Chapter 283: Learn From This! This Is True Tower Sniping!
The internal structure of the Dark Clan was truly like milk biscuits smashed on the ground, so fragmented that it couldn't be pieced back together.
Although Shura the Berserker, Kishugal, had engaged in battle with the captain, after everyone was forcibly teleported out of the tower and he himself was forced to return to the Dark Clan's main camp, he didn't reveal a single detail to Sabba.
It's unclear if he wanted to monopolize the information or simply hadn't thought of it at all.
It could be said that their camaraderie was zero; as long as Dalles, their leader, didn't speak, Kishugal wouldn't be swayed even if Sabba died right in front of him.
However, since Dalles had ordered them to take a detour and snipe the tower, Kishugal had to comply, no matter how unwilling he was.
He just hadn't expected to encounter Captain Saul again, whom he had thought was completely gone.
This must be the guidance of fate!
Kishugal's gaze was fixed on Saul, unable to see anyone else.
As for Sabba, she felt wary due to the presence of the High Priest.
According to rumors, the High Priest was the most loyal to the goddess in the entire temple and possessed the purest magic. All of her spells were holy, having fatal destructive power against any monster unit.
If it were just the High Priest alone, Sabba could try a war of attrition using a monster horde, but with the Knight Order's captain, who should have died in battle, also present, a single phrase perfectly described the situation with these two old-timers combined—
That is, our side's BOSS.
Although Cheng Tian didn't personally enter the battlefield, Bazett was there, and many projections were present. As long as they participated in killing monsters, soul fragments would be generated. These automatically returned soul fragments would be converted into Innocent Souls at a 10:1 ratio. Saul's natural consumption of souls was less than the amount replenishing from the front line.
The Red Lotus Greatsword, which he originally should have wielded, had been passed down by Captain Saul to his daughter. Now, the village girl Unica was also fighting on the front lines, frantically absorbing the close-combat techniques of Emperor Head Four and Rat Exterminator Five, and had already self-taught basic moves like blocking, sliding tackle, and back-stepping.
But at this very moment, in Saul's hand, there appeared a familiar greatsword that both Kishugal and Sabba utterly detested.
Saul raised the greatsword high, swung it forward fiercely, and shouted.
"Temple Knights! Charge!!!!"
With a flash of light, the original 12 mounted Silver Raiders who should have charged out were replaced by 12 Temple Knights, clad in standard knight armor and wielding various weapons!
The greatsword in Saul's hand was Cheng Tian's +7 prince's sword. While Cheng Tian himself needed Titan's Grip to equip it, Saul could effortlessly pick it up with ease.
And after the prince's sword came into his hand, its attached 'Silver Royal Guard' was replaced by the 'Temple Knights'.
Certain items undergo special changes when held by specific individuals. Cheng Tian had only seen similar situations in "SD Gundam G Generation."
For example, a regular Zaku in that game, when piloted by "Char," would forcibly transform into "Char's Custom Zaku," its paint scheme would turn red, and its mobility would also increase significantly.
And these twelve Temple Knights were the subordinates who had stayed on the ground with Saul, Thor, and others, fighting to buy time for the Temple's ascent, and ultimately died gloriously. At this moment, through the linkage effect of the prince's sword, they returned to the land of Ys once more, fighting again to protect the goddess.
Compared to the rigid Silver Royal Guard, the Temple Knights were almost all skilled in both magic and martial arts. Although they lacked the effect of a mounted charge, they inherited some of their past skills.
Various elemental lights, unleashed by magical resonance, immediately bombarded Sabba's monster units.
Shion began to chant a support spell, Holy Light Radiance.
And Saul, who knew best that only he could stop that Berserker Shura, had already hoisted his greatsword and charged towards his target.
Even the Crag Wyrm, which had just settled down and entered its Sand-Fortress mode, began throwing rocks at people.
No unnecessary opening remarks, just straight to fighting—this was clearly Cheng Tian's prior instruction, a strategy specifically designed for the verbose riddle-masters of Ys Origin.
This, conversely, made the Dark Clan, as the antagonists, somewhat unaccustomed, and they seemed a bit rushed in their response.
However, it was enough if they could hold them off for a while.
Because some of the NPC projections who had died on the front lines could only respawn from the White Tower, and naturally, they would join the hunt against the tower snipers.
The enemy BOSS might be strong, but our BOSS wasn't weak. When it came to reinforcements, the Black Tower's reach was too short.
Cheng Tian didn't even bother with the external issues, but instead focused on the final creation part.
As mentioned before, Bill Gates' military-industrial group primarily acquired vehicle parts, either complete or missing, by clearing battlefields, with Modern Army vehicles making up the majority.
And even if they were fortunate enough to obtain government army vehicles, based on the fact that the government army's dominance hadn't completely waned, various military-industrial groups wouldn't openly sell vehicles of the same model as the government army.
But for Modern Army vehicles, it didn't matter. In fact, these different military-industrial groups would occasionally encounter each other while clearing battlefields.
However, they wouldn't fight. Instead, they would immediately hold impromptu outdoor auctions, selling valuable parts on the spot to the highest bidder.
Similar situations occurred in the "Gundam SEED" world, where those space junk merchants loved to join in the excitement.
Bill Gates, with ample funds and boundless ambition, successfully acquired many rare vehicle parts from the Modern Army, which were then reverse-engineered into blueprints by the technical department.
Some more valuable and mass-producible units had already become marketable goods, while many intricate creations, deemed to have no value for reproduction, could only be shelved.
However, when Bill saw these parts, which he considered extremely precious and impossible to mass-produce, being handcrafted one after another by the Twin Goddesses and then assembled, he almost wished he could drag his main body over to witness this marvel together.
"The quantity of ore is still too small; we can only replace some precise core components."
Leah, creating a vehicle by hand for the first time, looked at her masterpiece, a strange sense of pride welling up in her heart, along with a perfectionist's nitpicking.
"It's fine, just ensure that the magic conductivity can permeate the fuselage as much as possible."
Cheng Tian waved his hand, indicating that good enough was fine. After all, strictly speaking, this big guy in front of him wasn't his, so magic conductivity was very important.
"Are you planning to... uh, pilot this thing?"
Fina, who was responsible for the outer armor, tapped the shell.
"Oh, just like this."
As his voice fell, the Twin Goddesses suddenly felt a scorching sensation from behind, distinct from the sun, as if even their souls were being purified... Dalles, who had realized the situation was completely out of control when the White Tower rose from the ground, felt a little unsettled at this moment.
The Twin Goddesses had somehow gathered a group of strange individuals, each displaying a more bizarre ability system than monsters.
Involuntarily, Dalles thought of the traitor, Orange Knight.
The Twin Goddesses certainly didn't possess this imagination that surpassed Black Pearl. It must have been that traitor who did something.
Dalles was currently hesitating whether to immediately activate the capture ritual, pulling the Temple from the sky to threaten the Twin Goddesses.
However, at this moment, a violent tremor made Dalles's expression at the top of the Black Tower suddenly tighten, because he detected that the source of this violent tremor was actually from the lowest level of the Black Tower, or even deeper!
Magic erupted, and Dalles's figure disappeared from the top of the tower, appearing at the very bottom level in the next second.
Then a shocking scene entered his vision—
A giant puppet snake, emerging from deep underground and erupting with scorching flames, was frantically gnawing at the outer wall of the Black Tower's first floor!