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The king-level calyx beasts, with their eyeless heads, looked towards the densest part of the allied forces' lines. Their ferocious maws opened, revealing a ghostly blue light within, and energy rapidly condensed. A destructive energy fluctuation sent chills down the spines of most of them.
This is a monarch-level attack; it will collectively unleash energy waves powerful enough to tear apart the battle lines.
at this time……
"Time and space flow slowly."
Xuanyuan Mirror had been hovering above the battlefield at some point. He slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly clenched, towards the direction of the Venerable King-level Flower Calyx Beast.
The miracle happened!
The torrent of blue energy, powerful enough to destroy everything, that was about to burst forth from the mouth of the Flower Calyx Beast seemed to be cast into an invisible amber of time the instant it burst out of its mouth.
Their propulsion speed suddenly became extremely slow. The beams of light that should have instantly crossed thousands of meters now resembled a lazy blue ribbon, slowly and twisting forward in the air, with energy particles surging within clearly visible to the naked eye.
Everyone who witnessed this scene was utterly astonished; what incredible power!
Are time-manipulators really that powerful?
The slowly advancing energy eventually lost its structure when it was still a hundred meters away from the alliance front, and slowly dissipated into the air, leaving only a few scattered lights and shadows.
Xuanyuan Jing slowly lowered his hand, his face slightly pale. With just one movement, he had neutralized the most threatening attack from the King-level Flower Calyx Beasts.
A moment of deathly silence fell over the battlefield.
The Xuanyuan Mirror's attack, which reversed time and space, not only resolved the crisis but also dragged the Flower Calyx Beast into a fatal energy backlash, causing it to freeze.
This fleeting opening was spotted by Chen Yuan, the supreme commander on the battlefield.
"Now! All troops, launch an attack!"
Chen Yuan immediately gave the order: "Barton, take your men and break through head-on. Boss Bai, create opportunities for Barton. The rest of you..."
"Finally, it's my turn!"
Barton had been waiting for a long time. He let out a beastly laugh, the last shred of reason in his eyes being swallowed up by the fervor of battle.
"Crimson Fission!"
boom!
A terrifying crimson energy storm erupted from his body, no longer a shockwave, but a tangible, viscous, blood-red flame that enveloped his entire body, including his armor.
The space around him was distorted by the high temperature, and what spewed out from the gaps in his armor was no longer steam, but scorching life force.
At this moment, his attributes surged wildly, and fine beads of blood even seeped from his skin. But he didn't care. He transformed into a blood-red meteor that tore through the sky and crashed into the bromine mist shield of the king-level calyx beast at a speed beyond the limits of the naked eye.
Almost simultaneously with Patton's activation, Bai Yuekui's Pure Candle mech responded.
The four wings of returning to the origin on her back spread out with unprecedented force, and the Yin-Yang core on her chest spun rapidly, emitting a dazzling light like a supernova.
"Time accelerates!"
She gave a sharp shout, and golden clock hands seemed to spin rapidly in her eyes.
She didn't use her time-manipulation ability on her enemies, but rather precisely and without reservation, she applied it to Barton.
In everyone's eyes, the speed of the blood-red meteor that Patton had transformed into underwent another qualitative change.
Already moving as fast as lightning, it now seemed as if it were performing a spatial jump, leaving behind a series of clear, blood-red afterimages frozen in the air.
The flow of time was accelerated to its extreme on him, to the point that the light around Barton was strangely distorted.
"Hey!"
The bromine mist shield, which had become unstable due to its own energy backlash and interference from the spacetime power of the Xuanyuan Mirror, was easily torn apart like fragile cellophane in front of the blood-red meteor whose time was accelerated.
Barton smashed through the shield with unstoppable destructive force, instantly rushing to the massive body of a king-level calyx beast.
At the same time, Mark's End Watcher mech pushed the King's Aura to its limit.
Instead of using area suppression, he channeled all his mental power, like countless invisible needles, into the core of the Flower Calyx Beast, forcibly interfering with and even briefly severing its connection to the life essence of the underground Mana ecological network.
The pale blue patterns on the surface of the monarch-level calyx beast, which were originally flickering and preparing to repair its injuries, suddenly dimmed, and its most troublesome high-speed regeneration ability was greatly slowed down.
"Break open for me!"
Barton's roar seemed to shatter the sky. His ability had entered the third stage, requiring no skill whatsoever. He poured all the terrifying power generated by the third stage of fission, along with his burning life and will, into the Melt Annihilation Cannon in his right arm.
At this moment, the energy gathered at the muzzle was no longer dark red, but rather an almost pitch-black, ultimate destructive energy.
Zero distance!
Artillery fire!
"boom!!!!"
An indescribable beam of destructive light, like a giant axe splitting the heavens and earth, slammed into another king-level calyx beast.
The hard bone armor surrounding the king-level core cracked instantly upon contact, and then devastating fission energy surged into the enormous body of the flower-calyx beast like a plague, destroying the core.
At the same time, a thin golden line seemed to cut through space itself, silently gliding across the body of another monarch-level calyx beast.
It was Bai Yuekui's Light-Tracing Slash that struck first despite being delayed, further dismantling the core from within.
Chen Yuan also used the Blade of Space to cause destruction at the microscopic level.
Following closely behind was a barrage of focused fire from the entire Allied forces.
Plasma cannons, electromagnetic railguns, high-explosive missiles, energy beams...
All the weapons that could still be used unleashed their last ammunition on the king-level Devouring Beasts.
"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!"
Their massive bone armor was blasted to pieces, their flesh carbonized in the high temperature, and the dark blue energy patterns crumbled inch by inch.
Finally, amidst the continuous explosions, these monarch-level structures collapsed like mountains that had been toppled.
The dust kicked up reached hundreds of meters high, turning the sky grayish-black.
The battlefield fell into an eerie silence.
All that remained was the sound of embers burning and the faint hum of the heavy mechs in operation.
Chen Xin's unique, youthful voice rang in everyone's ears at just the right moment:
[The alliance's first joint operational mission has been completed. Overall assessment: S-level.]
[All monarch-level units, the Calyx Beasts, have been eliminated. Points have been calculated... This time, I have earned 4256 million points, bringing my total to 6321 million survival points.]
Chen Yuan hovered in mid-air, his nano-core battle suit shimmering with a cold silver light as the energy wind blew. He looked down at the still-burning, charred remains of the Flower Calyx Beast and the corpses of Devouring Beasts scattered across the battlefield, thinking that the next wave of Mana's ecological will counterattack would be even more dangerous.
This exhilarating, textbook-perfect victory in coordinated combat greatly boosted the morale of every alliance member.
Something called "hope" began to quietly sprout in people's hearts.
however……
At the highest point of a mountain range dozens of kilometers from the battlefield, several pairs of eyes, gleaming with pure crimson light, coldly watched everything through the swirling dust.
These beings possessed a faint aura, almost indistinguishable from that of ordinary Devouring Beasts.
Soon, active vines emerged from the ground, enveloping them before slowly disappearing into the earth without a trace.
The Earth has long been absorbing nutrients from countless active vines spreading underground, and is gradually withering away.
A being called the Will of Mana is growing stronger and its consciousness is becoming clearer. It is believed that a new Mana Giant will be born soon.
Chapter 260 Eating Canned Herring
The super-intelligent entity Chen Xin monitors the condition of Earth every day. Its perception carefully scans every corner of the Earth, marking the broken mountains and rivers, the scarlet ecological dense areas, and the settlements of survivors on the Alliance's star map.
The global surface is basically detectable, except for a special area that cannot be explored due to active vines deep underground. The area displayed by the sensor is white.
It is not that it does not exist, nor is it a physical void, but rather an absolute isolation at the information level.
Any probe wave or sensor, whether electromagnetic wave, quantum signal, or even the more esoteric life source scan, is like a mud ox sinking into the sea when it comes into contact with the outer edge of that area; it is eliminated or shielded by a special, irresistible force.
There was no crimson energy reaction from the Devouring Beasts there, only an unfathomable white mist.
"Brother, an abnormal area has been detected."
Chen Xin pointed to the mountain range marked as unknown, "The coordinates have been locked, but all scanning methods have been rendered ineffective. The internal situation cannot be determined, and there may be unknown risks."
Chen Yuan stared at the glaring blank space on the star map, his brows furrowing slightly.
He turned to Bai Yuekui beside him: "Boss Bai, where is this place? Do you remember it?"
Bai Yuekui followed the gaze, a hint of reminiscence flashing in his cool eyes.
“I’ve heard of this place.”
She slowly began, “According to the records of the old world and the oral accounts of some wanderers, it seems to be a temple. After the disaster broke out, it is said that there were no Devouring Beasts there. It seems that an invisible energy enveloped that area, forming a natural barrier.”
“Before, because of its remote location and harsh environment, I did not personally go there for the safety of the village, and my knowledge was limited.”
Bai Yuekui paused, then added the most crucial point: "As far as I know, all the rumors mention that any electronic device that enters it will completely malfunction, as if there is an omnipresent force field interfering with and blocking all technological existence."
"Can it isolate detection and shield electronic devices?"
Chen Yuan seemed to be deep in thought. "Having come into contact with so many forces, the information that was recovered from the fragments of the Mechanical City's database seemed to have mentioned a place called Hidden Mountain Pure Land. But it was only mentioned in passing and was very vague."
Suddenly, Chen Yuan remembered that the woman named Ice Scorpion had mentioned Hidden Mountain Pure Land before she died.
"I need to make time to go there. I can't allow someone this awesome to exist." Chen Yuan started acting a bit crazy again.
A few days later…
Six dazzling trails pierced the gray sky as Chen Yuan led the Shadow Squad, piloting their respective mechs, towards the Hidden Mountain Pure Land.
"Approaching the target airspace, high-intensity unknown force field interference detected."
Even without Chen Xin's reminder, the sensors on each mech had already started to alarm.
"Maintain formation, reduce altitude, and prepare for landing."
Chen Yuan gave the order, and his nano-core battle suit shimmered with iridescent light, showing no abnormalities for the time being.
However, when their mechs pierced through a layer of white mist, they sensed a peculiar energy, and an accident occurred.
"Warning: The mech's power core output is unstable."
"The efficiency of the thrusters has dropped sharply."