Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 1409: Feint Attack

The battle clouds were dense.

Even the residents of Mockdan, who were hiding in the building, could clearly feel the suffocation before the battle, let alone Rupert, who was watching the scene outside the fortress from the command room through the big screen. Everyone in the command room could clearly see the dust curtain on the horizon outside the stronghold city. Anyone with the slightest marching experience would know how many people would have to walk out of the dust curtain to be able to do so.

Rupert subconsciously licked his dry lips and said, "Are you ready?"

Jeffrey glanced at him. Whether it was him or Rupert, since they were imperial generals, they could be said to have experienced hundreds of battles. People like them would never repeat the same question. Just now, Jeffrey had already reported the preparations for the fortress. Now, Rupert had asked again. Obviously, this general was too nervous, but who could not be nervous now? After Bali died in battle, no one dared to underestimate the communist lord of the wasteland. Right now, the God of Slaughter was in the army opposite him.

At present, Rupert still stayed in Mokedan on the gem wall barrier. If the communist lord of the wasteland was unable to break through the gem wall, he could use the advantage of the stronghold to drag down the enemy troops. Right now, Mirion was planning to rush over, but he still had military matters to attend to. He couldn't leave immediately, so it would probably take him a few days to arrive. These days will be crucial. If Rupert can hold on, then what awaits him is a bright future.

If the gemstone wall were to be broken, he would have no choice but to run away immediately. Rupert did not intend to face the God of Slaughter who could kill Bali. Whether he could defend Mockdan or not was none of his business. If he could not do it, he would not stay behind as a burial object for the city.

Under Rupert's nervousness, the army finally entered the battlefield. On the big screen, one could see the enemy troops lined up on the other side of the ground. They were densely packed, and their numbers were astonishing. In terms of the number of soldiers, they probably weren't below Mo Kedan's garrison. Following that, several windows opened on the screen. They zoomed in on the army from different angles. In the screen, Rupert saw that the soldiers of the army were clearly not uniform. Whether it was armor or weapons, they were all of different styles. Those chariots and flying ships were also varied, and they were simply like an improvised army of miscellaneous brands.

In the past, Rupert had already laughed when he saw such a miscellaneous army. No matter how many soldiers there were, without a unified command, a huge army was just a tray of loose water, unable to be twisted into a strand of steel cables. But now that there was a super expert guarding the miscellaneous army, that was another matter. Jeffrey glanced at Rupert and asked if he would take the initiative to attack.

Rupert shook his head. He was determined to stand firm and never give the army a chance.

Jeffrey sighed. The Berserk Shadow Army had always been the main target, not the main defender. If it was Bali, he would have already sent his troops. Unless the situation was unfavorable, he would only withdraw to defend the stronghold. Rupert was never Bali. Even though he was valued by the upper echelons of the empire, he only advocated defense.

"Coming." Rupert shouted softly.

Jeffrey's eyebrows twitched as he looked up at the big screen. He saw that the enemy troops were not in a hurry to attack after discharging the formation. A war chariot was driving out of the main formation. Rupert gestured, and the large screen immediately expanded, showing the chariot clearly on the screen. Everyone's focus was on the figure on the chariot. That person's silver hair was swaying in the wind, like a ball of silver flame, as conspicuous as possible.

Now that this silver hair was almost his symbol, when everyone saw it, a word popped into their minds: The Wasteland Co-owner!

Alan was standing on the chariot. The chariot slowly drove out of the main formation and stopped in front of Mockdale's cannon range. Alan narrowed his eyes. His hand beneath the cloak shook slightly, and Red King was already in his hand. Then, he raised his arm, Red King raised the sky, and released his boundless aura. Allen's cloak fluttered and the sound of hunting rang out. First, a layer of scarlet flames rose from the soles of his feet, then the color of the flames dimmed until they turned into pale white flames.

The secret flames boiled all over Alan's body. Azure flames shot up into the sky, and an extremely faint grey line rose up between heaven and earth, as if it had split the world in two. The grey line finally submerged into the clouds above the battlefield. The originally thin clouds gradually thickened and the light on the battlefield dimmed. As a result, the gray thread became conspicuous. As the clouds lowered, and the center of the clouds rose and fell, it was as if clouds were being pulled by the grey line, faintly pulling down a cloud pillar, Smoke Dragon.

At the same time, if there were flames burning in the depths of the clouds, the grey clouds would gradually turn red. The flames reflected the clouds and looked like a sea of fire from afar. The slowly drooping smoke dragon was instantly dyed red by the flames, and its speed suddenly increased. Suddenly, it directly smashed down onto the chariot and Allen. Looking at the anomaly on the big screen, Rupert's mouth was full of bitterness. Such a heaven and earth phenomenon was proof that that person had taken control of a certain kind of Origin Energy in the void.

The phenomenon that was triggered was on such a large scale. The opponent's Void Origin Energy was of such high grade that even Mirion, who was acknowledged as the strongest general in the empire, could not compare to him, let alone Rupert, who had just touched the threshold of the Void Origin Energy.

Right at this moment, the pillar of flaming red clouds, which was connected to the sea of flames in the void and connected to the vast earth below, suddenly exploded, and a gray-white saber light shot out from within. This saber light wasn't that vast, but it was fast enough. In the command room, everyone saw that the moment the saber light exited the cloud pillar, the scene was clearly divided into two. Then, in the next moment, the entire screen was only gray. Then the command room began to tremble, from light to severe, until even generals like Rupert and Jeffrey had to use their strength to nail themselves to the ground, so that they wouldn't be as shaken as the other officers to the ground.

Needless to say, this tremor was definitely caused by the collision of the saber light and the gemstone wall. Rupert shouted, "Hurry up and switch scenes. I want to see the situation outside the city. Immediately!"

An officer who wasn't weak managed to get up and jumped onto a console to press the light button. The big screen immediately changed its image, changing its angle to look down from above. It should be switched to the camera port of an airship. From the screen, one could see that the saber light had already been embedded into the barrier of the gemstone wall. From this angle, one could see it. The barrier of the gemstone wall was like a colorful bubble. Right now, the gray light was embedded in one end of the bubble. The barrier was pressed in, but it still hadn't broken through. However, on the other screen that displayed the many rhombus-shaped bodies that made up the gemstone wall, a large number of rhombus-shaped bodies had already turned from normal blue to prismatic yellow with energy higher than the horizontal line. The rhombus-shaped bodies on the south side of the city displayed a bright red color of energy overload!

The tremor had already spread from the south of the city to the inner city. The collision between the saber light and the gemstone wall was intensifying. Cracks even began to appear on the streets south of the city. Some buildings and walls with thinner structures even fell off. When the compound barrier of the gemstone wall flashed and the first barrier completely disappeared, the buildings on both sides of a main street in the south of the city suddenly rose and fell, but the wall root was shattered.

The first barrier disappeared, and the second did not last for two seconds. The third layer almost disappeared without any buffer. The alarm in the command room of the Military Headquarters shouted loudly. On the screen that displayed the Gem Wall System, there was already a small portion of the rhombus-shaped body energy that was overloaded. Looking at the red area, Rupert felt that his heart was already in his throat.

There were still two barriers left!

Finally, as the fourth barrier disappeared, the saber light also dimmed down. As a result, the originally thick composite barrier was now left with only one layer. However, it was this barrier that allowed the Gem Wall to persist in the end. Seeing the war chariot on the big screen drive backwards, Rupert felt relieved. He laughed and even kissed Jeffrey, saying, "That guy can't cut through our gemstone wall in the end."

Jeffrey nodded excitedly. Everyone knew that Mockdan's morale would fall to the bottom if he couldn't block that saber like a gemstone wall. Although the current strike was shocking enough, it was not enough to cause one to feel despair. Jeffrey quickly reacted and asked the people below to report the situation of the rhombus. One-third of the rhombus is overloaded and is currently on standby. In addition, there were hundreds of rhombus that had malfunctioned and needed urgent repair.

However, an important system like the Gemstone Wall naturally had backup devices. As a result, the hundreds of broken diamonds were recovered, and the same number of backup devices filled their gaps. Moments later, the barrier was restored to two more layers. Although it could not recover to the thickness of five layers, it was clear that the other party could no longer slash out with that earth-shattering saber.

In the scene, after the war chariot returned to the main formation, the troops of the Forgotten Realm began to push forward, along with the fleet of flying ships flying over. At this point, Rupert no longer hesitated and shouted, "Let's fight!"

On top of the car, Allen had put Red King back on the spatial wristwheel. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Mockdale. The two flying ships on both sides were already fighting over the stronghold. On the ground, led by Tong Wu's Blood Peak Legion, the Legion Corps continued to charge towards the stronghold like a tide, while the Mockdale side opened fire. Several armed platforms poured down their firepower without reservation, creating countless fireballs on the battlefield outside the city.

Judging from this might alone, Mo Ke Dan was far too worried. However, Alice's army was not a vegetarian either. Apart from the generals using their own strength to withstand the artillery fire and support the army's advance, there were also a few private armies that were skilled in defense, working together to create several layers of different colors of Origin Energy barriers above the entire army. On the surface, it looked like the Mo Ke Dan had fought fiercely, but in reality, the damage to the Realm of Remnants was very limited. Moreover, Alan had already warned him before the war that there was no need to attack forcefully, so he could just pretend. In this way, experts like Tong Wu Xue Feng could use their strength to defend. With these experts supporting their defenses, unless Mo Ke Dan was willing to go all out, they would not be able to seriously injure the army of the Forgotten Realm.