The First Magic World War-Chapter 657 - 622, New Weapons, New War

Chapter 657: 622, New Weapons, New War Chapter 657: 622, New Weapons, New War Charles learned from Tumishen of the Leopard People about the origin of this Evil God, called Gampas!

It was a monster resembling a ball of flesh but with countless tentacles, stretching for dozens of kilometers, and most importantly, this creature could fly, making it extremely difficult to handle.

Charles tried to lure the opponent out by leaving his domain, where it would be easier to handle, but the Evil God seemed rooted there, unmoving.

Charles attempted a few times but finally had to give up and chose another Evil God.

This time, before the war had even started, new weapons arrived from Mecklenburg.

With the gifts from Lampbearer, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the protection of the Serpent of Destiny, coupled with the ancient alchemy wisdom from the Great Emerald Book and Charles’s full support, a new weapon was forged—a miracle born of the combined powers of two True Gods.

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It resembled the Centurion, except the lower half was not an alchemy mechanical horse, but an alchemy spider.

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The upper half still had a shield in front and a riding cabin at the back.

Because of its alchemy spider design, its body was much broader and had a certain carrying capacity, allowing for the installation of more weapons.

This weapon had a faint aura of light—it was not a Magic Array, as the current alchemy technology of the Old Continent couldn’t make Magic Arrays that small.

Those below the Sacred level couldn’t possibly activate it alone—it was an energy field emitted by the Evil God’s soul fragments.

Although fundamentally different, it functioned like a Defensive Magic Circle.

Due to technical limitations, only a limited amount of the Evil God’s soul fragments could be implanted.

Its defensive capability was slightly weaker than that of a Land Battleship, otherwise, it might corrupt the operator, but it didn’t require a Rider to provide Fighting Spirit and Magic Power support, boasting substantial endurance and combat ability.

Simply put, this new weapon was a super Centurion with the defensive capabilities of a Land Battleship.

Naturally, it was dubbed the Chiliarch.

It indeed had the power to take on a thousand threats below the Sacred level, and even at the Sacred level and above, it could withstand for an hour or two.

Although it couldn’t harm flying Sacred level beings, the Sacred level couldn’t do much against the Evil God energy field surrounding it in a short time.

Most importantly, the Chiliarch wasn’t a custom-made item but a mass-produced one.

This time, twenty units were shipped from Mecklenburg, yet even as a mass-produced item, the requirements for its Rider were elevated, with at least an Intermediate-rank Transcendent needed to operate it.

The Centurion, although equipped with William Triton’s Magic Array—an invention by some professor from Inglima which could gather the strength of ordinary soldiers into one person to resist low-level Transcendent Magic Arrays—could only gather the strength of dozens of ordinary soldiers.

When coordinated with a Land Battleship in combat, the dozens of Operators within could provide the necessary support for the Centurion’s Rider.

The Chiliarch was outfitted with an upgraded William Triton Type II Magic Array, powerful enough to gather the strength of hundreds of people, necessitating the support of a proper army.

Moreover, the Chiliarch could be equipped with more weapons and equipment, which also required a supporting logistics unit.

Overall, when the Chiliarch appeared, Charles knew that his Westwind Knighthood was headed down the path towards a future of militarized and alchemized forces, distancing itself from the old-fashioned armies of the Old Continent.

The original design by William Triton, limited by narrow vision, initially didn’t have specific requirements for Operators and Riders, but the actual products—whether Land Battleships, Centurions, or Chiliarchs—all needed Low to Intermediate-rank Transcendents to operate and ride them.

Fortunately, thanks to Charles’s philosophy of “inclusive absorption,” which had assimilated a large number of Beastmen and immigrants from the New Continent, he had no shortage of Intermediate-rank Transcendents.

Charles selected a group of Intermediate-rank Transcendents, trained them for a bit over ten days, and these Chiliarchs and their Riders were ready for battle.

Due to the arrival of the Chiliarchs, Charles slightly delayed the war, but as soon as the selection and training of the Chiliarchs’ Riders were completed, the war against the Lord of Rot, an Evil God, was once again scheduled.

The Lord of Rot was a notoriously evil god in the New Continent.

Literally notorious.

His true form was an amalgamation of countless humans, wild beasts, birds, and livestock gathered together, continuously rotting to form an indescribably foul mess of bones and decaying flesh because it had crossed the vast ocean from the New Continent to the Old Continent, this evil god even devoured countless marine life, various fish, shrimp, seaweed, marine animals, churning them together, so foul that people could vomit from a hundred kilometers away.

If Charles had a choice, he definitely would not want to do battle with this evil god, but he had no choice at the moment.

The only consolation was that the first evil god he had slain had granted him an authority over filth, allowing Charles to provide his troops with a layer of protection.

It could not defend against physical attacks but could shield them from various foul odors and airborne toxins, allowing them to move freely and fight effectively on the battlefield.

This point was extremely crucial.

Andreas had once gone to scout this evil god and had taken eighteen baths afterward and even ran to the seaside to breathe deeply for two hours before he could speak normally.

The members of the Sacred level under Charles, upon hearing the name of the Lord of Rot, feared it more than being targeted by any other evil god.

Under Charles’s urging, the Westwind Knights quickly assaulted into the domain of the Lord of Rot, where the air was filled with stench everywhere, filled with decaying matter, and countless monsters composed of rot wandered the domain.

Charles chose the Lord of Rot also because this evil god’s true form continuously split off various contaminants, and cleaning up pollutants was much easier than facing the evil god directly.

Charles still adopted the old method of dealing with evil gods, constantly shrinking the domain of the Lord of Rot, burning the rotting land with fierce fire, and shoveling up the contaminated soil to dump into the mountain formed by the true form of the Lord of Filth whom he had slain.

Using the true form of one evil god to contain another evil god’s “excrements” was indeed a scientific and effective method.

Although this method was not efficient, it allowed the Westwind Knights to gradually compress the domain of the Lord of Rot, and soon Charles faced a counterattack from this evil god.

Tens of thousands of rotting contaminators emerged from the depths of this evil god’s domain, a vast force storming towards the frontline.

These beings, composed of countless decaying matter and not even worthy of being called creatures or categorized as evil wraiths, had negligible combat power, but they were incredibly foul and numerous.

This battle was perhaps the most arduous battle the Westwind Knights had ever fought.

Every day, soldiers requested psychological treatment, although Charles could ward off filth, allowing the Sacred level and soldiers under him to remain unaffected by the rotting contaminators, the psychological trauma and shadows they endured were not easily erased.

This war lasted for one and a half years.

In this year and a half, the landscape of the Old Continent had also undergone earth-shattering changes.