Chapter 623: Demon Lord – Kazak
Click! Click! Click!
The massive metal construct, bearing gleaming metal armor, slowly moved over.
The enticingly lustrous mechanical arm, powered by a magic engine, lifted the metal armor and placed it onto Yaya's back.
The large metal armor, weighing over a hundred pounds, didn't burden Yaya at all.
On the contrary, she skillfully flexed her back, adjusting the metal armor to fit better.
After fitting, the edges of the metal armor shimmered with crystal-clear magical light. Fitted mechanical structures extended outward, using structural integration and mortise-and-tenon joints to merge seamlessly with the fixed armor around it.
With the assembly of the back armor complete, dazzling spell light flared, forming an extremely tough protective shield.
Yaya moved her body, feeling the weight on her back, as a brilliant sheen appeared on her silver scales, slowly infusing into the shining silver armor.
The heavy metal armor quickly shed most of its weight, giving Yaya a feeling of near weightlessness.
This is the regional spell effect of the back magic armor—Gravity Reversal!
It was an improvement to Yaya's magic armor by Grand Arcanist Cronorman.
With the back armor equipped, Yaya's limbs also received magic armor installation.
As more and more magic armor was installed, their connections became increasingly tight.
When the massive magic armor was fully pieced together—
A special and powerful convergence field rapidly activated and released, as magical circuits were built and assembled atop the armor.
All the armor components were compressed together, forming an even stronger overall defense.
At the same time, Yaya had transformed into a gigantic metallic dragon exuding radiant silver light!
Oriana excitedly jumped into Yaya's palm, carefully caressing the refined and tight magic armor.
Feeling the smooth flow and surging of magical power within, countless improvement ideas immediately popped up in her mind.
As Macaron conducted various data tests on the draconic magic armor, his face broke into an ecstatic smile, muttering continuously:
"The multi-layer forcefield circuit experiment for the magic armor is a success."
"It can not only generate regional magical forcefields and effects."
"It can also maintain the overall effect of the magic armor."
"This greatly strengthens the combat capabilities of the magic armor and substantially increases resource utilization efficiency."
"Next, we will develop combat assistance functions for the magic armor."
"At the same time, we'll carry out even more efficient research into the coordination between regional forcefields and overall spell effects…"
Victor, who had hit a bottleneck in researching extraordinary-advancement constructs, tightly gripped his data notebook, staring in awe at the upright Yaya.
"Outer magic armor, inner spell forcefield, core control zone…"
"Isn't this basically a more intelligent version of a construct?"
"A magic armor capable of continuously accumulating combat experience and making clearer judgments about the situation would be able to unleash even greater combat effectiveness…"
"Perhaps, exoskeleton armor enhancements could also be considered from this angle…"
Countless new ideas and inspirations instantly surfaced in his mind.
Matthew could see "Knowledge +1" and "Magic Item Crafting Knowledge +1" notifications popping up endlessly above their heads.
Indeed, only the collision of wisdom can spark even more brilliant flashes of insight.
The development of a top-tier magic item can bring immense gains to all participants.
That's why Matthew established research institutes and set up various R\&D tasks.
With tasks and pressure, there is naturally motivation.
This set of magic armor Yaya obtained was the result of several research institutes spending over two months jointly developing it.
Dragon Magic Armor Type I
Legendary Set, Perfect Quality.
Materials: 12.45 tons of magic steel, 200 kg of adamantine, 20 kg of mithril, 8.75 kg of enchanted iron, 732 high-quality elemental crystals, 4.32 kg of arcane essence, 2.77 kg of bloodstone, 2.15 kg of azure crystal, 1.32 kg of meteoric iron, 800g of gravite, 600g of kryptonite, 200g of rainbow stone…
Defense +30, All Attributes +4, Damage Reduction 32, Extra Armor HP +300.
Enchantment Properties:
Legendary – Domination: Increases skill and talent effects by 50%!
Extraordinary – Damage Immunity: Immune to physical damage below high rank, reduces extraordinary level physical damage by 30%.
Extraordinary – Attack Deflection: 50% chance to deflect enemy attacks.
Extraordinary – Elemental Resistance: Reduces elemental magic damage by 50%.
Loadable Forcefields:
Extraordinary – Gravity Control Barrier: Reduces 75% gravity attraction.
Extraordinary – Life Spring Barrier: Gain 500 extra HP recovery.
Extraordinary – Power Strike Forcefield: Gain 15 Strength Impact checks.
Extraordinary – Shatter Forcefield: 50% chance to shatter enemies who fail Strength and Defense checks.
Evaluation: The moment it soars into the sky, all enemies shall submit!
Because, they'll be crushed to death by a mountain of gold descending from above!
This set of glittering dragon magic armor is even more precious than gold in the same space.
Its cost exceeded 80 million gold coins!
Incidentally, it also consumed most of Bay Territory's rare metal production for three months—not even counting design, manufacturing, and labor costs.
With such an immense investment, the armor's performance was certainly satisfactory to Matthew.
The reason is simple: Bay Territory must have top-tier combat power capable of deterring legendary-level beings.
Otherwise, the Cole Elven Kingdom, with its many legendary-level professionals, would not hesitate to demonstrate to Bay Territory what the destructive power of apex strength truly means.
In his previous life, Matthew and the players suffered such setbacks more than once.
Their side's powerful legendary professionals were free to slaughter at will.
The enemy possessed overwhelming destructive power and superior mobility.
They also had extraordinary stealth and tenacity.
They could easily meet all requirements for guerrilla warfare, and always executed it excellently.
Small forces could not threaten them at all—on the contrary, would simply be devoured.
Even large-scale troop movements would be wiped out en masse by the opposing legendary spellcasters.
It wouldn't be long before the entire territory and faction fell into a state of panic, quickly collapsing due to a loss of vital strength.
Don't think that legendary beings would show restraint just because they're powerful.
With immense combat experience and a love of life, they'd employ all manner of tactics others couldn't imagine to achieve victory.
Even though legendary-level Yaya is formidable, she is still within the range that can be dealt with.
But with the Dragon Magic Armor, Yaya's challenge rating has officially leaped past 25+, reaching an astounding 27+!
It would take at least two demigods leading a team, plus multiple high-ranking legendary professionals, to bring her down.
Note: Both sides' main profession levels are similar, but demigods possess at least divinity and divine power.
This level of armed force absolutely exists in the Cole Elven Kingdom, but cannot be deployed freely.
The more often they act, the more information is gathered, and the more countermeasures and assassinations they'll face in the future.
Don't think that just because the Cole Elven Kingdom is powerful, other factions and organizations won't dare target them.
In reality, the future fall of the Cole Elves will inevitably involve the machinations of other groups and powers.
Yaya excitedly clenched her claws, feeling the surging power within, already eager to make a move.
Matthew looked through the zombie army data, turning to the equally excited Butler Ralph and asked:
"Have all the transported residents been settled?"
Butler Ralph nodded resolutely, flipping through various statistics, and pointed at the rapidly developing Silvermoon River Plains:
"Three hundred thousand original residents have already moved over; there are better pioneering conditions and distribution ratios there."
"More than five hundred thousand citizens followed as well, jointly developing and expanding the area."
"Three new cities and twenty towns have already been built, able to accommodate about four million additional people."
Hearing Ralph's somewhat regretful tone, Matthew glanced at the vast territories around the zombie army and simply smiled:
"Prepare to receive new population; notify the adventurers to get ready for pursuit operations."
"Remind the Church of the Goddess and the Church of Harvest—they need to produce more holy water and purification potions."
Hearing Matthew's instructions, Butler Ralph immediately nodded.
Whoosh!
Yaya suddenly spread her wings, whipping up a fierce gale, her massive body soaring skyward and eliciting a tidal wave of cheers.
Clad in azure Thunder Armor, Matthew gazed at the clouds drawing closer and closer in the sky, lightning flickering in his eyes.
Finally, the time had come!
Cheerful Meng Lan gently spat out water.
The crystal-clear water, under the warm sunlight, refracted a rainbow of colors.
That lustrous glow illuminated the vast wilderness of Bay Territory below.
It was a beautiful plain, full of endless hope and shimmering with the wonders of life.
In front of this wilderness, staggered strongholds and outposts securely held Bay Territory's borders.
Occasionally, a speedy zombie would try to slip through their defenses, sneaking through gaps in the lines.
Bay Territory's scouts patrolling nearby would shoot them down with utmost speed.
Any traces they left would be thoroughly purified and cleaned up.
Especially their corpses!
They must be repeatedly purified and treated, then thrown into the elemental furnace, ultimately becoming fertilizer for the banyan tree guardians.
As more and more zombies appeared, the pressure on the sentries grew steadily.
But all of that disappeared today.
The soldiers watched Yaya streaking through the sky and shouted in excitement:
"Lady Yaya will be victorious!"
"Lord Matthew will be victorious!"
"Bay Territory will be victorious!"
The thunderous cheers made Yaya bare her fangs, revealing cold, gleaming teeth as she dove straight for the red horde below.
Sensing danger, the zombies instinctively halted their advance.
Twisted, blood-red eyes eerily turned upward.
Bathed in brilliant sunlight, the silver true dragon over 25 meters long, wreathed in destructive flames, suddenly plummeted down.
Fwoosh!
Billowing fire and flame instantly reduced the struck zombies to nothingness.
Dragon breath spread outward, even the solid ground couldn't withstand the scorching, cracking open as if wailing in pain.
Hundreds of zombies ignited like deadwood, unable to resist or struggle, reduced to ashes in a flash.
The raging wind scattered the surrounding zombie monsters in all directions.
In the dark red zombie army, a fiery red scar appeared.
That fiercely burning flame was like a blazing sword stabbed into the ranks.
Yet Yaya's terrifying flames couldn't pierce through the entire zombie army.
The massive army of over a million zombies stretched for several kilometers.
Having vented her inner fire, Yaya showed no interest in searching for the hidden commander among the zombie horde.
She flew towards the enormous zombie behemoths!
As long as these monsters were slain, the zombies vulnerable to normal weapons could easily be eradicated by Bay Territory's troops.
The first giant zombie beast Yaya faced was a zombie hound over six meters tall.
This zombie hound had two heads, its gaping jaws able to open 180 degrees, with hundreds of sharp fangs still stained with bloody filth.
It noticed Yaya's arrival and leaped at her with all its might.
Before it could even bite, Yaya, midair, grabbed its neck in one swift motion.
Letting its sharp fangs scrape sparks against her shining silver armor.
She yanked it up and smashed it hard to the ground.
The zombies behind the giant hound were crushed to pulp by her massive body descending from the sky.
Yaya dragged it for hundreds of meters, leaving a bloody trail, then with a powerful swing, tore its head clean off.
The flailing headless body flew toward another giant zombie with four arms.
Bang!
The tremendous force knocked the giant zombie to the ground.
But its gaping maw bit fiercely into the twitching corpse, greedily chewing and swallowing the writhing flesh.
Such terrifying flesh-mutated monsters couldn't last even two rounds against Yaya.
As she flew overhead, Yaya's swinging tail easily decapitated it.
A ball of searing fire streaked over, striking the still-howling head dead-on.
A violent explosion erupted, sending charred remains scattering like petals.
"Ding, you've dealt 125 damage to the giant mutant zombie, destroying its head tissue…"
"The giant mutant zombie is dead. You have gained 3,000 Fate Points."
3,000?
Matthew quickly did the math and instantly drew a vital conclusion from this information:
"Most of the souls of the giant mutant zombies have already been extracted and devoured."
"That means there's at least an evil creature or evil god's avatar nearby!"
Even though Matthew was prepared, this conclusion still surprised him.
He didn't believe the Cole Elven Kingdom could manipulate nearly immortal evil entities like they did orcs or Wa Kingdom sea raiders.
Such evil beings possess no rationality at all.
They are aggregates of madness, manifestations of sin, black holes of greedy souls and vitality.
A fleeting thought crossed Matthew's mind, as a ferocious giant beast in the distance drew closer, spitting a breath of coagulated flesh at Yaya as she flew by.
Matthew raised his hand, and a raging wind, guided by his staff, blew away a mass of twisted flesh.
The gleaming Magic Duncan Sword, under Matthew's mental control, shot like lightning into the beast's mouth.