Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 408 363: It’s Lit Up
Not only was Wu Hen struck numb by the scene of the Hell Nine-Headed Evil City before him, but the people of Steel Eagle City were also shaken to their souls by the spectacle they witnessed.
Steel Eagle City had always taken pride in its domination of the skies. Every town and village on the ground was prey in their eyes, and their lofty city looked down upon everything, a pinnacle of Human Clan technology. Even in the splendid Cang Chu Divine Realm, their presence was dazzling. They could despise all evolving life and make even the top predators submit to their city's talons.
However, as the prologue to the Grand Canyon war unfolded, the first thing people saw was a living city rivaling their own Steel Eagle City in both technology and grandeur. If they were considered the ruling city of the skies, then this Grand Canyon City was the Demon City that reigned over Hell, even forsaking the Dark Energy Engine for the Earth Fire Furnace, making the entire Hell Level city's body burn with raging dark flames. The combination of fortresses, strongholds, and dark temples left people unable to tell if they were sacred or mad with evil. But one thing was for sure—they were immensely powerful and fiercely dangerous, nothing like the backward technology, scarce resources, and ignorant citizens mentioned in the rumors.
It seemed that the Steel Eagle City was also swayed by such an intense impact, and due to the people's wavering will, a slight error occurred. The city's wing collided with a horizontal rock column, shattering it, causing the city to slant a few degrees.
"Ascend!!"
The command was issued from the upper echelon district to raise the entire city into the sky.
But the recent tilt had affected the rapid ascent. The Steel Eagle City, which could have soared right above those nine Hell Skulls, had accidentally exposed its tail feathers to the attack range of the Earthfire Snake Castle.
The Earthfire Snake Castle released countless Refining Fires, which radiated in an arc forming a fire dome array, transforming the entire fortress into a mythical Hell beast that could swallow the world in one gulp!
The tail feathers were towers upon towers of Wind Towers, which could alter the direction of the airflows and allow the Steel Eagle City to change direction swiftly and fiercely as it raced through the sky.
Faced with a terrifying enemy assault, the commanders of the tail feathers had to operate autonomously. They immediately adjusted all the angles of the Wind Feather Towers, flipping the ascending Steel Eagle City to evade the attack from the Earthfire Snake Castle.
"Idiots!!"
"Do not change the orders on your own!"
The mayor's voice quickly reached the command layer of the tail feathers, and he once again issued a stern directive for the tail feathers to descend, and the entire Steel Eagle City had to immediately elevate to a sufficiently safe altitude.
A fraction late, other ferocious heads of the Hell Nine-Headed City also rapidly rose from inside the Grand Canyon. They were Hell Dragon Snakes, agile, strong, and savage, vying for the eagle that had mistakenly entered their territory.
"Activate the Space Static Magnetism!"
The order was given again, and the crown of the Steel Eagle City, adorned with exquisite architecture, immediately emitted a series of clear energy filaments. These filaments wove into an elliptical magnetic array that engulfed the space of a hundred miles around the Steel Eagle City.
Three Hell Skulls burrowed in, attacking with the velocity of thunder, but upon contact with the Space Static Magnetic Elliptical Array, their terrifying speed was noticeably hindered. It was evident that the faster they moved and the stronger they were, the greater the magnetic resistance they encountered in the static field, even bouncing them out of the space.
"Continue to ascend!"
The command center issued the order, taking advantage of the protection of the space static magnetism to rush toward the highest point of Wangyang Gorge.
All the Building Feathers now unfurled at this moment, and at the base of these Building Feathers, some air valves opened, with Dark Energy forming a strong jet stream that gave the entire city the power to escape all restraints in an instant, swiftly soaring from the canyon ground up into the blue sky.
From the terrifyingly profound cracks in the earth, a giant steel eagle took flight, its wings flapping at a high frequency, shattering the dark resistance of the canyon and the gravitation of the earth with its fearsome kinetic energy; and after breaking free from the ground, it returned to Cloud Sky with a shockingly extreme speed.
Horizons surged with waves of earth energy, and below the clouds, vast typhoon-like whirlpools formed. Steel Eagle City finally neared Cloud Peak, where its domain truly lay.
"Mayor, from the direction of the canyon!"
The Hawkeye District suddenly triggered a danger alarm, and the city was instantly enveloped in a red halo.
Mayor Chi Luo was about to take a deep breath of relief, but when he looked down at the transparent light screen beneath his feet, he saw the vast Grand Canyon suddenly burst into flames, as if thousands of volcanoes were hidden beneath, terrifyingly igniting into a dark red fire!
These volcanoes, at the same time, revived, and what surged beneath mouths wide enough for over ten stadiums was the most terrifying abyss magma, illuminating tens of thousands of miles of the Grand Canyon and transforming this boundless territory into a world-shaking withered flame dragon, causing Cloud Sky to instantly ignite into an evil red color!!
"Boom!!!!!!!!"
Thousands of Volcano Castles launched simultaneously, their huge pillars of fire like mountain ranges thrusting into Cloud Sky, forming an immensely majestic Purgatory Long Wall, its sharp and heated edges cutting into Cloud Peak, forever dividing the serpentine Grand Canyon into two realms!
Between heaven and earth stood a fiery red cutting canyon wall, its peak surging with Purgatory Power that also roared toward Steel Eagle City, which had just entered Cloud Peak.
The entire city was instantly engulfed by the roaring refining flames, the great city swallowed by the Flame Canyon, which had risen to Cloud Peak, lost direction for a moment.
Steel Eagle City flapped its wings to escape within Cloud Sky, yet it still seemed trapped within a Flame Canyon. The dark engines already overloaded; their roaring noise became the sorrowful cries of this Divine Eagle Sky Beast.
Total chaos reigned in the command center of the palace district; even amidst the protection of the sturdiest buildings, the pain from the intense heat was unbearable. They had to release a massive amount of indoor purification ions—these ions cooled the temperature of the command center, and only after isolating the powerful energy assaults did their minds clear somewhat.
"Mayor, we can't fly out, there's a barrier in the flames!"
"Could it be we have to fly to the end of such a huge canyon??"
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"We'd be nothing but ashes in the furnace by then!"
Mayor Chi Luo was deeply furrowed with worry, as his hawk eyes had already failed him. Surrounded by a sea of hellfire red, he couldn't think of a way to escape this terrible power.
"Is the Dark Energy Ice Liquid also ineffective?" Chi Luo asked.
"Ineffective; they're using mutated technology that makes the flames hard to extinguish."
"The cunning Wei Yan!"
"They have also been collecting our information and engineering weapons specifically against us."
"Don't panic. The crystal core shield of our city isn't so easily destroyed."
Mayor Chi Luo sat in the command chair, rapidly searching through the city's emergency response mechanisms, only to find that not one of the hundreds of disaster relief programs could counter this kind of enemy technology.
"This is bad!!"
"They... they're climbing up!"
Suddenly, the monitoring devices showed that a massive lifeform was scaling up from the Grand Canyon.
They had constructed this long wall leading to the sky themselves and were now climbing up it using the energy!
When a Flame Canyon no longer sinks below the ground level but stretches towards the sky instead, it's like setting up a ladder of flames to heaven. Grand Canyon City, stepping on the fierce flames, had ascended into the sky, transforming from prey on the ground to hunters in the dome of heaven!
Chi Luo's confidence, his belief that he could not possibly fail, stemmed from Steel Eagle City's incredible Ling Kong capabilities. How could those backward cities, which still crept on the ground, compete against a city that could soar at will through the Sky Dome?
When the wall of flame engulfed the sky, Mayor Chi Luo was not panicked. He knew someone in the command hierarchy would think of a solution; it was just a matter of time.
But when Hell Nine-Headed City climbed to the sky, his hands began to tremble uncontrollably!
He had witnessed the Evil Cauldron, which was indeed superior to their city's driving engines. They had been prowling in the canyon for a long time, not hunting, which made Mayor Chi Luo always believe that they were hiding, avoiding the sharp edge of Steel Eagle City out of fear to confront them directly.
But now Chi Luo realized they had found an earthfire fissure in the grand gorge. They were furiously absorbing the purgatory flames from beneath, providing overwhelming energy for their refining city...
Recently, Steel Eagle City had been constantly hunting, swallowing up villages and towns, even violating some basic agreements, all to fill the city with energy for the upcoming battle in a short amount of time. But how could such acts of desperation compete with a city that sat upon an energy mine?
If they hadn't recklessly attacked, if they hadn't awakened them from the canyon, they would always be in the sky. Steel Eagle City certainly held a certain advantage; at the very least, they could escape if they could not overcome the enemy.
But now, they had no capacity to resist; the enemy's strength was evident to all. Their sharp eagle talons would injure themselves rather than making a mark on the enemy's spiny scales.
Beside Chi Luo, with purple feathers in his hair, Chai Qiu was panic-stricken.
Chai Qiu looked toward Mayor Chi Luo from time to time, suddenly realizing that his old classmate Levi had been right: waging war with Grand Canyon City was the most foolish decision!
Now, they were facing a dead end, and it was all brought about by the arrogant Mayor Chi Luo himself. His aggressive intrusion into the perilous Wangyang Gorge and his provocative challenge to Hell Nine-Headed City, even attacking them without understanding their driving engines and core weapons, might mean Sky City's fall today, becoming nothing but prey and slag for others.
"We can only fight them hand-to-hand," Mayor Chi Luo pondered for a long time before finally issuing the command.
Hand-to-hand combat??
"But many of our weapons are sealed off due to overheating in this Flame Canyon, and forcibly using them would result in self-destruction!" Chai Qiu, at least, had some basic sense.
"We're not just left with those weapons; we use whatever we can!" Mayor Chi Luo cursed.
The commands were issued quickly. Most of the weaponry sealed off by the high temperature consisted of more obscure devices like wind energy, liquid energy, cold air devices...
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Meanwhile, Levi and Wu Hen in the antique weapons warehouse also received orders, giving them permission to freely attack the enemies about to climb up.
"Can we use all our weapons?" a nervous operator asked as he ran over.
"All of them are fine," Levi said solemnly.
He sat in a command chair scavenged from old relics, and there were just three people in the command room, including his deputy, Wu Hen, a complete novice to scientific weaponry, and the only operator was the young man who had just asked the question, who had just graduated from technical school, without even obtaining his internship certificate.
A defeated small-town commander, an intern, a war correspondent... but somehow, they lit up!
It was as if they had wiped a month's worth of dust off the antiques, just waiting for this moment to let them shine and heat up!!
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