I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield - Chapter 540 - 439: Decisive Victory
Chapter 540: Chapter 439: Decisive Victory
A few minutes later
The once thick white storm, like being guided by an invisible hand, began to slowly drift towards the distance behind Ice Extreme Pass, the speed increasing, the howling gradually subsiding.
Soon, the snow storm that had enveloped Ice Extreme Pass for a long time completely disappeared beyond the horizon, leaving only a clear sky.
As the storm receded, the light blue energy shield also lost its target to resist against, and under the soldiers’ control, it slowly faded away, revealing the scene around Ice Extreme Pass.
The soldiers craned their necks to look, and the scene before them made them gasp in disbelief—on what was once a flat icy plain, there were bodies of snow beasts and shattered ice crystals everywhere, a thick layer covered the ground.
Some snow beast corpses still maintained a struggling posture, clearly having made a final resistance before being killed. Those snow beasts made of ice crystals had now shattered into countless small pieces, refracting a cold light under the sun. The entire battlefield resembled a silver-white wasteland, yet it vividly told of the brutality and shock of the battle that had just taken place.
“This… was this all done by the Military Lord and those vines?”
A soldier murmured in disbelief.
Just now, they had not taken part but merely watched as the Military Lord and the vines jointly blocked the endless tide of snow beasts outside the pass. Now, this battlefield full of spoils deepened their awe for the Military Lord—they truly fulfilled their promise to keep all the snow beasts outside the pass.
At this moment, several commanders quickly walked to Qin Tian’s side.
One of the commanders glanced over the battlefield, then looked at the slight sweat on Qin Tian’s forehead and the faint steam from continuously exerting power, cautiously asking, “Military Lord, now that the snow storm has passed, should we organize people to clean up the battlefield and collect the useful materials from these snow beasts?”
Upon hearing this, Qin Tian gently shook his head, gazing in the direction where the snow storm had gone, speaking calmly, “Cleaning the battlefield is not urgent. Next, it’s your turn to take the stage.”
The commanders were taken aback, showing puzzled expressions.
Qin Tian continued, “Although the snow storm has passed, the trouble with the snow beasts isn’t completely resolved. The ones we killed just now were only the batch at the forefront of the storm, there are many more snow beasts moving slower tracking the storm’s path; they will arrive in front of Ice Extreme Pass soon. Moreover, the number of these snow beasts will be more than before.”
Upon hearing there would be more of them, the commanders’ faces changed slightly, the nerves that had just relaxed tightened again.
Qin Tian seemed to see through their worries, adding, “But don’t worry, the overall strength of this batch of snow beasts will be much weaker than before. These snow beasts, I intend to leave to you to deal with.”
He couldn’t solve all the troubles alone forever; he came to serve as the Guardian Envoy at Ice Extreme Pass, not as a babysitter.
Moreover, if the soldiers don’t personally go through battle, how can they improve their strength in actual combat?
How can they earn military merit and gain promotion opportunities?
Now that the biggest trouble has been solved, these remaining snow beasts are a perfect opportunity for the soldiers to earn merit.
The commanders looked at each other upon hearing this, a determined look filled their eyes. They were soldiers; it’s their duty to protect the base and fight against the snow beasts.
The most dangerous phase had passed, and if they were to continue hiding under the Military Lord’s wings, how were they any different from Duan Guangtai, who fled just now?
“Yes, Military Lord!”
The commanders responded in unison, turning and marching quickly towards their respective teams to organize the soldiers for the coming battle.
The soldiers on the city walls, upon hearing the upcoming military deployment, quickly entered combat mode. They knew that the battle that truly belonged to them was about to begin.
Buzz~
The spirit energy turrets entered pre-activation state, soldiers held spiritual energy grenades and ice-breaking energy guns in their hands, while the mages took elixirs to replenish their spiritual energy, holding them in their mouths, the tips of their fingers starting to gather faint magical glows.
It wasn’t long before densely packed black dots appeared on the white horizon.
As the black dots drew closer, the ground began to tremble slightly, the dull sound of footsteps transmitting through the ice, becoming clearer.
A new herd of snow beasts was coming!
At the forefront were sheets of “Snow Flake Beetles,” each the size of a fist, completely snow-white, with shells as hard as ice, numbering in the tens of thousands, densely covering the ice plain like a flowing white tide.
Although individually weak, once they form a swarm, they can gnaw away at the hard profound ice, even the energy shield can be bitten through bit by bit.
Behind the snow velvet bugs, thousands of ice beasts followed, large as cattle, with three sharp ice ridges protruding from their backs, their limbs strong and robust, leaving deep hoof prints on the icy surface and charged with an unstoppable momentum.
In addition, there were various types of snow beasts, some in groups, some were just a couple, yet they emitted an even more dangerous aura.
Ice Extreme Pass stood like a solitary nail on the ice field, faced with the rushing beast swarm, it seemed precarious and endangered.
Soon, the beast swarm reached the front of Ice Extreme Pass.
Some snow beasts seemed drawn by the breath of the ice storm, directly crossed Ice Extreme Pass, and continued to run wildly toward the direction of the storm.
But more snow beasts were attracted by the human aura and vibrant life force within Ice Extreme Pass, halting their steps, issuing roars, and launching an attack on the city wall.
“Fire!”
With a battalion leader’s roar, the soldiers instantly sprang into action, with five spirit mage towers taking the lead.
“Buzz—boom!”
Pale purple energy beams burst from the cannon mouths, ripping through the air with a roar, aimed at the densest area of the snow beast swarm. Each beam impact would cause intense explosions, forming energy shock waves with a diameter of dozens of meters.
Within the range, the snow velvet bugs were instantly vaporized, even the hard icy surface was blasted into deep pits, and several ice beasts at the front were directly pierced through, falling to the ground.
The power of the spirit mage towers far surpassed ordinary energy rifles, tearing open several massive gaps in the beast swarm in an instant.
The soldiers wielding energy rifles followed closely behind, some spraying towards the densely packed snow velvet bugs, with blue energy beams tracing brilliant trajectories across the ice field, each beam hitting the snow beasts would cause a small explosion, shattering patches of snow velvet bugs into fragments.
Others aimed at the ice beasts at the very front, performing precise shots, with special ice-breaking bullets accurately hitting the ice ridges on their backs, shattering the ice ridges instantly; the ice beasts howled painfully, their speed slowing down.
Soldiers carrying spirit mage grenades seized the opportunity, throwing grenades into the crowded areas of snow beasts.
Upon landing, the grenades erupted with a blinding white light, generating spirit mage shock waves that effectively restrained the snow beasts, instantly shattering the snow velvet bugs within range, while also leaving the ice beasts dazed and incapable of attack.
These weapons were developed by the Empire’s weapons research institute specifically for the extreme cold environment of Mingwang Planet and the characteristics of snow beasts, granting extra lethality against snow beasts. At this moment in the soldiers’ hands, paired with the heavy firepower support from the spirit mage towers, they exerted enormous power, causing snow beasts to fall in droves, quickly piling the ice field with their bodies.
The spirit mages atop the city wall did not relent, all releasing the spirit mage spells they had prepared.
“Ice Spike Spell”, “Wind Blade Slash”, and “Flame Jets” spells intertwined to form a massive attack web, sweeping across the snow beast swarm.
The ice spikes pierced the bodies of ice beasts, the wind blades severed the tails of the frost mist pythons, and the flames incinerated patches of snow velvet bugs, with the glow of spells intertwined with the roars of snow beasts, creating a scene of extreme carnage.
However, a few powerful snow beasts broke through the firepower net; among them, a frost mist python dodged multiple energy rifle shots and spell attacks with its agile form, even evaded a spirit mage tower’s lock-on, rapidly approaching the city wall, with its mouth condensing a pale blue chill to unleash a strong spell.
Just at this critical moment, a silver-white void blade suddenly appeared, instantly severing the head of the frost mist python, its body losing control and crashing onto the ice.
The soldiers didn’t need to turn to know it was the Military Lord who intervened.
When they encountered powerful snow beasts they couldn’t handle, the Military Lord would strike at crucial moments, slaying them and clearing obstacles for them.
As the battle continued, the cannon mouths of the spirit mage towers occasionally dimmed briefly—a sign of fast energy depletion—and the soldiers responsible for supply were already stationed beside, swiftly replacing new energy cores for the towers to ensure uninterrupted heavy firepower.
Under the sustained suppression of the towers, the momentum of the snow beast swarm’s attack weakened, unable to form effective thrusts anymore.
Time passed little by little, with fewer snow beasts approaching Ice Extreme Pass, until finally, no new snow beasts appeared on the horizon.
When the last ice beast fell, hit by the energy beam from a spirit mage tower, the soldiers on the city wall could finally lay down their weapons, looking at the ice field piled high with snow beast bodies, erupting into deafening cheers.
The warriors were excited and thrilled; under the leadership of the Military Lord, they had achieved an unprecedented victory against this sudden natural disaster!
And this great victory also signaled that Ice Extreme Pass would embark on a completely new path of rise.
