Sitting on the balcony of the Paris palace having afternoon tea with Black Saber, Jalter looked at the giant beasts appearing on the distant battlefield and spoke to Black Saber with a composed expression.
"Cold-Blooded Woman, let me raise the stakes this round! Hydra, go! Take your offspring and tear them to shreds for me!"
"Roar!"
The nine hideous heads of the Hydra roared, then all its heads, with blood-red eyes, crashed through the palace wall and charged out of the palace.
At the same time, numerous Wyverns and Hydra offspring burst out from the dragon nests near the palace, converging behind the Hydra and rushing towards the battlefield.
One of the Sphinxes that was continuously bombing the Paris city walls suddenly let out a mournful cry, then fell from the sky, emitting green smoke, crashing heavily onto the Paris city wall, reducing a section of the wall to ruins.
Rin, who had just seen the Sphinx fall, said to the confused people nearby.
"I just saw that Sphinx get hit by venom."
"Roar!"
Soon, Rin's guess became reality. Within Paris, black-green liquids shot out at super high speed towards the Sphinxes in the sky, making the Sphinxes abandon their bombing and frantically try to dodge the liquid projectiles.
At the same time, a huge head appeared on the battlefield, biting down on a Sphinx that was struggling to get up from the ground, causing the Sphinx to let out a painful shriek.
After being bitten by this head, which resembled both a dragon and a snake, the bitten area on the Sphinx continuously emitted large amounts of highly corrosive mist, as if sulfuric acid had been poured on it.
The surrounding zombies and soldiers were dissolved as if under high-concentration radiation.
"Cleopatra! Have the regular soldiers retreat; only the elites should remain on the battlefield!"
Hearing Rin's shout, Cleopatra snapped out of it and quickly summoned her general, ordering him to sound the retreat.
With the massive appearance of Hydra, its offspring, and Wyverns, soldiers on the battlefield, lacking high-level power cover, were indeed no longer suitable to remain.
As the Egyptian and French soldiers withdrew, only elite troops who understood magic or possessed superpowers remained on the battlefield.
Under the cover of these elite troops, Cleopatra's Sphinxes and giant snakes launched a counterattack first. The Innocentius summoned by Rin and Gudako, due to its movement speed, joined the battle last.
Hydra and its offspring, under the cover of countless Wyverns, wantonly sprayed venom across the battlefield, making the entire battlefield hazy.
"Sizzle Sizzle Sizzle!"
The sound constantly echoed. The giant snakes and Sphinxes, as flesh-and-blood units, quickly suffered in the poisonous mist. The Hydra's highly corrosive venom continuously corroded the scales of the giant snakes and the feathers of the Sphinxes.
In contrast, the Innocentius summoned by Rin and Gudako thrived on this battlefield. As the Innocentius's scorching heat roasted the vaporized venom, it created a wonderful chemical reaction with the high temperature. The highly toxic mist, heated by the high temperature around the Innocentius, instead caused the Wyverns attacking the Innocentius to suffer.
These specially bred Wyverns could originally barely resist the Hydra's potent venom with their scales, but as the Innocentius heated the venom, the Wyverns could no longer resist this potent venom.
Wyverns approaching the Innocentius quickly had their wing membranes corroded by the potent venom, crashing heavily to the ground, where they were burned to cinders by the Innocentius.
As these persistent Innocentiuss, which couldn't be killed or poisoned, got closer and closer to Hydra and its offspring, Jalter, watching the battlefield from the palace balcony, couldn't help but look grim.
"Carmilla, go stop those flame giants!"
Carmilla looked at the Innocentiuss, radiating intense heat, then at Jalter's impatient face, swallowed, nodded stiffly, and turned to lead her legion towards the battlefield.
Jalter watched Carmilla's retreating back and cursed disdainfully.
"Useless!"
Black Saber nodded in agreement.
"It's better for a coward who's lost her nerve to disappear sooner. It'll save you a lot of magical energy!"
Then Black Saber turned to Bradamante, who was standing behind her, and ordered.
"Bradamante, take your subordinates to supervise the battle. If Carmilla tries to escape, kill her!"
"Yes, my King!"
Jalter looked at Black Saber's subordinate, Bradamante, then thought of her own motley crew, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Assault Girl, has your subordinate Marshal Gil still not contacted you?"
"Hmm! Although the contract is still connected, there's no response no matter how I call out."
"Then after dealing with these guys outside the city, I'll make a trip to Brittany and help you take him out!"
"Hmm! As you say, Cold-Blooded Woman, and... thank you!"
Black Saber's hand, holding the teacup, trembled slightly, showing her inner turmoil. Then, Black Saber smiled faintly and looked at Jalter.
'Having a friend isn't so bad after all!'
The monstrous beasts continued their fierce battle on the battlefield. The beasts, intertwined in combat, were locked in a chaotic brawl near the southern city wall of Paris. Every now and then, a beast would tumble down, spilling a river of blood like a flood.
Wyverns fell like raindrops, crushed into mangled flesh by the battling beasts.
Dozens of Innocentiuss surrounded Hydra, holding huge flaming crucifixes, roaring as they continuously smashed Hydra's body and heads.
Witnessing this scene, Rin felt as if she had returned to her childhood, to the Hanging Gardens, with the same Hydra and the same Innocentius, as if the battlefield had transcended time and was blossoming again at this moment.
Staring blankly at the battlefield, Rin unconsciously murmured.
"I remember I was only five years old then! How nostalgic! Marshal Gil, Medea, Semiramis, we will definitely have another chance to fight side by side!"
Gudako, seeing Rin completely lost in thought, couldn't help but scratch her head. Rin, who should have been sending more reinforcements to the battlefield, was now completely immersed in her memories, leaving Gudako unsure whether to interrupt her.
However, when Gudako recalled the taste of Rin's fist, she shivered and resolutely shook her head, discarding the idea of waking Rin up. She walked down the command platform alone, found an empty spot, and began to inscribe runes to summon new familiars.
As twelve enormous stone giants roared and charged out of the camp, Gudako, having completed her magic, returned to the command platform, intending to observe the combat effectiveness of the new spell she had learned from Rin.
The Kabbalah procedure, originating from Sherry Cromwell's spell in a certain magical index, is a magic that creates human effigies from mud. In Kabbalistic thought, humans were shaped by God from mud. The half-baked products created by humans imitating God's methods are stone giants. Stone giants are over 4 meters tall and can be used as shields, decoys, or even for suicide attacks or self-destruction.
After referencing Sherry Cromwell's special stone giant 'Alice' from the original work, Rin further improved it through a series of modifications, allowing stone giants summoned by ordinary means to automatically form body structures and repair injuries using surrounding environmental elements, much like 'Alice'. Unless the enemy can destroy the magic circle or the magic circle runs out of magical energy, these stone giants are immortal.
And now, these immortal stone giants have entered the battlefield.
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