CHAPTER 1714: 573-1 CHAPTER: EASTERN DEFENSE SYSTEM {PART 1}

"Why didn’t this guy explode a Magic Crystal... no... it should be an Inner Core! Why didn’t he choose to explode the Inner Core and fight you to the death?" Liu Zhankhan looked at the Nine-Tailed Major Model who had been slashed all over, a face full of regret, as if he hadn’t witnessed an Oriental-style suicide attack, which was a major life regret.

"Like how the Altar Sacrificial Ceremony requires chanting to use The Last Elegy, our Silk Divine Beast can’t just explode the Inner Core immediately; there’s also a procedure to follow, not chanting, but running inner breath." Yi Tiao turned back into human form, stepped on the major model’s twisting head, and flashed the Crane Beak Sword, creating several sword flowers, in a posture of opening the skull to retrieve treasure: "Unfortunately, Mr. Turtle seems to have no time to complete that inner breath process."

"Pah!" With his face full of hideous scars, Fa Jiang spat viciously, but with Yi Tiao’s foot stepping on his head, his blood-spattered saliva could only struggle unproductively with the dust on the ground.

"Can you guys help a bit, one ’Imprisoning Devil Brand’ each to seal this model’s magic power?" Liu Zhankhan signaled Yi Tiao with a wink; he had a question he couldn’t figure out and wanted to ask this guy again, so he couldn’t let him evaporate into thin air just yet.

Besides Aymar and Stefano, who were familiar with the inside story, Ventola, Pafan, and Rijekaard all looked at old Liu with peculiar expressions — the ’Imprisoning Devil Brand’ used for imprisoning mages, why would a Lord Saint Xiao need to outsource this task?

This kid is too good at commanding people? Too good at showing off?

The three proud Great Magicians couldn’t help but think so.

What these three masters haven’t realized yet is that despite Liu Zhankhan’s illustrious achievements, he’s a complete magic illiterate, and spells to imprison and seal Elemental Power are far too difficult for him. For imprisoning mages, he typically resorts to jaw disassemblies, limb dislocations, and spine-breaking — simple, brutal methods. Given an upcoming inquisitive process, doing so would leave Fa Jiang unable to speak, so he could only ask these Great Magicians for help.

Despite some chuckling and dissatisfaction, the five human Great Magicians dutifully fulfilled the Feilengcui Lord’s request.

Being hit by the five different sectional magic imprisonment brands, the Red Fire Poisonous Turtle, after being released by Yi Tiao, lay on the ground, stunned for half a day.

The Silk Continent’s imprisonment technique employs a method entirely different from the Aegean Continent’s. Encountering another cultivation system unexpectedly left Fa Jiang more shocked than surprised.

"Brother, can you tell me where your remaining Lishan Gate companions went?" Liu Zhankhan directly asked Fa Jiang using Mental Power communication: "Don’t underestimate us, leaving only some novices here to wait for me to start? Why didn’t you all escape together? Overconfidence leads to arrogance, brother, you’re a bit too arrogant."

The Red Fire Poisonous Turtle Fa Jiang slowly raised his head, examining this peculiarly styled and dressed young man with a mix of spiteful and curious eyes, hesitating to speak.

"Seems like Lishan Gate got word of our arrival ages ago! Those remaining mountain spirits and water monsters are probably hiding in some safe corner, relaxing." Yi Tiao chuckled openly and glanced sideways at Xiao Kong: "Isn’t that right, Ninth Prince?"

Xiao Kong shrugged, looking embarrassed.

"The shield barrier just now is the largest magic shield I’ve ever seen! The ’Douglas Storm Barrier’ previously unleashed by the Eight-Armed Naga Magic Tutor is like a mosquito net for a sleeping baby compared to the shield barrier in this castle!" Liu Zhankhan looked up at the Lishan Gate manor, listening to the gradually dimming sounds of fighting, and patiently continued to interrogate Fa Jiang: "Why doesn’t the mage who released that super large barrier shield in your castle come out to fight?"

"Don’t worry, you’ll have the chance to see him." Fa Jiang finally spoke.

"Can you get that Master to meet with us? Or could you tell me where this Master is now?" Liu Zhenhan reached out to help Fajiang wipe away a lump of blood crust from the corner of his eye: "I know he is not here."

"There is no Master! That large barrier just now was merely the ’Five Elements Defense Array!’ It’s also considered a wisdom legacy of the Yun Qin sorcerers." Yitiao once again glanced meaningfully at Ninth Prince Xiao Kong, speaking with a peculiar tone: "Haha, amusing! This ’Five Elements Defense Array’ is actually top-secret military equipment; each city in the Tang Zang Empire is allowed to possess only one set of such defense facilities, typically not something that can be passed to the populace..."

"You mean this defense barrier is not released by a Mage but is a limited edition large-scale magical facility? It’s a national military secret?" Liu Zhenhan perked up upon hearing "top-secret military equipment" and "a city can only possess one set."

"Exactly! In Aegean terms, this defense array is considered a type of magical equipment! The reason this defensive barrier covers such a large area is that the ’Five Elements Defense Array’ is divided into five major parts. As long as these five parts are set in five directions of the location, once attacked by element forces, the five defense arrays will automatically merge into one, aptly constructing an egg-shaped magic shield covering the entire region! Not to mention Lishan Gate, the ’Five Elements Defense Array’ can also cover the entire Heru City without any problem!" Xiao Kong bit his teeth and spoke out seeing his father’s eyes fixed on him: "This ’Five Elements Defense Array’ is indeed the most confidential military city guard equipment in Tang Zang, and indeed only one set can be allocated per city, and only large cities are eligible to possess them, making it very precious!"

"How is this possible? Deploying an ultra-large barrier covering the entire city, how immense elemental power would this need?" Master Aymar’s eyes widened: "Isn’t this a bit too wasteful? A defensive barrier used in city guard battles usually only bears enemy attacks from the front; if the same scale of defense barriers is set in other directions, wouldn’t this squander a lot of elemental power?"

It’s not Master Aymar overreacting, but rather no such ultra-large barrier completely covering cities has appeared on the Aegean Continent! Barrier-type magical equipment also has human nations researching on the Aegean Continent; take the Duchy of Saint Reuel, for instance, where Great Magician Ventola is loyal, as one of the outstanding ones.

Saint Reuel and Saint Roland, as the two permanent neutral countries of Aegean, have always attached great importance to the development of defensive magical equipment. The ’Dream Fountain Barrier Tower’ researched by the Saint Reuel National Alchemy Laboratory, along with its corresponding unit ’Magic Barrier Magician,’ has already advanced far at the forefront of Aegean!

Controlled by the Magic Barrier Magician of Saint Reuel, the ’Dream Fountain Barrier Tower’ draws living water through the tower base and Magic Crystal power, spraying a fan-shaped Water Element defense barrier. Each barrier tower can erect a transparent fan arc-shaped water wall within five hundred yards, circulating endlessly to resist external magic and partial physical attacks — it’s well-known that magical barriers generally do not resist physical attacks, but because the Saint Reuel barrier tower relies on real water flow and Water Element magic dual forms at the source, it can resist some physical attacks, hence regarded as the number one in Aegean.

Yet even such top Aegean magical barrier facilities only possess defense toward one direction, incapable of completely enveloping cities in closed defense! To cover the entire Heru City, such a large city, at least several thousand ’Dream Fountain Barrier Towers’ would be needed, which is an almost impossible figure — you should know the entire Duchy of Saint Reuel has fewer than one hundred ’Dream Fountain Barrier Towers,’ a result slowly piled up over nearly three hundred years since its establishment!

No one on the Aegean Continent has ever criticized Saint Reuel’s ’Dream Fountain Barrier Tower’ as immature equipment, never ever!

In war, the crossfire between both sides mostly concentrates at the front; this is especially true for siege battles!

Defense on both wings and rear has never been the focus; as for threats from the sky, even less need to be said.

Aegean magicians, like warriors, mainly rely on mutual bombardment for attack as defense, passive defense is not mainstream! This ’utility-first’ ideology manifests not only in magic shields and magical barriers but now even in the heavy cavalry armor on the Aegean Continent, where some have already abandoned back armor for semi-body heavy armor — the rationale is the same, shields and barriers only need to resist front attacks, and cavalry in high-speed charges are unlikely to suffer attacks from behind, so why waste expensive steel in manufacturing back armor?

Thus guarding the front almost equates to the ultimate mission of all defense barriers, such enclosed three-dimensional defense barriers on the Silk Continent indeed leave Aegean visitors perplexed and confused!

"Our Tang Zang ’Five Elements Defense Array’ doesn’t indulge in wastefulness like that! If this defense formation doesn’t suffer an ’elemental attack,’ it automatically remains dormant and invisible; yet when struck by ’elemental assault,’ the whole defense array instantly reacts! It can quickly gather defense forces, particularly strengthening large-scale breakthroughs at certain parts, such as the frontal attacks you’re worried about! Unless overwhelmed suddenly by rapid, cohesive, and powerful force exceeding its load, the entire defense array won’t disappear!" Xiao Kong said proudly: "How to put it, the principle of this defense array actually stems from the ancient Yun Qin sorcerers’ creation of the formation, a special formation utilizing formations to coordinate and allocate elemental power; theoretically, the highest range for a Five Elements Defense Array can span up to two Heru City sizes! It’s a very excellent defense array, functioning similarly to an Aegean barrier although elemental usage differs greatly!"

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