Chapter 271 Telephone and Chrysanthemum

Izhaks' roar echoed across the battlefield, shaking both sides to their core. Gregory, commander of the Holy See's coalition forces, gripped his longsword, wary, while whispering to his adjutant, "What is a telephone?"

On the other side, Seraton gripped his war blade and roared at the demon officers behind him, "Quickly, go investigate what 'chrysanthemum' means!"

On the walls of the Demon King's city, Hao Ren and the others were still dumbfounded, frozen in place. After a long while, Vivian finally reacted, looking strangely at Izhaks. "Big guy... You could call this your tactic, I guess..."

As it turned out, Izhaks had been inevitably contaminated during his half-year stay on Earth. The former Demon King had learned a bunch of terms that only Earthlings understood. Even worse, due to the difference in worldviews, Izhaks wouldn't feel anything wrong even if he knew the meaning of these words. He completely understood the literal meaning of these things, so when he roared it out, the expression on his face was still particularly serious...

The coalition forces accelerated their advance. More and more magic-guided giant cannons completed charging and calibration and were put into the bombing of the Demon King's city. But just when they thought they had the victory and the Demon King's army's revival would be a flash in the pan, a strange, sharp scream suddenly came from afar!

The western horizon suddenly lit up with a silver-gray light. Countless white and orange-red light bullets poured out from that light like a sudden rainstorm. The Holy See's coalition forces and the demon legions were caught off guard. They were in a panic in the face of this sudden "celestial phenomenon," and the rear of the formation instantly turned into a sea of fire.

"Silver-gray monsters..." Gregory saw the steel warships appearing in the sky and finally realized what was happening. These strange things that had flown from who-knows-where charged straight here, not firing a single shot at the sentries and guards along the way, but now baring their fangs. Combined with the sudden appearance of the Demon King's city—there was no doubt that the two were connected!

But the Erem Elves' fleet arrived too quickly, not even slower than those magic-guided communications that needed layers of jumps and transfers. Gregory didn't have time to make any analysis or reaction when he learned of this news. Now he could only quickly organize the army to defend: "All units, spread out your military formations and shields! Scatter the squads!"

The coalition forces quickly changed their formation, with each race's troops forming a military formation, opening magical shields, and quickly dispersing. The magic-guided giant cannons turned their muzzles to aim at the sky and launched a counterattack. Griffin knights and magisters also took off to intercept those strange steel monsters.

A strange battle that had never happened in this world broke out.

Plasma jets emitted dazzling white light across the earth. The floating stones in the sky above the plain were blasted into pieces by the high temperature like firecrackers. Demons who couldn't dodge were turned into coke in the blink of an eye under the scorching heat of the plasma. Seraton ordered the opening of the army-level demon shield, directing the Fel cannons to launch a counterattack while looking in the direction of the Demon King's city. What he saw next was unforgettable for everyone present:

The black curtain behind the Demon King's city had been expanded to a heaven-reaching size, like a dark wall hanging from the sky. The curtain vaguely revealed a twisted and grotesque scene from another space. And several prism-shaped silver-gray steel monsters somehow bypassed all the army's anti-aircraft fire, even bypassing everyone's attention. Now they were slowly flying out of that alien space, and behind each aircraft, countless illusory traction beams could be seen dragging something.

When the behemoth behind the traction beam finally revealed its true face, the whole world seemed to bend over under the pressure of some heavy aura.

It was like a mountain floating in the air, a giant city flying across the clouds, even a piece of alien continent moving above everyone's heads. The ancient spaceship wreckage was covered with the mottled scars of past disasters, and the armor belts that stretched for kilometer after kilometer pressed on everyone's heart—including every demon's heart—like an inverted steel earth. The huge central hole and tentacle ruins on the wreckage made those who saw this thing for the first time feel an unspeakable sense of horror.

The hundreds of kilometers long ancient space fortress floated in the air under the maintenance of the anti-gravity field, leaving the alien space seemingly slowly but actually fast. When the Erem Elves' spaceship first appeared, it was an indescribable behemoth to the people on the battlefield, but now that this real big guy appeared, the Erem spaceship was as inconspicuous as a swarm of bees in front of this monster.

The giant ship blocked the sunlight, and the entire Broken Plains fell into the night. Under the almost boundless shadow, only the light from the plasma beams and the explosion of the heat radiation missiles reminded everyone: the battle was still going on.

A small missile flew from the side. Gregory instinctively raised his longsword and slashed down with all his might. The brilliant holy light surged a hundred meters and detonated the missile in mid-air. The exploding shrapnel and shock wave were barely intercepted by the magic shield above the position. But behind this missile, countless locust-like missiles were whistling towards him.

A powerful paladin leader can deal with a missile, but the Erem Elves brought overwhelming, cross-era firepower.

But these missiles were not aimed at him, but at the magic-guided giant cannon position behind him: Hao Ren was right, although the Erem Elves' technology was at the zenith star level in this world, the strange war skills of this world were not decorations either. Those magic-guided giant cannons were a threat.

At least they were a threat to the space fortress in the sky, which lacked shields, had many broken armor plates, and was reinforced with rivets and superglue.

Gregory also quickly realized this. He suddenly realized that the Demon King's city was not the protagonist today. The real protagonist was probably the "steel continent" floating out of the alien space.

What was that thing?

Gregory, Seraton, Banu Klark, and all the legion commanders on the scene thought of this question at the same time: Was it the Demon King's capital for making a comeback? Some kind of super weapon? The legacy of another ancient demon? Or was it the source of the Mad Demon King's power?

Were those silver-gray monsters in the sky an army summoned by the Demon King from another world?

Gregory raised his longsword and pointed it at the huge and clumsy steel behemoth in the sky: "Shoot it down!"

"This will cause huge casualties!" His adjutant looked up in horror. The hundreds of kilometers long shadow could completely cover the entire Broken Plains. It was moving like a continent above everyone's heads. Once it was really shot down, even considering that its trajectory would be inclined to the west of the plain, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Gregory stared into the adjutant's eyes: "I said—shoot it down! Where did the resolve to detonate with the Demon King's city go?!"

At the same time, the demon legions were making the same decision: the Fel cannons had all turned their targets, and countless turbid green energy balls began to bombard the giant fortress in the sky. At that moment, the bottom of the giant fortress seemed to be plated with a layer of green light, and the entire wreckage, which was already structurally unstable, vibrated violently.

Behind the Fel cannons was a silver-white fire net woven from arcane flames.

Looking at the chaotic battlefield below, Izhaks raised his demon sword: "Soldiers, follow me to destroy those Fel cannons!"

"I'll take care of the human artillery positions," Wim's voice came from the communicator. "The wreckage structure is worse than expected. The tugboat is accelerating. I hope you can help suppress the remaining anti-aircraft fire."

The spaceship wreckage slowly accelerated under the drag of the towing ship, heading towards the portal in the west. The Petrified Turtle Rock wanted to show off for a while, but it ran away to open the door: Only it in the fleet could expand the portal enough for the giant ship to pass through, so it had to run at the front of the fleet as the lead ship.

The Erem frigate squadron began to bombard the Holy See's coalition forces' artillery positions, and small fighters began to entangle with those magisters and griffin knights, looking like they had a firm upper hand. And Izhaks and the others jumped directly from the high walls of the Demon King's city, along with a large group of demons and obsidian colossi rushing out of the portals below the city. This powerful joint army began to rush towards Seraton and Banu Klark's legions with a crushing momentum.

Plasma cannons that were once used to cut through sky island facilities, photon turrets that were used to destroy runaway corona stations, material disintegration beams that were used to dismantle abandoned floating islands... These "armed spaceships" of the Erem Elves could actually be called engineering machinery, but in the face of a technological gap spanning several eras, even mining engineering equipment was a doomsday weapon!

Griffin knights were entangled with advanced fighters, magic-guided giant cannons were facing off against anti-gravity frigates, alien spaceships occupied the sky, magicians and knights released magic and holy light amidst the hail of bullets, and an unprecedented battle scene broke out on this alien battlefield. (Want to know more exciting news about "Living With an Abnormal"? Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends, add the public account by searching for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the public account, and you will never miss every update!)