Sovereign of the Ashes

Chapter 1749: Art

Before Sein and his group lay an endless expanse of metallic bases and countless black railway tracks that vanished into the distant horizon.

The Gallant Federation truly excelled at engineering and construction.

Using the vast quantities of scrap metal and raw materials left behind in this subspace secret realm, the federation had erected numerous metal fortifications and technologically advanced fortress bases in an astonishingly short amount of time.

Sein and his group’s next objective was to launch a full-scale assault on this vast base.

Functionally, this base served as a major troop transit hub for the Gallant Federation.

Countless mobile suits, warships, robots, and various metallic combat units had likely passed through this sector.

Across this subspace, pursuit battles between the Magus Civilization and the Gallant Federation had already broken out.

However, Sein’s current position lay relatively deep within the region, and he had yet to clearly feel the turbulence of war erupting in nearby sectors.

Sein’s primary purpose in leading his legions here was to rescue the nearly one million angel robots stationed within this base.

Strictly speaking, rescue was not the right word.

These angel robots were still under the Gallant Federation’s control. Once activated, they would open fire on the Magus Civilization’s forces without hesitation.

However, once Sein awakened them with the Magic Cube’s power, these angel robots would defect mid-battle and instead join the Magus Civilization’s ranks.

In fact, following Fermera’s rebellion, the Gallant Federation had classified this entire batch of nearly one million angel robots as defective. As a result, these units had been powered down and stored away for years.

Sein had fought across this subspace battlefield for a long time before finally uncovering clues to their location.

Beyond these angel robots, Sein’s Magic Cube now theoretically possessed the ability to convert the vast majority of the federation’s low-tier cannon fodder robots as well.

His determination to rescue those one million angel robots stemmed from a promise he had made to Fermera.

And objectively speaking, the combat capabilities of these angel robots far exceeded those of ordinary robots.

Since both options required the Magic Cube to expend its origin energy, Sein naturally favored the angel robots for their superior overall performance.

On other fronts, the Magus Civilization’s forces had already begun their assaults, inevitably drawing a great deal of the Gallant Federation’s attention.

Here, Sein finally resolved to strike decisively.

Unlike his usual approach of sending enslaved creatures to initiate attacks against nearby federation legions, this time, he personally ascended to the highest vantage point on the battlefield first.

Having activated his lawful form, Sein gripped a rhombic crystal radiating brilliant violet-blue light within his demonic claw.

It was the Magic Cube.

Moments later, most of the base was engulfed in radiance pouring down from the sky.

Bathed in that light, large numbers of technological weapons and low-tier robotic cannon fodder within the base began to malfunction or respond sluggishly.

At first glance, what Sein was doing seemed similar to the forbidden spells developed by Steel City’s mechanics.

Their Magnetic Elemental Skyburst, Mass Graphitization Interference, and Metal Particle Vibration Wave produced effects remarkably similar to what Sein’s Magic Cube was now unleashing.

All of them were capable of causing large-scale battlefield disruption, even directly disabling the federation’s technological weaponry.

However, none of those forbidden spell techniques could be cast instantly.

That Sein’s Magic Cube could accomplish all of this was enough to prove that it was a true world-class secret treasure!

Beyond immobilizing and disrupting the federation’s technology, some robotic units holding defensive positions underwent a strange transformation.

The red glow in their mechanical eyes flickered out for two seconds before reigniting—this time in a cold blue hue identical to the Magic Cube’s light.

The reactivated robots immediately turned around, firing at the federal warships and mobile suit units behind them.

Dense barrages of fire and explosions erupted across the battlefield in rapid succession.

Sein single-handedly inflicted staggering chaos and destruction on the Gallant Federation legions in this sector.

At the same moment, Rank Five powerhouses such as Karl, Darian, and Orric—who had long since aligned themselves with Sein—charged forward, leading their legions in a fierce assault on this federal base.

The Magus Civilization’s mage legions and the enslaved cannon fodder creatures on the frontlines also surged into action.

Several years had passed, and the size of Sein’s Divine Tower of Ashes had expanded once again. The number of war mages under his command now exceeded nineteen thousand.

The dense barrage quickly turned the federal base ahead into a raging sea of flames and a maelstrom of elements.

Among the lower-ranking mages who had joined the Divine Tower of Ashes, pyromancers remained the dominant group, making up roughly sixty percent of the total.

Mages of all other elements combined accounted for the remaining forty percent.

The most immediate result of this overwhelming firepower was a sharp reduction in casualties among the frontline shock troops that served as the vanguard’s living shields.

Many of the energy barriers at this base had been disrupted by Sein’s Magic Cube.

Unable to deploy sufficient DF fields in time, the Gallant Federation legions were caught completely off guard, reduced to little more than sitting ducks for the Magus Civilization’s forces.

This faux instant-cast forbidden spell unleashed by the Magic Cube was brutally effective.

Thanks to his upgraded Magic Cube, Sein’s threat index within the Gallant Federation’s central database would surely skyrocket by several ranks after this battle.

As for whether that was an honor or a curse, even Sein himself could not say.

Meanwhile, at the very frontlines where law-wielding forces collided, the most striking presence was not Darian, Karl, or Orric, but Fermera.

She spread her eight brilliant metallic wings and tore through the air, unleashing torrential firepower on the battlefield below.

Her severed arm had been largely restored using titanium-chromium alloy sourced from the Norman Federation. This material was said to be used in the construction of Rank Five and Rank Six androids.

Securing those components had cost Sein dearly.

Beyond ordering massive quantities of technological weapons from the Norman Federation to enhance Fermera’s combat power, Sein had also conducted extensive research on her, integrating numerous traces of the Magus Civilization’s magitech and alchemy into her frame.

His goal was not merely to mark Fermera as his own, but also to prove that magitech and alchemy were in no way inferior to pure technological creation.

It was the same approach he was now taking with the Magic Cube itself, steadily erasing and reshaping its technological foundations.

Under Sein’s guidance, the upgraded Magic Cube was gradually transforming into a product of Magus World’s alchemy—the very field in which Sein excelled.

At the center of the battlefield, Fermera suddenly retracted her eight metallic wings.

In the next instant, she released a breathtaking cascade of energy rain across the battlefield.

Watching the radiant downpour, Sein could not help but exclaim, “This... This is art!”