Chapter 1235: Chapter 193: Haha, You’re on the 2nd Floor, I’m on the 5th Floor! (4300, First Update!)
Exotic Species Research Institute, Third Floor.
The Crimson Court is no longer crimson, yet the danger is greater than ever.
After the entire ruins ‘re-activated’, the once relatively tranquil ruins became unpredictable at once.
Many ancient defense machines restarted with the friction of steel and the harsh red warning lights. They have been silent for a long time but are not decrepit; the automated maintenance system has been replacing their parts and replenishing ammunition for millennia.
Some of the more powerful defense machines are protected by special storage devices, so a thousand years leave not a trace on them.
Faced with these suddenly appearing enemies, the exploration teams of various forces didn’t choose to retreat but decided to advance—not because their desire for exploration was so strong, but mainly because everyone already knew that the Fourth Level outside had begun a pre-war standoff.
Going out now… probably isn’t a good choice.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, exploring the ruins seems preferable to being swept to dust by the aftermath of the Fourth Level battle.
For a time, the elites of various nations and the ancient defense machines were at war.
Most of these defense machines are stationary sentry turrets, occasionally some mobile two-legged suppression soldiers; their firepower is fierce, but they aren’t much to the core forces of the Second Energy Level exploration teams, and they’re quickly breached.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
For a moment, within the ruins, the sounds of violent explosions and crossfire resounded, and amidst the defense machines’ actions, those exobeasts that had been mechanized began to attack stealthily amidst the chaos.
These exobeasts were even recognized as ‘allies’ by the defense machines, giving the careless exploration teams a lesson and causing the first casualties among their ranks.
But before they had time to grieve or fear, the true formidable enemies of the exploration teams from various forces appeared.
Those were golems made of iron… war machines named ‘Titan’!
“What the hell is this?!”
Amid the violent electromagnetic humming and the shocked shouts of many exploration team members, a metal giant over five meters tall, constantly spewing cryogenic vapor, stepped over all shattered rocks and entities on the road, emerging from the darkness and mist.
Its form was massive yet sleek, covered with a matte silver anti-beam coating armor, presenting a semi-crystalline structure, with shiny, spider-like multiple eyes observing all 360-degree directions simultaneously.
It held a shield in one hand and a beam rifle in the other, raising its weapon amidst a bird-like sharp screech.
[Detected experimental subject riot—suppressing dangerous magical beasts within the laboratory]
Humming— the lattice on the beam rifle began charging layer by layer, and in an instant, a pink beam shot out, directly hitting the leading few exploration team members who couldn’t dodge in time.
“This is an intelligent war unit from a past civilization!”
After all, the members of the exploration team are specialized in exploring high-level ruins, and upon seeing this Iron Titan for the first time, someone exclaimed, followed by an urgent warning: “Be careful! Their beam rifles can melt through ordinary armor suit! Water and Earth series Sublimators create water mist and dust fog to attenuate the power!”
But reacting to the warning also takes time.
Within those brief seconds, the awakened iron war units had already launched ruthless slaughter—even though the high-power beam rifles cannot fire continuously and are obstructed by the mist, they could still use body-mounted machine guns and spare metal blade axes to fight back.
For a time, the team, who thought that closing in would handle it, was shredded, suffering heavy casualties.
In this situation, the vast majority of exploration teams opt to retreat temporarily when encountering these iron titans executing suppression missions. Even Second Level Sublimators find it tricky to deal with these war machines.
However, in the face of true powerhouses, these war units are not enough.
“There are so many war units—damn, I should have realized that a biological laboratory producing various Dragonblood Exobeasts couldn’t possibly lack sufficient force to suppress potential magical beast riots?”
Gaer, the son of the Great Khan, looked grim. His team had already sustained casualties, which made him extremely furious… like a feeling of having his own food snatched away by other beasts.
Although he wouldn’t literally eat his comrades, the extreme possessive and violent desires coursing through his bloodline made him subconsciously restrain himself to maintain a sense of ‘calmness’.
But this calmness was just the tranquility before the storm. Once Gaer could no longer control his ‘calmness’, the hungry wolf in his bloodline would be unleashed… At that time, it wouldn’t be these ancient machines killing his companions.
Therefore, he was forced to show a bit of his true skills.
With his knife-wielding hand raised, the air around Gaer twisted like flowing water, then ripples appeared—violently oscillating air powered the specially designed long sword, causing its blade to vibrate at high frequencies.
High-frequency Blade.
The blood of the Azure Sky Royal Court’s Great Khan is the [World-Devouring War Wolf], an extremely rare dual-element wind and earth bloodline.
Legend has it that the first Great Khan of the Royal Court acquired a pure earth attribute World-Devouring Wolf bloodline, yet due to his astounding talent, the Great Khan forcibly integrated the wind element he excelled in, becoming the first known strong figure at the Fifth Energy Level to leave behind altered bloodline inheritance in history.