Chapter 918: Chapter 692 Battle of Fine Gold
At this moment,
on the Giant’s Star,
the Eternal Battlefield.
Recently, the battles on the Eternal Battlefield had become increasingly fierce, with new people joining the warring sides each day, and these newcomers usually brought gifts — Fine Gold.
Ever since the Golems arrived, there had been a new point of contention on the Eternal Battlefield: the Golem repair sites.
The Dark Saintess and the Golems hollowed out a mountain and used it as a temporary base. Although maintaining their core state for extended periods was fine, some minor maintenance and tidying were still needed to be performed in humanoid form. This was why the Giants had created the core family capable of transforming between two forms.
Usually, three Golems patrolled the entrance, and only a sufficient amount of Fine Gold could exchange for the support of the Golems’ firepower.
However, during one battle, one side suddenly paid a startling amount of Fine Gold.
The Dark Saintess sent out five Golems to join the fight directly!
"From the moment we kill the first enemy, we will fight for you for one minute,"
the Dark Saintess had said at the time.
At first, the side that paid the Fine Gold felt like they might have been shortchanged. What could five Golems do in one minute? But when that minute was up, and they saw the enemy littered across the battlefield, they immediately understood the value of that minute!
The five Golems’ relentless Light Cannon bombardment and their sturdy bodies able to absorb any damage made it so that the enemy’s large warriors didn’t dare come close!
It was the attack of these five Golems that directly resulted in none of the opponents entering the Heavenly Kingdom that descended shortly after!
One could say they made a fortune!
So, now both sides were continuously stockpiling Fine Gold. They would occasionally pay a small amount of Fine Gold for a Light Cannon bombardment, but only when they sensed that the descent of the Heavenly Kingdom was imminent would they pay a large sum of Fine Gold to have the Golems join the battle directly!
Then, could both sides pay at the same time?
Sorry, that was not possible. If one side paid first, the other would have to wait for the Golems to return before they could make their payment.
This rule also turned the interception of Fine Gold payments into a tactic.
In short, no matter what happened on the battlefield, at least with the Golems, a steady stream of Fine Gold was always flowing.
With this Fine Gold supplementing them, the repair work was ongoing and rapid, and it was estimated that the Golems would soon be restored to their peak condition. At this time, the Dark Saintess became interested in that so-called Heavenly Kingdom.
All this while, to maintain a neutral image, the Golems had never touched the Heavenly Kingdom that descended. But once Fine Gold was no longer needed, staying here became pointless.
For these beings, who were once the core family and later the Dark Clan, and who had now returned to being the core family again, the so-called Heavenly Kingdom was that of the Giants. And what belonged to the Giants belonged to Long Yi, and what belonged to Long Yi belonged to them. As members of the core family, a weapon race created by the Giants, they had the power and the responsibility to protect the Giants’ possessions.
The Dark Saintess once considered annihilating everyone here, but that might draw the attention of the entire Plane. However, there was another way.
That was to join them.
This war, which had been going on for who knows how long, was divided into two factions. If you wanted to gain benefits, you had to join one of them. In fact, this place welcomed anyone to join, and since almost the entire Plane was involved, those who joined could gain very hefty rewards.
Here, because of the long duration of the battles, two large cities had already been established at the original site. One side was engaged in battle, while the other boasted taverns and casinos.
There was also a reward exchange center. Anyone could come here to register their identity, and then exchange the number of enemies killed on the battlefield for money.
Because the soldiers here came from such diverse sources, nobody really cared where you came from or what your name was. The registrar simply recorded your name and gave you an identification tag with a special Magic mark. This tag was your guarantee not to be accidentally killed by allies on the battlefield. And all you had to do was collect the enemy’s identification tags on the battlefield. The more you collected, the more money you earned.
So the Dark Saintess decided to start from this angle.
In fact, this time the core family had brought not only the large Golems but also a series of smaller Golems. These so-called smaller Golems were still quite larger than the average person, with the core family operating them from within.
The Darkness Saintess selected twenty people to enter the small golem. Disguising herself as a new race, she infiltrated the city, and it took only five minutes to complete all the registration procedures. The person responsible for registration didn’t care who or even if the registrants were human. The Darkness Saintess named the team Steel Roses, and just like that, they successfully joined the battle group.
The golem of the Steel Roses was four meters tall with a relatively stout build, large enough to accommodate a core. The battlefield never ceased, and there wasn’t even a need to wait for the right moment; you just had to stand in front of the Commander, and he would immediately send you where you were most needed.
An hour later, the Steel Roses brought back a string of enemy identity tags and exchanged them for a large amount of money. Then they continued to fight and exchanged more money. By the third time, the Commander finally remembered this team.
Twenty tall warriors, ice-cold and strong, some even without a hint of a smile. Assigned a mission, they would execute immediately, and after completing it, they would exchange the identity tags for money—this was exactly the behavior of excellent mercenaries.
"Where are you from? I have never seen warriors like you before," the Commander asked.
"That’s a secret," the Darkness Saintess replied, her voice altered to sound like a man’s.
"Alright, it’s a secret then. Here, who doesn’t have some secrets? But then again, who would come here if they had other options?" The Commander shook his head and assigned Steel Roses their mission.
The Darkness Saintess knew that many of these warriors were heavy criminals, forced to fight here. If you kept surviving, you would soon leave with a great fortune and earn your freedom. But in a place like this, surviving was probably the hardest part. Every day many disappeared, and every day many new ones were brought in. If someone was lucky enough to enter the arriving Heavenly Kingdom, then they would instantly gain their freedom and a staggering fortune—one beyond their own imagination!
The Steel Roses were extremely strong. Wherever they appeared, the enemies were quickly annihilated. These Steel Roses mechs were replicas of golems, using a great deal of Fine Gold in their construction, while the many arrays and magic spells on their surface came from the crystallization of the White Dragon Empire’s top-level technology.
This combination allowed the Steel Roses mechs to rampage through the battlefield, with the enemy hardly able to come close.
A few days later, with their exemplary combat data, the Steel Roses were finally able to be assigned to the main battlefield.
Yes, for the past few days, they had been fighting on the outskirts because the Commander was not familiar with their combat abilities and style. But now, the Commander understood that these cold metals were indeed masters at charging straight into the fray.
"Your mission today is to escort our Fine Gold from the Teleportation Gate safely to our great city. Although the timing is cleverly planned, there is no way to hide it from them for too long. About halfway through the journey, their forces will arrive and will desperately try to intercept. This time, the large quantity of Fine Gold will determine the outcome of the upcoming battle. We will do our best to hold their main force; the rest is up to you."
After a brief mission briefing from the Commander, Steel Roses set off.
The Darkness Saintess found it a bit amusing because even without protecting the Fine Gold, ultimately it would end up in her own hands. However, this was the mission, and if the Commander had requested the Steel Roses for this task, it must be because he valued their strength. Completing the mission would not only increase the Commander’s trust but also provide a generous reward.
When the Steel Roses arrived at the teleport point, the Fine Gold transport team also arrived.
Surprisingly, the Fine Gold was being carried by strong warriors, each bearing the Fine Gold on their bodies. There were no vehicles, no aircraft; they could only travel on foot.
What nonsense.
And even more nonsensical was what happened almost immediately after.
The enemy forces suddenly appeared all around, clearly intending to snatch the Fine Gold!
What happened to ’the enemies will show up halfway through the journey’? What about ’we will delay them as long as possible’?
But the Darkness Saintess had no time to complain, nor was she inclined to.
"To battle!"
The core energy continuously flowed into the machines, and the Steel Roses mechs unleashed terrifying Fighting Aura damage. Anyone who tried to get close to the Fine Gold was torn to shreds, and those trying to ambush from afar were bombarded with all sorts of long-range magic.
This set of mechs was a masterpiece of the core race, the culmination of the Giants’ technology and human intelligence. Although they emerged too late to see action in the White Dragon Empire’s war, clearly, even on a battlefield of this level, they still possessed terrifying lethality. This was because the source of their destructive power, whether in golems or these current mechs, was the core. In the Human Realm, the core’s energy output was limited, but here, there were no such restrictions.
The core’s energy output was nearly limitless and was more than sufficient even when facing the Dragon Clan, let alone enemies who were far inferior to the Dragon Clan.
As Steel Roses escorted the Fine Gold squad, they continuously advanced, slaughtering countless enemies and collecting numerous identity tags. Finally, the main force that lay ahead provided support, and the intercepting forces voluntarily retreated.
When the Steel Roses arrived before the Commander to report, his face was full of excitement.
"We owe you big time for this one. If it wasn’t for you, we might have lost the Fine Gold!"
The Darkness Saintess then said coldly, "Not a single thing you promised came true; that’s really rather convenient, isn’t it?"(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)
