Amelie smiled and nodded.
Last night, Ji Xinyu made an accurate prediction of how the elves would launch a counterattack, and even devised a counter-attack plan to turn the tables on them.
The core of the counterattack plan is to first eliminate the Moon Guard leader of the Elven race, so that Amelie will no longer have to protect Shibi all the time, thus freeing up the strongest fighting force of the allied forces.
But this is not easy, because although the Moon Guard leader's direct combat strength is not very good, her infiltration and sniping abilities are top-notch. Even when facing her sneak attack, Emery must be fully focused to protect Shibi 100%, and it is difficult for her to have extra energy to kill her.
So Ji Xinyu brought up how Amelite had broken through her Divine Thunder during their first duel—by using bait to lure the attacker.
If a fake Sibi can be used to trick the Moon Guard leader into making a move, then Emerald can let the fake Sibi be shot dead, and at the same time seize the opportunity to kill the Moon Guard leader.
But how easy is it to fool a top-tier assassin? Simply having a similar appearance is not enough; the most important things are life force and magical energy fluctuations. It is extremely difficult to fake both of these at the same time.
Fortunately, Emery's sealing magic was already highly refined, considered to be at the pinnacle of its time.
She discussed it with Ji Xinyu, and then spent the whole night experimenting with Sibi before finally coming up with this solution.
The process involves first creating a fake body for Silbi that looks exactly like the real Silbi, then using sealing magic to seal the real Silbi inside the fake body. This way, the fake Silbi will have the same life force and magical fluctuations as the real Silbi, making it impossible for anyone to tell them apart.
If the Moon Guard leader is skilled in area-of-effect spells, he could use a sneak attack to completely obliterate the fake Silky, and the real Silky sealed within the fake Silky's body would also die.
Unfortunately, the Moon Guard leader was only an archer, and her sniping mainly relied on attacking weak points rather than area destruction, which gave Ameliete the opportunity to use this plan to turn the tables on her.
The plan was a great success, and the leader of the Moon Guard was killed.
Now, the elite and top-tier forces of the elven army have been almost completely wiped out, and the main force of the Federation army is less than 200 kilometers away from the elven capital. They will definitely be able to attack the city tomorrow.
However, Emerald was not overly optimistic, because the power that Princess Scarlet Moon had displayed today was much stronger than she had expected.
If the daughter is this difficult to deal with, then the mother, Theresa Himezuki, must be even stronger.
Emerald reassessed and predicted Theresa Scarlet Moon's strength, making further preparations for the upcoming final battle.
The safest way would be to call Julia from Locke City as well, so that together with Ji Xinyu, they could fight Theresa Scarlet Moon in a three-on-one battle.
With the current strength of Amelie, Yulia, and Ji Xinyu, if the three of them joined forces, they could easily defeat everyone in this world except for the Dao Ancestor and the Elf Queen.
However, considering that the combination of Yulia and Ji Xinyu might result in 1+1 being less than 1, Amelite ultimately abandoned this plan.
She only called Ji Xinyu to her room and asked Ji Xinyu about the details and feelings of her battle with Princess Feiyue, especially the phenomenon that Princess Feiyue could be reborn after her soul turned into ice shards.
"That feeling was strange; it was a power I didn't understand at all."
Ji Xinyu carefully recalled the situation of that time, her beautiful face showing great confusion:
“I can confirm that the sword strike I delivered with the Netherworld Soul Technique absolutely froze her body and soul to pieces. She should be dead beyond any doubt... But her life force rekindled out of thin air, and she was resurrected. This is really too strange.”
"...If even you, junior sister, are completely unable to perceive it with your current strength, then it can only be a power from a higher dimension."
After a moment's thought, Amelie made her judgment and used ants as an example to explain to Ji Xinyu the limitations of a low-latitude perspective on high-latitude perception.
This once again confirms Amelie's speculation that Theresa Scarlet Moon has definitely obtained the power of a god from another world.
"So if you, junior sister, face Theresa Scarlet Moon, you must be careful. There are many methods of the gods that are unsolvable for us."
Knowing that Ji Xinyu was proud by nature, Amelie worried that she would suffer in the final battle, so she gave her another serious warning.
She herself wasn't particularly afraid, because she now had powerful backers, although she still didn't know the name of the goddess who had blessed and protected her.
. . . . .
After a night of rest, the Federation army marched again the next morning, and by noon they could see the Elf King's City.
They encountered no obstacles along the way, not even the summoned creatures that used to harass them. Clearly, the elven army had given up fighting the Federation army in the wild and planned to hold their ground in the elven capital.
Upon arriving at the Elf King's City, this idea was confirmed, and the methods employed by the elves left everyone in the Federation army, including Amelie, speechless.
The elves adopted the most foolish defensive method—abandoning all counterattacks and using all their magic to build shields, stacking the thickest armor on the elven capital.
But it must be said that this seemingly simplest method is now the most effective.
A prolonged defense will inevitably crumble; even the strongest magical shield can be breached. Right now, both sides are racing against time.
The Elf Kingdom had no need to repel the Federation's army; they would consider it a success if they could hold out for a few days until Theresa Scarlet Moon's operation ended.
Conversely, the Federation army, after three days of assembly and three days of marching, had less than seven days left. They had to conquer the Elf Capital and defeat Theresa Scarlet Moon within these seven days, or the consequences would be unpredictable.
Without further ado, let's begin the siege.
The magical warship hovered in the air at a relatively safe distance from the Elf King's capital, with all the magical cannons on board charging, ready to bombard the capital.
The Federation army below certainly wouldn't try to force their way through the city walls. Instead, they set up camp a little closer and, like building a coastal base, began constructing artillery positions outside the Elven capital right in front of the elves.
This was actually a strategy to lure the enemy out of their hole. If the elves inside the city couldn't resist coming out to attack the Federal soldiers building their positions, it would be a good opportunity to annihilate them and weaken the city's defenses.
Unfortunately, the elven commander who was rescued by Princess Scarlet Moon yesterday was very capable and would not fall for such a simple trick. She completely ignored the actions of the Federation army and ordered all the elves in the elven capital to charge the magic shield and stack armor infinitely.
The two magical warships, the Melson III and Melson V, quickly began bombarding the Elf King's city.
The bombardment lasted from noon until night, with the two magical battle armors firing tens of thousands of shots, but the Elf King's city defenses remained impregnable.
After the army's artillery positions were completed, most of the vehicles were also converted into magic cannons to bombard the area, but this had little effect.
Amelie personally intervened, using the super-divine magic Sunset to create a magical sun with a diameter of 3 kilometers that slammed into the Elven King's shield. The shield only swayed slightly, without showing any signs of damage.
Ji Xinyu's soul circled the Elf King City several times, looking both directly above and below the city, but found no blind spots—the Elf King City's magic shield was a spherical, all-around defense with equal strength at every point.
"...After all, it's the capital of the Elf Kingdom."
Seeing this, Amelie could only sigh, "This defense is much stronger than the squid man's lair, and it's probably comparable to the mountain-protecting array of the Immortal Sect headquarters."
Magic is the most basic power of miracles; enough magic can withstand any attack.
Magical concepts, innate supernatural powers, and symbolic beliefs are all special means that only greatly increase the spellcaster's magical power, allowing a little magic to have the effect of ten or more points of magic in others.
However, these special methods have limited effectiveness in the face of a magical power difference of thousands of times.
With her three fused organs, Amelite possesses immense magical power, and the magic reactor on the magic warship is a technological marvel of the Federation, capable of overwhelming even elven mages.
However, the Elf Royal City, as the only super city of the Elf race, is somewhat like Tokyo on a certain island nation on Earth in Ameliete's previous life. It is home to nearly half of the Elf race's population, and the number of mages is at least several hundred thousand!
Chapter 351 A magical sun with a diameter of 20 kilometers!
This was defeated by the numbers.
Looking at the magical shield of the Elf King's City, which remained unmoved even after being bombarded for a day, Amelie sighed inwardly.
Even Ji Xinyu, who prides herself on being the most outstanding military commander in the Tianyun Empire, is speechless at the current situation. She never expected that the war would encounter such a predicament.
Doing nothing superfluous and simply relying on magical shields to hold out is usually the most foolish and magically wasteful method in war, but now it has become the best strategy for the elves.
"...I remember you told me, Senior Sister, that your Allen Federation fought a war with the Elven race more than 100 years ago, and the war also reached the point where the Elven capital was at the gates. How did you deal with that situation back then?"
Ji Xinyu asked with some curiosity.
"The situation in that war was different from this one."
Emery, on the other hand, helplessly shrugged:
"In that war, our Federation's expeditionary force fought from the coastline to the Elven capital, but it took more than two years... The Elven army defended the land fiercely and fought for every inch of it."
"So by the time we reached the elven capital, the elven mages had either died in battle or been captured, leaving them with virtually no fighting power."
"..."
There's no need for Emery to explain further; everyone can figure it out.
This time, the Federation army made a swift advance, taking only 3 days to reach the Elf King from the coastline. Although the Elf army lost more than 1 elite troops and 3 top-tier warriors the day before yesterday, the large number of ordinary mages were not seriously injured, which resulted in the current indestructible magic shield.
Against the Elven race's style of play, no tactics will work; the only option is to counter numerical superiority with equally powerful stats.
Emerald called for reinforcements, and she dispatched all the magic warships currently in service with the Allen Federation, including the previously damaged Melson VI, which was put into battle after two days of repairs.
On the third day after the Federation forces arrived in the Elf capital, which was also the ninth day after the Allen Federation officially declared war on the Elf Kingdom, seven magical warships reunited outside the Elf capital and unleashed a barrage of cannon fire, bombarding the Elf capital with a powerful barrage of thousands of magical shells per minute.
Even so, the results were still not very good.
According to Linglan's calculations, if the bombardment continues, the Elf King's city will definitely fall, but it will likely take more than half a month, by which time it will be too late.
"...It seems we can only test that plan in advance."
After careful consideration, Emerald made a new decision.
Previously, when preparing for the decisive battle against the Dao Ancestor, Amelie had a plan to break through the protective array of the Immortal Sect headquarters.
In space, a magical sun with a diameter of over 20 kilometers was smashed down, unleashing the power comparable to an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs of Earth, crushing the protective mountain array with sheer force.
However, there is currently one problem with this plan: magic.
Emerald possesses powerful magic due to the three fused organs that have formed a resonance circuit, but she currently finds it difficult to condense such a large magical sun on her own.
For Emerald, a three-kilometer-diameter magical sun, like the one used to exterminate the squid people, is relatively easy and the most cost-effective option. However, a magical sun with a diameter of more than five kilometers would be more difficult for Emerald.
To quickly condense a magical sun with a diameter exceeding 20 kilometers, Amelie needed an external magical source, as her own magical power was far from sufficient. That's why she asked old man Langdon to develop artificial magical organs or other high-quality magical sources.
According to Amelie's estimation, the magic shield in the Elf Capital is now almost as strong as the mountain-protecting array at the Immortal Sect headquarters.
Of course, in terms of defense alone, the Immortal Sect headquarters' protective mountain array is not only equally sturdy, but it can also counterattack and strengthen friendly forces, making it extremely powerful. That's why Amelie made various plans to counter it in advance.
Currently, old man Langdon has not yet come up with a useful external magic source, but Amelie doesn't need to go to space to fight the Elf King, because the Elf King has no ability to fight back, and the safe zone is larger.
If there's no need to go into space, then the reactor of the magic warship can be used as the magic source.
The magic power generation rate of the reactor inside the magic warship is extremely high. Unfortunately, this kind of magic power reactor can only be used inside the planet's atmosphere. Otherwise, the Allen Federation would have already built a more powerful magic warship to explore the stars.
Leaving two magic warships behind to continue the bombardment, Ameliete led the remaining five magic warships to ascend continuously until they reached an altitude of approximately 15,000 meters before stopping. They then advanced to a position directly above the Elf Capital.
"Although I don't think any other elf would be that brave, I can't rule out the possibility that a powerful elf might rush out and interrupt me while I'm charging up... I'll have to leave it to you then, junior sister."
Before starting, Amelie gave Ji Xinyu her first instructions.
To further motivate Ji Xinyu, Amelie hesitated for a moment, then winked at Ji Xinyu with a noticeably more alluring look:
"If you behave well, junior sister, I might as well reward you a little... like letting you bully the delicate and helpless defeated young lady?"
"You said it yourself, Senior Sister! You have to keep your word!"
Ji Xinyu became noticeably more excited. If she had a status bar in the game, her morale would have increased by at least 30%.
Amelie didn't say anything more, but just smiled charmingly at Ji Xinyu again before starting to cast a spell.
The five magical warships beside her, besides maintaining the necessary power and protection, launched all their remaining magical power as pure magic, converging towards the location designated by Emerald.
Emerald closed her eyes and concentrated all her energy, using the powerful magical manipulation skills she had honed while making the Squid Man Revealing Potion to control the gathered magic.
First, use your own magical attributes to assimilate the pure magic, turning the massive mass of magic into a sacred magic sphere. Then, carve and engrave the surface of the sacred magic sphere, gradually transforming it into the shape of the sun, thus gaining an additional bonus of religious symbolism.
Soon, the already bright daylight became even brighter, because a second sun appeared directly above the Elf King's City. This second sun was gradually growing larger and hotter, and the immense magical power it gathered was enough to make even the weakest creatures weak in the knees and want to kneel down, just by looking at it from afar.
When Amelite's magical sun condensed to a diameter of over 10 kilometers, the Elven capital, which had been silently enduring attacks for days, finally reacted.
Clearly, the people of the Elven capital had already calculated that if Amelie continued to concentrate her magic to increase the power of the Sun Spell, the Elven capital's magic shield would be in danger.
Several streams of magical light shot out from the Elf Capital, rushing towards the sky like shooting stars flying in reverse, aiming to detonate the magic that Amelie had gathered ahead of time.
Half of them are Princess Crimson Moon, who is a great mage, and the remaining elves also all possess great mage-level combat power. They should be among the few strong individuals in the Elf King's capital.
"Stop them!"
Judy, along with several Federation brigadiers, charged forward first. The two magic warships that had not participated in providing external magic power sources for Emerald also turned their cannons to bombard and suppress the elves.
Half of the powerful elves who rushed out of the city were able to defend against the Federation army's attack, while the other half continued to fly towards Emerald in the sky.
"Sorry, beautiful elves, although I really want to show you some mercy, for the sake of my senior sister's reward, please just die!"
Seeing this, Ji Xinyu swung her fire-tasseled spear and charged down at the powerful elves, while simultaneously using her soul form to flank them.
The black-clad Ji Xinyu, in her soul form, once again proved in actual combat that she is the queen of crushing noobs.
With the Moon Guard leader, Princess Scarlet Moon, and the Elf Commander all rendered ineffective, the Elf race currently has no top-tier powerhouses to boast of besides Theresa Scarlet Moon.
Although these elves who rushed out of the city to try to interrupt Amelie's spellcasting were also great mages, they were no match for Ji Xinyu.
The Overlord Spear Technique, with its unparalleled ferocity, launched a frontal assault, while the invisible black-clad spirit used an invisible sword to flank and ambush from behind. Killing the elven archmages was as easy as killing chickens; in just a few minutes, all of those elven archmages were frozen into ice shards by the power of the Netherworld Soul Technique.
Although Judy and her group were not as strong as Ji Xinyu, they still managed to hold back the other group of powerful elves who rushed out, preventing them from interrupting Amelie's spellcasting.
At this point, the diameter of the sun controlled by Amelie had exceeded 13 kilometers and was continuing to grow toward a diameter of 15 kilometers.
boom!
Seeing that the first wave of powerful elves who rushed out to interrupt the spellcasting all failed, the Elf King quickly made a new move.
This time, an extremely hot fireball flew out, the high temperature even forming a corona-like distorted layer around the fireball, making the air seem scorched.
Ji Xinyu's previously somewhat frivolous expression instantly turned serious, her eyes fixed intently on the incoming fireball.
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