The First Magic World War-Chapter 624 - Wake up and conquer the world with your king
Chapter 624: Wake up and conquer the world with your king.
Chapter 624: Wake up and conquer the world with your king.
Charles had simply acted on a whimsical impulse, but he hadn’t expected that this spur-of-the-moment decision would turn out to be remarkably effective.
He quickly secured a foothold along the coastline of Mazon Kingdom!
However, the Emilia Vessel couldn’t come ashore, which led to the fact that…
Once the vegetation along the coast was cleared, the Holy Light Divine State Title turned into the main force in “digesting” these sinister plants.
Charles transformed the Holy Light Divine State Title into a golden ring, brought it onto land, and then released it.
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Without him or the other Sacred-level individuals having to lift a finger, the Holy Light Divine State Title could automatically “cleanse” the nearby area of several square kilometers.
After maze-ifying the cleared land, Charles repeated the previous process, and soon, the Holy Light Divine State Title could cleanse another section of land spanning several square kilometers.
Although this method was somewhat simplistic, it was truly effective; however, the Sacred-level individuals following Charles quickly started to complain incessantly.
Once Charles had “reclaimed” a port, he quickly put a stop to this laborious task.
After all, those of the Sacred level are not meant for menial work.
Moreover, he already had a better approach; after all, felling trees didn’t require the powerful labor of Sacred-level “workers.”
Charles announced the cessation of the tree-cutting effort, and his Sacred-level subordinates cheered and leaped for joy.
They held a celebration that night, reveling into the wee hours.
The following day, everyone woke up to see a massive fleet of ships on the sea, their sails billowing like clouds!
Charles had dispatched ten thousand Westwind Knights and thirty thousand support personnel from Mecklenburg.
What Charles was looking forward to, in particular, was the arrival of the newly-constructed fleet of Land Battleships and Centurions alongside the ships.
Charles had already found Shawn Connor and extended a generous offer, prompting him to lead a team to Mecklenburg to establish a new Alchemy workshop.
After obtaining the Jade Scroll, Charles also entrusted the blueprint designs of the Land Battleships and Centurions to the Great Emerald Library, where the ancient alchemists quickly grasped the design concepts of the two blueprints and produced a new set of designs.
With the full support of Mecklenburg, Shawn Connor’s Blue Magpie Workshop swiftly created prototype machines.
After several tests and improvements, they finalized a mass-production model.
The few hundred Aegeus Charles initially invested was only sufficient to perfect the blueprints.
From improving the designs to relocating the Blue Magpie Workshop and investing resources to construct the mass-production models of the Land Battleships and Centurions, Charles spent tens of thousands of Aegeus in total.
And that was just the initial investment—further improvements and large-scale production would certainly demand even higher investments.
However, war was always a contest of spending, and Charles believed that as long as the Land Battleships and Centurions demonstrated their might on the battlefield, they would secure numerous orders from various countries, thereby allowing Mecklenburg’s alchemy industry to enter a virtuous cycle.
When the fleet unloaded the Land Battleships and Centurions one by one, driving and leaping off into the sea, and then reemerging from the water to advance silently onto the land, the sense of awe was incomparable.
The Magical Arrays atop the Land Battleships glowed with a blood-red phantom light, and these alchemical creations exuded a fierce presence the land had never before witnessed.
Centurions followed closely behind, one after the other.
Charles, though not conversant with military affairs, was at least not so foolish as to be unaware of tactics such as coordinated infantry and tank operations.
Land battleships were formidable, but when combined with centurions, they became unstoppable.
The centurions, relying on the land battleships, also saw a significant increase in their battlefield survivability.
These centurions, although similar in design to those crafted by William Triton, had vastly different internal structures.
Their bellies were hollow, allowing riders to sit or stand inside, with foot pedals to control the centurion’s forward movement, retreat, turning, and sprinting.
Riders operating the centurions carried a knight’s spear, an alchemical rifle with five hundred rounds, and some even prepared additional weapons like combat sabers, handguns, grappling hooks, bows and arrows, and throwing knives.
The first batch of produced land battleships numbered only twelve, and a little more than a hundred centurions had been made, all of which Charles had brought with him.
So far, to operate the land battleships or to command the centurions, one needed to be at least of the first rank among the Transcendents.
Thanks to Charles’s promotion of the Beast God Shapeshifting Art, the low-level Transcendents in his Westwind Knights outnumbered those in other nobles’ knighthoods, so there was no shortage of personnel to drive the land battleships and control the centurions.
When this mini-steel torrent appeared upon the land, even Charles’s sacred-level subordinates slightly changed their expressions.
They knew that despite their limitations in firepower, neither the land battleships nor the centurions could threaten those of the sacred level, but even they found it difficult to damage the land battleships, as the magic array’s defenses were headache-inducing even for sacred-level beings.
With the protection of land battleships, the centurions on the battlefield had become a force that could not be ignored.
They almost had the destructive power comparable to that of the sacred level.
However, while sacred-level beings were rare, land battleships and centurions could be mass-produced – the two simply couldn’t be compared.
With the arrival of tens of thousands of Westwind Knights, Charles had found his main force for “tree-cutting,” and both the land battleships and the centurions boasted impressive mobility.
Well, at least in terms of transport capability, they wouldn’t lose out to a hand-held tractor.
Their efficiency in cutting trees even surpassed that of the sacred-level beings, as those sacred-level beings had never done hard labor and would often slack off, while the regular soldiers, bound by strict military discipline and orders, were much more obedient and willing to work hard than the sacred-level beings.
A slight trembling emanated from the former Royal Family’s Imperial Palace in the center of Manise City.
Zimmerman had awoken, her pretty face twisted in pain, and soon “exploded,” with another Zimmerman stepping out of the void, looking refreshed and significantly more powerful than during the last battle with Charles and his companions.
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Zimmerman cast a long glance toward the sea and couldn’t help remarking, “This Mr.
Charles Mecklen sure knows how to keep me on my toes.
How did he come up with the idea of cutting trees?”
“Mazon may be a small kingdom, but at his pace, it would probably take decades.”
“No need for decades, in one day, I can push through the Old Continent and truly ascend to the divine level.”
“Let’s not worry about him for now.”
Zimmerman’s arms shook, and he called out loudly, “My tree deities!
Awaken and follow your king to conquer this world!”
Countless slumbering tree deities trembled slightly, slowly pulling their deeply buried roots out of the ground.
These half-human, half-plant evil wraiths gently ascended into the sky, and in various parts of Manise City, residents transformed by the curse steadily converged toward the Imperial Palace, assembling into a formidable army.
