You promised to wreak havoc on the dungeon, but instead you've got Dragon Slime!

I have a feeling that something is wrong with this.

Ron isn't that kind of person.

He won't withdraw voluntarily.

but--

The person is indeed missing, the fire line is broken, the fire vein is suppressed, and the first round of air-fuel cannon fire has already been launched.

“…Never mind.” He sighed and turned back to his tent.

"Let's consider this a victory for now."

at the same time.

The bottom of a crack in an old well.

The fire pattern lit up.

A full two hundred men, part of the Gray Nest raiding party, emerged from behind the rock skeleton, armed with fire chains, and lined up along the energy network of the Imperial rear fire suppression stations.

Thirty seconds later.

The Explosion Talisman detonates.

The entire empire's suppression node—

Blasted.

The old well has a crack in the lower part of the well.

The moment the Imperial Suppression Node exploded, the ground shook three times, as if someone had kicked it from below.

The entire combustion pressure station lost power for three seconds.

The main control array went out.

Backup communication failed.

By the time they realized what was happening, half of the fire wall had already been burned through.

Ron's men rushed out of the fire.

Not an ordinary firefighter.

It is the complete troop configuration of the "First Burning Explosion Formation".

All members have a fire vein adaptability of over 80%, uniform bone armor, uniform patterns, and uniform command chains. Their combat actions leave fire-like afterimages, and their attack speed is three times that of the original Gray Nest soldiers!

As soon as the fire soldiers landed, bone spikes automatically rose from the ground, blocking the retreat route of the Imperial siege troops.

Viser held up the talisman at the broken edge behind him and whispered:

"The ignition line is connected, the patterned chain is secured, activate—ignition explosion array!"

--boom!

The entire rift valley strata looked as if a thunderbolt had struck.

The fiery veins ignited from beneath their feet to the dome, baking the entire rock cavity red-hot. Ripples of fire spread outwards, reaching the imperial armor the moment they touched it—

Explode directly!

It didn't melt, it exploded.

The armor worn by the Imperial soldiers was completely rendered ineffective; before the broken armor even hit the ground, the fire soldiers had already passed through it.

They didn't speak or turn around. Each team would only fight for a short distance, and after completing a round, they would switch places to fill in, like the mechanical gears in a fire vein. Even if one person died, the formation would not stop.

This was the first time the incendiary formation had been used in actual combat.

They attacked the empire's rear-line combustion pressure center.

Three minutes after the first wave of fire soldiers entered the field, the entire backline collapsed.

The Imperial suppression squad retreated en masse, attempting to take the alternative combustion route.

turn out--

The backup road was also destroyed.

Ron descended slowly from the curtain of fire above and stood on a platform of fire bones.

With bone armor covering his body and fire patterns fully unleashed, a gray-red fire wheel hovered behind him, making him look like a section of old furnace pipe pulled out and connected to the ground, spewing fire.

He didn't say a word.

Only one action was performed.

—Draw the sword and point it forward.

The second wave of fire soldiers jumped down!

"Do you think... they've gone mad?"

Have you ever seen a battle force that doesn't have a commander and relies entirely on fire pulses for self-synchronization?

"We can't even tell which one is which!"

"They themselves didn't have heads, they only had one source of fire!"

After the remnants of the Imperial Steel Corps sent their report, Somo stared at the dossier for a long time.

With each line of text I read, my heart sank a little deeper.

This is no small matter.

This marks the formation of a complete firepower system.

They weren't fighting in the field; they were using standard tactics.

Fire Vein is no longer an appendage of the legion; it is the main structure, the core of the entire combat chain.

"This guy's not a soldier anymore..." he muttered under his breath.

"This is fire."

"A fire that moves."

Three hours after the successful reversal of the fire line, the Grayscale front line reconnected to the main vein.

On the Wangyan Terrace, the fire diagram was turned.

The first explosive formation is back.

The firefighters suffered only 23 casualties, severely damaged the Imperial Suppression Command, destroyed three backup breaches, and killed 231 enemies.

This was the first time since the Fire Legion was formed that it had truly achieved a victory against overwhelming odds.

Claudia frowned as she looked at the battle report.

"Is this the 'new strategy' you were talking about?"

Ron nodded.

"There will be more of this in the future."

"why?"

"Because there was too much fire."

"I'm not afraid of having few people now."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to control the fire."

Viser chuckled beside him.

"In the past, we fought without fire."

"There are too many fires right now, we can't put them all out."

Ron turned and glanced at him.

"There is a lot of fire."

"But war—"

"It hasn't started yet."

The news of the successful surprise attack by the fire soldiers' explosive formation reached the Empire in less than two hours, and the high-ranking officials of the Xuanhuo Hall immediately changed their orders.

Tactical mode: Encircle and attack the enemy's stronghold.

Instead of breaking through the fire lines or blowing up the fire veins, they surrounded the Grayscale Nest from the outside, using the entire city as a cage to trap Ron inside.

This is not a simple encirclement.

It was a tactical encirclement and suppression.

The three branches of the Imperial Army mobilized simultaneously:

The Skyhawk Army moved to the high ground, gained air superiority, and used air-fuel cannons to continuously suppress the fire well outlet;

The burial army marched through the rift valley, sealing off all bone passages in the mining area that could connect people;

Cang Tiejun took the old road of the Grayscale Ruins and laid a line on the ground to block it.

When the three armies move, the entire capital city knows.

—The empire has begun to wage a real war.

Grey scale main ore.

Beneath the flames, the entire underground passage trembled slightly.

It's not an earthquake; it's just that the troop movement lines are being adjusted.

Ron stood in front of the King's Flame Platform, staring at the fire diagram.

The red line on the map remains stationary, but three layers of blue-gray markings appear around it.

That was the Imperial Legion—

They were not scouts or reconnaissance agents, but the main force of the three armies.

Claudia burst in with the battle report: "The outer perimeter blockade has begun."

"They don't want to destroy your nest, they want to trap you."