Chapter 551: The Invasion of the Alchemy Civilization Begins, Living War Beasts, Mountain Fortresses

[Player ID: Scorching Underground Castle has used a [War Token] against Player ID: Yu Yuan Shelter. The invasion war will begin in one hour. Please prepare for war.]

[During the war period, Social and Trading functions will be temporarily disabled. Once the war ends, these functions will be restored.]

Yu Yuan had just finished getting the scoop about the vampire from Greenfield.

Then he received the warning about the invasion war beginning.

"Scorching?"

That name was on the list Greenfield had provided.

He seemed to be a player who had also fused civilization shards.

Yu Yuan opened the Shelter Memo.

"Alchemy Civilization? Ranked 5124 on the Leaderboard."

Was he really starting off with such high intensity right away?

Raising an eyebrow slightly, Yu Yuan looked at the soldiers on the command platform.

"The enemy will teleport into our world in 59 minutes. Monitor the teleportation fluctuations."

"Yes!"

With the experience from the Z007 Shelter incident, everyone was well-versed in handling this kind of teleportation now.

Alpha had also returned from Dead Mine Town with the Pioneering Group members who had completed their evolution.

They were standing silently in the fortress square, waiting for orders, a murderous aura thick in the air.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

"Teleportation fluctuation detected. Countdown to teleportation: 60 seconds. Transmission landing coordinates confirmed: District 13, Fairwood Avenue, Eastern District..."

"[Transmission Shift] has been activated. Teleportation landing coordinates modified. Current transmission landing coordinates: 4232·9242. Confirmed."

The soldiers on the command platform quickly reported.

Seeing this, Yu Yuan led Mie Mie and walked outside.

He wanted to see the strength of a player on the Bronze Rank Leaderboard for himself.

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[You have entered the [Riot District] area.]

[[Scorching Underground Castle] VS [Yu Yuan Shelter], player invasion war has officially begun!]

On the Green Forest Icefield, a group of uninvited guests appeared quite abruptly.

Ten massive biological alchemy war beasts appeared on the icefield.

These war beasts generally ranged from 7 to 10 meters in size, with varying species.

There were lizards with thick scales, battle bears with stiff manes, swift-mouthed wolves with gaping jaws, crystalized lightning elephants crackling with electric arcs...

But they all shared a common trait: obvious traces of modification on their bodies.

Mechanical stabilizing joints, bio-alloy armor, faint green vascular networks flickering beneath their skin.

And the driver implant pods located at the cervical spines of these Spiritual Creatures all proved the highest achievements of alchemy in biology and machinery.

Rather than calling them living creatures, it was more fitting to call them another type of vehicle.

And behind them stood a creature-like war fortress, thirty meters tall, with six tracks.

At the chest position of this war fortress was a transparent driving command room. The leader of the [Scorching Underground Castle] civilization—Naz—stood by the window.

"Hmph, as long as I get that Epic-grade ship blueprint, I can fuse with sea-war beasts. Then I'll be able to take revenge on that bastard."

Thinking back to the suggestions Ladiz and the others had made during the meeting, he sneered in disdain.

Epic-grade ship blueprints were already scarce, and those that circulated were even rarer.

Let alone the fact that Moon Shadow's Breath was offering an Epic ★★★ ship blueprint.

If he missed this blueprint because of hesitation, it would be nearly impossible to encounter another blueprint of equal value again.

Naz was not about to miss this opportunity by any means.

As for Yu Yuan Shelter?

He looked through the observation window at the endless snowy world outside.

"We've all ended up in this damned wasteland game. Where is there any safety? If you want something you desire, how can you not fight for it?"

A hint of ruthlessness appeared in Naz's eyes.

Before entering the game, he had been a death row inmate, so he knew better than anyone that to get what you wanted, you had to fight, seize, and struggle.

And that was exactly how he had come this far.

Yu Yuan Shelter had risen from Rock Rank with a fearsome reputation.

But who hadn't?

Hadn't he himself clawed his way up from the Rock Rank Leaderboard through bloody battles?

What he feared least was combat.

As his emotions shifted, the pale green liquid in the biological pump embedded in his chest began to boil.

Naz looked at the Virtual Light Screen, which showed no coordinate indication for Yu Yuan Shelter.

He wasn't disappointed either; he had already learned about this from Moon Shadow's Breath.

What intrigued him more was why, when the intel clearly said the other party was in an urban area, he had appeared on the icefield instead?

"Interesting. This guy really is something different."

Just then, he sensed a warning prompt.

He turned and sat down on the alchemy seat in the center of the command room.

[Warning! Current ambient temperature: -66°C. Life core temperatures of the war beast units and vanguard combat units are rapidly decreasing.]

Naz's eyelids twitched.

-66°C.

Damn it, Moon Shadow's Breath. This was what she called "a low temperature of minus thirty or forty degrees"?

She really was an unreliable piece of work.

Fortunately, Naz had come prepared.

"[Antifreeze Protein Carrier Injection] is no longer sufficient to handle this level of cold. We'll have to activate the [Potent Antifreeze Hormone Injection]."

Three neural connection cables on the seat linked to the three neural ports on the back of Naz's head, cervical spine, and spinal column.

His voice instantly rang out in the minds of all his alchemy warriors.

"Attention everyone. War beast units, vanguard combat units, and the Mountain Fortress will receive the [Potent Antifreeze Hormone Injection]."

"War Beast 1, understood!"

"War Beast 2..."

"War Beast..."

.....

Instantly, inside the driver implant pods at the cervical spines of those ten war beasts.

White liquid flowed through biological conduits, splitting into two streams injected into both the drivers and the war beasts.

As the white liquid took effect rapidly, the bodies that had grown stiff from the extreme cold quickly regained their vitality.

Life core temperatures rapidly returned to normal levels, and metabolic rates surged.

The same operation was carried out on the giant war machine Naz occupied—the Mountain Fortress—and the vanguard combat units suspended beneath its belly.

[Potent Antifreeze Hormone injection successful. Duration: 3 hours. Energy consumption increased by 50%.]

Naz snorted coldly.

"Activate material and energy scanning waves!"

Inside the command room, around Naz's seat, four alchemy warriors lay in implant pods, their neural ports also connected to neural cables.

As Naz's command sounded.

One of the alchemy warriors suddenly opened his eyes wide.

A detector-like device extended from the Mountain Fortress's belly, plunging directly into the icefield.

A faint hum arose from the detector.

The hum gradually intensified from low to high, and just as it reached a critical point.

A visible shockwave expanded outward from the detector.

Meanwhile, an invisible alchemical wave of a specific frequency spread rapidly along the ice surface.

It resonated with the atoms of different materials, analyzing their composition.

Simultaneously, it analyzed the energy flow within the area (earth veins, life fields, psychic energy, mechanical energy...).

As the alchemical wave spread, a detailed map of the current icefield gradually appeared before Naz.

And just as he was examining the map.

That alchemical wave also traveled through the ice to the location of the nearby upside-down cargo ship...