Nameless King

"Looks like Gaur has already encountered some problems..." Keira muttered, looking at the Red Wolf from the other end of space. Her mechanical eyes could easily see every detail, down to the grain of sand, so the fog was no barrier to her.

"Miss! We're ready!" The girl with the short reds exclaimed as she as if a military man touched her head with his hand.

Keira nodded, "Fine. If we're lucky, we'll finish this right now. Let the robots fight for us while we have that chance, we can build as many of them as we want, though... they're completely ineffective..."

The various robots and drones were the first ones that the Constructs sent into battle. Their main task was to explore the snowy desert and take control of part of the territory. However, as in the case of the misty lands, the monsters in the snowy desert proved to be very strong, so much so that Ferner didn't need to do anything.

"What would be your instructions?" The girl asked with a serious expression, looking directly at Keira.

"Run them. Let's see how good their defense is." Keira said as she carelessly waved her hand.

"Will do." The girl nodded and pulled out the remote. She pressed the button as the massive cannon on one of the towers came into motion.

It was the largest cannon in the city and it was aimed directly at the ice island.

As soon as Keira gave the order, the Constructs began to activate the cannon. Its long muzzle filled with energy, which was marked by three blue stripes along the entire muzzle, then a huge amount of energy began to collect in the core.

From time to time, Constructs inserted energy crystals into the cells as the cannon quickly took in all the energy.

'Technically, this is the strongest attack our city is capable of... My strongest squad is capable of more, but the cannon attack just needs energy, no life force.' Keira pondered while the cannon filled with energy.

When it was ready, Keira took a few steps to the side, completely freeing the entire portal for the shot.

Keira looked at one of the commanders, nodded slightly and the commander activated the cannon.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Space trembled as in an instant all the power built up inside the cannon burst out, turning into a massive, destructive laser.

'Damn... That looks pretty dangerous.' Gladius muttered in a slightly worried voice.

'Hah, yeah, they used an enormous amount of energy to create a laser, like this, it contains the energy of at least a hundred Fifth Chronicle souls.' Wain grinned with interest as events unfolded.

Purple electrical discharges passed through the laser, causing the air around it to shake as peals of thunder spread across the area as if to speak of imminent disaster.

"Shit! This actually looks dangerous! We have to stop it!" Nicole exclaimed as she hurried forward, but as soon as she took a step a white-gloved palm stopped her, falling on her shoulder.

"Do you really think an attack like that could destroy the main seat of our Void?" Elegan smirked as the laser was about to reach the ice island.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Suddenly the space around the island trembled as dozens of layers of barriers Elegan had previously set up appeared. ɴovelFɪre.net

"Perhaps the core can defend itself, it has very powerful guards, but it took me a hell of a long time to be completely sure that even Wain, would have to try hard to get through all the ice island defenses." Elegan mouthed calmly while several of his barriers collapsed under the pressure from the laser.

Nicole wanted to object, she wasn't the type who was willing to trust everything to a few barriers, but Frigus's emotionless face silenced her.

'Agh...? Would a few barriers really be enough to defend against such a powerful attack...?" Nicole inwardly muttered in disbelief as she turned around.

The laser had already destroyed about a third of the barriers, it didn't seem like it was going to stop since the laser hadn't spent much energy all this way, but the defense wasn't that easy.

Snap.

Elegan snapped his fingers. At the same moment, hundreds of fragments from the broken barriers headed toward those that were still intact, quickly reinforcing them.

"Let me tell you something about the defense system around the ice island." Elegan said with a wide grin as he held up a finger like a teacher, "For starters, there are only 99 barriers, each one exactly the same in characteristics."

"Ninety-nine... how many..." Nicole muttered with a dazed look, seemingly completely oblivious to the danger that came from the laser.

"Once the barrier collapses it splits into many shards, each containing several runes. However, they don't disappear, instead, they become part of other barriers and so can be repeated almost indefinitely." Elegan explained with a proud look, "I'd say the total number of barriers is about a thousand, given all the reinforcements."

Crackle. Crackle. Crackle.

The laser kept crashing through the barriers, but suddenly, when it reached the seventieth, the laser stopped, unable to go any further. This barrier seemed to be as strong as all the previous ones, but the laser had less than one-tenth of its original power left.

"Agh... right, totally forgot to mention that last detail. That barrier is practically alive... what does that mean? Well, you'll see now." Elegan smirked.

'Hmmm? It's not like I asked anything... Damn, he definitely wanted to tell someone about it, even though I didn't understand anything at all, but it sounds cool anyway.' Nicole said to herself.

The laser gradually began to dissipate, disintegrating into small particles, at that moment the runes on the barriers glowed brightly and quickly absorbed all the energy from the laser. It was enough for 85 of the 99 layers to recover, and they continued to do so, absorbing energy from the outside.

"How is that possible..." The Construct who controlled the cannon launch muttered with his eyes wide open. He simply couldn't believe that simple magical barriers could protect against such an attack.

"Commander... Wasn't that laser comparable to the power of a dragon's breath on the Absolute Stage...?" His subordinate asked.

"Yeah... you're right... it might have been even stronger this time... but they still managed to defend themselves..." The commander muttered with a lowered hand.