Section 256 The Eternal Battlefield and Nefarem (7)
The mutual attacks on the sea continued.
A large number of servants flew to the fleets offshore, while the combined fleet had to deal with enemies from the air and maintain the destruction of the Purgatory Node.
"Commander, if this continues, the ammunition we thought could last three days will be consumed in half a day. The adjutant frowned.
"Take advantage of the Servant Demon's attack, let the supply ships resupply and prepare to retreat before night. Beshof said.
"And what about our mission?" said the adjutant.
"We've delayed it for a day, and it's actually more than a day, we've destroyed many nodes in Purgatory here, and the Will of Purgatory needs to re-transmit its power to fight for it, which is equivalent to going back a lot of time. "We retreat before we run out of ammunition, but it doesn't mean giving up, we start on the contrary, and when we return to the Foolish Islands, we can come back after replenishing our ammunition." ”
"But, Commander, if we hadn't been here to continue destroying the nodes, as we saw when we arrived, Purgatory would soon be filled with lava again. ”
"Yes, though, remember that our mission is to delay, neither the command nor the Duke has asked our combined fleet to save this place, our real purpose is to buy time for the Duke and them. If the Will of Purgatory extends to the continent of Tamriel and we are not ready for it, then the real war will become very hard. Beshof said.
"Yes, understood, Commander. The adjutant saluted.
While the two were talking, the non-commissioned officer who was in charge of handling the fleet's intelligence suddenly reported an urgent situation, and there seemed to be something strange on the land of the Akavir continent.
Due to the continued destruction of the lava nodes on the shore, and the destruction of the lava that had been filled and transformed by artillery fire, the lava terrain that was being created was refilled by the sea, which meant that the previous gains of Purgatory were reversed.
But it's on this shrinking land. There has been another striking change.
Bethoff looked in the direction the sergeant had said, and he saw an unusually tall figure suddenly appear at one of the lava beaches.
It was a half-fish, half-human monster with an ugly head. A pair of arms were only in the shape of a thick shape, and their bodies were covered with extremely hard scales. Protects his body like armor.
His arms were covered with crescent-shaped barbs, like two sharp blades tied to his arms.
He was stabbing at the cowards and the demons, and countless cowards and demons surrounded him and attacked him.
However, the sturdy scales on his body provided him with unimaginable defense, and he ignored the attacks of cowardly demons and inferior demons, and just waved those two arms, bringing up patches of blood.
"So, what is that? seems to be the enemy of Purgatory?" said the adjutant uncertainly.
Beshoff observed for a while and said, "It should be a Nefarym." ”
"Nefarem?" said the adjutant, puzzled.
Beskhof explained to him the origin of Nefarem. The monster that suddenly appeared at the place of battle was most likely a resurrected Nefarem.
The cowardly demons and bad demons on the shore could not fly across the ocean, so they could only passively bear the artillery fire on the shore and hide inland, but when this Nefarem suddenly appeared, they seemed to have found an outlet, even if they were not opponents at all, they rushed up like ants biting elephants.
But this Nefarem doesn't know what period of the history of the Besaith Dynasty evolved from the legendary creatures of the sea, nothing else, but the body is protected by the armor-like scales, and low-level creatures like cowardly demons and inferior demons are completely unable to break through the defense.
"What a surprise. But it's good news for us, he will help us spread a lot of pressure and buy more time. Beshoff smiled for the first time since the start of the war.
This Nefarem's help was quite unexpected. There was no way for Bethof to influence him, but the frenzied attacks of the Infernal creatures automatically made Nefarem their enemy, otherwise he might have regarded both Purgatory and Bethof as enemies.
With Nefarem, the attention of Purgatory will definitely be distracted, and even if any more infernal creatures come, they may not all target the fleet, and this Nefarem on the shore is even more conspicuous.
And it is also very difficult for the creatures of purgatory to destroy this Nephelem, although Nepharem's sanity is not complete, but it is something close to the undead. First, they are free from fatigue, and secondly, they are bound by the law of conflict. Can only appear around here, but even if killed. Soon it will come back to fight again.
As Bethoff expected, more and more creatures from Purgatory came from the interior later, probably guided by the will of Purgatory, and finally even a legendary-level Purgatory Lord came.
When the Helllord Seleos also appeared on the beach, Bethoff decisively ordered a retreat.
In the process of retreating, a large number of servants still attacked the fleet one after another, while other purgatory creatures that did not have the ability to fly went to besiege the resurrected Nefarem.
The Combined Fleet retreated and shot the servants in the air, but there were more and more of them, and in addition to the arrival of the legendary Infernal Lord, many succubi and alchemy also arrived, but fortunately Bethoff retreated in time, and there was a conspicuous target on the shore, Nefarem's merciless slaughter made the purgatory creatures regard him as the primary target.
Rao so, there was still a hybrid battleship surrounded by a cloud of servants and demons out of the retreating queue.
Just as Bethoff was thinking about how to rescue, the remaining non-commissioned officers on the ship used the ship's magic brain and the fleet's local skynet to send a message that all the soldiers on the deck and the top level had been killed, and the available heavy weapons had been destroyed by the servants, and they were attacking the lower deck, and the ship could not escape, and asked the flagship to order to fire at it, and die with these servants.
Beshoff informed the captains of the other ships of the news, and then ordered the final request of the valiant soldiers on this ship.
As the miners began to enter the cabins and decks, the other fleets in the distance attacked with artillery fire.
Not only that, but the inside of the ship exploded violently, louder than the shelling, and the last news from the ship was that they had set the ammunition depot on fire and were killed with the invading minions.
Due to the relentless shelling of the other ships and the suicide explosions, and the remaining mages on the battleship, they also used the magic circle to cast the last spell Earth Binding Circle, although it does not have offensive power, it can generate a certain amount of earth power, binding creatures within the range, affecting their actions.
So in the violent explosion, the battleship and the tens of thousands of servants besieging them were caught in the fire, and after the ship collapsed, the wreckage sank, and those servants fell into the water with their whole bodies on fire.
Ten days later, Bethoff led the fleet back to the Folly Islands.
The fleet will rest and replenish, and in two days it will again go to the direction of the mainland of Akaville.
Bethof met with Solomon and informed him of the incident, and then compiled a report to pass it to the Koos proper.
Solomon's side also went smoothly, and the appearance of Nepharem, the result of Potmar's resurrection, allowed him to convince Arya and the other local lords of Skyrim to save a lot of effort.
The natives of Skyrim have accepted that someone from another other, the Kaos, will be based in the Isles of Folly and fight alongside them.
Therefore, some of the preparatory work can not only be carried out, but also with the help of the indigenous people.
One is land reclamation, connecting several of the larger islands in the Foolish Archipelago and connecting them with the territory of Skyrim Province, so that the Folly Archipelago becomes a peninsula.
Although this project sounds very large, it is not impossible to complete, because the floating city is already floating above the Isles of Folly at this time, and the formation of the eternal battlefield will connect the Isles of Folly with a part of the mainland of Keos, which was supposed to be connected to the teleportation hall of St. Quentin, but was moved by Asturias to the vicinity of the Isle of the Dead in a phased manner.
The second is, of course, to extend the Skynet, although the Floating City can be used as a part of the center, but for a war where everyone has no bottom, the more fully prepared the better, relying only on the Floating City, the source power that can be provided to the Arcanist is limited, and the Genesis can only cover the Stupid Islands and Skyrim Province, and a second Floating City is needed further away, and this war is definitely not limited to Skyrim Province.
The third is to try to generate more Nefarem and try to influence them.
It's impossible to control Nefarem, but as long as it influences their senses and makes them point their hostility at the creatures of Purgatory rather than at Solomon.
That's why Solomon had to convince Arya of them, because almost 100% of the Nepharem produced here were the transformation of ancient legendary heroes or legendary creatures from the Beesda's plane, and the most likely ones to influence them were the descendants or other natives who flowed their blood.
At the same time, Solomon also sent a letter to the Kaos mainland, demanding that the construction of the floating city be accelerated.
On the native side of the Kaos position, the High Elf Royal Court and Lombana and their elven resistance forces also sent back the news, and after learning that the Kaos plane had to be involved in this dimensional war, they agreed to accept mediation, but at the same time put forward a request, asking the countries to relax the trade restrictions on the High Elves and provide supplies and weapons as much as possible.
However, the Skyfire Plateau seemed to be a little reluctant, but after the High Elves expressed their acceptance of mediation, King Beamon also received an oracle from his prayer to the Beast God Tamriel to temporarily stop the fight with the High Elves, and the Orcs went to the Beesda Plane to fight a glorious battle and spread the faith of the Beast God.
In this way, the united front of Kaos was basically formed. (To be continued.) )