The Runic Alchemist-Chapter 579: Massacre

They still had an hour to get in position. Lucian and everyone got to work. Instead of 20,000 Pigmen holding steel shields to face the charge of the black monstrous army—this time there were over 30 rolling steel laser cannons lined straight in the narrow valley at a few meters' distance, covering the whole path.

Lucian had no idea if it would be enough or not, so the Pigmen army was right behind all of them, just in case this failed to stop the charge.

Each of them with mana containers could use enough mana threads to continuously power three steel cannons. The two Transcendants didn't have unlimited mana, but they too could use three cannons using their mana threads. All others were being handled with four second-rankers to each laser cannon, and another four were waiting behind to replace them after two laser shots—which was what four second-rankers could manage with these cannons using their own mana pool.

Everyone took their position and held their breaths. The cold wind blowing through the valley made sharp howling sounds. Thirty cannons were not enough to cover the whole valley, but there were Pigmen warriors—two on each side of the cannon—who would pull the cannons to the side using the leather straps and cover a wider area.

After some tense few minutes, the charge of the thousands of black ones resounded in the valley, breaking the tense silence. Most of them gritted their teeth and stood ready.

The second the black army crossed 800 meters, all 30 cannons were activated, and over 30 streams of powerful, large, pillar-sized horizontal beams were shot at full power—it took a lot of mana to keep it going for even a few seconds. No wonder it needed four second-rankers for even a single burst shot.

A smile flashed on Lucian's face as she sensed hundreds and hundreds of mana signatures from black Pigmen—large and small—starting to disappear at an alarming rate. The laser reached over 1,500 meters before losing power and arching down. Lucian, along with all her friends, continued pouring as much mana as they could inside the cannons. The Pigmen warriors continued pulling the cannons from this side to that, making the powerful laser sweep in a wide angle.

The flying emperor-ranked ones were their responsibility to handle. It was simple, really—though it demanded high focus from them—they just had to use their three sacrium swords and open a wormhole near the flying monstrosities and let the lasers go through it to shoot them down to the ground.

They missed some, hit some, and re-hit some. At the end of it all, after some 10 minutes.. The whole valley smelled like smoked rotten meat. They had successfully obliterated 20,000 black Pigmen like it was nothing—all in less than 10 minutes. The spell was terrifying to say the least. The leftovers were handled by the Pigmen army standing ready behind them. Only a few had been left, either after hiding behind others, falling on the ground, or getting really close to the mountain walls on the sides.

Now this.. This had to force Bloodedge's hand. And they could effectively proceed to the next stage of the plan when the counter-attack came.