Lord of Winter: Beginning with Daily Intelligence - Chapter 540 - 328: Heavy Strike Against the Evil God

Chapter 540: Chapter 328: Heavy Strike Against the Evil God

“It is my inability.” Felan, the captain of the Cold Iron Knight Order, half-knelt, sweat faintly visible on his forehead, his face dark and as if it could drip water.

The edges of his Fighting Energy armor had not yet been retracted, evidently just having escaped a dangerous environment.

“I have penetrated to the end of the first flight of stone steps on the altar.” He reported in a low voice, “Beyond that, the mind begins to blur, perception gets distorted. Even with Fighting Spirit Protection, it’s difficult to maintain. If I forcibly break through, I might fall into madness.”

In the temporary camp, silence fell for a moment.

Louis stood before the table, his gaze falling upon the map where a red line encircled the coordinates.

After a long time, he gently sighed, his tone without blame, but rather gentle: “Don’t blame yourself, you’ve done very well. Even a Peak Knight might not be able to penetrate that mental blockade.”

Felan was slightly startled, raising his head to look at Louis.

Since Duke Edmund’s demise, there had been no true peak power left in the Northern Territory.

Felan was a high-tier Extraordinary Knight, the most powerful single combat force in the entire Red Tide Territory, and even in the whole Northern Territory.

This investigation was specially arranged by Louis, bringing him back from the northern front line with the purpose of probing the secrets of this eerie altar.

In the end… it also stopped at the doorstep.

In other words, currently, no one in the entire Northern Empire can independently unravel the truth of this ancient altar.

“This is no longer an ordinary ruin.” Louis’s gaze was stern, “It’s an altar of the Evil God, we must launch a strategic assault!”

As the words fell, everyone shook.

But Louis had already picked up the pen and wrote a line on the tactical briefing: Tactical level adjusted to Magic Energy High-Explosion Bullet Type Three field trial.

……

The wind and snow hadn’t ceased, the world was of one color.

The snow in the Ancient Abyss Canyon had been cleared to reveal a vast slope platform, 300 meters close to the Snowfield Altar, where a giant black iron-colored installation was slowly being positioned.

It was a steel beast seemingly dragged from Hell.

Six heavily armored steel bulls, their necks thick as stone pillars, exhaling white mist, vigorously dragged the heavy chassis.

In the center of the cannon carriage, a massive metal tube as thick as a roof ridge was mounted.

Entirely black and shiny like ink, entwined with silver-white pattern slots and flow grooves, it flickered with faint magical micro-light in the cold glow.

This cannon tube was cast from ash-smelted sunk iron, a metal that doesn’t corrode for a thousand years, resistant to high temperatures, and against energy backlash.

Craftsmen had forged it countless times in the steam forge, making it stable as a mountain.

The bore had been polished to a mirror finish, reducing friction loss and energy recoil when launching the Magic Explosion Bullet.

This was not a weapon of war; it embodied the peak of craft, the secret research of Red Tide Workshop over three years.

“Magic Burst Cannon Tube Launch Device… the world’s only cannon that can withstand the third-generation Magic Explosion Bullet.” The man standing beside Louis, his eyes glowing, said with a trembling voice, “My child, finally going to speak for the first time!”

The speaker, naturally, was Hillco.

He wore an incongruous white trench coat, with an untimely fervent smile on his face, hands clasped at his chest, rubbing repeatedly, as if awaiting not a trial but a celebration.

Louis stood beside him, on a snowfield high point several hundred meters away from the Magic Explosion Bullet, watching the cannon crew complete the final adjustment procedure.

Behind him was a whole row of knight guards forming a defense line, and the on-site security measures were meticulous to the extreme.

Not out of cowardice, but that a gentleman doesn’t stand under a precarious wall.

Louis turned to Hillco and asked, “Are you sure it can penetrate that lower seal?”

“If even it doesn’t work…” Hillco grinned, “Then I can only suggest the ’madness plan with dual bullet launch!”

Louis did not respond, just looked down at the map, formation, and wind direction indicators on the command table in front of him, then scanned the busy loading knights below.

They were an elite unit composed of specially trained Magic Explosion Bullet-using knights among the Red Tide Knights.

The entire team activated the seal-style loading procedure with extreme precision.

Because this is no ordinary weapon.

It is the ultimate achievement of Red Tide Territory’s three-year secret production, a monster birthed from the collaboration of Red Tide Workshop and Mage Forest.

Red Tide’s third-generation Magic Explosion Bullet, Magic Energy High Explosion Bullet.

The bullet was over four meters long, entirely in ink blue, with its structure intertwined spirally, both for pressure resistance and heat conduction.

Internally, it had a hollow double-chamber structure, with a core embedded with a “Condensed Energy Crystal Core” as its heart.

It was a black crystal, storing distilled and compressed Magical Beast Magic Crystal Liquid and Magic Energy Extraction Fluid.

Its activity was extremely high, constantly pulsating slightly, like a heart of some sleeping yet on the brink of awakening organism.

Moreover, the materials were not ordinary; they included ten rare Magical Beast Magic Crystals from the Northern Territory, with strictly controlled extraction ratios, overseen jointly by Red Tide Research Institute and Workshop.

More crucially, the “Demon Pattern Array Core” stabilizing the energy flow of the entire bullet could not be completed solely in the Red Tide.

It was Louis who personally wrote letters consulting three Grand Mages from Mage Forest, then reconstructed and adapted by the Red Tide Workshop.

The entire process was staggeringly costly, but what it brought was a Magic Explosion Bullet theoretically capable of precisely and stably releasing powerful shock waves and forming a dual effect of high-heat shock waves and Magic Energy oscillation layers at the blast point.

This means that: even if the target is a sealed area or a demonized structure, it can forcibly tear its surface defenses, exposing it to tactical sweep weapons.

Theoretically, it is sufficient to collapse a small mountain.

Thus, it required a dedicated launch device, special loading guard, and Hillco’s on-site presence, to ensure infallibility.