the city.

Eighteen armored soldiers broke into the city from two directions under Cynthia's previous orders, and their goal was quite clear, so to speak, completely ignoring other factors, and quickly approached the altar;

The small city with a radius of 1.5 kilometers and an extremely empty interior could not slow them down, and it only took a short time for the elves to climb the inner city to the altar, and then they were blocked by a curtain of light.

This light curtain is like a defensive shield in the understanding of the Republic, but its mode of operation has nothing in common with the totemic armor used in the Black Forest;

The shield belongs to the 'energy system', not the 'strengthening material system', and because it is born out of, and completely depends on the ancestral altar to take effect, it belongs to the chaos spell system that cannot be analyzed at this stage, and it can be said that it is inherently in conflict with the attributes of the elven witch doctors.

From a functional point of view, the shield activated by the altar is indeed very powerful, whether it is against traditional physical attacks, or 'seemingly non-corporeal' attacks like the Wind Blade, or 'true non-corporeal' attacks that the Republic has not yet mastered, it has a certain defensive ability.

In addition, the 'recognizability' that is common in chaos magic and coveted by witch doctors is also reflected in the process of the shield;

Its isolation effect can distinguish between the inside and the outside and the enemy, and once it is erected, the enemy's attack cannot enter, but the attack inside the shield can be punched out, which is a very practical technique.

However, effects like this are not something that can be used in the small city in front of you, and the altar here does not have the 'energy' to maintain the shield while maintaining its own attack.

So at the moment, when they sensed that the enemy's long-range attack seemed to require a long buffer time, the shamans on the altar decided to withdraw the power they had invested in the defense and instead used it to assist in the breakout of the siege in the north of the city;

However, the sudden, rapidly approaching armored soldiers had briefly disrupted their plans.

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The cost of breaking in when the shield was lit was high, but since the warriors' purpose was to force the shamans to maintain their protection of the altar by creating a threat, there was no need to venture in;

The altar is so high, and the shoulder cannon of the armored warrior has a mortar-like attack track, enough to project the Wind Blade scatter projectile onto the altar from the bottom;

Therefore, they only need to act threatening in the process of attacking the shield, and trespassing will not help to complete the mission, it is just brainless suicide;

As a result, several shoulder guns of combat armor came into play, pouring attacks on the surface of the dark red energy body, announcing their own existence.

Their attacks did put the shamans above in a dilemma for a while: should they concentrate on defense, or should they concentrate on attacking the enemies under their feet, or should they continue to aid the breakers of the northern city?

But the struggle didn't last long, and the other heroes, who had volunteered to become 'outcasts', had already made their final choice after only a few rounds of attacks on the shield.

Next, under the slightly admiring gaze of the elves, the dark red light dissipated from the sky;

Obviously, the shamans gave up on self-defense through the shield and chose instead to help the main force in the north of the city break out.

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At the bottom of the east side of the altar, there were 3 groups of 9 armored warriors gathered at this time;

And when the dark red light dissipated from their eyes, they appeared nearly a hundred mammoth warriors who exuded a strong taste of ancestral spirit blessings from all over their bodies;

Judging from the general habits of the Northland tribes, this should be a specially cultivated altar guard

The temporary squadron leader of the three hunting groups on this side was a combat-type armored soldier, and after seeing the reinforced mammoth warriors on the opposite side who were in good formation and blocking all the roads, he immediately issued an order to his team members,

'The young old guys up there looked like they were ready to die, scouting armor cover, and battle armor rushing with me. ’

'Understood. ’

'Understood. ’

The three combat types are in front, and they have stronger armor performance in terms of defense, with shoulder cannons firing 'Wind Blade Blossom Bullets' on both sides of the shoulder, two 'Fengshen cannons' in the palm of their hands, and 'Wind Wolf Machine Guns' above their arm armor;

In addition, there are a large number of hidden weapon thorns hidden in various parts of the body, which only appear on the surface of the body when needed, and there is also an exclusive circumferential blade weapon that can be used to pierce armor and kill enemies in close combat.

Six Scout armor are in the background, with the Wind Blade Sniper and Wind Blade Gun as their ranged primary weapons, and the melee being the Circumference primary weapon, as well as hidden stabbing pieces that are usually placed on the shoulder, axis, knee, etc.

At this point, three battle-armored shoulder guns attacked, but instead of the mammoth warrior in front of them, they aimed at the platform above the altar;

But the moment it was activated, the hammers on the noses of the six mammoth warriors above them flew out at a rapid pace, completing an interception in mid-air that their flesh would not have been able to do; As a result, the Wind Blade Scatter Bullet exploded in the air in advance, and a large number of Wind Blades flew out in all directions, and the two 'centaurs' in the lower part were also affected.

The power of the Chaos blessing was revealed, and the metal heavy armor on the mammoth species was obviously increased by more than one step of defense, and it survived the impact of this attack with a near-undamaged appearance.

'Change the sniper rifle for the cover group, follow me for the attack team!' ’

The armored soldiers had the roar of the Anemo cannon in the palm of one side, and the front of the arm on the other side had a concussive blade with a handle and gauntlet, and after completing the preparations, they slashed at the mammoth warrior array together.

At this time, the reinforced mammoth warriors also began to charge, not to be outdone, and had a great advantage due to the elevation angle

In front of them, there was a special whistling sound, and then one by one, the armor was broken, and in just a few seconds, more than a dozen mammoths were directly shot in the head by the wind blade;

The Anemo cannon in the palm of the soldiers spewed flames frantically, and the cyan wind blade licked like the scythe of death towards the mammoth charging from above;

Solid heavy shields were staggered and erected to form cover in the way of the charge, but they were still smashed through the gaps from time to time, and a few lives were harvested as a result.

The heavy shield obstructed the mammoths' view to a certain extent, which gave the three warriors who were overcoming the elevation angle to rush upward, and they immediately launched another shoulder gun attack;

This time, three of the attacks managed to bypass the blocker and fall along a high parabolic track above the altar;

And the effect is also very significant, causing the purple light that is still brewing to disappear directly, and it is only after a moment that it is regenerated.

Three more shots landed behind the shield man, creating a gap from the inside out, and several more heads were shot.

However, the altar guards, who did not want the enemy 'people' to interfere with the shaman's spell casting, showed great determination at this time, and with the blessing of the ancestral soul, they had the power to fulfill this determination

The front of the front, the distance of the battle armor was extremely close, and when the mammoths launched a reckless attack, the weight was converted into real speed, and despite the continuous sacrifices along the way, it was finally the moment when the hand-to-hand battle was about to be made.

At the forefront, huge shields slammed downward, followed by a long-chained sledgehammer wielding its nose;

The former struck on the armor and made it stumble, and the latter hit the target solidly, destroying the already affected balance more completely;

The unstable squadron leader was knocked away, but the two comrades behind him did not use their bodies to help stop them, but completed the displacement in a short time, while letting the squadron leader's teammates fall heavily, while maintaining the attack of the one-sided palm Fengshen cannon, and resolutely stood in their own position;

The team was dented in front of the forward battle armor, and the mammoth warriors in this area had to form an encirclement, while the rest of the warriors continued to move closer to the cover group behind them;

However, the covering group began to fight and retreat, and because the assault group held its position, it forced the altar guards to be disjointed and disjointed, and the formation was scattered, and they fell into the hesitation of Gu Qian or Gu Wei;

And it was in such hesitation that the two parts before and after suffered a head-on blow.

In the rear, the assault group also took advantage of the looseness of the encirclement, dodging the hammer while using the Circumferential Blade to kill the special kill

With a thick tower shield erected high on the periphery and a grappling under a giant hammer on the inside, two armored warriors began hand-to-hand combat with the mammoths back to back;

With the sharp edge of the Ring Blade, the shoulder cannon that can deliver a blow every two seconds, and the Aeolus cannon from the palm of the other hand, the two elven warriors actually beat the mammoths who were a head shorter than them from the inside in a short period of time.

However, there are too many enemies, and the left mobile cannon gradually has no room for accurate long-range attacks, but it is not silent, but turns into a state of blind fire, which is used to create a gap;

If you're lucky, you'll be able to hit your mask armor directly to reap life, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to blast back a target like a hammer, creating opportunities in the midst of squeezing and chaos.

At the front, the cover group took advantage of the gaps that occurred after tearing and caused considerable damage at one time;

They are alert to every opportunity created by their companions, and as long as they catch the slightest opportunity in the eyepiece, they will accurately harvest a head;

The battle line was slowly pulled apart, and the altar guards had to juggle the two warriors who were surrounded on the one hand, and the armored scouts who were constantly colding their guns on the other;

The casualties gradually mounted, and the altar guards were unable to catch up with the kite-flying cover group, so they had to return to the reinforcements to shrink the defensive line.

While this made use of the tighter space to compress the space for the fighters to move, thus limiting their ability to penetrate, it also made the cover group lose the threat they faced, so they could more calmly look for opportunities to complete the headshot, which in turn made it impossible for the altar guards to concentrate on the two fighters.

In the center of the encirclement network, all the near-range weapons were roaring, but the armor worn by the altar guards was the best armor in the city, and it was strengthened by the spirit of the ancestors, so it was not a level of protection that could be broken by waiting for the idle wind blade, only the high-frequency circular blade still maintained a strong lethality;

Therefore, the elven warriors rely on the kinetic energy of their ranged weapons to provide a knockback effect at this time, and then get close to the weapons to complete the harvest.

However, the strength of the mammoth's blessed strength was also evident at this time, and their hands were not suitable for grasping weapons due to the stubby knuckles, so they simply designed the ends of the heavy armor on the upper limbs into long war hammers, and the arms could drive their great power with the swing of their arms;

'Boom' sounded, the armored soldier's one-arm circular blade was also extremely lethal, and at the last moment, he squeezed away the mammoth warrior on the other side to dodge, and then cut off the head of the attacking mammoth with a height advantage;

But more altar guards on the remaining three sides had already arrived, and the armored warriors were temporarily suppressed by dozens of mammoths

Although each swing of the Circumferential Blade can take away an enemy, there are also too many attacks to block, not that they are afraid of the armor being shattered, but the 'potential' of the heavy weapon cannot be protected with the existing totem technology, and once the continuous hammer sea is hit, the strengthened strength of the mammoths is likely to make the pilot's brain dizzy on the spot, just like the temporary squadron leader who was knocked away just now.

In the scruples, the space for action is always compressed, but fortunately, both sides are large-sized fighters with wide positions, so they can't gather too much strength in the near distance, and finally there is room for maneuver.

When he stepped on the plane of the steps and the leg joints completed the knee flexion and accumulation, the two reaction chambers on the soles of the feet were immediately activated, and the plexus also controlled the hydraulic joints to eject violently;

At the same time, the 'Wind Blade Mortar' on his shoulder activated the energy storage, and the Anemo cannon on his arm began to howl again;

Immediately afterwards, the armor rushed forward like an arrow from a string, and jumped high along the slope, even jumping over the fighting enemy and the enemy, and went directly to the upper steps;

The moment it landed, the mortar was recharged, and after two 'whoosh' sounds, it struck backwards, causing considerable trouble for the mammoths, and several fighters immediately became rolling gourds, and then were shot off their heads one by one.

But the altar guards had been delayed for too long by this time, and at this point, the unhindered altar finally changed, and some kind of brewing that had been going on until then had a result, and several rounds of invisible fluctuations, centered on the altar, were purposefully released

In the first round, it was an enhanced aura that covered all mammoth species outside the north wall;

In the second round, it is a weakened aura that covers all elven individuals outside the north wall and 'takes care' of the armored warriors at the east and west feet of the altar;

In the third round, the purple light that had been the prelude to the previous ray attack began to brew.

The moment the weakening fell, it was offset by the totemic effect in the armor, but the squadron leader, who was behind all the enemies present, was not very happy, because he failed to stop the power of the altar and was finally succeeded by the shamans, which unexpectedly made the blockade of the north more difficult.

'The aura must be interrupted as soon as possible. Then you have to rush up. He thought so.

But the altar guards were actually even more angry, and immediately wanted to turn around and block the armor behind the jump, but their turn created an opportunity for the other two surrounded elven warriors;

The two commotions before and after caused a brief gap in the warriors' bodies, and they seized the moment to activate the reaction chamber and use the limited space to complete the rise;

Rushing up, 'people on their backs', causing a larger gap in the formation, the sniper rifle will not miss any opportunity, and the offensive of the internal fighters is also out of control;

This high-intensity wave of impact. Effectively delayed the guards who wanted to return to the block, and the squadron leader quickly moved away without looking back at this time.

'The cover group should pay attention to the distance between themselves and the enemy, and don't harden with them, you two too, I will go up first!' ’

'Well, here we are!' ’

'Haha! ’

Although the steep steps were not convenient for the ascent, the armored soldiers finally saw the signs that the steps were about to disappear and the sound of a 'grunt' was heard in their ears.

'Damn Bird Talk'

The squadron leader cursed to himself, and controlled the stored mortar to attack the enemy at a high elevation angle, and once again completed the task of interrupting the spell, and from the opposite side there was a nearly identical sound, and it seemed that at least one combat armored soldier of the eastern teammate had completed the breakthrough.

But at this moment, a dazzling light launched from the center, crackled and spread outward in a circle, expanding its radius to tens of meters in the blink of an eye, and hitting the two elves who had just emerged at the edge;

The high-intensity voltage penetrated the surface of the armor and acted directly on the armored soldier inside, and the energy carried by the current made the surface of the armor instantly scorched;

The skin cracked inch by inch, and the purple blood that flowed out was also evaporated, but the squadron leader still managed to take two steps forward and truly came to the altar platform, wanting to complete the mission of interrupting the aura

However, what was coming head-on was still two high-speed arcs, one large and one small, that struck the armor in less than a second.

The screams that had rarely been seen since the beginning of the war came from the elves' mouths, and the pain in their bodies was as strong as if they had been pierced through the heart by countless black and gold spikes.

'Boom! ''Boom! ’

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from the east and west directions, and an anxious inquiry came from inside the armor.

'Squadron Leader?! What is this movement? How are you?? ’

The sound and light of the thunder were probably the deepest memories of the warriors, but there was a very similar sound from above the altar, which made them rarely uneasy, and they asked;

However, there was no response from the other end of the voice

Immediately afterward, the electric light dissipated, the purple light rose, and the rays in the sky were smoothly emitted, they broke through the barrier of darkness and descended to the north of the city in an instant, and in the middle of the battlefield that had been in close combat;

Without the interruption of the heavy artillery, the rays no longer flickered, but maintained a steady output, one after another of light rose and disappeared, rising and disappearing, flickering like fluorescent lights in a theater.

Wrap up tomorrow.

(End of chapter)