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Vera's true form rose from the shadow of the Mirror Beast like a ghost, her poisoned wrist spikes precisely piercing the core of the ever-changing energy replication ability that Su Chan and Helian Hong had jointly marked.
Unfortunately, even when everyone worked together to defeat it, it was still a clone.
Mirror Beast, with a thousand faces.
Rank: Early stage of Rank 7.
First form, the Faceless One form.
It is smooth all over, like a human figure made of mercury, without facial features or any other characteristics.
Abilities: Perfect physical form imitation and energy fluctuation simulation, capable of disguising itself as any target it has carefully analyzed.
The second form is the true mirror image form.
In this form, the body's surface is like a broken mirror, reflecting all the distorted scenes around it.
As long as one can reflect and capture the environment and people, one can activate the ability to copy. One can copy a target's core ability for one's own use in a short period of time, but cannot copy law-level abilities or abilities far beyond one's own.
However, it can also create multiple mirror images with some power to attack and confuse the enemy.
……
The ninth battlefield.
Human Front:
At this moment, the massive armored body of the Mechanical War God was slowly opening multiple huge entrances and exits.
The Hope was the first to arrive!
The 18-kilometer-long stellar-class spaceship, like a giant whale swimming out of its mothership, slowly sailed out and hovered thousands of meters behind the Mechanical War God in the low sky.
Its hull glowed with a deep blue energy pattern at full power, like a star descending to earth casting a huge, reassuring shadow.
The corona-class heavy particle beam cannon at the bow of the ship began to preheat, emitting destructive energy fluctuations.
Following closely behind... was the lunar-class flying warship group.
Twelve silver-white warships, each over 800 meters long and shaped like sharp spears, formed an escort formation around the Hope.
Equipped with heavy laser cannon arrays and rapid missile launch silos, they are flexible air barriers and pillars of strength.
Then came the Lunar-class warships. More than thirty gray-blue warships, each about 300 meters long, swarmed out of the exit. They were more maneuverable and equipped with rapid-fire plasma cannons and point defense systems, responsible for mid-range interception and fire support.
Finally, there is the largest and most continuous torrent of mech warriors deployed by the system, including mech warriors of various combat types.
Through the giant conveyor belt and airdrop pod inside the Mechanical War God, a continuous stream of mechs of various models were deployed to the battlefield.
The entire human front, with the Mechwarz as its base and the Hope as its flagship, constructed a well-defined, interwoven planetary war fortress complex.
Devouring Beast Frontline:
At the horizon, the crimson tide surged wildly.
That wasn't an ocean wave, but rather a boundless tidal wave of flesh and blood composed of tens of thousands of Devouring Beasts.
The pack of snake-dogs covered the earth like a gray carpet, with earth salamanders darting through the soil, and ghost-winged beasts forming a chilling cloud of insects in the low sky. Countless mutated Devouring Beasts, Calyx Beasts, Earth Roars, and Bear-eating Beasts were scattered among the beast tide.
The thick blood mist formed by scarlet pigment accompanied the advance of the beast tide, as if the entire earth was crawling toward and devouring the human defenses.
"All units, proceed with the planned sustained attack."
Chen Xin, who was on the bridge of the Hope, gave the order to fire.
When the vanguard of the Devouring Beasts, those cannon fodder snake-dog beast hordes, entered within a hundred kilometers of firing range, the Hope's attack came first.
"Corona Gun fully charged...fire!"
A pure white heavy particle beam, condensed to its extreme and exceeding 100 meters in diameter, like a spear of light wielded by God, instantly traversed a distance of 100 kilometers, plundering the area where the beast tide was most densely packed.
Wherever the beam of light passed, both the snake-dogs on the ground and the spiked eels in the air instantly vaporized, and the land below was sheared away several meters deep, leaving a terrifying chasm several kilometers wide and stretching to the horizon—a molten glass-like chasm.
With a single strike, tens of thousands of Devouring Beasts were vaporized.
But this was just a drop in the ocean compared to the massive beast tide. Many more Devouring Beasts continued their charge, trampling over the ashes of their own kind, fearlessly facing death.
Upon entering a 50-kilometer firing range, the Lunar Lander-class and Lunar Cruiser-class warships opened fire.
The laser cannon arrays of all the lunar-class warships simultaneously fired dense, crimson high-energy beams, sweeping back and forth through the beast tide like the shuttle of death. Wherever they passed, the Devouring Beasts fell in droves, like butter being sliced open by a hot knife.
The rapid-fire plasma cannons of the Lunar-class warships sprayed blue plasma barrages, forming continuous plasma minefields that electrocuted any Devouring Beasts that rushed into them.
Their point defense system forms a dense barrage, blasting any approaching flying Devourer into dust.
The sky was illuminated by countless beams of light, missiles, and the flashes of explosions, as if it were a continuous thunderous feast with constant explosions.
When the beast tide approached to within twenty kilometers.
The mech unit's laser guns opened fire en masse.
Rumble, rumble—! ! !
The charging wave of the Devouring Beasts was like hitting an invisible wall of bronze and iron, stirring up countless waves of flesh and blood at the forefront. The corpses piled up at an alarming speed, and soon formed a wall of bones and flesh that kept growing higher in front of the defensive line.
However, the number of beasts was simply too great.
They seemed endless; as those in front fell, those behind immediately filled the gaps, continuing their charge over the corpses of their comrades.
The Devouring Beasts even began using the corpses of their companions as cover, slowly advancing step by step.
Although the human forces possessed formidable firepower, their rate of elimination seemed to be lagging behind the rate at which the beast tide replenished.
Just then, hundreds of powerful energy fluctuations came from behind the beast tide.
Hundreds of enormous, king-level Devouring Beasts appeared.
A dozen or so Earth Devouring Kings, resembling giant worms, burrowed into the ground, triggering violent earthquakes and collapses that eroded the foundation of the defenses.
Dozens of Ghostwing Kings led an even larger horde of flying beasts, braving anti-aircraft fire to launch a suicidal attack on the Hope.
Dozens of acid kings, capable of spraying super-corrosive liquid, rained down corrosive liquid on the mech army's lines from a distance.
At the same time, a large number of pan-generative type II Devouring Beasts, those individuals that are more intelligent and capable, also launched an attack mixed in with the beast tide.
The pressure on the defense line has increased sharply!
Some forward positions collapsed due to ground subsidence, but the drone armored warriors remained suspended in the air and did not fall into the deep pits.
The Hope's powerful shields began to slowly lose energy under the suicidal impacts of the flying beast horde and the corrosive acid.
Some Lunar-class warships, under the concentrated attack of elite Devouring Beasts, had their shields overloaded, their armor torn apart, and they plummeted to the ground trailing black smoke, exploding into huge fireballs.
"Left flank, position number 3, is about to fall. Requesting support."
"The No. 7 Lunar-class warship is severely damaged and has been withdrawn from the battle sequence."
"A gap has appeared in the air defense network..."
Emergency distress calls began to be heard on the communication channels.
"Activate Iron Curtain Protocol, Mechanical War God fire support!"
The super-intelligent entity Chen Xin commands the entire system.
Chapter 295 The Power of Number 19
The Mechanical War God, with its mountain-like body, finally reveals its terrifying nature as a weapon of war.
The Iron Curtain Close-In Defense Pulse Array covering the entire body opened fire, forming a true metal storm that instantly wiped out any approaching flying Devouring Beasts.
The Thunder Punishment Orbital-class Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannons on its limbs roared continuously, like precise sniper rifles, blasting dozens of Monarch-class Devouring Beasts that were attacking from a distance into pieces, forcing them to retreat repeatedly.
The Star Rain Vertical Launch System launched dozens of gravity collapse bombs into the rear of the beast tide, creating several temporary black hole-like gravitational singularities deep within the beast tide, crushing and sucking in tens of thousands of Devouring Beasts until they were torn apart.
The Hope also adjusted its strategy; instead of pursuing maximum kill range, its main guns began to target and eliminate the most threatening Emperor-class units.
At the same time, its Starburst multi-purpose missile vertical launch system opened fire at full speed, unleashing a barrage of missiles with various functions to provide full-spectrum fire coverage, greatly relieving the pressure on the ground defense line.
Humanity's technological advantage lies in its powerful firepower and robust defenses, but the consumption of energy and ammunition is enormous.
The Hope's energy shield fluctuated violently, the missile reserves of each warship were decreasing at an alarming rate, and the core energy of the mech force was beginning to run out.
The production lines inside the Mechwarz are running at full speed, recovering battlefield debris and producing ammunition and spare parts, but they still can't keep up with the rate at which the front lines are consuming supplies.
The advantage of the Devouring Beasts lies in their seemingly endless numbers and their powerful regenerative abilities.
As long as they are not killed all at once, they can recover quickly and then tirelessly and fearlessly consume human ammunition and energy wave after wave with their flesh and blood.
Humanity's defenses were breached several times, only to be forcibly closed each time by the subsequent deployment of reserves and the precise fire support from the Hope.
The corpses of the Devouring Beasts had piled up like a real mountain, almost reaching the knees of the Mechanical War God, with burning mech wreckage scattered among them, like cruel sacrifices offered to war.
"The mech unit's energy reserves have dropped to 45%..."
"Missile stockpiles have fallen below the 30% warning line!"
"The Third Mech Squadron has suffered more than half its casualties, requesting rotation..."
Bad news kept coming in.
Chen Xin frowned as she looked at the endless dark red beast tide markers on the tactical map. At present, she could only use her limited technological power to resist it, and there was no other good way.
Chen Xin activated the 'Genesis' matrix-assisted power supply mode to prioritize the energy supply of the Hope and Mechanical War God.
With the defense line on the verge of collapse, Chen Xin had no choice but to use her last trump card, which was also the only remaining option for the Mechanical War God.
"The Final Defender Protocol is activated. Summon the planetary defense network and deploy the Stardust Autonomous Mech Swarm."
In an instant, several huge launch well covers on the top of the Mechanical War God opened, releasing countless silver-white autonomous mechs, each the size of an adult and shaped like a rhomboid beetle.
Their sheer number was like an erupting silver volcano, instantly obscuring a small patch of the sky.
These "Stardust" mechs are not individually strong in combat, but they possess two terrifying characteristics.
1. The quantity is large, with hundreds of thousands of units that can be released at once.
2. Possesses basic swarm intelligence and self-destruct mechanisms.
These stardust mechs, like a silver storm of death, actively rushed towards the Devouring Beast horde.
Instead of aiming to kill, they use their extreme speed and agility to sneak into the eyes, mouthparts, and internal organs of King-level and Emperor-level Devouring Beasts, and then... self-destruct.
“Bang bang bang bang bang!!!”
The battlefield was filled with the continuous sound of suicide bombings. Although the power of a single suicide bombing was limited, the chain reaction caused by hundreds of thousands of suicide bombers launching attacks at the same time was terrifying.