Chapter 1551 - 282: Calamity Fire Falls from the Firmament

Chapter 1551: Chapter 282: Calamity Fire Falls from the Firmament

Not only the main battlefield located on the Golden Plains, but also various towns in the South Ridge, which have gone into lockdown, are facing numerous frenzied Magical Beast attacks.

If even a single town is breached by the Magical Beasts, causing significant casualties, the Cursed Soil will spread there—then the Demonic Army will gain an exact coordinate to directly leap there from the Golden Plains.

However, such leaps cannot be made at will; if the Southern Ridge People intentionally abandon a town, luring the Demonic Army into a trap, they can’t jump back to the Domain of Void immediately to avoid shelling... Some Western Territory forces have self-sacrificed, deceiving the Demon Army into traps, yielding significant results.

Thus, the frontline battlefield must not be abandoned; the Demon Army needs to draw the Southern Ridge forces to the front line, then use various means to create leap points at the rear for cross-strike attacks.

But the unmanned troops have now countered the situation—while the unmanned armors may still have some flaws in directly facing the enemy, within the extremely familiar interior of the South Ridge, they are sufficient to accomplish tasks like ’clearing Magical Beasts’ and ’suppressing riots’.

In fact, with Sio’s precise control techniques, she can even achieve ’move the southwestern fleet’s second group fifteen meters to the left’ and ’adjust the angle of the northern fleet’s second firepower armor suit by fifteen degrees’, abilities of micro-management that are almost excessively precise.

Furthermore—as those Inferior Demons aim to attack these unmanned armors, she can simultaneously control surrounding drones and armor suits to retreat away.

Attacking while moving, hundreds of drones scatter to dodge attacks, while those not targeted continue their assault—such absurd scenarios can only be achieved by a True Dragon.

Perhaps True Dragons are meant to do just this? No one said a True Dragon must personally charge the frontline—as the essence of a civilization, True Dragons mastering warfare is naturally expected!

However, Sio’s Dragon Soul computational power is ultimately not as robust as the Heart of Terra.

Focused on drone and armor operations, other aspects inevitably suffer.

For a period, the artillery barrage from the Nineteenth Legion halted because they could not track the continuously moving Demon Legion in real-time or cover their Domain of Void coordinates corresponding to the physical world.

Seizing this opportunity, the Demon Legion began marching at full force, charging toward the direction of the Nineteenth Legion, sworn to destroy the firepower points threatening them.

Without the constraints of the Giants of Light and legions’ heavy artillery, the demons’ march was incredibly swift. They split into ten different units and under their officers’ lead, executed surprise attacks in different directions. The Nineteenth Legion’s firepower, without the support of artificial intelligence, could not track such complex maneuvers and intercept them in real-time.

Led by Demon officers, each unit of Inferior Demons, Beast Demons, and Demonized Magical Beasts comprised of thousands of combat entities. Even the weakest Demonized Magical Beasts neared the First Energy Level, which most Southern Ridge soldiers did not possess, and each unit could capture cities and create massacres.

For the Southern Ridge side, they could only rely on equipment and fortifications.

On the southern edge of the Golden Plains, concrete fortifications rose in ten days, forming an astonishing Southern Ridge Great Wall. Key nodes of this wall contained many defensive installations and automated firepower nodes.

When these structures first came into play, it was in an all-out clash with the demons.

At close combat distances, the demons’ ability to shift into the Domain of Void to evade firepower was weakened because they needed to guide for one second or longer before entering the Domain of Void and emerging had a brief stiffness. With the Cursed Soil’s enhancement, without it, they would be immobilized for tens of seconds, sometimes one or two minutes.

During this process, the prepared garrison could instantly obliterate their bodies with firepower.

It’s time for a hard clash.

As the steel hummed, when demons and Magical Beasts had entered melee range, the mechanically upgraded elite of the Nineteenth Legion charged. These small Giants armoring themselves in metal formed a silver line, blocking the demon-like tidal offensive.

Then commenced an intensely savage fight.

With the power of Exoskeleton Armor, elite human soldiers could kick the normally feared Magical Beasts flying, even cooperating to repel Inferior Demons, using close-range Melting Guns and Magnetic Storm Generators to ’drive’ them out of the material world.

But the most terrifying were not these vanguards: the real killers were snipers guided by the Dragon Soul-version of Heart of Terra.

In general perception, a sniper’s shot equals a life, which is an exaggeration. Even the most professional snipers can’t guarantee every shot hits its mark on the battlefield and the firing rate is slow, requiring opportunities for precision kills.

But now, from this point forth, the era of snipers is changing—amidst subtle high-heat beams slicing air, countless beams intertwined on the battlefield, forming a vast net of death.

Where in this web, every Magical Beast struck dropped dead instantly, every Inferior Demon targeted suffered severe blows. This terrifying accuracy is a disaster for the war’s enemies.