Chapter 117 - 82: Warehousing a Nuke

Chapter 117: Chapter 82: Warehousing a Nuke

"Kill!"

The elite Martial Artists of the Yang City Public Security Bureau let out a furious, unified roar, surging to the forefront like a torrent from a burst dam and pouring into the Star Gate.

Close behind them.

Came the civilian Martial Artists of Yang City.

From white-haired elders to youths in their prime.

At this moment, all of them erupted with astonishing fighting spirit.

They fastened their special-issue black oxygen masks, gripped their weapons tightly, and with a resolve that stared death in the face, merged into the steel torrent of the counter-attack!

Lin Yi stood in the center of the formation, the cold oxygen mask clinging to his cheeks. He gripped the Owl Dragon Long Spear with both hands, its tip glinting like a distant, cold star in the dim light.

He took a deep breath.

He felt the Qi and Blood Power surging through him.

With a single step, his figure vanished into the deep vortex of the Star Gate.

The cross-realm expedition!

The counter-attack begins!

...

The moment he stepped through the Star Gate, a scalding wave of air blasted him, almost stealing his breath. It was a mixture of Hell-like heat and the acrid stench of gunpowder and sulfur.

The scene before him was nothing short of apocalyptic.

The entire Star Realm was shrouded in black smoke and dust so thick it would not disperse. The sky was a murky, dark red, like a molten branding iron.

The ground underfoot was a field of scorched, cracked earth, radiating a terrifying heat that stung the skin. The rocks themselves had been vitrified, melted and cooled into a glassy state.

The world-ending might of fifteen "Heaven-Burning" Cloud Burst Bombs had just ravaged this land!

As for the over ten thousand remnant Pigman soldiers who had been stationed outside the Star Gate, poised to invade Blue Star once more, along with the fifty to sixty thousand fresh troops that had arrived to reinforce them...

At this moment.

They had all been rendered part of this scorched-earth Purgatory!

As far as the eye could see, the land was littered with twisted and charred hulking bodies, shattered monstrous tusks, fragmented bone armor, and reeking, severed limbs!

Some had been torn to pieces by the initial shockwave.

Others had been instantly vaporized by the thousands-of-degrees heat, or melted into twisted husks of carbon.

Still more had suffocated in despair within the kill zones, where the Cloud Burst Bombs had consumed all the oxygen!

The one or two thousand Pigmen who were lucky enough to survive were now utterly broken.

The brute strength they prided themselves on had been crushed to dust by humanity’s apocalyptic strike!

Their massive bodies trembled uncontrollably, their ugly faces showing nothing but bone-deep terror and confusion.

Just moments before, they had been massing their forces, preparing to charge into Blue Star to burn, kill, and plunder once more.

’Who could have imagined that a dozen or so seemingly clumsy iron behemoths would come flying over from Blue Star...?’

And then...

They witnessed a vision of the Fire God himself, come to unmake the world!

The sky fell and the earth shattered, with nowhere to hide from the all-consuming flames!

The air was instantly sucked away, and their lungs felt as if they had been set ablaze!

How could these terrified Pigmen possibly have any will to fight left?

Upon seeing the human Martial Artists pour out from the Star Gate like a flood tide, their only reaction was to let out shrill howls, cast aside their armor, and flee for their lives like terrified boars!

Some were so thoroughly terrified they were frozen in place, their enormous eyes filled with nothing but emptiness and despair.

"Attack! Clear out the remnants and establish a perimeter! Do not pursue too far—wait for the tank legions!"

The voice of the interim commander, Zhang Rui, boomed like thunder through the scorching air.

The command was absolute!

The Martial Artists, who had been raring to go, instantly lunged like tigers uncaged, pouncing on the terrified Pigman remnants from all directions!

"You animals! Nowhere to run! Die!"

"Avenge our fallen people! Kill them all!"

It was an utterly cathartic slaughter!

The Martial Artists moved with fluid Body Techniques, a blur of flashing blades and crisscrossing sword-light. The sound of Qi-laced attacks tearing through the air was incessant.

The remaining Pigmen were completely unable to mount a coherent defense. Paralyzed by terror, they were like lambs to the slaughter.

The battle was over with startling swiftness.

In less than a moment, every last Pigman near the Star Gate—whether they were fleeing or frozen in fear—had been completely eliminated!

The thick stench of blood, mixed with the foul odor of burnt protein, permeated the scorching air.

The Martial Artists did not advance recklessly.

They quickly formed a simple but sturdy defensive perimeter centered on the Star Gate, using the scorched rocks and massive craters for cover.

Warily, they watched the roiling clouds of dust in the depths of the Star Realm.

Just then—

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!

The heavy sound of crushing treads grew closer, making the very ground tremble.

The first main battle tank, clad in thick reactive armor, thundered as it slowly emerged from the Star Gate!

Close behind it.

Came the second, the third...

One after another, steel behemoths representing the pinnacle of humanity’s industrial might poured forth from the Star Gate in an unending stream!

Thirteen hundred tanks!

The roar of their massive engines merged into a world-shaking symphony of steel.

Their treads churned up the scorched earth as they rapidly deployed into battle formation in front of the Star Gate.

Turrets swiveled, their cold muzzles aimed toward the depths of the Star Realm, forming an unbreakable Great Wall of steel!

Once the last tank had successfully entered and completed its deployment,

Following close behind them were hundreds of equally menacing mobile rocket launchers!

They quickly moved into their designated positions, their multiple-barrel rocket launchers raised skyward like a volley of arrows waiting to be loosed, ready to pour a destructive rain of ordnance into the distance at a moment’s notice!

"Target—the Star Gate to the Pigman world! All units—advance!"

Zhang Rui’s voice, empowered by his Qi and Blood, boomed across the entire steel legion!

"Charge!"

"Grind them to dust!"

Amid the earth-shattering roars, the steel torrent thundered into motion!

The engines of more than a thousand main battle tanks let out a deafening roar, thundering toward the depths of the Star Realm and the other Star Gate that led to the Pigman world!