122: Chapter 122 Instant Melting

Inside the command room of the Wolf-man fleet's flagship.

Commander Lucas, the Wolf-man commander, was staring intently at the two high-energy reaction points that had suddenly vanished from the radar screen, his dark green pupils constricting sharply.

"Radar operator! Where are that a70 fighter and that mech? Were they destroyed by cannon fire?" Commander Lucas roared.

"Re...report, Commander! There... there is no energy residue from them being destroyed! They just vanished into thin air!"

The radar operator's voice carried a hint of confusion; he couldn't understand why this had happened either.

Two living people had disappeared right under their noses.

Beside him, Deputy Commander Holton suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He jerked his head up, looking outside the incredibly thick, one-way bulletproof reinforced glass of the command room.

"Commander! Outside! Inside our shield!!!"

Without any warning, space was torn open, revealing a massive dark golden rift.

The two of them completely ignored the impenetrable "Blood Moon Protection" and warped to a position less than ten meters away from the flagship command room's porthole!

Ten meters!

At this distance, Commander Lucas could even see, through the glass, the cruel, cold smirk curling at the corner of the black-haired young man's mouth inside the black a70 fighter's cockpit.

"How could he pass through the shield?! Fire! Fire immediately!!!"

But at such close range, all tactics and all defenses had become a complete joke.

"Goodnight, animals."

Zhou An gently pulled the trigger.

"Boom——!!!"

The armor-piercing main cannon on the nose of the a70 fighter unleashed a deep blue beam of death without reservation.

At the same time, Luo Ning, who had warped over with Zhou An, also fully unleashed her long-repressed, violent firepower.

"Full barrage launch!! Die!!!"

The missile bays on the mech's shoulders emptied instantly. Dozens of micro high-explosive anti-armor missiles, mixed with the high-frequency plasma greatsword—dozens of meters long—in her hand, struck the command room's reinforced glass with the force of an overwhelming tide, meeting no resistance!

Zhou An's own firepower might have been like scraping, but Luo Ning's certainly wasn't. Both were LV5, but she was specialized for output weapons, and her damage output was higher than 99% of other LV5s.

"Bang!! Crackle——Boom, boom, boom!!!"

Even the reinforced porthole, capable of withstanding meteorite impacts, was shattered instantly like paper under such terrifying close-range concentrated fire!

The violent energy beams and high-explosive flames, like roaring fire dragons, instantly flooded into the spacious command room!

"Ahhh——!!!"

Commander Lucas and Deputy Commander Holton didn't even have time to let out a second scream; their formidable Beast-man physiques, which they were so proud of, were instantly vaporized into ash in the face of this heat, which reached tens of thousands of degrees.

There was no suspense.

At this stage, flesh and blood could not go head-to-head with vehicle firepower, not even the Beast-men, who were renowned for their physical durability.

Zhou An watched the instantly melted main control room and couldn't help but swallow hard. This girl's firepower was becoming increasingly exaggerated; after being given access to resources, her output had increased by a large margin.

Amidst an earth-shattering explosion, the bridge section of this arrogant Blood Moon fleet flagship, the [Bloodthirsty], was blasted open, leaving a massive hole that pierced through the hull!

The uncontrolled energy core became unstable instantly. The massive steel warship exploded multiple times in mid-air, flames raging across its hull, before it tumbled uncontrollably down into the pitch-black sea of clouds below.

"The flagship has fallen! The Commander is dead! The Commander is dead!"

"They have space warping capabilities! These are demons! Run!"

The instant evaporation of the flagship completely shattered the psychological defenses of the remaining ten Beast-man warships.

The Wolf-men, who were previously attacking wildly, were now like stray dogs. Their shields flickered violently, their formations were in disarray, and two warships even crashed into each other in their panicked attempt to turn around.

Zhou An piloted the a70, dodging the debris from the falling flagship. He looked at the chaotic Beast-man fleet below and pressed his communicator:

"Muzi, full firepower. Luo Ning, free hunt."

"Today, in this airspace, not a single green-eyed dog will leave here alive."

The instant evaporation of the warship [Bloodthirsty] became the final straw that broke this Wolf-man fleet.

Having lost unified command and that layer of solid "Blood Moon Protection," the remaining ten warships were nothing more than moving targets in the eyes of Zhou An and Luo Ning.

"Weapon modules fully charged, fire main cannons!"

Despair-inducing golden light lit up around Cloud Top Fortress once again.

Thick plasma beams, like the grim reaper's scythe, reaped lives wantonly in the night sky.

Luo Ning's mech was unstoppable, moving as if no one was there; every swing of her high-frequency light blade was accompanied by the explosion of a warship's power reactor.

In less than ten minutes, this aggressive night raid ended with the total annihilation of the Wolf-man fleet.

Twelve massive fireballs, trailing thick smoke, fell toward the bottomless abyss.

Zhou An piloted the a70, hovering high in the sky, watching the disintegrating and burning warship wreckage with a calm gaze.

He knew that quite a few human girls were still locked in those cabins, being treated as playthings.

But he felt no emotional fluctuations.

In this kind of all-out heavy firepower bombardment at an altitude of ten thousand meters, there was no such thing as a fairy-tale plot where one could board a ship to save people.

Once a warship exploded and disintegrated, the internal heat and pressure differential would instantly tear apart any carbon-based lifeform.

"I guess you're just unlucky."

Zhou An murmured casually and put the matter out of his mind. In this cruel world, weakness itself was the original sin. He was no savior, and he certainly didn't have the overflowing sympathy to take a direct hit from a main cannon for unrelated people.

"Luo Ning, stop hacking, get to work and close the net."

Zhou An pushed the throttle down, and the tractor beam on the belly of the a70 fighter activated at full power. Like a skilled scavenger, he dove headfirst into the burning debris field.

Soon after, Luo Ning also disengaged her mech's combat stance and, coordinating with the salvage swarm sent out by the fortress, began frantically "looting" in the night sky.

Half an hour later, the battlefield cleanup was complete.

The fighter and the mech hovered side-by-side in mid-air. Zhou An looked at the material list summarized on the tactical panel and raised an eyebrow in satisfaction.

"As expected of the regular army of a large guild; they are indeed much 'fatter' than the stragglers from earlier today."

Through the system's automatic smelting and conversion, these twelve heavy warships, ranging from LV4 to LV5, directly contributed about 200,000 Level 5 basic materials to Zhou An. Although this was completely useless to Zhou An, his goal wasn't really these basic materials; he was mainly looking to see if there were any special blueprints.

Besides the basic materials, what surprised Zhou An the most was the high-level loot that dropped from the wreckage of Commander Lucas's warship.

"It dropped!"

Luo Ning manipulated her mech to toss several glowing items to Zhou An. "Besides four or five legendary-grade blueprints, there is also a five-source power core!"

Zhou An caught the five-source power core steadily, and his eyes lit up instantly.

"Good stuff. Muzi has been stuck at LV4 precisely because she lacked this core. With this thing, she can officially breakthrough to LV5."

Zhou An threw the weapon blueprints back to Luo Ning. "Take these blueprints and digest them; see if you can upgrade the fortress. As for this five-source power core, I'll take it back for Muzi."

"Got it!"

Luo Ning scanned the blueprints into her system library with a grin.

Zhou An raised his wrist and pressed the communicator.

"Muzi, the outside is cleaned up. Push the first defensive perimeter out by ten kilometers and keep the radar on constantly."

Muzi's voice, sounding relieved, came from the other end of the communicator: "Received! Boss."

"Let's go, time to go home."

Zhou An took one last look at the night sky, which had returned to calm, and pulled the control stick. Two streaks of light pierced through the clouds and landed steadily back into the spacious hangar of [Cloud Top Fortress].