Colonia Storm Tour

"The last two forces have joined forces. Shouldn't we now launch our final offensive against the Lord of Memory and the Tower of Babel manifestation device, General?"

Elliott Baldwin Woodman, as depicted in the holographic projection, has a serious expression.

"This one……"

Just as Lin Haiyuan was about to answer yes, Walker.com's AI voice appeared.

"Master, a magical reaction has been detected from the display device. According to our local detection devices and satellite detection, DEM has covered a vast random area over the Kazakh and Kazakh peaks."

Walker.com's AI report highlights the challenges facing Foehn and Ratatosk.

"Things are not that simple, Mr. Woodman. DEM has deployed random domains at noon on the two manifestation devices, the Lord of Memories and the Tower of Babel. Our conventional artillery cannot break through these random domains."

Lin Haiyuan replied.

"The realm of constant randomness... They really have a knack for this. Alright, we should play the magician and the elf... those two cards."

Elliot hesitated when he mentioned elves, believing that they should live peacefully as much as possible rather than participate in such high-risk battles.

“Mr. Woodman, please give your magicians the order to cooperate in the battle. Our Euryka and Rowan are ready to go into battle.”

Lin Haiyuan said.

"Alright, Magician Squad, commence operations!!"

Woodman, located at the Ratatosk headquarters, gave the order.

So the Black Moon transport planes that had been patrolling the skies behind the field airfield immediately opened their rear doors, and one after another, the magician units belonging to Ratatosk flew out and headed to the battlefield.

"Youhua, Rowan, are you ready?"

Lin Haiyuan adjusted the communication device channel to contact them.

"I am ready."

Gardenia calmly answered Lin Haiyuan's question.

"Me too, but I was very uneasy about going to the battlefield for the first time."

From the end of her sentence, everyone could hear the unease in Rowan's voice.

"You've chosen this path, and these are the things you have to face. Just remember one thing, something I once read in a book: you have to get used to killing, but you'll never like it. The biggest difference between a warrior and a serial killer is that the former can control his knife, while the latter cannot!"

Lin Haiyuan stopped there, leaving the rest to Luo Wen's own fate.

"Yes, I understand."

Rowan understood something.

“超时空传送倒计时，10、9.、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、1。”

After WalkerNet AI completed the final second of the countdown, Rowan and Youhua Zhizi were teleported to the vicinity of the orbital module beacon at the field airport.

After the brief delay in the hyperspace teleportation, symbolizing the end of the semi-transparency, and once CR-UNIT returned to normal, the two quickly took off and soared into the sky after receiving instructions in their minds.

The booming sounds of artillery fire, the shouts of battle below, the pungent smell of gunpowder on the battlefield—all these elements that make up the battlefield were stimulating Rowan's senses.

"Is this the real battlefield...? It's even more brutal than it looks..."

As Rowan spoke, she covered her mouth, because through the combined enhancements of her vision as an elf and the vision enhancements of her random domain, she was able to observe some extremely disgusting scenes with great detail.

Those were soldiers hit by bullets. Unlike what she had seen in TV dramas or movies before, where a small hole was made, the bullets directly severed a person's limbs, pierced through the entire torso, and shattered internal organs and flesh were splattered all over the ground. The skull that was blown off by the bullets was accompanied by milky white brain matter and scattered brain tissue.

What's even more chilling are the screams of soldiers being crushed by roadrunner bombs, and the outstretched hands or both hands reaching towards the sky as if begging for help, along with their terrifying and desperate faces.

All of this was stimulating Rowan's every nerve. If she hadn't become an elf and had the ability to control herself, she probably would have vomited on the spot.

"Waaah... Wenwen, let's not watch too much. Watching too much will make us lose our appetite and give us nightmares at night."

Even the gardenias, after glancing at them, had to turn their heads away.

"Ah."

Rowan, his face pale, raised his head and stared ahead, trying to distract himself.

Right in front of them was not only a Memory Master manifestation device that resembled the Seattle Space Needle, but also an even taller building—the "Tower of Babel" manifestation device.

Like the legendary Tower of Babel that seems to lead to heaven, its circular top reaches straight into the cloudless sky, and the rings on each level of the tower are slowly rotating.

"Oh, Miss Euleica and Lady Valkyrie!"

At this moment, the female magician Ratatosk, who had arrived at the designated meeting point, greeted them.

"Ah, you must be Miss Gulian. Has your team been fully organized yet?"

Gardenia quickly came to her senses.

"Yes, we are ready to launch an assault on those two terrible and evil devices. Are you ready, Eurydice and Lady Valkyrie?"

Gulian's Ratatosk female magician is clearly a lively and cheerful girl; her CR-UNIT and the other team members' CR-UNITs are all the same standard AW-110 [Hlokk].

Aside from the fact that it doesn't look much different from the latest AW-111 Brünnhilde in terms of patterns and overall clothing construction, the only major difference is...

The battle axe in his hand looked incredibly powerful with a single strike, but he wondered if he could use the .56 to switch weapons and exploit the axe bug to get a headshot and kill an Nkill. Well, actually, the axe bug is over. Now, the popular strategy is to use the Demon Soul and Ice Hammer to finish off your primary and secondary weapons with a round of ammo, then charge in with the .56 and swarm you, and if you don't have long reach, it's hard to catch them. Therefore, even the Mother Zombie has to be wary, and without rage evolution, you can't save your own life.

As if to verify the significance of Herok, the Valkyrie, these Ratatosk magicians all wielded weapons that were not standardized and varied.

Captain Gulian wielded a Whirlwind S... no, it was just a long-handled battle axe formed from magic, while the other magicians carried short-handled battle axes suitable for close-quarters combat and rapiers that could easily kill someone if they were stabbed.

The Western fencing, also known as the armor-piercing sword, is a weapon for one-on-one melee combat that evolved from aristocratic duels that began with throwing white gloves. This type of armor-piercing sword completely abandons the function of slashing and develops the function of killing with one blow to the extreme. It can easily penetrate the human torso, causing serious organ bleeding and internal infection. In ancient times, once infected, it was a dead end. In modern times, the former is enough to make any opponent wary or even immediately lose the ability to fight.

So Western gentlemen have been using this thing to this day. In the past, it was a skill that nobles had to master, and now it is an international competition event. If you can see a "gentleman" lift his walking stick and pull out the sheath, you can also see an armor-piercing sword hidden inside, because this thing is not only long enough, but also thin enough.

Although the slashing function is present for an armor-piercing sword that is not made of solid steel but purely of energy flow, it is not as powerful as a normal lightsaber.

Of course, these magicians would still carry one or two ranged weapons, the most common being beam guns or missile launchers.

"I am ready to launch an attack with the men of Ratatosk."

Gardenia answered Gulian's question with a cheerful and carefree attitude.

"Ha... Phew, I'm ready too."

Rowan's expression and the determination in his eyes were palpable.

"Yes, yes, that's more like a Valkyrie. Let's go now."

Gulian nodded in satisfaction and then prepared for battle.

"Great x2!"

With Gardenia, Rowan, and Gulian leading the charge, they sprinted at high speed toward the Babel Tower manifestation device that seemed to be within reach, while the other magicians followed closely behind, vigilantly watching their surroundings.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Tower of Babel appears to be a certain size in front of your eyes and that you can get close quickly. There's a saying that "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," meaning that you still need to travel quite a distance to get closer.

Meanwhile, inside the DEM underground base in the Kaz Mountains, Ellen and Takamiya Mana both received reports from their subordinates.

"Minister! A magician's reaction has been detected, and it has been confirmed that it is a magician from Ratatosk, and there are also two magicians with the foehn shark symbol on their CR-UNITs!"

Eileen frowned when she heard the last paragraph of the report. Training a qualified magician is not something that can be done overnight. How could there be a magician with the symbol of the scorching wind shark?

"Minister, it must be a magician temporarily transferred from Ratatosk to Foehn, although I don't quite understand why they would do that."

Mana Takamiya stared intently at the faintly visible images of the fumarole and the magicians from Ratatosk on the screen.

"Never mind, that's not important. In any case, we should deal with these ill-intentioned colleagues. We've already achieved our operational objectives."

Eileen rose from her seat, immediately revealing the thick metal wings that looked like a hindrance, which were entirely on her back.

"Have we achieved our operational objectives?"

Takamiya Mana suddenly felt as if she hadn't been told anything.

"Deputy Minister Ashcroft, Captain Ernest, are you and the fleet ready? The magician forces of Ratatosk have appeared near Babel, and the Foehn has deployed all the ground and air forces they can to Kashi, Tibet. The EU's Dye carrier battle group has also entered the South China Sea to contain the air and naval forces of the Foehn defending the islands."

A hint of smugness crept onto Eileen's face as she spoke.

“I’m ready, Ellen.”

Artemisia answered in a calm and unremarkable tone.

"Received, Minister Messer."

After replying, Captain Ernest Brennan continued issuing orders, "Sound the highest combat alert! Change all Ashucroft-β random area attributes from stealth camouflage to shock absorption!"

"Yes!"

The crew members and other DEM air fleet captains responded, and then, in the sky within the detection range of the sonic detector, northwest of Keelung Port.

Deus·Ex·Machina's airships, having removed their latest stealth camouflage, appeared one after another in the sky. The shadows cast by these massive black shadows were enough to engulf an aircraft carrier!

What's even more terrifying is that there are about fifteen of these "shadows" in total! In order to solve the threat posed by the Foehn winds once and for all, DEM dispatched half of its fleet of warships and the flagship Lemegeton to approach 4V directly from low Earth orbit while maintaining radio silence and camouflage throughout the process. The other half of the warships had their own missions to guard the local DEM branch.

After Ernest Brennan finished speaking, he looked at Artemisia Bel Ashcroft, who was already fully prepared and ready to go.

"Vice Minister, please go to the teleportation device. I will then teleport you to Keelung Port in 4V. The fleet will then help you complete the mission of assassinating Lin Haiyuan, the leader of the Burning Wind."

After Captain Ernest Brennan finished speaking, he saluted her.

"Well, please."

After speaking, Artemisia strode quickly toward the enemy with the teleportation device, ready to take her position at any moment.

While DEM's entire fleet, equipped with the magic tome naming method, was aggressively heading towards 4V Keelung, a battle between magicians had already begun in the skies near the Tower of Babel and the Lord of Memory.

"Ugh...!!"

Gulian looked at the lightsaber, which was as tall as a person, that had appeared where she had just been, and felt breathless at the sight.

She thought with lingering fear, "I almost got stabbed into a skewer by that lightsaber!"

"Although he's a magician from Ratatosk, his reflexes are pretty quick."

Ellen looked at Gulian, who seemed like a nobody, with a hint of approval in her eyes. Dressed in a white and gold CR-UNIT, she stood proudly in the sky like a king.

"You are?!"

When Gulian saw Ellen's appearance, her heart was immediately filled with surprise and shock, because the world's most powerful magician had appeared in front of her!

"Ellen Mira Messer, hailed as the world's most powerful magician..."

Gardenia, poised to pounce, glared at Ellen Mira Messeres like a mother leopard.

"The sheer scale of it is already astonishing..."

Rowan mentally assured herself that if it were the old her, she would have been trembling with fear upon seeing Ellen Mira Medusa like this.

At this time, the other Ratatosk magicians had already begun fighting and grappling with the other DEM magicians in other airspaces. However, due to the nature of the random domain, such battles take a considerable amount of time to determine a winner. Of course, this only applies to opponents of equal strength. If the difference in strength between the two is too great, the battle will be over in a few minutes.