Full-time Creation Master

The images in the holographic projection kept updating: the ports of Belgium were occupied by demons, the lighthouse in France collapsed, and only one city remained in Denmark...

On the three largest screens, one of the new era's meat grinders, the Normandy Line, is depicted with dark gray waves rolling with ice shards, crashing repeatedly against the stone seawall of the Normandy Line, the splashing water mixed with dark red blood droplets.

The barrels of the "Roarer" coastal defense guns were glowing red-hot, and each roar shook the ground.

The cannonballs, imbued with anti-magic runes, crashed into the sea, exploding in white spray.

You can see the severed tentacles of the sirens—those "deep-diving monsters" with octopus bodies and human faces and fangs are surging in from the seabed in droves, the barbs on their tentacles hooking the corpses of dead soldiers, leaving long trails of blood on the crests of the waves.

"Fire Wall! Cast Fire Wall now!" the mage captain Thomas roared, his knuckles turning white as he formed hand seals.

Three teams of fire mages unleashed their power simultaneously, building a three-meter-high wall of fire in front of the dike with orange-red flames. The moment the siren's tentacles touched the flames, black smoke hissed and billowed, filling the air with a burnt, fishy stench.

The fire wall held for only half a minute before a burst of deep blue demonic power created a breach—a "deep sea lord" the size of a destroyer leaped from the waves, its massive head shattering the fire wall. Ice spikes spewed from its mouth instantly pierced the chests of two mages, and blood dripped down the ice spikes onto the dam, only to be quickly washed away by the waves.

The siren's "human-faced fish soldiers" are climbing up by stepping on the corpses of their comrades; their sharp teeth can crush steel.

The bronze gates of the Normandy waterlock were so powerful they made your eardrums ache.

The "Sea-Suppressing Divine Pattern" on the door flickered on and off, and the pale golden light membrane firmly blocked the sea monsters, which resembled a black tide, from a hundred meters away.

This fortress, built against the cliff, has walls cast from deep-sea black iron, hard enough to withstand a monarch-level bombardment.

The magic crystal cannons on the three-story arrow tower had muzzles that were glowing red-hot, with flames almost never ceasing.

At the core of the tidal magic array, a hundred water mages formed a circular formation, and the array's activation indicator lights lit up simultaneously.

"rise!"

With a roar, the seawater was channeled into a towering wall of water, crashing fiercely against the human-faced fish demon climbing the city wall.

But as soon as the water wall crashed down, new fish demons surged up, stepping over the corpses of their companions—they stretched from the sea level to the horizon, like a moving black carpet.

"The left-wing magic circle is low on energy! Replenish with magic stones!"

Elena, the Grand Marshal who was in charge of the magic array, had her robes completely soaked, with seawater mixed with sweat streaming down her face.

She slammed her Tide Staff into the ground, and a deep blue water dragon leaped out, wrapping the Shark Lord, who was crashing into the light membrane, into a dumpling.

The next second, a dozen barbed tentacles pierced through the water dragon.

The lord opened its massive mouth, spraying corrosive acid onto the light film, burning out a string of sizzling bubbles.

The light from the defensive formation dimmed by a third in an instant.

In the trenches beneath the city walls, thousands of riflemen's fingers were worn down to the bone from pulling the trigger.

Shell casings piled up like a small mountain at their feet. It took ten bullets to blow up the head of a fish demon, but the fallen corpses were quickly covered by the demon tide.

When the claws of a fish demon touched the top of the barricade, the soldiers roared and smashed it with their rifle butts. When the rifle butts broke, they used their teeth to bite it.

The smell of blood mixed with the smell of the sea was so strong that it was hard to breathe.

Please don't focus too much on the issue of firearms and ammunition; consider it an added feature!

In the original work, 9% of the mage guards in the tens of millions of troops of the Dragon Kingdom were novice mages (as mentioned in the disaster of Bo City). So, if a war really broke out, would the novice mages just stand there blankly after running out of mana after casting a few novice spells? Or would they have enough time to meditate with their replacements?

They will definitely have to continue going to the battlefield, so they'll have to fight with their bare hands, right?

In this context, while missiles and nuclear weapons are the primary weapons, do you think the military doesn't need physical training?!

"Fire Mage, Meteor Shower!"

The mage squad atop the arrow tower began chanting, and orange-red fireballs rained down on the demon horde like a meteor shower.

The screams of the sirens rose and fell, and the smell of burning flesh drifted into the fortress on the sea breeze.

Each meteorite blasted a crater ten meters wide, filled with the mangled remains of the fish demon.

But the pit was instantly filled by the surging tide of demons as soon as it appeared.

The light membrane trembled more and more violently. The old fish demon rammed its body against the crack, while the young fish demon squeezed into the opening.

Their corpses piled up beneath the fortress, forming a mountain higher than the city walls. The new fish demons trod on the slippery corpses, gnawing at the black iron walls with their sharp teeth, making a teeth-grinding crunching sound.

However, the army consists of more than 5% novice mages, whose magic energy has long been exhausted. They can only keep squeezing themselves out, even if it means their magic energy is depleted!

"Activate the secondary counterattack formation—Tidal Blade!"

As Elena watched the cracks on the light membrane grow denser, she suddenly cut her palm and pressed the blood onto the core crystal of the magic array.

A hundred mages followed suit, their blood flowing along the patterns of the magic array.

This is the activation condition for the fundamental array engraved in the Normandy Fortress!

The pale blue tidal force instantly turned scarlet.

A water blade pierced through the heavens and earth, shredding all the sea monsters within a radius of hundreds of thousands of meters. The black and red blood mist lingered for half a minute before dissipating.

The demonic tide on the sea surface vanished, and corpses stretched from the fortress to the shallow sea three kilometers away.

The rising tide swept over the mountain of corpses, pushing the dark red blood into the distance, each wave carrying bits of flesh.

The price was that one of the foundational magic arrays of Normandy, the fortress known as the one that would never fall, once again fell into a long recovery period!

Twenty mages in the circular formation collapsed, bleeding from all seven orifices. They appeared physically weak, but in reality, they suffered from dual injuries to their mental and magical abilities.

Blood sacrifice draws not only magic power, but also life itself.

"Damn it!"

"Quickly! Get the reserves to replace them!"

"The siren will come up again in ten minutes at most!"

Elena, the commander of the army, had also reached her limit, barely managing not to collapse. According to the current defensive echelon arrangement of the Normandy line, the three "great powers" of Germany, England, and the Principality of France each led a number of smaller countries to guard a section.

The basic supplies allocated are the same; if you want more, you'll have to rely on domestic support!

Along the 200,000-meter-long Normandy defensive line, there are five giant fortresses. The fortress-level formations inscribed on these giant fortresses (above the super-grade and below the forbidden spell) are basically 7-10 in number!

Each time you use it, you need to carefully calculate the cost and timing.

Elena looked at the nine magic circle models on the control panel. The three basic defensive magic circles had never been turned off—these were the key to preventing the fortress from being easily destroyed by demons!

The protective barrier formed by the two Earth Core Clusters is currently in the process of recovery, while the other is still at full strength!

Of the four offensive formations, only one of the three area-of-effect magic tidal blades remains intact. The formations that have just been depleted of energy will require a full six hours to replenish, even at great cost. Considering the cost, it would be best to slow the process down to 12 hours!

The one that's recovering is currently at 65% charge and will need another 2 hours!

The single-target attack magic circle is still intact, but the current monarch-level demons are too slippery. They hit once and run away, making them impossible to fight!

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