Chapter 471: The First Battle
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
An enormous team that consisted of about 2000 card artisans escorting over 300 transport shuttles, was flying slowly in the air. These shuttles were not ordinary transport shuttles. They were specifically designed to carry tremendous amount of weight. The amount of cargos they were carrying was enormous.
“The separator was a real pity”, said Xi Ping sadly.
“Boss really did put in a lot of effort in manufacturing them.”
All the separators were completely destroyed, not even scraps were left. All the cards inside them had been removed. All the buildings at the base were destroyed completely without a trace. Not a single Starfish Fort was left unscathed. In addition, even the small igloos were all destroyed. There was nothing left but ruins.
“Out with the old, in with the new”, said Bogner casually while opening up his sleepy eyes.
After the modification done to the transport shuttles, their defense and mobility had been upgraded considerably. Judging from their appearance, they look exactly the same as any other ordinary shuttles. Apart from Xi Ping and Bogner, Sue Lochiro, Jiang Liang, and Ru Chiu, all the core members of the base were here.
Sue Lochiro was communicating with her medical card artisans with a communication card.
After the constant recruitment drive, she had already recruited over 50 medical card artisans! She treated these medical card artisans without any reserve. The foundation of these medical card artisans were already solid, Therefore, throughout this period of training, all of their skills had increased considerably.
With their standards, anyone of them would be capable in becoming the backbone of an Medical Card Organization organization if they were to leave. However, all five of them had decided to stay as expected. Even if the nurses were to learn a few skills, they could even become the head of all the nurses, or even higher position if they were to work in any other hospitals.
However, they were inexperienced in real combat after all. Therefore, they were nervous. Sue Lochiro was still trying to ease their minds. She was gentle and her voice was soft. However, her prestige among the medical card artisans was one of a kind. At this moment, there was not even a slightest hint of nervosity showed in her face, as though she was going for a vacation. With the influence by her attitude, her subordinate medical card artisans managed to quickly calm themselves down.
Ru Chiu was staring at the small light screen in front of her. All of the information shown on it were given by Mu Chen. This was a completely different architecture from what she had learnt. There was too much information squeezing inside. There were still a lot of things she needed to understand. She had completely immersed into the world of card making, causing she to ignore all the conversations happening in the surrounding. However, all of them had already got used to her obsession.
Jiang Liang was sitting still with a stern look. Right in front of him, it was a small monitor screen. He was giving out brief instruction to his people on the other side of the screen from time to time.
“There is a group of artisans in 100 km ahead, with 800 of them.” The Unibrow boy appeared in the screen with his unique long and saturated eyebrows, giving a brief report of their situation. As soon as he finished his words, he immediately disappeared from the screen.
As the only heir to the assassination card artisan team, [Cross Night], his sneaking and scouting abilities were the best among them all in the base. The improvement between him and Lu Xiaoru were of the top among the crowd. However, the greatest improvement award would be granted to Jiang Liang, without a doubt. The Snow Pit Method seemed to fit him very well. Not only his wounds had recovered, his senses were enhanced unbelievably.
Jiang Liang turned his sights towards Bogner and Bogner seemed to have noticed. He waved his hand lazily and said, “A nobody like you shouldn’t bother me.”
Jiang Liang turned his head back and sat up straight. His expression was still as strict as usual, but his voice was full of the intention to kill.
“Attention all units, prepare for battle!”
All the card artisans immediately changed their formation, splitting into several squads, with two to three members in each squad. Apart from the card artisans who were guarding the shuttles, the rest of the card artisans had split up and got into a sparse formation. If one were to looked from a higher place, he would notice that they had turned into an arc shape formation.
Lu Xiaoru was the team leader of the guards. She was standing on the top of the shuttle. Her gorgeous look with the tight combat suit that squeezed tightly with her luscious body made her look extremely ruthless, but she could still have that charming and brave look. She was staring at the front with full attention while Crow Feather, Happy Padding, and Lucky Xi was following closely behind her.
“How I wished to slaughtered some enemies in the frontier!” Happy Padding squinted his small eyes, while showing his intense killing intent all over his face.
Lucky Xi pushed his spectacles and laughed softly, “Beware Big Sister’s temper. We are her bodyguards and our mission is to protect the shuttle. Isn’t that right, Crow Feather?”
Crow Feather laughed and said coarsely, “Haha, I abide whatever the Big Sis told me to do.”
“Humph!” Happy Padding’s sights were brimming with killing intent. He cracked his knuckles and said, “Xi, you’re too much of a sissy. Real man should kill constantly! I feel excited just by thinking about the war with the Downstream Alliance in the past!”
“You are crazy!” Lucky Xi shook his head while showing a helpless look. He smiled softly and said, “However, you should be able to kill as much as you want this time! These small fries in front of us are only appetizers.”
“Hehe, you’re right. It’s a pity the boss isn’t here. Fighting with him would really make my adrenaline level go overload !”
Listening to the voice from behind, Lu Xiaoru’s expression did not go through any changes. She only looked at a far end and her mind only appeared a young man.
Card artisans began to appear in front. There were about 800 card artisans hovering in the air and they were like a dark shaping mass by seeing from afar.
One of the card artisans came to the front. He then tried to tell them something from afar through the sound wave card.
“This is the land of Dawei Card Artisan Team. No one is allowed to enter through this path. Please leave…”
Without waiting for him to finish his words, an emotionless voice came into the ears of all the Snow Silkworm Card Artisans. “Attack!”
As soon as the voice ended, countless flames with size of a thumb suddenly appeared in the sky. The outer layer of the flames was bright red but the inner part was glowing with a ghostly blue colour. The flames were covering the entire sky, turning it into a sea of fire!
The card artisans of Dawei Card Artisan Team were stunned.
“How dare these maniacs attacked without a single word? Are they insane?”
However, they did not have anymore time to think. Their first reaction after witnessing such a terrifying attack was to create an energy barrier! Such frightening flames around them would be enough to engulf all of them. Even the card artisans with outstanding flying capability had decided to create an energy barrier because such condensed attack would leave them nowhere to escape!
However, they believed that since the opponents were able to cast such amazing number of energy, then the damage dealt by the flames should be low.
The flames were like a swarm of bees, flying towards the card artisans!
A single [Oudi Burner] card could release a thousand of these small flames. Moreover, there were 300 squads there using [Oudi Burner] this time, which would mean that there were 300,000 fireballs in the sky! 300,000 flames were enough to cover such enormous surface area of the battlefield, which was indeed a incredible number.
This would be the true appearance of [Oudi Burner]. This battle had pushed this terrifying card towards the federation stage.
Under the rain of flames, all of them were dyed in red.
When the flames got into contact with the barrier, it released a soft ‘Boom’. The impact done to the energy barrier was less effective. Therefore, the card artisans of the David Card Artisan Group suddenly felt relieved.
These flames were as weak as we had expected!
“Haha, you dare to attack us with something like this? This is the standard of the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team huh!”
“Humph. You dare look down upon us?”
…
The card artisans of the David Card Artisan Team were laughing. They thought that the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team was unworthy of the name. “What can you do with such powerless attack?”
On the other hand, some elites from the David Card Artisan Team did not laugh along. They looked confused and worried as if they had known something was wrong in their minds. The name of the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team was not given by others. It was them who earned their name by stepping across the corpses of the Downstream Alliance. It would be impossible for them to be considered as weak.
They did not actually wanted to raise any conflict with the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team, not a single force in the area would be willing to raise a conflict with them. The abilities they had shown was astonishing and terrifying.
The Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team owned strong financial capabilities and powerful fighting capabilities. A card artisan team like this would have the potential to become a major force in the continent.
The Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team did not show any intention of expanding their territory. This made the other forces felt relieved. However, this time, the appearance of the Blood Red Card Artisan Team had gathered all the surrounding forces to fight against them. At that moment, they would realize that this would be the end for the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team.
Although they were under pressure from the Blood Red Card Artisan Team, they also hoped that the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Team would be eliminated. With such a strong presence beside them, that would definitely be a threat to all of them although they did not show any intention of expanding their territory.
Right at this moment, someone had finally noticed something strange.
“Hm? Something’s wrong. Why are these flames imperishable?”
“Everyone be careful. There is something strange with these flames!”
…
Suddenly, there was a chaos. They realized that the flames sticking on their energy barriers were not extinguishing. One of the card artisans with detailed perception suddenly realized and said, “This is bad. It is absorbing the energy of our barrier!”
As soon as the words dropped, the situation became even worse! Flames that could absorb the barrier’s energy…
Although they were not extremely experienced in battle, most of them had already experienced real combats. Therefore, they could clearly know the meaning reflected. All of them was surprised! However, with more understanding towards their situation, the more fear they got , causing them to gone out of control.
No one dared to cancel the energy barrier because as soon as they removed the barrier, they would have to face these terrifying flames directly in the next second. They needed time to switch their cards. However, these lethal flames were in a distance less than half a meter towards them.
By looking at the flames dancing on the energy barriers, they could feel that its energy level was depleting rapidly. At the same time, they could almost hear the footsteps of the death reaper, slowly walking towards them.
Fear and death had rendered them, causing them to be unable to escape.
The first match of the [Oudi Burner] had gracefully begun!