webnovel Chapter 855 - 433: Don’t Die! You Guys... Eh!!?
Chapter 855 - 433: Don’t Die! You Guys... Eh!!?
"Hmm!!?"
Herbert: ?
Magic Energy Cannon?
It’s firing again!!?
What the hell!
Firing in this enclosed space?
Are you kidding me!!?
And what exactly is the situation with the "Magic Energy Cannon"?
Did I violate some heavenly rule?
Are they going to blast me with this?
Herbert doesn’t understand the glorious history of the Elf Empire, but he certainly knows about this terrifying weapon.
The Elf Empire vanished passively from the world after angering the Gods, leaving barely a trace on history.
However, their technological creations, their transformed magic, have been passed down and deeply influenced later generations.
Magic Energy Cannon, full name—Magic High-Energy Efficient Burst Cannon.
This is a massive weapon produced by the "Elf Court," renowned on earth for its fearsome reputation, known by all.
Regarded as an extremely dangerous strategic weapon.
The most well-known are the five Magic Energy Cannons installed in the Goddess of Wealth’s base, called the "City of Gold" or Wealth City.
Wealth City holds the Wealth Church’s thousands of years of accumulated wealth, it’s said even the roads are paved with gold, attracting countless greedy eyes and... Giant Dragons.
For Giant Dragons, it’s practically a dreamlike Celestial Kingdom, a place that can truly drive them to collective madness.
But, is it that they don’t want to rob a bank where the money is kept?
Of course not.
The dragons already tried to rob it a long time ago.
But they damn well can’t get it!
Over thousands of years, not to mention the defensive forces of the Wealth Church itself, countless greedy dragons have died under those five Magic Energy Cannons, with the Epic Level dragons exceeding the number achievable with two hands!
The Magic Energy Cannon indeed has many problems, including but not limited to high costs, clumsy movement, slow charging, massive occupying space, and easily targeted for concentrated attacks.
There aren’t many of these worldwide, but almost every top-tier power installs at least one in their base.
The reason why this seemingly disadvantageous Magic Energy Cannon is still popular under such conditions is only one—
Firepower.
The firepower of the Magic Energy Cannon is incredibly astonishing!
The Magic Energy Cannon types are generally divided into three: degraded, standard, and enhanced versions, corresponding to the Legendary to Saint Level three levels.
A standard Magic Energy Cannon, once charged, delivers a blast comparable to an Epic Level spell, and it inflicts penetrating damage with terrifying single-target lethality.
Moreover, a pre-charged Magic Energy Cannon takes only three seconds from aiming to firing!
Compared to spells that require long chanting, this can almost be declared as instant-cast.
Three seconds.
Just three seconds!
Whoosh—boom!
After three seconds, the enemy has already vanished.
As for the most famous achievement of the Magic Energy Cannon... it’s not very high.
It’s just a divine slaughter
—an assist, plain and simple.
In the tumultuous times of Godly skirmishes, an organization once stealth attacked, using a specially made Magic Energy Cannon to shatter an Ancient God’s divine shield in one shot, consuming a lot of divine power in defense, which ultimately led to its unfortunate demise.
Incidentally, before this Ancient God died, it ditched everyone else and took down that ambushing organization...
While the Magic Energy Cannon is immensely powerful, it’s immobile during charging periods, hence that god-slaying special Magic Energy Cannon was finally entirely destroyed, leaving no blueprints behind.
The reason this powerful Magic Energy Cannon hasn’t been widely adopted is very simple.
It’s just too expensive.
The cost of building a Magic Energy Cannon is extremely high, with the most basic model costing at least a million Gold Coins, and that’s just the price of the main body!
Subsequent support installations, maintenance, tuning, charging, and other steps are even more expensive than the weapon itself.
An entire Magic Energy Cannon defense system costs a minimum of ten million Gold Coins!
Even so, it’s still priceless with no market.
Although some basic blueprint designs of the Magic Energy Cannon have circulated, allow for imitation by others, the truly high-end ones have always been held by the Elf Court, and the core technology has never leaked.
There’s never a shortage of forces ordering from the "Elf Court," and who knows how far in the year the schedules stretch.
Without so many materials, and without so many Elven masters who have the time and willingness to put in the effort.
The elves are not short of money.
Even in the worst of times, this long-eared group has never lacked money, having faced little hardship.
For them, the toughest times were when the Empire had just fallen, but even then, the elves’ living standards were far better than other races.
By several times over!
The elves’ cries of hardship made the Dwarves surviving in mines especially furious, adding several pages to the Book of Hatred of the entire Dwarven race.
Nowadays, only diplomatic exchanges can have the Elf Race dispatch teams for personal design and construction.
Truly top-tier configured Saint Level Magic Energy Cannons, as of now, the Elven Holy Land only has three!
—Officially, there are only three, but no one really knows how many there actually are.
Those unfamiliar with the Elf race history might see it as a gem of magical technology development, a jewel on the Elven Queen’s crown.
But those who know the Elf Empire’s history know the elves’ purpose for designing this thing.
This was truly designed for the purpose of "slaughtering the Divine and enslaving them" - a massive weapon.
A God-killing weapon!
And in battles against the Divine, the most important thing is to break their defenses.