The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 964 The Battle to Protect the World of Eternal Darkness (Part Six)
Although Gawain was an alchemist, his basic military skills were no worse than those of other wizards.

Disguise and stealth are essential skills for an elite wizard—although this skill is rarely used.

Upon receiving the message, Asu found Gawain with the same forward momentum. The two had been partners for many years, and their actions were naturally exceptionally coordinated. Without a word, a single glance was enough for them to understand each other's intentions.

They moved silently up the walls, their movements accompanied by subtle energy tremors that seeped into their senses.

"Something's not right." Gao Wen's heart sank.

The fortress is made of composite enchanted materials, which are highly effective at absorbing energy and even shockwaves.

Unless subjected to an extremely violent attack, there will be no tremor inside the fortress.

Now that the airborne strikes have ended, the outer layer of attacks should not have caused such a large shock.

"What are they doing? A controlled demolition?"

Gawain had no idea; he could only keep moving forward.

The voices of the squad leaders were coming through the communication system one after another.

"Target spotted! Target spotted!" "Enemy is infiltrating the fortress! Enemy is infiltrating the fortress!" "We are holding them off! We need reinforcements!"

The squad leader's voice made Gao Wen's heart grow heavier, as if he had fallen into a trap.

The two reached the upper level, where a dilapidated drop pod appeared before them. The outer layer of the drop pod was riddled with melted holes, and only a small portion of the entire pod remained intact.

Three furnace crew members survived in this intact airdrop compartment.

At this moment, two of the three furnace workers are on defense, while the other is setting up a complex machine.

The tremors they felt came from that machine.

Gawain couldn't tell what it was, but his intuition told him that the device was the reason why the Furnace People kept coming back for reinforcements.

Without hesitation, Gao Wen immediately took action.

Asu rushed forward immediately; its alchemical power armor was thickened and could withstand a large number of attacks.

He himself is a melee fighter.

His finely crafted instant-death sword was powerful enough to pierce any energy defense below the 50,000 energy level. Furthermore, his hand armor featured a disintegration force field custom-made by Gawain.

Gawain stood behind him, several mechanical arms extending from his alchemical power armor.

These arms are equipped with small disintegration cannons, a weapon that, after numerous modifications, has become an essential piece of equipment for elite wizards.

The small splitting cannon emitted several colorful flashes, instantly piercing through two vigilant furnace men.

Asu followed closely behind, enduring the attacks of the furnace-wielding men to reach them. With a single strike, his instant-death sword pierced the energy barrier, and his hand armor, imbued with a disintegrating force field, pierced the chests of two furnace-wielding men with two punches.

In the blink of an eye, the two furnace-wielding men, both at least level three, were dead.

The last furnace-man tried to resist, but Gawain's Disintegration Cannon immediately pierced his brain. Asu finished him off, and Gawain took the opportunity to move to the furnace-man's corpse.

As an elite wizard, Gawain's knowledge and skills were quite good.

Compared to some of his colleagues who were practically illiterate, he was definitely a top student.

So after fiddling with it for a while, he recognized the function of the warp beacon and immediately understood the Furnace's tactics.

"Regardless of the losses, this war is getting harder and harder to fight," Gawain said in a low voice.

But as a soldier, no matter how difficult the war is, he has to grit his teeth and fight.

He put away the warp beacon and then relayed the message to headquarters.

In the command center, the war advisors from the Wizarding Alliance and the commanders of the Eye Demons looked at the information reported from below without uttering a word.

A heavy, oppressive silence filled the entire command post.

“Regardless of losses or costs, He is determined to possess this world,” the Eye Demon Commander said softly.

“So we can’t let him succeed,” the wizard commander said in a low voice.

"But what can we do? Our tactics are useless against absolute power. We've done all we can," a bewitching commander said, his voice tinged with despair.

"Have you done it all? I don't think so." The demon commander from the abyss remained calm.

For abyssal demons, dying in battle is not a bad thing. To die in such a grand war gives them a sense of satisfaction.

Of course, it would be better to survive.

"What do you want to say?" the Eye Demon Commander asked.

"I said we haven't given it our all yet." A fanatical smile suddenly appeared on the abyss demon's face. "This world hasn't been transformed into the abyss yet. If it is, then this war will no longer be a purely disadvantageous situation for us."

Abyss Transformation: The Wizard Alliance's last trump card.

A world transformed by the Abyss is irreversible. This is an unacceptable prospect for any civilization. No civilization would willingly accept its world being transformed by the Abyss unless it were the final moment.

But for now, it seems the Eye Demon has no other choice.

In an instant, all the commanders focused their attention on the Eye Demon Commander.

With many of the Eye Demon Elders absent, he is the only one who can make this decision.

"Abyss transformation?"

The Eye Demon Commander's voice carried a heavy tone.

This is a difficult choice. If this world is transformed into the Abyss World, then the Eye Demon's mother world will cease to exist. All they will be left with is an Abyss World called the Eternal Darkness.

However, if this world is swallowed up by civilization devourers, then they won't even have a place to remember it.

"Regardless of losses or costs. If they can do it, so can we."

The commander-in-chief's voice suddenly became loud and clear, with a resolute tone in it.

"I am issuing this order, under the command of the Eye Demon Supreme Commander, to carry out the Abyss Transformation in the Eternal Dark World, and to shatter the Civilization Devourers' idea of ​​consuming this world."

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

The commanders responded in unison.

……

In the boundless void, a giant wielding a warhammer engulfed in golden flames resembled a mythical god who created the world.

With a swing of his hammer, a force as powerful as splitting the heavens and earth would cause a tremor in the void.

Every strike he made was flawless; each attack hit the civilization devourer's clone precisely where it was weak.

Nothing in this world is perfect, whether it's witchcraft or anything else. The Devourer of Civilizations is no exception; its defenses are bound to have flaws. These flaws would normally be insignificant, but under Richard's power, they are magnified into weaknesses.

Faced with such formidable power, even the avatar of the civilization devourer had to temporarily retreat.

While attacking, he was covered by a gravitational barrier. This gravitational barrier looked unremarkable, but it always managed to deflect the attacks from the civilization devourer's clones at crucial moments.

The civilization devourer had clearly discovered Richard's abilities, and strategies for dealing with them were constantly flashing through his mind.

He knew that this ability was not without limits. It was a power that involved the very foundations of the world. If this power were without limits, then the ruler could even become a level nine being the instant he acquired it.

The celestial realm is infinite, and everything has a probability of occurrence.

Therefore, the probability of it being amplified must have a limit.

Richard's ability to amplify probabilities almost without limit suggests the existence of certain methods behind it.

This method inevitably involves a large amount of consumption.

As long as He can stall until Richard can no longer sustain the strain, He will achieve victory.

Suddenly, Richard hurled the Hammer of Creation. The hammer, burning with the flames of miracles, pierced the body of a civilization devourer in an instant.

At the same time, the gravity barrier around him shattered in an attack.

This has never happened before.

Richard's expression changed, and he tried to reorganize the defense, but he was not as fast as the methods of the civilization devourer.

The two avatars of the civilization devourer seized this opening. Runes flashed on their bodies, and those blasphemous runes would drive even a world lord mad with a single glance.

But on the civilization devourers, these runes are numerous and almost endless.

Deep red thorns sprouted from their hands, ignoring Richard's hastily assembled defenses and binding him like chains.

The spikes pierced Richard's body, constantly draining his energy.

Meanwhile, blasphemous whispers continued to ring in Richard's ears. These whispers constantly disturbed his mind, preventing him from making sound judgments and even from thinking.

"Damn it!"

Richard's expression changed drastically, and he immediately tried to break free from the restraints. But the civilization devourer was clearly prepared; the whispers in Richard's ear suddenly intensified, almost instantly shattering his soul's defenses.

This war will be learned not only by Richard, but also by the Civilization Devourers. The Civilization Devourers have already seen Richard's weakness—Richard's spirit.

Richard's soul was not beyond its limits, and his age was insufficient to grant him strong mental defenses—that is, willpower.

If He wants to accomplish His purpose, He must start with the spiritual.

His idea was undoubtedly correct; Richard was powerless to break free from their methods.

Even though these thorns were something he could easily break free from.

The blasphemous runes surged along the thorns towards Richard's body; the civilization devourer needed to seal Richard away to buy time.

They also seized the Creation Hammer that Richard had thrown out—a treasure of civilization is also a treasure to civilization devourers.

If He could defile and devour it, He would gain all the power of the civilization's treasure.

They stood in a triangle, linked together by chains. Blasphemous runes poured forth from them, and the chanting that echoed in the void sounded like a chorus of ten thousand choirs.

Richard's fate seemed sealed...

Just as the seal was about to be completed, the Miracle Fire suddenly reignited on the Hammer of Creation.

But this time, the flames burned fiercely and continuously, like a wildfire that instantly ignited all three clones.

This process took only a moment; before the civilization devourers could even react, flames engulfed them.

A furnace glowing with molten gold runes loomed within the Hammer of Creation.

At the same time, Richard's body trembled violently, causing the deep red thorns to break into pieces.

His eyes regained their clarity, and a mocking look appeared on his face.

"Although you may seem like a machine, I know you're a greedy fellow. You'll never give up something that's within your grasp."

(End of this chapter)