Chapter 775  : DeterminationThe Asolivis encirclement battle, or perhaps the Asolivis meat grinder battle. In my opinion, future history books would probably refer to this battle by such a name.

Since I had been far too outstanding as bait (was that my fault?), reaching the point of attracting many powerful devils and even Undead Emperor Shupnus to personally chase after me, the western battlefront’s high-level command of the enemy underwent a total breakdown. Not only were the supply airships able to successfully resupply us, the mages’ forced landing on the western battlefront also became significantly easier.

The mages’ large-scale landing began at 3:45 in the morning, when all the ships’ lights blinked three times, giving the signal to begin.

battleships provided protection as 37 large-scale transport ships began forcing their way across the channel, followed by several hundred smaller ships.

Starting from the northern Floyt Mountains on the western battlefront, and going all the way south, the entire shoreline became a battlefield.

Unlike what I expected, the allied army didn’t choose the central part of the Forest of Dreams which was formerly Port Victoria. Instead, they chose the farther north Silvershark Bay, a place filled with dangerous reefs and whirlpools, making it completely unsuitable as a landing spot. Additionally, these dangerous waters also contained carnivorous magical sharks and flying fish. From the very start, this place wouldn’t normally be considered as a landing location.

No port had been constructed, as few people ever came here. There was dense coral underneath this area as well as lots of soft mud, meaning that constructing a port here would normally be quite difficult.

Worst of all, the water here was extremely shallow to the point where a person could stand in the water—the water would only reach their waist.

This was quite bad for ships as the reefs would only harm the ship hulls, but getting trapped in shallow waters would likely cause the ship to be stranded.

Thus, this place was obviously somewhere that would be overlooked as a potential landing location.

Even on the outskirts of the Forest of Dreams, the devils had still prepared gigantic stone catapults and cyclops tank formations to show the humans how fearsome the Chaos Abyss could truly be.

Yet, the devils hadn’t arranged a single soldier here.

Even more critically, this place had always been uninhabited, but this place also led right to Asolivis!

The end result was that the human alliance chose the most dangerous area around to land rather than the safe Forest of Dreams; this location would allow the mages who landed to directly ignore the enemy defenses and make a direct attack on Asolivis.

This actually seemed like a normal decision?

When the battleships approached this area, the devils and underwater undead automatically started attacking even though they didn’t know the ships’ goal here. The flying devils also unhesitatingly rushed towards Silvershark Bay in an effort to stop the ships from securing the shoreline.

However, the devils and undead were greeted with even more cannon fire than previously.Even for the powerful devils, flying troop types were also rare and precious. But at this moment, there wasn’t any possibility of retreat, as powerful Devil Nobles personally acted as the commanders on the frontline, meaning that any deserter wouldn’t possibly live to escape.

“…They absolutely can’t be allowed to land there! We still have hope! Keep holding on until our nobles reinforce us,” a devil general shouted through the powerful gales, but what he saw next caused him to swallow his words.

The ships didn’t intend on forcing their way through the dangerous waters of Silvershark Bay. Instead, the ships raised their sails under the dark clouds and actually started floating above the sea!

The ships shook as they started flying, but gradually and inexorably headed for the shoreline.

*Boom!*

Evidently, the old heavy battleships were completely different in design and material from the newest flying airships. The floating engines temporarily installed in these ships soon overloaded and self-destructed. Many ships fell back into the sea… or maybe a more accurate term would be crashed into the sea.

Still, there wasn’t much distance left. Any ship that didn’t fall apart upon crashing into the shallow waters and reefs would unhesitatingly anchor itself and then start firing every cannon it had as a fixed artillery.

Alchemists on the ships were tossing special potions into the water, causing the water to turn into ice at a visible speed.

In the last small ship in the rear, four blue-and-white robed Truth Symposium archmages were uttering an incantation. They were going to summon ice and snow!

If Roland had been here, he would have discovered to his astonishment that the incantation here was quite similar to the Ice Aeon spell research that he’d previously given to the Mage Country.

The seawater gradually froze over, starting from the mages’ small ship.

All battleships and transport ships were tossing freezing potions into the seawater, causing the ice to spread even faster.

People from the transport ships even jumped down onto the ice to test the ice’s durability. By now, it was quite obvious that the humans weren’t actually intending to land on the shore itself. They were simply going to freeze the entire place over so that everyone on the ships could reach land by walking on ice.

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

By now, the battleships flying in the front had crash-landed as well. They all established themselves on the shoreline, forming into a new fortress-like defense line.

The cannon fire didn’t rest for even one moment. When the Aurora Knights silently started flying out from the landed battleships, even the devils started to feel fear.

The most important part on these older battleships was the dragon bone under the ship. These crash landings would ruin the entire ship, even if the deck still remained intact.

The human alliance had sacrificed every single battleship here only for the sake of a successful landing.

The devils found that the human enemy was a lot more powerful than expected, but most fearsome of all was the humans’ determination to eliminate their enemy once and for all, no matter the cost.