novelraw #228 - Section 228
#228 - Section 228
Nicole Blue Coral, the vanguard general of the blockade.
Shack fulfilled his promise, leading the army to kill the Naga's vanguard officer, then broke through the blockade and rushed to the aid of Black Shark Fortress.
Roger's eyelids brightened slightly, looking at Shack who stopped in front of him, and the army transporting supplies behind him, thoughtfully.
Shack stood in front of Roger, his posture upright, his eyes sharp: "Sir, where have the Nagas gone?"
Roger looked at him and couldn't help but smile with relief, and asked softly: "Shack, do you dare to save your fourth brother?"
"Why wouldn't I dare? I want to fight for this throne with my own ability, not for him to give it to me in such a stupid way."
Shack said confidently.
A group of sea clan experts also felt relieved and surprised.
For the first time, a domineering aura of a king emerged from their crown prince.
Chapter 204 Shack's Awakening, Roger's Layout
Fourth Prince Dole was very lucky. Shack broke through the Black Shark Fortress in time and came to support him directly with a large army, and also brought the base coral sub-individuals necessary to set up an advanced base.
These special sub-individuals can grow large enough in just one or two minutes, and cooperate with mature plankton predators to form a self-expanding production base.
As for whether to risk saving Dole's life, Shack, the direct relative present, made the decision.
"With Fourth Brother's personality, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will not sit still and wait for death, so if he is conscious, he will definitely choose to try, and I respect his choice."
This is the family affair of the royal family, and the others present were not easy to refute, watching Shack personally plant a juvenile of the base coral directly on the life vine that supported Dole's last breath.
Then this base coral didn't even need plankton predators, and directly absorbed the abundant life energy and nuclear waste from the vine, and began to grow rapidly.
Roger frowned involuntarily, and asked Lydia's projection, which had been floating beside him: "Madam, will it grow crookedly if it absorbs indiscriminately like this?"
That's nuclear waste! Look at what Dole has become!
"Don't worry, my little darling is not so fragile. Frankenstein's weapons are just a kind of energy damage. He has proteins in his body that can absorb this energy."
Lydia replied confidently.
Just like chloroplasts absorb sunlight to synthesize organic matter, base corals can also produce proteins that absorb nuclear radiation according to the coral, and use their energy to help them grow.
Also, because the radiation energy is absorbed, there is naturally no excessive radiation that will damage the core parts.
This means that I can digest everything and decompose everything, so don't be afraid of accidentally eating toxic substances!
The base coral was originally an artificial creature that Lydia had modified countless times and fused with the genes of I don't know how many powerful creatures. It seems that there is nothing surprising about using nuclear energy...
Here, the mages of the Secret Law Society set up a series of equipment, and Lydia began to remotely modulate the base coral that had grown to the size of a hill.
Then it continued to expand, swallowing Dole's mutated body whole. His body tissue and flesh melted into the tissue part of the base coral.
This scene made many people subconsciously look away, and Little Joey sighed softly in Roger's arms.
Rest in peace for the dead was originally the best ending, but because of Dole's choice, if Lydia's idea fails, Dole will have no remains.
As a commander who guarded the front line fortress to the last moment, such an ending is really a bit unfair to him.
Shack kept staring at the base coral completely closed, and under the supply of plankton predators, it grew rapidly.
But it did not bear incubation sacs. According to Lydia's secret statement, she controlled this base coral to fully eliminate the aberrant gene and cells that fused into it, and it would take about a day to get results.
"During this day, this base coral cannot be moved, otherwise it will wither directly due to divine poisoning, and Dole will have no hope. So are you okay?"
Lydia knew that the Sea Country had already suffered a defeat, so she was very worried that if the Nagas made a comeback, they would not be able to withstand this ruin.
Roger said confidently: "Don't worry, we are going to build a blockade here to make the Nagas who break into the territory of the Sea Country have no return!"
Shack nodded vigorously to support Roger's statement.
Dole's matter came to an end for the time being. Crown Prince Shack, who was full of vigor, secretly made a treaty request to Roger.
Whether the Sea Emperor in the future is him, or Dole who wakes up after recovery, the Sea Country will be an ally of the Green Vine Empire.
Without harming the basic life of the people of the Sea Country, the Sea Country and the Green Vine Empire will synchronize their offense and defense, open the market, and shall not actively collect tariffs on commodities.
That is, a certain degree of dependency. A more modern term can be called a semi-colony.
This was the ideal blueprint that the empire originally planned, but Shack took the initiative to say it. He had only one request:
He hoped that none of the expeditionary forces that passed through the Black Shark Fortress this time would return alive to the Naga's territory.
They have received news that the cruel and indiscriminate city massacre has already begun. Where can the ordinary people of the Sea Country escape the regular army with various mounts and magical means? No one can protect them, and they have all become toys under the enemy's iron hooves.
Roger pondered slightly, and agreed to Shack's request.
Although he didn't originally intend to execute Nicole in this battle, what she did did exceed Roger's estimate. Let her not return to the Naga's territory - there is another way to deal with it, which is to take her to the Green Vine Empire, right?
After the two sides signed a magic contract witnessed by the Source Sea, Roger also began to be open and honest with Shack, revealing more information and discussing the next battle.
First of all, Roger clearly told Shack that Nicole still had two Overlord Mushrooms more terrifying than the Hydrangea mushroom, which were strategic weapons with ten times greater destructive power.
Quantitative change produces qualitative change. Although this world also requires magic equivalent to that level, the preparation is troublesome and consumes a lot - the same defense difficulty is also incredibly terrible.
So the result is that the Sea Country collectively resists the means that can accidentally injure and defend against a five-million-ton Overlord Mushroom, especially in field battle state.
So the Nagas are preparing to use those two Overlord Mushrooms as a deterrent. After establishing fortifications at the landing point, they will blast open the blockade that the Sea Country will inevitably establish to achieve a substantial occupation of the landing point.
Otherwise, occupying a piece of enclave and circle there the saint is an unacceptable ending for the Nagas, and they will not be able to withstand it sooner or later.
But if a corridor is opened up like this, the territory of the Sea Country will be divided into two parts that cannot be connected from north to south. The already declining sea kingdom's imperial power will inevitably drastically decrease its control over the ocean.
At that time, the Nagas will adopt a method of co-opt in batches, and eat up the nobles and vassals here in batches. The complete fall of the Sea Country is just around the corner.
After conquering the Black Shark Fortress, the coordinate movement of the two Overlord Mushrooms also showed Nicole's intention, which was indeed as Roger expected.
After the unpredictable killer hidden者(hidden者: person) Collins, Nicole no longer had more tricks that exceeded Roger's calculations.
So at this time, the battle layout on the empire's side can be let go after receiving the surrender of the Sea Country, so the battle layout on Roger's side is actually better than before.
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The Naga expeditionary force is currently in a state of carnival.
The desire for land, the hatred for the elves who drove them into the sea, and the awe and love for the Sea God all make this victory particularly meaningful.
Saint Nicole issued an order to massacre the city, and her subordinates dispersed, but she and the military generals rushed to the coastline at the fastest speed.
They need to find a suitable place to quickly cast a semi-permanent fortress, hold, repair, and then open the road back to the Nagas.
At this time, the battle to expand the landing point can be considered finally completed.
Although the Nagas do not have base corals, modified creatures that can quickly grow a forest and also produce biochemical fish群(鱼群: fish schools), they have survived in the seabed for tens of thousands of years, and have inherited the magical civilization of the elves who produced Druids, and they also have ways to quickly build temporary fortresses.
That is the seed from the Elven World Tree preserved in the Naga Empress's ancient warehouse, which was polluted by another world magic after being researched by the Naga ancestors, and obtained the Dark Tree seed.
The large army behind has been scattered in the plains, attacking madly the surrounding villages and towns, plundering the wealth of the Sea Country, wantonly releasing the dark side of human nature, wielding butcher knives against those ordinary civilians, and any women with a little beauty will be raped.
Which is more important, the face or the legs? Facing the mermaid and fish-mermaid captives, the Nagas also fell into the confusion of aesthetics.
For such a force that has completely lost its humanity, even Nicole cannot restrain them for the time being, and can only abandon the large army and look for a place close enough and with advantageous terrain for defense with the military generals, and plant the Dark Tree in advance.
Of course, named tree, it has actually adapted to the underwater environment. Looking at it alone, it looks like a giant sea anemone, waving colorful tentacles.
However, in just over two hours, the Dark Tree grew to hundreds of meters tall, and at the same time, fruits bear under the tree.
These fruits quickly matured, and after landing, they gave birth to new tree species of the same kind as the Dark Book, but with spikes on their heads.
They are called Dark Guardians, and they are also typical alienated version of elven tree species. When they encounter enemies, they can shoot the tree species on their bodies. After they are fully mature, their power is equivalent to a heavy crossbow.
These are the subjects who guard the Dark Tree.
The cost of these tree species of the elves developing rapidly is that this land is rapidly barren, and other plants and animals are plundered of their vitality.
At the same time, a large number of Druids and other casters are constantly supplying magic power, and even vitality, to the Dark Tree.
Not only the Dark Tree, but also the genuine Tree of Life, its growth process is also such a somewhat evil picture, but the light effect may be more beautiful.
Although the elves in this world have slender and gentle bodies, they are not the beautiful and conservative races in the story.
On the contrary, elves are arrogant, conceited, cruel, and cold. They usually have extremely outstanding talents, and are also merciless to foreigners.
Elves generally have the most stubborn beliefs, but because of this stubbornness, their beliefs are easy to deteriorate and turn to other gods, and then they will originally thought stubbornness affects their appearance and directly change their racial characteristics.
To some extent, elves are excellent providers of faith power. The sheep flocks of the seven gods in many worlds are elves. If for the sake of reproduction speed, they will mix with humans to generate half-elves.
Even distorted elves such as Nagas and dark elves are still extremely pious to the gods they believe in.
After planting the Dark Tree, the generals of the expeditionary force were relieved, and Nicole walked into the ocean temple carried by the giant turtle to pray.
Other generals turned on magical communications to live stream the scene of their landing on the land to their families and relatives, and even the Naga Empress.
This is a very historically valuable scene. It stands to reason that it should be completed by Nicole, the commander at this time, and then the Naga Empress asked for credit.
She, a devout believer, is more eager to report good news to her gods. The empress's flattery will be left to those subordinates to please.
At this time, the overall mood of the Naga expeditionary force is quite high.
The Black Shark Fortress has been taken down, does the Sea Country have any comeback means?
Even if the Sea Country can still raise a large army to attack them, they also hold strategic weapons. As long as they defend this wave, time is on their side!
Although the Naga generals at this moment did not join the ranks of massacre, their heads are also fanatical.
They are very clear about how terrible the sudden fall of a fortress is for the morale of the Sea Country.
It's okay to capture, but just for no reason directly erased from the map, maybe the Sea Country can't find the next general who dares to fight against them!
The time for hurrying, the time for planting trees, every step has delayed a lot of time, and night slowly falls on the seabed.
Although it is quite dim here most of the time, the special deep-sea creatures that provide lighting seem to be able to sense the changes of the sun, indicating the day and night of the seabed.
Some of the soldiers who massacre have revealed to return to the camp of the Dark Tree, but there are more addicted to the indulgence after victory.
Nicole's order to massacre is before dawn tomorrow, then someone will definitely taking advantage of the time, enjoying it to the last second.
The excited Nagas did not notice that while they were enjoying the fruits of victory, an army had been breaking up into smaller units, with the determination to kill them all, scattered into the vast territory between the Black Shark Fortress and the Dark Tree.
The Naga army is here to massacre, while the Sea Country army is to save the people, and is fighting in its own territory. The intelligence of the two sides is not on the same level at all.
The people of the Sea Country will actively come forward to approach and ask for help when they see the mermaid royal flag waving, and then provide information and lead the Sea Country troops to encircle and annihilate the extremely vicious Nagas.
This time, Shack's troops carried with them the latest improved and modified fruits of the base coral: bone weapons.
Weapons have always been a great weakness of underwater races. The Naga clan has obtained the support of the Terra Kingdom, and has traded many times, but it can only arm the elite troops, and a large number of second-line troops still use traditional bone weapons and coral weapons.
These weapons are not necessarily inferior to metals. If they are the bones of some large sea beasts, the hardness and usability of certain parts are still above metals.
It's just that this special bone is also a rare item, so most bone weapons have the characteristics of not being durable enough and not sharp enough.
The Empire did not provide metal weapons to the Sea Country, but after Lydia regained her enthusiasm for work, she improved the base's coral based on the excellent bone weapon samples provided by the Sea Country.
As a result, in addition to suicide fish, different types of bone weapons also appeared in those hatching sacs.
They couldn't be said to be top-quality, or even have their own magical attributes, but at least they were comparable to the elite military-grade weapons on the ground.
Thus, the ordinary soldiers of the Sea Country and the frontline troops of the Nagas finally reached the same level of equipment.
The Sea Country soldiers, equipped with new weapons, possessing intelligence advantages, and harboring hatred for the invasion of their homeland, searched the world for those Nagas who were so happy that they forgot themselves...
It was a one-sided massacre.
It was just a righteous massacre, killing the Naga soldiers who attacked civilians!
The Nagas quickly discovered this unit hunting them, so they began to gather and assemble to resist the Sea Country's scattered pursuit.
Naturally, the Sea Country's troops were also gathering.
After Nicole learned of this news, understanding that the force relentlessly trailing them was Shark's unit, she revealed an impatient expression: "This is the last mobile force of the Sea Country, right?"
A Tyrant Fungus was deployed and moved towards the assembled Naga forces, sending it close to the Dark Tree...
Then, boom!
Chapter 205: Nicole's Confusion
In this wave, Roger's arrangement was actually very simple: to force the Naga's forces to gather, and they had to gather in order to resist the Sea Country's troops.
At this time, the Naga Expeditionary Force knew that the troops in Shark's hands were the last organized and most combat-effective mobile force of the Sea Country.
At the same time, they also held strategic weapons that could directly eliminate such a force.
At this time, the Naga commander, who was in a state of狂欢 celebrating the joy of victory, would definitely choose the simplest strategy: to eliminate the enemy sooner and rest sooner.