Yuan Tong
Chapter 996 Summoning a Thousand Armies
Yi Zhakes—although he was ultimately defeated in his homeland, as an unprecedented demon king who commanded several races, he was always a perfect leader worthy of lifelong loyalty in the eyes of his subordinates. After the Demon King City landed in Aerym, Yi Zhakes abdicated the throne and ordered several highly respected regents to manage domestic affairs until his daughter came of age, but he was still the supreme authority in the kingdom. As long as he gave an order, the warriors of the legion would still respond without hesitation, no matter where they were asked to attack, they would move forward generously.
So when Yi Zhakes issued a summons to Lanina, she only asked two questions: Where to kill, and how many to kill.
In addition, the legion soldiers under the Mad Demon King needed no extra words.
On the vast Arctic ice sheet, Hao Ren and Yi Zhakes were busily arranging a large portal capable of interstellar transmission. It was really a bit difficult to complete this task with only a few people, so Hao Ren released dozens of autonomous machines from his portable space to help build this complex device together.
A large number of modular advanced technology components were taken out of the portable space and neatly piled on a relatively wide and flat ice surface. The autonomous machines busily flew around, assembling these modular components into a large base and a circle of force field generators around the base. Yi Zhakes and his daughter, Elizabeth, ran back and forth among those technological products, constantly engraving a series of complex runes on the open spaces between the parts, and at any time correcting the position and arrangement order of these runes according to the prompts of the data terminal, as if they were going to build a set of science-magic hybrid devices.
Yes, a hybrid device. Hao Ren knew very well that the scale of the personnel he was going to transport this time was different from the past. He couldn't mobilize a large transport ship that could transport 100,000 people in a short period of time, and because this operation was "cutting corners," he had to avoid asking Raven 12345 for help as much as possible, so in the end he could only focus on the teleportation devices at hand. However, unfortunately, the teleportation devices allocated by the inspectors were all small-scale—because any inspector with a slightly normal career would not be as idle as Hao Ren, going around exploding things all day long, so the teleportation gates they were equipped with were usually prepared for themselves and a few accompanying personnel. So in the end, after Hao Ren discussed with Yi Zhakes, they decided to use the Empire-allocated teleportation device as the energy and navigation source, supplemented by the demon's expertise in space gate technology, to build a huge temporary rift to bring the Demon King City's army over.
This sounds like it's high-end, but the actual operation is very simple—anyway, Hao Ren and the others can't possibly understand the principles of the Shirian equipment, so just follow the data terminal's plan. According to the data terminal, the inspector's personal teleportation gate itself has enough "potential" to provide ample data calculation support for large-scale teleportation, but considering portability and versatility, this thing was set with a teleportation quota limit and a force field effective area when it left the factory. Now what Hao Ren and the others have to do is nothing more than remove the limiter of the teleportation gate and then draw a new effective area with demon runes. However, doing so is obviously violating the operating rules, so naturally there will be some sequelae: after a large-scale teleportation rift is opened once, all the teleportation devices on site will be overloaded and burned out. It will take at least a few days to wait for the giant tortoise rock table's shipboard factory to manufacture new equipment. Since the teleportation device on the Demon King City's side is only a "calibration point" in the whole process, and does not have the same high power as here, Yi Zhakes's 100,000 demon army will stay on Earth for at least five days before the teleportation gate can be reused.
Hao Ren thought for a while, thinking that the demon hunters' internal war of hundreds of thousands of people hadn't blown up the earth, and it shouldn't be a problem for him to stuff another 100,000 people in here...probably.
Anyway, if something really goes wrong, Raven 12345 will definitely save the day. At worst, he can let the goddess bestow a whip of love after it's over. No matter what, Hao Ren himself is prepared. This matter must be taken care of...
Under the tense efforts of the autonomous machines and Hao Ren's group, the huge teleportation device was taking shape, but as a "gate" for 100,000 troops to pass through, the things they arranged still seemed too simple. What finally appeared in front of Bai Huo was a strange "magic circle" tens of meters wide, pieced together from a silver-white metal frame and a large number of green demon runes. She had never seen such a strange thing in her life, but she was more curious about how this thing was going to pull an entire army over.
She reached out and gesticulated in the air, and began to guess blindly: "According to this diameter, even if 100,000 people are squeezed into cans and stuffed here every time, it would take hundreds of times, right? And that doesn't include the baggage and supplies..."
"I didn't say that this is the completed version of the gate," Hao Ren wiped his forehead after finishing his work, and breathed a sigh of relief looking at his work results, "Terminal, confirm that the surrounding jammers are normal."
The data terminal shook its body, and several small bright spots immediately flashed in the distant ice and snow. Those were several metal stakes that the autonomous machines had nailed into the distant ice layer at the beginning of the work: "Connecting...the jammers are working normally, a shield has been formed, no need to worry about being observed by satellites or other things."
"Okay—" Hao Ren clapped his hands and waved his hand, "Get in the car, retreat!"
Bai Huo was inexplicably pulled into the car by everyone, and then followed the others to a place a kilometer away from the teleportation array in one breath. After confirming that they had reached a safe distance, Hao Ren turned off the engine and parked, and handed a pair of sunglasses to Bai Huo: "Put them on."
Bai Huo put on the sunglasses in a daze. Just as she was about to ask Hao Ren how his strange teleportation gate worked, she suddenly heard a deafening roar coming from the distance, followed by a strong flash that suddenly illuminated the entire sky. She looked in horror at the direction from which the flash came, only to see a huge ball of light gradually rising from the horizon, and within the ball of light, she could vaguely see large swaths of distorted light flowing freely.
Hao Ren gave a thumbs up: "Anyway, it's disposable."
Bai Huo: "?!"
Lili poked Bai Huo's arm: "I think you have to get used to it. The landlord often blows up something every now and then."
The shock wave of the explosion flattened the snow and edges on the ice sheet. Centered on the original "teleportation array," the plain became a huge open space formed by countless concentric circles of impact, and the original teleportation device was almost completely blown away in the previous explosion, leaving only a large area of fire and energy turbulence scurrying around. And in this mess, a huge space crack was tilted "inserted" on the ground like a broken mirror, reaching the sky and the ground. Mysterious and unpredictable scenes flickered in the space crack, and magic halos like aurora were constantly flowing out of the crack.
The darkness in the depths of the space crack trembled like water, and then the first giant-like, sturdy demon guard strode out of the gate. The demon guard carried a huge battle axe that could split an entire tank in two, his upper body naked, and his dark red muscles were steaming in the arctic wind like hot irons. He was the first to set foot on this unknown land, and said in a deep voice in the cold wind:
"Damn, it's freezing me to death!"
This is what a demon thought when he first set foot on the Arctic of Earth.
Heavy and neat footsteps sounded behind him, and the multi-ethnic coalition from Demon King City strode out of the teleportation gate with their heads held high.
When Bai Huo returned to the space rift, what she saw was a scene of the demon army pouring into this planet. Demon guards with a height of three meters were carrying giant axes, abyss lords like reptiles strode forward, flame demons were wrapped in sulfur and smoke, and a demon army full of blood and so murderous that the air seemed to freeze was constantly pouring out of the space gate as if to devour the world. And even more unbelievable in this terrible army were those races that obviously shouldn't be walking with demons: dwarf infantry carrying large guns, human knights wearing heavy armor and surrounded by magical brilliance, and even slender and elegant elves who seemed to have walked out of fairy tales! These races walked with the demon army calmly, and although their body types and races were vastly different, they all wore the exact same emblem!
Hao Ren had not described in detail to Bai Huo what kind of army he was going to summon, but only reminded her that there were demon races in this army. When she really saw this army that had fought on endless battlefields, Bai Huo finally couldn't help but exclaim: "God...what have you summoned..."