On the western battlefield of the city, including the Qin brothers piloting Emperor Xuanwu and the couple Bai Ye and Su Rui in Emperor Suzaku, no one expected that this bizarre biomechanical giant mech would not use armored weapons upon debut but would instead unleash a black hole!

On the battlefield, the flames, sunlight, and countless plasma beams seemed twisted and drawn by that strange explosive black hole. Rubble and dust around were magnetically attracted, wildly sucked in. Soon, a massive chasm dozens of meters wide appeared on the ground. The gravitational lens carried a silent but overwhelming force, roaring away!

The Wandering, which was spewing acidic mist, had all its black-green smoke instantly swallowed by the black hole, directly crashing onto its torso. In an instant, several long legs were dragged in and shredded like meat in a grinder!

At this moment, the colossal mountain-sized aberration wildly moved its long legs. Its black defensive field, resembling a multidimensional geometric shape, tried to pull out and resist, but the gravitational lens had already swallowed a large portion of its front torso, making it impossible to fully defend.

Boom, boom, boom!

The 365-meter Gray Mist Envoy charged forward, shaking the ground like an earthquake. Its right fist clenched, with a thousand "Thunder Prison" drones spiraling attached to its armored knuckles. The moment the gravitational lens vanished, it punched toward the shredded center of the Wandering’s torso. As the punch landed, a thunderstorm erupted!

Zzz!

A dazzling arc of thunderstorm lightning flickered, releasing thousands of degrees of intense heat instantly. Numerous high-voltage electric arcs pierced through the Wandering’s outer layers from within, creating countless crimson molten electric holes all over its body.

The Wandering was violently blasted backward by the punch. The explosion’s shock paralyzed it greatly, causing the black defensive fields already raised behind it to suddenly shatter and disappear.

Seeing this, Bai Ye and Su Rui aboard Emperor Suzaku immediately reacted, crouching and leaping, gripping Suzaku’s plasma diffraction sword and unleashing a direct blast.

"Storm Tactic!"

"Storm Tactic!"

The retreating Wandering tried to block Suzaku’s attack with two long legs after its defensive fields vanished, but Suzaku’s speed was incredibly fast. Its body spun in mid-air, making a large arcing slash. Under the high-energy beam of the plasma diffraction sword, its back was violently cut open!

One punch, one slash. With Suzaku and Gray Mist Envoy coordinating front and back, the Wandering’s main torso shattered over half, and a huge gaping wound dozens of meters long opened up on its back.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

On the city walls, the garrison troops’ artillery and mech divisions seized the opportunity, raining a wave of heavy concentrated fire precisely on the creature’s body. It exploded violently. Suzaku and Gray Mist Envoy then retreated. Under the massive curtain of gunfire, the monster was almost shattered, with the remaining long legs flailing wildly.

"Is it down?!"

"Not yet!"

Just when Lin Xian, Chu Yan, and the Bai Ye couple thought the creature was about to die, the twisted struggling giant suddenly erupted a dense deep-red smoke cloud from its core, like a spore fog eruption.

"Retreat!" Lin Xian and Chu Yan backed off upon seeing this. Suzaku also immediately detected the anomaly and quickly withdrew into the rubble and ruins behind.

Boom!

Suddenly, a tremendous explosion erupted inside the Wandering’s body, causing its numerous limbs, as big as small mountains, to be blasted flying in seven directions.

That colossal explosion was earth-shattering. The shockwave shifted Emperor Suzaku and Gray Mist Envoy, making them slide forward. Some of the giant limbs were even flung toward the city, spraying acid rain and mist everywhere!

"This is bad!"

In the command ship hovering under the western city sky, Lin Qingyu immediately relayed the alert to all combat units.

"Take cover and avoid anti-air! Everyone find shelter across the city!"

"Flamethrower barrage!"

Inside Emperor Suzaku’s cockpit, the Qin brothers in Emperor Xuanwu shouted urgently upon seeing this scene.

At that moment, the few soldiers stationed beneath the city walls were all solidified by acid mist before the explosion. The massive shockwave even cracked several gaps in the city wall. In those intervals, sparse minor aberrations rushed in forcefully.

Inside the city, KIKI, Jiang Yun, Lu Xingchen, and thousands of ability users charged into the air to resist the limbs spraying acid. Cannons inside the city roared fiercely, fires spreading wildly.

The massive Wandering’s limbs smashed through streets and buildings with tremendous momentum.

"Self-destruct?"

Lin Xian exclaimed.

"No!" Chu Yan immediately shouted, "There’s another wave!"

At that moment, from the shattered torso of the Wandering, a part resembling a spine suddenly emerged, like a giant snake, fiercely stabbing toward the back of Emperor Suzaku.

Just then, a huge dark blue mech strode out of the smoke, charging forward and ramming the spine-like snake that was about to pierce Suzaku. The bone spikes tore apart a large area of Emperor Xuanwu’s rib armor. The Qin brothers shouted, one swinging his arm to grab the spine-snake. Suzaku, pushed back, reacted in time and slashed it down with the plasma diffraction sword.

At the moment before being severed, the spine snake’s front suddenly opened a thin bone-splitting mouth, shooting an invisible wave-like slash toward the city wall! In an instant, a diagonal slash hundreds of meters long appeared on the city wall, and the towering hundred-meter-high wall began to collapse massively.

Meanwhile, after Suzaku’s slash severed the spine snake, thick black mist spread out. The Wandering was reduced to a pile of shattered skeleton remains, showing no signs of life.

"What orders did this thing receive? It self-destructed to destroy the city wall before dying?!"

Boom, boom!

A tremor sounded as Suzaku and Emperor Xuanwu, heavily battle-damaged, finished off the Wandering and turned to see a cloud of dust where Earth Surge was. The underground giant beast was preparing to burrow underground again, this time toward the city!

"It’s going into the city!"

"Must be because of the Twin Star Tower!"

The Qin brothers exclaimed in shock.

"Not a chance!"

A shout from Lin Xian came through the comms.

Lin Xian and Chu Yan let out a furious roar in Gray Mist Envoy, smashing the ground violently and leaping up, then throwing a punch downward from midair!

Boom!

That punch shook the heavens and the earth, cracking the ground into a massive crater hundreds of meters wide. The underground Earth Surge instantly ceased movement. The next moment, Chu Yan’s eyes emitted dazzling white light, and the hyperstring reactor phase halo on Gray Mist Envoy blazed loudly. She stepped forward and threw an uppercut into the void.

"Apostle·Mental Storm!"

Empty space!

An invisible psychic shockwave surged upward from underground, radiating a massive impact wave that caused the rapidly charging aberration army nearby to collapse in a scattered pattern. Their red eyes dimmed and they died en masse. The underground Earth Surge seemed disoriented by the dense noise, erupting from underground.

At this moment, Suzaku and Emperor Xuanwu seized the opportunity, plasma diffraction sword and high-frequency blade chain sword striking from left and right!

Qin Yue, Qin Chuan: "Decapitate!"

Ri Ye, Su Rui: "Decapitate!"

Swoosh! Two sharp sword arcs slashed across, directly slicing open a huge gaping wound on Earth Surge’s head. Lin Xian and Chu Yan immediately followed up. The upper torso of Gray Mist Envoy twisted sideways, retracting the right fist. Six rocket thrusters on the right elbow ignited.

Whoosh!

The rocket engines burst out supersonic Mach diamonds, propelling the heavy mechanical arm to burn and accelerate. In an instant, a giant electric hammer steel bone formed covering Gray Mist Envoy’s right fist, glowing with red-hot metal under supersonic acceleration!

Boom!

This punch was earth-shattering, heavy and powerful like a meteor impact. It violently smashed Earth Surge’s unstable half-connected head into its torso. Instantly, massive amounts of flesh and blood sprayed out like a fountain. The underground monster that had crushed several human cities was destroyed along with its head.

"Keep smashing until it’s done!"

Seeing this, Gray Mist Envoy, Suzaku, and Emperor Xuanwu didn’t hesitate. The three mechs pulled back, then simultaneously raised their right fists.

"Activate plasma cannon!"

Three high-speed rotating plasma cannons concentrated energy and heat, firing without delay at Earth Surge’s broken neck.

In an instant, dazzling blue high-temperature plasma exploded. Earth Surge’s blood and surrounding air fully vaporized. Only after the S-level giant monster was reduced to a ruined flesh mountain did the roaring of the plasma beam slow and vanish.

At that moment, the life signals of three S-level monsters—the Sky Touch falling from the sky, the Wandering exploding, and Earth Surge blasted to pulp—finally disappeared completely.

"Is it dead?"

"Wait, what about that Corpse Driver?"

In Emperor Xuanwu’s cockpit, Qin Yue suddenly noticed that the slowly moving number 5 Star Abyss Corpse Driver on radar had vanished.

Inside Suzaku’s cockpit, Bai Ye cautiously said, "Be careful. We’ve never dealt with Corpse Drivers before. We must unite."

Su Rui looked toward the darkness. The monstrous tide surged like a flood past the three mechs, seemingly not targeting them. But inside the monstrous flood, two huge empty zones appeared, moving toward them.

"What is that?!"

Su Rui’s warning instantly focused everyone’s attention.

"I remember now."

Seeing this, Lin Xian said immediately, "Be careful, that guy can suddenly become invisible and vanish into the darkness. Definitely not ordinary..."

"Lin Xian!"

Buzz!

Before he could finish, Chu Yan’s shout pulled him back to consciousness. The next moment, Lin Xian’s pupils drastically changed. In their shared psychic dark realm, a terrifying giant shadow appeared directly before their minds. It was an eerie red figure rising from the abyss, humanoid but with a horrific cosmic creature’s face.

Four hollow, huge scarlet holes resembling eyes stared at Lin Xian and Chu Yan. Inside the holes was only profound void, like cracks leading to another universe, with many huge sea anemone-like dangling surfaces suspended.

This chilling scene appeared before them, instantly pressing a leaden suffocation on their spiritual world. The piercing screaming from the dark depths surged again!

Lin Xian and Chu Yan understood clearly.

It was linked to the Gray Mist. It was staring at humanity!

An unparalleled fear and death aura poured into Lin Xian’s head. Inside Gray Mist Envoy’s cockpit, Lin Xian lay in the survival pod, eyes twitching from psychic fluctuations. His bodily functions and data started to go haywire.

Warning: Gray Mist nerve suppression dropping, activity rising to 76%. Biome synchronization efficiency dropping to 96.5%.

"Lin Xian! Lin Xian!!"

Chu Yan’s voice echoed, pulling Lin Xian back. Their vision returned to Gray Mist Envoy. Ahead in the high sky, four scarlet beams like death’s messengers lit up, with furious winds and lightning crackling continuously. A humanoid giant silhouette taller than Gray Mist Envoy appeared on the dark earth!

"Watch out!"

Lin Xian reacted. The hyperstring reactor phase halo glowed fiercely. A giant AT force field shield instantly formed in front.

The next moment, the four scarlet beams fired out four massive laser beams several meters wide, instantly piercing through Lin Xian’s AT force field!

As the dark red beams penetrated the shield, four blood-curdling holes appeared in Gray Mist Envoy’s abdomen.

"Ah!"

Lin Xian shouted, pushing with both hands. Space warped. A gravitational lens spiral appeared, twisting and dispersing the four lasers to sweep across the ground sideways, instantly wiping out a large number of aberrations. The gravitational lens then intensified, controlling refraction, and the four beams converged backward, bombarding the Corpse Driver!

Boom!

The laser cluster flared. Everyone saw that the giant shadow was enveloped in red mist. Twisted black mirror geometric fields shimmered like ripples. The reflected lasers blasted with a crimson explosion and heatwave but caused no damage.

Rumble!

Boom! Boom!

Using the gravitational lens a second time, Lin Xian and Chu Yan felt immense pressure. Gray Mist Envoy retreated two steps. The composite armor around the four holes glowed with molten red metal heat.

Warning: Gray Mist nerve suppression dropping, activity rising to 78%, biome synchronization efficiency dropping to 95.1%.

At last, the Corpse Driver revealed its true form. It looked like a humanoid evil god from space, grotesquely indescribable.

Simultaneously, two large aberrations suddenly charged out from its sides—a monstrous spider and an abyssal endworm erupting from underground—rushing toward Emperor Xuanwu and Suzaku.

"Defend!"

Emperor Xuanwu drew out its chain sword to block but was slammed away by the abyssal worm. Suzaku was pierced in the shoulder armor by a claw, sparks flying. As they retreated, Bai Ye and Su Rui shouted, launching several thermite grenades as a heat radiation shield, then dodged sideways past the spider’s entire jaw!

"Fire for cover!"

The garrison and Iron Guard Brigade soldiers on the city walls were horrified to see this. Lu Tianye immediately ordered the fleet and artillery to provide full fire coverage to buy time for the three mechs!

Boom! Boom!

Under heavy artillery fire, the monstrous spider and abyssal worm suffered massive injuries and retreated toward darkness and underground.

The Corpse Driver still marched forward, its long arms raised, suddenly unleashing an invisible force. The massive tide of monsters driving toward it shook the ruins beneath, causing an earthquake. Countless eyeballs floated out, raising a large number of corpses on the battlefield, condensing into floating humanoid giants!

Under the black sky, two floating atmospheric creatures of unknown rank—either A-level or special-level—descended.

In the city streets and shadows of tall buildings, numerous aberrations fell from the storm onto rooftops.

Meanwhile, on the frontlines, the Infinite and allied convoys saw many crawling creatures swarming inside and outside the city walls like ants. They dragged the long limbs and tissues of Wandering’s limbs fallen inside the city, continuously pulling them into the ruins created by the falling Sky Touch in the west, beginning to stitch them together!

This sudden ferocious offensive and change disrupted the defensive lines and the firepower rhythm of survivors’ convoys inside the city. Various large aberrations suddenly broke through walls across the city, and tens of millions of aberrations poured in from the western and southern defenses. Meanwhile, millions of reinforcements swiftly flooded in from the eastern and northern gates. Inside and outside the city, the battle lines merged, igniting devastation in all Dawn City districts.

"What is this?!"

"This is bad!"

Suzaku and Emperor Xuanwu—

"It’s controlling aberrations to attack!!"

Lin Xian roared into the comms, "Their target is the city ring! Stop them!!"

At this moment, inside the Twin Star Tower command hall, Ye Lan’s face was grave as she ordered,

"Immediately evacuate civilians toward the inner city. Notify Huo Jiang and Xu Zhenyue to split the north and south battlefields and retreat to the second city wall to reduce casualties!"

"All fleets, fall back and assist Silent City. After dividing the battlefield, we’ll start heavy bombardment on the urban area!"

"Understood!"

"Lu Tianye’s side is critical. From the memorial to the Radiance District, the main road must be cleared to provide evacuation routes for the garrison."

"There are also many survivors and support convoys there!"

"Cover them!"

.....

Rumble rumble rumble!

The vast human city of Dawn City was engulfed in fire on three sides. Inside, fierce chaotic battles raged. The southern and western city sides had erupted into intense bombardment. The northern and eastern city entrances formed a battle line over ten kilometers long, clashing with aberrations from both wings.

"Flamethrower convoy, set the forests on fire!"

Outside the northern city, Han Tiege, captain of Full Metal Frenzy, roared atop his vehicle with a rocket launcher.

"Light vehicles enter first, heavy trucks defend the base along the line, prevent our convoy from being cut off!" Lin Qingyu commanded grimly, watching the dense aerial bombardment.

Outside the eastern city, highways and suburban roads were seas of flames.

"Charge in! The Iron Guard’s next bombardment is in two minutes, we must speed up!" The Wind Whisperers’ convoy leader Lin Qingyu led the assault convoy at the forefront.

Inside the city, the former Dawn Commercial Center building—

"Heavy machine gun team! Seal off the 20th floor corridor, blow the elevators, bring all anti-air weapons to the rooftop, no retreat!"

Tempered glass shattered. Humanoid flesh tumor monsters crawled out from windows and were shredded by 12.7mm bullet storms.

At Star City Rail Station, tens of thousands gathered, forming multi-layered fire nets to resist.

"They’re coming in through the ventilation ducts! Flamethrowers, burn them out!"

The stench of burning filled the air. Tentacle monsters rolled on the platform, soldiers charged over charred remains.

At Central Square, the Memorial—

Two heavily armed Iron Guard Brigade regiments held firm, resisting massive waves of monsters attacking from six directions. Inside the curved armored defense line, black Silent Hunters, anti-air cannons, storm missile systems, and pulse laser sky arrays formed a defense system. Missiles constantly launched. High-energy particle beams rained down like a curtain, and power supply lines radiated intense heat waves.

In the Printing and Broadening District steel workshop—

"Damn, this thing doesn’t respond to pulse rays, definitely not just A-level!"

A mech brigade made up of a Starship Predator and dozens of mechs tore through the factory, while a giant tens-of-meters-high aberration roared, clawing open the factory roof.

"Open fire with machine guns!"

In an instant, countless mechs raised machine guns. A flood of bullets formed a metal storm pouring into the sky.

At Night River Park battlefield, Burning Phoenix convoy and garrison forces formed a defensive line, the people trapped like an island.

"We can’t hold, we have to break toward the hospital, or it’s over!!!" He Linqiu led a several hundred-strong evolved squad in powered armor maneuvering out of the monster tide. The army behind carried away huge numbers of wounded.

At Galag Black Market, Wang Hongyuan led his Hongyuan Trade Union convoy rampaging out of the monster tide, retreating toward the second city wall.

"Damn it, it never ends! Weren’t there only four S-levels? Why’s the whole city full?!"

"Those aren’t S-level!" Song Feng of the New Era Engineering Group called from nearby street battles over comms, amidst continuous artillery fire, "But... almost."

"Captain Jiang!" Liang Hao of Iron Shield convoy shouted, "The west city can’t hold. What about the underground shelter?"

"Reinforcements gathered in the north and south city areas, retreat there!" Jiang Yun responded from aerial combat, "We can isolate one side. The underground shelter is organizing gathering and transfer. The wounded are all going into the second city wall shelter!"

"Sister Chen!"

In the west city, the allied convoys were submerged in the monster tide. Sasa, piloting Starship Predator, blasted a huge mist spider to death, shouting to Chen Sixuan, "We can’t hold here, should we retreat too?"

Chen Sixuan leapt from the sky, backflipped to land on an airborne aberration’s head, fired a shot behind her to blow up a flying wing monster’s head, then stepped down on the corpse. Her Black Hawk armor’s cluster shells exploded around in a fiery blast. She sprinted to a tall building next to the train, looking toward the ruins outside covered by smoke and black mist, frowning deeply.

"Chen, Lin’s still outside!" Shi Diyuan, transformed into beast form fighting in the monster tide, shouted.

"Lin Xian!" Chen Sixuan tried to call out.

"Get back inside!"

At that moment, Lin Xian’s voice suddenly came. Hearing it, she inhaled deeply, notifying Shu Qin and Xiao Yuan aboard the train, "Drive! We’ll exit from Future South Street to Star River Road toward the second city wall!"

"Got it!"

On the train, Xiao Yuan and others controlling Infinite’s automated weapons and navigation immediately responded. The Whale-03E heavy gas turbine locomotive roared as its iron wheels crushed the ground, emitting a whistling screech as it resumed movement.

Boom!

Outside the west city ruins, Lin Xian and Chu Yan focused, maneuvering Gray Mist Envoy from kneeling to standing. Emperor Suzaku and Emperor Xuanwu were already engaged with the dense aberration tide and two massive special-level monsters.

The Corpse Driver was approaching Gray Mist Envoy head-on.

"It’s covered in red mist and force fields with extremely high energy density. Even spread beams can’t penetrate. We must find a weak spot!" Chu Yan said. "Also, it can spy on us through the gray mist. It’s definitely trying to control us. Be prepared. If suppression drops and the gray mist’s nerve activity exceeds 90%, we might lose control over it. It only has one action brain. Losing control would be unimaginable!"

"I see it!"

Lin Xian eyed the massive Corpse Driver, heart pounding wildly. Just as he prepared for battle, the terrifying humanoid creature walking toward them suddenly turned transparent under searchlights and gunfire, then vanished.

"Where did it go?"

Watching the signal disappear on radar, Lin Xian and Chu Yan searched around but found the monster had vanished from the battlefield.

"Lin Xian!"

KIKI’s voice came over the headset, "Something’s wrong here!"

In the Neon Old Street District, once one of the most densely populated areas in Dawn City, the city walls and alleys formed a cyberpunk slum beneath steel skyscrapers. Now, tens of thousands of people’s once bustling nightlife district had become a dark ruin, with a massive Sky Touch’s tissue block in the center. Four thousand-meter-long tentacles connected to it. This giant body had fallen from the sky, crushing the neighborhood into rubble.

High above, KIKI watched the streets below where countless crawling monsters, like ants, dragged many long limbs and tissue blocks of Wandering toward the ruins. These tissue blocks were rapidly stitching together, forming a new aberration.

Having witnessed the White City mother nest before, KIKI immediately reacted. She called Lu Xingchen and the army of ability users.

"Fire Bro!"

"The centipedes refuse to die and dare to continue their wickedness. Watch me burn you to ashes and prove you can’t live again!"

"Divine·Flame Realm!"

Lu Xingchen shouted, engulfed in blazing flames, leaping toward the tissue blocks and the crawling monsters, his body bursting into wild inferno.

At this moment, Lu Xingchen tried to use the principle of adiabatic compressed combustion to swirl the flames covering his body into a spherical ball of hot fire. His hands spewed massive flames, forming a fireball tens of meters wide, with a scorching white-hot core radiating extreme heat. The surrounding tens of meters of shadowy rain evaporated instantly, like a miniature sun!

"KIKI, let’s do another Fire Tornado!"

"Got it!" KIKI immediately understood Lu Xingchen’s move, her psychic waves vibrating wildly, hair floating, starting to gather energy.

"Let’s go!"

Fire Bro violently pushed the fireball, which exploded with a thunderous roar above the ruins. The massive white-hot core surged like a giant white wave, spreading fierce flames in all directions.

Whoosh.

KIKI’s eyes radiated terrifying power as she flew, hands opening an enormous invisible telekinetic field controlling the flames, causing them to whirl madly. Riding the updrafts from Lu Xingchen’s intense flames, the ruins instantly spun into a towering hurricane. The burning fireball merged into the tornado, forming a hundred-meter-wide and hundreds-of-meters-high crimson fire tornado!

Meanwhile, Monica, A Bai, Li Guangwen, and the arriving Jiang Yun, Ren Huiyan, Xu Yufei, Lin Qingyu, and Qinuo’s Nightwalker team—all ability masters—gathered to attack, unleashing overwhelming laser, blast, sonic, and electromagnetic assaults!

In an instant, most of the black crawling creatures in the ruins were obliterated. But just as these attacks were about to completely incinerate the Sky Touch and Wandering’s limbs and torso, the massive fire tornado was suddenly extinguished by a powerful shockwave. Other attacks seemed to hit an invisible barrier.

"What’s going on?" Lin Qingyu retracted his lightning arcs, hair standing on end, sensing a powerful oppressive force before them.

"Be careful!" Monica, standing on a tall building, looked grim. She immediately closed her power armor’s visor and told everyone, "Something’s coming!"

"Something’s standing right in front of us!" Sun Yuzhen flew high with A Bai. Everyone’s hearts skipped a beat. Sun Yuzhen instantly began to ascend and distance herself.

"It’s that Corpse Driver! Everyone, fall back!" Jiang Yun’s body surged with storms as he slowly clenched his fists.

"What demon is this? Come die!" Lu Xingchen ignored the monsters blocking his path. Watching the crawling creatures gather to stitch a new monster from the ruins, his anger boiled, and he unleashed his ultimate move:

"Divine·Flaming Skyfall!"

From the sky, a massive fire shot out from the clouds, forming a spinning fire gyroscope hundreds of meters in diameter. Its furious rotation whipped up a massive hurricane, roaring like burning thunder. The fiery tip pierced through the ruins at high speed.

Boom!

Still missing the target, the fire exploded midair. The gas wave evaporated the rain curtain, sketching a terrifying humanoid silhouette between skyscraper ruins.

The silhouette grew clear. Then, a giant figure covered in red mist and force field fragments, like an evil god, appeared before all the ability users. Its red mist swelled and churned rapidly like cumulus clouds, emitting a bright red glow!

"Retreat!" KIKI, Jiang Yun, Monica, and others shouted almost simultaneously, their faces changing drastically.

Boom!

The red smoke and the absorbed energy of the consumed ability users violently reacted, causing a massive cavitation reaction. The bubbles rapidly spread, resulting in a tremendous explosive blast, tearing open!

A bright blast cluster, like a small nuclear bomb, expanded instantly around the Corpse Driver. The powerful shockwave blasted all ability users flying.

At this moment, the explosion’s shockwave shattered buildings kilometers away. Walls crumbled. Massive buildings toppled. A spherical dust storm rose!

The Corpse Driver had actually entered the city. A wave of apocalyptic crisis swept through everyone’s hearts.

"Contract the lines, defend inside the city!"

Huo Jiang’s voice came over the comms.

"Suzaku, Xuanwu, Gray Mist Envoy! The Corpse Driver is inside the city!" Lu Tianye shouted at the three mechs on the western command ship.

"Damn it!" Lin Xian’s eyes bloodshot. He turned and ran toward the city.

"There are too many people inside, and using energy weapons is not only ineffective but causes greater casualties!" Chu Yan said.

"I know!"

Lin Xian gritted his teeth. "It should be dawn by now, but the sky is still dark. It means the Star Abyss has fully expanded for probing. We must kill this Corpse Driver before the Star Abyss’ true ruler arrives, or we won’t see the sun again!"

"Suzaku, follow us. The aberrations are stitching an S-level monster. Stop them. Xuanwu, guard the city walls! I’ll handle the Corpse Driver!"

"Understood!" Bai Ye and Su Rui shouted back.

"Leave it to us!" Qin Yue and Qin Chuan also responded immediately.

Suzaku gripped the plasma diffraction sword and spun rapidly, charging toward the city. Xuanwu dashed to block the giant spider and, together with four Starship Predators, guarded the western city wall breach.

"Chain sword ready!"

"Chain sword ready!"

The Qin brothers swung their right arms, drawing high-frequency blade chain swords, forming an unbreakable barrier in front of the monstrous tide.

Gray Mist Envoy stepped into the city’s ruined defense line. While moving forward, it raised its right arm. Above, a spatial mechanical gate appeared, suspended. Amid thousands of electric arcs, a 182-meter shockwave battleship-cleaving blade forged from fish-class starship main keel materials slowly descended. The blade’s edge shimmered with high-temperature sapphire energy, evaporating the surrounding air. Gray Mist Envoy’s hydraulic-powered armored arm gripped the blade, letting it hang over the street behind.

Crunch!

The Gray Mist Envoy, dragging thousands of tons of cleaving force, emitted a heavy metallic humming. Dust and sparks burst from the ground’s ruins.

Lin Xian and Chu Yan united their minds, accelerating their strides and smashing the concrete surface!

"Prepare for a bloody battle!"