Published: February 12, 2025
The intelligence gathered indicated that there were five million parasites within Plum City. This did not come from casually taking photographs with the Jingjue Floating Sphere and estimating the numbers.
That would be too irresponsible, essentially gambling with the lives of the Cloud Summit People. This conclusion was reached after many rounds of reconnaissance, identification, and analysis. Although Plum City had become a ruined city, it still contained numerous buildings. The parasites wouldn’t just sit quietly in open areas waiting for you to count them; they hid in various structures, and merely looking from the outside would reveal only a couple of million at best.
The figure of five million was the result of multiple comparative analyses, even involving deliberate provocations to estimate accurately. However, now, in addition to a large number of parasitic creatures gathering at the city's edge, there were even more lurking in the dark corners of the city, waiting for the moment to reveal themselves.
Five minutes after the battle commenced, these creatures began to surge out of their hiding places, rushing in all directions. At that moment, the magic crystal cannons also started roaring to life.
The annihilation-type magic crystal cannon had the longest range, so they were tasked with targeting the central part of the city, while the other magic crystal cannons were positioned in layers to shoot at various other locations.
Currently, the Cloud Summit was utilizing sixth-grade magic crystals for the annihilation-type magic crystal cannons, which was considered extravagant given that the average level of evolvers in this apocalypse was only five stars.
However, the strength and continuous firing capabilities provided by the sixth-grade magic crystals significantly enhanced the power of the annihilation-type magic crystal cannons. Each shot fired could nearly be seen from the high vantage points outside the city, witnessing the flying blood and flesh within.
During the initial, most intense rounds of bombardment, everyone could see swathes of parasites being eliminated, creating a truly shocking and exhilarating scene. The disappearance of parasites in each region meant at least hundreds of enemies dead, generating a thrilling excitement in this life-and-death battle.
As the firing rates varied, different types of magic crystal cannons could no longer fire simultaneously, making the visual effect appear somewhat diminished.
“Let Le Da Yuan’s treasures join the battlefield,” Xia Lei commanded from her elevated position, looking down at Plum City, continuing to issue orders regarding the Merit Medals.
With her command, various towering and imposing machines entered the battlefield, accompanied by Cloud Summit faction warriors who began their performance.
Among these large machines, the most familiar to those who had some knowledge of Cloud Summit was the War Fortress.
However, the current War Fortress was completely different from those they had known before.
The previous War Fortresses had been acquired from the Resistance Zone; Cloud Summit did not possess the technology and capability to manufacture such technological products. In the initial period, the maintenance and simple repairs of the War Fortresses gave Cloud Summit quite a headache.
Gradually, the situation improved as more relevant talents joined, with the true master Le Da Yuan personally leading the team, shifting the research focus from magic crystal weapons to mechanical fortresses. By today, in this area, Cloud Summit had surpassed the Resistance Zone, becoming the true strongest.
Today, over fifty different types of War Fortresses participated in the battle! Among them, twenty were the original models, which had been modified but still adhered to their previous design concepts. The rest included those robots that only Ye Zhongming could pilot perfectly, similar to Gundams, as well as a shooting machine known as "Metal Storm," which specialized in long-range fire suppression, along with the "Mountain Gate" type function robots designed for robust close-quarters assault, and a mechanical beast inspired by Big Yellow, completely abandoning human shapes for pure melee combat.