Yet that didn't totally stop my threads. Such hiccups just delayed the progress of my threads, reminding me of the same thing that the fiends showed from before.
But this was on a totally different scale, much stronger than what I experienced at the fiends.
At least my threads weren't that useless against these Exomachines. However, if it took a couple of hours for my threads to penetrate the shields of the fiends, they'd need much more than that to break through the shields of these Exomachines.
If I just depended on my technique, then things would go south for me. And so I stopped the technique of my right arm, and started to consider my next move.
My technique failed as expected, and now it was down to the use of brutal force to take these Exomachines down.
The first thing I thought about was nothing else but my glaive. However I first needed to activate the strength sacrifice to be able to truly show its true might.
"Take these," as this would take an entire hour, and I wouldn't be able to move through this time. I flew away from this battle, went deeper into the area lined up by these Exomachines, and then took one warrior out.
They were added thanks to the den of warriors; the zombies. The moment I took all of them out, I left behind lots of my zombie dens, around one thousand, before leaving more warriors to safeguard them.
"Release the zombies," I gave them such an order, before opening a portal and returning back to the central zone.
Right now, this place is the safest zone in the entire world. As I wouldn't be able to move a muscle during this sacrifice, I had to do it at a secure place.
And I didn't forget to leave behind a warning for Isac and others, notifying them that I wouldn't be available for almost one hour.
I took one hour to activate my sacrifice, and during which I kept thinking about these two impending bombs; the worms and the Exomachines.
"There is no way these dudes would deploy such killers without more hidden traps," I reached such a conclusion after activating my sacrifice.
The Exomachines might look as the acting guardians for these worms, but they were indeed quite the killer in themselves.
I saw how they killed my soulers, something no one else managed to accomplish for a long time.
Such a force would be unstoppable once the worms started spreading death all over the place. So it wouldn't make any sense for the fiends' leaders to just use them without any other supporting forces or hidden traps.
If there was such a trap, then it must be around that line formed by these Exomachines. And to get the bottom of this, I had to spare a little of my time and try out this line of defence myself.
The one hour passed fast, and the first thing I did after finishing it was to ask about the updates from various fronts.
"Nothing big happened aside from these Exomachines… Interesting…" I muttered to myself before returning back to the frontline again.
There I saw the fervent fight going on without any change. The area of this fight spanned over to cover tens of miles already. And the number of deaths on both sides was still growing non-stop.
Yet comparing the two losses against each other, my soulers lost quite miserably against these Exomachines.
"Time to start test two," I muttered, jumped off my chariot, and personally joined the battle.
I didn't know why, but all the things I inwardly complained about Sara ended up doing them all! Even when she went off her chariot and personally joined the battle, I thought it was quite foolish of her to do so.
And now? I ended up doing the same, which was quite ironic.
The moment I landed, my glaive met its worthy nemesis at last! The glaive stopped just a few inches away from the bodies of those I aimed for.
I waved my glaive in a semi-circular way, cutting through many of the Exomachines, and yet I never managed to slash any of them.
The shields managed to not only stop my glaive, but they diverted its path, as if it was gliding over a surface of ice or something.
But who said my glaive's attacks lied solely on its sharpness?
Once my glaive moved and met with the shields, another force seeped deeply inside these shields. It was a force that left the Exomachines hit stand in daze, without moving a single limb or shield.
They got some sort of paralysis, one that was enough to crush their inner running wheels. I watched these giants stop, and couldn't help but wave my glaive again, jump high in the air, embed huge amounts of strength into my arms, and waved the glaive again against these Exomachines.
"My soulers would need a thousand hits to take one down, and I simply needed two to take down tens of them… Interesting!" I saw how this clash ended, and was quite satisfied with it.
I didn't mind clashing twice at these things, as long as it was enough to bring them down. The first strike paralysed them, and the second got to crush them into tiny pieces.
I didn't know what in my glaive that made them freeze, but it was great to see them get such an end at last.
After confirming such a result after many attempts, I moved fast, didn't care about even delivering the second hit, and focused only on paralysing them.
As long as they got paralysed, many things happened at the same time. First, these Exomachines stood like status, not attacking my forces at all.
And that wasn't all! They didn't attack, and for a reason their defensive shields lost part of their powers!
The first thing I noticed was for my technique threads to go much easier through their shields. And soon enough I noticed how my soulers became faster to bring these Exomachines down.
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