119: Chapter 119 The Terrifying Battlefield Magic of the String Weaver

The pale blue light shield fluctuated violently under the impact of the Zerg Tide, emitting a teeth-grinding hum.

"The barrier won't hold for much longer!" Laya shouted.

Elia stood at the edge of the observation deck, forming seals with her hands. Ice-blue Moonlight Power surged from within her, transforming into an expanding ring of ice.

"Moonlight Power!"

The ring of ice that descended with the Moonlight Power exploded from the center of the battle fortress, instantly covering a radius of three hundred meters. All the Larva within range froze simultaneously, turning into ice statues, only to be crushed into ice shards under the trampling of the subsequent Zerg Tide.

A section was cleared.

But the Larva behind showed no fear, continuing to swarm forward. Furthermore, Li Yuan noticed that the red dots on the map representing the hosts were increasing—from the initial five or six, it had become over a dozen, then over twenty... and now there were over fifty.

"These hosts can summon each other!" His heart sank.

What was worse, the tactics of the Larva were changing.

They no longer charged mindlessly but began to "pile up"—the Larva behind stepped on the corpses of those in front, stacking layer upon layer, gradually building a wall of insects around the battle fortress. This wall grew higher and thicker, slowly completely surrounding the battle fortress.

The firing angles of the battle fortress's weapons were restricted. The ion cannons could only bombard the wall of insects directly in front, becoming increasingly powerless against the sides and rear. Every time Elia's Moonlight Power cleared an area, it would be filled again by a new Zerg Tide within seconds.

The wall of insects had already piled up to ten meters high and was continuing to grow.

"At this rate, we'll be buried alive!" Laya's voice was filled with anxiety.

"Don't panic!"

Li Yuan was observing the battlefield. This operation to attack the Ultralisk only involved him, Laya, and Aria. There were no outsiders, so some of his true strength could finally be revealed.

He stepped forward, stood in the center of the observation deck, and grasped the air in front of him with both hands.

In the air, invisible energy began to converge and weave together. A bow made entirely of light formed in his hands—the bow body flowed with starlight-like shimmering light, and the bowstring was a solidified ripple of space.

String-Controlling Weaver, second-tier skill activated.

Li Yuan closed his eyes, instantly completing the skill construction in his consciousness.

First, he selected the basic framework—[Song of Battle - Normal Shot]. This skill allowed a single shot to split into multiple arrows, covering a fan-shaped area.

Then he added the enchantment—[Elemental Resonance - Fire Element Enchantment]. Scorching fire power flowed over the arrows, turning each one into a miniature sun.

He then added the trait—[Elemental Resonance - Elemental Strike - Charged Projectile]. When the arrows were fired, they would draw upon the power of thunder, forming dozens of charged energy projectiles that would randomly bounce and cut through the area, creating secondary and tertiary damage.

Finally, he endowed the arrows with their ultimate form—[Elemental Resonance - Battlefield Magic - Repulsion Fire Ring].

This was not an ordinary fire explosion. This was a "battlefield-grade" magic in the true sense, with a range exceeding ten kilometers, an area of effect reaching several kilometers in radius, and possessing the dual effects of physical impact and fire burning.

The reason why the String-Controlling Weaver's second-tier skills specifically had a category for battlefield magic was because it allowed second-tier magic to possess the power to change the local course of battle.

In less than a second, the skill construction was complete.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, pulling his light bow to full draw.

Twenty energy arrows burning with incandescent white flames condensed on the bowstring simultaneously. Inside each arrow, terrifying energy was compressed, and fine electric snakes danced around the arrow bodies.

Li Yuan aimed at the thickest area of the insect wall three kilometers away—the Larva piled up there were already over twenty meters high, completely blocking the firing line in front of the battle fortress.

He released.

"Whoosh—!!!"

Twenty streaks of light shot out in a fan shape, dragging scorching trails through the air. Countless charged electric projectiles shot out alongside the arrows, cutting and bouncing among the Zerg Swarm, forming a lightning exclusion zone.

The three-kilometer distance was covered in an instant, and the swarm of arrows accurately struck the central area of that insect wall.

The first arrow hit the insect wall.

A ring of incandescent white fire with a diameter of five kilometers exploded out of thin air!

The fire ring expanded rapidly from the point of impact. Wherever it passed, the air was heated to thousands of degrees, and the creep on the ground instantly carbonized. As for those fragile Larva—whether they were lunging in the air or crawling on the ground—they were destroyed by the dual forces the moment they contacted the fire ring: first, the physical shockwave crushed their carapaces and tore their bodies apart, and then the high-temperature flames that followed burned the remains into ash.

But this was only the beginning.

The second arrow hit, and a second fire ring exploded.

The third, the fourth, the fifth...

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!"

Twenty Repulsion Fire Rings erupted in succession within a dozen seconds. They overlapped and surged against each other, with flames and shockwaves ravaging the battlefield for tens of kilometers around. The entire sky was illuminated in a scorching orange-red, the earth trembled from the chain explosions, and the air was filled with the burnt smell of ionization.

But the Zerg Tide did not stop.

The hosts in the distance seemed to sense the threat, and more incubation sacs ruptured. Newborn Larva, like a black tide, quickly surged toward the gap, attempting to fill it back up.

Li Yuan did not stop. Multiple Shot was not the String-Controlling Weaver's ultimate move, so it had no cooldown.

The bowstring was pulled to full draw again. This time, Li Yuan constantly switched battlefield magic. Clusters of multiple arrows shot out, with Repulsion Fire Rings, Vacuum Waves, Spear Pierce Arrays, Frost Novas, and Lightning Novas exploding in turn, while various air blades, charged projectiles, ice arrows, and fireballs flew chaotically across the battlefield.

Every attack could clear a large area, but the hosts were like tireless production machines, continuously replenishing the Zerg Tide. The front line slowly advanced—from the initial three kilometers, to two point five kilometers, to two kilometers...

Finally, Li Yuan's arrows could directly attack the hosts themselves. However, merely second-tier magic arrows did not possess the ability to quickly break the shields and kill the Zerg hosts. They were stalemated with the newborn Larva, only able to slowly deplete the energy shields of the Zerg hosts.

However, without the interference of the small Larva, for Elia and Laya in her angel form, the Zerg hosts were vulnerable.

Li Yuan continued to shoot, but his targets shifted to the groups of newborn Larva around the hosts. Every Multiple Shot was paired with battlefield magic of different effects, not only killing the Larva swarms but also freezing, burning, and blowing away the Zerg corpses, preventing them from interfering with the strikes on the host itself.

"Holy Judgment - Sword of Heaven!"

It was Laya's Holy Judgment. The first sword of light descended, striking the host's shield. The shield vibrated violently, and cracks spread.

"Crack—"

The shield shattered!

The second sword followed immediately after.

The sword of light pierced through the host's body, and holy light erupted inside, burning this three-hundred-meter-tall mountain of flesh into a hollow shell from the inside out.

The first host fell.

At the same time, Elia also launched an attack on another host.

"Moonlight Power"

An ice sword descended from the sky, directly piercing through the host's shield. The power of extreme cold permeated inside and spread from within; tens of thousands of incubation sacs froze simultaneously, and the entire host turned into a huge ice statue within seconds, then exploded into a sky full of ice crystals with a "bang."

The second host was eliminated.

The battle fortress's triple-barreled phase-array ion cannon was also continuously firing at the third host. The dark blue beam focused on the same point of the shield. After twelve seconds of continuous output, the shield finally overloaded and shattered. The ion cannon struck the host's body directly, and within seconds, the host was cut in two.

The coordination of the three people and the battle fortress began to show its power.

Li Yuan was responsible for suppression and clearing the field, continuously using arrows to clear newborn Larva, preventing the Zerg sea from forming a scale again.

Laya and Elia were responsible for quickly breaking shields and killing—Laya needed two swords, while Elia only needed one strike, which was highly efficient.

The battle fortress was responsible for dealing with those hosts that were slightly further away, out of the teammates' range, using continuous firepower to forcefully grind down their shields and then destroy them.

After the tactical change, the speed of advancement noticeably increased.

The fifth host fell.

The tenth.

The twentieth...

When the fifty-third host turned to ash in the holy light, there were finally no more incubation sacs rupturing on the battlefield.

The last host was cleared.

The Zerg Tide stopped replenishing.

Li Yuan continued to shoot for another three minutes, completely clearing away the scattered Larva remaining on the battlefield, before slowly lowering his light bow.

The battlefield was filled with the burnt smell and the characteristic acrid, rotten odor of Zerg bodily fluids. The ground was covered with charred ring marks, frozen remains, and ash purified by holy light. Over fifty three-hundred-meter-tall host remains were scattered across an area of over ten kilometers, like destroyed mountains of flesh.

The Light Guardians walked out of the battle fortress and began to clean up the battlefield. When they came into contact with the host remains, life essence, so concentrated it had almost solidified, gushed out, forming a red mist that enveloped the entire area. The surface of the Guardians' armor began to turn red—the life essence was too concentrated, directly seeping into the energy circuits and causing the metal itself to change color.