Chapter 1353 - 892: Victory (Part 2)

Chapter 1353: Chapter 892: Victory (Part 2)

Although the number of monsters assaulting the defensive line is still considerable, they can no longer create the devastating impact they once did in the face of the well-prepared Night Watch infantry formations, adventurer teams, and the powerful defensive weapons revived on the city walls, such as automatic magic energy turrets and heavy armor-piercing crossbow cannons. The battle has entered a stage of attrition and obstruction.

In the rear’s casualty treatment centers, many wounded who were receiving treatment from priests or sprays from alchemy potions were drawn to the bustling spectacle in the back.

The Construction Corps demonstrated jaw-dropping efficiency.

Dozens of large alchemy platform vehicles known as "Founders" opened their rear space transport boxes, and with the hum of magic energy engines, thick, metal-gloss-sparkling alloy prefabricated slabs were lifted out by force field generators.

The engineers manipulated complex rune panels, guiding these prefabricated slabs to swiftly assemble at designated positions like giant building blocks.

The junctions of assembly lit up with stable magic runes, instantly securing them firmly.

This formed the initial framework and foundation of the defensive line.

Next, the earth mages in the team began to chant collectively, their magic power resonating, and their person-high magic staffs were inserted into the ground.

The originally void-polluted ground, loosened, cracked, and even growing strange crystal clusters, began to rise and harden under strong shaping magic.

The solid rock foundation spread rapidly along the outline of the alloy prefabricated slabs like growing vines, covering, reinforcing.

This wasn’t simply a stone wall but a rock barrier reinforced with multiple composite magic, like hardening spells, stabilization spells, and elemental affinity spells.

Numerous construction teams started simultaneously from different directions, and the massive rock barriers rose like they were growing from the earth, extending visibly with the naked eye.

They watched as the earthen dragon rose and crawled forward slowly.

In less than an hour.

A giant rock-alloy mixed surrounding wall, roughly hewn, sharply edged, but impressively tall and deeply rooted, encircled the core area of the void rift.

Brutally and efficiently enclosing the still squirming spatial wound at the core.

The adventurers who had just arrived at the frontline not long ago watched with mouths agape, nearly unable to close their jaws.

This was no temporary defensive line; it was clearly the prototype of a small fortress.

Moreover, the defense line also featured some peculiar joint structures, which were immediately recognizable to adventurers who had worked around other rifts or Night Watch soldiers as some kind of template.

"My heavens... this speed..."

"Is this what the Night Watchers are capable of? No wonder they can withstand the void..."

"It’s like a magic trick..."

Exclamations echoed from the rear.

The scale of construction and war potential was far beyond what ordinary adventurers had imagined.

Among them, adventurers with military service experience were sweating coldly.

The Night Watch logistics department, long prepared, rapidly mounted the newly-erected city walls.

The glow of spatial storage equipment blinked; cold city defense crossbow cannons, structurally complex rapid-fire magic energy cannons, and even mobile heavy firepower points were swiftly set on preset platforms and battlements.

Cold metal gun barrels and crossbow arrows shimmering with cold light armed the newborn city walls into a porcupine-like fortress of death.

Then a large number of cannonballs, crossbow arrows, and various crystal materials were stacked on the walls — the stacking points conveniently located in slightly lower grooves.

Each place already had reserved positions, making it convenient, hassle-free, and able to handle most emergencies.

The Night Watch almost turned such encircling constructions into an assembly line.

As the defensive line construction neared its end, a triumphant report arrived from the troops responsible for watching and blocking the original beast groups of the corrupted marshes on the flanks.

Those local monsters, once rebounding, not only failed to break the weak flanks under the pre-established fortifications meticulously built by the Night Watchers — like pits, triggered flamethrowers, and mental shield-providing order pyramids — but defensive forces seized the opportunity.

They launched a successful counterattack using fortifications and long-range firepower, driving the surging beast groups back forcefully and even cleaning and capturing a large dangerous area near the marsh.

After all, they were also harboring grit.

Unable to fight the void creatures, dealing with these disgusting mad creatures was a piece of cake.

The massive object in the sky — the "Order Pyramid" — also advanced slowly under the escort of floating airships.

Finally, it hovered stably behind the newly constructed surrounding wall, almost pressing against the frontline.

Its silver-gray glow of order shone like it had substance, not only continuously suppressing the void pollution in the core area, but its mental shield also covered the entire encircling circle, isolating the maddening whispers of the void from the depths of the rift and steadily stabilizing the fragile spatial structure surrounding.

"Oh, that’s comfortable. Was I too close to the rift earlier? My head was hurting a bit."

"Probably, those experienced Night Watch soldiers say you shouldn’t stay around void rifts for long."

"Wasn’t it blocked?"

"Can’t you see the rift still glowing? You fool."

"Why worry about this stuff? If you could understand, you’d become a mage instead of chopping away with a knife here."

After resting, the people continued to chatter and gossip.

Everything was ready.

At this moment, approximately four hours and thirty-two minutes after the forced interruption of the spatial connection by the pyramid, a dramatic disturbance erupted within the enormous internal space structure of the void rift, and accompanied by a tooth-aching shredding noise, the connection — forcibly restored.

"It’s faster than expected; good thing there’s room for adjustment. The time standard must remain dynamic."

Obelisk operators continued to record these changes while collecting data.

In a sense, the Tariel Continent was almost becoming their testing ground.

All kinds of large equipment, new alchemy equipment, or whatever would be thrown here.

See how it works.

As for another testing ground, it is naturally within the abyss, though the environment there and the combat pressure are too high.

Must try here first to see if it’s usable; more advanced versions are thrown there for high-pressure testing.

At this time, the void rift.

Pitch-black viscous, shape-twisted grotesque new waves of void creatures gushed out in a foul floodgate.

However, what greeted them was no longer an unprepared line, not loose adventurer teams, but just-risen, gleaming cold metallic and heavy rocky hue, filled with deadly weapons — a ring-shaped steel barrier.

"Fire —!!!"

"For order! For the world! Kill —!!!"

On the walls, the furious cries of Night Watch officers merged with the roars of adventurers.

The city defense weapons, long poised, simultaneously unleashed deafening roars.

Thick beams of magic energy tore through the air, dense heavy crossbow arrows poured like rain, and scorching flamethrowers wove death nets.

The rushing firepower immediately engulfed the first wave of monsters in explosions, shredding, and burning.

Night Watch soldiers backed tower shields and spears, forming tight-knit lines behind battlements.

Adventurers searched for shooting windows or picked off targets relying on the walls.

Efficient slaughter replaced previous bloody melee.

The endless void creatures crashed against the newborn walls, but like waves hitting reefs, they only broke into pieces against rocks and steel, leaving behind more foul blood and corpses.

They succeeded.

The "Steel Broken Cliff" void rift, that half-year stymieing ordeal choking the expedition team’s advances, had finally been forcibly compressed and completely locked within an unbreakable ring of order!

It was no longer an obstacle but a "clear target" marked on the map.

The expedition team, bearing the mission to reclaim the Tariel Continent from chaos, had finally cast off its biggest shackle.

Certainly, the largest obstacle to date.

Before encountering new obstacles, their eyes could traverse this encircled battlefield, looking further into the vast lands not yet illuminated by an order’s glow, occupied by shadows and distortions.

The horns of counterattack and conquest resounded loudly atop the steel barrier, in the smoke-filled air above the battlefield.

Advance until the entire Tariel Continent is truly re-integrated into the map of order and civilization.