TOMWDET Chapter 192.1

Open Fire (part 1)

 

Cyril was looking at those devices placed on the flat ground. The way humans were used as 120w phone charging cables was far greater than the element absorption devices, which only had a pitiful 5w speed when absorbing elemental power from the air.

 

These weapons were Castor’s latest research.

 

At this time, the researcher was vigorously patting one of them with his palm, his face showing an uncontrollable fanatical expression that made people instinctively want to look away to avoid being blinded.

 

Castor didn’t notice at all. With his disheveled appearance, as if he hadn’t bathed for half a month, he said with high spirits, “I guarantee this is something that transcends the era!”

 

“You’ve said this many times already, including ‘This is a miracle that only humans can master’ and ‘I am like a shooting star, and what I create is the bright moon.'” Cyril repeated expressionlessly.

 

The researcher felt no shame. “No matter how exaggerated the description used to describe this fact, I don’t think there’s anything excessive about it. Moreover, this thing is the strongest weapon against monster beasts for humans.”

 

“I admit you’re right.” Cyril nodded decisively. “So I plan to immediately unite with those Winged Tribe monster beasts and launch a night attack on the Beast King Clemens.” As if.

 

The researcher looked confused.

 

“…Why?”

 

“Are you asking why the attack is so fast? Or why we’re fighting at night?” After Cyril asked back, he gave the conclusion himself. “If it’s both, then I can only say that tonight is naturally the most suitable.”

 

“The Winged Tribe has intelligence squads that have been observing the situation in Tasahe City. There are now obvious signs of troop deployment there. Although theoretically, Su Li shouldn’t launch an attack tomorrow, my intuition tells me he really will do so.”

 

“The attack line of the Beast Tribe cities is too simple. The Water Tribe’s casualties haven’t even reached half, yet they’ve already captured places that had been in the Beast Tribe’s hands for tens of thousands of years. Do you think this is reasonable?”

 

“I don’t think so anyway. Clemens abandoning those places seems too thought-provoking, and Su Li will definitely try to figure out the reason.” Cyril’s tone was somewhat emotional.

 

In his impression, Su Li had never had any particularly profound curiosity.

 

Since Tasahe City showed signs of Water Tribe soldiers deploying so early instead of resting well, it could only mean that Su Li had probably discovered something they hadn’t discovered.

 

And those things might cause great harm to humans.

 

If it harmed other people, Cyril felt it was still acceptable – speaking coldly and heartlessly, the dragon youth didn’t mind at all.

 

But if that crisis targeting the human community might involve Su Li…

 

Cyril decisively chose to directly notify others and fight through the night.

 

His speculation was also confirmed by others.

 

For someone who, rather than having no curiosity, was very restrained about this kind of thinking…

 

What Su Li actively explored must have special meaning.

 

Considering Su Li’s daily habits and thinking patterns, Cyril didn’t think he would take the wrong path.

 

Then Cyril said to Castor, “Anyway, I’m just here to notify you that these tools will be used in actual combat, not to listen to you boast about how effective these things are. No matter how good the effect, only when truly used on the battlefield and bringing advantages to humans can they be considered useful.”

 

“But your attitude always gives me the feeling that you definitely won’t hand these things over for us to use.” Castor glared at him.

 

“So what do you mean?”

 

“Take them and use them.”

 

Use them however you want.

 

Castor knew his value wasn’t to become a frontline soldier. As for his research results… the results were made to be used. Leaving them there as decorations would betray his original research intentions.

 

Unable to personally follow Su Li and fight alongside him to assist his progress, the researcher was already satisfied to stand behind him as one of the people supporting his walk in front of the world.

 

After getting a definitive conclusion, Cyril also breathed a sigh of relief.

 

This enlarged version of the element absorption compression device had been tested before.

 

The elemental cannonballs fired out had extremely outrageous damage. And one charge only required ten elementalists of Euphia’s level of power.

 

The effect when fired could easily blast a giant crater in an area with a diameter of one kilometer.

 

The key point was that its charging time was extremely short – it only took three seconds to fire one shot.

 

The researcher had previously said that the effect of this thing was far from reaching his expected level – the original plan was to fire three shots per second.

 

Holding such a thing in his hands, Cyril couldn’t help but feel excited.

 

The next day.

 

Around two in the morning, the human side had already assembled a ten-thousand-person team.

 

This team quickly approached the direction of the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace.

 

On both sides of the team, elemental communications that emitted a faint glow in the darkness gradually rose in the air.

 

But rather than communication, it was more appropriate to call them surveillance devices.

 

In the screen, the exterior of the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace was displayed before the humans from a distance.

 

In terms of magnificent style, compared to the human royal palace, one could very rudely evaluate the latter as crude.

 

Even the shortest side hall of the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace had a spire design over ten meters high. The building’s exterior was mainly blue in color, with large arched windows made of glass material that emitted mysterious light in the starless and moonless night.

 

In front of the palace, above the golden gate’s door frame, there was even a huge sapphire embedded.

 

“Attacking such a place really feels like a waste,” said Euphia.

 

Just that giant sapphire embedded in the gate was an astronomical figure that could buy a city in human society.

 

The new Mercenary Alliance Guild Master couldn’t help but feel sad thinking about so much money being blasted to ashes.

 

“If you think it’s wasteful, you can also choose to find a cloth and cover your eyes, so you won’t feel that way,” Mavis said with a smile, undermining her.

 

“Heh, poor person,” Ophelia crossed her arms and sneered.

 

Euphia didn’t mind the princess’s disdain at all.

 

Ophelia, who was carefree with no family to feed, had now gradually developed into a comedic character.

 

Although the person in question obviously didn’t think so, the fact was that no matter what she did, she could no longer get the power and profit she wanted.

 

Her appearance of wasting effort and constantly jumping around because things couldn’t achieve the results she wanted was quite funny.

 

The Lion’s Club leader touched his stubbled face and said with a hearty smile, “Even though Guild Master, you have a regretful expression on your face, you haven’t hidden at all that destroying such things will bring you another kind of pleasure.”

 

“Maybe people always have scummy components,” Euphia quite decisively evaluated herself.

 

Later, everyone stopped talking.

 

Each prepared for aiming and attacking.

 

The target landing points had been decided before taking action.

 

Thanks to Adonis and Asgari.

 

Their level of understanding of the Queen’s Palace was enough for humans attempting to attack the Queen’s Palace to quickly destroy the important support structures of the building at the first opportunity.

 

The long night was without light.

 

What lit up the night sky in an instant wasn’t a meteor streaking across the sky, but elemental cannonballs heavily fired from the chamber extending from the circular hole at the top of specially shaped weapons.

 

The rapidly sliding red elemental cannonballs ignited the compressed materials wrapped with fire elements.

 

Before officially hitting the target, they left beautiful scenery in the air like fireworks.

 

Until that elemental cannonball dominated by fire elements hit the highest spire of the Queen’s Palace’s main hall.

 

BOOM——!

 

A loud noise awakened many monster beasts who were resting.

 

Whether they were Winged Tribe monster beasts or Beast Tribe monster beasts occupying the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace territory.

 

“What was that?!” Adison rolled and crawled out of the rest area.

 

The butterfly spirit, thinking Clemens had come to attack the Winged Tribe remnants, stared dumbfounded in the direction of the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace.

 

Although they were far from that place, they weren’t particularly far.

 

The characteristic of having wings gave the Winged Tribe monster beasts mobility that the other two tribes generally couldn’t match.

 

Rather than randomly finding a place to organize the remaining forces, both Asgari and Adonis thought it was better to choose a nearby dangerous terrain area that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

 

Asgari, who also rushed out, first showed a surprised expression, then quickly reacted and said angrily, “Damn! Those humans didn’t tell me they would attack this early!”

 

“This isn’t a matter of early or not early – it’s two in the morning now,” Adonis said with veins jumping on his forehead.

 

He really hadn’t slept well recently. Various things came one after another, and the gray crane had never had a good rest while going back and forth between monster beast society and human society.

 

His severely sleep-deprived appearance instead made the snowy owl quickly calm down.

 

After taking a deep breath, Asgari looked at the irritable gray crane and said, “Those humans who said they would unite with us to attack the Beast Tribe have already started taking action.”

 

Adonis was first confused, until a certain string in his mind suddenly connected to the channel called wisdom.

 

“What did you say?!” Adonis shouted directly.

 

“You heard clearly, didn’t you? Don’t tell me monster beast ears can’t hear. You know, I didn’t deliberately lower my voice.” 

 

Asgari wasn’t feeling good either, but after discovering that Adonis felt worse than himself, he started to relax instead.

 

Later, the two looked at each other, suppressed various emotional fluctuations, grabbed the butterfly spirit who still hadn’t reacted, and rushed toward the Queen’s Palace at full speed.

 

The high-altitude view was indeed good. Almost at the moment they discovered the humans’ location…

 

Compared to the previous sound that had awakened them, countless breaking air sounds had already reached their ears.

 

Those elemental cannonballs wrapped with high-concentration elements were falling like a meteor shower toward unknown final destinations…

 

Everything encountered on the way would be completely destroyed.

 

The three Winged Tribe monster beasts, not wanting to be destroyed, dodged quite awkwardly.

 

On the other side.

 

The humans squinted at the figures in the sky.

 

Julius said strangely, “Are there people in the sky?”

 

Diz answered this question.

 

In a way ordinary people couldn’t think of.

 

“Obviously, those can’t possibly be people.”

 

“Under the circumstances where we haven’t actively notified the Winged Tribe, winged birds or whatever suddenly appearing on the attack path… I don’t think those are small birds that came looking for us after reacting. I just think that maybe those small birds are traitors who chose to submit their pledges of allegiance to the Beast King under his oppression.”

 

“Makes sense,” Willard agreed quite decisively.

 

Mavis, who had dark elements and more obvious senses in the dark night, had already discovered the truth. But the Dark Holy Maiden, who enjoyed watching the excitement, only said, “…How about we continue?”

 

“Of course we continue.”

 

In the distance, the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace, which had initially only received one cannonball and caught fire, was being desperately rescued by various land monster beasts that had suddenly awakened.

 

But compared to the first attack that was full of provocation and warning, the continuous bombardment that followed was what all monster beasts hadn’t expected.

 

The attack power was extremely terrifying.

 

The element absorption compression device, now named the mobile elemental cannon platform, had always accepted all kinds of elements without discrimination.

 

As long as they could be compressed.

 

The confrontation between elements, the mutual repulsion between elements, the affinity between elements… none of these mattered.

 

As long as they could be squeezed together, those characteristics would only become greater power bonuses after explosion.

 

The first cannonball was dominated by Euphia, and among the ten elementalists providing elements, half were fire elementalists, which is why it caused fire after explosion.

 

The subsequent cannonballs were mixtures of various elements.

 

Even the humans themselves didn’t know what effects could be achieved…

 

Queen’s Palace.

 

The giant rhinoceros who had previously led troops to attack Rota County to show Clemens’s targeting intent toward humans (Su Li) was now cursing uncontrollably. “What are these attacks?!”

 

“Who is it exactly?!”

 

The damage of the elemental cannonballs wasn’t strong enough to directly kill him.

 

Elements for defense had already been released from around his body.

 

But the terrible thing was that the effects produced by those mobile elemental cannon platforms were simply outrageous.

 

Before the suffocating feeling of water elements ended, the subsequent burning effect of the same cannonball could directly burn the monster beast’s fur in patches, full of holes.

 

“Help!”

 

“What on earth is happening?”

 

“Could it be those Winged Tribe? Are they crazy? Daring to attack at this time.”

 

“No, to be precise, they’re crazy to dare attack our king.”

 

“……” These were all various land monster beasts’ uncontrollable outbursts.

 

Even if some curse words appeared afterward, they were basically just pitiful idiots, fools, stupid things, and such.

 

Ophelia said disdainfully, “Worthy of being beasts that should be abandoned by the world. The same period’s civilization hasn’t had any obvious changes in millions of years – truly pitiful and hateful, making people unable to help but laugh.”

 

“Look.” Ophelia mockingly directed her gaze to an elemental projection screen.

 

The elemental projection used to monitor the Queen’s Palace faithfully transmitted various scenes.

 

At this time, the screen closest to the princess happened to show the giant rhinoceros grabbing a severely wounded member of his species, placing the other in front of himself to block cannonballs.

 

“Such behavior is truly ugly,” Ophelia said with a disgusted cold laugh.

 

When she targeted someone, whoever it was would feel very uncomfortable, but as a companion, hearing Ophelia mock monster beasts brought a sincere feeling of satisfaction.

 

In the screen, the giant rhinoceros threw away the completely dead body of his companion in his hands. With an angry face, he shouted at a panicked soldier not far away. “Are you stupid? Why don’t you quickly bring the king!”

 

He could withstand the attacks, but not every monster beast could, and even if the giant rhinoceros could withstand them, it didn’t mean he could find the enemy in a short time and organize corresponding counterattacks.

 

Panic and screaming.

 

Death and flames became persistent fear.

 

All noise and silence were just things not worth paying attention to for Clemens.

 

He had been “spacing out” all along.

 

Clemens didn’t need sleep.

 

Elemental power had relative limits for human body transformation. But for transformed monster beasts, this limit would be raised again.

 

Ignoring these, what really brought Clemens back from his “spacing out” state wasn’t the shouting of Beast Tribe soldiers below, but the suddenly generated fear…

 

Fear was Clemens’s best way to gain power.

 

Even though reason told Clemens that those elemental light bands surrounding him were extra things his body couldn’t absorb, instinct still forced him to absorb more fear and more elements.

 

He had to seize fear.

 

The “spacing out” state disappeared, and only the thought of trying to intimidate everything remained in Clemens’s mind.

 

He had to turn that fear of unknown origin into fear directed at himself.

 

This was like a conditioned reflex when the human body faced certain behaviors.

 

Clemens didn’t even need to control it. Just a thought that couldn’t be called a thought, and his originally human appearance directly transformed into a [Tiger]…

 

——That was a natural disaster.

 

The giant rhinoceros looked at the soldier who had been directly trampled into meat paste by the [Tiger] during Clemens’s transformation process – he didn’t even know what happened – and cold sweat uncontrollably flowed from his forehead.

 

“What, what is all this!”

 

Beast Tribe high-ranking officials had once questioned why only Bartholomew had seen the king in nearly a hundred years.

 

Until now… during this period when the unicorn still hadn’t answered the question, those so-called Beast Tribe high-ranking officials suddenly understood.

 

Previously they were far away.

 

But once close, Clemens was simply a natural disaster that didn’t distinguish between friend and foe!

 

His body size, his beast-like pouncing close combat method, and his landing point when falling from height.

 

These were still just the pressure that the [Tiger]’s body would bring.

 

Elements, vast elements darker than the dark night gathered!