The biggest advantage of Seagull was that it produced almost no noise during accelerated flight, making it ideal for ambushing opponents from behind.
After passing through the clouds, the glider bypassed the mountains like a ghost, silently approaching the rear of the battlefield – at this moment, the defense line of the blocking force had been completely broken up, and the soldiers could only fight and retreat on their own. If it were any other army, facing a situation without unified command, they would probably have already collapsed.
However, the situation for the First Army was still not optimistic. Once they lost their firepower advantage, the cost of eliminating the Spider Demons, who also possessed long-range attack methods, would increase exponentially, not to mention the Black Armor Devil, who was as agile as a monster.
With her spyglass, Andrea could now observe the opponent's appearance more clearly – apart from the armor covered with patterns, exaggerated in shape and bizarre, it was also wielding a huge halberd, making it look like a heavy-armored warrior. But the agility it displayed far exceeded that of a charging knight, and it could change direction at any time, as if its armor and weapons had no weight at all.
For Andrea, this was also the most difficult opponent to deal with.
"What's the distance now?"
"Nineteen hundred meters..." Sylvie's tone was full of tension, "How is it? Can you hit it?"
"No," she licked her somewhat dry lips, "We need to get a little closer."
During this process, Andrea had silently activated her ability several times. The overlapping silver threads in her vision had changed from the initial one or two to being visible everywhere – this meant that she had more than a dozen ways to fire this guaranteed shot, as long as the target was "cooperative" enough. Once she pulled the trigger, the point of impact would be determined, but in the few seconds that the bullet was flying, no one knew what the opponent would do.
If it were an ordinary gun, she could fire continuously, using quantity to eliminate probability, but the firing interval of this large-caliber sniper rifle was extremely long, and she couldn't risk using precious God's Punishment Stone bullets on the off chance.
Therefore, the safest approach was to compress the flight time of the bullet as much as possible, so that the target would tend to be "still" during the interval between firing and hitting.
"Fifteen hundred meters!" Sylvie couldn't help but grab the corner of her clothes.
"Seagull turn, watch out for the tilt!" Wendy reminded.
Within this distance, it was possible to distinguish the glider from large raptors with the naked eye. Although no one would pay special attention to the movements in the sky on the intense battlefield, all the witches' hearts were hanging. Even though they knew that the enemy couldn't hear the sounds from high altitude, they still slowed their breathing.
"Thirteen hundred meters!" Sylvie shouted.
"Closer!" Andrea put her finger on the trigger. One second was more than enough for most targets, but this time the opponent was, after all, a Great Lord-level devil, and she didn't want any accidents to happen.
"Eleven hundred meters!"
"Sasha, watch the stick angle, I can't pull it up anymore!"
"Nine hundred—"
At that moment, Andrea activated her ability.
Countless silver threads almost filled her entire vision, finally converging into a dazzling beam of light – within this distance, the influence of wind direction and gravity was negligible.
"What you see is what you get," she murmured softly, then pulled the trigger.
Almost at the same time, the Slayer also noticed the anomaly through the reaction of the First Army soldiers. It turned around abruptly and discovered the glider passing overhead – the moment the muzzle flashed, the God's Punishment Stone bullet had already arrived in front of it. Even if it was agile, it was too late to dodge!
With a loud "boom," a cloud of air exploded in front of the Slayer, and the strong impact lifted it away. The dark clouds in the sky also quickly dissipated, like ice and snow under the scorching sun.
"Success?" Wendy asked anxiously.
Sylvie's face was pale, "No... I'm afraid that shot didn't hit the enemy."
"How could that be?" Andrea gritted her teeth and slapped a piece of demonized bandage on her shoulder, "I clearly saw that it was completely unaware when I fired—"
Sylvie didn't know how to answer for a moment. Her ability couldn't penetrate the shielding of the God's Punishment Stone, so she couldn't know what exactly happened at that moment. But she did see that just as the black light of the Godstone bullet approached the Slayer, the surrounding scenery underwent a slight distortion, as if something was separating it from the bullet. Afterwards, the black light suddenly shattered into several pieces, instead of piercing straight through the target's chest as it had in the past.
"Stop arguing, what's the target's condition?" Sasha interjected.
"It... it's getting up."
Sylvie said with difficulty.
Through the Eye of Magic, she saw that the attack had left several obvious scars on the black armor. That should have been caused by the shattered Godstones, and the most obvious damage was to the head – half of the Slayer's towering spire helmet had been shattered, revealing half of its cold face below.
Regardless of the reason for all of this, the fact that the opponent could still stand up already explained the result.
"Sylvie, help me reload!" Andrea shouted.
"We don't have any God's Punishment bullets anymore..."
"Then use ordinary ones," she insisted, "Since the Slayer can still activate its abilities in this situation, doesn't that mean that the Godstone bullets are no longer that significant? Just as long as we can fire them!"
"The sky is clouding over again!" Sasha yelled, "Is this guy never going to stop?"
Sylvie pushed the half-arm-length "bullet" into the chamber, "But it's already noticed us now, if we try again—"
"That's why I'm going to take this shot!" Andrea roared, "If we run away like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to fly out of this cloud area!"
The Slayer, who had stood up again, raised its halberd high, its eyes revealing a ferocious red light.
A dull thunder rumbled across the entire valley.
"Reload complete!"
"Wendy, hold the direction steady!" Andrea aimed at the target, and silver threads once again connected the target and the muzzle. This time, regardless of the stinging pain in her shoulder, she pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Perhaps realizing that danger was approaching, the Slayer leaped to the side and swung its halberd at the same time!
This time, Sylvie finally saw the true appearance of those distorted things—
They were thin and transparent, like cicada wings, but they were definitely not real cicada wings. Under the shaping of magic power, they were superior to any blade, and they spontaneously hovered around the Slayer.
Even though the landing point of the bullet was empty, they still reacted. Several of them directly slashed at the bullet's flight path, and the rest formed a wall of blades around the Devil Great Lord.
The air wave of the explosion appeared once again, and stirred up a patch of snow mist. At this moment, a distorted golden streamer split through the sky and shattered the Seagull's left wing.
The glider suddenly lost its balance and tumbled towards the foot of the mountain—
...
Half an hour later, the shadow of the God of Creation enveloped the Mountains of Impasse.
As the gate at the bottom of the land was opened, a large number of mayflies poured down like a waterfall, rushing east and west along the valley.
Silence of Disaster took off his broken helmet and bathed in the comfortable and humid air.
Although there were still remnants of human forces resisting at this moment, it was no longer a matter of overall importance. After noticing the appearance of new enemy forces, Mask fired three more active spears – the enemy probably didn't expect that the bottom of the God of Creation also contained hidden shooting tunnels, and that the direct-hit stone pillars were far more lethal than parabolic shots. After being crushed by three thick spear shafts, it was difficult for humans to organize an effective counterattack again.
Next, these symbionts would tirelessly search for those fleeing survivors before their magic power was exhausted, until they were all eliminated.
The iron birds had also tried to cover the retreat of the humans on the ground. One of the red monoplane birds had caused it quite a bit of trouble – not only did the divine will fail to shoot down the target several times, but it also consumed a lot of magic power from the opponent's strafing. In terms of speed and reaction agility, it was far superior to other iron birds. But they didn't seem suitable for long-term combat, and were eventually repelled by himself and the Winged Beast working together.
Without a doubt, this was a victory for the clan.