Chapter 312: Swift Victory

On the horizon, the counterattack legions of the Giant Spirit Realm advanced like a slowly encroaching metallic continent.

A sky-blotting fleet of warships maintained a murderous formation, colossal war beasts emitting low roars, their spines laden with cannon emplacements vast as mountain ranges.

Countless vassal troops of varied forms mingled among them, like remoras clinging to whales, so numerous they seemed poised to fill the entire sky.

On the wizards’ side, their forces stood in strict array.

Compared to the initial landing battle, the wizards’ lineup had undergone significant changes.

Still, massive hordes of cannon fodder held the forefront, but among them emerged numerous unprecedented bizarre units.

Some resembled haphazardly assembled mechanical constructs, gears exposed, conduits tangled, radiating unstable energy fluctuations.

Others were even more grotesquely shaped biochemical beasts, emanating targeted energy radiation.

These were another portion of the logistics wizards’ research results — new cannon fodder units capable of rapidly proliferating or assembling on the battlefield using enemy corpses, scrap metal, and even dissipated energy.

Designed to wage war by sustaining war, continuously draining the foe.

Jie Ming was not presently on the main battlefield inside the Giant Spirit Realm but had returned to the vast expanse beyond the planar barrier, where chaotic void and elemental turbulence intertwined.

As the Giant Spirit Realm mobilized its full might, they naturally would not content themselves with internal defense alone.

They too dispatched elite fleets, intent on reclaiming and sealing the massive scar-like breach in the planar barrier.

The wizard command accordingly divided forces, assigning battlefields tailored to each wizard’s performance and expertise from the previous engagement.

Jie Ming, with his [Great Radiance Formation]’s devastating area-of-effect killing power, risked friendly fire in the relatively confined internal battlefield, so he was deployed to the boundless outer planar field where he could unleash his firepower without restraint.

In the void, the massive legions of both sides faced off at a distance.

One side a well-ordered metallic frenzy, the other a silent, eerie torrent of wizardly creations.

The murderous atmosphere nearly solidified the surrounding restless energy currents.

Battle erupted thunderously the instant both entered maximum range!

Behind Jie Ming, the colossal [Great Radiance Formation] array had long unfolded, light flowing within.

But unlike before, the surfaces of the tens of thousands of sigil artifacts in the array were no longer etched with simple energy projectiles or beam runes, but with meticulously crafted spell models—developed by other wizards within the temporal laws—specifically targeting the physiological structures of Giant Spirit Realm natives!

This tactical shift was supported by the full-speed operation of the automated factories in his internal space, providing ample hardware.

“Fire!”

No further commands were needed; the vanguard troops of both sides braved the hail of fire, clashing head-on like two opposing floods!

With a thought from Jie Ming, the long-charged Prowler cannon fodder swarm surged forth first.

Together with various self-destruct units released by other wizards, they detonated chains of destructive light spheres amid the enemy fleet clusters, instantly clearing vast areas and delivering a heavy blow to the enemy’s vanguard.

Immediately after, under the suicidal entanglement and cover of the cannon fodder, the wizards in the rear began casting.

This time, utterly unlike the cautious restraint of the landing battle.

Multicolored, diversely shaped spell glows poured from the wizard camp like a breached dam, smashing overwhelmingly toward the Giant Spirit Realm legions!

Corrosive acid mists, tremor waves specialized in disintegrating metal structures, interference rays causing energy circuit overloads, illusion fields twisting soul perception, and Balsa’s “Resonance Disintegration Wave” that triggered internal rejection and self-replicated diffusion…

These targeted research spells displayed jaw-dropping effects.

One area was shrouded in inky-green corrosive mist; Giant Spirit Realm warship shields melted like butter under a hot knife, hulls emitting piercing hisses as they rapidly dissolved.

In another void sector, invisible tremor waves swept through; those massive mechanical constructs froze instantly, sparks flying from joints, some unstable units disintegrating mid-air!

Most terrifyingly, these spells developed specifically against Giant Spirit Realm natives had negligible impact on allied cannon fodder mixed in the enemy ranks!

The wizards could finally unleash full-coverage fire strikes without reservation!

Gruesome scenes unfolded across the void.

Giant Spirit Realm warships lost power in swathes under targeted spells, twisting and deforming, or exploding from within.

Mighty war beasts were bound by special energy shackles, then torn apart by swarming cannon fodder.

Even on the high-end battlefield, the several sixth-level wizards faced Giant Spirit Realm seventh-level powerhouses far outnumbering them, yet with an array of cunning, bizarre targeted spells, they achieved near-crushing dominance!

The Giant Spirit Realm commanders were furious and shocked, attempting indiscriminate blanket attacks in kind.

Yet they found their energy barrages and physical munitions, while eliminating wizard cannon fodder, also inflicted massive casualties on their own units.

This handcuffed sensation left them stifled to the point of spitting blood.

From the moment of contact, the battle tilted overwhelmingly one-sided!

Jie Ming, in a relatively safe zone within the wizard formation, was tacitly guarded by surrounding wizards as the [Great Radiance Formation] blazed continuously.

Tens of thousands of specialized spells rained down on the enemy like a storm each second.

Watching the enemy lines collapse rapidly under targeted strikes, he sighed inwardly.

“Unfortunately… the ‘Symbiosis Calamity’ bacterial clusters require a biological internal environment to activate; they’re useless in this void.”

This meant he couldn’t witness his “plague” in action on the battlefield, a slight regret.

Meanwhile, on the main internal battlefield of the Giant Spirit Realm, the situation was equally dire—if not more brutal.

The confined space concentrated the wizards’ blanket strikes even further.

Jie Ming’s bacterial clusters had been mixed into special shells and fired into enemy lines at war’s outset, but their subtle influence was temporarily overshadowed by the immediate, spectacularly visual powerful spells, drawing little notice.

Under the wizards’ near-“cheating” targeted assaults, the Giant Spirit Realm’s colossal legions retreated even faster than in the previous landing battle!

When real-time casualty reports showed losses breaching the fifty percent critical threshold, the frontline supreme commander—a manipulator within a gigantic mechanical puppet whose aura peaked at seventh level—trembled violently in rage, its mental fluctuations rife with unwillingness and humiliation.

But it knew continuing would lead only to total annihilation.

“Retreat… full retreat! Hold the second defensive line!” A mental command laced with boundless fury and defeat echoed across the battlefield.

The remnants of the Giant Spirit Realm forces, like a receding tide bearing wounds and shame, hastily disengaged, fleeing toward deep native defensive nodes.

Beyond the planar barrier, Jie Ming watched the tidal retreat of the enemy, slowly dimming the [Great Radiance Formation]’s radiance.

In this second campaign, despite the enemy’s far greater prepared strength than the landing battle, wizard civilization—through targeted research—achieved victory in a near-crushing manner once more.

The power of knowledge, in this moment, was displayed to its fullest.