CHAPTER 526: CHAPTER 285: CRISIS AND FLAWS (10,000-WORD BURST!)

Screeech!!

Above the Trakama Ice Valley, the shriek of the giant Winged Demon pierced through layers of snowstorm, creating ripples across the Snowfield. Just as the gale was about to be devoured, a massive mechanical arm suddenly extended out, grabbing the tail of the airborne Winged Demon. With a forceful yank, the Winged Demon’s tens of meters long wings shook violently. Before it could unleash another screech, a dark red colossal Chain Sword rose from below, accompanied by a massive sonic boom, cleaving it along with its wings and half its body in two!

The giant blade’s edge instantly turned red-hot, slicing through the Winged Demon’s incredibly tough skin and bones like a hot knife through butter, severing them in an instant!

Swoosh!

Buzz!

The No.1 Machine erupted with a loud mechanical hum, shaking the heavens and earth. After severing with a single blow, it immediately hurled the half remains of the Winged Demon at the Snow Demon Snow Demon chasing Jingtian’s team on the Snowfield. In one fluid motion, it raised its right arm, retracting the High-frequency Blade Chain Sword, clink clink clink ~ as the five fingers and wrist joint of the mechanical right hand rapidly transformed into a Triangular Plasma Phase Ring.

"Activate the Plasma Plasma Cannon!"

"Activate the Plasma Plasma Cannon!"

Wuu!

The Triangular Phase Ring began to spin at high speed, with the magnetic levitation acceleration rails lighting up section by section. The hexagonal superconducting coils emitted high-frequency screeches in the extreme cold!

Fizz! Fizz! Fizz!

Three blasts of multi-million-degree Plasma Plasma Cannon shots pierced through, illuminating the skies above the Ice Valley like daylight, and exploded with a roar in the center of the Snow Demon Snow Demon horde!

At this moment, Jingtian’s team members could only see eerie blue lightning flickering overhead. In the next instant, the pursuing Snow Demon Snow Demon behind them was engulfed by Plasma Sparks. These demons, capable of breaking steel, along with the snow layer on the ground, were vaporized instantly. The exploding plasma splattered, dividing the edge demons, with numerous remnants flying amidst the Shock Wave.

The next moment, outside the camp, silence suddenly fell between heaven and earth, save for the howl of the snowstorm.

The members of the escort team were all panting heavily, raising their heads with eyes full of terror. Due to visibility issues, they could only see the silhouette of a mecha as massive as a mountain, with warning lights and the pulsing glow of the nuclear power engine flashing like a Lighthouse amid the snowstorm.

"Is this the mecha from the Emperor Plan?!"

"Incredible!!"

"Did it succeed?"

"Heck, they all got taken out!!"

Outside the camp, Yu Yuheng and members of the Emperor Group looked up at the giant shadow, their faces a mix of excitement and complexity.

"We... really restarted the No.1 Machine again!"

Yu Yuheng plopped down to the ground, staring at the majestic mechanical figure in the sky, eyes full of disbelief.

"Team Leader Yu, Jingtian."

Inside the No.1 Machine’s neural sync cockpit, Lin Xian looked at the holographic vision ahead, his voice cold.

"We’re returning immediately!"

...

Xilan City, 01:54.

Bang bang bang! Boom boom boom!

At the Southern City Du Ga Radar Array Station, the burnt bodies of Snow Demons were everywhere, filled with heat waves and scorched stench. The intense warfire seemed to negate the cold of the snowstorm. The entire front line already bore a lot of scrapped heavy machine guns. The high-caliber guns on the southern city wall poured shells for several hours, with the air nearly never ceasing its roar.

On the forward front, several destroyed mechas lay amidst the wind and snow, tightly packed human corpses and Snow Demons buried under the snow. The raging metallic streams could only smell of blood and gunpowder.

Rumble!

"That crawler ran off again, quickly fire at the sinkhole!"

"The bomber squad is here!"

"The spot at the mountain entrance is almost breached, too many wounded, not enough people!"

"Get the injured to the back first, hold the front quickly, if the line collapses, everyone will die!"

"Captain Xiao already led a charge up there, the Mechanical Corps can hardly hold on."

"Tell those kids to scram, not to get themselves killed, we’ll take the front first."

Rat-a-tat, boom boom boom!

The battle line stretched for several kilometers, with over thirty thousand people fighting desperately, yet the Monster Tide surging from below the mountain and inside the city seemed endless. The most despairing was after two rounds of encirclement, two sinkholes appeared in Southern City, adding tremendous pressure to the defensive line along with the Monster Tide army outside.

At the East City weapons manufacturing factory, the first layer of defense nearly fell. The resistance held back, retreating into the factory. The outside few industrial avenues were already crawling with Snow Demons, with half of the Torch Alliance’s forces wiped out, Captain Chen Xiao’s dismembered body spread across an industrial avenue in front of the factory complex, trampled by dense Snow Demons.

Several large explosion craters on the outskirts nearly blasted the industrial zone’s foundation back to the primitive era. Two wrecked electromagnetic railgun remnants still burned in the pit, symbolizing the ferocity of the defense battle.

At the Northern City Rail Passenger Station platform, the Monster Tide had already surged into the rear train formations, with several trains crawling with Snow Demons, carriages starting to ignite in batches, while the station plaza was full with the stench of blood.

Dragon Mountain No.1’s combat personnel suffered massive casualties. Earth Stone Transformation Superpower User Lu Yong blocked the tide-like Snow Demon Snow Demon at the broken front line gap. As his strength waned, his rock-solid armor began to be pierced by numerous Snow Demon tail spikes, blood gushing profusely.

Rat-a-tat, boom boom boom!

Countless gunfire surged in, pushing the Monster Tide several meters back. Yet in the next moment, large Snow Demons once again swept through within the tide.

"I’m fighting you to the death, Dragon Mountain No.1 is invincible, and everyone will survive!!"