In the void, chaotic streams of energy surged like a boiling ocean.
The torrent of the wizard army, carrying countless alchemy constructs, elemental beings, and contracted creatures, relentlessly pushed the Giant Spirit Realm’s forces toward their planar barrier, the foundation of their survival.
Brilliant wizardry glows clashed with the crude energy barrages of Giant Spirit Realm warships and the savage breaths of colossal beasts, erupting into ripples of destruction.
The Giant Spirit Realm’s army displayed astonishing resilience.
Even as their frontlines contracted and formations were repeatedly torn apart, they showed no signs of collapse.
Warships forged from unknown metals and mountain-sized beasts continued to pour endlessly from a breach in the massive planar barrier below, forming a seemingly indestructible final line of defense with their bodies and energy.
In a corner of this chaotic battlefield, Jie Ming hovered in the void, surrounded by the wreckage of several Giant Spirit Realm creatures he had just dragged back, still radiating unfamiliar elemental fluctuations.
Runes flickered incessantly in his eyes as the All-Purpose Eye tirelessly gathered elemental data from the creatures, analyzing the planar information below.
After collecting sufficient data, Jie Ming activated his Alchemy Technique.
His fingertips, laced with delicate mental energy like the finest carving knife, swiftly adjusted a series of nail-sized, crystal-like runic artifacts floating before him.Soon, the runes on these artifacts glowed faintly, their energy frequencies aligning with the planar rules emanating from the Giant Spirit Realm.
“Almost ready,” Jie Ming muttered to himself, blinking as the runes in his eyes faded.
Glancing at the wizards struggling in their assault around him, he pulled out a terminal and transmitted the elemental data he had gathered to everyone in the region.
The other wizards’ eyes lit up upon receiving the data, immediately adjusting their casting rhythms.
With a thought, Jie Ming triggered a ripple in the void behind him, and thousands of modified runic artifacts surged from his internal space.
They instantly unfurled, forming a massive, intricate circular array—the Great Radiance Formation!
At its core, three metallic discs rotated slowly, emitting waves of energy akin to a miniature elemental pool.
The next moment, silence shattered.
The Great Radiance Formation transformed into a raging fountain, unleashing hundreds of thousands of blazing energy bolts per second!
Each bolt, optimized by Golden Core runes, carried the power of a Tier-3 spell.
Trailing long tails of light, they rained down with precision and ferocity onto the Giant Spirit Realm’s warships and charging beasts.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—
Explosions bloomed in a continuous chain, clearing a vast swath of the battlefield.
A shuttle-shaped warship attempting a charge was struck by tens of thousands of energy bolts, its heavy energy shield shattering like paper, the hull blasted into fragments.
A bat-ray-like beast with a thousand-meter wingspan opened its maw to unleash a breath attack, only to be overwhelmed by a barrage of bolts, half its body reduced to ash.
In this chaotic void of boundless elemental energy, Jie Ming’s Great Radiance Formation found its perfect stage.
It recklessly drew energy from the environment, fueled by the core discs’ reserves, unleashing relentless destruction as if it would never cease.
This terrifying, sustained area-of-effect assault immediately caught the attention of nearby wizards.
Some, previously fighting independently, instinctively gravitated toward Jie Ming’s position.
Their rock golems, phantom legions, and crystal cluster creatures naturally aligned around the Great Radiance Formation’s fire coverage, forming a temporary combat system with Jie Ming at its core.
Among these wizards were Tier-3 and even Tier-4 practitioners, yet at this moment, Jie Ming, a mere Tier-2 wizard, had become the tactical linchpin of this battlefield sector.
Bolstered by the Great Radiance Formation, the wizard army’s frontline surged forward once more.
After breaking through another layer of defenses, the wizards could faintly glimpse, through the spatial barrier, the vast metallic continent below in the Giant Spirit Realm, shimmering with countless energy gleams.
However, just as they approached the airspace above the continent, near an energy nexus protected by layered fortresses and energy shields, their advance halted abruptly.
This was the Giant Spirit Realm’s final outer defense line, where the distance for reinforcing troops was minimized, causing the resistance to intensify exponentially.
Swarms of small, high-speed fighters, paired with massive energy beams from fortresses and several enormous defensive beasts with rune-glowing carapaces, formed an impregnable wall.
The wizards’ fodder troops were consumed like waves crashing against a reef.
Occasionally, energy beams pierced through layers of defenses, vaporizing unprepared wizards and their protective artifacts, leaving only brief screams and scattered energy particles.
The wizards’ momentum was completely stalled, and under the relentless counterattack of the Giant Spirit Realm’s fresh reinforcements, their lines began to waver, showing signs of being pushed back.
Jie Ming furrowed his brow.
Through the wide-range perception of his scouting eye, he could clearly “see” the rapid depletion of battlefield energy and the swift loss of allied units.
“We can’t drag this out any longer…” he calculated inwardly. “The longer we delay, the more reinforcements they can muster, making it harder to break through.”
“More importantly, if a Tier-7 wizard grows impatient and intervenes personally, they could breach the line instantly. But per the ‘equivalent exchange’ principle, the lion’s share of spoils and merits would be gone, and this mission’s rewards would be severely diminished.”
Forget the other wizards—Jie Ming alone had lost tens of thousands of runic artifacts to overheating in this battle.
Without his portable factory continuously replenishing them, the Great Radiance Formation might not have held.
If this failed, it would be a losing deal!
His thoughts raced, and he made his decision.
With a wave of his hand, the void beside him twisted again, and five hundred pitch-black figures emerged silently.
Their bodies, covered in flowing liquid metal that seemed to devour all light, exuded a bone-chilling aura.
These were Jie Ming’s trump card—Black Giants!
The two leading figures, over fifty meters tall, stood like silent black mountains.
They were the last survivors of the original batch of Black Giants Jie Ming had created, having endured countless battles and absorptions over the past four hundred years since the Void Plane campaign, their energy signatures now reaching a staggering Tier-5 level!
Without exaggeration, even Jie Ming, their creator, likely couldn’t withstand a single blow from these two.
“Go, tear it apart!” Jie Ming commanded through their soul link.
The five hundred Black Giants instantly converged, with the two Tier-5 leaders as the spearhead, forming a black torrent that charged straight at the impregnable defense line!
The Tier-5 Black Giants’ presence was too conspicuous, immediately drawing the attention of the Giant Spirit Realm’s defenders.
The defense commander, mistaking them for powerful assault beasts or special units, unhesitatingly unleashed their strongest firepower.
In an instant, searing rays, high-energy particle beams capable of vaporizing advanced metals, and fortress main cannons’ destructive energy beams converged into a devastating flood, engulfing the charging Black Giant cluster!
The blinding energy outburst forced many wizards to squint.
Yet, what followed left all witnesses—especially the Giant Spirit Realm’s commander—stunned beyond comprehension.
Within the energy flood, the five hundred black figures were not annihilated. Their liquid-metal surfaces acted like ravenous sponges, voraciously absorbing the incoming light and heat!
Flame rays fueled them, high-energy particle streams were consumed, and the two leading Tier-5 Black Giants’ auras surged even higher under the energy baptism, growing more terrifying and profound!
They… emerged unscathed from the enemy’s strongest attack, growing stronger instead!
As the enemy commander’s mind froze at this incomprehensible scene, another anomaly struck!
Beneath the flowing black metal of the Black Giants, countless tiny clock hands seemed to accelerate frantically.
An invisible, eerie force field radiated from them.
Temporal Disruption, activated!
The Black Giants’ time flow accelerated dramatically, while the enemies blocking their path—fighters, fortress turrets, even the energy shields’ flow—were slowed and stagnated by a powerful interference!
Whoosh—!
The black torrent’s speed surged, moving at a velocity that defied physics and exceeded the enemy’s visual and reaction limits, crashing through the momentarily stalled energy shield like a teleporting force, breaching the energy nexus’s core!
Without warning or time for the enemy to react…
BOOM!!!!
A colossal explosion, its brilliance briefly outshining the surrounding battlefield, erupted from within the energy nexus!
It was the collective self-destruction of the five hundred Black Giants, led by the two Tier-5 leaders!
They unleashed nearly all their absorbed and stored energy, transforming it into the purest, most violent shockwave of destruction.
The sturdy fortress structure crumbled like a sandcastle, and the critical energy nexus was blasted into a rapidly expanding chasm filled with chaotic energy storms.
The explosion’s aftermath cleared a vast swath of nearby Giant Spirit Realm defenders.
The defense line… was torn open!
After a brief silence, the wizards snapped to their senses, their eyes blazing with excitement.
“A breach! Charge in!”
“Follow up! Victory is at hand!”
No further orders were needed. The seasoned wizards seized the fleeting opportunity.
They skillfully drove hordes of fodder creatures, like a flood breaching a dam, surging through the gap opened by the Black Giants’ sacrifice, overwhelming the enemy’s line.
The Giant Spirit Realm’s planar barrier was now within reach!
Jie Ming hovered in place, watching the massive breach and the surging wizard torrent, exhaling softly.
He didn’t immediately join the advance. Instead, he located the cores of all the self-destructed Black Giants using internal markers.
Spending a moment, he retrieved them into his internal space, awaiting reformation and energy replenishment.