Chapter 198: Battle Footage
Arriving at a place resembling a military camp, Yan Hong led Zhou Ming into a tent, where four professional Beast Tamers were already waiting inside.
“Yo, Captain, where did you find such a young and handsome guy?”
As soon as they entered the tent, a woman with an extremely voluptuous figure teased them, her voice filled with a soft, tingling charm.
She had her long hair tied up, revealing her snow-white neck, carrying a hint of seductive allure.
“Fire Fox, Phantasmal Tamer.”
Yan Hong, standing to the side, directly introduced her, then pointed at the other three in turn.
“Yinchuan, Phantasmal Tamer.”
Zhou Ming immediately looked over. The middle-aged man had a cold expression, his eyes slightly narrowed like blades.
“Fang, Beast Knight.”
Seated beside Yinchuan was a burly man with a tiger’s back and bear’s waist, appearing to be in his forties or fifties, sporting a neat and capable short haircut.
“Wind Eagle, Phantasmal Tamer.”
The last person was an elderly man with a somewhat kindly appearance. Seeing Zhou Ming looking at him, he immediately nodded slightly in greeting.
“As for me, I follow the Shepherd system.”
Within Yan Hong’s squad, Phantasmal Tamers accounted for three members, though such a situation was fairly normal.
This was because the highest advancement of Phantasmal Tamers, the Elemental Annihilator, was controlled by the Blue Star Academy. In addition, since there was no need to consider Beast Taming bloodline issues, Beast Tamers graduating from Beast Taming universities generally chose the Phantasmal Tamer system.
“Wan She, Ruler.”
After Yan Hong finished introducing everyone, Zhou Ming also proactively introduced himself to the group.
“A rare profession.”
Fire Fox’s manner of speaking was noticeably more pleasant, directly turning a defective profession into a rare profession.
“Alright, since everyone knows each other now, let’s get straight to the point.”
Yan Hong’s personality was rather decisive and efficient as he directly turned on the projector placed inside the tent.
“This is footage of the Alliance’s attack on the Giant Race five days ago. I’ll let you first understand the enemies we’re going to face.”
The few who had been sizing each other up immediately shifted their gazes to the projection screen. After all, the northern region of the Alliance rarely had contact with foreign races.
Images appeared on the projection screen, with the filming angle seemingly from high altitude.
In the video, the Alliance military launched the first wave of attacks toward the area where the Dimensional Rift was located, using a carpet-bombing style of artillery fire.
Deafening cannon fire roared across the sky as shells crossed dozens of kilometers, landing in the core region of the Panlong Mountain Range.
However, before the various shells could display their destructive power, the camera zoomed in. It clearly captured a ten-meter-tall giant suddenly growing to thirty meters in height, the beast hide draped over its body expanding accordingly, as if it were some kind of innate divine ability.
As the giant grew larger, a stone pillar fifty meters tall and three meters in diameter appeared in its hands, carved with various patterns.
The giant held the stone pillar high, then directly stabbed it into the ground beneath its feet. A yellow-brown light curtain rose from the earth, instantly enveloping an area with a ten-kilometer radius.
Countless shells struck the light curtain. Violent explosions instantly stirred up countless ripples, yet they failed to completely shatter it.
Before Zhou Ming and the others could watch the rest, Yan Hong directly pressed the pause button.
“The stone pillar in the footage is a totem pillar of the Giant Race. According to think tank analysis, it is a Transcendent-grade piece of equipment, reaching the Legendary level.”
“As for the elite giant using the totem pillar, it is an extremely rare priest among the Giant Race, possessing the ability to communicate with the spirits of heaven and earth.”
“By borrowing the power of the Legendary totem pillar to communicate with the earth and obtain short-term protection, no matter how many ordinary attacks there are, they cannot break this Earth Protection Barrier.”
Yan Hong did not elaborate further. The video continued playing, showing the yellow-brown protective shield remaining unbreakable, easily blocking even a barrage of tens of thousands of shells.
“Captain, is there really no way to break it?”
After witnessing such a spectacular scene, everyone’s expressions became noticeably heavy. After all, as professional Beast Tamers, facing such attacks would mean certain death.
Yan Hong pressed the pause button again.
“It can be broken, but it requires single-target attacks at the Transcendent Master level. So no matter how much ordinary artillery fire there is, it’s useless.”
Yan Hong continued playing the video. Dozens of missiles were seen lifting off, spewing dazzling flames as they flew toward the Giant Race’s position.
However, before the missiles could approach, an elite giant appeared in the sky, its fist the size of a water vat smashing forward.
Invisible air was compressed by the immense force, forming pillars of air that detonated the missiles ahead of time.
The opponent’s response clearly showed a deep understanding of the Alliance’s methods.
Seeing this, the Alliance’s Transcendent Beast Tamers began to take action. Leading them was the military general Xu Chunjun.
The elite giants of the Giant Race also unleashed their talents, as if legendary Giant Spirit Gods had appeared in the sky. Twenty giants formed pairs, each duo responding to Xu Chunjun and the others’ attacks.
For a time, the winds and clouds changed violently. Heaven and earth seemed to fall into doomsday. The roaring sounds caused by the slaughter far exceeded the previous artillery fire. The aftermath of battle covered a ten-kilometer radius, presenting a scene of apocalyptic destruction.
Magma, raging flames, freezing ice, tornadoes, enlarged Beast Tamers’ beasts, combined attacks that tore mountains apart—every kind of power left Zhou Ming deeply shaken.
It was like gods and demons clashing in ancient myths, the revealed power inspiring sheer terror.
While the high-level forces of both sides were clashing, the Giant Race’s subordinate races launched attacks on the Alliance military.
Standing two meters tall, covered in fur and clad in armor, hyena-wolf men appeared.
With ferocious wolf-like faces, they held blades and shields, charging en masse toward the military.
Originally, the hyena-wolf men should have been mere meat targets, yet under the storm of gunfire from the military, an invisible barrier enveloped their bodies.
Only heavy artillery and missiles could barely tear through their defenses, inflicting damage on them, though the effect was clearly limited.
In the end, the military’s Beast Tamers took action, withstanding the first wave of the hyena-wolf men’s assault.
Afterward, harpies appeared—bare-chested above the waist, with eagle talons below, and arms resembling wings.
They possessed the ability to fly and emitted piercing shrieks. This kind of wide-area sonic attack was difficult for ordinary soldiers to endure.
Finally, the centaur race—half-human, half-horse—entered the battlefield. Their mobility was extremely strong, allowing them to move freely across rugged mountainous terrain while providing long-range support with bows in hand.
This primitive form of attack became terrifying in their hands. With near-perfect accuracy, their arrows could pierce steel plates as thick as a finger, with effective firing ranges maintained within three hundred meters.
That was only for ordinary centaurs. Elite centaurs with higher-tier strength could imbue their arrows with elemental energy particles, extending their range to a thousand meters, with power sufficient to tear apart ordinary armored vehicles.
However, low-tier foreign races ultimately could not withstand heavy weapons head-on. After a brief period of chaos, the Alliance launched a counterattack, temporarily driving back the foreign races engaging in close combat.
The video content was not extensive and soon finished playing.
“This is the footage recorded during the attack on the Giant Race five days ago. If you have any questions, you can raise them one by one now.”
After letting Zhou Ming and the others grasp the general situation, Yan Hong prepared to answer the doubts in everyone’s minds.