185: Chapter 185: Leave the rest to me

Above the city wall, the red light in Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes flared intensely.

On the surface of the energy shield, cracks were expanding geometrically.

The gray ripples generated by the suicidal impacts of those biological troops were completely beyond the understanding of her database.

"Warning. Shield structural integrity has dropped to thirty percent. Energy matrix is on the verge of collapse."

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao remained expressionless.

She raised her right hand, her five fingers tapping rapidly in the void.

"Command issued. Cut off power to the outer shield. Activate gravitational wave counter-pulse to forcibly smooth out the Void Oscillation."

Tens of thousands of mechanical turrets simultaneously ceased firing lasers.

The energy circuits inside the barrels reorganized, and the eerie blue light turned dark red.

The next second, gravitational waves erupted in a fan shape, colliding head-on with the Void Oscillation.

Two distinct energies converged in mid-air.

The gray ripples were forcibly smoothed out, and the cracks in the shield stopped spreading.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao lowered her right hand; the crisis was temporarily averted.

Just then, a series of rumbles emanated from deep within the rock layers beneath Golden Toad City.

Liquid Metal Crabs waved their pincers, cutting the Foundation into pieces.

Thousands of mutated Bone Fish followed closely behind, an eerie blue light shimmering on the surface of their bones.

"Reorganize."

Deep underground, the bones of tens of thousands of mutated Bone Fish intertwined and embedded into each other.

In just a few seconds, the tens of thousands of Bone Fish fused into a super Bone Fish over a thousand meters long.

The aura of this behemoth directly crossed the rank barrier, soaring to the Half-step Diamond Tier.

The super Bone Fish swung its tail bone and rammed into the core Foundation of Golden Toad City.

After a loud bang, the Foundation of the front wall of Golden Toad City was completely pulverized.

Having lost its support, the thousand-meter-tall metal wall collapsed with a roar, kicking up a sky full of dust.

At the breach in the wall ruins, tens of thousands of Formless Source Insectss burst out from the ground.

The dark red patterns on their abdomens lit up, and blackish-gray karmic fire gushed out.

The karmic fire adhered to the metal wreckage of the city wall, spreading toward the internal energy circuits and burning the remaining defensive facilities into scrap metal.

"The city has fallen." Lin Yuan stood on the war chariot, his sword pointing directly into the interior of Golden Toad City. "All troops, charge!"

The six-hundred-thousand-strong army let out a thunderous roar.

The Wind-Thunder Cavalry leveled their long spears, and the iron hooves of their warhorses crushed the scorched earth.

The Behemoth Knights steered their war beasts, flooding in through the breach in the wall.

The Blood Slaughter Infantry raised their heavy shields, forming an iron wall formation, and advanced steadily.

Bai Ye rode on the back of the Frost Ancient Dragon, waving a bone staff.

Tens of thousands of stitched monsters, two-headed banshees, and skeleton warriors charged at the very forefront of the ranks.

Inside Golden Toad City, Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's mechanical legion collided with them head-on.

The mechanical Corpse Beasts under Lu Chen's command spat out high-pressure acid, corroding the skeleton warriors at the front into pools of black liquid.

Shen Yubai's mechanical Deep Sea Giant Kraken swung tentacles equipped with electromagnetic coils, electrocuting several war beasts along with their riders into charred remains.

The Six-Armed Demon Apes swung alloy warhammers, smashing the heavy shields of the Blood Slaughter Infantry.

The double-winged Thunder Lizards circled at low altitude, releasing dense, crisscrossing lightning.

The two armies clashed in a chaotic melee on the ruins of the city wall.

The sounds of metal colliding, flesh tearing, and energy explosions mixed into a cacophony.

In the Early Stage of the engagement, the mechanical legion could still barely hold off the charge of the Abyssal Blood Army and the undead, relying on their bodies of steel and their ability to ignore pain.

Bai Ye's undead army suffered heavy losses, with skeleton warriors being crushed in droves.

"Damn it, these iron lumps are really tough!" Bai Ye trembled with heartache.

His undead attacks had greatly reduced effectiveness against the mechanical dependents.

Lin Yuan watched the intense battle with cold eyes, not ordering a retreat.

Behind the battle formation, thousands of Tyrant Demons over twenty meters tall moved.

They stepped onto the battlefield, fully releasing their auras, suppressing the surrounding low-tier dependents until they couldn't breathe.

The Void wings behind the Tyrant Demons unfolded, and their bodies vanished.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Tyrant Demons appeared in the area where the mechanical dependents were most densely packed.

The Titan power within them erupted.

The Tyrant Demons quickly condensed gauntlets on their fists and smashed toward a Platinum Rank mechanical Six-Armed Demon Ape.

The Demon Ape raised its six mechanical arms, attempting to block.

Crack.

All six alloy arms snapped simultaneously.

The heavy punch continued unabated, directly smashing the Demon Ape's head along with the mechanical core in its chest into scrap metal.

On the other side, several Platinum Rank mechanical Thunder Lizards locked onto one Tyrant Demon simultaneously.

High-pressure lightning wove into a net, enveloping the Tyrant Demon.

The Tyrant Demon snorted disdainfully, and, enduring the lightning strike, took a step forward.

It grabbed a Thunder Lizard with both hands and tore it apart with force.

Rip.

Metal snapped.

The Thunder Lizard was torn in half, and the Tyrant Demon reached in to pull out the mechanical core that was sparking with electricity.

It stuffed it directly into its mouth and chewed greedily, machine oil flowing down the corners of its mouth.

Gold Tier mechanical dependents could only become food in front of the Tyrant Demons.

Even Platinum Rank mechanical creatures of the same tier couldn't withstand three heavy blows from a Tyrant Demon.

The situation began to reverse.

The mechanical legion's defensive line was torn open by thousands of gaps by the Tyrant Demons.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao sat on the command platform, watching the fluctuating combat loss data in front of her.

Red warnings had merged into a solid mass.

"Enemy high-tier units have intervened. Combat assessment: Extremely dangerous. Conventional firepower cannot suppress them."

She raised her hands, and her palms split open.

Thousands of mechanical honeybees, only the size of a fingernail, flew out.

They swarmed toward the Tyrant Demons that were rampaging across the battlefield.

One honeybee took advantage of a moment when a Tyrant Demon opened its mouth to roar and stung its back neck.

The injection needle at its tail extended, injecting a high-concentration virus into the Tyrant Demon's flesh.

A cold light flashed in Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes.

As long as the infection was successful, these formidable biological troops would become the blades in her hands.

The plague had just touched the Tyrant Demon's nervous System.

The Tyrant Demon's movements suddenly stalled.

Sensing that it was about to lose consciousness, the ferocity in its eyes ignited instantly.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Tyrant Demon fully reversed its own Titan and Shadow Lurker powers.

Boom!!! A dazzling mushroom cloud rose in the center of the battlefield, blasting the mechanical dependents within a ten-mile radius into powder.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao let out a muffled grunt, and blue energy fluid overflowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Infection failed; the target has self-destruction tendencies."

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's voice remained cold, but the operating speed of her core processor had noticeably dropped.

Tyrant Demons could not use Void Oscillation, but the destructive power generated by their self-destruction far exceeded that of those Gold Tier creatures.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao had wasted Divine Power in vain, yet she hadn't managed to control even one Tyrant Demon.

Cheng E stood on the command tower in the distance.

He widened his eyes, watching the one-sided slaughter by the Tyrant Demons below, the corners of his eyes twitching.

"Where the hell did these monsters pop out from?" Cheng E gritted his back teeth.

He had originally thought that Lin Yuan's basic combat strength was at most about the same as theirs.

Now it seemed that even with the city to defend, their basic combat strength was being completely crushed by the opponent.

Cheng E continued to observe the battlefield, Divine Power gathering in his eyes.

Six hundred thousand troops, plus those formidable Divine Realm dependents.

In such a chaotic battlefield, there hadn't been a single instance of trampling or friendly fire.

"Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao, forget about those big guys." Cheng E pointed toward the rear of Lin Yuan's camp, to the six-winged Insect King hanging high in the sky.

"That bug is their command center. Kill it, and this army will lose its coordination and become a scattered mess."

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao quickly locked onto the Insect King.

"Target: Enemy command node. Combat assessment: Diamond Tier. Guard strength: Extremely strong."

Data streams calculated rapidly in her pupils.

Lin Yuan was standing right below the Insect King to hold the line.

Sending a deity to execute a decapitation strike had a high success rate.

But after the assassin succeeded, they absolutely wouldn't be able to return alive.

One for one.

Trading a demigod for a Diamond Tier command bug.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao weighed the pros and cons.

If she didn't trade for this Insect King, the mechanical legion would be slaughtered to the last by these Tyrant Demons.

In that case, she would have to use the remaining Mechanical Deities prematurely.

But once all her trump cards were out and the element of surprise was lost, facing the combined forces of Lin Yuan and Bai Ye, the odds of winning would be extremely low.

"Command confirmed, execute decapitation." Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao made her decision.

Sun Ying, who was standing beside her, moved.

As a Shadow Assassin deity, after being mechanized, Sun Ying retained the Law of Stealth and integrated optical stealth modules.

Sun Ying's figure began to blur, turning into a stream of silver data, directly escaping into the Void Realm.

At the rear of the battlefield, the Insect King was floating in mid-air, using the mental network to direct the Tyrant Demons in their maneuvering and cutting.

Suddenly, its compound eyes contracted.

An icy, extreme sense of impending death enveloped it.

The Void wings behind the Insect King vibrated, attempting to tear space and escape.

It was too late.

The surrounding space was locked down by a tyrannical killing intent.

The Law suppression at the demigod level made the air around the Insect King stagnant.

"Dominator, I have done my best." The Insect King closed its compound eyes, waiting for death.

The void split silently.

Sun Ying, holding a silver dagger, appeared above the Insect King's head, aiming directly at its core ganglion.

The speed was so fast that not even an afterimage was left behind.

Just as the dagger was only an inch away from the Insect King, a palm covered in dark cyan patterns appeared out of thin air and gripped the blade of the dagger.

On the ramparts of Golden Toad City, Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao watched the signal representing Sun Ying disappear from the data panel; her core processor experienced a brief lag.

A massive loss.

The Insect King was completely unharmed, yet she had lost a demigod combatant first.

"Tactical change, all personnel engage." Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao had no choice.

If this dragged on any longer, the mechanical legion would be wiped out.

On the ruins of the city wall, fourteen figures ascended into the air simultaneously.

Zhao Kuo's massive metal body transformed into a heavy siege tank, its tracks crushing the ground and sending over a dozen Tyrant Demons flying with a collision.

Lu Chen controlled a sky full of mechanical toxic spores, forming a cloud of strong acid that covered the formation of the Abyssal Blood Army.

Shen Yubai summoned a mechanical tsunami, sweeping large swathes of skeleton warriors into it to be killed.

Fourteen Mechanical Deities joined the battlefield, stabilizing the line that was on the verge of collapse.

The Tyrant Demons' offensive was forcibly contained.

At the rear of the battlefield, Lin Yuan withdrew his hand, looking at his palm that had almost been severed.

The power of the End circulated at the wound.

Granulation tissue rapidly squirmed and intertwined.

The Divine Fire within his body burned fiercely, and the dark red blood energy turned into smoke, surging straight into the sky.

His aura, far from weakening due to the injury, grew even more vigorous.

Bai Ye, riding on the back of the Frost Ancient Dragon, had witnessed the entire process of Lin Yuan crushing Sun Ying with his bare hands.

He swallowed several times, feeling a chill run down his back.

"Damn... This guy is truly a pervert. Too ruthless, taking a full-force strike from a demigod with his Physical Body." Bai Ye exclaimed in his heart.

He was now incredibly glad that he hadn't followed the wrong person.

Lin Yuan shook off the machine oil and blood from his hand.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the chaotic battlefield, locking onto the fourteen Mechanical Deities in the distance.

"Bai Ye." Lin Yuan spoke, his voice, bolstered by Divine Power, overpowering the clamor of the battlefield.

Bai Ye shivered, hurriedly urging the Bone Dragon to fly closer.

"Brother Lin Yuan, what are your orders?"

Lin Yuan pointed at the distant Mechanical Deities, his tone casual.

"How many of these scrap metal pieces can you handle?"

Bai Ye snapped out of it and carefully sensed the aura emitted by the opponents.

"That woman, Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao, in order to expand her forces, overused the assimilation divine art; she has drained the Origin of these people dry."

Bai Ye analyzed quickly, "These guys are now strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and they could fall to the state of a fourth-turn demigod at any time."

Bai Ye paused, his tone becoming somewhat guilty.

"But you also know that I specialize in the undead System, and my own combat power is average. Plus, mechanical Puppets counter me quite a bit."

Bai Ye extended three fingers, "I can only tie down three at most; any more and I'll have to leave my life here."

"Good." Lin Yuan nodded.

He drew his blood-colored greatsword, the killing intent in his eyes like substance, his Battle Intent soaring.

"Leave the rest to me."