From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 255 The first one is captured

Bannier's manipulation of the underground root system was carried out according to the orders of the division chief;

The orders given by the divisional mercenary chiefs were derived from calculations based on 'perception' by the witch doctors.

Therefore, under the guidance of well-founded instructions, even though he could not see, hear or feel the root system, it still played a planned role in the future.

Underground, the many root systems that merged into the base of the volcano suddenly stopped being salty. They changed their previous tendency to stretch downward aimlessly and began to spread in a certain direction;

It disturbed many large and small creatures while traveling through the magma, but because they were small in size after being dispersed, they stayed far enough away from the magma creatures, and they traveled very fast, so they did not hinder their purpose.

As a result, at the bottom of the base, in the magma channels under the two large volcanoes on the east and west, countless root systems connected with each other in a short period of time, and together they turned into two super large networks.

The supervision and command of this task was given to the two witch doctors, Rough Fang and Fang, and those responsible for assisting were Azshara, Freya, and four other newly promoted second-level witch doctors.

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At this time, a lot of data related to time, the net, the target position, and the expected landing point poured out like a stream from the calculations they performed in their meditation, and formed one after another specific information that was devolved to all parties.

Orders, and reference strategies;

Among them, the order is further specific instructions for mercenaries and conscripts;

The reference strategy is the supporting parameter data provided for the north and south land and sea forts, self-propelled combat vehicles, and the next stage of the operation under the ancient tree of war. These data will be analyzed by the artillery command center before forming instructions.

be communicated to various grassroots units.

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"Everyone has it! After the countdown, press the 'fastest ascent' button! Start now! 10, 9, 83"

Baniel didn't have any real sense of his control, but he still strictly carried out the instructions of the division chief. When the countdown reached '0', he pressed the last key in the 'Root System Control Area' as quickly as possible.

That button that stands out.

And when he, and the other 40,000 or so controllers corresponding to the specific actions at the bottom of the two large volcanoes in the East and West respectively pressed the buttons in their respective cockpits;

Two large nets with meshes several meters square, one in the east and one in the west, began to rise rapidly along the magma tunnel in the base.

During the process, countless amounts of magma fluid were filtered from the top of the mesh to the bottom, and those solids larger than several meters in size were lifted up rapidly by this force.

Fifty whistles, fifty projectiles, fifty explosions, the armor-piercing bullets shattered the new armor layer that had not yet formed effective strength, and the heavy bullets directly bombarded the exposed bones and muscles.

In just one or two light intervals, such attacks occurred many times like a tide, causing the monster to make a muffled sound as it was blocked by vines;

At the same time, although his struggles have become more frequent, the intensity is no longer as impressive as before, and the body's self-healing speed has obviously slowed down sharply again.

It was a landscape composed of metal and a sea of ​​flesh, foam and blood.

Nearly two thousand heavy projectiles had hit the magma ground with a radius of less than a kilometer;

"All the mercenaries in Area 42 are here! The operation has entered the next stage! Control your four groups of vines and follow my orders to extend in the ***-***-*** direction!"

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When all this happened in the "corner" that the pilots could not detect, the new command had been transmitted to their ears by the totem communication device.

The two battlefields in the east and west were divided by the force of the vines, but in fact they were only less than a kilometer apart;

The several-meter-thick muscle layer has become tattered, and dark red bones covered with cyan can be seen inside, as well as wriggling internal organs also covered with cyan lines.

There are clearly tens of thousands of vines that either drilled out of the ground or extended from mid-air, forming layers of restraints all over his body, but at this time, these vines were making a "creak" sound, and occasionally

You can also hear the crackling sounds of "bang" and "bang", all of which illustrate the terrifying strength of its struggle.

This was a far more powerful momentum than the previous armor-piercing cannon. In just a few blinks of an eye, metal projectiles totaling more than 10,000 tons were dropped from the end of the field of vision, falling into a space of less than 800 meters.

Inside;

Under such a situation, almost every organ has a special vine responsible for binding it, and its tips are still drilling deeper along the original wound. Even intact organs without wounds must first be

Concentrate the size of the muzzle to create a gap for it, then drill into the vines to process it.

Each of the nine witch doctors either carried or carried several saplings on their backs. After arriving, they immediately formed four positions inside and five outside. They took the lead in planting in the area between the two circles of ancient trees, and gave birth to a total of dozens of saplings;

When the saplings gradually grew up and filled the gap between the two circles of ancient trees, the internal and external witch doctors turned to cast spells on the ancient trees;

With the help of the witch doctors, the outer shell of the ancient tree merged with each other horizontally and gradually turned into an inner and outer elliptical ring;

The oval ring sandwiched the ring of saplings that had grown in size, and together they surrounded the almost motionless advanced salamander in the center.

Therefore, in this round of attacks, the self-propelled combat vehicles no longer used all armor-piercing ammunition, but replaced more than half of the heavy ammunition. However, it was too late to make more detailed changes. At this time, they still used smoothbore barrels.

The outer armor that was broken in the previous attack has not yet recovered, and the muscles have not fully recovered. The dark red bones and the squirming internal organs are still exposed to the field of vision;

At this time, these deep pits together formed a 'lake', which was filled with semi-fluid 'lake water' that could not be distinguished from flesh and blood or magma.

The remaining half of the nutrient concentrate was also consumed bit by bit in this continuous impact at a rate of more than ten tons per minute.

These things are naturally not something that a city-state resident like him can understand.

The two magma holes in the east and west each correspond to more than 20,000 magical plants. Each of these magical plants has thousands of root systems?

When all these root systems are gathered into one, the size they can achieve is a huge number in the hundreds of thousands or millions.

Even though the current situation is so miserable, this guy is still not dead. Its body is healing itself at a very slow speed;

At this time, the first phase of the root network mission has come to an end. They no longer need the control of pilots such as Banier, and instead follow the predetermined process to stop moving at the junction of the crater and the base.

and proliferate in the mesh between each other;

Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar came in.

The roar originates from the south, originates from the north, some are heard from tens of kilometers away, and some are erupted within several kilometers. Different distances, different powers, and the time difference given by nature, the sound of 'rumbling'

penetrating in all directions;

As a result of their roar, they all finally reached the sky above the valley floor of the battlefield, causing an endless stream of shrill roars on the parabola, and another 'heavy rain' of scales and minced flesh.

At this time, thirty-five heavy ancient war trees in the north and south directions had already moved in front of the monster in the angle of the rear shelling straight line;

Each of them has a diameter of about ten meters, and with eight legs extending to both sides, each ancient tree needs to occupy a space of nearly 20 meters in length to fully stand up;

If Baniel were a witch doctor or a troll warrior with super-sense, then he would be able to understand the true identity of those black spots at this time.

That is a total of 1,480 tail-fin armor-piercing projectiles and sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles. They drilled out from the four arms of the ancient war tree and from the gun barrel of the self-propelled combat vehicle, and were launched into the air from the north and south sides at a bore speed exceeding one kilometer per second.

and go;

However, this did not allow the single-minded ancient trees to devote even a little energy to the other side. All their efforts were focused on the goals they were assigned.

‘Boom!’ ‘Boom!’ ‘Boom!’. The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground sounded one after another, and then a series of painful roars resounded across the battlefield.

If the control methods were not too careless and the consumption was not too huge, even relying on these magic plants and the more than 40,000 pilots among them, the headquarters would be confident to complete all the plans this time.

Even though the body's struggle has weakened a lot, the movement of the internal organs has not slowed down at all;

Naturally, the command center cannot just watch all this happen.

The 70 ancient war trees with other tasks had actually already set off after the first salvo, heading in the direction where the advanced salamander was dragged. Behind them on the north and south sides, there were a total of two hundred

Taiwan's self-propelled combat vehicles with thick gun barrels followed.

Immediately afterwards, the vines that had penetrated into the salamander's internal organs began to acquire new functions, and there were more pointed vines of the same type, spreading towards the internal organs, the skin layer, and the scales, and gradually

There is a tendency to wrap the whole axolotl and even fuse it.

In addition, they also have two arms that are not equipped with cannon barrels, but have vine whips. At present, long vines have grown out of the front ends, and have penetrated into the body of the advanced salamander along with its wounds.

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After that, a large number of wood layers in the double-layer ellipse were transformed into vines, each of which formed a connection with the interlayer saplings, initially completing the integration of the three layers;

And this blow also forcibly raised a mist composed of gravel and flesh and blood droplets on the ground.

At this moment, the vine groups from the east and west finally arrived. After a fine-tuning of the data by the commander, they swarmed into the blood mist and entangled one or several huge things one by one.

Not long after this brief conversation ended, a black dot quickly rushed towards us from a distance.

There are nine figures in a row, and they are all in the form of elves.

Finally, there are the other four second-level witch doctors who have not been assigned other tasks.

On this side of the pause, the ancient trees seem to have formed two different divisions of labor;

The 35 approaching ones each inserted a cannon muzzle into the gap of the wound and continued to attack at intervals of 20 seconds and 30 seconds. The other three cannon muzzles were fully charged and could be fired at any time to attack the surrounding area.

on alert;

As they advanced, the self-propelled chariots slowly slowed down. They did not have close combat capabilities and were not prepared to get too close. However, the tall ancient war trees still moved forward firmly with eight legs.

After the first salvo, the required forty-second energy storage period gradually ended, and the many barrels in progress were lifted again;

The self-propelled combat vehicles stopped about 1 kilometer away and formed four echelons in the north and south directions, each emitting a second round of howling at intervals of 10 seconds.

Faced with such a situation, the bombardment naturally could not be stopped.

As the frequency of their attacks slowed down, and the 200 tanks previously responsible for supporting them had completed their turns and pointed their muzzles at the battlefield on the other side, the momentum here finally stopped.

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Hundreds of salamanders were ejected from the volcano. In fact, only two of the highest-level guys survived. When the momentum on this side stopped for a while, another high-level salamander was also killed by the vines earlier.

The group dragged out the pool of blood magma;

Unlike the smooth operation here, there seemed to be some accidents there, and the operation was slipping in the direction of real 'battle'.

"Achieve the ideal state. Call the person in charge. Cage Tree No. 2. Completed. Preliminary preparations." In the outermost circle, an ancient war tree suddenly spoke at this time;

"Understood, I'll be there soon, thank you for your hard work." Then Nesta's voice sounded from the communication device.

The leader was Nesta, who was at the command post not long ago;

Baniel was shocked by the terrifying attack power of the trolls, and was also extremely surprised that there were flesh and blood creatures that could survive the previous attacks. However, before he could make any movement due to his shock, there was another burst of noise from far to near.

The whistling sound penetrated his consciousness;

In his peripheral vision, Banier saw that the sky in the north and south directions was once again obscured by black spots.

In the north, more than 800 420 rifled heavy artillery had roared long ago;

This is really not worth mentioning to the enemy and friendly monsters on the front line who are often tens of meters or more than a hundred meters in size.

Two consecutive waves of terrorist attacks had already increased the fear in his heart several times;

But even after such an exaggerated bombardment passed, the command orders from the top remained as firm as iron. What does this mean?

This means that the war will continue, because there are indeed creatures that survive such a blow

‘Please, please, please die quickly. I want to go back alive’

The reason why magma is 'splashing' rather than 'exploding' is because the main force erupting from the crater is other things.

There were two behemoths that were 120 meters long, dozens of meters wide, and tens of meters high, following the magma 'sparks' and smashing the rock wall at the mountain pass;

The same was true in the south, with a thousand rifled heavy artillery pieces of the same caliber roaring in 40 positions;

Since the soil structure does not have a strong buffering force, there are large areas of rock formations that are shattered by the impact of these non-explosive projectiles. Some of the holes formed are as deep as ten meters, and some are only as deep as one meter.

, and are connected to each other.

Just by looking at it like this, I really couldn't tell whether it was the blue lines all over its remains that hurt it more, or whether the two rounds of shelling that made it unrecognizable hurt it more.

Gradually, the monster began to struggle;

Gradually, they transformed from a 'net' into a wall, and withstood the impact of the hundreds or thousands of salamanders below that blocked their path.

Because an even more jaw-dropping scene had just happened, and compared to it, the 'magma rain' was really just a small scene worth mentioning.

Its body is constantly rising and falling while being dragged, its short and thick neck is tentatively bent in all directions driven by its spine, the flat tail behind it is also deflecting to both sides, and its two pairs of flippers are also constantly swinging back and forth;

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Baniel's mouth opened wide and his eyes widened, looking at the unimaginable all this in silent shock;

At this time, he somewhat understood that he definitely had his own contribution to this 'wonderful scene' that was rare in his life and could only be seen today;

But what he couldn't understand was that such a small person just pressed a few buttons in succession according to the instructions. How could such a huge change happen?

So, when his fingers were flying on the control table, everything in the distant sky was reflected in his eyes.

Hundreds of monsters, large and small, were drawing non-overlapping curves in the air according to their respective sizes, the most conspicuous of which were the two largest ones;

Baniel vaguely felt that although the two large monsters looked similar, the one closer to him seemed to be stronger, and even the roar coming from his mouth at this time seemed more powerful;

After that, there are Coarse Fang and Fang, who are responsible for attracting enemies and sealing off the east and west volcanoes, as well as Azshara and Freya, who have been assisting all parties in their calculations and are waiting for this moment;

In this process, the inner circle took the lead in completing its own closure. Ancient trees, endogenous vines, and foreign vines from the east and west gradually became a complete inner core under the control of the witch doctors.

The shelling continued during the march and did not really stop until they completely completed the encirclement.

The vitality of the advanced salamander is too great and powerful. Even though it looks so miserable, in fact, the body's recovery continues;

However, when 70 ancient war trees surrounded it in two circles from all sides, and some climbed up its body with eight legs, the frequency of attacks finally gradually decreased.

Baniel's prayer may be the most true reflection of the inner feelings of many horn-hoofed mercenaries at this time, but the reality is often composed of tragic scenes full of drama, and their wishes seem to be in vain.

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Two roars, one strong and one weak, were heard at this moment. The sound could be seen with the naked eye, and the flying dark red mist was swayed away, making the situation in the center of the battlefield gradually clear.

The former slows down due to injury, and the latter speeds up due to injury. Between the decline and the rise, they gradually become entangled with each other and become physically indistinguishable.

‘pia!’ ‘pia!’ ‘pia!’.

Semi-solidified magma rocks sparsely fell on the branches of the magical plants controlled by Baniel, as well as everywhere around him, but his eyes were not attracted by this strange scene that he had never seen before and had never imagined.

attracted; attracted

In this process, the regeneration of organs and the invasion of vines are constantly repeated;

Amidst the ear-piercing whistling sound, it took less than two seconds for the armor-piercing bomb group to reach every point on the parabola that the monsters were traveling through, and then there was another violent and continuous roar.

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The roar and the rain of blood, broken flesh, and broken armor that splashed all over the sky dominated the field of vision at this moment, and everything in the world in this area became a foil to the blood-red sky.

At this moment, when each salamander's scales were shattered under the armor-piercing cannon fired later, blood and flesh spattered, and each one fell into the range that the witch doctors had calculated, 1,800 salamanders were fired from several tons.

, heavy bombs ranging from ten tons to more than ten tons, finally crossed their respective flight distances, arrived here, and then turned towards the center of the battlefield and rained down all over the sky.

However, Baniel is not a fighting race with outstanding talents after all, and his limited far-sightedness is not enough to support him to clearly confirm all this in just a few seconds;

That's right, the time for him to satisfy his curiosity was actually only a few seconds. After this short window period passed, countless black dots completely obscured his sight.

The other one was a little sluggish. Unlike the former's dark red scales and strong body, its scales seemed a bit broken, and there seemed to be green and ferocious lines on it.

Baniel's Adam's apple was twitching, and although his mouth and tongue were too dry to produce any fluid due to nervousness, he still kept swallowing subconsciously;

Time was counted in seconds, and the action on the east side seemed to be the first to achieve success. 80,000 groups of vines dragged a big guy ashore little by little.

The vines were concentrated on its head, four legs, and long tail, revealing almost an inch of its body that still had a complete structure, and was inlaid with large and small heavy bullets, as well as densely packed armor-piercing cores;

The other thirty-five ancient trees in a ring surrounding the outer circle completely gave up attacking the advanced salamanders, and only spread the vines on their arms into the target's body, cooperating with the ancient trees in the inner circle to attack.

The noose of its visceral structure.

If the combined force formed by them can be exerted in the same direction, the effect it can produce is comparable to the power possessed by any magnificent individual in nature.

However, in order to accelerate the speed of root system fusion, movement speed, and obtain explosive power sufficient to overcome the resistance of magma, the headquarters invested a full 20,000 tons of 'nutrient concentrate' inventory;

They are buried inside every magic plant in advance and are the key factors that change the plant's ability to move slowly. Just the previous burst of roots consumed nearly half of the stored energy.

This is not over yet, the sky-covering vines have penetrated into the 'lake' from all directions, and are pulling something away towards the east and west sides;

When it was dragged ashore, the sound of "dinging bells" began to sound continuously, which originated from the projectiles embedded in the monster's body. They were being squeezed out of the body bit by bit at the moment and fell to the ground.

The ground made the sound of metal colliding.

Then, they 'led' the hundreds of 80-meter and 40-meter smaller figures behind them, and were ejected towards the center of the predetermined battlefield along the east-west direction.

Baniel came to his senses under the new order. He immediately started to control the vine binding lock according to the order issued by the troll commander;

After nearly a year of repeated drills, the complex azimuth coordinate encoding is no longer difficult to understand.

The many fingers that were engraved with the 'body-electricity' totem completed their mission faster than thinking due to conditioned reflexes. After that, four groups of vines followed the order and extended towards the currently empty coordinate point.

Part of Baniel's attention was always focused on the lookout. Although he was filled with fear, he really couldn't bear to miss this once-in-a-lifetime view.

Under Baniel's dumbfounded gaze, the sea of ​​blood and flesh finally broke its previous upward trajectory and rolled towards the ground under attack from the north and south.

After that, there were only "bang bang bang" explosions heard one after another from the direction of the crater.

Baniel looked along the lookout port to the opposite side of him, and what he saw was the scene of thick magma erupting from the crater;

It wasn't an 'explosion', but rather a firework that spread out in all directions. It wasn't until dozens or hundreds of meters away that it turned from red to dark and fell back down, becoming a fire of semi-melted magma.

constituted by 'heavy rain'.

Unlike the land and sea turrets in the distance that are still waiting for the reaction chamber to charge up, the 203mm armor-piercing cannons equipped by these guys, with the assistance of nutrient concentrate, can be charged up in only 40 light seconds, which is the most suitable at this time and almost impossible.

It is the only force suitable for dispatch.

When 35 of them traveled in the same direction to a certain distance, the self-propelled combat vehicles behind them had no shooting range and had to stop the attack that had continued until this point;

However, the groups of ancient trees in both directions were already firing at this time. Relying on their four main guns, they formed a continuous offensive that was not inferior to self-propelled tanks.

In the inner core, the salamander was gradually lifted vertically and bent upward along the spine, cruelly folding its original body length of about 120 meters in half;

Its tail was stuffed into the wound, and its head was bent inward;

Finally, the advanced salamander became a cube 50 meters long, 40 meters wide, and 35 meters high.

At this time, the witch doctors in the inner circle returned to the outer wall and began to work together to accelerate the fusion of the outer circle, mezzanine, and inner core.

Finally, 70 ancient war trees, more than a hundred functional saplings, and 80,000 groups of vines from far away completed their own unity and convergence of functions, turning into a high-strength tree with a diameter of 60 meters and a height of 80 meters.

Multifunctional temporary prison cage.

This speed is much faster than when he captured the cave wolf.

As for the reasons, first of all, it lies in the strength of the target's resistance, secondly in the growth of the witch doctors, and finally in the preparations made in advance;

The first two have been shown very clearly and needless to mention, the final preparation is reflected in.

The 70 ancient war trees already had additional arrangements in terms of strength, fusion speed, etc., and the more than 100 saplings added later provided other functionalities;

Based on this, we added one third-level, three senior second-level, one second-level tree elf (equivalent to senior), and four newly promoted second-level. Through continuous debugging and acceleration in the process, we finally made it possible.

The previous 'cousin' of the Burrow Wolf Cage, 'Cage Tree No. 2', successfully merged and completed the capture mission effortlessly.

(End of chapter)