548: The human expeditionary force arrives

“Space distortion!?”

“Is it a monster invasion?”

Acting Holy Maiden Ayla had just felt herself perk up, but this wave of space distortion made her nervous again.

The beastmen in front of her hadn't been dealt with yet.

If another wave of monsters invaded, how could they possibly win?

However, before she could even worry, the entire Moon Viewing City was already enveloped in a huge shadow.

Ayla looked up, and was instantly dumbfounded.

She saw a giant vortex appear out of thin air in the sky.

The radius of the vortex was hundreds of kilometers, stretching as far as the eye could see.

It was as if the sky of the entire Elf World was covered by a giant stack of plates.

At the same time, hundreds of rectangular shadows of varying sizes flickered within the vortex.

Instantly, both friend and foe were stunned.

Whether it was the Crescent Moon Elves or the red-skinned beastmen in Primal Rage, they all froze in place.

With such an unusual phenomenon in the sky, no one knew what the things inside the vortex truly were.

But soon, the answer was revealed.

Before the shadows in the vortex even descended, a broadcast voice came from the Nine Heavens.

【Elf compatriots, greetings.】

【This is the Shenzhou Empire, Planar Expeditionary Force.】

【We, by the will of the Divine Emperor, have descended here to help you drive out the barbarians and restore your world.】

As the voice faded.

Steel behemoths descended from the ripples of the vortex, filling the entire sky.

The largest of these behemoths was even half the size of Moon Viewing City.

Seeing this spectacular scene, all the Crescent Moon Elves in Moon Viewing City couldn't hold back their emotions.

Because they were protected within the city walls, even though the battle outside was shaking the heavens and earth, the civilians inside the city didn't know what was actually happening outside.

They couldn't see the formidable Tiance Imperial Guards, nor could they see the invincible Hero Rank Professionals.

At most, they could only see the huge bronze gates standing before the city walls.

Although they could guess that immortals were fighting outside, their lack of imagination still prevented them from empathizing with the numbly shocked Elf warriors on the city walls.

It wasn't until these steel behemoths descended that the Crescent Moon Elves within the city finally broke.

In the Elf World, flying vehicles were not uncommon.

Large airships, flying sailboats, and even floating castles all existed.

However, they had never imagined that heavy, cold steel could also float in the sky.

At this moment, one of these steel behemoths floated directly above Moon Viewing City, obscuring the bright moon in the sky.

The Crescent Moon Elves looked up, but found it difficult to see its full extent.

It was as if a giant steel plate was blocking the entire sky.

The steel plate was silver-gray, covered with various complex structures and patterns, resembling a mechanical labyrinth when viewed from below.

Most striking were the circular 'magic arrays' beneath the steel plate, each emitting blue flames.

The 'magic arrays' roared, releasing terrifying high temperatures, making the entire Moon Viewing City as hot as an oven.

And beneath the steel plate, steel giant birds resembling bats occasionally flew past, whistling towards the battlefield ahead.

The civilians in Moon Viewing City numbered in the millions, yet not a single person knew what the things descending upon their heads truly were.

Until an elderly Elf cried out in a breakdown: “Mechanical constructs! These are the mechanical constructs from five years ago!”

“Mechanical constructs!?”

Hearing the elderly Elf's words, some of the Crescent Moon Elves recalled.

Five years ago, a super-large Secret Realm was active in the Elf World.

The monsters within were primarily humans, and they possessed extremely special abilities.

They did not fight with swords, but instead wielded machinery that emitted energy beams and controlled various steel-forged idols in battle.

The difficulty of this Secret Realm was extremely high; Hero Rank Professionals who entered would not come out, and King Rank Professionals almost faced certain death.

Even many Emperor Tier Professionals perished within.

This is not to say that the humans in that Secret Realm were incredibly powerful.

Rather, those mechanical constructs could fight tirelessly, possessed almost infinite firepower, and a wide variety of lethal methods.

Long-range precise sniping, long-range firepower saturation.

Close-range dense bullet rain, low-altitude swarm strikes.

And mechanical dogs that could pre-bury landmines, fire lasers, and self-detonate in close combat.

These inescapable killing methods caused extremely painful damage to the Elves, yet they could not decipher their tactics; often, they didn't even see the monsters before they were gone.

It could be said that the humans in that Secret Realm had fully exploited the racial characteristics of baseness and cunning.

Even the Dark Matron and many Emperor Rank powerhouses dared not rashly enter that Secret Realm.

Until Mafa Nu Feng, the hero of the Night Elves, made his move.

He entered the Secret Realm alone and, in less than a month, swept through this super-large Secret Realm.

No one knew how he did it, only that the Secret Realm completely disappeared after he achieved a perfect clear.

At this moment, seeing the mechanical constructs descend again, the older generation of Elves couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

Even now, the Crescent Moon Elves still did not know how to defeat those large and small iron lumps.

However, fortunately, these mechanical constructs were sent to support Moon Viewing City by the command of the "Divine Emperor."

“Divine Emperor, I've heard that title more than once.”

“Yes, what kind of existence is he? I feel he is more powerful than all the gods in the Elf World.”

“Your judgment is not wrong. It is said that the Dark Elves have already revered the Divine Emperor as a god. As everyone knows, their doctrine is to believe in the strong and follow the strong.”

“Not only the Dark Elves, but even the Forest Elves have begun to recite the venerable name of the Divine Emperor. Under his protection, they completed a grand migration of a million people.”

Discussions buzzed within Moon Viewing City, and when the Divine Emperor was mentioned, everyone's faces lit up with excitement.

In their eyes, the arrival of the Divine Emperor's army had already declared the victory of the War.

Indeed, all the pressure was now on the beastmen's side.

Even the Elves, with their flourishing civilization, found the steel behemoths in the sky strange.

The beastmen from the barbaric world were even more unable to comprehend these newly appearing enemies.

And under Primal Rage, the brawny, simple-minded red-skinned beastmen lacked the ability to think.

When they saw the roaring engines and the slowly descending planar motherships, along with various destroyers, frigates, and cruisers, they only felt that unknown gods or Divine Beasts had descended.

And as totem worshippers, they subconsciously held reverence for mysterious and unknown creatures.

Their blood cooled, and their rage receded.

The 4-star red-skinned beastmen, like ferocious beasts seeing a "tool of universal equality," all disengaged from their berserk state under the cold pressure, reverting to 2-star green-skinned beastmen.

The drop in combat power, coupled with the side effects of their rage, not only caused them to lose eighty percent of their fighting strength, but also extinguished their brutal and fierce courage.

Screech!

A series of roaring sounds caused by the friction of rotating gears rang out.

Hatches opened on the bodies of those steel behemoths.

Viewed from below, it was as if those behemoths had bristled their fur.

This single movement directly shattered the beastmen's psychological defenses.

“Run!”

Someone shouted, and in an instant, these barbaric warriors, renowned for their ferocity and fearlessness, were so frightened by the opening hatches that they abandoned their armor and fled in disarray.