A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 600 The Day of Demise

Enormous tentacles swept across the land, seizing countless elves within the elven territory.

"This speed is still a bit too slow."

Standing atop the floating city, Jiang Shuzhou offered his comments with little interest.

His goal was simple: to torture these elves severely and then sacrifice them using a secret method, so that they would help the Elf World Tree, their mother, become a god.

This is what they want, isn't it?

"Intensify the capture efforts, while simultaneously maintaining and repairing the main guns, ready to launch an attack at any time."

Jiang Shuzhou gave the instructions.

The floating city has now penetrated deep behind enemy lines. Although the situation is not critical, it is not optimistic.

The main reason is that Jiang Shuzhou saw the cooperation between the elves and the gods, which was a dangerous sign.

If they were to join forces against Jiang Shuzhou, no matter how strong Jiang Shuzhou was, he would be finished. After all, the strongest beings right now are actually the gods, but they are simply unwilling to cooperate.

Jiang Shuzhou is currently very powerful and riding high. If he really puts his strength into action, he could easily take away one or two powerful gods.

But that's all. After killing the powerful deity, Jiang Shuzhou is probably gone.

Jiang Shuzhou wouldn't do something like trading his life for something else; he couldn't be like the gods, able to play endless resurrection matches.

Therefore, this can only be described as a deterrent at best.

After all, nobody wants to be the one to stick their neck out. If they were killed by Jiang Shuzhou, even if they had signed a contract beforehand, their strength after being resurrected would probably suffer a great loss.

However, if Jiang Shuzhou were to expend too much energy in a prolonged battle, rendering him unable to kill the powerful deity, then the situation would be different.

Without this deterrent, if these gods unite, Jiang Shuzhou will be in trouble.

This is why Jiang Shuzhou was in such a hurry.

He could have advanced slowly, gradually eroding the remaining lands of the elves, and the gods would naturally have been happy to do so.

But Jiang Shuzhou cannot do that.

If the war reaches a stalemate, it will be disadvantageous for Jiang Shuzhou.

"Jiang Shuzhou, get out of our elven territory right now!"

With a roar, Finrod arrived in his floating city.

"Great! It's Lord Finrod! We're saved!"

The moment the elves below saw the floating city of Finrod, the despair and fear in their eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a look full of hope.

"Ha, things have come to this, do you think I'd still listen to you?"

Jiang Shuzhou curled his lip, showing great disdain.

"Since that's the case, then you'll regret it!"

Finrod said this to buy time while also holding onto a sliver of hope.

However, it was clear that Jiang Shuzhou did not want to delay.

The main cannon of Ideal City began to charge, while the muzzles of several secondary cannons lit up, unleashing devastating firepower at Finrod's floating city.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Terrifying attacks rained down on Finrod's floating city.

The enormous beam of light struck the floating city's shield, creating a violent ripple.

One shot, and the shield was shaken violently.

Two shots, and the shield is in grave danger.

The third shot shattered the shield.

And all of this happened in an instant.

"What's going on? Wasn't it protected by the Enchanted Lock?"

Finrod's face instantly turned extremely ugly.

In his heart, no matter how strong Jiang Shuzhou was, as a fellow legendary mage and a fellow floating city, he could hold out for a while. Moreover, he had not come here without any support, but with the help of the maze constructed by the elven mages in the Golden Forest.

Logically speaking, with the blessing of the Mystic Lock, he should have been able to withstand Jiang Shuzhou's attack.

However, at that moment, his floating city was severely damaged the moment it made contact with the ground.

The shield shattered instantly. If another shot were fired, his floating city would likely suffer severe damage.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a piece of trash, daring to show off his skills before an expert?"

Jiang Shuzhou held Finrod in utter contempt.

Jiang Shuzhou was especially disdainful of his low-budget, copied floating city.

What level are you? You dare to mess with me?

The value of one module of Jiang Shuzhou's floating city is probably equivalent to that of the opponent's entire floating city.

Not to mention, Jiang Shuzhou even upgraded the floating city.

Many key components were completely replaced with mage metal, which resulted in exorbitant costs.

However, the exorbitant cost naturally resulted in an exorbitant performance improvement.

Currently, Jiang Shuzhou's floating city is equivalent to five other floating cities, although its construction cost is equivalent to ten of them.

However, we can't calculate it that way. Although the diminishing returns effect is quite severe, after all, it's your own life, and it's normal for things that can save your life to be more expensive.

Besides, it's not like it's ineffective.

See, it's working!

"Little brother, if you're not strong enough, don't bother me with your shouting. Just leave and don't disturb my work."

While mocking him, Jiang Shuzhou didn't forget to deliver a ruthless blow.

The main gun has finished charging, and the secondary gun has cooled down.

Come again!

boom!

A tremendous sound rang out; it was the sound of the main cannon of Ideal City.

The elves on the ground felt a sharp pain all over their bodies, and then lost consciousness.

Jiang Shuzhou did not attack directly, but relied on the massive energy impact of the main cannon and the high-frequency sound impact to knock the elves unconscious.

It can only be said that it is still too fragile.

The main cannon of Ideal City mercilessly unleashed its destructive fire upon Finrod's floating city.

The once intact floating city was now riddled with dents and severely damaged after taking a direct hit from Jiang Shuzhou's main cannon.

One strike, just one strike.

With a single strike, Jiang Shuzhou made Finrod realize the gap between the floating cities.

In the meantime, the floating city, which had originally planned to fight Jiang Shuzhou, activated its emergency jump ability in an instant and fled.

"What? How could this happen?"

Watching the floating city that he regarded as his savior instantly become dilapidated under the attack of Jiang Shuzhou's Ideal City, and then completely abandon him.

Many elves couldn't help but feel an indescribable sense of space.

In fact, Finrod's actions could absolutely be described as calm and rational.

After all, in this situation, preserving oneself is indeed the right choice.

After all, even if we stubbornly hold out here, we probably won't be able to last long.

Only by quickly relocating can we preserve our strength to the maximum extent and wait for a subsequent counterattack.

However, it's clear that these ordinary elves won't have the chance to witness it.

After all, they would be the fuel for Jiang Shuzhou's plan.

They would burn themselves to contribute to the ascension of the Mother Goddess they worship.