Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 327 Magic and Modern Warfare
A group of F-15 Eagle fighters left white trails in the clouds. Sixteen fighters formed a "sharp blade" formation to encircle the target. The pulse waves of the onboard AN/APG-63 radar hit the dragon's scales and turned into a harsh electronic buzzing sound.

"Falcon Squadron, lock on to the heat source! Fire two salvos of AIM-7 missiles!"

Twenty-four Sparrow missiles dragged smoke trails towards the target. In the mist, the looming hundred-meter silver dragon flashed dazzling light like the most luxurious work of art in the world.

The missiles approached at a very fast speed, but they were strangely deflected collectively 300 meters away from the dragon's wings. The scales on the dragon's neck glowed blue, and the eight-ring protective spell [Absolute Deflection Field] bounced all the missiles to the nearby mountains. The granite mountain collapsed in a series of explosions, and huge rocks fell on the ground armored convoy like a rainstorm.

"Oh my god, it's laughing!" Rogers, the lead pilot, saw the dragon's open jaws through the scope. The next second, the dragon's claws created a sonic boom cloud, and the three-times-sonic sprint directly smashed the two F-15s. The steel wreckage wrapped in the pilot's flesh and blood fell into Yellowstone Lake, dyeing the water red in the morning mist.

The scroll dragon's chest bulged, golden-red lines flowed under its scales, and an extremely high heat source gathered in its throat.

“Scatter! It’s dragon’s breath!” Before the warning was sounded, a fireball with a diameter of 200 meters had engulfed four planes.

This is not fire, but a version of the dragon's breath of the Volume Dragon strengthened by the Power Gem - a purgatory sphere mixed with liquid magma and plasma.

Four fighter planes were unable to send out distress signals before they vaporized, and the remaining planes urgently dropped thermite decoy bombs.

The dragon's left eye flashed purple light, and the seventh-ring spell of the magic department [Weather Control] instantly reduced the humidity in the airspace to zero. The smoke from the decoy bomb was drained of moisture before it spread, turning into dry dust and drifting away.

On the ground, the 1st Armored Division's M60 Patton tanks rolled through the pine forest, their 120mm gun barrels collectively raised. They were the last line of defense - kilometers behind them was the crater observatory.

"Armor-piercing bullets loaded! The monster is turning!"

Three hundred tanks opened fire at the same time, but the barrage was swallowed up by the translucent black light curtain before it hit the dragon. The eighth-ring necromancy spell [Wall of Annihilation] transformed metal and gunpowder into rancid ash, which fell into the terrified pupils of the armored soldiers.

The dragon folded its wings and stabbed the ground like a silver javelin. The moment its claws pierced the rock, it released the seventh-ring spell of the Transformation Department [Glacier Rift]. The earth cracked like a fragile eggshell, countless ice rose from the ground, a 200-ton tank fell into the abyss, and the flames of the serial explosions in the fuel depot illuminated the runes under the dragon's reverse scales.

Nemesis flew in the air, lowered his head and sprayed out the [Lightning Storm] and [Ice Cone] compound attack of the double super magic of the Transfiguration Department [Extreme + Powerful]. The power grid near Yellowstone Park was paralyzed under the impact of one million volts, and the Yellowstone River froze into a giant ice blade in the low temperature of minus 100 degrees. The airflow caused by the flapping of the dragon wings pushed the ice blade to sweep across the military base, cutting the Patriot missile position in half.

"My Lord, if you are watching the tragedy of your believers, please let your kingdom come to the earth today, just as your divine power is bestowed on the world." The terrible power of the dragon almost made the soldiers lose the courage to fight. They knelt on the ground and prayed for God's salvation, but were still inevitably dragged into the vortex of elements.

Lieutenant Alyssa Wu's EMP commandos huddled in the concrete passage. They witnessed the rampage of the dragon's minions: When the B-52 bombers approached, the dragon cast the spell [Level Monster Summoning] and summoned twelve fire elemental elders from the Scorching Hell. These -meter-tall flame giants tore through the bomber armor with their bare hands, and the explosion of aviation fuel became their carnival fireworks.

"STARFIRE device is fully charged!" The technician handed the suitcase-sized device to Alyssa. This was a radio transmitter launcher developed during the Cold War to counter Soviet mind control weapons. It was now converted into a magnetic field jammer. "As long as it can make its spell ineffective for three seconds."

The commandos sneaked into the battlefield from the sewage pipe. A giant dragon was hovering in the sky, preparing to use [Sun Explosion] on the remaining troops - if successful, the entire remaining ground force would disappear in the afterglow of the sun.

"May God bless me." Alyssa grabbed the silver cross necklace around her neck and kissed it gently. Then she buttoned the suitcase.

This is their secret weapon, similar in nature to the Soviet Tesla coil.

In the distance, a tall temporary iron pyramid burst into dazzling white light. A billion-watt electromagnetic pulse enveloped the dragon, and the magic patterns on its scales were briefly extinguished.

Nemesis' pupils shrank as he sensed that the magic net around him fell into chaos.

"Crazy Magic Stand?" The dragon instinctively flew high into the sky.

"Now!" Thirty A-10 attack aircraft that had been hidden for a long time jumped out from the bottom of the canyon, and the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger machine guns poured depleted uranium bombs. The dragon scales that lost their protective spells were finally torn apart, and blue-gold blood spilled into the magma like a waterfall. Nemesis let out the first painful roar, but the furious dark purple vertical pupils immediately locked onto Alyssa.

The eighth-ring prophecy spell [Sense Location] instantly locked onto all the commandos. The powerful prophecy talent of the Scroll Dragon allowed him to forcibly complete the spell model amidst the violent magic power.

Next came the third-level spell of the Transmutation Department [Lightning Bolt] - but under the influence of the Mad Magic Field, what appeared was not a bolt of lightning, but a spherical thunderstorm that covered the entire battlefield.

Alyssa and the entire assault team were reduced to ashes in the lightning. The last thing she saw before her consciousness faded was the wound torn open by the machine gun on the dragon, where countless granulations were regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The powerful recovery ability allowed Nemesis to return to its original state almost within a dozen seconds, and the power gem remembered the taste of the depleted uranium bomb. The dragon armor of the scroll dragon will become indestructible in the next attack of the depleted uranium bomb.

"It turns out that all our efforts are in vain." This was her last thought before she turned into charcoal.

The Military Intelligence Room in the Pentagon has fallen silent in the face of the brutal battlefield. Unlike the last time when it ended cleanly, this time they were fully prepared and organized several times the number of troops.

However, facing the dragon's changeable and terrifying methods, it was still destroyed.

They even discovered that the dragon's terrifying physical fitness made it impossible to defeat him with conventional firearms.

They must rely on humanity's ultimate weapon - nuclear weapons.

"The President has authorized the use of tactical nuclear weapons." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's voice was dry. "The 'Dwarf Staff' surface-to-surface missile has been loaded with a W70 warhead with a set yield of 800 million tons."

Admiral Crawford stared at the giant dragon approaching the crater in the satellite footage: "Can that thing's magic deflect nuclear bombs?" He has not yet forgotten the images of those missiles being deflected.

"So we fired twelve guided missiles at the same time, and they will detonate in advance." The technician called up the ballistic simulation, "As long as one of them breaks through the dragon's defenses..."

"let's start"

Five B-52 Stratofortress bombers opened their bomb bays above the clouds. This was the final step of the "Dwarf Staff" plan - twelve W53 thermonuclear warheads with a yield of one million tons were set to be detonated in the air, and the shock wave would cover an airspace with a radius of twenty kilometers.

"God bless America." The bombardier made the sign of the cross on his chest. The land below was being cut into pieces by the shadow of the dragon's wings. The dragon had just used the necromancy spell [Withering] to turn one-third of the black pine forest into ashes, and was now hovering over the Snake River Reservoir to pursue the remaining troops.

Twelve parachutes were deployed at an altitude of 238 feet. Nemesis suddenly stopped moving and looked at the skyline with his pupils vertical. His scales sensed the radiation pulse before the fission of the uranium- core, and he knew that an extremely terrifying force was coming.

"Countdown to detonation, five, four, three..."

The countdown was interrupted by the dragon's roar. The dragon's wings spread out into a magic circle that covered the sky and the sun, and endless silver light enveloped the whole body. When the nuclear fireball expanded on time at 08:58, it had appeared on the top of the Teton Mountains kilometers away.

"boom!!!"

With a loud and silent sound, 12 800-million-ton nuclear weapons exploded in an instant. A black mushroom cloud, like the end of the world, rose up behind the dazzling sun.

(End of this chapter)