Chapter 966: Chapter 176: The Iron Beasts Guard the City
Perfikot stood in the command room of the Floating City, gazing through the panoramic portholes at the gradually forming outlines of the city below.
The reconstruction work of Seven Hills City was already on track, with new buildings rising around the Energy Tower, and the outlines of streets beginning to appear within the planned grid.
Looking at this city reborn from the ruins, a rare hint of gratification appeared on her cold face.
But this sense of accomplishment was soon diluted by the pressing reality.
She clearly remembered her purpose here — to cleanse this place of the Evil God believers.
Now this task was complete, even exceeding the additional goal of rebuilding the city.
Staying here any longer would only embroil the newborn city in greater danger.
Moreover, she hadn’t forgotten that she was still at war with the gods, and the claws of the Evil God, or even the Evil God itself, could attack again at any moment.
The war between her and the gods continued, and those expelled minions of the Evil God could return at any time.
Although the Floating City module of Seven Hills City did have considerable defensive firepower, if it truly attracted the attention of the Evil God...
Her gaze swept over the residential area under construction in the city center.
The survivors who had just emerged from disaster were busy rebuilding their homes.
If a divine war broke out here, these fragile buildings and hopeful people might be reduced to ashes in an instant.
Just as Perfikot pondered whether she should leave here and return to the Desert Kingdom to prepare for a possible attack by the gods, a sudden assault disrupted all her arrangements.
The alarm suddenly blared, a piercing hum echoing in the command room of the Floating City.
Outside the porthole, pitch-black clouds suddenly churned, twisted shadows tearing the sky, charging downward with ominous purple-red lightning.
As she thought, the gods indeed launched an attack.
But this time, the target of the gods’ attack was not her, but Seven Hills City.
Or more accurately, the target was the chapel of the New God within Seven Hills City.
The newly completed white spire was at that moment shrouded by a crimson beam, seemingly locked by some invisible force.
This was somewhat unexpected, but it didn’t exceed Perfikot’s expectations.
After all, when she initially developed the New God plan, it was intended to provoke a reaction from the Ancient Gods.
Now that the gods had reacted, it was exactly what she hoped for.
The spire of the chapel erupted with dazzling sparks under the purple-red lightning, as three gorilla-shaped Godslaying Armors, with Shield Generators mounted on their backs, were dropped from the Floating City module, landing around the chapel and forming a triangle to protect it.
These massive steel beasts were covered with heavy armor, gleaming coldly in the lightning, steam erupting from their exhaust vents, blowing the ground snow into fragments.
The four-leg stabilizing mechanisms of the three Shield Godslaying Armors locked in place, and amidst the rumble of gear engagement, the twelve legs of the steel beasts were secured to the ground.
Then, their Shield Generators unfolded, casting three golden barriers over the entire city centered on the chapel, protecting the survivors in the city.
The moment the lightning struck the shield, the rune circuits on the three Godslaying Armors glowed with a lava-like red, almost instantly overloading with energy.
But this was considered during the design of these Godslaying Armors by Perfikot.
The energy conversion circuits inside the Godslaying Armors channeled the overload energy they endured into the weapon systems, charging them almost instantly.
The mouths of the three Shield Godslaying Armors opened, and three energy beams shot out, sweeping over the approaching minions of the Evil God in the sky.
The moment the purple-red lightning broke the spire of the chapel, the air over the snowfield suddenly twisted.
Swarms of bats tore through the clouds, their membranous wings dropping corrosive mucilage like raindrops, etching hundreds of sizzling holes in the snow.
The three Shield Godslaying Armors crashed heavily into the ground, the golden force field not yet fully unfolded, as the first wave of bats slammed into the barrier like a wall of tar.
Charred bodies fell in droves, but upon hitting the ground, they swelled and exploded, the splattered ichor melting the granite outer walls of the chapel into honeycombed ruins.
"Barrier anti-corrosion coefficient fell below the critical value."
The moment the electronic alarm sounded, dozens of mucilage lumps exploded on the western snowfield of the battlefield.
Seven shock blade armored units had just formed a circular defensive line when a swarm of serpent-shaped creatures burst from their cocoons.
Their mirrored shells spun at high speed, and the sparks from the collision with the steam blade wheels actually burned white marks on the armor surface.
An armored unit suddenly spun, ejecting a grappling hook wrapped in holy silver chains from the blade wheel gap — the moment the chain entangled the neck of the serpent-shaped creature, alchemy flames poured into its body through the shell crevice, boiling its innards into green steam.
The whale song from deep within the clouds caused six reloading armored units to suddenly stiffen.
Their brass cannons swung uncontrollably, and the alchemy flames nearly caused friendly fire.
Three calming rune bombs fired from the Floating City burst into blue light screens in the air, restoring the chaotic electronic neural circuits to order.
The restored armored units sprayed out emerald flames, burning the encroaching serpent swarm’s shell to bursting, exposing the wildly twitching nerve cables inside.
Seven mucus-dripping giant eyes tore through the clouds, each pupil extending nerve ends with attached tumor turrets.
Under a saturation attack of acid shells and corrosive beams, the shield dome flickered like a candle in the wind.
The command-armored units suddenly kneeled together, their back missile cells unleashing hundreds of spell missiles, tearing openings in the neural tissue forest with a pure energy storm.
The falling nerve cables twisted and proliferated during descent, transforming into bat-sized parasites swarming at the hydraulic lines of the armored joints!
"Furnace overdrive, purification protocol initiated."
All Godslaying Armors abruptly emitted blazing white steam from their vents, the high-temperature air current carbonizing the parasite swarm into falling black ash.
The shield-type armors took the opportunity to disengage the force field, their shoulder particle cannons and missile cells forming a crossfire network, blasting the tumor turrets attempting to mend the breaches into smithereens.
The shock blade armors ejected climbing spikes from their feet and charged up the neural remains towards the giant skull for a death strike.
The most brutal melee unfolded beneath the giant skull’s jaw.
An armor that had advanced to a dead angle drove a high-frequency drill into the energy core, but was entangled at the waist by recoiling nerve cables.
The metal shell cracked under pressure, exposing the overloaded furnace core inside.
"Detonation command confirmed." Before the electronic voice finished, a red-hot stream of flame surged from the fissure — thermite and nerve cable mucus ignited, melting half of the giant skull’s face into a bright metal stream.
The remaining three Godslaying Armors leaped off their comrade’s wreckage.
They abandoned all defense programs, weaving a web of destruction across the giant skull’s remains with the overloaded blue light of shoulder cannons, sparks from the spinning blade wheels, and the exhaust flames of missile cells.
When this nightmare creation finally collapsed, the dispersing neural pulses materialized into translucent specters on the snowfield, their twisted wails incinerated into nothingness by the forbidden curse powder dropped from the winged machines.
As the smoke cleared, the steel beasts stood silently around the chapel.
Once again, the Empire’s steel had protected its people.
