64: Chapter 64 The Alliance Breaks Down

As time passed.

The four vehicles appeared to be aiming at the dragon, but in secret, the red locking beams of their fire-control radars were frantically probing the edges of each other's armor.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for the perfect opportunity to kill with a borrowed knife.

Just then, a flicker of contemptuous rage flashed through Nidhogg's projection, within those draconic eyes that resembled blood-red suns.

How could it not see through the clumsy charade of these ants?

The massive black dragon's body twisted violently, its sky-covering tail dragging a sky full of viscous black flames, and with the force of a thunderbolt, it struck precisely against the surface of the "Azure Shield" from District 112, that proud azure crystal.

Boom—!

Even the crystal fortress, known for its absolute defense, was as fragile as cheap glass under a full-power strike from an LV5.

The blue energy barrier shattered in response, and the entire right side of the fortress's armor was instantly burned through by the black flames, exposing the sparking power core inside.

"Now is the time!"

The scarred man from District 009 and the pale youth from District 404 both had a flash of greedy, ferocious light erupt in their eyes simultaneously.

Not only did they not take the opportunity to assist the dragon, but almost at the same time, they unhesitatingly poured out their ultimate, terrifying firepower!

But their artillery fire was not aimed at the dragon in the sky at all; instead, it was all smashed into the District 112 warship, which was spinning miserably and struggling in the sea of fire!

"Are you crazy?! Ah—"

The red-haired woman's scream sounded shrilly on the public channel, but the next second it was completely drowned out by two earth-shattering beams of destruction.

The District 112 crystal fortress, under the backstabbing of its "allies," turned into a grand and desperate firework display.

Countless rare materials and glowing high-tier equipment blind boxes fell scattered like raindrops.

"Tsk, these people really have no class; they couldn't even keep up the act for a minute."

Zhou An leaned back in the captain's chair, watching the light point for District 112 instantly vanish from the radar screen, his eyes turning completely cold.

Since these guys had already torn off their masks and chosen the most primitive and bloody law of the jungle, there was no need for him to keep playing the "best supporting actor" any longer.

"Luo Ning, stop playing around."

Zhou An's fingers danced rapidly across the holographic console, disengaging all hidden safety locks on the weapon systems and cranking them to maximum output power.

"Those two broken ships are yours."

"Hehe, Boss, I've been waiting for those words until my throat was about to smoke!"

Luo Ning let out a hair-raising, neurotic cackle.

The LV4 exoskeleton armor behind her instantly erupted with dazzling purple plasma light, and she became like a lethal ghost cutting through the darkness, pulling an extremely eerie Z-shaped arc in the air as she darted straight toward the District 404 warship that was greedily picking up scraps.

"What the hell is that?!" the pale youth from District 404 roared in terror; he only saw a tiny red dot on the radar approaching his face at a terrifying speed exceeding that of sound.

Luo Ning didn't give him any time to react.

With a wave of her hand, the launchers on her shoulders opened instantly, and dozens of specially made "Pollution Missiles" poured out.

The missiles exploded violently.

Highly corrosive thick fog instantly drilled into the fortress through the ventilation ducts and airlocks, and shrill screams immediately rang out to the heavens.

Meanwhile, Zhou An's eyes were as cold as knives, his hands gripping the main fire-control system of [Cloud Top Fortress] tightly.

"EVA, radar lock on the District 009 battleship.

No need to save energy; max out the shield power, and use 'Unmoving as a Mountain' to tank their counterattack for me!"

Zhou An slammed the firing lever down.

"High-energy electromagnetic main cannon—fire at direct overload!"

Hum—!

The core of Cloud Top Fortress erupted with a piercing, overloaded roar.

The scarred man from District 009 hadn't even recovered from the ecstasy of grabbing the loot when an azure electromagnetic beam over ten meters in diameter had already torn through the obstruction of the magma-filled sky.

This beam of death, carrying the pressure of ignoring physical defenses, pierced through the command bridge of that silver battleship with destructive force!

"Holy crap! That is..."

Rumble!

The scarred man's last words were swallowed by the violent explosion.

The battleship's proud composite armor was torn apart like paper under the overloaded electromagnetic high pressure, and the massive hull instantly broke into two, crashing into the sea of fire below.

The scene on Luo Ning's side was even more brutal, too gruesome to watch.

She landed directly on the surface of that massive warship, like a butcher lost in a frenzy, using the eerie blue high-frequency cutting beam in her hand to slice the massive vehicle into several large pieces as if it were butter.

In less than three minutes, the seemingly stable "Four-Party Alliance" had been reduced to just [Cloud Top Fortress] standing unscathed in the air.

"Decompose! Decompose everything for me!"

Zhou An waved his hand, and the tractor beams at the bottom swept across the battlefield like a greedy, giant net.

These three teams were, after all, top-tier titans that had fought their way out of their respective districts, and the legacy they dropped made even Zhou An, who was used to seeing big scenes, unable to help but breathe heavily.

[System: Decomposition complete, core loot obtained:]

[Blueprint: World-Ender Star-Fall Electromagnetic Cannon (Gold Legendary)!]

[Blueprint: 3D Radar Jamming Tower (Purple Epic)]

[Blueprint: High-Tier Nuclear Power Core (Purple Epic)]

[Tier 4 Materials 80,000 units]

"Truly, murder and arson lead to golden belts."

Zhou An glanced at that golden main cannon blueprint, his heart burning with excitement.

If this thing were installed on Cloud Top Fortress, a single shot would definitely be able to blast an ordinary LV4 vehicle into a molecular state.

But before he could even warm up the blueprint, the black dragon Nidhogg overhead let out a furious roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

It clearly hadn't expected that this group of ants, who were originally only fit to be snacks between its teeth, would actually play a game of "black eating black" right under its nose, and were now even daring to clean up the battlefield so unscrupulously!

Its massive dragon head slowly lowered, and in its bottomless giant maw, it began to frantically compress the surrounding free-floating energy, brewing a pure black ball of destruction capable of annihilating this entire space.

"Boss, it's time for us to welcome our guest!"

Luo Ning performed an extremely magnificent tactical roll in mid-air, landing steadily on the edge of the observation deck in front of the fortress.

She set up the "Abyssal Gaze" in her hands, which was squirming with purple flesh, its muzzle pointing directly at the black dragon's blood-red eye that was large enough to cover the sky.

"Full power, kill it for me!"

Zhou An roared, and all the red-glowing gun barrels of [Cloud Top Fortress] turned in unison, locking tightly onto the dragon in the sky.

Swish, swish, swish—!

Luo Ning had completely fallen into madness this time.

She didn't care at all about the SAN value drop warnings flashing frantically on her system panel, and amidst that hair-raising, neurotic cackle, ten "Pollution Ammunition" rounds were fired in rapid succession like a machine gun!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Those eerie rounds, which emitted overlapping sounds of baby cries in mid-air, struck precisely against Nidhogg's indestructible jet-black dragon scales.

Its constitution, which was originally capable of ignoring all conventional physical and energy attacks, actually emitted an extremely shrill "hissing" sound the moment it came into contact with this pollution originating from the abyss.

The black dragon's dark golden scales, which shimmered with a metallic luster, began to turn purple and soften in large patches at a speed visible to the naked eye, then turned into foul-smelling pus and slid off in clumps.

What was even more terrifying was that at the wounds on its originally majestic and sacred dragon body, mutations began to occur, violently squeezing out countless tiny, frantically rotating purple eyeballs!

That was the manifestation of being forcibly eroded and twisted by the divinity of the abyss from a higher dimension!

"It's bleeding!!"

Luo Ning was so excited she almost jumped up, pointing at the sky and screaming.

Indeed, from the huge deep groove corroded by the pollution, black-red viscous dragon blood poured down like bursting magma, crashing into the sea of fire below.

"Strike while it's down! EVA, aim all firepower at that rotting patch of flesh on its chest, and blast it through for me!!!"

At this moment, Cloud Top Fortress turned into the most violent demon of output; the high-energy electromagnetic main cannon, plasma bombardment matrix, twin rapid-fire machine guns... all of its hidden firepower was poured out without reservation in this instant, converging into a brilliantly dazzling beam of destruction that nailed itself firmly into the chest of the black dragon, which had been riddled with holes by the abyssal energy!