"Boss, don't lie to us. The reinforcements we sent to support the Sixteenth Army Group have already lost contact. Where are our reinforcements nearby? This area only has our fortress left."

As soon as these words came out, they were immediately echoed by countless others.

"..."

"Commander, we've already made our resolve. You don't need to worry about us being afraid. If we were afraid, we wouldn't be fighting here."

"That's right..."

Opening her mouth, she really wanted to say that there were indeed reinforcements! She had heard that even their new Empress had personally led the army.

That ruthless person who single-handedly subdued the entire council, forcing them to change from a republic to a monarchy.

If Her Majesty the Empress came, she would definitely be very strong.

It wasn't that he had seen Lin Mo; he really hadn't seen her, not even a portrait.

But that didn't stop him from knowing what was going on internally.

He looked at his subordinates, his brothers, who were all fired up.

He had already secretly made up his mind. Rumor had it that the Empress was a bloodthirsty demon who liked to eat young girls to maintain her beauty, a cruel butcher.

It was said that the Empress attacked the council because there weren't enough resources for young girls.

Moreover, it was said that the Empress wouldn't use her privileges, as long as there were enough pretty girls, the Empress wouldn't interfere with the normal operation of the council.

No matter what kind of person the Empress was, as long as she could save his men, he would offer her absolute loyalty, even if the Empress was a very unreliable one.

"Everyone! Prepare for close combat! Each person fights for half an hour and then returns to recover mana. Don't get bogged down in fighting, conserve your strength, don't focus on killing enemies, and protect yourselves!"

"Wait! Boss, is someone really coming to save us?!"

Everyone's eyes lit up instantly. Who would want to die if they could live? They had families of their own.

Seeing the man nod, everyone cheered instantly, and the atmosphere of battle rose sharply.

"What are you doing! Hurry up! I finished charging two minutes ago! Can you guys launching the boulders be any faster!"

"Haha, isn't this the same guy who was shouting that he didn't have a single drop left just now?"

"Stop talking and launch it quickly! I can't wait to charge the next one!"

Similar scenes were playing out one after another. The allure of survival gave these soldiers, who had originally resigned themselves to death, the motivation to live and fight again.

It was fighting, not a beastly counterattack before death.

"The left third mamian (a defensive structure protruding from the city wall, used to attack enemies climbing the wall from the side) has been breached! Reinforcements needed immediately!"

With a roar, several mages who had finished charging ran over.

"What's the use of you guys going over there? Come back quickly!"

The response was a big international friendly gesture, and a flamboyant smile on their faces.

"Those two guys!"

The mages who inscribed the town runes on the boulders... besides inscribing that one town rune, they basically didn't know any other magic. The council only wanted to cultivate human-shaped loading machines that could launch boulders, not all-around mages.

Instead of cultivating their comprehensive abilities, it would be better to use those resources to strengthen the defending soldiers.

So...

"Brother, what's written in this book? I recognize the individual words, but I can't understand them when they're put together!"

"...I don't know either. Let me see. This is about explosions and isolations, all sorts of things..."

The two were traveling while taking out basic magic theory books, trying to learn some offensive magic, otherwise, the two mages would really have to fight the earth dragons with their bare fists!

"Oh! I think I can learn this one!"

"Let me see!"

"Look! This is almost exactly the same as the town runes we usually use. Wait, this is explosion magic? Holy crap, this book even has this?"

"It's this one! It feels even more powerful than our town runes!"

"Haha, let's try one, damn it."

The two came to the outside of the city wall, looked at the dense earth dragons below, which were still becoming more and more dense, and took a deep breath.

"Brother, is this really okay? We two won't collapse the city wall with one blast, will we..."

"How is that possible? Just the two of us, even if we self-destructed, we wouldn't be able to collapse this place. Alright, let's hurry up!"

"Let me see the technique, oh, here it is!"

Closing the book, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly upward.

【Darkness, merge with my radiance! The moment of awakening has arrived! ...】

"Holy crap, what are those two doing? Such a big commotion."

The many warriors who were originally going to help all quietly took a step back.

These two were pure newbies, not to mention newbies using explosion magic, even experienced drivers wouldn't dare to ride in a car driven by a newbie driver who had just passed their driving test!

Not only that, but even the earth dragons below took two steps back. This magic was not simple!

How could the momentum be so great? If it were to hit their heads, that would be terrible, they would turn into roasted earth dragons on the spot!

Retreat, don't come over!

But could they stop it?

The earth dragons in front were just afraid, but those behind were really in the crossfire, and a fireball could fall at their feet at any time.

Could they endure this? Of course not!

Move forward a little! Hurry up!

It was just like when queuing up in the underworld, when it was always your turn and you were sweating anxiously~

【Irresistible power of destruction!】

By this point, the explosion mage had been completed!

The man casting the spell breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the huge red fireball above his head, at least three meters in diameter, no, the inside of the fireball was already black!

The sound of neat applause rang out around them. Amazing!

A genius had appeared among their comrades! A genius who could use explosion magic after only reading it once!

Boom!

The red sphere of light shook violently, and then immediately fell downwards.

"Holy crap! Awesome! I feel like this one blast can blow all those earth dragons away!"

"Not only that, I remember that this explosion mage is known as the strongest offensive magic that humans can cast! A mere city-breaking level magic can compete with other techniques like divine descension."

"Good lord!"

Watching explosions was a man's pleasure, and at this moment, it didn't seem so dangerous anymore~

The earth dragons of the abyss widened their eyes in shock, retreating violently, wanting to escape but unable to escape, they could only quietly watch the thing fall on their faces.

So hot! So scalding! Am I going to die!

Huh?

Wait, what's wrong? Other than being warm, there's no other feeling! This is about the same as when you accidentally add too much hot water when taking a bath. There's no damage at all!

The man casting the spell was also stunned for a moment, "Brother? What's going on? I thought it was going to explode? Why is it..."

"I don't know either..."

How could it be? The sphere that was melting and cracking like creamy chocolate below actually didn't explode?

"Wait! They're actually eating it!"

"...Maybe it's all my magic inside." His smile looked a little stiff, this was bad, not only did they fail to hit the enemy, they even gave them a buff!

To put it bluntly, this was helping the enemy!

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