Mage Veigar

Chapter 779 Fireworks
A sea of ​​corpses and blood.

In the nameless valley, buried were 700,000 bodies of the Holy Dragon Army and the rebels.

The blood boiled.

The bloody aura was so powerful that even the crows that roamed in the realm of ominousness and death dared not approach.

Who is the winner and who is the loser?
In this kind of war, there is no such thing as victory or defeat. Both sides are real losers.

After the victors enjoyed the joy of surviving the catastrophe, they were greeted with endless emptiness, because one by one their familiar comrades had died, leaving behind only the blood-stained suicide notes hidden on their bodies.

Such a victory may not be called a victory at all.

But in this war, there is indeed one person who is fully enjoying the victory——

Augustus, the commander of the legion.

To him, human life is worthless.

Being able to defeat Vega once at the cost of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of humans, if he could do this deal a hundred times, he would dare to take it a thousand times.

So joyful.

Augustus was so happy that he couldn't even calm down.

For a general like him who was left behind on the continent by the Holy Dragon King and was considered old and frail and had no meaning to live, his greatest wish in life was probably to defeat Vega once and truly prove his talent.

As long as this goal can be achieved.

Even if he died in the next second, he would be absolutely willing.

But obviously he didn't have to die because he defeated Vega and he was the winner of this war.

Now his ambition began to expand wildly. That was to defeat Vega again in the next war, to defeat Vega completely and to achieve the status of the number one general on the continent.

The first general!

The mere thought of this title was exciting, and he was completely immersed in the fantasy.

For an officer, there is no more honorable title than this.

But fantasy is just fantasy after all.

Perhaps dying now would be a blessing for Augustus.

It is much more comfortable to die peacefully in a lie than to die with eyes wide open in the cold reality.

But unfortunately, Vega, who had already left the battlefield with his own star-level shadow mage strength, issued another order. He was ready to drag Augustus, who was in fantasy, back to the cold reality.

"Night has fallen."

"It's time to celebrate the victory of the Holy Dragon Army with a grand fireworks display."

A brilliant smile appeared on Vega's face, and the guard beside him understood what he meant and immediately sent a flare into the sky. The red flare rose into the sky, like the beginning of a grand fireworks display.

boom!
The flare burst into brilliant light.

With the successful launch of the flare, war airships of the Jialan Empire were seen tearing through the night from all directions and instantly surrounded the war airships of the Holy Dragon Army guarding the exit.

"The arc formation unfolds."

At the command of the Air Force commander, a fierce air battle officially began.

But strictly speaking, this air battle was not fierce at all.

Because the Holy Dragon Army only had two aviation formations, while the Jialan Army had four fully-staffed aviation corps, and the Holy Dragon Army was completely unprepared and was surrounded tightly from the beginning, so this was basically a one-sided massacre.

Boom boom boom——

As they were the first to attack, magic spells hit the Holy Dragon Army's airships one after another, causing huge explosions in the air. Looking up from the ground, they looked as dazzling as fireworks rising into the sky.

“What a wonderful sight.” Vega exclaimed sincerely while standing on a high place.

Watching such a thrilling fireworks display in the night is a very rare thing in this war era.

“I hope this fireworks display…”

Vega paused, his smile particularly eye-catching under the fireworks: "I hope that Lord Augustus will like it."

Augustus obviously didn't like the fireworks.

As the flames lit up the night and the explosions echoed across the sky, Augustus's joyful expression froze.

His voice was trembling as he asked knowingly, "What happened?!"

The voice was drowned out by the explosion in the sky, so no one answered his question. But even if someone heard Augustus' words, I'm afraid no one would dare to answer this question.

Because this is indeed a question you ask knowingly.

From the source of the explosion, it can be directly inferred that an air battle is taking place in the sky.

As for who the two sides in the battle are, it goes without saying that one side must be them, and the other side is probably the Jialan Army.

Because they knew very well that the rebels had no air force, other countries had not intervened in this war, and the only force that could send out an air force was the Galan Army.

So who will be the winner of this air battle?

The enemy was well prepared and the enemy was unaware. Under this premise, any officer with a little knowledge knew that the air force would be defeated, unless there was a miracle.

But do miracles really happen?

Of course not. Miracles appear most often in biographical myths, not in this cold reality.

So Augustus was completely calm at this moment.

The cold reality dragged him out of his fantasy, forcing him to start thinking about what had happened.

"It's a trap!"

Augustus made this assumption subconsciously and immediately issued the order to retreat.

He had no time to think about the ins and outs of the whole thing, because once he lost air superiority, the Jialan Army's Air Force would only have to guard the only exit of the valley, and his army would have nowhere to escape, so if he didn't escape now it would be too late.

But Vaigar came prepared.

Of course he couldn't let Augustus escape.

Therefore, when Augustus rushed to the exit, the air battle had ended and air supremacy was officially in the hands of Vega.

The Holy Dragon Army had just taken one step out of the exit when they were subjected to carpet-style magic bombing by the Air Force. After paying the price of thousands of lives, Augustus was finally forced to order the entire army to withdraw to the valley for long-term planning.

It's completely blocked.

Augustus suddenly realized that he was wrong, and very wrong.

Although he already knew that Vega was the leader of the rebels, it was too late. This directly led to his failure to connect the Galan Army and the rebels, and he ignored the fact that the Galan Army's air force could quickly arrive here to provide support.

After all, the Air Force exists to assist the Army.

When the army couldn't get here, there was no point in sending the air force here. Augustus based his decision on this and concluded that there was no risk, thus directly ruling out the possibility of this incident.

But it’s different because Vega is the leader of the rebels.

The Jialan Army's ground forces were indeed outside the safety line and could not arrive to support the rebels in a short period of time, but the flexible air force was not restricted by time and they had plenty of time to arrive here.

Now this place has become a desperate situation for the Holy Dragon Army.

They were all trapped in the valley, and as soon as they showed their heads they would be subjected to crazy attacks from the Galan Air Force.

(End of this chapter)