The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 863 - 0860: Mammoth Knight Brigade (third release, Alliance Hierarch extra 1/147)

Chapter 863: Chapter 0860: Mammoth Knight Brigade (third release, Alliance Hierarch extra 1/147)

The Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant could cast three kinds of Advanced Magic, namely Firmstone Armor, Rock Thorn Rampart, and Earth Trample.

Firmstone Armor was like covering themselves with a shell of rock; Rock Thorn Rampart was somewhat similar to Rock Spike, but protruding in a straight, sharp wall of rock; Earth Trample was an unprecedented Earth Attribute Magic which the Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant activated by stomping its feet, enabling it to rapidly flatten the ground.

It was like a large-scale jackhammer suddenly striking the ground.

Depending on the strength of different Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants, the area affected by Earth Trample varied. For instance, when the leader of the herd initiated Earth Trample, the area reached a circular shape with a diameter of ten meters; for newly matured Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants, it might only be around five meters in diameter; and for young elephants just learning this magic, the range was centered around where they stomped, approximately one meter in diameter.

Firmstone Armor and Rock Thorn Rampart were not the focus; the main focus of taming was on Earth Trample. Liszt required Emily to adeptly control the herd to execute Earth Trample.

At the same time ensuring the disciplined movements of the herd.

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Once the herd had shed its wild nature, riders would begin to mount them. Only when ridden and controlled by a Knight could these one hundred and twenty-one Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants move in a uniform manner.

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Throughout the second half of January, Liszt assisted Emily in training the Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant herd, constantly shuttling between Black Horse Island and Flame Island, transporting essential supplies, and encouraging the regular functioning of his territory.

“Forward, Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants!”

Emily, mounted on the lead elephant’s back, issued the command. Behind her were over a hundred Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants of varying sizes, each bearing a knight predominantly younger ones.

“Roar!”

“Roar!”

The elephants periodically lifted their trunks, emitting a dull roar.

Then they formed a somewhat tidy formation, starting from the “Elephant Park,” and proceeding along a forty-meter wide pathway that had been trampled into compacted soil chunks. Their pace was not fast, but the momentum was majestic and grand, continuously rolling up dust from the road, spreading it far and wide as if it were smoke.

Surrounding the elephant herd, Blizzard Beasts under Douson’s lead continuously circled the Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants, preventing them from straying.

Under the dual control of the knights and Blizzard Beasts.

The herd gradually adapted to their current way of walking, no longer wandering freely.

“This is the fledgling form of my Mammoth Knight Brigade. In the future, I will continue to expand the Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant population, train more Earth Knights with Earth Attributes, and synchronize with the Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants to carry out engineering construction!” Liszt, riding on a Formless Dragon, was veiled at the edge of the material boundary.

He was in a good mood.

He had already decided to rename his personal Knight Brigade to the Burning Legion.

And within the Burning Legion, the first brigade would be the Mammoth Knight Brigade just viewed, not primarily focusing on combat but on engineering construction.

“Stop advancing!”

Emily loudly commanded once the elephant herd reached its destination. The elephants abruptly halted their slightly disjointed movements, messily stopping and slowly shifting positions, forming a more organized line. Ahead of them, where there once stood a small hill, now remained just a bare mound of soil.

Riding on the lead elephant, Emily slowly turned around and issued a new order to the herd behind her, “First column, step forward!”

The first row of Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants, guided by the knights, moved forward to the designated position and then, following Emily’s command, the knights shouted to their mounts, “Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant, Earth Trample!”

“Roar!”

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“Roar!”

“Roar!”

The Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephants lifted their forelimbs and heavily stomped on the ground, unleashing the force of the magic instantly, as if the ground was brutally smashed by a weight of tens of thousands of pounds.

The ground shook like an earthquake.

You could see with the naked eye, the ground that was already compacted until it was impervious to water, sank down another few dozen centimeters and solidified even more. If you were to try digging with a shovel now, you’d probably warp the edge of the shovel and still not turn up an inch of soil—this soil had almost reached the hardness of rock.

It was such powerful magic that had managed to flatten an entire mountain.

“Second row, advance!” Emily issued the command again, and the second row of shovel-tusked giant elephants, under the knights’ command, repeated the previous action, stepping down a few more centimeters into the ground.

Thus, row after row of shovel-tusked giant elephants continually repeated the Earth Trample, back and forth over the ground.

Liszt watched from the sky, feeling quite satisfied, “Although cooperation is still not perfect, the Mammoth Knight Brigade is already capable of starting the construction of the expressway. It doesn’t need to be forty meters wide; twenty meters is enough… and the expressway doesn’t need to be so compacted, just let the elephant herd tread over it once.”

The most suitable road for a knight’s charge is one that has a medium hardness, a smooth surface. A truly hard surface is not suitable at all—it’s too damaging to the hooves.

That evening.

After the Mammoth Knight Brigade finished their training, Liszt summoned Emily to the castle to discuss the road construction. Durt, Cross, and other brigade leaders were present at the meeting.

“My plan is to build a road from here to here…” he gestured on the map.

Starting from Flame City, heading towards the Flame Mountain, and extending all the way to Jade Mountain where the Light Green Gemstone Dragon resides, the straight-line distance was approximately four hundred kilometers. However, there was a mountain range in the way, requiring the expressway to take a large detour around the mountain range—shovel-tusked giant elephants could easily flatten small hills, but large mountains were unlikely.

This distance was just right for five hundred kilometers.

“In the end here, I want to build a new city. Originally, I planned to build King’s Castle here, but let’s put aside the King’s Castle for now, and start by building a Jade City… The subsidiary range of the Flame Mountain Range is called Jade Mountain, which as the name suggests, contains a massive jade mine!”

“Jade mine?”

“Is it really a jade mine?”

At first, Durt and Cross were somewhat confused as to why Liszt didn’t first build the expressway to Estuary City but wanted to build this road.

Now they understood—if there was a massive jade mine, everything was worthwhile.

“I give you two months. The Mammoth Knight Brigade will take care of the road construction; you must ensure their safety along the way, and also arrange for serfs to transport materials.”

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The expressway, named the Jade-Flamefire Expressway, officially began its construction ceremony on February 1, starting a grand road-building project.

Liszt was still involved in logistics, traveling back and forth between Black Horse Island and Flame Island, mainly transporting food.

Of course.

The task of finding natural nodes did not stop, but finding new natural nodes was not something that could be achieved overnight. He allocated more of his time to training, frequently practicing at Jade Mountain with the Light Green Gemstone Dragon and practicing at the Doomsday Volcano Crater with the Fire Dragon.

Most of the time, he practiced with the Formless Dragon.

“Formless Dragon Knight-Dragon Qi Secret Manual” was nearing completion with the addition of “Phantom-Swipe”, “Shadow-Lure”, “Avalanche-Snow Mountain”, and newly created the fourth move “Sonic Boom-Stab” and the fifth move “Poison Dragon-Drill”.

“Fire Dragon Knight-Dragon Qi Secret Manual” also followed Dragon Slash-Chop, Sky Burning-Sweep, Swallow Sun-Stab, Sea-Boiling-Strangle, Earth-Shaking-Hammer, and created the sixth move “Magma-Point” and the seventh move “Tai Sui-Whittle”.

The practice with the Light Green Gemstone Dragon was progressing rapidly, and a faint outline of a knight’s figure began to form in the dragon’s mind.

The knight’s figure was still vague, the expressions unclear, just a silhouette, but it was essentially consistent with Liszt’s form. Mounted on the mind world’s Light Green Gemstone Dragon, holding a blurred five-meter long dragon lance and draped a faint gray cloak formed of smoke.

Essentially, this was the imprint Liszt had left in the mind of the Light Green Gemstone Dragon.

When it became clear, it would be the moment Liszt became a Completion-term Dragon Knight, and the first Dragon Knight.