When the Gorgon Lord that was as large as an aircraft carrier appeared above the forest, all of the soldiers could not help but tremble.
A thick and almost tangible malice and an apocalyptic presence swept through the entire forest, and a low, strange sound like a hurricane blowing through a valley came from within the metal monster. Just by looking at the enemy in the thunderclouds, Charlemagne and the normal soldiers he brought had a feeling that they could not fight against it.
It was not that they lacked courage, but the monster in the sky was something they could not fight against.
This point, when Hao Ren saw the Gorgon Lord open its mouth and spit out an air-to-surface missile, he understood it clearly.
This was totally different from what they had agreed on!
"Rheia, activate your shield!" Without a second thought, Hao Ren summoned an air-to-surface missile from his dimensional pocket and blasted it at the Gorgon Lord in the sky as he shouted at Rheia, and the latter immediately realized that the normal soldiers would not be able to survive in such a battlefield, and so she raised her hand to create a hemispherical barrier, and enveloped Charlemagne and his sister as well as the normal soldiers within it.
The Gorgon Lord in the sky roared as a dark red crack opened up in front of it, and a few more missiles shot out from the crack as they bit the tail of the first air-to-surface missile towards the enemy on the ground.
Graeme's eyes were filled with platinum lightning in that instant, and he placed his lightsaber beside him as his left hand opened up in the direction of the missiles as he roared, "Repulsive Field!"
An invisible force field formed in front of him as the incoming missiles were deflected in the air, and two of them flew into the forest far away, and blew up two small mushroom clouds in the forest, while the rest of the missiles unavoidably landed near the group of people, but with Rheia's divine barrier, the shockwave from the explosions did not affect the people under the protection of the barrier.
And the anti-air missile that Hao Ren summoned hit the so-called Gorgon Lord after a brief burst of acceleration, and a huge ball of flame exploded on the head of the metal monster, but all it did was create a rippling barrier.
It was not surprising that the thing had a barrier, after all L 'Haronne's airships all had shields, but for the shield to easily block a graviton missile was rather surprising, and that made Hao Ren immediately raise the threat level of the target by more than half.
And just as the alloy 'manta ray' in the sky opened up layer after layer of weapon ports and dropped more missiles and heavy aerial bombs, another loud rumble came from the other side of the forest.
Everyone turned towards the direction of the sound, and saw a second Gorgon Lord rising from the forest in a cloud of thick smoke and heat. It had a round body like a giant worm and a large number of floating turrets around it, and the seemingly bloated body had many criss-crossing 'veins', and just like the first Gorgon Lord, it was also made of metal, but it also had a biological structure.
That was the Gorgon Lord that Graeme and his comrades had encountered earlier.
"Everyone be careful! Its beam cannons are very powerful! "
Graeme warned loudly, and just as his voice faded, the Gorgon Lord with the sea of floating turrets let out a low rumble, and its body suddenly lit up with countless lines, and the floating turrets around it also lit up, and then hundreds of laser beams ignited the air, and left trails of fire as it blasted at the area where Hao Ren and the rest were standing.
But Rheia's shield easily blocked all the attacks, and it did not even shake a little.
Graeme looked at the expressionless Rheia in shock, and finally realized the 'little girl's' illogical strength.
But the two Gorgon Lords in the sky seemed to have been angered, and the two giant steel monsters let out an even louder rumble as a dozen holes opened up in their abdomens, and a large number of strange splits spewed out from the holes towards the stubborn bunch of 'humans' on the ground.
Graeme let out a roar, and the lightsaber in his hand grew brighter, and the Knight of the Broken Blade was shrouded in a blurry shadow as he valiantly charged towards the metal insect-like or alloy beasts, and all of them were sliced in half by him, while the incoming laser beams and missiles passed through his body as if they were phantoms.
But he clearly could not keep up this god-like offensive, the Gorgon Lords that flew in the sky and acted as motherships were the real threat, and if he could not destroy them, no matter how powerful the Knights of the Broken Blade were, they would eventually die from exhaustion, and that was how Graeme's companions fell before him.
"Sigh, and here I thought it would be easy." Rheia saw that the situation was going against her plan, and could not help but sigh as she took a step forward to take action herself, but before she could, Hao Ren called out to her from behind. "Rheia, you deal with the one with the floating cannons, leave the rest to us. Try not to die in one piece!"
"Got it, got it," Rheia waved her hand nonchalantly as she walked into the sky, "Even if I'm just a shadow, I'm still very powerful, I don't need you to tell me that. Oh right, Charlemagne and Awenna, don't you and your men leave the barrier I've left behind, with your physique, you'll die if you leave … "
Before her voice trailed off, Rheia's tiny figure had already disappeared into the air, and no one saw her movement, but Hao Ren noticed that the Gorgon Lord with the floating cannons had suddenly slowed down.
He relaxed a little, and turned his gaze towards the 'Manta Ray' that was throwing missiles and heavy bombs, and the latter seemed to have noticed its real enemy. Just like how the Emissaries would always attract each other, when the two of them faced each other, they would also sense each other. Hao Ren felt that he had been locked onto by multiple observation devices, and he was sure that if there was a third party view, he would have seen at least 20 lock-on boxes on him.
The head of the 'Manta Ray' that was the size of a mothership glowed bright red, and following that, two main cannon beams shot out from its' mouth ', and rained down on the ground beside Hao Ren, and everywhere the beams passed, there was a series of explosions.
Behind Rheia's barrier, Hao Ren turned to look at Vivian and Lily, "You two help hold that thing off."
He then knocked on the MDT's shell, "Send me onto that thing's back."
"It's all right — stand firm!"
As the MDT's voice trailed off, Hao Ren felt a sudden sense of weightlessness, and the next second, the scene before him was a sky dyed red with smoke, and the Gorgon Lord's silver-white alloy body.
He stood on the back of the alloy 'Manta Ray' that was as wide as a deck, and around him were bright and dense electric arcs. The arcs were formed by the lightning field around the Gorgon Lord, and without a doubt, its purpose was to prevent enemies from getting close.
If not for Hao Ren's barrier, he would have been able to hold out for quite some time in the electric field, and such a defensive measure without any blind spots would have been a real pain in the ass.
Hao Ren was certain that if the imperial army or Charlemagne's personal guards were to come up, they would be burnt to a crisp in less than half a second.
The Gorgon Lord quickly sensed the uninvited guest on its back, and the sound of metal scraping against metal came from not far away. Hao Ren saw a gap in the metal armor a few dozen meters away from him, and then four cannons rose up from within, and with a series of explosions, the close-range cannons spat out a torrent of metal at him.
"F * ck —"
Hao Ren cursed under his breath, but his hands did not stop, he had already gotten the MDT to roughly scan the situation below, and with a slash of the Godslayer beneath his feet, the alloy armor was sliced open, and he fell into the hole.
But there were still a few cannons that hit him.
Looking at the reduced shield capacity, Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully the cannons were not as powerful as expected, if it was the Gorgon Lord's main cannon, he might not have been able to take it head-on with his face.
He then started to observe his surroundings.
It was a narrow passageway, and while it could allow one person to pass through, it was obviously not a normal passageway for personnel, but more like a backup passageway for equipment maintenance. On both sides of the passageway, a large number of metal components and pipes were exposed, as if there was no intention of sealing them in the first place, and at the end of his vision was a half-opened metal gate. It seemed to have encountered a mechanical malfunction, and could not close completely.
The battle outside was still ongoing, and the metallic 'manta ray' was extremely unstable inside, as vibrations and strange noises came from all directions, and there were all sorts of warning lights flashing non-stop in the passageway, but other than that, there were no signs of any internal security robots jumping out to cause trouble.
The MDT floated in the air as it sensed the surroundings, before projecting a series of arrows in Hao Ren's vision. "The most frequent exchange of information is just up ahead, and if I'm not wrong, that should be the control zone."
Hao Ren nodded, as he gripped the two swords of the Cosmic Shard tightly in his hands as he walked forward, and in this cramped place, the two single-handed swords were obviously more suitable weapons.
While he had asked Rheia to leave her body intact, it would be best if he could preserve both of the Gorgon Lords.
This thing had seriously exceeded L 'Haronne's current level of civilization, but it was also different from the illusions in the Black Forest, and looked more like a product of a third civilization. On this tiny planet, for three or more products of civilizations to appear at the same time, and this made Hao Ren think about the multiple cycles of destruction and rebirth of this world, as well as its unique property as the 'only fragment of the universe'.
Looks like this journey … was the right one.
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