88: Attack on Titan

On the steel city wall, eighteen figures cast long silhouettes in the setting sun.

Chen Xu wore his Ghost Martial Artist melee mecha, Su He his seed-assisted mecha, Hu Zhenxing his “Black Tortoise” heavy mecha, Cheng Xue her Human Weapon mecha, Ma Gang, Wang Hao, Zhao Ling, Su Yao, Lu Haodong, Huang Lei, Liu Yang, Song Zhe, He Wei, and the other eighteen Transmigrators all stood on the city wall, wearing their exclusive mechas.

“Family!” Chen Xu shouted, “This might be our last battle! But if we win, we might even be resurrected and return to Earth!”

“Go home?” Cheng Xue chuckled, “This has long been our home.”

“Exactly!” Huang Lei’s “Taotie” mecha rumbled deeply, “The home of Huaxia! The home of Longhan!”

“No one can destroy it!!” Eighteen voices roared in unison.

“Attack!!” At Chen Xu’s command, the entire mechanical city instantly erupted with a deafening roar.

Thousands of alchemical airships blotted out the sky, dropping bombs that bloomed into flowers of death on the ground.

The machine guns inside the city wall “da da da da da da” spat blue tongues of flame, and a metallic storm of bullets covered the battlefield.

Beams of light from the magic cannons tore through the sky, each one accurately piercing dozens of Corrupted Warriors.

The Dwarf craftsmen on the city wall, bare-chested, swung specially made magic forging hammers with their bulging, muscular arms.

The “clang clang clang” of their hammers echoed, and with each strike, the power of the cannon increased by a fraction.

These magic mechanical turrets, a Fusion of Dwarf forging techniques and Earth technology, unleashed terrifying power under the Dwarves’ forging.

“Boom boom boom!”

The two hundred thousand Corrupted Legion instantly crumbled under such fierce firepower.

Bombs tore apart swathes of enemies, machine gun bullets riddled charging Corrupted Warriors, and magic beams directly vaporized them.

Limbs and severed arms were everywhere on the battlefield, and black Corruption blood soaked the entire land.

Chen Xu’s brow furrowed deeper and deeper: “Something’s not right, why are they so weak?”

Just as he was wondering, a chilling change suddenly occurred on the battlefield.

The shattered bodies of the Corrupted Warriors began to squirm, and severed limbs automatically reattached as if alive.

Even more terrifying, the resurrected Corrupted Warriors quickly became covered in a layer of hard shell with a metallic sheen, and bullets actually ricocheted off it!

“This…” Su He’s voice trembled.

Everyone was stunned.

The resurrected Corrupted Warriors not only became stronger, but they also clearly evolved defensive capabilities against their weapons.

Machine gun bullets could only leave shallow dents on the hard shell, and the power of magic beams was greatly weakened.

“Evolutionary ability?!” Cheng Xue exclaimed, “They are adapting to our attacks!”

These Corrupted Warriors could not only resurrect infinitely, but each death prompted them to evolve abilities to counter fatal attacks.

At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before all their weapons became completely ineffective.

White Blade and White Sword had felt a familiar sensation since stepping onto this battlefield, as if some strange memories were invading their minds.

On the smoke-filled battlefield, White Blade and White Sword stood side by side. The moment they stepped onto this scorched earth, an inexplicable sense of familiarity surged over them like a tide.

White Blade’s temples throbbed, and fragmented memories pierced his mind like sharp glass—he seemed to see himself standing in the same position, his zanpakutō (soul-slaying blade) dripping with blood.

“Second Brother…” White Blade’s voice trembled, “I don’t know why, but I feel like I’ve been here before.”

White Sword nodded frantically: “Big Brother! Me too!!!”

White Blade drew the zanpakutō (soul-slaying blade) from his waist; its pitch-black blade reflected not a single ray of light in the sun, seemingly capable of devouring even light.

“I only have one thought now, to kill everyone in this city.”

White Sword drew his soul-breaking sword with a “clang”: “Me too!”

...Outside the steel city wall, two hundred thousand Corrupted Legion fiercely attacked the city wall.

The muscles in the arms of the front-row Corrupted Warriors inflated wildly as if pumped with air, instantly transforming into giant fleshy hammers over fifteen meters in diameter.

These terrifying organs struck the city wall with immense force.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The city wall’s pale blue mechanical shield activated, and the energy barrier rippled, dispersing the impact force throughout the entire city wall defense system.

The chests of the Corrupted Sorcerers in the middle heaved violently like bellows, and a eerie green glow lit up deep in their throats.

With a sickening “gurgle,” large streams of viscous Corrupted flames spewed from their mouths.

This flame was highly corrosive, yet it hissed and extinguished upon contact with the city wall’s surface, emitting pungent white smoke.

Even more chilling were the warriors in the back row; their hair writhed like living things, three thousand strands growing at an alarming speed, instantly transforming into a sky full of deadly filaments.

They launched their assault in three ways: some shot straight at the defenders on the city wall like javelins;

some snaked along the ground, trying to find cracks in the city wall;

the last group hovered eerily in mid-air, ready to launch a surprise attack at any moment.

Cheng Xue shouted: “Let me do it!”

The Human Weapon mecha emitted a low mechanical hum, its chest compartment opened, revealing densely packed spray nozzles.

Twenty distinct mixed flames shot out from the nozzles.

Some were eerie blue, with temperatures reaching hundreds of thousands of degrees; others were viscous orange-red liquid flames, highly adhesive;

and some flames contained metal particles, capable of penetrating the strongest armor.

As soon as the hair strands touched the special flames, they hissed sharply and twitched violently like living creatures.

The decomposition factors contained in the flames invaded the hair strands, disintegrating them at a particle level.

In an instant, the deadly filaments flying across the sky turned to ashes in this special flame, drifting away in the night wind.

And those hair strands that narrowly escaped quickly retracted like startled snakes, burrowing back into the scalps of the Corrupted Warriors.

Throughout the entire process, Chen Xu hadn’t even had time to raise his arm before this crisis was perfectly resolved by Cheng Xue’s Human Weapon.

Dawn Moon knew they couldn't delay any longer. With Corrupted energy swirling around her, she unleashed an Advanced Corruption ability: “Corruption Reorganization!!”

A chilling change immediately occurred on the battlefield.

One hundred Corrupted Warriors stopped moving, their bodies began to twist and deform, bones cracking, and muscle tissue flowing and reorganizing like liquid.

In an instant, a thirty-meter-tall Corrupted Giant rose from the ground, and two thousand such terrifying entities appeared on the battlefield!

The skin of these Corrupted Giants exhibited an eerie metallic luster, their surfaces covered with hideous faces formed by the Fusion of one hundred warrior heads.

They simultaneously threw powerful punches, each blow containing terrifying power comparable to a full-strength strike from an Undergoing Tribulation Cultivator.

The moment two thousand giant fists simultaneously slammed into the city wall, the air was compressed to the extreme, creating visible shockwaves.

The city wall shook violently under this world-destroying attack, its sturdy alloy armor plates groaning under the strain, and shocking cracks spread like a spiderweb.

The city defense forces immediately counterattacked. High-explosive bombs dropped by airships, armor-piercing rounds fired by automatic turrets, and special bullets from snipers rained down. However, these conventional weapons struck the Corrupted Giants without even penetrating their outermost skin.

The culprit behind all this was Lu Chen!!

Because this was not an ability from a cultivation template, but a chosen ability bestowed upon White Ember by Lu Chen, an ability Lu Chen designed based on his gaming experience.

But Lu Chen didn't know that the numerical settings in games were not that simple; they were usually calculated by professional statisticians.

This led to a hundred Corrupted Warriors combining, with all their stats stacking up. For example, if defense was 100, a hundred Corrupted Warriors stacking would be 10,000, instantly increasing defense by a hundredfold, and attack power by a hundredfold!!!

A proper stat monster!!

Lu Chen observed this, masked his mistake, and grinned!!

Nothing wrong with it!

He had bet on the indigenous civilization winning, so setting the chosen ability to be outrageous was part of his plan!!

Chen Xu knew that if this continued, the city wall would collapse sooner or later. He decisively activated his mecha’s overload mode and declared in a booming voice: “Mecha Corps, all units, follow me! Charge!!”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Three hundred mechas simultaneously launched special grappling hooks from their right arms. These steel cables, made of composite Materials, screeched through the air.

The grappling hooks accurately embedded themselves in the Corrupted Giants’ necks.

The moment the steel cables tensed, all mechas simultaneously activated full-power propulsion, and three hundred steel figures shot into the sky like arrows from a bow.

Chen Xu’s mecha arced perfectly through the air, skillfully adjusting its center of gravity. The thrusters on its legs suddenly changed direction, and the entire mecha spun like a top.

This action caused the steel cables to wrap several times around the giant’s neck, and the other mecha warriors followed suit.

Three hundred steel cables intertwined into a deadly noose net around the giant’s neck.

“Cut!” With Chen Xu’s command, all mechas simultaneously struck at the giants’ necks!