184: Chapter 184: The Siege Begins!

On the ramparts of Golden Toad City, a wild wind whipped the tattered flags.

Cheng E stood on the city wall, his thumb gently stroking the coin in his hand.

As his gaze swept over the pale sea of bones in the front, it paused for a moment.

"Bai Ye?"

Cheng E raised an eyebrow, a mocking smirk tugging at the corners of his mouth.

He had originally thought this old guy was just hanging on by a thread in the Extreme North, never expecting him to have teamed up with Lin Yuan.

But it made sense; the two came from the same place, and for fellow countrymen to form a secret alliance was hardly surprising.

"This kid is lucky not to have been killed by Lin Yuan," Cheng E muttered under his breath.

He withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao beside him.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao sat composed on the makeshift command platform.

Standing beside her were sixteen deities with blank expressions and bodies exuding a metallic luster.

Zhao Kuo, Sun Ying, Lu Chen, Shen Yubai...

Seventeen demigod-level combatants in total, plus the five hundred thousand mechanical army inside and outside the city.

This was the source of Cheng E's confidence.

"Our forces are evenly matched, but we have the advantage in high-end combat power." Cheng E tossed the coin in his hand and asked her, "How should we fight? Just push through directly?"

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's red mechanical eyes flickered slightly as her core processor whirred.

"Directive issued: First echelon, initiate attack. Test the enemy's firepower threshold."

The mechanical voice echoed over the city.

The city gates swung open.

A massive mechanical army poured out of the city.

The Corpse Beast controlled by Lu Chen's fungal dependents had their toxin-spraying organs modified into high-pressure acid sprayers.

Shen Yubai's deep-sea giant beasts had their limbs converted into heavy treads, with electromagnetic coils mounted on their backs.

There were also the six-armed demon apes and the winged thunder lizards.

All of them had been infected by the Mechanical Plague, retaining their original characteristics while gaining the enhancement of mechanical armor.

Tens of thousands of semi-mechanical monsters of various forms gathered together, crushing the wilderness as they headed straight for Lin Yuan's army formation.

A thousand miles away.

Lin Yuan stood on his war chariot, watching the clouds of dust rising in the distance.

"Initiate attack?" A flash of surprise crossed Lin Yuan's eyes.

Ever since he led the Abyssal Blood Army on this campaign, all the native factions and fellow god-students he encountered had chosen to turtle up and defend without exception.

Facing the oppressive presence of his hundreds of thousands of troops, this was the first time anyone had dared to launch a proactive charge.

"Looks like they have plenty of confidence." Lin Yuan pressed his hand against the hilt of his sword.

The Bug King hovered in mid-air, its compound eyes locked onto the mechanical torrent charging forward.

Mental Energy was transmitted to every corner of the army through an invisible network.

Tactical orders were issued.

The heavy infantry in the front row of the Abyssal Blood Army slammed their heavy shields into the ground, forming an iron wall.

But the real killing blow was in the rear.

Lin Yuan had no intention of letting Bai Ye's undead army take this first wave of impact.

"Fire." Lin Yuan spoke coldly.

In the rear formation, tens of thousands of Calamity Fire Spirits rose into the air simultaneously.

The Annihilation Halos behind them rotated, and the black-blue karmic fire converged in mid-air into a sea of fire that blotted out the sky.

On the other side, the patterns on the abdomens of the Formless Source Insects army lit up.

Tens of thousands of robed warlocks raised their staves high.

Heavy artillery troops uncovered the waterproof tarps, revealing tens of thousands of heavy cannons.

The next second.

The sky collapsed.

The black-blue karmic fire turned into a meteor shower, smashing into the charging formation of the mechanical army.

The karmic fire ignored the hard alloy armor and directly ignited the mechanical core.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The heavy cannons roared in unison, shells trailing long tails of flame as they fell into the enemy ranks, kicking up hundreds of meters of soil and metal wreckage.

The composite Spells of the native warlocks exploded in the center of the enemy formation, with wild winds and thunder tearing countless mechanical Corpse Beasts to shreds.

In just one encounter.

The tens of thousands of mechanical turret dependents in the lead didn't even touch a bone shard of Bai Ye's undead skeletons.

They were wiped out in this earth-shattering long-range firepower carpet bombing.

Metal melted, and severed limbs were scattered all over the ground.

On the ramparts of Golden Toad City.

Cheng E just caught the falling coin, but his hand shook, and it dropped straight to the ground.

The composure and confidence on his face vanished without a trace.

"What the hell kind of firepower is this?" Cheng E pointed at the distant battlefield, his voice rising an octave.

He recognized those monsters releasing the karmic fire as Lin Yuan's dependents.

But this lethality was just too exaggerated!

The Advanced dependents that had been mechanized were as brittle as paper in front of the karmic fire.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's mechanical eyes flickered non-stop as strings of red warning data flashed across her vision.

"Enemy long-range firepower assessment: Extremely lethal."

"Battle damage exceeds preset threshold by 400%."

"Tactical change: Full retreat. Activate city defense energy matrix."

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao did not hesitate at all, decisively abandoning the probe.

The mechanical army that had rushed out of the city received the order and quickly turned around to retreat back into Golden Toad City.

Tens of thousands of mechanical turrets on the city wall charged up simultaneously.

A translucent energy shield rose, covering the entire Golden Toad City.

The turtle strategy.

In the center of the battlefield.

Bai Ye rode on the back of the Frost Ancient Dragon, rubbing his hands in excitement.

"Die well! Die more! They are all my little babies!"

He raised his bone staff high, chanting under his breath, as death Divine Power covered the scorched earth filled with metal wreckage in front of him.

One second passed.

Two seconds passed.

There was no movement on the battlefield.

No skeletons crawled up, no corpses mutated.

Bai Ye was stunned.

He increased his output of Divine Power, and the Soul fire at the tip of his staff burned violently.

Still no reaction.

"What's going on?" Bai Ye widened his eyes and urged the Bone Dragon to fly to a piece of wreckage.

He jumped off the dragon's back and carefully examined the corpse of the Corpse Beast that had been blown to pieces.

The flesh and blood had long been assimilated by metal, the mechanical core had been burned clean by the karmic fire, and not even a trace of Soul fluctuation remained.

It was purely a lump of iron.

Necromancy was ineffective against mechanical creatures.

"Damn it!" Bai Ye cursed, trembling with anger. "Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao, you psycho! What grudge do you have against me!"

"You turned them all into iron lumps, how am I supposed to play!"

A Necromancer encountering the Mechanical Plague was truly a hard counter.

Bai Ye was close to tears, feeling as if the world was deeply targeting him.

On the war chariot.

Lin Yuan watched them shrink their defensive line and activate the energy shield, his eyes growing even colder.

"Want to be a turtle?" Lin Yuan drew the blood-colored greatsword from his back, pointing its tip directly at Golden Toad City.

"Full army push."

Roar!

The Tyrant was the first to move, its towering body leaning forward.

It couldn't wait to charge and smash that glowing turtle shell with one punch.

Just as the Tyrant was about to exert force.

Lin Yuan's figure flashed, appearing on top of the Tyrant's head, pressing one hand onto its large skull.

"Stop."

The Tyrant looked at the Creator, confused.

Lin Yuan's gaze pierced through the vast distance, looking deep into Golden Toad City.

Just a moment ago, he had captured several waves of Divine Power fluctuations coming from within.

There were many gods in the city.

Lin Yuan was certain that if he let the Tyrant just rush over blindly.

It would definitely be taken out by the enemy in seconds.

Although death could be resurrected in this Rubiks Cube World, the Tyrant was his strongest single-target combat unit.

If it were lost here prematurely, the subsequent siege would become very troublesome.

"Hold position. No moving without my command." Lin Yuan patted the Tyrant's head.

The Tyrant let out a low, unwilling roar, stomped heavily on the ground, and retreated back to the main formation.

Lin Yuan returned to the war chariot.

He knew very well that a siege battle is a test of attrition.

Since the opponent had hidden trump cards, he would just have to use lives to fill the gap and force their trump cards out.

The Bug King received Lin Yuan's will, its six wings vibrating as it let out a long cry.

The siege battle officially began.

Aerial units acted first.

Tens of thousands of Demon Vultures took flight, their massive bodies obscuring the sky.

Following them were tens of thousands of mutated Magic Blade Bats; they wove through the clouds, emitting piercing sonic shrieks.

The scout battalion among the native troops also deployed in full force.

One hundred and fifty thousand scouts in light armor rode on five-meter-wide scout war hawks.

Mixed into the formation of Wasteland dependents, they formed a flying legion.

On the ground.

The Liquid Metal Crab waved its pincers and burrowed underground.

The Bone Fish and the Formless Source Insectss followed closely behind.

Hundreds of thousands of underground units moved rapidly deep within the soil, heading straight for the Foundation of Golden Toad City's walls.

"Anti-air firepower, full power output." Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao looked at the dense red dots on the radar and decisively ordered.

On the Golden Toad City walls, tens of thousands of mechanical turrets raised their barrels simultaneously.

High-energy laser beams shot out, interweaving into an impenetrable light net in the sky.

The Demon Vultures in the lead were instantly pierced by the lasers, their bodies disintegrating in mid-air, blood and flesh raining down along with feathers.

The ultrasonic waves released by the Magic Blade Bats attempted to interfere with the turrets' targeting Systems.

But the mechanical turrets possessed independent anti-interference modules, and their shooting accuracy did not diminish in the slightest.

Casualties were rising rapidly.

Just then, the native scouts moved.

This group of warriors, whom Lin Yuan had bestowed with the name "Yuan Blood", had no fear of death in their eyes.

"For the General!"

A scout captain shouted sharply and yanked the reins.

The war hawk beneath him let out a mournful cry and directly accelerated toward the front.

The 150,000 scouts rode their war hawks, using their own flesh and blood to block the path in front of the Demon Vultures and Magic Blade Bats.

Laser beams pierced their chests and tore apart the wings of the war hawks.

Severed limbs rained down like droplets.

But their sacrifice bought crucial seconds for the Wasteland dependents.

Stepping on the corpses of their companions, the remaining Demon Vultures and Magic Blade Bats successfully closed in on Golden Toad City's energy shield.

Without slowing down in the slightest, they chose the most extreme method of combat.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One after another, Demon Vultures and Magic Blade Bats slammed into the deep blue energy shield, cracking their heads and shattering their bones.

On the city wall, Cheng E watched this scene with a furrowed brow.

"Suicide charge? What's the point of this? This little bit of kinetic energy can't break the shield at all."

But he soon realized he was terribly wrong.

The Void glands inside the Demon Vultures and Magic Blade Bats that had slammed into the shield expanded violently at the moment of death.

Boom!

The first explosion rang out.

Rings of visible gray ripples spread rapidly outward from the explosion point.

Void Oscillation.

The second, third, fourth... thousands of explosions merged into one.

The gray ripples stacked together, forming a Void storm.

Accompanied by the increasingly dense plague toxic mist released after the Magic Blade Bats died, it obscured the detection vision of the turrets on the city wall.

The impregnable energy shield began to shake and deform under the pull of the Void Oscillation.

Crack.

A shattering sound echoed over the battlefield.

Deep cracks appeared on the surface of the deep blue shield.

"Warning! Shield energy loss! Matrix node damaged!"