"They're back, all of them are back!"

Federation Senator Xu Yan couldn't help but shed tears upon seeing this scene, shouting, "Our reinforcements have arrived!"

"With the dark energy conversion data, the Synchro Tower can be activated!"

Su Jin said excitedly.

Inside the Twin Star Tower command center, all the Phoenix Society senior members were exhilarated, but Ye Lan took a deep breath and calmly gave orders.

"Immediately have Lu Tianye and Comrade Huo Jiang pull the mech division to the west side of the city to block the breach. Before reinforcements enter and the Synchro Tower is activated, do not allow any S-level or Corpse Drivers into the city!"

"Also notify Comrade Xu Zhenyue to provide artillery screen support for the convoy."

"Comrade Su Jin, arrange for the central drones to take off and speed up information transmission."

"Yes!"

At Dawn City’s west side, including the 8th, 9th, and 10th defensive sectors, two large breaches had already been made in the number one city wall. A massive number of bizarre entities were flooding in through the gaps, creating a terrifying momentum.

At this moment, the Iron Guard Brigade and garrison troops on the city wall were still fighting desperately, covering the breaches with firepower.

Then, they noticed those frenzied monsters seemed to be driven toward the weakest area of the wall.

At this instant, the 5th Star Abyss Corpse Driver, the Wanderer, Earth Surge, and Sky Touch all appeared. Beyond that, there were even several special-level monsters. Lu Tianye suddenly felt a tangible dark infection force that almost cast a shadow over the air before him.

Beneath the command ship, a small group of soldiers and officers, their faces pale and eyes bloodshot, felt a faint abnormal power surging toward the city!

"Notify Liu Cheng to have the 7th and 11th divisions in the north, plus one special mechanical battalion, immediately retreat to weaken the southern city defenses. Mobilize the 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th divisions, the 8th Mech Division, and the air combat units. Assemble them all for a coordinated deployment on the west side to close the streets. Absolutely push the S-level back from the city!"

Buzz!

On the streets, the garrison troops and Iron Guard Brigade’s mech divisions merged their lines. The remaining five Interstellar Predators fired orbital seismic cannons in five directions, their blazing beams burning through the five main streets, instantly annihilating tens of thousands of bizarre entities.

Huo Jiang, leading the fleet resisting in the monster tide ocean, heard the news of reinforcements and immediately shouted into his communicator.

"Mech battalion, concentrate firepower toward the west side of the city!"

I charged at the rear line in a Guardian-X mech: "Drag Lu Tianye’s battlefield inside the city walls!"

In an instant, all surviving people inside the city felt the battlefield slowly shifting. The streets trembled as the massive mech divisions and garrison troops from several directions of Dawn City regrouped toward the west. Transport ships filled the sky, carrying soldiers and flying overhead with bursts of fire. The battlefield was blazing hot.

The roar of heavy transport trucks shattered the calm at the front, steel tracks leaving deep marks on the intact asphalt. In the sky, the white silhouettes of transport planes blocked out the sun as they screamed past.

"All units, hold the west breach according to the planned defensive deployment!"

From a transport ship, a commander’s hoarse but resolute voice exploded over the comm channel.

Soldiers in power armor silently prepared, guns chambered, ammo belts loaded, barrels calibrated. No one spoke;

only the crisp clang of steel and the roar of artillery filled the air. Slowly, the transport ship’s hatch opened, and soldiers looked up to see several gathering on the rooftops of buildings along the street, firing down like a flood at the bizarre entities below.

Suddenly, hundreds of bizarre entities swarmed down from the rooftops, brutally devouring the soldiers. The last remaining company clustered together to resist.

"Ready!" the commander shouted sharply, everyone tensed.

"Fire!"

!Screech!!

Cables shot out, propelling hundreds of garrison soldiers to rappel down to the rooftops above. But halfway through, the entire transport ship was suddenly smashed by a flying giant beast, fireballs bursting under the street-level sky!

"Reload! Reload, damn it!"

Artillery regiment commander Chen Hai kicked the jammed breech door open. His hands were burned and cracked, but he gripped the shell tightly, forcing it into the chamber. His ears were already deafened, blood seeping from them, yet he could still feel—the earth trembling and monsters closing in.

"Commander! The ammo depot has been hit!"

He glanced back. Amidst the flames, the warehouse storing the last batch of armor-piercing shells was engulfed in fire.

No hesitation.

"Redeploy, switch to high-explosive rounds! Aim at the torso of that special-level creature!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The last volley of 48 Great Wall-50 self-propelled artillery guns fired simultaneously. The barrage thundered down, precisely covering a bizarre entity as tall as a giant spider. Under multiple rounds of fire, its red smoke defense field quickly depleted and fractured. It staggered and collapsed, then the firepower of the front-line squad and mech units converged relentlessly.

But the next second, just before falling, the giant spider sprayed a wave of blue high-temperature flames sweeping across the artillery positions, leveling the entire battery zone.

Chen Hai was blasted off his feet and slammed onto the rubble. Coughing blood, his blurry vision saw only burning gun mounts and shattered bodies.

"Damn it!"

He struggled to crawl to a nearby Great Wall-50 artillery base, operating the mechanical unit to aim the 210mm damage howitzer’s muzzle at the spider’s flaming mouth. Just before the flames swept toward him, he pressed the firing button.

Boom!

A flat-trajectory high-explosive shell pierced the air with a violent whistle, straight into the spider’s mouth, instantly blowing its entire head apart.

Behind the artillery, after the flame washed over, only a withered, charred humanoid ash figure remained standing firm.

Above the 8th defensive sector on the west side, Lu Tianye stood on the command deck, gazing toward the distant wasteland outside the wall. The earth shook violently as the Wanderer sprayed acidic mist and approached the wall. Behind this S-level bizarre entity, a humanoid shadow slowly advanced amid the tide of billions of bizarre creatures—

A Corpse Driver.

At this moment, nearly all the garrison main forces had gathered, forming an arc-shaped resistance area, trying to keep the monster tide outside the walls.

"Beautiful—!"

A deafening explosion ripped through the sky.

Outside the resistance line, a third breach appeared. A hundred-meter-high steel bastion cracked open under the impact of a giant beast. Debris and steel bars rained down, crushing nearby shelters. Amid the dust, several giant stone men skulls appeared, their blue-gray skin like mummified corpses. Every step cracked the ground with spiderweb fissures.

"Fill the defense line!"

As the garrison troops struggled to reinforce, a white Interstellar Predator suddenly appeared, firing two predator cannons.

Boom! Boom!

Then, to the astonishment of countless soldiers, a column of heavily armed armored trains rolled onto the road. The track wheels cracked the ground open. The lead engine, a Whale-03E Heavy Gas Turbine Locomotive, roared fiercely. Along with two Weilon-class tractors, plus the all-terrain Dragon Mountain One and Queen Mo, the convoy crushed massive swaths of bizarre entities in an unstoppable, steel wall-like advance behind the breached city wall!

The next moment, countless heavy weapons aboard the train roared open fire. Car doors slid open as thousands of combatants from the Unlimited Alliance, Finger Group, and United Train poured out. Sashá piloted an Interstellar Predator at the front of the breach, unleashing overwhelming firepower to block monsters trying to surge through the third breach!

"Lin Xian is landing immediately, protect the wall!"

Chen Sixuan stood atop the train, directing the charge to hold the line. Shi Diyuan, Jian Xuwei, Monica, and Qian Dele all came to support. Daluo, Shu Qin, Luo Yang, and others led assault and mobile units wielding the United Train’s powerful firepower to resist frantically.

Meanwhile, Wang Hongyuan of the Hongyuan Trade Union, Song Feng of the New Era Engineering Group, Liang Hao of the Iron Shield convoy, and He Linqiu of Burning Phoenix all drove their convoys to support the fight!

"!"

Under the artillery barrage, several giant stone men roared thunderously, violently smashing walls and buildings, trying to cause greater destruction. They seemed unconcerned with hunting, their sole purpose to destroy the city walls!

Thud thud!

Seeing this, Sashá immediately fired an orbital seismic cannon from her Interstellar Predator, then rushed forward and swung the predator’s electric hammer directly at a giant stone man skull’s head.

The electric hammer released a powerful shockwave that exploded the giant stone man’s skull!

"I'll make you regret the destruction!"

Sashá shouted, but the next moment, a giant flying wyvern of definite special-level swooped down from the sky. Its six sharp claws grabbed the Interstellar Predator’s cockpit and power core.

Chen Sixuan saw this and shouted, "Sashá!"

At that moment, a violent tremor echoed behind. A super-giant mech glowing with crimson energy lines leapt forward, crossing over the United Train’s defenses, wielding a Suzaku plasma diffraction sword in a massive arc slash!

"Die!"

Inside the cockpit, Bai Ye and Su Rui, husband and wife, shouted simultaneously.

With a slash, the giant wyvern’s twisted neck was instantly cut in two by high heat. Seeing this, Sashá reacted swiftly, pushing the orbital seismic cannon forward and thrusting the barrel into the wyvern’s split neck!

Woo! Boom!

Intense energy pierced through, sending the giant wyvern reeling, pierced through the heart. A giant stone man rushing up behind was also impaled!

The Suzaku unit saved Sashá, crushing a swarm of bizarre entities and charging out from the city wall to strike the Wanderer again.

"Thermite missiles, ready!"

Thud thud thud!

From Suzaku’s back, six thermite missiles spread like wings, gliding along precise arcs to strike the S-level Wanderer. The Wanderer activated its defensive field when it realized the threat severed its giant foot. Though the field blocked the missiles momentarily, it still suffered burns. Just as Bai Ye and Su Rui prepared to replicate the storm tactic, a rumble underground shook debris as a mountain-like giant bizarre entity burst forth, sending rubble cascading like a waterfall.

Earth Surge!

Originally preparing to flank the Wanderer, Suzaku suddenly faced another S-level behind it. The cockpit alarms blared nonstop.

"Damn!"

"Retreat!"

But just as Earth Surge and the Wanderer prepared to sandwich Suzaku, a violent roar of rushing water erupted. The Pujiang River’s surface boiled as a deep blue one-armed giant mech burst out, smashing Earth Surge with a horizontal punch!

Xuanwu!

"Plasma Sword!"

"Plasma Sword!"

The detonation engine under Thundercloud’s left arm ignited again, chain sword shooting out, piercing Earth Surge’s thick armor. A hundred-colored organic liquid gushed out like a dam break through the gap!

"Lu Tianye, Sashá, you two work together to take down one first!"

Inside Thundercloud’s cockpit, Qin Yue, battered and bleeding, ordered Suzaku via comm.

"Bad!"

......

"Report, central drones cannot break through the monster tide, unable to ascend!" Su Jin anxiously shouted, watching the slow data synchronization progress. She knew every second meant countless compatriots dying and felt desperate.

"No need!"

Ye Lan turned around. "Silent City has ascended. Mochizuki Shinji has already contacted Lin Xian. Everyone prepare. Once the Synchro Tower activates, the entire city will respond immediately."

"Understood!"

Above Dawn City, Silent City floated at 5,000 meters altitude, surrounded by dense thunderclouds and continuous rain. Meanwhile, Mochizuki Shinji launched countless drones for information transmission, rushing through the artillery barrage.

Countless aerial bizarre entities frantically attacked Silent City, whose automatic artillery arrays thundered incessantly.

"Shinji, we’re too high. That atmospheric creature is close!"

On the cloud zone’s main bridge, Mochizuki Shinji calmly replied to Qian Suxun’s voice. "No choice. That friend asked me to help by acting as a buffer."

"A buffer?"

Qian Suxun frowned. "Hey, Shinji, our deck can’t take that kind of impact."

"I know. I never planned to use our deck as a buffer," Shinji smiled slyly, folding his sleeves. "Suxun, retract your mech."

"What?!"

Before Qian Suxun could react, Silent City, controlled by Shinji, suddenly raised all its cannons skyward and simultaneously launched infrared heat decoys in every direction!

Boom!

In an instant, the entire thundercloud was illuminated in blazing red, like a burning celestial canopy!

Meanwhile, in the clouds above, the huge atmospheric creature’s silhouette was revealed by Silent City’s infrared flare bursts and energy waves, resembling a cosmic giant hiding within the clouds.

The Sky Touch seemed attracted by the intense light and energy fluctuation, its countless massive tentacles hidden in the clouds twisting and moving. A vast cloud area dispersed, and in the next moment, the atmospheric creature finally revealed its true form amid lightning!

It had no fixed shape;

human vision could not comprehend its full outline.

Seeing this, Qian Suxun could only say, "Damn, I’m never eating takoyaki again..."

At this moment, in the Twin Star Tower command center, the Synchro device’s data receiver, relayed by Silent City, suddenly accelerated.

From 15% to 30%, then visibly soaring to 50%, 80%, 90%!

100%!

Su Jin’s eyes widened in shock. Such speed indicated information transmission was smooth, meaning the Gray Mist Walker was very close to the surface!

"Commander Ye, Synchro data received!"

Ye Lan looked at the battle screen, viewing the brutal west city battle and the growing abnormal infection inside the city caused by Corpse Drivers, and decisively ordered:

"Light up the city ring, ignite the illuminating barrage, signal the entire city to launch a counterattack!"

Click. Su Jin pressed the switch. Suddenly, the entire Twin Star Tower released a strong ionization surge. The city ring flickered under intense energy, then a dazzling, giant white halo ignited above the center of Dawn City, like the mechanical soul of this human industrial civilization—more like a floating 'God’s Ring' above Dawn City. A massive transformation energy wave radiated outward, forming a spherical giant energy curtain barely visible to the naked eye!

In an instant, this energy curtain engulfed the Twin Star Tower, covering the inner city, the 2nd city wall, and the old city. Its diameter expanded from several kilometers to dozens.

The surviving soldiers and civilians below all felt a warm energy enveloping them, dispelling the cold that devoured spiritual power. Fear began to fade, chaos started to clear!

Meanwhile, in underground shelters, hundreds of thousands of elderly, weak, sick, and scholars felt a violent change, as if the underground was no longer cold, a sense of safety surging through.

......

To the east and north of Dawn City, across plains and mountains, hundreds of thousands of doomsday war vehicles surged like a planetary battle charge, engines roaring, forming a vast steel torrent. Even the earth and mountains trembled!

"This is truly an apocalyptic scene!" Leizhen, leader of the Common Alliance convoy at the front, cursed as he looked at the burning steel city engulfed in the siege's inferno. "These monsters want to wipe humanity out overnight!"

"This isn’t night anymore..."

Luo Heng of the Wind Whisperers shouted gravely, "The night has turned to day!"

"Anyone without weapons come to me, all free!"

Han Tiege, captain of Full Metal Frenzy, sat in the co-pilot seat, shouting through the loudspeaker across all channels: "After running for half a year, none who return tonight are cowards! Kill them all like wolves!"

Lin Qingyu of the Dawn Watch Alliance, seeing the grand force gathering from Zhanguan on the mountains, shouted into the communicator:

"Captain Yu, I thought you fled to Baisha."

Yu Huaian, leader of the Wanderers Alliance, a sharp-featured middle-aged man, responded as the vehicles converged.

"Captain Lin, I hope your skills are sharper than your words."

"Don’t worry. Since our alliance is back, we don’t plan to live past dawn!" Lin Qingyu said arrogantly.

"Well said!" Yu Huaian replied.

"Forward scouts spotted Corpse Drivers to the west, with massive dark invasions. We’ll charge into the city from the east!"

Lin Qingyu arranged, "Artillery convoy, prepare to coordinate with Dawn City’s barrage to cover the flanking brother convoys!"

His Dawn Watch Alliance had the strongest artillery force outside the military in the entire region. At this moment, he had to step up.

"Is that Xu Yufei’s convoy?"

At this moment, his deputy lowered the binoculars, pointing at a huge steel convoy emerging from the mountains and forests, already engaging the western bizarre tide.

"That guy ran away the day before yesterday but is the first to rush back." The deputy was surprised. "We underestimated him before."

"Enough talk." Lin Qingyu’s gaze shifted to the massive convoy ahead, speaking sternly, "Cover him with barrage!"

"Got it!"

"Prepare to fire!" Lin Qingyu took up the communicator. In the black night plains, bizarre entities appeared continuously as the forward convoys opened fire.

Meanwhile, at the inner city’s air defense positions, sudden explosions and whistles sounded as thousands of thunderous flares shot into the sky like fire trees and silver flowers. Instantly, the entire Dawn City and the airspace above were illuminated like daytime.

"Dawn City has launched flares!"

Luo Heng shouted, ordering, "Wind Whisperers, squad formations, full-speed advance into the city!"

Leizhen of the Common Alliance climbed atop a vehicle, mounted a Gatling gun, and shouted, "Brothers, charge! Don’t let that Xu guy charge ahead of us!"

"Charge!"

Rumbling, the steel torrent broke through the darkness, weapons blazing open!

Darkness was burning.

On the plains, a wild celebration of steel, gunpowder, lightning, and plasma beams erupted!

A bullet storm converged into Full Metal Frenzy. The blue pulses of the electromagnetic cannon pierced giant beast bodies. The kinetic energy released upon impact blasted targets into bloody fireworks.

Dense incendiary rains poured down, white phosphorus and gel fuel sticking to the bodies of charging bizarre entities, turning them into running torches. Screams were drowned out by explosions. Multi-barrel rocket volleys rose like a symphony climax. The roar of 122mm rockets formed a chord of destruction. Miniature mushroom clouds blossomed at the impact points!

Tracer rounds in red, electromagnetic cannon blasts in blue, and incendiary bombs in yellow collided in the night sky, like a mad aurora or rainbow spears cast by gods.

A million-scale war between humanity and bizarre entities had erupted. This was no mere support—it was the final elegy of human industrial civilization!

"What is that?"

In the fierce battle, Luo Heng of the Wind Whisperers looked toward the high sky over Dawn City. Amidst the clouds, a gigantic silhouette blocking the sky appeared before everyone, a terrifying sight that made them gasp.

"S-level, look, that’s Silent City!"

"Damn, Silent City might not hold..."

"What the hell is that thing?!"

"Hurry, speed up the charge! Missiles, support from above!"

Meanwhile, inside the city,

KIKI flew high, watching the sky stained red with illumination. "What is Silent City doing? Attracting that monster?"

"Let me go kill it!" Lu Xingchen dashed upward but was held back by Jiang Yun’s wind pull.

"Wait, look at the sky!"

Jiang Yun pointed to the deep blue high sky. A fiery meteor-like streak was dragging burning atmospheric flames rapidly downward!

KIKI looked surprised, then a wave of joy rose on her face as she softly said, "Lin Xian is landing!"

On Silent City, seeing the giant bizarre creature in the clouds, Qian Suxun, Shiori, and others looked grim, as if facing a great enemy.

"Suxun." Mochizuki Shinji’s voice came.

"What’s up?"

"You better stay clear."

"Hm?"

Boom!!!

A flash brighter than a nuclear explosion tore the night sky apart. The entire thundercloud and Silent City were fully illuminated. Just as the massive tentacles twisted in the clouds, preparing to wrap Silent City, a blazing crimson eight-winged mech colonizer crashed down like a meteor at near low-earth asteroid speed!

!!

In an instant, the atmospheric creature in the clouds couldn’t even raise its shield and was pierced directly by this mechanical meteor. A massive vacuum effect triggered, causing a sky-wide ablative plasma explosion and shockwave, like a nuclear blast above. Even the thunderclouds several kilometers away dissipated from the shock.

The creature’s main torso split into three parts, with its organic matter and blood erupting like a volcanic eruption, instantly staining Silent City’s deck pitch black!

"Ahhh!!!"

Shiori, hiding inside a mechanical structure, cried out in panic at the scene. Ryunosuke controlled the psychic shield to help reduce the shockwave’s impact.

Qian Suxun looked outside the deck, seeing splattered monster tissue everywhere, a strong stench of blood and decay spreading through the sky.

"Heh..." Qian Suxun smiled wide, eyes glaring. "That guy, using bizarre entities as speed bumps?!"

Boom!

Above, the Gray Mist Walker smashed the S-level Sky Touch like a meteor. Almost the entire city and the million-strong reinforcements outside watched the scene.

For a moment, the battlefield seemed to pause amid the artillery, and the apocalyptic scene sent chills down everyone’s spine!

Beep beep beep beep!

Inside the Gray Mist Walker’s colonizer cockpit, Viola’s alarm sounded nonstop.

[Warning: GN&

C system failure, re-entry posture abnormal, attitude angle deviation exceeds threshold!]

[Warning: Propulsion subsystem failure: third deceleration engine ignition failed!]

[Warning: Speed overload, structural stress

200 MPa...]

Inside the survival pod, Lin Xian closed his eyes, deeply asleep. His consciousness fully merged with Chu Yan’s. The two had become one, embodying this Gray Mist Walker’s massive body hundreds of meters tall. It was a novel experience but also a nightmare!

Though protected by Chu Yan’s psychic power, Lin Xian could still constantly feel the terrifying pressure from the Gray Mist’s spiritual force. He even sensed part of Julius’s consciousness, still alive within the action brain, angrily mocking, "Humans will surely lose."

"Success!"

After precise coordination with Mochizuki Shinji, Lin Xian and Chu Yan used the S-level as a buffer, greatly reducing the fall speed.

"Still too fast!" Chu Yan said gravely. "At this speed, even the colonizer or Gray Mist’s torso might not hold!"

The eight propulsion units had completely shut down. Feeling the violent zero gravity fall, Lin Xian’s expression hardened.

"I have another plan, but it’s a bit radical!"

"What plan of yours isn’t radical?!" Chu Yan retorted.

Lin Xian smiled sternly. Looking toward the approaching ground, he clenched Chu Yan’s hand tightly.

"Hold on tight!"

!Buzz! Buzz!

In an instant, three phase halo rings of the hyperstring reactor behind Lin Xian lit up. They manifested directly behind the Gray Mist Walker like three giant magic rings!

Lin Xian then used the Black Star Forge to release a large number of Destroyer drones ahead.

Seeing this, Chu Yan’s eyebrows furrowed.

"What are you doing?!"

"Ever heard of the Orion Project? By periodically throwing small nuclear bombs at a spaceship’s tail, the nuclear blast waves can impact the propulsion plate, producing instant thrust!"

Lin Xian smiled coldly, holding his right hand across his body, immediately raising a giant AT force field shield in front of the Gray Mist Walker.

"Can’t use nukes, but Destroyers are plenty!"

The next moment, a massive explosion erupted ahead of the Gray Mist Walker, followed by nine consecutive detonations within seconds. This 160,000-ton colossus crashed violently into the ruins of the 6th defensive sector south of the city.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, a multi-kilometer-diameter shockwave cracked the earth. The ground shook like a drumskin, fissures spiderwebbed, underground water boiled and erupted, forming a hundred-meter-high steam fountain.

Soldiers and survivors on the city walls and inside Dawn City saw a giant meteor crash, throwing fire rain everywhere. The shockwave dust cleared dozens of kilometers. The entire city trembled, glass in high-rise buildings shattered instantly. Everyone shielded their eyes from the dust.

Finally, when the light dimmed and noise faded, they regained composure. Drones patrolling above the wall quickly flew toward the impact crater. The image showed the giant Gray Mist Walker kneeling with one fist, its mechanical colonizer cooling red-hot. Molten metal flowed across the surrounding ground.

"Follo........"

Amid the massive roar, Lin Xian and Chu Yan felt a psychic shock. Then, from beneath the flesh colonizer, the Gray Mist emitted a low biological growl.

Instantly, through psychic connection, Lin Xian and Chu Yan sensed a direction. They looked northwest.

That was the direction of the Corpse Drivers.

"Corpse Drivers can indeed link to S-level commands!" Chu Yan realized. "But we can’t know what the commands are."

"No need to know, Viola!"

[I’m here.]

"Enhance neural inhibitors, increase restraint lock efficiency to 80%!"

[Injecting LCL neural inhibitor fluid.]

Screech screech screech.

At this moment, a giant suppression device behind the Gray Mist Walker’s brain loaded, while 24 EVA restraint lock bolts behind began spinning to lock!

[LCL neural inhibitor injection successful, Gray Mist neural activity decreased to 69.5%, colonizer sync efficiency increased to 98.9%]

"Enough." Chu Yan used psychic powers to suppress the dark roar portion and told Lin Xian, "Activate it."

Woo!

At the impact crater, the roar of a nuclear turbine engine surged. The Gray Mist Walker’s chest titanium superconducting ring pulsed orange-yellow, warming and erupting. Accompanied by a humming energy sound, the pulse shifted to a ghostly blue plasma flow. The huge colonizer slowly stood up.

[Biological constraint system activated, conducting power collection and armor self-check, check complete: armor integrity 81%, power collection online 74%.]

"Lin Xian."

At this moment, Ye Lan’s voice came from the Twin Star Tower. "The Synchro Tower has activated. Those S-levels seem to have noticed this and suddenly increased their attack frequency."

"Of course they would." Chu Yan said, "Our Synchro Tower blocked their dark energy conversion. That’s a threat to these dark creatures."

Lin Xian said grimly, "When will these monsters realize—they’re the threat to us?"

He glanced at Chu Yan, their eyes locking.

"Let’s go and face off against the S-levels and Corpse Drivers!"

"Got it."

Chu Yan looked ahead, a faint smile on her lips. "Your mechanical supernatural power can still be used this way."

"Your psychic powers aren’t any less impressive."

Lin Xian’s current feeling was completely different from when piloting the first mech. He and Chu Yan had become like a giant, and with the colonizer’s auxiliary power, their coordination and sensitivity were greatly enhanced.

"Everyone, I’m back."

Lin Xian contacted the alliance public channel: "Everyone hold the city walls. We’ll bring about dawn!"

"Lin Xian!"

KIKI and Chen Sixuan’s teams all relaxed upon hearing Lin Xian’s voice.

"Captain Lin!"

"Captain Lin!"

"Brother Lin."

Countless familiar voices came, allowing Lin Xian to breathe easier. At this moment, the entire city’s Synchro Tower lit up, dark invasions were blocked, and internal mutations isolated. With a million reinforcements and Lin Xian’s meteor-like crash crushing an S-level, the city’s soldiers and survivors were all stirred to enthusiasm!

"We killed an S-level!!!"

"Oh my god!"

High above, like a falling island, the towering atmospheric creature began to decompose and fall into the western monster tide after the Gray Mist Walker’s crash. Its massive body triggered a large-scale earthquake!

"Our reinforcements have arrived!!"

"The big convoys are all back!"

"Even the Wanderers Alliance came, great!"

"Don’t give up hope, charge!"

"So many convoys charging through the night." KIKI, high in the sky, felt emotional: "It’s really touching."

"Though humans fight for power and scheme daily, when catastrophe strikes, those who once fought hardest will be the ones holding torches and charging into darkness." Jian Xuwei’s voice came. "We excel at internal strife, but in desperate times, humanity will unite!"

"We will win!" Chen Sixuan said.

"I never doubted it." Monica’s voice followed.

"Now, we must start the counterattack. Let’s fight for tomorrow’s dawn!" Jiang Yun said.

"We can only fight to the death..." Qian Dele said calmly.

"Charge, charge, charge!" Sashá shouted.

More and more people responded, sparking a small flame of hope.

"Ahhh!!"

Inside Dawn City, a fiery meteor streaked wildly across the sky. Lu Xingchen was completely fired up by Lin Xian’s arrival and humanity’s return. Laughing maniacally, he unleashed his supernatural powers downward.

"Fire Fist!"

"Divine Burning Flame Sword!"

"Divine Phoenix Return!"

"Divine Sky Burn!"

"Hahaha, we humans, though flesh and blood, dare to wield our swords against the abyss!"

"Look! The countless star fires have already lit the wasteland!"

"Today, we gather like ants into a torrent! Even if evil devours sun and moon, this burning passion—"

Just as Fire Bro shouted passionately, a huge flying winged creature suddenly ambushed from the sky, heading straight for Fire Bro’s head.

"That guy!" KIKI rushed up rapidly, telekinetic waves surging, grabbing the yelling Fire Bro back just as the sharp claws narrowly missed.

Fire Bro was stunned but shouted fiercely, crossing his hands and unleashing a powerful move:

"Divine Infinite Burning Flame Sword!"

Boom!

The infinite ring spun wildly, flames focusing into blue-white, slicing the flying winged creature in half. Fire Bro raised his hand and slashed again, cutting it completely down!

"Dare to ambush me? This is your end!"

At the heated battlefield west of the city, Suzaku and Xuanwu were locked in fierce battle with the Wanderer and Earth Surge. From the sky, thousands of giant tentacles fell, crashing down and crushing swathes of bizarre entities, a spectacular sight.

Beep beep beep

[Detecting giant lifeform approaching!]

"Another S-level?" Qin Yue and Qin Chuan, the two brothers, raised one arm each at Earth Surge. In the critical moment, a young voice came over the headset.

"No, it’s a battle mech!"

Thud thud thud!

From the smoky darkness of the monster tide, a towering 365-meter mech clad in mechanical colonizer armor, its chest burning a nuclear reactor, with three divine-like phase halo rings on its back, roared forward.

At this moment, the Wanderer seemed to sense a powerful threat, pushing Suzaku aside, its defensive field like black glass. Its mouth opened toward the Gray Mist Walker, spraying a black-green acidic mist.

"Watch out, that acid mist is highly corrosive!"

Inside the Suzaku cockpit, Bai Ye and Su Rui warned of the mechanical colonizer’s armor covering the human starship, issuing alerts on the team channel.

But the charging Gray Mist Walker raised its left arm, suddenly projecting a huge blue AT force field shield that completely blocked the acidic mist. Meanwhile, Lin Xian and Chu Yan’s spirits converged, their right fists swinging as they shouted.

"Apostle: Gravitational Lens!"

Suddenly, a massive energy vortex like a black hole erupted in front of the Gray Mist Walker’s mechanical right fist, violently consuming light, smoke, and debris. With apocalyptic force, it surged toward the Wanderer!