Sovereign of the Ashes

Chapter 253: First Wave

Known for its violent and vicious nature, it seldom showed concern for the lives of the inhabitants in this plane.

In contrast, the guardian, known as the Red Flamed Tortoise, was cherished by the millions of creatures in the Viridian Venom Flame World.

With billions of creatures inhabiting this pyro elemental plane, known for its harsh environmental laws, the lifeforms here were more aggressive and unruly than those from milder worlds.

Soon, millions of various pyro elemental creatures converged. Most of them were winged, allowing them to swiftly reach the breach in the planar barrier.

The majority of these winged creatures were below Rank One.

The formidable presence of the two Magus World mages, both beyond Rank Four, looming outside the plane, instilled in them a profound sense of shock and fear.

Amidst them, a few powerful pyro creatures at the demigod level stood resilient against the pressure.

With Anridar the Venom Flame Demon King defeated and in hiding, the fate of the Viridian Venom Flame World seemed to rest on these creatures.

“Don’t let these terrifying beings enter our world, stop them!” cried a peak Rank Three pyro creature, resembling a drake with four wings and two pairs of fleshy horns.

Spurred by this creature and the guardian’s simple directive, the first wave of pyro creatures courageously charged toward Gregory and Bernice’s location.

BOOOM!

The elemental vortex swirling in front of Bernice’s magic rod wreaked havoc, decimating the native creatures of the Viridian Venom Flame World that were drawn in like moths to a flame.

The sky, once filled with densely packed pyro beings, now saw them plummeting like stones, overwhelmed by the formidable powers of a Rank Four mage.

The sight of numerous creature corpses plummeting to the ground sent a wave of fear through the hearts of the native creatures of the Viridian Venom Flame World.

At this moment, a steady influx of pyro elemental creatures continued to swarm from all directions. Consequently, Bernice found it challenging to entirely eliminate these persistent attackers.

“These creatures are really becoming a nuisance, slowing down our efforts to breach the planar barrier. While Master Feylis activates the space fortress’ main cannon, it seems we’ll have to deploy my enslaved creatures this time,” Bernice remarked, keeping her grip on her magic rod.

At this point, Gregory the elemental giant was fervently working to widen the gap in the planar barrier, playing a crucial role in the endeavor.

Distracted by his task, Gregory merely nodded in response to Bernice’s comment.

With another gesture of her magic rod, Bernice issued a command. Her space fortress, originally positioned behind the left side of the biggest fortress, began to move closer to the breach in the planar barrier.

Despite being the smallest and most compact of the three, Bernice’s space fortress still boasted an impressive diameter of over ten thousand meters.

As the fortress drew nearer, it cast a looming shadow over Bernice, Gregory, and the defiant native creatures of the Viridian Venom Flame World.

In this darkness, Bernice, with her massive elemental vortex, and Gregory, in his elemental giant form, appeared even more menacing.

With a loud clank, the hatch at the bottom of the fortress swung open, unleashing a torrent of enslaved creatures.

These vicious beings of various forms were the expendable army Bernice had prepared for the interplanar war.

Although their numbers were not overwhelming, totaling only about a million, they were sufficient to hold back the surge of native creatures at the breach.

While these slave creatures were primarily intended as cannon fodder, they were not merely sacrificial pawns.

In comparison to the hastily assembled millions of native creatures of the Viridian Venom Flame World, these beings emerging from the space fortress were significantly more formidable and battle-hardened!

As a Rank Four mage with a discerning mind, Bernice did not settle for substandard forces when assembling her own army of enslaved creatures.

She had invested a considerable sum of magicoins and meticulously chosen this army of cannon fodder from within the Magus Alliance.

Among them, nearly ten thousand were above Rank One, capable of withstanding the counterattacks of the Viridian Venom Flame World’s natives and inflicting the first wave of terror upon them!

The planar breach that Gregory and Bernice had worked together to open was not yet wide enough for creatures of Rank Four and above like themselves to pass through. However, it was sufficiently large for their lower-ranked enslaved forces to enter.

One of the first to leap into the Viridian Venom Flame World was a peak Rank Three creature resembling a massive, bumpy black toad that was nearly a hundred meters in size.

Upon entering the Viridian Venom Flame World, the creature was visibly agitated by the world’s distinct environmental laws and pervasive flames.

Despite being continuously assaulted by flames from hundreds of surrounding fire crows, the toad’s tough skin rendered the attacks largely ineffective.

In a swift motion, a pitch-black shadow streaked by, and suddenly, two-thirds of the fire crows in front of it were gone.

It turned out the shadow was the toad’s tongue, rapidly catching its prey.

A low roar sounded nearby.

The giant black toad turned to see the drake-like creature that had earlier led the charge now lunging toward it.

The toad narrowed its eyes and emitted a deafening croak. It then quickly maneuvered as if stepping on an invisible wall, using its hind legs to propel itself forward with greater agility than the pyro elemental drake.

The clash between two Rank Three creatures beneath the breach in the planar barrier was just one skirmish in the large-scale battle that marked the beginning of the invasion war in the Viridian Venom Flame World.

As time passed, the largest space fortress outside the world was drawing close to achieving a full charge for its main cannon.

Oblivious to the impending doom, most creatures of the Viridian Venom Flame World carried on, unaware of the looming, unbeatable threat.

However, one being was acutely aware—Anridar the Venom Flame Demon King!

Concealed beneath a sea of molten lava, it watched the space fortress with wide eyes, sensing the impending catastrophe from the intensifying white light in front of the fortress.