Chapter 689: Chapter 52: Clash (2)
Perhaps, the rampant growth of vegetation on Lilva Star over the past few years, turning a once lifeless barren planet into a beautiful tourist destination, is also because of this.
It’s simply... unbelievable.
"Life source ore... it’s life source ore..."
Someone in the star thief group said with a trembling voice, the mecha’s alloy arm lifted up, pointing at the green-tinted cave walls, unable to suppress their excitement, almost shouting: "The life source ore is everywhere! Everywhere!... We’re rich! We’re rich this time!! Haha..."
Apparently, the discovery wasn’t just made by one person, all the star thieves on the platform started to get restless.
One mecha after another frantically took off from the white platform, flying towards the nearby walls, and some even fired directly at the cave walls.
The terminal channel emitted a cacophony of ghostly wails, Lu Yuan frowned and simply shut down the channel.
Of course, his mood was equally stirred at the moment.
Lightly licking his lips, Lu Yuan took a deep breath, slowly shifting his gaze away from the green cave stone walls in front.
His eyelids lowered, and his body even withdrew a couple of steps.
He knew.
The more it felt like this moment, the more he needed to control his... desires.
"Boom! Boom..."
As the explosive blasts echoed, more and more star thieves began firing at the cave walls.
But unexpectedly, these cave stone walls mixed with a huge amount of life source ore were astonishingly hard.
Even the firepower of a level seven mecha couldn’t do more than just chip off some stone debris and reveal the deeper green beneath, without the imagined large chunks of life source ore falling off.
"Buzz—"
An unusual air resonance suddenly sounded within the cave.
Lu Yuan had just looked up when he saw several floating star thief mechas in his field of vision, most "active", being swept by a crystal-like purple light.
Then their bodies immediately froze, spraying out a large amount of fire, splitting into two segments and falling like stones from mid-air.
Seconds later, the sound of mecha crashes and explosions rumbled from below.
In an instant, the bustling atmosphere among the star thieves halted, everyone’s bodies retreated simultaneously, eyes collectively fixating below.
Below, on the vast black square, a large batch of battle mechs had appeared at some point.
These mechs shone with a reddish-gold hue, designed with elegance, with half-transparent energy capes behind them, looking like a squad of well-equipped, well-trained ancient court knights.
And at the center of these red gold mechs, two silhouettes stood quietly.
Looking up, their gaze and expression towards the star thieves appeared to see a bunch of ridiculous clowns.
Lu Yuan instantly recognized the two, the young Spirit Court Guard and the Lord of Gems he had encountered at the spaceship landing site and in Red Diamond City.
Judging by their demeanor, they seemed completely unfazed by the star thieves’ raid action, possessing instead a calculated, ’please enter the trap’ kind of confidence.
"Idiots."
At this time, Hai Lang’s voice echoed in the ears of the star thieves.
"Life source ore requires special technology to extract, instead of wasting energy here, go down and grab the ready ones...
They don’t have time to transfer all the ore, surely there’s still a large amount of ore present inside the cave..."
"I get it."
A star thief exclaimed, "Hai Lang, you want to capture the chubby gem lord alive because of his mining technology.
You’ve long known this is a gold mine, which we can’t completely empty in one go!"
"Humph."
Hai Lang snorted lightly, saying nothing, but his meaning was clear.
Only now did everyone finally realize why Hai Lang made the promise to take only thirty percent of the loot before the operation, the true valuable asset was not the life source ore, but the life source ore extraction technology.
And this technology... is in the hands of the Lord of Gems!
"Stop babbling for the boss!"
"Whoosh—"
Leading the front, Hai Lang suddenly spun around, the massive black mecha with a blood-red wolf head and fierce red eyes, its cold and dominating presence like a hurricane swirling above the star thieves.
"The immense wealth is below, if you want it, go down and grab it!"
With that said, the twelve-meter-tall black mecha soared, unleashing a vivid red light, like a burning black meteor, plummeting harshly towards the cave bottom.
The landing location was precisely in the direction guarded by the red gold mechs and the two by the Lord of Gems.
"Howl—"
With Hai Lang taking the lead in the charge, all the star thieves went into a frenzy.
The atmosphere on the scene became fevered, hundreds of star thief mechs followed successively, descending from the sky, rushing towards the source of wealth in their eyes.
At the same time as the star pirates launched their attack,
the red-gold mechas beneath the cave also soared into the air one after another.
The two groups of mechas met in mid-air a hundred meters above the bottom of the cave, like two torrents of steel, crashing into each other fiercely.
"Boom!"
In just a blink of an eye, the black mecha piloted by Sea Wolf tore through the siege of several red-gold mechas.
Under the power of the eighth level, the three seventh-level red-gold mechas in front of him were tossed aside like toys, falling heavily into the distance.
But before Sea Wolf could press forward,
the Lord of Gems, who was standing below watching the scene, suddenly took two steps back with a smile.
Immediately, the young man with light gray hair beside him calmly raised his eyelids.
"Buzz——"
A burst of extremely dazzling silver light pierced through the scarce dimness inside the cave, causing all those in fierce combat to squint instinctively.
When the blinding silver light faded away,
a visibly white shockwave spread from above, creating a massive gust of wind.
Seen at the center of the battle, two mechas, one black and one silver-white, were locked together.
A water-like distortion surrounded them, a phenomenon caused by the collision of the eighth-level Spiritual Power Fields.
This is... an eighth-level battle!
"Phew——"
Lu Yuan exhaled a breath of turbid air and leapt down from the white platform.
The Blood Night Butcher-shaped mechanical body drew a graceful arc in mid-air, rapidly approaching a magenta mecha ahead.
"Don’t stray too far from me, be ready for my orders at any time."
Lu Yuan quickly instructed Sonice through the terminal, then skillfully moved through the mechas, continuously approaching the bottom of the cave.
"Whiz——"
A red-gold mecha emanating seventh-level energy field fluctuations suddenly charged in from the side, heading straight for Lu Yuan.
Before it could get close, Sonice flashed in with fire-red dual blades to block it.
Lu Yuan nonchalantly locked on another seventh-level mecha, pretending to engage with it while his eyes roamed around the Lord of Gems below and the black square.
Lu Yuan’s spiritual power strength was only at level four, but he had an unmatched advantage: his extreme sensitivity to the aura of Life Energy.
The intense craving of his core for Life Energy was like a special hormone continuously stimulating his brain nerves.
With every breath, this longing intensified.
In Lu Yuan’s consciousness, the vast ancient ruins cave was peeling away the layers of visual facade.
Just like when he sensed the scattered Evil God Factors in the Evil God Secret Realm on the Mother Star.
The Life Energy permeating the cave gradually became clear in his mind.
Concentration, source...
"I see it...."
Lu Yuan suddenly raised his hand, and the weapons resembling steel claws extending from his alloy arms sliced through the opponent’s seventh-level energy protective barrier, leaving two deep, crisscrossing claw marks on the opponent’s body.
Then, amidst the shock in the eyes of the retreating seventh-level red-gold mecha, Lu Yuan closed his eyes and murmured lowly.
"I see... where you’ve hidden them."
In Lu Yuan’s perception, the ever-present Life Energy in the cave had a dense source located behind the Lord of Gems.
There should be a hidden dark gate there, leading to an excavated storage space.
Thousands of mined Life Source Ore were neatly stacked inside, like little green light bulbs emitting a captivating glow.
Yet, Lu Yuan was a bit curious.
During this prolonged battle between the two groups, the Lord of Gems should have had time to collect and transfer these Life Source Ore.
He hadn’t even put these Life Source Ore into spatial storage tools.
They were openly placed less than a hundred meters from the battlefield.
As if....
A tempting bait.
Waiting for their group to take the bait willingly.
