Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 595 Lazy

This army that developed latently and then rose suddenly was even more unexpected.

It's like waking up with an ulcer in your mouth or an outbreak of acne on your face. They are often out of control by the time you notice them, and only pain and pus can alert the body to their existence.

Unfortunately, this army was mobile, and the areas they passed through left behind a lot of mutations that needed to be cleaned up. Theoretically, the pollution left behind did not even come directly from the Mother Goddess, and did not infect the planes or laws, but was simply the spread of infections that made people sick and mutated.

Such secondary disasters have claimed many lives and are showing a dangerous tendency to intensify, requiring the alliance to allocate troops to carry out a special purification operation.

The Sky Knight Chemical Defense Version, fully wrapped in equipment similar to that in space, flew over the village. Below it were three parallel constructs that had already used up their transmutation dust as ammunition. Each machine had three columnar cores engraved with [Scorching Ray] circuits, and each circuit was severely worn and on the verge of being scrapped.

This team of partners used the Sky Knight as their wingman to find out the way and target for the construct in the air. The purification work was carried out by the construct. After completing the task, the team leader reported to his superior: "The third infected area in the west has been cleared."

The idea of ​​cleaning is the same as that of the firewood carrier, which is to burn everything cleanly, but the advantage of the construct is that no one will be infected in the process, and the steel body can be used to fight monsters in close combat.

Tanya reminded after receiving the team report
For the Sky Knight, the new enemy was very difficult to deal with. These monsters generally had superb regenerative abilities, and ordinary bullets would only embed into their fibrotic or armored epidermis when they entered their bodies. Even if they penetrated the flesh, the broken tissue would quickly reorganize.

The repair of monsters' body tissues is disordered. After growing a tumor-like scar that doubles in thickness, it forms a new layer of armor. Before its stored flesh and blood and the Mother Goddess's blessing are exhausted, any attack from light weapons will only make them tougher and tougher.

Fortunately, the monsters that can fly into the sky are often small scouts with pitifully thin wings. What can pose a threat to air knights is their high mobility and sudden group actions.

"The distribution of the military forces of this corrupt army is very irregular. Unexpected enemies may appear in any polluted area. When there are buildings and forests around, we must keep feeding? Calling Team 4, please answer, please answer!"

Tanya wanted to remind the other party not to slack off just because the cleaning work was completed, but she didn't expect that the other end of the communication device would soon only receive a busy tone.

"Send two teams. No, I will go to Area 3 myself."

The frontal battlefield against the large army was even more intense. There were cunning "ground flies" on the ground commanding their messy creatures and constructs to fight. When their numbers reached a certain scale, ordinary flames could no longer burn them out, because the Mother Goddess could distort these flames and transform the charred parts into sticky pus like tar, while maintaining biological activity.

Gradually, the first batch of constructs equipped with [Fireball] and [Heat Ray] were all destroyed. They were clung to and surrounded by fearless monsters. Even if they were burned to a char, the black pus could still entangle on their surface like life, corroding metal, destroying joints, circuits and spell-launching devices.

The symbiotes within the "biohydraulic system" will also be captured by them, and then reassembled into ugly but still effective hybrid monsters with their broken skin and mechanical remains.

The battle line was not stabilized until all the second batch of constructs participating in the battle switched to lightning spells.

The flying monsters were like swarms of locusts covering the sky. They had various forms, flapping their insect wings like films, or wing membranes, and dirty feathers. Although the domain of the Earth Mother did not include the sky, they were like sandstorms rolling up from the ground, with a tendency to swallow up the airship and the escort personnel.

At this point, the Sky Knights have been broken up into small groups to clean up the side battlefield and deal with the aftermath, because only spellcasters can handle this kind of situation.

Just when the "Corruption Legion" in the middle was on the verge of losing control, daylight once again covered the darkness, and the mutants and monsters in the legion suddenly became weak, their regeneration speed began to slow down, and they were powerless to chant the blasphemous hymns to the Mother Goddess, and those pink and vital pieces of flesh began to shrivel and shrink. Another emergency meeting.

Rorschach didn't know why people in both worlds loved to hold meetings. They held big meetings for small matters and small meetings for big matters. Maybe there were just too many big and small matters.

Since the beginning of spring, the Legion of Corruption has posed a serious threat to the Alliance and the Empire. Fortunately, the "Long Day" has come again, and once again suppressed the arrogance of the Mother Goddess at its highest point, allowing both the Alliance Legion and the Imperial Army to control the situation.

"From observations over the past month, these countries or alliances are not enough to control the crisis." Feuerbach, who had been monitoring the battlefield, rubbed his brows and reported to the elders attending the meeting:
"The strength of individual monsters varies, and it largely depends on the degree of blessing bestowed upon them by the Mother Goddess. The most threatening are the 'earth flies', which are often transformed from high-ranking monks of the original order and retain their intelligence.

"Other monsters with various functions, according to incomplete statistics, there are at least 67 species, with different forms. Rather than being a division of labor based on military significance, it is more like the result of evolution based on ecological niches.

"They devour and expand destructively, tending to concentrate their power internally, creating powerful individuals by devouring each other, and inducing the power of the Mother Goddess to penetrate into the real world to strengthen them."

"It's like a few little pigs fighting to suck the old sow."

"This is a meeting, be serious!" Feuerbach stopped the meaningless speech of a certain Star Tower chief and continued, "The most serious problem is that the Empire and the Alliance do not have a quick response mechanism. The city's magic guild and telegraph office can issue early warnings of disasters as long as they are not sudden outbreaks.

"But in the vast villages and towns, many people are still stuck in the era of decades or even hundreds of years ago. They are slow to connect with the city and have no vigilance or resistance to the invasion of the cult and the Mother Goddess. They often become the birthplace or food of the corrupt army. By the time they discover it, it is already too late."

During this period, the Senate was consciously conducting cruel experiments - intentionally allowing the Legion of Corruption to expand, on the one hand to test how many kinds of monsters it could spawn, what their behavior patterns and ways of spread were, and on the other hand to examine the resistance capabilities of ordinary people.

Rorschach opposed this approach, but it was impossible for him to monitor the entire central part of the empire. While other elders were watching intentionally or unintentionally and sending reinforcements without putting in any effort, he tried his best to get Byrne's military forces into the battle and develop new weapons.

He himself focused on the large army that had already grown in size, and would take action when necessary to eliminate the possibility of large-scale sacrifice to the Mother Goddess and the destruction of the main plane.

It was precisely this behavior that gave other mages the confidence to let the situation develop, since they had Rorschach to back them up.

"After the spring, you should increase the reinforcements. Be careful not to play with fire or you will get burned." Rorschach's words were full of resentment.

Feuerbach agreed: "Yes, now the mages of the Arcane Tower and the Forest Tower are almost at their limit, and more support is needed to curb the spread of pollution in the central region of the empire."

However, the chief responses from other regions were no longer as positive as in the Opfer incident. Some urged to quickly strengthen the construction of the ladder system, while the mages of Istani said that the pollution in the far north of the continent was also worthy of attention.

"Anyway, it's an unowned area now. The Empire is about to give up the land east of the center. They want to use anti-magic devices to block the areas they still control. I think the guild can secretly support this plan and see if it works." The chief of the Istani Storm Tower said slowly. Looking at the movements of the virtual image projected by the communication system, it seemed that he was drinking tea.

(End of this chapter)