The First Magic World War-Chapter 626 - 591, New War

Chapter 626: 591, New War Chapter 626: 591, New War Charles ordered the army to assume formation; the just-transported land battleships and the centurions appeared at the forefront of the troops.

Transcendents are the decisive force on the battlefield, and the Sacred level is the key to victory!

But no matter if it was Transcendents or those at the Sacred level, both were too scarce, especially the latter.

Charles was also eager to see if these two newly designed alchemical weapons could perform as anticipated.

The best place to test new weapons was—on the battlefield!

A tree god envoy launched the first attack, diving swiftly and releasing two black orbs of Fighting Spirit, which exploded on a land battleship.

However, the defensive magic circle of the land battleship stood firm, fending off the attack from the Sacred level tree god envoy.

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Yet, when the centurions raised their rifles to shoot at the sky, they seemed somewhat weaker; ordinary rifle bullets simply could not break the defense, and hitting a flying tree god envoy was extremely difficult.

A volley of fire failed to achieve any results.

Tree god envoys continued to join the battle, but the defensive magic circle of the land battleships, redesigned by dozens of ancient alchemists, was impressively robust.

This batch of tree god envoys, which had ascended to the Sacred level through the Power of the Evil God, had a singular manner of attack and didn’t possess the plethora of techniques typical of normal Sacred levels.

Grueling barrages seemed their only method aside from magic.

Charles did not allow his Sacred level subordinates to participate in the battle.

Watching the heated struggle between the tree god envoys, the land battleships, and the centurions, he smiled slightly and said, “A whole new mode of warfare is about to begin!”

Charles was aware of the disadvantages of the combination of land battleships and centurions and also knew how to compensate for these weaknesses, but he deliberately refrained from making any changes.

The land battleships had virtually no weapons other than the defensive magic circle—entirely different from the tanks on Earth—and the centurions were only equipped with ordinary rifles.

Charles had not provided them with the expensive Magic-Breaking Bombshell Bullets!

This combination could prevail on a battlefield of ordinary people, and even where Transcendents intervened, but was helpless against those at the Sacred level!

In the short term, centurions protected by land battleships were unthreatened by Sacred levels, but neither the land battleships nor the centurions could pose a threat to the Sacred levels.

As long as they could be equipped with large-caliber alchemical cannons or invest in developing a new type of alchemical gunpowder to create bullets more powerful than the Magic-Breaking Bombshell Bullets, these shortcomings could be addressed.

However, Charles had issued no such instructions, because if such weapons could threaten the Sacred levels, their widespread adoption would not be hindered; once they could even threaten Sacred levels…

The Mecklen Duchy under Charles’s rule would become a target, and all the Sacred levels of the Old Continent would become his enemies.

However, Charles’s inaction did not mean other countries wouldn’t act; if Byron could acquire the centurions, he would surely equip them with Super Long-Range Repeating Alchemical Rifles, thereby sharing the pressure with the Mecklen Duchy.

Once all the countries of the Old Continent entered this arms race, Charles could leverage the advantage of being first mover to rapidly develop the Mecklen Duchy and thrive from all sides.

As they say, “Being half a step ahead is a genius, being a whole step ahead is a madman!”

And an ancient Chinese saying goes, “Success need not come from me.”

The plantification warriors quickly surged into the battlefield too.

The land battleship was not fast, but upon entering the battlefield, it emitted a layer of blood-colored radiance.

The plantification warriors that came into contact with this glow withered immediately.

However, the land battleship could only devour life force and was helpless against the dense Power of the Evil God within these warriors.

Faced with these Evil Wraith warriors, the Centurion finally showed its power.

Under the protection of the land battleship, these Evil Wraith warriors had their strength significantly reduced.

They began a slow advance, using rifles for long-range and Knight’s Spears for close combat, quickly plowing over a dozen “gullies” through the ranks of the plantification warriors.

The battle started one-sidedly!

However, the plantification warriors, devoid of human emotions and fearlessly fierce, and because the land battleships and Centurions were few in number, they quickly broke through this line of defense at the cost of sacrificing ten to twenty percent of their fighters, and they surged toward the battle formation set up by the Westwind Knighthood in the rear.

Charles examined the combat effectiveness of the land battleship and the Centurions and could not stand idly by any longer.

He waved his hand, and the Westwind Knights slowly began to move.

Dozens of Sacred-level fighters took to the sky and clashed with those tree divinities.

Charles Meklen had commanded many battles, accumulating at least a hundred by now, but this was his first battle on such a grand scale, involving so many Sacred-level participants, even rivaling Ferlanden’s battles.

Soon, a tree divinity was slain, its body falling, not straight to the ground, but strangely curving in mid-air before dropping behind the formation of the Westwind Knights.

There was a huge warship behind them, visible only as the Holy Light Divine State Title from the ground!

The tree divinity fell on the Holy Light Divine State Title and disappeared without a trace.

Only Charles could see a young man leap up vigorously, embrace the corpse of this tree divinity, his body manifesting numerous eyeballs.

These eyeballs soon appeared on the tree divinity’s body…

Charles glanced once and dared not look again.

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He had not personally joined in the battle, for as the commander, he should not partake in combat but rather command the troops, always providing fighting strategies for his subordinates to choose from, ensuring they had the best tactics available.

Charles continuously issued commands, and the Sacred-level fighters in the sky quickly responded using the tactics he had informed them of earlier.

More than ten people withstood most of the tree divinities, creating an opportunity for five of the strongest Sacred-level fighters to gang up on one tree divinity.

In just a few minutes, this unfortunate tree divinity had its chest shattered by Agon’s hammer and its body, halfway through falling, curved and landed on the Holy Light Divine State Title.

This time, Charles saw Dapocirodo, elegant as an elf princess, wrap her arms around the tree divinity.

The branches on its body began to grow wildly, but the newly sprouted branches were completely out of their control.

Dapocirodo easily subdued this tree divinity.

Just after Dapocirodo had devoured this tree divinity, the group of five Sacred-level fighters responsible for the “group beating” immediately brought down another tree divinity.

Arsen Lupin, who was not yet a Sacred-level and could only watch from the ground, couldn’t help but feel chills.

All the Sacred-level battles he had seen in his life were one-on-one, where opponents sought each other out based on strengths and weaknesses, and the deaths were very evenly distributed.

But where had he seen such “disgraceful, shameless, and ruthless” slaughter?

He was quite worried at first, as twenty or more Sacred-level tree divinities wouldn’t necessarily be withstood even by the Four Great Empires, but who could have imagined that Charles not only possessed a “secret weapon” but also had such sky-breaking “tactics”!