Chapter 411: Chapter 413: Battle of the Naga, Bombs Exploding Until You Cry for Daddy (6800 words)

PS: Sorry for the delay. I have just finished editing.

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Naga City was built against the mountains, and the enclave of the mountains was the stronghold of the Naga Tribe.

At that moment, the sudden appearance of an army outside the city plunged the entire Naga City into anger.

The Naga Chief, crowned with a tumorous growth, stood in the mid-mountain area inside Naga City, looking down at the entire city and the Dawn Army encircling it from outside.

His narrow eyes harbored cold and deadly intent.

“How dare these despicable surface-dwellers attack the great Naga?? Have their brains been eaten by Brain-Eating Worms?”

“Lowly surface-dwellers, they should all be hanged on the city walls!”

“Chief, please give the command. I will immediately lead the troops and exterminate these surface worms…”

The faces of the Naga elites beside the Chief showed even more intense rage.

It seemed as though they wished their saliva could kill.

How noble were the Naga, who dared so recklessly besiege their city in the Underworld?

The emergence of the Dawn Army was undoubtedly perceived as a provocation from these weaklings!

This was absolutely intolerable.

After the Naga vented their anger for a good while, the expressionless Naga Chief finally spoke slowly.

“These surface-dwellers are weak and frail, and we possess high and solid walls. Even ten times their force could not shake the great Naga City.

Our real enemies are that Black Dragon…”

“Once the Dragon Hunting Land in the Abyss is ready, these surface-dwellers will be easy to extinguish!”

After the Naga Chief spoke, more than a dozen Naga elites around him fell silent immediately.

“Grull… The surface army is under your charge. Tell me more specific news, why did these surface dwellers suddenly come to Naga City?”

Upon hearing this, all Naga elites turned their gaze unanimously to a Naga covered in scars, even with one of his arms severed.

There stood Grull, a Naga transformed by the Soul Power used by Lide.

Yet, he appeared rather miserable as if he had faced a great battle.

Grull, the crowned Naga, nodded when asked and said with fury in his eyes.

“Chief, I was following your orders to divert the attention of the surface dwellers towards the Dark Night Elves…

But we encountered an unexpected problem, our movement was detected by an Extraordinary Mage of the surface dwellers, exposing us.

We couldn’t resist such Extraordinary power. It’s lucky that the Extraordinary did not attack personally, allowing us to escape.

To avoid the encircling army, I ordered the Naga to split into ten groups and leave. However, the group I led encountered an 18th-level Lion-man Warrior who blocked our path. His body was flowing with light gold bloodline, immensely powerful.

Although I fought desperately, I was grievously injured and barely escaped…”

Grull’s face showed deep sorrow. In fact, after a fierce battle he couldn’t fight through, he staged a strategic self-injury to escape, and then fainted outside Naga City.

After being designed, he was indeed found and brought back by a Naga patrol team.

The miserable scars on his body were inflicted during his fight with Beastman King Kapp.

Unfortunately, Lide’s initial plan was to let Grull infiltrate Naga City, to trick a few elites into going out, then transform them with the Power of Faith to act as saboteurs.

However, the Naga Chief was extremely vigilant; even a high-ranking Naga like Grull was placed under house arrest after being saved.

Only now did he get a chance to come out, but it was too late–the Dawn Army had already laid siege to the city.

Those plans had to be abandoned.

“Did the enemy have an Extraordinary Mage?”

“Yes, Chief.”

“How did you know?”

“I sensed that Magic Fluctuation…”

“Hmm, follow me closely during this war, and do not go elsewhere.”

“Yes, sir.”

A flash of suspicion in the Naga Chief’s eyes was fleeting. He always felt Grull’s arrival was too coincidental, though there was no evidence. At this juncture, he didn’t want any complications, so he simply isolated the other until today, when the surface army attacked the city.

The grand plan of hunting the Black Dragon could not be affected by trifles!

His gaze peered through the dim light towards the Dawn Army outside the city, his eyes growing colder with murderous intent.

If not for the need to hide his trump cards to avoid alerting the Black Dragon, he would definitely have deployed several Extraordinary beings to annihilate the more than one hundred thousand surface army, rather than letting these detestable surface-dwellers parade outside Naga City.

At this time, a few hundred blades away from the walls of Naga City, the eagerly adjusting Dawn Army finally reached optimal condition.

“Your Majesty, the army is ready. Please give your command!”

Hearing the firm and fervent tone of the adjutant beside him, Lide’s sharp gaze, like arrows, immediately shot towards the Naga City, resembling a giant demonic maw.

His cold voice, boosted by Magic, resonated across the entire battlefield.

“All troops, listen to orders! Alchemy Bomb Launchers freely launch Alchemy Bombs. Magic Language Bats take off for bombing right after the first round of bombing by the Alchemy Bomb Launchers.

Other troops stand by!”

Military orders were absolute.

Lide’s command was executed instantly.

“Alchemy Bomb Launchers, prepare!!!”

“Fire!!!”

At the moment the human commander roared the order to attack, the sudden battle began.

Thousands of bomb launchers loaded with Alchemy Bombs, under the control of human soldiers, thrum–the massive force of the launchers catapulted the bombs into the air.

Whoosh~

The sound of air being torn asunder rose, as alchemy bombs densely filled the sky and roared overhead.

Dark clouds loomed over the city.

The walls of Naga City stood 50 blades high, insurmountable to beasts.

Yet, under the parabolic trajectories, these alchemy bombs easily arced over the city walls bristling with iron spikes, crossing over like the fangs of demons.

Atop those towering walls, four-armed Nagas emitting an evil aura were densely packed, crowding the ramparts to the point of overflow.

These vile creatures, three blades tall with red spikes lining their backs, saw the alchemy bomb, no bigger than a head, flying towards them and immediately burst into raucous laughter.

“Hahaha, these damnable surface dwellers, their catapults can only launch stones weaker than worms?”

“By the abyss above, this is the most laughable scene I’ve witnessed…”

“Do these surface dwellers genuinely plan to breach our walls with these feeble rocks??”

“…”

The insane mockery of the Naga soldiers brought a jocular mood to the top of the walls, and the cold Naga language sounded unusually bright.

But just as the rocks passed over the wall, some sharp-eyed Nagas suddenly changed their expression.

They spotted the distinct green bizarre symbols of goblins on these stones… and weren’t goblins most proficient in alchemy bombs??

With this realization, their hair stood on end and a Naga commander cried out in terror,

“Be careful!!! Those are alchemy bombs!!”

Ah?

The surrounding Nagas were stunned but before they could react, the first alchemy bomb plummeted into the city and struck a fang-like building with the force of a thousand weights.

Boom~

The massive sound reverberated like thunder overhead, rupturing eardrums.

Hot flames instantly soared into the sky, the massive shockwave whipping up a storm of air.

Stones, wood splinters, and dirt mixed with flames instantly swallowed up the surrounding area of tens of blades.

Even more shocking was the explosion of the alchemy bomb scattering countless sticky flammable substances.

These substances, even clinging to rocks, blazed furiously. Nagas in the streets, busily preparing for battle, screamed in extreme agony once touched by the flammable material–

More horrific than dying wild beasts.

The sticky flammable substance was incredibly adhesive; regardless of how the Nagas patted, they could not extinguish the flames. Only the mages’ magic might barely snuff out those flames.

Flammable alchemy bombs.

These were the masterpieces of Dawn City, enhanced several fold by goblin modifications.

Flammable alchemy bombs could release a vast amount of flammable material upon explosion, which nothing but magic could extinguish.

The explosion of the first flammable alchemy bomb was merely the beginning of the war.

The subsequent alchemy bombs raining down were like a heavy blow, delivering a resounding slap to those Nagas.

Boom~ Boom~ Boom~

Thousands of alchemy bombs fell upon Naga City within less than 10 seconds, their devastating power describable only as apocalyptic.

Despite making up less than a third of the total, the combustible alchemy bombs caused unimaginable destruction to the area behind the city walls.

The terrifying flames could not be extinguished; the horrifying combustibles, like soul-devouring shadow demons, reduced the contaminated Nagas to ashes while they were still alive.

The city walls were the combat zone, and the area behind them served as a supply and rest area for warriors, no less crowded with personnel and materials than the walls themselves.

Thousands of alchemy bombs resulted in a cleansing effect beyond outsiders’ imaginations.

The alchemy bomb launcher was about 700 blades away from the city walls, with a maximum range of 900 blades, providing an effective range that extended an additional 200 blades.

The entire stretch of wall and the area behind it fell within the firepower coverage.

From a distance, as tens of thousands of warriors watched, the relentless explosions sounded like the earth was shattering, the sky was splitting, and flames and debris soared through the air.

The fierce Nagas were reduced to mere paper at that moment, and these evil beings, without the slightest convenience, were nearly all buried within the blast zone.

The flames dispelled the darkness of the underworld, and light shone brightly across the entire world.

Only the roaring of the alchemy bombs and the loud collapses of buildings remained between heaven and earth.

Over a hundred thousand soldiers, even those from the Dawn City army, fell into a silent atmosphere, taken aback by the apocalyptic scene.

It was overwhelmingly exaggerated.

Although most knew the formidable power of alchemy bombs, it was their first time witnessing such a ground-cleansing effect in a siege.

This round of attacks had eliminated more than half of the Nagas near the front wall area.

Looking back at the inconspicuous alchemy bombs and the bomb launcher, the soldiers’ gazes were no longer the same as before.

Their hearts were filled with indescribable awe.

The goblins sent to assess the practical effects of the alchemy bombs felt as refreshed as if they had eaten chilled watermelon in summer, holding their heads high, pride nearly spilling from their eyes.

This is our goblin creation!!

The surrounding gazes nearly brought them to internal climax.

After the first round of firing, it was not the end; the second round of alchemy bombs was loaded again.

Under the practiced operation of skilled human soldiers, who had practiced thousands of times, it took less than 30 seconds for the bomb launcher to be reloaded with alchemy bombs.

In Naga City, towering flames were furiously swirling.

Wails, screams, the bursting sounds of flames consuming wood, along with roars and cries for help… the city had become a ground of lament.

But before the Nagas had time to recover, those who hadn’t managed to escape amidst the thick smoke caught a glimpse in the sky of those “stones” they had just mocked swooping down.

“No!!!”

“Run!!”

“Damn surface dwellers!!”

The sky was filled with the Nagas’ frantic cries beyond articulation, as many turned and fled, some even tried to shoot down the alchemy bombs with bows, and others yet took up thick shields attempting to block the damage of the alchemy bombs.

But all these efforts were just futile resistance.

Boom, boom, boom~

Flames once again engulfed everything around.

The Nagas, who had just rushed in to aid, suffered yet another brutal strike.

Silence, a deathly silence.

The Naga Chief, standing on the mountainside, was wide-eyed with disbelief.

During this period, Naga City had gathered an army of 120,000 from the Abyss.

In other words, Naga City now had an army of 200,000!

200,000!!

With such a number, plus the towering solid city walls, death was certain for anyone who came!

But now, as the war had just begun, they had already experienced such terrifying attacks.

The loss was so severe that he could not accept it.

Under the Naga Chief’s cold and powerful aura, the high-ranking Nagas around him trembled, and at this moment, no one dared to speak another word.

The previously confident expressions were all suppressed.

The rage on their faces made everyone belligerent.

The Naga Chief’s narrow eyes now shone with a light as cold as frost, “Immediately deploy the Poison Scorpion Lions, I want all those lowly surface creatures dead!”

“Yes, Chief!” The messenger shivered at the chilling tone and immediately went down to relay the orders.

With sharp eyes filled with endless rage, the Naga Chief’s gaze was like a sword unsheathed, scanning the crowd and finally falling on a Naga with a crest. Just as he was about to say something, a massive shadow that could not be counted appeared in the sky.

A high-ranking Naga suddenly said in an extremely trembling voice.

“Giant bats, the favorite Demon Beasts bred by Vampires!”

The surrounding Nagas all looked towards the sky.

The Naga Chief furrowed his brows; he had just ordered the deployment of the Poison Scorpion Lions when the enemy’s flying troops had already appeared.

But what surprised him slightly was that these giant Demon Beasts did not seem to plan to dive down for an attack but maintained their flight in the high skies.

However, moments later, everyone’s faces drastically changed.

Because they discovered that these giant bats were dropping countless black spots down like laying eggs.

Those black spots were identical to the Alchemy Bombs that had just bombarded the city walls.

At this moment, the air seemed to freeze.

The Nagas felt their hearts stop beating; what could they do in just a few short seconds?

The most powerful spellcaster among the Nagas was only level 19, not a Transcendent, barely dreaming of changing the course of the battle with individual power.

And the most powerful force, the Transcendent Naga Chief, was unfortunately a warrior; he could fight thousands alone, but it was simply a fantasy to block the thousands of Magic Language Bats dropping Alchemy Bombs at the same time.

Under the terrified gazes of all the Nagas.

Whoosh, whoosh~

The Alchemy Bombs with a breaking air sound educated the Nagas like never before.

Technology changes the world.

Dawn City’s war strategy from start to finish had adopted Earth’s approach.

Bombarding the enemy’s position with cannons, then using the air force to drop bombs.

The Nagas, whose war strategy still focused on close combat, naturally could not imagine the strength of this strategy, which was years ahead.

When the Alchemy Bombs fell from the sky, boom, boom, boom~ the earth shattered, and rows of buildings collapsed and crumbled.

Each Alchemy Bomb exploding within Naga City caused massive impact and damage.

No one could resist this world-ending scene.

Flames surged through the sky, turning the entire city into a city of fierce flames.

The Nagas, despite being an Upper Race, had no experience in handling the bombing of Alchemy Bombs.

Many Nagas still roared in anger, trying to resist the damage of the Alchemy Bombs with their bodies.

When the Alchemy Bombs exploded, the shrapnel shattered and shot out at three to four times the speed of sound.

Most of what the Nagas wore was hide armor sewn from Demon Beast fur; although tough, it was no harder than paper in such attacks.

Thus, each explosion of an Alchemy Bomb harvested a large number of Nagas.

Not to mention the subsequent flames that burned.

The Magic Language Bats involved in this bombing were 3000 in number, each carrying 20 Alchemy Bombs, totaling 60,000.

The effect of 60,000 Alchemy Bombs striking this city, with no anti-air facilities, was stunning.

Sea of fire, ruins, screams, wails.

The power of the bomb wash was fully demonstrated at this moment.

Seeing this scene, the Naga Chief, a Transcendent, felt his limbs go cold instantly.

His proud Naga warriors, even before the actual battle began, had already lost at least two-thirds…

He had originally thought this was going to be an easily manageable war, but now, with the enemy yet to even contact them, Naga City was about to be destroyed.

This severe contrast struck him nearly mad!

He turned his head suddenly, his voice filled with brutality, pain, and the erupting anger of a volcano.

“Poison Scorpion Master, take off immediately!!! All of you, take the army, open the city gates, and engage the enemy up close!!”

He could not imagine what the scene would be like if they dragged on.

If such attacks happened two or three more times, the city that took decades to build might no longer exist.

Contrary to the tragic fate of the Nagas, the morale of Dawn City’s army surged to the extreme at this moment.

“Your Majesty, shall we launch an attack immediately?”

Outside the City of the Nagas, Lide, dressed in a woven robe, stood calmly, with Beastman King Kapp reporting solemnly beside him.

These two waves of bombing, in Kapp’s view, had already been enough to annihilate the living forces of Naga City.

“No, wait a moment, let the Alchemy Bombs be thrown for another round.”

Lide’s gaze was sharp. Although the Naga were caught off guard and suffered losses akin to losing limbs, they were not so easily defeated.

Although he too wanted to enslave this Upper Race, the premise of everything was to win the war.

To think of leaving the enemy alive to later take as prisoners before victory was apparent, was an utterly foolish idea.

The situation on the battlefield changed in an instant, and no one could guarantee ultimate victory until the very last moment.

Moreover, although there was a gap in strength between the sides, it wasn’t to the point of total domination, and it was uncertain if the enemy had made contact with the Abyss.

This was a formidable opponent, where victory was the primary objective, and everything else came secondary.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Kapp was clear and concise, responding immediately and signaling the Commander to pass the orders.

After receiving the command, the loaded goblin bomb trucks began the third round of bombing.

Whoosh~

Boom, boom~

The flames burst out again, this time the firepower coverage completely paralyzing the Naga on and behind the city walls.

The morale of the Naga had plummeted, their numbers dropping from two hundred thousand to seventy or eighty thousand.

It was extremely brutal.

This scene was much like modern cannons attacking ancient cities, with both sides’ technology and understanding of war not even on the same level.

But he knew that the war was not over yet, the Naga were still resisting.

After the third round of throwing Alchemy Bombs, sharp-eyed soldiers noticed creatures with wings emerging faintly from the thick smoke.

At first, there were just one or two, but then more and more appeared until they swarmed.

Whoosh~

The first of the Naga City’s flying troops emerged from the thick smoke, appearing before the eyes of the Dawn Army.

It was a life form with the head and body of a majestic lion, equipped with Demon Wings and a venomous scorpion stinger, exuding an extremely brutal aura.

The Poison Scorpion Lion, an Abyss Life.

These terrifying evil flying troops had a wingspan reaching 10 blades, looking even stronger than the Magic Language Bats.

Upon the Poison Scorpion Lions rode numerous Four-Armed Naga, their serpentine bodies secured by specially made saddles, like wobbly dolls that wouldn’t fall off no matter how the Poison Scorpion Lions flew.

Seeing this, Lide’s eyes slightly narrowed.

The real war had just begun.

Indeed, following the appearance of the Poison Scorpion Lions, the city gates at the central part of Naga City embossed with the Dark Eye thunderously opened.

Then, under everyone’s watch, countless Four-Armed Naga surged out like water burst from a dam, overflowing with raging fury.

The Naga knew they couldn’t continue like this.

Under the bombardment of Alchemy Bombs, Naga City could no longer offer them any protection at that moment, it even seemed more like a death cage, locking them firmly inside.

The city walls, which were once their greatest reliance, became their biggest constraint under the impact of Alchemy Bombs.

Seeing this, Lide’s gaze turned as cold as ice.

Naturally, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to let the enemy get into position before he launched an attack.

“Goblin bomb trucks aim at the city gates, archers and catapults prepare for best shooting, immediately start attacking when the Naga come into range!”

Lide personally issued the order, which did not need to be passed by the Commander, as it reverberated across the battlefield bolstered by Magic Power.

The long-awaiting Dawn Army began to get excited.

During all this time, it had been the Alchemy Bombs playing the main role, and they could only watch from the sidelines; now, it was finally their turn to enter the fray.

After the order, the goblin bomb trucks immediately began to turn in the direction of the city gates and bombarded toward Naga City.

Those Naga who rushed out of the city and suddenly felt the freedom of the skies, once again encountered the Alchemy Bombs they least wanted to face.

Bang, bang, bang~

Though loading ammunition took twenty to thirty seconds, the team consisted of thousands of goblin bomb trucks.

Calculated down, in 30 seconds, thousands of Alchemy Bombs could be thrown, meaning hundreds every 3 seconds.

Such dense bombardment, the Naga who had just been excitedly shouting, suddenly looked worse than liver.

This plain area was very suitable for the Naga to run and charge, but equally, it facilitated the release of power from the Alchemy Bombs.

The thirty-blade wide city gates were directly enveloped by the Alchemy Bombs, cutting off their lifeline like severing breath, and effectively blocking the Naga inside the city.

The scene became awkward, the Naga extremely furious, yet unable to contend with anyone.

Not until thousands upon thousands of Naga riding Poison Scorpion Lions flew over the Dawn Formation did the situation shift.

The strong Poison Scorpion Lions, braving the archers’ shots, fiercely dove downwards, and the Naga riding them immediately leaped off as they neared the ground.

Each Poison Scorpion Lion carried at least two Naga, those tens of thousands of Poison Scorpion Lions directly delivered over twenty thousand Naga troops.

The goblin Alchemy bomb trucks were still aimed at the city gate, unable to immediately suppress the sudden action of the Poison Scorpion Lions.

The situation began shifting towards what the Naga desired to see.

However, while the Alchemy Bombs could do nothing against the Poison Scorpion Lions, the Centaur Archers would not hold back.

The improved longbows were pulled taut suddenly, thump~ the bowstrings twanged, sharp arrows fell like locusts covering the sky.

Instantly sweeping across the earth.

The only regret was that as an Upper Race, the Naga had extremely formidable life force, and although the Centaur’s arrows caused massive injuries, unless they struck their heads or hearts, the Naga could still charge fiercely.

With thousands of Poison Scorpion Lions in the sky drawing a significant part of the firepower, a gap in the attack immediately appeared.

Roar~

Seeing this, the Magic Language Knights’ Air Force immediately commanded the Magic Language Bats to charge horizontally towards the Poison Scorpion Lions.

Ground and air forces collided in an instant, and a more intense, white-hot blood battle began.