MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1646: Artillery Fire

Chapter 1646: Chapter 1646: Artillery Fire

Even though Dalkhan felt extremely repressed, after a battle with Li Yao, he completely realized that he could only cite the kingdom’s unfairness, spending such a cost to cultivate a new generation. After all, the power of the Stars, one of the kingdom’s three Divine Bows, was given to Li Yao, and such a young Li Yao was made a Legion Commander, becoming one of the decision-makers of the High Elf Kingdom.

However, he had to admit that Li Yao already possessed the qualifications to threaten his life.

He was already hard-pressed to deal with the Black Dragon Queen, and combined with Li Yao’s other pets, he could only take the beating passively. Although he had many masters, he couldn’t use them all to deal with Li Yao; the Withered Sun Legion also had experts.

Moreover, Li Yao’s archery truly left him apprehensive, with such forceful power that it allowed no resistance at all; he really didn’t want to experience it again.

So, when the Black Dragon Queen locked onto Dalkhan, the idea of using his magic attack on the Withered Sun Legion was thoroughly dismissed; he dared not act rashly.

In fact, Dalkhan had turned Daisom into an incredibly strong fortress, with various defensive engineering devices on the city walls, including deadly Plague Barrels.

However, the enemy’s ground forces were too far away, not close enough to the city walls, rendering these defensive mechanisms ineffective. Furthermore, the Drying Sun was high above, at too steep an angle, making it impossible for those devices to reach it.

The same was true for the giant structures inside the fortress; they could get the angle, but the Drying Sun was too far, resulting in the current awkward situation.

He could only rely on the Gargoyles of the air force to sabotage the Drying Sun.

In reality, obtaining the Drying Sun was a kind of accident for Li Yao. Originally, Li Yao had prepared other means, but with the better option of the Drying Sun, naturally, he wouldn’t use the cumbersome and laborious methods.

The sky was now divided into three battlefields: one was the battle between the player’s air force and the Gargoyle Legion. Players still had quite a bit of air force; after all, their numbers were significant. Even though each player didn’t have much air force, gathered together, they could form a sizeable air force.

The other was Li Yao’s personal air force, forming a barrier to block the Gargoyles, preventing them from attacking the ground army on land.

The third was the solitary advance of the Drying Sun, where the Gargoyles frantically used magic or their bodies to ram against it, trying to breach the barrier protecting it.

And under the protection of the barrier, the Withered Sun Legion was completely free from worries as they unleashed their best abilities.

This so-called stationary output refers to spells that have relatively long incantations or require guidance for casting. These spells have massive power and range when released, but the downside is they can’t move around much.

Normally, these people would only cast spells along with the whole legion or become the main force when powerful stationary spells for large-scale casting are needed.

But under the protection of the barrier of the Drying Sun, they didn’t need to move at all; they just needed to focus on casting spells without worrying about being attacked.

The battle entered an extremely intense state right from the start, with bodies continuously falling from the sky; even heavily wounded individuals falling would basically spell certain death.

Especially on the Drying Sun’s side, the shouting was deafening, and the sound of collisions against the barrier resounded throughout the land.

"Great Master, the opponent’s city walls are already within the attack range of the Drying Sun’s Magic Crystal Cannon."

The Lich General, appointed as the captain of the Drying Sun, humbly bowed before Li Yao.

Li Yao nodded: "Then start the bombardment, don’t let me down."

The Lich General bowed again: "Great Master, rest assured, the Magic Crystal Cannon has different types of shells, some specifically designed for rune-reinforced city walls, which are absolutely impregnable. Especially the four main cannons, they hold the power to destroy cities and fortresses."

"I’m eager to witness, begin your performance," Li Yao said as he continued to shoot arrows at the Gargoyles. His arrows were extremely formidable, even without releasing the power of the Dragon Father. He used Pierce Arrows, and with every shot, Gargoyles in a straight line hundreds of yards away were inevitably pierced and fell.

In pursuit of ultimate power, the Magic Crystal Cannons on the Drying Sun were all reinforced for strength, though their speed and firing frequency were a drawback; otherwise, they wouldn’t need to gather energy detected by Li Yao’s direct use of barrier-limiting spells.

But Daisom obviously didn’t have such means; after all, Daisom lacked an energy source. Not to mention here, even Dalaran, the magic city, had a city-wide barrier, but it could only be initiated at the lowest level for isolating ordinary people; real defense couldn’t truly unfold.

Consuming too much energy made it unaffordable. Only something like the Sunwell, which absorbed cosmic energy and could continuously produce massive energy, allowed the wealthy High Elf Kingdom to cover all its areas with a terrifying multifunctional barrier.

The Drying Sun was enormous, with hundreds of Magic Crystal Cannons installed on one side, arranged in several rows and located at different levels of the ship’s hull.

The first row of Magic Crystal Cannons roared first, with massive recoil, yet the ship felt no vibration—it showed the mighty strength of this Air Fortress, crafted by the Lich Marshal with his lifetime efforts as his personal flagship. Now it was easily reaped by Li Yao.

The artillery shells from the Magic Crystal Cannons looked like high-speed rotating drill heads, with energy bombs colored grey all over as they roared out.

The Gargoyles in the trajectory of over a hundred artillery shells were shredded into pieces by the whirlwinds spun up by the shells long before they even approached the shells.

The shells fell on the city top in no time, followed by what seemed like the whole world dimming, as the shells, instead of delving into the walls as expected, created massive shockwaves that destroyed countless defensive devices and undead soldiers.

Then it formed devastating tornadoes, leaving this section of the city wall in utter ruin.

Then it was the second row, third row; the first three rows mainly took down undead soldiers and ruined defense mechanisms.

The subsequent shells were specifically meant to destroy city walls, resembling drill heads boring into the walls before exploding.

This form of attack was virtually unsolvable, burrowing into the wall’s interior before detonating and wrecking the runic structures and the sturdiness of the city walls.

Numerous undead experts released their skills to stop the shells, but how many strong fighters did they have? They might block one or two, but what about the rest? It also cost them their strength, affecting subsequent battles of the elites.

"Damn undead from the sub-dimension, they’ve ruined my great plans." Dalkhan was fuming as he looked at the dilapidated city walls and countless dead soldiers, promptly ordering the withdrawal of the most elite experts and troops from the city walls, leaving the weaker ones to defend.

He couldn’t remove everyone; otherwise, the enemy’s army could directly seize the walls and enter the fortress.

The first barrier of his painstakingly managed fortress was breached like this, and he was unwilling...