When night fell, the entire Aimuen Forest fell silent. Then, a violent explosion ignited the silence.
Sparks flew through the night sky. The fiery meteors split as they flew. By the time they landed, they had already split into several hundred meteors and ignited the forest and grassland.
The frosty meteors carried the cold air of winter and locked onto every fleeing target. The scattered cold air overflowed and easily froze and cracked the trees one by one.
The purple arcane magic was the slowest, but its trajectory was the strangest and most unavoidable. It was as if it was a living creature controlled by will. She was in charge of filling in the gaps and specifically looking for targets that were faster.
The most fatal of all was the final silver-white light. It was as if the heavens were punishing the earth and sliced through everything in its path. All that was left behind were ravines filled with flowing lava.
As the most important part of the attack, its mission was to lock onto the opponent's vitals. It would first shatter the opponent's steel defenses, then shatter the opponent's hard bones, and finally deal a fatal blow to the stubborn opponent who was still struggling at death's door.
Meteors rose and fell one after another.
In less than five minutes, at least three hundred light beams and similar things smashed into the area within a kilometer radius. The light and shadow effects brought about directly turned night into day, forcibly turning this tranquil forest into a purgatory on earth.
When the commotion ended, an invisible communication device was sent to everyone.
"How's the damage? Please report back. First group? Scouting team? "
"I'm fine … No.1 Su Nanna, I'm fine. If something so slow touched me, I wouldn't be in this line of work anymore. I'll give you the report in ten minutes. "
"No.2 is undamaged. If something like that hits me, my Aerial Hero Medal will cry … By the way, Rorschach, can you really not lend me any money? I'm a little tight on living expenses. I promise I won't spend money …"
"Don't use the public channel to say such nonsense. Also, Sow says she won't spend money … Heh heh."
Rorschach put down the communication device and heaved a sigh of relief.
"The May Rain Squadron? That attack wave was just as described in the data. It was as sudden and continuous as May's rain. As long as you were hit by it, there was no way you could escape. "
From a certain standpoint, the greatest benefit of Roxia's forceful "investigation" was that he learned in advance that Ariel's main opponent for the third and final battle was Ariel's personal battle group — the May Rain Society — due to their carelessness.
Although he could still get the list of his opponents through the "referee" later on, there was a lot more work to be done in advance.
Rorschach didn't try to bribe people in advance because the success rate was too low. However, it was necessary to collect information on the opponent and make targeted preparations.
Sources of information? The opponent's church, the records of their fights, and even the publicity of their own organization were all possible, especially the last one. Many editors who didn't have enough professional skills and didn't know how to keep their mouths shut easily leaked the core abilities and playstyles of their own celebrity members.
However, Rorschach soon discovered that collecting information on the May Rain Society was much easier than expected.
As the next celebrity candidate of the silver elves, the silver elves' major educational journals had numerous reports on her. They all praised her to the heavens, such as "Unstoppable White Light of Destruction" and "Dragonblood Princess". Naturally, they would also report on her battle achievements.
And with the May Rain Squadron's playstyle, it would be quite difficult to hide, ignore, or selectively report on them.
"This is a squadron that's purely AoE. They forcefully turned a 3D battle into a 2D AoE battle. What a unique squadron. They were created purely for Ariel."
Of the May Rain Squadron's seven permanent members, five of them were mages, including Ariel … well, it wasn't wrong to call them sisters. After all, this was a squadron that was more inclined towards women.
These mages also specialized in offensive magic. This was obviously an unconventional squadron. That was why their playstyle was also unconventional. However, the principle behind this was quite simple. They just needed to bombard the area within their attack range, bombard it, bombard it … Well, don't blame me for repeating this, because this was really the only method.
However, the simpler a battle tactic or strategy was, the easier it would be to implement, and the less likely it would be to make mistakes. And as long as the members were strong enough, their equipment would be used to strengthen their strengths, and the squadron would also grow in strength quickly.
Only extreme equipment, extreme battle tactics, and extreme magical armor configurations could create such a scene.
According to the information Roxia had gathered, there had already been dozens of battles where the opponents of the May Rain Legion had been blasted to smithereens before they could even react.
Rorschach could already imagine the current situation of the May Rain Squadron.
The moment they entered the battlefield, the four mages' magical armors transformed. They took off their heavy defensive outer shells, creating many spellcasting platforms that all activated simple mage tower buffs.
After the first round of cannon fire, all the magical armors overheated and started smoking. The female mages on them all collapsed on the ground, exhausted. The magical armors then transformed again.
When the outsider assassins disappeared into the night, the baby-headed black-haired girl with a gigantic war hammer was probably cautiously observing her surroundings. She was also one of the rare non-mage job classes in the May Mercenary Group.
Magical armors meant for mages would always be the most expensive type of magical armor. This was because they were basically "dual-use" magical armors.
Magical armors only had two important properties for mages. The first was their defensive properties, which would protect the weak physical body of the mage. The second was their ability to strengthen the mage's spellcasting abilities.
The first was quite simple. The thicker and sturdier the armor, the better. However, if the second was added into the mix, it would be impossible to achieve the design goal.
Ordinary metals would interfere with magic. In the previous generation, casting magic while wearing armor was considered an impossible task. Meanwhile, magical armors were made of steel with a large amount of mana flowing through them, which would interfere with magic even more.
The first few generations of mages' magical armors were all failures. They wanted to have the best of both worlds, but they ended up having neither. In the end, mages would either choose to defend or cast magic. One side would become heavier and heavier, while the other side would become cooler and cooler.
Although the former was safer, the mage would become weaker. There would often be mages who couldn't take it anymore and jumped out, only to be killed. As for the latter … an assassin's dagger or an archer's hidden arrow would be more than enough to deal with these unlucky mages on the battlefield. Since the concept of long-distance sniping was born, long-distance sniping became synonymous with suicide.
That was, until the fourth generation of magical armors, when an archmage proposed the concept of transformable magical armors.
In its normal state, magical armors were highly defensive and heavily armed, similar to knight-type magical armors. They perfectly made up for the mage's weak physical body. However, the mage's spellcasting abilities would be much weaker than normal magical armors.
When magical armors entered their spellcasting specialization mode, they would transform into various spellcasting platforms. Their backup energy pools would become elemental pools and mana storage, which would be used to support spellcasting, just like mage towers.
Once the spellcasting finished, the magical armors would immediately transform back into their defensive mode. They would be able to freely change their forms on the battlefield in order to satisfy the mage's needs.
This change directly increased the mage's survivability on the battlefield, and also made magical armor mages officially the core job class for combat mages. Magical armor mages would also have high defense and attack power. Mages would become the core of the battlefield and the uncrowned kings as usual.
What was the price? The price was just like the mage's other equipment and products. It would be incredibly expensive. Rorschach had met several mage seniors in the inter-school tournament. None of them could afford to buy or rent a mage's magical armor, so they simply used a knight's magical armor to make up the numbers.
The Mayrain Squadron had simultaneously taken out four fifth-generation magic armors for mages. It was highly likely that they were the silver elves' famous Sun Watcher series. It could only be said that the Mayrain Squadron was truly generous and didn't treat money as money at all … After all, most novice churches and descenders had invested all their resources into Ansorenne's battle.
The Mayrain Squadron's ability to do so was naturally directly related to the magical armor's capabilities.
Even an archmage's spellcasting ability had its limits, especially when it came to important factors such as range and damage radius. Nobody would be able to send a single fireball several dozen kilometers away … Fine, there would always be monsters in the world, but let's ignore those special existences for now and return to common sense.
But if you had a mage tower's support, most mages would be able to do it. After all, they would have a magical energy supply and a long-distance vision system. Most of the time, it would be similar to how a driver would operate a machine and press a button.
And now, if Rorschach's guess was correct, the Mayrain Squadron's magical armor should be equipped with top-level components that could increase spellcasting range and area of effect.
The mages would charge their magical armor with mana and unhesitatingly start a wave of explosions the moment they entered the battlefield. They would then enter an overload recovery state.
The spellcasters would use medicine and meditation to recover their mana, while the magical armor would replace the backup energy pool. Every so often, the spellcasters would bombard the enemy with another wave of attacks. This was a simple yet practical battle tactic, and its attacks would be as continuous as May's rain. That was why it was known as May's Rain.
May Rain Literature Club chose this name because they intended to use this tactic to the end. The tendency of their members was also based on the needs of the tactic. All the members were part of the tactic, and Ariel was one of the core of the tactic.
A reasonable battle strategy and arrangement would allow the six members to unleash ten times the combat power. This was also why Rorschach would say that Ariel was immature, while May Rain was a mature battle group.
"Next, we'll see if we can blind her … or at least block her eyes. Otherwise, we won't be able to fight at all. Half-elf Xin Qi Su, I didn't expect to meet the bloodline of a fellow Earthling here. "
Rorschach also didn't expect that the baby-headed girl with bangs that he had been playing with the other day — the girl who was a literary tycoon — was not only a hybrid of Earth and Aishi, she was also another core member of this battle group.
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