Chapter 1469: Chapter 257: Sovereign of Radiant Light and the Autumn Offensive

The war on the Terra Continent is mainly divided into three parts: high-level battles among the strong, core target raids by elite forces, and defensive counterattacks by large armies.

Due to the existence of Sublimators, this world’s wars are completely different from those on Earth. Besides coordination among the most ordinary armored units and infantry units, and air and ground units, there must be coordination between Sublimated units and non-Sublimated units.

The result of such coordination is that fighting forces composed of ordinary people are mostly made up of humans and First Energy Level officers. Their mission is not to break through nor to exhaust the enemy’s power with their lives… because it’s impossible. Speaking in terms of Terra Confederation’s conventional firepower, without relying on fortresses and facilities, even vast armies will be blasted into ashes.

Therefore, their mission is ‘holding the line’ and ‘controlling the area,’ with a large part consisting of guard and engineering units.

Relying on fortresses and strongholds, and various defenses capable of threatening Sublimators and Armor Suits, they block enemy advances.

The high-level battles among the strong refer to Sublimators of Third Energy Level and above.

They slaughter ordinary troops; if one side possesses them while the other doesn’t, unless the latter owns something like Aether Armament and Voidrealm Machine God, otherwise, it’s a sure defeat.

Hence, when two sides go to war, the top strong should be evenly matched, while both sides’ large forces maintain their respective positions and gradually erode the opponent’s control area.

The ‘elite forces’ are assigned the role of attack.

These elite forces, in the past, referred to those mainly composed of Armor Suits and Second Level Sublimators, possessing extremely high mobility and destructive power, capable of easily inflicting devastating blows on the enemy.

In the world war of Terra 658, high-mobility armor technology was redeveloped for the first time, no longer the ‘heavy and clumsy’ Iron Golems of the past. In that battle, the Central Empire completely destroyed the Steep Ridge Fortress’s main forces, who, leveraging the power of the dark tides from the Dark Mountain Range, charged toward the northern fortress groups.

The hundred years following was the most glorious century for armor… but after that, with the technological advancement of various nations, the proliferation of anti-armor weapons, fortresses becoming increasingly sturdy, and armor itself constantly changing its position, ordinary armor has gradually become unable to fulfill rapid destruction tasks.

Replacing them are units like Fiery Flame Land’s ‘Constructed Knights,’ which are high-speed siege and tactical suppression units.

The relevant imperial forces, which Ian had already seen, are based on ‘high-speed mobile fortresses’ and ‘sixth-generation aerial armor suits’ as variable-form mobile armors.

Capable of reaching several times the speed of sound, carrying a large number of heavy cannonballs, and transforming into armor to assist Sublimators in close combat.

In comparison, the Fiery Flame Land’s Constructed Knights, incapable of flight and enormous targets, although still retaining a firepower advantage, are still suppressed by the Empire’s technical advances.

This is an impossible task.

Fiery Flame Land is undoubtedly conducting research in this area. Not to mention, Ian knows they can develop items like ‘Dead River Armament,’ which convert demonic power into their own strength.

And now, Rongying being such a ‘half-demon’ further illustrates that Fiery Flame Land’s research in the Domain of Void and demons has gone very far.

The Empire has also researched demon-related technology, but in the directions of the Domain of Void and Spirit Energy, most efforts focus on various areas related to Echo and human memory.

“Careful consideration, even the City of Knowledge is working on the Thousand-Star Beast; truly, these Terra nations are unrestricted in their pursuits.”

Thinking of this, Ian couldn’t help but shake his head slightly.

Through prior analysis of Rongying, Ian roughly understood Fiery Flame Land’s mindset.

The essence of demons is a sort of information creature formed by the condensation of curses and resentments, akin to faes.

Yet faes are individuals instinctively differentiated from the soul of the planet, whereas demons are entities condensed from the subconscious sea of all intelligent beings, which is the Domain of Void on the human-related side.

Rongying’s ability to devour souls and convert memories is quite similar to what Adalbert once told him about the ‘Abyssal Blood Demon,’ a great demon that roams in Subspace, born from the Catastrophes of the Apocalyptic Order in Carlin’s Flower.

A few Evil Demon Hunters in Yanjiang slaughtered and sealed it, but it remains undying and indestructible, unless all memories regarding it are forgotten.

Fiery Flame Land clearly acknowledged the fundamental nature of the Blood Demon, hence it continuously conducts experiments, almost producing a brand new blood demon with the ‘Dead River Armament.’

The Dead River Armament, although currently not strong, broke during Ian’s battle with the young heroes of the nations and the Dark Gold Colossus Dragon, needing slow repair.

But this is merely because Ian hasn’t fed it with souls and fear, even suppressing it.

Were it fully released, it’s hard to imagine the growth it might achieve.

If Fiery Flame Land’s ‘elite forces’ are linked to demons and the ‘Dead River Armament,’ no wonder Star Extinguishment Path’s Ian almost couldn’t defeat them.

“I recall, on the Dying Star Path, Fiery Flame Land’s super warrior corps were called ‘The Immortals’… Originally, I didn’t know the origin, but if it is associated with some demon-related Dead River Armament… everything makes sense.”

Having broadly confirmed his speculation, Ian continued to look toward Rongying, who had found a secluded spot and closed his eyes, starting to establish a spiritual connection with the ‘headquarters.’