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Inside the Bayam's Sea God Church.
Alger, wearing a robe embroidered with the Storm symbol, walked up from the underground with heavy steps, nodded to the 'Punishers' and priests waiting on both sides, and said, "The seal has been restored to normal in time.
"You can put the items you are supervising back.
"Yes, Your Excellency Wilson." The 'Punishers' and priest bishops breathed a sigh of relief and struck their left chests with their right fists.
Alger didn't say much, just responded to them with the same etiquette.
After returning to his room, he found a seat and sat down: "The Fool who doesn't belong to this era..."
Alger prayed to Mr. Fool almost silently, expressing his intention to leave the Church of the Lord of Storms.
The statement that the seal was restored to normal in time can only deceive lower-level church members, and cannot be concealed from the senior deacons who will investigate this matter later, let alone the Pope and the 'Lord of Storms'.
After a few seconds, Alger saw the familiar boundless gray fog and heard Mr. Fool's response: "Okay.
"Go to the Sea God Church."
Huff~
Alger let out a long breath, stood up, and took off the storm robe.
He folded the robe neatly and carefully examined it back and forth for a few seconds.
Finally, Alger withdrew his gaze, controlled the wind, and flew out of the church through the open window.
...
Early morning, a mountainous area on the western side of the Southern Continent.
The soldiers of the Paz Kingdom looked at the sun rising little by little with despair, because along with the sunlight, the artillery fire of the Atlantis army also descended on this land!
Today was the same, the crisp sound of artillery fire came as expected, and as the grassroots commanders shouted, "Take cover! Take cover!"
Everyone burrowed into the artillery shelters, and the shells fell on the position like raindrops.
The soldiers hugged their heads one by one, hiding in the narrow caves, praying that the shelling would end soon.
They didn't know why, but the battle had suddenly become fierce a few days ago, and the Atlantis army's 100,000 troops on the western front suddenly began to launch an offensive.
At this time, the main force of the Paz army had been transferred to the east, and although 100,000 people were left here, they were far behind the Atlantis army in terms of weapons and equipment.
In terms of the number of artillery alone, the western front defenders may not have even a third of the Atlantis army's artillery, and the shells were even less comparable.
At first, they tried to fight back, but the Atlantis army bombarded them for twenty minutes every hour, and the defenders only fought back for two days before the shells were almost exhausted.
In the following days, they could only hide in the Trunsoest and be bombed by the Atlantis army.
But strangely, the Atlantis army only bombarded and did not carry out any form of charge!
This shelling was the same as usual, also twenty minutes.
After the shelling ended, everyone heard some commotion on the opposite position. When the soldiers came out of the artillery shelters, they saw that the Atlantis army was deploying strange "black spots" one by one.
At this time, Heli, the commander-in-chief of the western front garrison in the command post on the top of the mountain, could see clearly with a telescope that those "black spots" were some equipment covered with black tarpaulins, but he couldn't see what the specific equipment was.
As he watched, Heli saw a familiar figure with red hair, and he couldn't help but smile: "The analysis of MI9 is correct, Medici has indeed come to the western front."
He didn't become nervous because of this, because according to the combat plan, they would launch a surprise attack on the enemy on the western front today.
If the enemy has angels intervening, the angels of the Paz Kingdom will also take action, even at the cost of triggering the angel war in advance.
Just at this moment, a soldier pointed to the distance and exclaimed, and more and more people's attention was attracted. In the northern sky, there were dark, cloud-like things like flocks of birds.
Some soldiers with good eyesight had already recognized that they were airships! Thousands of airships!
This was the hidden strength of the Paz army, and it was also the surprise attack force they planned to use to reverse the situation.
According to intelligence, although the Atlantis Kingdom had acquired the technology of airships and built airship bases, the time to obtain the technology was too short. Currently, only one or two hundred airships had been produced, and they were even being used for civilian use by the Atlantis government!
This was a huge loophole in the Atlantis army, so the countries of the Northern Continent jointly formed this airship force.
The only thing they needed to guard against was the Atlantis army's Beyonders attacking the airships, so along with the thousands of airships, there were also corps composed of Beyonders from the Paz Kingdom.
These Beyonders were not only Beyonders who served the Paz Kingdom, but most of them were Beyonders transferred from the Northern Continent.
During the previous World War, the Beyonders of the military of various countries suffered considerable losses. It has only been more than half a year, and of course they have not recovered their vitality.
But there are still many Beyonders hidden among the nobles in various countries, or the nobles themselves are Beyonders.
During the previous World War, these nobles shirked their responsibilities and were unwilling to contribute, but now it is different. The Atlantis Kingdom is obviously going to eliminate the noble class. They have changed from being bystanders to contributing as much as they can!
So, unexpectedly, a large number of Beyonders have gathered!
And the "local" Beyonders of the Paz Kingdom are mainly from the Trunsoest family, the Tamara family, and the Demoness Sect.
Now, this large-scale Beyonder corps is dispatched in full force, and it looks like they are going to fight a decisive battle.
Heli saw the sky full of airships, and the corners of his mouth gradually rose, and a smile climbed onto his face.
Looking at the Atlantis army again, his smile slowly disappeared. The ordinary soldiers of the Atlantis army did not show any panic!
This made him seriously suspect that Medici had used His ability to stabilize the situation.
As the large number of airships got closer and closer, the expected Beyonder battle did not break out.
The Paz army originally thought that after the Atlantis army realized their shortcomings, they would launch an attack with Beyonders when the airships were still far away from their positions.
At that time, the Beyonders on the Paz army's side could calmly take advantage of the enemy's attack on the airships to attack the Atlantis army's Beyonders, thereby gaining the upper hand at the beginning of the war.
So the huge airship force did not use extraordinary power to accelerate, but used their maximum speed to slowly come to the battlefield.
But to the surprise of the Paz army's high command, the Atlantis army did not mean to retreat, and did not even mean to take the initiative to meet them.
This was completely beyond their expectations, and even felt a bit strange!
Some people suggested temporarily retreating and launching an attack after investigating clearly.
However, more people felt that the surprise attack effect of the airships would only happen once and could not be abandoned.
Before the Paz army's high command had made a final decision, the sky full of airships had crossed the Paz army's positions and were making the final preparations for bombing. Their target was the Atlantis army's artillery positions.
And as far as they could see, there was not even a single anti-aircraft machine gun on the Atlantis army's positions. The only thing they needed to guard against now was the enemy's Beyonder attacks.
At this time, the Atlantis army's position finally reacted. Medici gave an order, and the gunners quickly pulled down the previous "black tarpaulins", revealing the equipment below.
Heli immediately used a telescope to carefully study it. It was a cannon with a not-so-large caliber!
But unlike ordinary cannons, its firing angle was wider and could be adjusted to above 45 degrees.
Heli immediately realized that this should be a new weapon of the Atlantis army, which gave him a bad feeling.
But thinking about the slow rate of fire and the probability of missing the target, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
According to Heli's experience, this kind of cannon would definitely bring considerable losses to the airships, but it would still not be able to reverse the situation.
But in the next moment, Heli saw a scene he would never forget. All the "small-caliber cannons" fired into the air together.
Bang bang bang bang bang~
The muzzle flashes were regular, unhurried, and actually continuous!
Heli suddenly felt his scalp tingle. As a senior officer, he had certainly heard of the concept of rapid-firing cannons, but at the same time, he had also heard that this weapon was still under development. Why did the Atlantis Kingdom already have the relevant technology?
The research institute on Longtail Island!
Heli immediately thought of the Atlantis Kingdom's research institution!
Looking at the airship formation again, about one or two shells could destroy an airship.
Even a small shell is still a shell, and it can blow a big hole in the airship's cockpit, and there is a good chance that it can detonate the bombs on the airship. Even if it can't detonate the bombs, the airship can still lose control.
And if the shell hits the gasbag, it will be even more of a disaster! A large number of the airship's gasbags will be destroyed and ignited, and the airship will crash immediately.
Bang bang bang bang bang~
The Atlantis army's artillery fire never stopped, and all the Paz army soldiers were stunned, watching the airships they had placed their hopes on explode in the air, turn into fireballs, and slowly fall.
Or the gasbags were destroyed and they fell rapidly.
The enemy's artillery was a weapon they had never seen before, and the astonishing "bang bang" sound seemed to be the death knell sounded by the Grim Reaper.
Some of the airships immediately began to turn around, but this disrupted the formation, and many airships collided in a panic, causing them to fall even faster.
At this time, the Beyonders of the Paz army who were protecting the airships finally reacted and immediately rushed towards the Atlantis army's artillery positions, wanting to end this massacre.
Yes, this was completely a massacre!
But what greeted them was a network of fire composed of heavy machine guns!
You must know that most Sequence 5 Beyonders do not dare to face the firepower of heavy machine guns head-on, and some "low-Sequence" Beyonders who are accidentally swept by the bullets are still torn to pieces by the large, fast-moving heavy machine gun bullets.
However, Beyonders above Sequence 7 can use their abilities to effectively avoid being hit by bullets, but this also greatly affects their speed.
On the Atlantis army's side, the Beyonders stood next to the heavy machine guns, waiting for the enemy to approach before using their Beyonder abilities to attack.
Some of the enemy's Beyonders used their abilities or the Sealed Artifacts they held to simply skip the machine gun positions, and as soon as they appeared, they would be attacked by the Atlantis army's Beyonders.
Some Sequence 5s and demigods used their abilities or Sealed Artifacts to directly appear in the Atlantis army's artillery positions, but they first saw Medici sitting behind the artillery positions with his legs crossed.
And behind Medici was a row of tents, which seemed to be the Atlantis army's camp.
What greeted these Sequence 5s and demigods was the elite of the Atlantis Kingdom's Beyonder troops who had been waiting here for a long time.
The battle between Beyonders at this level was destined to be difficult to control, and some losses still occurred to the anti-aircraft guns.
The Beyonders of the Paz Kingdom breathed a sigh of relief. According to the current rate of destruction, it was enough to buy time for the airships to rush to the artillery positions.
At the same time, many demigods used their abilities to accelerate the airships' flight speed.
At this moment, Medici raised his hand.
Whoosh~
A large area of tents behind him was overturned, revealing a large number of anti-aircraft guns again.
The demigods were stunned for a full two or three seconds!
Let's retreat!
Otherwise, not a single airship will be able to return.
But how could Medici let them retreat so easily when he personally commanded this battle?
From the barracks, a large number of Beyonders rushed out again and entangled them.
These were all Beyonders who had just been transferred from the other two armies and the rear of the Atlantis Kingdom using teleportation arrays.
Bang bang bang bang bang~
The urging sound of artillery continued, and the soldiers on the Paz army's positions gradually became desperate.
At this time, the sky was a large-scale air disaster site. Many airships were exploding, or burning, or falling.
The entire sky was dyed orange-red by the flames.
A large number of airship pilots parachuted, but many of them were hit by shells in the dense artillery fire and were smashed to pieces in the air.
Some shells even "smashed" one or two of the parachuting airmen before hitting the airship without much impact.
Even if they parachuted successfully, most of them jumped to the middle of the two armies' positions and were shot down as targets before landing.
At this time, the airship formations received the order to retreat.
After another batch of airships was shot down, they finally flew out of the range of the anti-aircraft guns.
At this time, the Beyonders of the Paz Kingdom finally withdrew from the Atlantis army's positions at a certain cost.
A smile appeared on Medici's face. He stood up and said in a voice that could be heard by 100,000 troops: "Get ready! The general offensive begins!"
First of all, the general offensive's artillery fire began. This time, all the cannons fired at the same time, and the artillery fire was more intense than ever before.
Before the shelling was over, the infantry had already jumped out of the positions and launched an offensive against the enemy's positions.
When the shelling ended, the Atlantis army also rushed to a position not far from the enemy's positions.
The Paz army collapsed almost at the first touch. In just over two hours, the vanguard of the Atlantis army seized the positions and quickly launched a pursuit at Medici's request.
They pursued all day without encountering any decent resistance.
After this battle, airships officially withdrew from the stage of history.
Medici certainly knew about the Atlantis army's lack of air force. He had discussed with Hobert how to solve this shortcoming a long time ago, but Hobert told him not to worry too much about it.
At first, Medici thought Hobert was secretly building an air force, but when the anti-aircraft guns were pushed in front of Medici, he immediately realized that airships were outdated.
For Hobert, the air force he remembered consisted of fighter planes roaring through the sky, not slow-moving airships.
He originally thought that airplanes had made airships obsolete, but this world had no oil, no fuel for airplanes, so airships had remained in service with the air force.
Later, after the bombing of Saint Milon, he realized that the obsolescence of airships might not be entirely due to airplanes.
At that time, he discovered that this world had no anti-aircraft guns!
The angle of anti-aircraft machine guns was not easy to control, and the effective range was very limited, and the power was too small. Even if a dozen bullets hit the same airship, it would only damage the airship.
If an airship formation conducted high-altitude bombing, anti-aircraft machine guns would be just decorations!
But if there were anti-aircraft guns, it would be different. First, the firing height of anti-aircraft guns was enough to hit any airship, and second, the power of the shells was great enough to easily destroy airships.
So Hobert ordered the development of autocannons and anti-aircraft guns. Because cannons were already relatively mature weapons, they were quickly developed. After sufficient experiments, mass production and deployment began.
Back to the present, in the following days, the Atlantis army's western front troops took turns pursuing, and the Paz army's morale had plummeted to the bottom with the fall of the airships.
Although they had also carried out some ambushes, causing some losses to the Atlantis army, they still could not reverse the defeat.
This pursuit only ended when the Paz army fleeing in front encountered the main force coming to support them.
At this time, the Paz army of more than 400,000 troops finally gathered together, and the eastern front troops of the Atlantis army had also passed through the Palu Canyon and followed in pursuit. The two troops totaled 170,000 to 80,000 people.
The momentum for a decisive battle between the two sides had already emerged, but the Paz Kingdom's high command believed that the decisive battle was on the western front, but as they fought, they came to the hinterland of the Paz Kingdom.
At the same time, the Atlantis army still had a 100,000-strong army stationed in the Balam Empire.
The hints from Hobert's dream made him extra careful when dealing with the Balam Empire, so he only occupied the eastern part of the Balam Empire, but did not occupy the entire territory.
Subsequently, Xio also sent back accurate information that the so-called trump card of the Balam Empire was to release some monsters from the underworld.
It is said that those monsters were sealed by the Underworld Emperor in the past, and their power is very strong.
The Underworld Emperor even issued an order that no one should lift the seal on those monsters.
This can verify the strength of those monsters from the side.
But it is different now. The Balam Empire regards this as the last resort, or a bargaining chip to force the Atlantis Kingdom to negotiate.
They are now very clear that the decadent empire is no match for the Atlantis Kingdom at all.
So they only hope to negotiate with the Atlantis Kingdom, restore the territory before the war, cease the war between the two sides, and never have war again.
As long as the Atlantis Kingdom agrees, they will once again use the seal left by the Underworld Emperor to reseal those monsters into the underworld, and the Balam Empire will become an ally of the Atlantis Kingdom.
But the Paz Kingdom does not think so. They plan to completely destroy the method of sealing after the Balam Empire releases those monsters, causing huge losses to Atlantis and giving Hobert a headache.
It was precisely because of the serious differences between the two sides that Xio had the opportunity to obtain this information.
In response, Hobert's attitude is to confront the Balam Empire first, and he will try to solve the Balam Empire's problem later.
Now he has more important things to do.
...
Southern Continent, Utopia City.
Hobert was sitting in the somewhat dilapidated "Elf Restaurant". The tables and chairs here were very messy, and the glass of the windows and doors was also damaged, as if no one had lived here for a long time.
Looking out from here, the square had been destroyed by an unknown force, and large areas of houses had been razed to the ground. A sense of desolation and dilapidation came over him.
Suddenly, Klein came out of the "Historical Void" without warning: "I didn't expect you to ask me to meet here."
He looked around and sighed helplessly. This city was destroyed like this in the previous battle!
Hobert sighed: "It's rare to have such a familiar place."
He took out another Beyonder characteristic of "Attendant of Mysteries": "This is for you. You can try to digest it in advance."
"Thank you." Klein took it: "What can I do to help you?"
Hobert stretched and said, "Make two 'Elf' dishes. Let's chat while we eat."
"No problem." Klein snapped his fingers, and Utopia immediately returned to its original appearance, but there were no pedestrians outside, not even a pigeon.
However, many panicked small animals quickly fled back to the nearby jungle.
The "Elf Restaurant" was also brand new, no different from when Hobert came last time.
Then the waiter came out of the back kitchen, brought the menu, and asked the two to order.
They still ordered four dishes and a soup, and while drinking beer, Hobert said in a casual tone: "If I become the 'Black Emperor', Roselle will completely fall."
Hearing this, Klein paused with the wine glass in his hand and glanced at Hobert.
Hobert's words were equivalent to admitting that he was the "Creator".
After all, the "Creator" is currently only a god, probably at the level of a King of Angels, and how could a god's subordinate be a god of the same pathway or adjacent pathway?
Hobert ignored Klein's gaze and continued: "So I thought of a way to make Roselle no longer the 'Black Emperor', so I can advance with confidence.
"So I want to ask 'The Fool' for a favor. The specific plan is like this..."
Hobert briefly described the plan he had thought of before, "grafting" Roselle with the Beyonder characteristic of "Knowledge Emperor", and using Roselle's "projection" when he was the "Knowledge Emperor" to "fool" history and reality, from "the reviving Black Emperor" into "Knowledge Emperor".
Finally, Hobert said: "I have already acquired the 'Knowledge Emperor' Beyonder characteristic that was 'dropped' from Roselle during the previous battle of the gods.
"It can be determined that there is still Roselle's mental residue in it, which should be helpful for your 'grafting'."
Klein didn't expect Hobert to be so well prepared, even the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic was prepared.
He pondered for a while and felt that this plan was quite feasible.
Then he realized: "You... know... know I am..."
Hobert smiled half-truthfully: "I helped get two Sequence 1 characteristics of the 'Seer' pathway, and I probably know where the Uniqueness of this pathway is, so..."
He made a gesture of spreading his hands: "Obviously, it's similar to my situation."
Klein suddenly laughed while holding the beer, and it was the kind of laugh that couldn't stop. Hobert also laughed along.
For some reason, they both found the current situation very funny.
Originally, they were two big figures in the Beyonder world, but who knew that for a long time in the past, they were all disguises!
Klein laughed: "This suddenly reminds me of our first meeting in Tingen City.
"I didn't expect that it was the first meeting between the great 'Creator' and the respected 'Mr. Fool'!"
Hobert smiled and raised his glass: "Respects to Mr. Fool."
Klein also raised his glass, trying to make himself serious: "Respects to the Creator."
The two clinked glasses, but after taking a sip, they laughed again, as if they had heard the funniest joke in the world, and they were both characters in that joke.
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