Chapter 1294 - 864: Graduation_2

Chapter 1294: Chapter 864: Graduation_2

Who would refuse the power of adventure when it’s so useful?

Nobles and lords are no fools.

One doesn’t have to become an adventurer to make a pledge to contribute to the future of the world.

Eradicating Void Creatures grants experience, enhances one’s strength, and boosts the morale and lasting fighting power of the elite force composed of these adventurers.

Of course, compared to their past selves, they are still lacking compared to the current Night Watchers; there’s still quite a strength disparity.

The war has lasted for more than half a year.

The Night Watchers are long past being the initial hasty responders.

They, along with countless followers, allies, and transformed legions, have formed a mature process to handle this "hellish cartography."

Of course, Void Rifts continue to steadily unfold across the world.

Though not yet at the stage of a full-scale invasion, the arrival of a new storm is inevitable.

Void Creatures have essentially become visible to all living beings during this half a year.

It’s worth celebrating.

At least they have smoothly passed through the phase of the Void Vanguard Army’s invasion and the confrontations thereof.

Don’t underestimate it.

Bear in mind, almost half the world fell during the phase of the Vanguard Army’s invasion, particularly at the beginning.

Generally speaking, if a world can resist the initial stage of the Void Vanguard Army’s invasion, it stands about a forty percent chance of surviving until the real invasion begins.

Of course, when we say "fell," it doesn’t mean the world was destroyed at the Vanguard Army’s invasion stage, but that the world had already been reduced to tatters, with virtually no chance of resisting the subsequent full-scale invasion.

And the start of that full-scale invasion is the end signaled by the death knell sounding.

At least their world endured, taking a big step forward, becoming among the top fifty percent of worlds invaded.

Adam’s hand brushed over the cold metal battlement before him, the icy touch forming a curious contrast against the surging blood magic within him.

He had already graduated, along with his friends.

They had also formed a team.

Unlike most orphans taken in by the Night Watchers who then became adventurers, these talented children, gathered together from a young age, were groomed from the start to join the Soul Guardian Squad.

Having outgrown their rookie status, they were naturally assigned as a group to the most understaffed areas.

Namely, on the city walls used to defend against Void Creatures.

They were newly reassigned here, the reason being that another rift had opened nearby, causing a sudden increase in pressure and making previously sufficient manpower seem stretched thin.

The section of the battle he was in was a critical junction where two defensive lines intersect.

The defensive facilities here are considered miracles of the Night Watchers’ logistics and alchemy technology.

Huge, robust [Steel Spine Towers] stand majestically, like inverted mountain peaks, the tower bodies exuding a pure platinum arcane glow, echoing with another similar tower not far off.

Between these keystones isn’t a slowly built stone wall, but a nearly twenty-meter-tall heftily foldable wall, seemingly metallic, that appears to have shot up instantly from the earth.

This is not a dead object.

The magic circuit embedded in the walls is currently operating at full strength, linking the powerful magic barriers released by the two [Steel Spine Towers], forming a visible energy curtain over the wall’s surface.

Countless thin runes flow, appearing and disappearing on the energy curtain.

"Feels much better, doesn’t it?" Tokke’s voice came from beside him.

He was half-crouched on a specially designed sniper platform, the sights of his [Blue-2] enchanted piercing crossbow tightly locked on a special fluctuation point in the surging tide below.

His bowstring was taut, his knuckles slightly white.

Eva also nodded subconsciously, as the complete activation of the barrier significantly weakened the maddening whispering that could drive one to insanity, like maggots in one’s bones.

The improved magic of the Night Watchers was notably effective in dispelling the spiritual influence of the Void.

This is the key to the line’s integrity.

And that’s the function of these tower-like structures, multifunctional aggregations, certified products only designed two months ago.

Specifically for quickly establishing a defense line to either contain or resist Void Creatures with city walls.

The Night Watchers’ offensive weapons might not be potent, but their defensive equipment, no joke, has progressed rapidly.

There’s a reason for this: the high-ranking Night Watchers had long set the tone for defense.

Against the Void apocalypse, the demand is not to repel the Void.

Instead, it’s to endure during the phase of full-scale Void invasion.

The Void, after all, represents the Star Realm’s destruction rule, one of the greatest representations of the rule of destruction.

The likelihood of total annihilation is non-existent, unless you destroy the entire Star Realm as well, which isn’t much different from destroying the world.

So all that’s needed is defense.

The more territory and population that’s preserved, the greater their victory.

In this context, defensive capability far outweighs offensive power.

That’s the prophet Kana’s reflection.

Because Void Creatures are endless, at least from the perspective of the world.

The size of Void Creatures, when piled together, is several dozen times that of the entire world; it’s utterly impossible to kill them all at once—they could directly crush your world into dust.

Using the words of some worlds as a joke.

Appreciate it, brother.

Clearly capable of crushing you instantly, destroying your world in one blow, yet they send soldiers you can defend against, wave upon wave, to wipe you out.

Therefore, defense is the highest necessity.

The top of the wall is no longer an ancient simple crenellation but a functional-integrated combat platform.

Rapidly constructed tracks connect to the citadel weapon "nests"—the rotating [Judicators] automatic magic bullets firing with ceaseless clanking sounds.

Specially crafted elemental magic bullets explode amidst the beast tide into a mixed storm of holy light and shock waves.

The [Dazzling Sun Prism] magic cannon platforms continuously condenses and fires concentrated beams, precisely igniting those exposed energy nodes of Void Creatures, burning them into writhing, screaming purple fireballs.

These are not official products, but various experimental items sent here.

The intensity of battle here is high, but so is the line’s completion, making it the best proving ground.

A variety of bizarre citadel weapons endlessly emerge.

The symphony on the flesh-and-blood grinding disc plays just like this.

"Roar!" The roar wasn’t from a beast, but from below.

A Kingdom Griffin Heavy Shield Warrior leaned forward, his shoulder leaning firmly against the enormous rune shield higher than a person, enduring the charge from an unusually large "Crystal Crusher."

The shield’s light crazily flashed, the reinforced metal platform underfoot emitting ear-piercing friction sounds.

"Now, Fercheck!" A stocky dwarf warrior in the Night Watcher ranks beside him shouted.

With the voice barely fading, a blurred figure almost slid out against the shield’s shadow underneath.

It’s the Flying Squirrel!

He appeared as if blending into the shadow, his specially tempered short sword glowed darkly, resembling more a solid heavy, armor-piercing short spike on the battlefield.

He pierced precisely into the newly exposed crystal joint gap of the massive entity struck.

"Abyss Echo!"

After a voice laced with a chuunibyou tone, shadow energy detonated, making the Crystal Crusher emit a pained howl, its colossal body abruptly stiffening and toppling, crashing down on its own kind squeezing up from behind.

"Nicely done!"

The dwarf warrior laughed, his giant, buzzing, spike-covered heavy blunt weapon [Siege Hammer] ferociously smashing into the beast’s fallen head with vicious wind.

Crack! The crystal shell completely shattered!

Not far away, Tokke’s crossbow emitted a light yet deadly "thup" sound—a flicker of cold-lighting arrow slicing through the air, precisely penetrating a "Wingtip Soul Eater’s" sole compound eye lunging at the magic cannon platform, sending it trailing smoke as it spiraled down.

Eva’s longbow maintained its steady performance, arrows imbued with the power of wind either disruptively picked off targets or formed an arrow screen to slow the beast tide’s momentum.

"Bzz—!"

A familiar buzzing alarm came from behind, indicating a small rift suddenly erupting at the base of the wall.

Several Essence Eaters screeched and surged forth, their corrosive light mist rushing at the city wall.