Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1018: Final Battle (V)
Following the beasts are a group of "magic beasts" that only appear in fantasy works. The most tricky thing about these "magic beasts" is that they not only simulate the appearance, but can also display some special abilities.
All kinds of electric arcs, flames, and colorful energy rays raged on the battlefield. No one could explain why the flames spewed out by these monsters could burn in a vacuum environment, but it was obvious that this was not a visual effect - two soldiers who were unable to dodge were swept by the flames and burned into two pieces of charcoal in the blink of an eye.
"The switching speed is too fast. I can't catch the gap..." Ivan murmured.
"What switching speed?" The Hound asked after a pause.
"If these simulated monsters want to use their special abilities, they must simulate the corresponding organs," Ivan said. "For example, if they want to spray flames, they must have an organ that can secrete flammable materials and oxygen. If they want to spray venom, they must have venom glands... Having these organs is equivalent to having weaknesses. If you blow up those glands that spray flames, the monsters will burn themselves or explode... But when I attacked the bodies of those monsters, their body structures became meaningless mimicry structures, with only the shapes of those organs but no actual functions."
"Then the only way to deliver a fatal blow is to attack them when they attack, right?" Zhuo Ligetu reacted instantly.
The monster standing in front of him was a Hydra that had only appeared in myths and legends. Each of its nine heads had different abilities. Even if one of its heads was blown up, a new one would immediately grow from the broken neck.
Just as the fourth head of the Hydra began to spew flames, Zhuo Ligetu rolled over and approached almost closely. He leaped up suddenly with the help of the thrusters behind him and split the head that was spewing flames with his battle axe. With a silent explosion, burning sticky fluid suddenly splashed out from the broken head. The fluid was contaminated on the other heads, and the flames immediately spread all over the body of the Hydra.
Some fuel was also on Zhuo Ligetu's body, but he quickly scraped off the fuel with a dagger in the first place - space combat suits are all made of flame-retardant materials, and there is no oxygen in a vacuum environment. As long as the fuel secreted by the Hydra is removed, the flames on his body will naturally go out.
Before everyone had time to be happy, they saw the fused individuals gather together, stacked on top of each other, fused together, and finally turned into a tall humanoid machine - when they saw the outline of this humanoid machine, many soldiers on the deck subconsciously took a step back.
They were not unfamiliar with this humanoid machine... In fact, many soldiers present had survived that brutal battle - although the air force fleet did not suffer too serious losses in that battle, they had witnessed with their own eyes the tragic scene of the annihilation of the front-line ground troops.
"Ah...Alexander!" a soldier shouted.
The Alexander he was referring to was naturally not Major General Alexander, the commander of Fleet Zero, but the giant who awakened from the ancient ruins after the Bronze City mechanism was activated - "The Secret Military God Alexander"!
The humanoid giant machine in front of him was a scaled-down version of Alexander, but still over a kilometer tall. The surface of the giant machine was covered with metal armor engraved with mysterious inscriptions and crystal circuits, and the huge gears meshed with each other, giving each part of the giant machine amazing mobility in an incredible way - before the main structure of the humanoid giant machine was assembled, its arms had already launched an attack, flattening two anti-aircraft turrets that were desperately attacking it.
"What Alexander... what a piece of shit!" Hound cursed. He picked up the last individual missile and pulled the trigger directly - the humanoid giant machine was so big that he didn't even need to aim and lock it - the missile equipped with a crystal energy bomb warhead whizzed out of the barrel and headed straight for the most conspicuous gear shaft on the chest of the humanoid giant machine.
A huge fire exploded in the air along with the unique blue flame of the crystal energy bomb, and the humanoid giant machine was completely unharmed - what blocked the missile was a layer of energy shield with a colorful luster!
"Damn, this thing even simulated the shield generator... Ugh!" Hound spat, "It's even more disgusting than the Leviathan at that time."
Generally speaking, there are only three ways to deal with targets with energy shields - the first way is to pour firepower crazily on the shield, directly hitting the shield generator's energy transmission efficiency and a lot of consumption efficiency, causing a gap, or directly overload, and the shield will naturally disappear; the second way is to use large-mass physical weapons to forcibly break through the energy shield. As long as the weapon is not , it can attack the enemy hiding behind the shield; as for the third way, it is to use the gap between the energy shield and the main body to launch an attack, because the shield cannot be close to the main body, otherwise it will only burn the target protected by the shield together - Alexander also had an energy shield at the time, but Ke Lan and others were still able to move on its surface because there was a gap hundreds of meters wide between the shield and Alexander.
Ivan turned around and said to Zhuoligetu, Asano Akira and the others, "Sanshisan just sent me a message. He said he has a way to send people behind the energy shield, but it is extremely dangerous to get close to this humanoid giant. You decide for yourselves."
"What are you hesitating about? Let's go together." The hound still wanted to show off his strength, but he staggered and almost fell to his knees.
"Old dog, you should take a rest... According to the data sent back by the monitoring equipment, your physical condition... is extremely bad." Layton said in the communication channel, "If you go with them, not only will you not be able to provide them with any help, but you will become a burden to them."
"Damn it... Damn it!" The Hound cursed angrily, "Then I'll stay outside and help you attract the firepower of this big guy. You guys, don't fucking die in there!"
"Don't set a flag for us. Didn't you hate this thing the most in the past?" Ivan scolded with a smile, "Are you all ready? If you are, just go ahead!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the deck under Ivan, Asano Akira, Valentina, Zhuo Ligetu and Sanshisan's feet began to flow as if it had melted. Holes appeared one after another on the extremely tough Nino alloy without any warning, and the next second, these holes swallowed them up.
Thirty-Three manipulated the Nino alloy to create an underground passage in the shallow layer of the deck of the Yaguna Tor, and the exit of the passage was right under the feet of the humanoid giant machine.
Countless Nino alloys gathered at the feet of the humanoid giant machine, forming a "ladder" that carried them up rapidly.
Valentina controlled the Blasphemer mech to continuously pour firepower on the humanoid giant machine. Her main target of attack was the exposed gears on the humanoid giant machine...
For Alexander, those gears are the most important driving mechanism. Although the meshing gears appear to be a very primitive mechanical structure, each gear actually has a very sophisticated crystal circuit and energy transmission array inside. The complexity of each gear is no less than a supercomputer of human civilization. Every time a gear is destroyed, Alexander's overall energy operation efficiency and body coordination will decrease. When the number of destroyed gears reaches a certain level, part of Alexander's body will be paralyzed and unable to move.
This information came from a paper written by a group of experts responsible for cleaning up the battlefield of the Ancient Bronze City Ruins after studying the remains of Alexander. The tactical analysis team also came to a similar conclusion after watching the "hand-to-hand combat" between the Flame Colossus and Alexander.
At that time, the Fire Colossus controlled by Ke Lan seemed to be "killing the master with random punches", but in fact, every punch of the Fire Colossus hit Alexander's joints or the places with the densest exposed gears, forcing the Prophet to give up the fight and use the "Ultimate Judgment" to make a desperate attempt.
Valentina had naturally also seen this video, and she knew that Alexander's weakness was those exposed gears...but under normal circumstances, attacks from the outside could not penetrate Alexander's energy shield at all, so these weaknesses naturally could not be considered weaknesses.
The Blasphemer mech's plasma rapid-fire cannon had already turned its barrel red. During the ascent of the "ladder", Valentina had broken at least two hundred gears of varying sizes - the only result achieved was to pause the movement of the giant humanoid machine for a moment, and it no longer had any effect.
The humanoid giant machine and Alexander are essentially two types of enemies... Although the humanoid giant machine is called a "giant machine", it is actually transformed from countless individual creatures with mimicry abilities. These creatures can change their body structures at will. Whenever a gear on the humanoid giant machine is damaged, the part around the damaged gear will change immediately, and "give birth" to a new gear to fill the gap.
Although this self-repair ability is not fast, it is difficult to suppress the humanoid giant machine relying solely on the firepower of the Blasphemer Mecha.
The alloy ladder rose until it was as high as the shoulders of the humanoid giant machine before stopping. The next moment, countless pairs of slender limbs grew out on both sides of the ladder - from a distance, it looked like a giant metal centipede standing upright.
These limbs suddenly tightened, and the sharp front ends pierced into the body of the humanoid giant machine. The entire "centipede" was tightly attached to the body of the humanoid giant machine, and through violent twisting, it severely destroyed the external structure of the humanoid giant machine.
"Remember, this big guy only has weaknesses when he attacks!" After climbing onto the giant humanoid machine, Zhuoligetu said loudly to the others, "There's no point in us attacking it now. It can repair itself no matter how serious the damage is!"
"Attack? Hasn't it been attacking all the time?" Ivan stabbed his tentacles into the shoulders of the humanoid giant to stabilize his body - just as they were talking, the humanoid giant flattened an anti-aircraft turret with one foot.
This was an artillery battery that survived the first two rounds of fighting. The dozen or so soldiers in the battery didn't even have time to evacuate before they were razed to the ground along with the battery.
"This attack is useless! It's an attack in our eyes, but for it, it's just a step!" Zhuoligetu roared, "Valentina just tried to attack its joints, which can indeed restrict its movements, but it can only restrict it for a few seconds. This is meaningless!"
"What kind of attack would be meaningful?" asked Valentina.
"The more powerful the attack, the more deadly the weakness exposed!" Zhuoligetu said in a deep voice, "Ultimate Judgment! If this humanoid giant can release the Ultimate Judgment like Alexander , when it uses this skill, we will attack the mechanism that emits the light with all our strength, and it should be completely destroyed!"
"But I feel like there's no need for it to use the Ultimate Judgment..." The Hound's voice came from the communication channel, "The physical attack alone is enough to kill all of us. Even if it has to use the Ultimate Judgment, it's probably reserved for Agunaktor's ultimate move."
"No... I have a way to induce it to use this skill... Thirty-three, I'm leaving it to you!" Ivan took out a container from his backpack that seemed to be carved out of a whole piece of crystal and threw it hard at Thirty-three.
An arm made entirely of flowing Ninoalloy emerged from under Thirty-Three's armor, caught the container, and then crushed it.
An indescribable powerful force suddenly swept across the entire battlefield - but the next moment, this force disappeared completely, as if the terrifying aura that everyone had just felt was just a momentary illusion.
Valentina: What is that?
"One ten-millionth of a unit of Esgo's energy." Ivan replied.
The bloody flames in the eye sockets of the thirty-three skeletons suddenly surged, and the metal centipede wrapped in the humanoid giant machine suddenly increased several times in size - the outer layer of the deck within a radius of several kilometers collapsed, and Nino alloy fragments of various shapes were attracted by an invisible force and flew towards the metal centipede, and then merged with it.
The metal centipede, whose size and mass had greatly increased, directly wrapped around the humanoid giant machine several times, tightly binding its arms and legs. The gears and the metal centipede's body rubbed violently, and dazzling sparks fell from the sky like a rain of fire... The humanoid giant machine, which was originally moving towards the human defense line, was finally forced to stop.
"High-energy reaction! High-energy reaction detected in the giant machine! There are three locations! Two are in the chest cavity, and the last one is in the waist and abdomen! The specific coordinates have been sent to you!" Leighton, who was sitting in the control room of Yagunakotor, shouted urgently.
