RBCT Chapter 210 Supporting the Ice Demon Clan
Chapter 210 Supporting the Ice Demon Clan
Qi Shanhe turned around, picked up his terminal, and dialed the communication channel for the emergency meeting.
The four-nation joint video conference was held within five minutes, with the command centers of the four S-class warships online simultaneously, and four windows side by side on the main screen.
The representative from the Eagle Nation got straight to the point: "We have received the message from the Ice Demons. The signal source has been confirmed as the abandoned research station Polaris-3. Our intelligence department believes that the Ice Demons are serious."
The silver-haired woman in the Europa League didn't serve coffee this time; her expression was extremely focused: "Ice Demons are the direct target of Sirius' expedition. They were beaten on the Greenland ice sheet. They have home advantage, but their high-level combat strength is not as good as Sirius'."
"The Sirius King is at the peak of the sixth rank, while the Ice Demon King is only at the high level of the sixth rank. If humans do not intervene, the Ice Demon King will most likely lose."
"Their plea for help isn't because they trust humans; it's because they have no other choice."
Ma Tevi, the bald man from the Xiong Kingdom, stroked his beard: "Fifty years. Beasts and humans have been fighting for fifty years, and not a single royal family has ever asked humans for help."
"This is the first time. No matter how many of us the Ice Demon has killed before, we can't miss this opportunity."
Qi Shanhe said, "The key is not saving the Ice Demon Clan. It's a civil war among the land beasts. The Sky Wolf is the royal family, and the Ice Demon is the royal family."
"If the Ice Demon is swallowed by the Sirius, the Sirius clan's power will not be weakened, but will become stronger. From then on, the Sirius will be the absolute overlord among the land beasts, with no rivals, and no land beast will dare to disobey its orders."
"By then, it will be even more difficult for humanity to reclaim the land."
The representative from the Eagle Nation nodded in agreement: "We must ensure that the Ice Demons live, that Sirius's expedition is in vain, and that the Ice Demons and Sirius continue their fight. This is our minimum objective."
"When we set this goal before, we thought we would achieve it with nuclear weapons and surprise attacks. Now that the Ice Demon has taken the initiative to ask for help, this is even more ideal than our most anticipated scenario."
Qi Shanhe nodded and made his final decision: "Alright, I agree that humanity should accept the Ice Demon Clan's request for help."
"To show our sincerity, we will send our elite forces to assist the Ice Demon in resisting Sirius. A portion of our fleet in space will be sent down, I will stay in the Star River, and Qin Zhen and Gu Qianzhi will remain in space on standby."
"Old Zhou, I'm sorry to trouble you again this time."
Zhou Wangyue didn't say anything, he just nodded in agreement.
Song Chen stood up: "I'll go this time too."
After the previous experience, no one said anything this time.
Qi Shanhe looked into Song Chen's eyes: "Go ahead, I'll be watching from outside the atmosphere. If anything goes wrong, I'll take action immediately."
Soon, the Starship began adjusting its orbit.
Four S-class warships slowly descended from a synchronous orbit 100,000 kilometers away, the faint light from their thrusters drawing four extremely thin arcs in the darkness.
The bow of the ship was pointing towards the North Pole, and the white ice cap of Greenland slowly magnified in the portholes.
Inside the hangar on the ship's flank, Song Chen donned the Northern Darkness Armor and gripped the Heavenly Blade in his hand.
He stood in front of the assault ship's hatch, with three hundred elite soldiers fully equipped and ready to go behind him: eighty from Great Xia, seventy from Eagle Nation, sixty from Bear Nation, and ninety from European Union.
Three hundred men, each with at least the peak strength of the fourth rank, would be enough to fight a medium-sized battle on any defensive line, but thrown into the meat grinder of three hundred thousand alien beasts, they would only be a sharp knife.
Outside the porthole, the Arctic Circle is expanding.
Looking down through the porthole, the ice shelf in northeastern Greenland is burning.
The ice field was riddled with deep craters created by psionic shockwaves. The ice at the bottom of the craters was melted by the high temperature and then quickly froze, forming rings of glassy crystals.
The ice fissures crisscrossed, resembling a gigantic spider web when viewed from above. Countless corpses were piled up on both sides of the fissures; the gray-white-furred ones were Sirius, and the blue-furred ones were Ice Demons.
There were also the remains of various other polar beasts, which were repeatedly crushed and mixed with broken ice, freezing into distorted ice sculptures.
In the areas where the fighting was most intense, the ice surface was stained with varying shades of blood.
Zhou Wangyue stood beside him, his hands behind his back, his gaze passing through the porthole onto the burning ice field.
He looked at it for a long time before speaking: "On the surface, our mission is to support the Ice Demon, but what we really need to do is to completely sever the feud between Sirius and the Ice Demon."
Song Chen listened without responding.
"If we only manage to repel Sirius and allow Ice Demon to recover, then the two sides can sit down and talk, and this fight will have been for nothing."
"We must eliminate any room for negotiation between them, we must make Sirius feel that the Ice Demon has betrayed the Beast race, and we must make the Ice Demon feel that it has no choice but to depend on humans."
"How exactly do we do it?" Song Chen asked.
Zhou Wangyue thought for two seconds: "Let's play it by ear."
The assault ship's hatch opened, and hundreds of people jumped out at the same time.
They landed behind a defensive line held by ice demons, while ahead lay the fiercest battleground.
The Ice Demon used ice-based powers to construct temporary shelters, consisting of arched ice walls reaching heights of twenty meters.
The ice wall was filled with ice demon archers, who were generally over three meters tall, covered in long white fur, with long and powerful limbs and hands twice the size of a human's.
Their facial structure is somewhere between that of an ape and a bear, with a flat forehead, high brow bones, and a pair of icy blue vertical pupils in deep-set eye sockets.
At this moment, those vertical pupils were staring at the elite humans descending from the sky. There was no trust in their eyes, only a kind of vigilance that came from being forced into a desperate situation and having no choice but to grasp at any straw.
But Song Chen's attention wasn't on the Ice Demon. He landed on a relatively flat ice surface behind the ice wall. As soon as he stood up, he caught a glimpse of something unexpected out of the corner of his eye.
On the other side of the ice wall, there were actually humans helping the ice demon in battle.
Of course, they weren't the elite troops from the four countries that came down from space.
Those people were dressed in all sorts of equipment; some wore the standard uniforms of the Great Xia army, some wore mixed armor of mercenaries, and a few wore fur cloaks from the Northern Hunting Team of the Bear Kingdom.
They are helping the Ice Demon move the wounded, repair the ice walls, and there is even a small squad that is coordinating their firepower with the Ice Demon archers.
Judging from their teamwork, this group has been fighting here for quite some time.
Zhou Wangyue noticed his gaze and casually explained, "After the news of the Ice Demon's request for help reached Blue Star, the ground forces were faster than us. All the countries that had troops stationed near Greenland sent people."
"The Great Xia Arctic Research Station, the Xiong Kingdom Northern Wilderness Hunting Team, and the Eagle Kingdom Greenland Base were all temporary advance teams."
Song Chen nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
The Heavenly Blade is already in my hand.
Then, in a flash, he dashed towards the deepest part of the battlefield.
The fighting was most intense there, and the aftershocks of the shockwaves could reach this area from tens of kilometers away.