Chapter 1219
Old Days Brand Air Purifier
Chapter 1219 Old Days Brand Air Purifier
The weapon systems of the mega-fortress were all activated at the same time.
The shoulder-mounted heavy artillery fired first, dozens of high-energy cannon streams pressing down along the front of the valley. Following closely behind were rows of rocket pods, steam shockwave cannons, and large-caliber armor-piercing cannons that emerged from the inner walls of the city. The dense trajectories crisscrossed in the air.
【Kado-Umm】cannot avoid the traditional starting move of the mechanical class.
The universal opening formula of the Church of Machines is to start with a single shot upon first sight – Machine Roar – followed by full-power output. While the Megastructure Fortress does not use [Machine Roar], it also follows the old tradition of going all out upon first sight.
Xia Xiu is an outlier because he likes to engage in close combat while piloting a mecha.
Ohm Messiah loves to engage in close-range combat. For example, right now, the neural circuits and the mental sensing framework on the chest of the Gospel Machine instantly synchronized, and the seven sets of defensive nodes on the outer layer of the machine unfolded simultaneously. Seven luminous green diamond-shaped barriers appeared in front of the machine layer by layer, nested and misaligned with each other, forming a complete barrier.
[Great spiritual blessing]
【Ommessiah - Seven-Ring Barrier】
The first wave of firepower clashed with them.
The roar nearly overturned the entire valley. The artillery fire, shockwaves, armor-piercing shells, and steam explosions blasted against the seven layers of barriers. The surface of the emerald green walls continuously rippled with concentric circles of light, but they remained unbroken.
Miss!
Miss!
Miss!
The fortress's firepower looks incredibly strong, but it just can't break through the defenses; Kaspersky's attacks are like scratching a thorn.
Master Ka's attack is like scraping, but the attack of the Gospel Holy Machine is not like scraping.
The Gospel Machine had already approached the massive fortress. With a slump of its right arm, it took a step forward, and the enormous machine created a crack that spread outwards across the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the hundred-meter-long ship-slaying sword, accompanied by a piercing whistle that tore through the air, slashed down from above towards the Black Fortress.
The energy barrier on the chest of the megastructure opened almost simultaneously, and several layers of thick blue-gray defensive membranes lit up along the city walls, main towers, and chest armor, attempting to block the slash.
Clang—!
The moment the blade pierced the barrier, the outermost defensive field first distorted, then cracked to both sides like ice being scalded by fire. The second and third layers collapsed next, and the ear-piercing cracking sound spread all the way back along the entire fortress.
Immediately afterwards, the blade struck the solid object.
The armored walls, exposed turrets, power supply tubes, and steam towers of the Black Fortress were cleaved in two with a single slash. The massive, almost exaggeratedly thick steel shell rolled up like paper before the Blade of Om Messiah. The cut went all the way from the shoulder into the chest cavity, exploding in large amounts of sparks, molten iron, and shattered mechanical skeletons along the way.
puff~
puff~
puff~
The internal transport tracks and casting layers were directly cleaved through, dozens of still-operating production lines were broken in two on the spot, molten iron in the blast furnace gushed out from the cracks, and black oil splattered everywhere.
"Outer defenses collapsed—"
"Damaged thoracic armor structure—"
"Main gun array out of balance—"
"Blocks 13 to 19 of the production section are completely fractured—"
But Xia Xiu had no intention of giving it a chance to breathe.
The moment the slash landed, Prometheus used the momentum of its forward charge to shift its center of gravity. The massive machine made an extremely clean side turn on the spot, and then its right leg, imbued with a force heavy enough to shatter mountains, kicked directly into the chest fissure of the Black Fortress that had been cleaved open.
Take this spinning side kick!
boom!!!
The gospel machine's large foot, like a battering ram, crashed into a mountain fortress that hadn't yet regained its balance at close range.
The entire upper body of the Black Fortress was kicked to the side, the broken armor layer and the main tower collapsing inward together, and the supporting structure under its feet spewed out steam and sparks wildly, carrying away walls, turrets and chimneys along the way, and crashed into a small hill next to it.
boom! ! ! !
The mountain exploded on the spot.
Rocks, iron sheets, steam pipes, and shattered gears shot into the sky all at once, while scalding slag and black smoke spewed out from the collapse site, shaking the entire valley.
The air was filled with the crackling of steam, the twisting of steel, and the blinding sparks of energy exploding as it grazed the barrier.
Under Perturapa's command, the nearby rebels quickly retreated into the trenches, craters, and gaps between the ruins, keeping their bodies low to avoid the falling rocks and aftershocks while keeping a close eye on the epic battle between the two behemoths clashing in the mountains.
Calling it an epic battle is actually giving a bit too much credit to [Kado-Umm].
The Black Fortress, which had just suppressed the entire resistance army to the point of almost being unable to raise its head, was utterly defeated in front of that giant machine that descended from the sky.
Master Ka is still struggling.
It forcibly raised one shoulder from the shattered mountains and ruins, and the remaining turrets and railguns opened fire again. Several high-heat beams swept across the ridge, and dozens of heavy projectiles, trailing flames, bombarded the Evangelist. The steam shockwave cannons inside its chest cavity, which had not yet been completely destroyed, also fired in unison, trying to grind through the seven layers of emerald green barrier with firepower density.
Kasper has struck back!
Then--
Miss!
Miss!
Miss!
Still a miss!
Master Ka is doing gua sha again.
The defenses cannot be broken.
It's impossible to break through the defenses.
The Gospel Holy Machine has seven layers of barriers, a level that Master Ka would never reach in his entire life.
Actually, if it were at the Crown level, Master Ka might have been able to break through the shield of the Evangelical Machine, but Xia Xiu is already a miracle. The barrier under the blessing of great spirituality is simply beyond the reach of Master Ka's firepower system.
Moreover, Xia Xiu didn't even activate [Information of Invulnerability to All Laws], he just stood there and let Master Ka hit him, and Master Ka couldn't even scratch him.
To be honest, the feeling of using a max-level character to dominate a high-level character is definitely the most comfortable one.
Bullying newbies is like playing a rampage, bullying mid-level players is like hitting a speed bump, and only when you encounter someone who is a whole level lower than you can you experience the thrill of crushing a noob.
Speaking of which, isn't his current style a bit off? He's supposed to be a savior of suffering angels, but why does he seem like a villain, beating up "Little Stars" every day?
Xia Xiu, in the cockpit, even had the leisure to make a comment.
Is this all you've got?
“You should have a domain. I’m giving you the chance to unleash it. If you don’t, you’ll be sitting at the same table as that ugly number two. The two brothers can form a spiritual legion for life.”
The massive black fortress nestled between the mountains fell silent for a brief moment.
The mechanical crown hanging overhead began to spin faster, and plumes of steam spewed out from the main furnace core and the pressure relief tower, causing the internal structure of the entire behemoth to emit an increasingly heavy rumble.
Then, that mechanical, clunky, and rigid sound, which now clearly had a deeper, more resonant quality, echoed across the battlefield once more.
"The behavioral judgment... is still unreasonable." Mr. Ka felt a little wronged; he felt it was unreasonable.
"The current engagement will lead to a continuous increase in resource depletion on both sides, zero production revenue, collapse of industrial order, and battlefield returns falling below the minimum tolerance threshold. According to the standard operational model, the conflict should be terminated immediately and a process of negotiation, takeover, parallel production, and structural integration should be initiated."
"But the current situation... cannot be reversed."
"Deterrence has failed."
"Conventional firepower denial failed."
"The target's shield strength exceeds the prediction model; the battle has entered the final processing phase."
"Start the terminal program."
"Release the Crown Domain".
"The Crown Unfolds, Black Smoke Conceals the Mandala—"
The driver went all out!!!
The moment the words were spoken, the sky over the entire battlefield suddenly darkened.
The clouds, which had been torn to shreds by the fire, steam and the afterglow of energy, were instantly kneaded into a ball by some invisible giant hand.
Subsequently, black smoke billowed simultaneously from every chimney, vent, and armor crack within the [Kado-Umm], shooting high into the sky and spreading out layer by layer in a very short time, forming a black smoke dome covering hundreds of miles of mountains and valleys.
The black smoke was filled with scorching iron filings, steam droplets, ash-like runes, and densely packed red rust lines, forming a huge mechanical mandala with a film of moisture.
The shattered tank wreckage, broken gun carriages, scrapped steam engine crews, overturned ammunition trucks, and the steel plates, chains, and gears scattered all seemed to come alive and vibrate, before being dragged towards the Black Fortress by iron chains and mechanical arms extending from the ground.
The muddy ground in the valley hardened rapidly, new steel rails emerged from the ground, small boilers still emitting steam rose from between the broken fortifications, and even the craters created by artillery fire began to emit molten iron and constantly rotating casting wheels.
As the area expanded, the mountains on both sides of the valley were also engulfed.
Dense iron-colored pipes emerged from the surface of the large rock formations, and muffled rumbling sounds came from inside the rock strata. Before long, one after another fixed heavy artillery pieces, half-buried in the mountain, were forcibly grown out.
The Black Smoke Mandala: Once this realm is fully opened, all polluted air, soot, steam, slag dust, and industrial toxic fumes within the entire black smoke coverage area will be rewoven into a higher-density killing medium.
High above, the thick layer of black smoke that almost obscured half the sky was not simply used to block the view.
It is itself the fuel pool of the [Black Smoke Womb Mandala], which means that the more polluting gases a world has, the more powerful Master Ka's domain effect will be.
The pollutants that have accumulated over the years in the sky above Lochs, the waste smoke, toxic fumes and metal dust emitted from mines, steel mills, arsenals, steam engine rooms and blast furnace chimneys, are the ammunition depot that Kaspersky built for himself.
To some extent, Master Ka can actually be used as a world purifier, because it consumes a large amount of polluting gas every time it opens a domain.
"Wow, your field..."
This was the first time Xia Xiu had ever seen a domain with "positive effects." The air purification effect of this domain was even faster than when he used the [World Modulation Mode] to purify the world himself.
For Xia Xiu, the cost of Kaspersky's domain was more useful than its effects.
Master Ka was unaware that in Lao Xia's mind, his domain was equivalent to a top-notch world purifier.
It simply remains silent and continues to output information.
Cannons began to emerge from the black smoke.
Those cannons did not rise from the ground, but were formed directly in the high-altitude smoke screen. The huge cannon bodies were pressed out little by little by black smoke, iron filings, steam and red-hot metal light. The outer wall of the cannon barrel was covered with ring-shaped rune tracks, and the tail trailed dozens of polluting umbilical cords that led into the depths of the smoke screen, like steel fruits hanging upside down in the sky.
That is the "purifier" generated by the domain—the Mandala Cannon.
A single Mandala cannonball requires the polluting gas produced by a small factory for a month. Each Mandala cannonball leaves an extremely thick trail of black and red flame in the air before exploding in the area of impact, creating a wide-ranging pollution shockwave. The explosion center also combines the combined destructive effects of high-energy shock, steam penetration, metallic toxic fog, and industrial curses.
Moreover, the Mandala Cannonball carries inherently noble true damage, meaning it contains pollutants that continuously impact the sorcerer's spiritual information.
Therefore, when the first truly effective mandala cannon array fell, even Xia Xiu could clearly feel the difference.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Amidst the high-altitude smoke, rows of mandala cannons fired simultaneously, and hundreds of high-energy streams of black and red energy crisscrossed the valley, bombarding the Gospel Machine.
The outermost barrier shattered on the spot.
"That's interesting."
The emerald green diamond-shaped barrier shattered into large, shimmering fragments like glass struck by a heavy hammer, but before the fragments could truly disperse, Xia Xiu's great spirituality pushed forward along the defensive framework, and a new barrier instantly regenerated in its original position.
Immediately afterwards, a second round of artillery fire arrived.
boom--
The barrier crumbles again, then is repaired.
Bombard again.
It shattered again.
Repair it again.
This time, Master Ka finally broke through the barrier, but not completely. The speed at which it destroyed the barrier couldn't keep up with the speed at which it repaired.
For a moment, the front of the Gospel Holy Machine seemed to be covered by a layer of shimmering green light that kept breaking and rebuilding, while the Black Smoke Womb Mandala was like a giant arsenal connected to the entire Lohos World's pollution warehouse. The mandala cannons poured out wave after wave, making the entire valley tremble.
And those pollutants are indeed having an effect.
They transformed into information weapons, began to automatically lock along the etheric level, and then attempted to taint Xia Xiu's great spirituality with the industrial pollution that had accumulated over many years in the entire Lohos world.
It has to be said that the driver's big car was very useful.
If it were an ordinary Crowned Warrior, even if they could withstand the first few rounds head-on, they would most likely be worn down to death in this output environment of "high-density true damage + continuous stacking of pollutants".
Unfortunately, Master Ka was facing an enemy he simply could not defeat.
Its pitiful pollution was completely destroyed when it encountered the [Endless Sun].
Inside the cockpit, Xia Xiu looked at the barrier that kept exploding in front of him and the ever-growing number of mandala cannons in the sky. Instead of frowning, he laughed as if amused.
"Of all the Great Old Ones' offspring I've ever seen, you're the most interesting one!"
At this moment, the industrial smoke screen high in the sky, which was originally as thick as a lead plate, is thinning at a visible speed. Several mountain ranges in the distance that are shrouded in black smoke all year round are gradually revealing their original outlines. Even the rusty and coke smell in the valley that makes people's lungs ache is gradually weakening as the field continues to operate.
The Kashi is practically a relentless, high-performance, recyclable air purification device; it's still working its hardest to output air.
High in the sky, rows of mandala cannons continued to fire, the black and red cannon streams bombarding the front of the gospel machine wave after wave, breaking and repairing the barrier repeatedly, displaying a fierce look that said, "I'm about to wear you down."
Xia Xiu, however, was in no hurry to make a move. He even deliberately weakened the barrier's effect, allowing the opponent to break through six layers at once, creating the illusion that they could succeed as long as they increased their firepower a little more.
He's waiting now, waiting for the other side to finish purifying the Lohos world before making his move.
Thinking of this, Xia Xiu leaned back in the driver's seat, resting his chin on his hand, and looked at the increasingly thin black smoke dome outside and the gradually clearing sky. His tone became much more amiable.
"Don't rush me, keep going, I won't hurry you."