142: Chapter 142 Miniature Armory

"Luo Ning, Xila, come to the main control room."

Zhou An's voice reached their ears through the fortress's internal channel.

In less than half a minute, Luo Ning, who hadn't even had time to change out of her silk nightgown, and Xila, wearing a tight combat suit, arrived at the main control room.

"The prey has arrived—a heavy assault formation from the Blood Moon Guild."

Zhou An laid out the tactics while covering himself in the [ranger armor] that shimmered with a dark gold luster.

"The fortress is too large a target; it's easy to get into trouble if we get focused fired. The three of us will exit the cabin first to maneuver into the optimal position for a surprise attack."

"Understood!"

The three quickly entered the airlock.

Accompanied by the hissing of air pressure, the hatch at the bottom of the fortress swung open, and three figures vanished into the depths of the pitch-black sea of clouds like ghosts.

At the same time, Zhou An issued a second order through the armor's communication channel: "Muzi, Old Zhang, come to the command center. Muzi, you take over EVA's external communication permissions."

"EVA, send a directional area communication request to the target fleet, demanding they immediately state their intentions and change course."

Muzi tapped the communicator by her ear.

"Static... static..."

A few seconds later, the snow on the screen dissipated, and the communication was forcibly connected.

The leading black werewolf captain was particularly massive; he pushed aside the half-eaten bone in his hand and leaned close to the screen, his mouth covered in bloodstains.

"This is Cloud Top Fortress."

"Your fleet has intruded into our absolute restricted zone. Stop advancing immediately and change course; otherwise, bear the consequences yourself."

Hearing this warning, the black werewolf captain was stunned for a moment, then erupted into a burst of extremely arrogant and hoarse laughter.

"Hahahaha! I thought it was some tough nut, but it's just an iron shell belonging to the human race!"

"Boys, charge the main cannons for me!"

The black werewolf captain excitedly licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and roared at the screen.

"Little human girl, wash up and wait; I'll come find you myself in a bit!"

"Click."

Li Muzi's eyes turned completely cold as she cut the communication directly.

"Boss."

Muzi connected to the external tactical channel.

"Negotiations failed. Their heads are full of beastly waste, and they are already preparing to attack."

The sound of wind whistled on the other end of the communicator as Zhou An's voice rang out:

"Since they are rushing to reincarnate, there's no need to be polite. Luo Ning, take everything out of the arsenal and wash these animals' brains."

The moment she received the order, a morbid excitement flashed in Luo Ning's quirky eyes.

She threw her arms open, and the micro-arsenal on her chest was fully unleashed!

"Boom! Boom!"

Accompanied by the sound of mechanical interlocking, the exclusive vehicles belonging to Luo Ning and Xila completed an astonishing disassembly and reorganization in mid-air.

In just a few seconds, two humanoid heavy combat mechs over ten meters tall tore through the clouds and hovered in the air!

The surface of Luo Ning's black mech shimmered with dark blue energy circuits, and its shoulders and back had fully deployed a dense matrix of micro-missile launchers, while Xila's mech presented an ultimate streamlined design, tightly gripping that enlarged Moon-Glitter Grade Sky-Splitting Spear.

In the center of the two behemoths, Zhou An stood suspended in the air, clad in the dark gold [ranger armor].

Compared to the mechs over ten meters tall, his figure appeared exceptionally small.

"Split into three paths."

Zhou An drew the long [star-extinguishing blade] from his back, the blade pointing far away at the Blood Moon fleet, whose main cannons were beginning to glow:

"Don't give them a chance to activate their shields; cut those five LV4 warships on the periphery to pieces first!"

"Received! Firepower coverage ready!"

"Received, I guarantee the mission will be completed!"

Blood Moon Guild Fleet LV5 Main Command Room

"Port side, thirty degrees! Have those five cruisers spread out and flank in a fan shape! Today, not only will we dismantle that fortress, but I want all the humans inside captured alive!"

Inside the flagship's command room, the black werewolf Captain Derek's eyes flashed with a cruel green light.

He didn't take that lone human fortress seriously at all; in this airspace, the Blood Moon Guild's fleet was an absolute crushing force.

"Captain! The radar has detected a high-energy reaction!"

The werewolf crew member in charge of monitoring shouted suddenly, his sharp claws tapping rapidly on the screen.

"Ten kilometers away, there are three unidentified flying objects approaching us at an extremely high speed!"

Captain Derek snorted disdainfully and waved his hand carelessly: "What are you panicking about? It's probably just those humans, scared out of their wits, firing off conventional missiles blindly. Open the outer barrier and smash them directly! The whole fleet continues to advance; prepare the main cannons to lock onto that fortress!"

"Hum—"

A thick, dark red energy shield rose around the flagship.

However, just a few seconds later, the alarm in the command room suddenly became sharp and piercing!

"Warning! The outer barrier is suffering from unknown physical and energy cutting; integrity is dropping! Target distance has closed to five kilometers!"

The flesh on Captain Derek's face twitched violently, and a flash of astonishment and anger crossed his eyes.

How could ordinary missiles shake the barrier of an LV5 warship?

"Damn it, there really are people who aren't afraid of death! Secondary battery arrays, open fire and shoot them down for me!"

Captain Derek roared.

"Forget the fortress, laser main cannons, aim at these flying insects first!"

"Yes! Main cannons charging... wait, Captain!"

The radar operator's voice suddenly carried a tremor of disbelief, "Among the three targets, two signals have suddenly disappeared from the radar completely!"

"Disappeared?!"

Captain Derek shoved the crew member aside and stared fixedly at the screen.

Sure enough, the three red dots that had been advancing in a triangular formation had the left and right ones suddenly evaporate mysteriously, as if they had melted into the night out of thin air.

"What the hell... forget it, can't worry about that much!"

Captain Derek gritted his teeth and pointed at the only remaining red dot on the screen, "Laser main cannons, lock onto the last target immediately!"

The wind whistled over the mech's hull as Luo Ning sat steadily in the holographic cockpit, watching the two friendly cursors vanish from the radar instantly.

"space warp is truly a perfect match for dealing with those clumsy warships..."

At this moment, she had become the only high-energy target on the battlefield.

On the massive LV5 Blood Moon flagship in front, the thick main cannon barrel had lit up with a blinding, destructive white light, locking onto her position.

However, there wasn't even a hint of panic in Luo Ning's eyes.

"Today, I'll let you uncivilized beasts broaden your horizons."

"Clatter—"

The micro-arsenal appeared again, and a massive amount of mechanical parts appeared out of thin air!

Under Luo Ning's top-tier ability control, these parts interlocked and assembled in front of the mech at a speed hard to capture with the naked eye.

In just a few seconds, a super giant cannon, twenty meters long with an extremely exaggerated design, was impressively assembled!

The massive barrel was like the throat of an abyssal beast, emitting a suffocating aura of destruction.

The mech's ten-meter-tall body could barely carry this giant killing weapon.

At the same time, the Blood Moon flagship's secondary battery arrays and various anti-aircraft missiles poured in like a rainstorm.

"Boom, boom, boom—!"

Dense explosions erupted around the mech.

But this still couldn't make Luo Ning frown.

The arsenal didn't have much else, but it had plenty of defense modules!

Dozens of energy deflection shields unfolded around her like a peacock spreading its tail; the artillery fire, which was enough to tear through conventional armor, couldn't even penetrate a ripple on the shields.

She withstood the barrage of fire and completed the final calibration of the giant cannon.

Through the optical screen, Captain Derek and the group of werewolf crew members clearly saw that visually shocking scene in the night sky.

A ten-meter-tall mech, forcibly carrying the barrage of fire, raised a twenty-meter giant cannon that was even larger than itself, the muzzle pointed directly at them!

After a brief silence, Captain Derek let out a cold laugh.

"A human mech actually wants to trade main cannon fire with my LV5 flagship?"

"Overestimating oneself! Max out the reactor output! Open fire and blast it to smithereens for me!"

"Main cannon charging 90%... 95%..."

The giant weapons on both sides were crazily drawing energy; the night sky was completely illuminated by the blinding white light and dark blue energy fluctuations, and a world-destroying exchange of fire was on the verge of breaking out.

However, just in the last second before Captain Derek was about to press the fire button—

"Boom—!!!"

"Boom—!!!"

Two earth-shattering, terrifying explosions suddenly erupted without warning from the void on both sides of the flagship!

The violent shockwave even caused this massive LV5 flagship to tilt violently.

Captain Derek stumbled and fell to the ground, his werewolf eyes instantly filled with terror and confusion.

On the optical screen, among the five LV4 firepower cruisers that were originally executing a flanking formation, two had actually suffered catastrophic secondary explosions at the same time!

Huge fireballs soared into the night sky, throwing countless werewolf crew members' severed limbs and warship debris into the depths of the sea of clouds.

"W-what happened?!"

Captain Derek scrambled up, roaring in terror.

"Who can tell me what on earth happened to my cruisers?!"

The piercing crash alarm, accompanied by the sensation of weightlessness and tilting, echoed wildly inside the riddled ship cabin.

Sparks flew everywhere; the once arrogant werewolf crew members had now turned into a pile of wreckage.

Zhou An walked expressionlessly on the tilted metal deck, the Sun-Corona Grade [star-extinguishing blade] in his hand pointing casually toward the ground.

Where the blade passed, even the air seemed to be sliced; several werewolf guards attempting to ambush from the flank were instantly split in two by the extremely condensed blade light before they even had time to scream, and blood instantly painted the broken cabin walls.

He showed no mercy, like a walking god of death.

At the end of the bridge, the fifth-tier werewolf captain of this warship was screaming in despair.

His limbs had been forcibly broken, and his chest was pinned firmly to the deck in front of the main console by an energy spear emitting a scorching light.

This energy spear was precisely the tactical module built into the [ranger armor]; as a powerful long-range piercing weapon, it not only locked the fifth-tier werewolf's body but also sealed all the spiritual energy fluctuations within him.

"Humans... the Blood Moon Guild will never let you go..."

"Noisy."

Zhou An coldly spat out two words, his footsteps not stopping, as the horizontal blade in his hand turned into a streak of dark gold afterimage and slashed straight down.

"Splat!"

The massive wolf head, filled with despair and resentment, rolled to the side.

Zhou An flicked his wrist slightly, and the blade remained unstained by blood.

With a thought, the energy spear pinned to the deck instantly turned into countless points of light, precisely retracted, and re-embedded into the armor's gauntlet.

After doing all this, Zhou An walked to the central control panel, which was flashing with red light, and pressed his bandaged right hand onto the core motherboard.

"System, initiate forced recycling."

This LV4 warship began to disintegrate in the air, turning into a massive amount of basic materials and material light orbs, which flooded crazily into Zhou An's portable space.

The second before the warship completely disintegrated, Zhou An turned and stepped into the torn space rift, vanishing like a ghost.

At the same time, a violent "surgical" disassembly was being staged on another battlefield.

A streamlined individual combat mech was shuttling crazily across the surface of the massive warship's armor at a terrifying speed that defied aerodynamics.

"Boom!"

The thrusters behind the mech spewed dark blue exhaust flames, and Xila suddenly made a sharp stop and turn in mid-air.

She gripped the long spear tightly with both hands, pouring energy into it frantically.

"Break!"

The long spear was thrown by her with force!

Under the piercing enhancement of Xila's core talent, which ignored defense, the long spear turned into a thunder storm that pierced through heaven and earth, tearing through the warship's outer shield with destructive force, and like a hot knife cutting through butter, it pierced straight from the bow to the stern!

Violent chain explosions occurred instantly inside the warship, and huge fireballs erupted from the holes.

But Xila's attack had only just begun.

She controlled the mech to cling to the warship's massive hull like a leech, and two laser cutting blades popped out from its arms.

Amidst a piercing, metallic wail, the laser blades cut crazily into the thick armor like a fierce storm, each strike precisely severing the warship's energy transmission pipelines.

Not only that, but the micro-Gatling cannons on the mech's shoulders were also firing simultaneously.

The warheads blasted into the interior of the warship through the torn armor cracks without hindrance, causing even more lethal secondary damage.

This was not an evenly matched battle at all; it was a one-sided slow execution.

This LV4 firepower cruiser, which was originally capable of deterring a region, had been dismembered into a pile of burning scrap metal before its main cannons could even complete a secondary charge, falling toward the endless airspace below.