Capítulo 1807: Chapter 868: Philancy’s Greatest Value (Part 3)

After all, the large-scale downfall sites of the Floating City are all located in the place now called the Enorok Desert, also known as the Great Sandy Sea.

This is due to magic factors forming this vast desert, with extreme conditions that even the mages sometimes feel hopeless about.

Gaven, eagerly, said: “Sending outsiders into the Great Sandy Sea means the chances of finding Floating City ruins are slim. But if the natives of the Great Sandy Sea are employed, it can become a time-saving and labor-saving endeavor. I already have conquest plans for the Great Sandy Sea. I’ll merge them with the plans to seek and research the Floating City ruins to lay a solid foundation for my teacher’s research.”

His words are not empty talk; he indeed has his long-term plan for the Enorok Great Desert.

Whether it’s for the aim of conquering the Rocklands or to combat the Santarin Association.

Concerning the former, many Monster Tribes in the Rocklands use the Great Sandy Sea as a refuge. When a powerful force encircles them, they collectively choose to flee to the Great Sandy Sea, using its complex and variable natural environment to resist the siege.

Without thoroughly blocking this direction, the difficulty in annihilating them will sharply increase. Instead of constructing a Great Wall like the Soaring Dragon Empire on the border,

Gaven prefers to bring those areas under his rule, forming a counter-encirclement on the Rocklands.

Previously, under pressure from the Santarin Association, he was forced to temporarily leave the Rocklands and decided where to develop new territories between the Valley and the Enorok Great Desert.

However, the conditions there were too harsh, requiring too large an investment early on. At that time, his capital was limited and couldn’t support it, but now, he has enough capital.

The latter reason is that the Santarin Association’s largest trade route, Blackroute, runs here. This trade route connects Northern Felen and the Moon Sea Region, where they developed many artificial oases, tightly holding ownership in their hands.

At its peak, this trade route accounted for eighty percent of the Santarin Association’s total trade volume, and even now, despite the rising involvement of the Santarin Association in various fields and businesses, Blackroute’s proportion has gradually diminished, yet it still maintains more than thirty percent of the total trade volume.

If this trade route were disrupted, even though the impact on the Santarin Association wouldn’t be fatal, it would be severely affected.

Over time, Gaven’s hostility toward the Santarin Association has evolved beyond the vengeance for enslavement in a previous life, to a conflict of interests in this life.

He desires to rise in the Valley, and whether against the Santarin Association or the Sambiyan Kingdom, they are formidable competitors that cannot be bypassed.

Conflicting with them in interests often means using all possible means.

Because that’s their usual method of treating enemies, and whenever one shows mercy towards them, the sufferer at the end is likely oneself.

Thus, searching for the Floating City ruins of the Nesserel Empire has instead become a point of interest in developing the Great Sandy Sea. As long as some gains can be obtained from them, the cost of development in the Great Sandy Sea can be recouped.

“We’ll discuss these studies later; let’s first consider how to deal with these undead enemies,” Philancy pointed beneath the city walls.

During their conversation, the defensive battle escalated again.

Over a thousand ballista carts from Mosantiel City joined the defense line, though the power displayed in this blind barrage was entirely unknown.

At least, it made little impact on the skeleton army’s advancement.

Soon, they reached beneath the City Defense Maze Lock, where both sides formed a stalemate.

Even at five to six meters from the City Defense Maze Lock, the black mist finds it hard to advance further.

The Living Bone Tower, as a temporary magic array, pales in comparison to the power of the permanent City Defense Maze Lock.

At this moment, swollen zombies, bloated all over, emerged from the darkness.

Under the illumination of positive energy, their bodies sizzle with black smoke, exploding violently after taking only a few steps, with thick black mist spreading everywhere — highly compressed negative energy.

Even harmonization with positive energy takes some time.

This instantly fills the gap, which ordinary undead can hardly cross, with more self-exploding zombies surging down those passages to the front of the City Defense Maze Lock and then explosively detonating.

The highly compressed negative energy immediately formed strong corrosive effects on the City Defense Maze Lock, creating considerable-sized holes, sufficient for most undead to surge in smoothly, including those Living Bone Towers, blooming from the inside.

At this moment, the real kill move from the Red Robe Mage of Ser arrived.

A gigantic conical bone tower began to slowly manifest from nothingness.

Unlike those temporary assembled Living Bone Towers, the construction materials and methods for this bone tower are immensely meticulous.

Giant bones, dragon bones, giant beast bones, etc., are all large-sized, with no fewer than eight dragon heads, each of adult age.

This indeed is a Mage Tower capable of shadow walking.

It directly links with those Living Bone Towers, becoming the core of a gigantic Soul Gathering Array.

A massive black hole appears directly above, with negative energy surging continuously downward, exerting suppressive effects on the City Defense Maze Lock.

However, what truly plays a decisive role is Mosantiel City itself.

A great deal of negative energy drifts from the city, from the city walls, forming an ethereal black mist that refuses to disperse, creating a covering area, effectively blocking the City Defense Maze Lock.

The Kingdom of Ser, eyeing this opportunity to attack Mosantiel City, clearly has its own calculations.

A fierce battle just occurred here, and although the Laiserman people managed to clear the corpses, the spectral resentment of those who perished in battle, the bitter remnants left here, cannot be dispersed. Such power can be fully utilized as a medium to attack Mosantiel City, used to suppress their most restrictive City Defense Maze Lock.

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