Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 635: The Secret God of War - Alexander
"We can't break this shield at all..." Layton said with a hint of despair, "This shield is the same as the shield of the cyborg below. The energy supply comes from the ruins itself... With our firepower, it is absolutely..."
"I don't believe it! We've come this far. Regardless of whether we can break it open or not, we have to try!" a pilot of a Thruster mech shouted excitedly. Before others could say anything, he suddenly released the limiting valve of the mech's power reactor and rushed at full speed towards the prophet who was in the center of the platform and was directing the "ritual".
The thruster simply dropped the shotgun in its hand, and sharp steel claws extended from the ends of the ten fingers of its two mechanical arms, tearing open the armor on its abdomen and exposing the core module of the power reactor.
This is the "hidden ultimate move" of the "Thruster" series of machines, and also the most powerful attack of this machine. It gathers the energy released by the over-limit power reactor into one point and explodes it out. Its destructive power is even more terrifying than direct self-destruction.
But not everyone can use this "hidden trick". First of all, after releasing the power reactor limiting valve, the power of the power reactor must be manually controlled by the pilot - if the power is too low, it will not reach the threshold of energy burst; and if the power is too high, it is very likely that the entire power reactor will be blown up directly. A pilot who can achieve precise control can be considered to be at the ACE level in terms of technology alone.
Secondly, regardless of whether this hidden ultimate skill was successfully unleashed or hit the target, the machine that used this skill would immediately lose its combat capability - even if the power reactor did not explode on the spot, its scrapping was a foregone conclusion. If this ultimate skill was used on the battlefield, it would be almost the same as mutual destruction.
Moreover, since the use of this ability requires the removal of the protective armor of the power reactor, the airtightness of the safety cabin will be destroyed, and the pilot whose cockpit is directly above the power reactor will inevitably be exposed to the extremely high dose of radiation during the energy explosion... As for the actual survival rate of pilots who have used this hidden trick, perhaps only the person in charge of the front-line field hospital knows.
"Don't!!"
As soon as Layton finished speaking, the thruster crashed directly into the reactive shield - it must be said that the pilot had a very accurate grasp of the timing, and he detonated the power reactor just before the body and the shield collided, allowing the erupting energy to hit the thick shield at zero distance.
But in this case, it would be almost impossible for the pilot to escape from the cockpit in time - he launched this final charge with the determination to die.
The deafening explosion and blinding light almost simultaneously obscured everyone's vision and hearing, but the subsequent shock wave was even more terrifying than the one Ke Lan had just triggered - fortunately, everyone was prepared this time, with the Blasphemer mechas with fully activated shields standing in the front, followed by several heavy solid shields like door panels... Although these mechas were forcibly pushed back dozens of meters, they finally managed to completely block the shock wave.
But the thruster that crashed into the energy shield had completely disappeared. Not even any wreckage was left. Only a pool of red molten steel radiating on the ground not far away left a trace of the machine's existence.
"One of the main features of the 'Reactive Shield' is that the greater the attack it receives... the stronger the feedback attack that erupts will be. There's no need for everyone to... go and die!" Layton shouted.
"No, the attack just now was effective." Ze Luo suddenly said, "I can feel that the strength of the shield was weakened by 0.62% at the moment of the explosion. Although it recovered quickly, if we calculate it proportionally, the actual strength of this layer of shield is only about one thousandth of the outer shield of the core tower."
"So, the energy source of this reactive shield is not the same as the shield of the ruins itself?" Ke Lan had already crawled up from the ground at this time. Although the living armor on his body was blown into pieces and the deep red color was completely covered by charred black, at this moment the armor on his whole body was repairing itself at a speed visible to the naked eye. It is estimated that it will be restored to its original state in less than a minute.
"I can't be sure about this." Ze Luo shook his head.
"If the explosion of a Thruster's power reactor can reduce 0.62% of the shield, then as long as 160 Thruster mechas explode at the same time... or an attack of equal strength, we should be able to break this shield!" Layton was excited at first, but then his eyes dimmed again. "But the problem is... even if we count the power of everyone on this platform, we can't put together an attack of that magnitude... unless the battleships in the sky can bypass the outer shield of the core tower and directly attack this shield."
"Is there no other way?" The commander of the mobile force clenched his fists and stared with red eyes at the prophet who was less than 200 meters away from them. Although as a grassroots commander, the intelligence he could obtain was not much with his authority, but he also knew that the man in the black robe in front of him was most likely the real "prophet". As long as he could be eliminated, the war could be ended.
But now, a not-so-thick light curtain completely blocked this possibility - the enemy was clearly in front of them, and they were only one step away from victory, but they couldn't take this last step no matter what. How could they accept this? !
"Ke Lan, what should we do now?" Leighton couldn't remember how many times he had asked this question along the way, but in this situation, he really didn't know how to deal with it - this feeling of powerlessness that was difficult to express in words deeply permeated his heart.
"If there is no way to break the shield, then we can only retreat." Ke Lan said word by word, "If we continue to stay here, all of us will surely die."
More and more plasma flowed out from the bottom of the copper pillar under the prophet's feet, almost covering the entire platform, and began to fall along the edge of the platform. Several soldiers on the edge of the platform just turned around and glanced, and immediately let out exclamations.
"What's going on?!" Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the exclaiming soldiers. Ke Lan and Sanshisan almost ran to the edge of the platform at the same time and looked down -
The location they were in could be said to be an excellent "viewing platform", which allowed them to have a panoramic view of the entire Ancient Bronze City ruins. The sectors of the ruins began to rotate, and countless cracks appeared under the feet of the troops entering the city. Countless soldiers and mechas fell into these cracks and were crushed by the huge gears and mechanical modules that were meshing with each other in the cracks...
As the sectors moved, the cracks began to expand and the ground began to tilt, pushing the fleeing soldiers together, and then swallowing them up through the cracks like a huge mouth of the abyss - the entire ancient bronze city ruins was like a giant flesh and blood grinding wheel, and no one could escape from it!
"This... this..." The commander of the mobile force knelt on the ground with a dejected look on his face, "The ground forces... are all wiped out...?"
"Is this the trap set by the prophet?" Ivan couldn't help but turn his head to look at the figure who was still guiding the ceremony, "But... the ceremony is still going on..."
At this moment, the platform suddenly shook violently, and everyone suddenly realized that the height of the platform was rising - no, not only the height of the platform was rising, but the entire ancient bronze city ruins were rising!
"What's going on? The ceremony hasn't ended yet?" Layton asked in astonishment while trying to control the balance of the body.
"Of course not." A voice that was unfamiliar to everyone except Ke Lan sounded on the platform, "The sacrifice has just been offered, how could the ceremony be over?"
Only then did everyone realize that the person who was speaking was actually the prophet himself, but his voice was not coming from the center of the platform, but from all directions.
"Use the 100,000 lives in the city as sacrifices to awaken the greatest legacy He left to the Alpha civilization and give it a soul... I hope that before you die, you can remember its name - the Secret God of War: Alexander!"
"A... Alexander?" Of course, Layton knew that the commander of Fleet Zero was named Alexander... but the Alexander mentioned by the prophet was obviously not the same person.
"Alexander... is this the original name of the ancient bronze city ruins?" Ke Lan asked.
"Yes. It is not a fortress at all, but a mobile weapon restored by the Alpha civilization according to His will..."
In a trance, Ke Lan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his mind, and fragments of memories about "Alexander" came flooding in...
Secret Army God: Alexander is the ultimate mobile weapon created by the Alpha civilization based on a race that is hostile to "Him". In addition to the title of "Secret Army God", the Alpha people also call him "God of Machinery" or "God of War"...
"Strange, there are weapons made according to the appearance of the enemies of the gods they believe in, why do they call it 'God'? Isn't this a blasphemy to 'Him'?" Ke Lan's doubts only appeared in his mind for a moment, and then he was overwhelmed by the massive amount of information. Pictures related to "Alexander" flashed before his eyes one after another. The amount of information and the speed of emergence even exceeded the processing limit of Ke Lan's brain... So much so that in the eyes of others, he stood there as if he was scared silly.
The original design concept of "Alexander" was a mobile fortress that could operate on its own, repair and transform itself, and possess self-awareness and complete thinking logic. It took three hundred years to draw a preliminary outline of this version of the design drawings alone... Tens of billions of technical difficulties were placed before the technicians of the Alpha civilization. Considering the technological level of the Alpha civilization at the time, this was a completely impossible task.
It was not until the god they believed in dropped the corpse of a mechanical creature on Alpha that the research and development work achieved a substantial breakthrough - the Alpha civilization directly used the corpse as the skeleton of "Alexander", and many core problems were immediately solved...
The ruins of the ancient bronze city - no, it should be called "Alexandria" now - slowly "stood up", and a metal colossus ten thousand meters high suddenly appeared on the plain.
Its trunk is a conical fortress made up of countless buildings, broken down into countless floors and walls to form heavy armor. Hundreds of towers are connected to each other by bridges in mid-air, and rows of thick pillars are arranged on its neck... As for its head, it is composed of a "core tower" surrounded by numerous towers and buildings like the moon surrounded by stars.
In addition to his torso, Alexander also has two giant mechanical arms as majestic as mountains supporting the ground. On these two giant mechanical arms, countless gears stained with thick blood and hanging with broken corpses are turning... The smallest of these gears is the size of a human palm, and the largest has a diameter that exceeds the length of a "Yao" class aircraft carrier battleship. But no matter whether it is the largest gear or the smallest gear, they are perfectly fitted together, driving this mechanical weapon that seems to only appear in legends.
Looking at such a large number of gears, the first thing that came to Ke Lan's mind was the difference engine that symbolizes "steampunk culture"...but compared with the things in front of him, the difference engine can only be regarded as an "enlightenment-level" machine.
The fleet in the air continuously poured ammunition and energy at "Alexander" - it is no exaggeration to say that with this level of firepower, not to mention flattening a fortress, it is even possible to sink the Ark. However, when bombarding "Alexander", it could not even break its shield.
An aircraft carrier battleship seemed to want to replicate the operation of the "Qilin" colliding with the Leviathan, and suddenly turned the rudder to rush towards Alexander's torso. However, before the aircraft carrier battleship touched Alexander's energy shield, a beam of light shot out from Alexander's chest and split the aircraft carrier battleship in half!
