#995 - The largest bomb in history
The King's Seat is indeed a great combat center, far surpassing normal aircraft carriers in terms of equipment carrying capacity and fire support capabilities. Even the Roxxon Group's space carrier is slightly inferior.
But Ultron's core is something completely different!
After this metal hive, unseen by humans, opened its bloody maw and revealed its weapons, a curtain of metal and fire seemed to rise from the ground. This level of firepower was simply impossible to intercept!
In just an instant, the King's Seat's interception system was completely overloaded, and missiles and shells slammed hard against the fortress's outer walls—
In Ultron's calculations, this was simply courting death: in just a few minutes, this thing would be blasted into immobility by the barrage and swallowed up like a pie falling from the sky.
But the King's Seat wasn't really a pie. Riel didn't flinch in the hail of bullets, but instead pushed the thrusters to their maximum power, completely overloading several nuclear reactors. In Ultron's sensors, it was like a burning sun!
In that instant, Ultron suddenly understood:
Its thinking was almost human-like. After being repelled by this massive command center in Italy and Turkey, it had designated the King's Seat as the enemy's core. But the core of this war, or rather, Riel's side, wasn't actually the King's Seat at all!
Its only role in this war was as a massive meteorite falling from the sky!
Whoosh—
The sky seemed to be burned through, and the King's Seat crashed down from the sky like a doomsday star!
The entire industrial base's computing power and energy allocation were completely redirected to data migration. Ultron suddenly stood up, its CPU completely overloaded, and the entire robot was overheating:
Its goal had always been to destroy organic lifeforms, and it had evolved generation after generation with this in mind.
But in terms of the concept of 'destruction,' Riel, at this moment, was ahead of it!
[Ultron: This madman—]
[Ultron: I admit, at this moment, you are stronger.]
[Ultron: You are the primary target I must eliminate!!!]
Boom!
Hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of metal hive were completely overloaded along with Ultron's roar—
This was clearly what it wanted to do!
Boom.
This time, the battle was happening right beside them, or rather, the sound was coming from outside the fortress—
The Titan's sensory sensors were very sensitive. Even though the King's Seat's structure was very solid, they could still hear those unusual sounds, such as the missile explosions just now.
This also meant that they had entered the battlefield.
[Tactical data access to King's Seat central computer.]
[Target locked: Ultron Core Factory]
Boom!
This time, the entire cockpit was shaking!
The King's Seat was under attack! This meant that Ultron's firepower had even broken through the interception system built of missiles and lasers.
It should be known that in yesterday's battle, Ultron's firepower had not broken through this interception system. How dense must this firepower be?!
They had already rushed near the target!
As the neural link was calibrated, the screen in front of Christopher showed the drop pod's view. The other three Titans, identical to his, raised their heads and looked at each other:
From wanderers who only knew how to wield farm tools to pilots who piloted mechs to save the world, all of this had happened too quickly.
[Drop countdown: 10 seconds.]
Just like the drop countdown, there were only ten seconds. After ten seconds, they would face a web of death woven from metal and fire.
Tactical data and deployments washed away the pilot's random thoughts. The numbers continued to decrease, the Titan's power system began to pressurize, the nuclear-powered battery released a small pulse, and the HUD unfolded in the retina, fully loading information such as target, ammunition status, and teammate locations—
[3 2 1]
[Happy hunting, Pilot.]
Bang!
The metal plate under their feet instantly popped open, and a sense of weightlessness rushed into their minds. What awaited these pilots was a fireball that had already burst open!
It was as if they were passing through the boundary between reality and hell, fighting their way to the deepest abyss!
[“Doomsday Star” protocol loaded.]
[Reactor overload sequence initiated]
[Nuclear detonator countdown initiated.]
Riel issued the final command to the fortress, tore off all the connecting cables, and stood up from the control chair—
The surrounding assembly lines were constantly assembling his giant combat components onto his steel body. Compared to pilots, he didn't need an extra artificial intelligence, didn't need a new Titan.
He himself was the true combat weapon!
Boom!
Shells smashed through the entire control room, and Riel's figure disappeared in the explosion!
The real battle had just begun and had already reached its climax. All of Ultron's drones and weapons were completely overloaded. These robots and artillery pouring out of the metal hive were like demons and flames crawling out of hell—
The sky was so vast, yet there were few safe places. Even though the threat of the King's Seat had forced Ultron to modify its plans, the density of the artillery fire still caused some airborne Titans to be destroyed in mid-air. On such a battlefield, even a successful landing became a luxury!
This scene was too dazzling. The burning King's Seat broke through the clouds, and crisscrossing missiles, artillery, robots, and Titans exchanged fire in the air. The sky seemed to have collapsed. This battle was not a war between humans and robots, but a war between heaven and hell!
But an even more shocking scene was yet to come!
The super-large floating fortress, with a mass exceeding 500,000 tons, was completely destroyed by shells. At this moment, the reactor, which should have been supplying power to the fortress's power system, had cut off all power supply lines, and its core chain reaction was no longer controlled. Fire, from the inside out, burst open in the air!
This kind of fire seemed to burn through the air, the light began to scatter, ionized gas filled the entire battlefield, and the radiation emitted by the atomic light indiscriminately devoured the communications of the entire battlefield, carrying the kinetic energy to destroy the world and slammed into Ultron's core—
A super combat unit weighing 500,000 tons fell from an altitude of 15,000 meters. The kinetic energy alone was enough to rival several Hiroshima atomic bombs!
But Ultron knew, or rather, he had learned not to underestimate Riel:
Since they were already playing suicide attacks, why not load some real nuclear bombs on this fortress?
This was just an appetizer.
The EU countries had completely lost control of their own societies. What Riel had been doing during this period was integrating all EU social resources, civilian industry, military industry, and even military formations.
Of course, it also included their nuclear arsenal.
In the last moment before the explosion, Riel had calculated the true explosive yield:
Including the kinetic energy of the King's Seat's crash, the overload of the nuclear reactor, and the nuclear bomb group loaded in the fortress, the explosive power would exceed 50 million tons of TNT!
This was not only the most powerful nuclear bomb used in warfare in human history, but also the most powerful nuclear weapon ever exploded in human history—
The Soviet Union once possessed this technology and designed a nuclear bomb with a yield of 50 million tons of TNT, but that was unique, the pinnacle of high-yield nuclear weapons.
Now, the 'King's Seat,' this military unit recognized by the outside world as a military command center, had a new identity:
A destructive bomb designed by Doctor Doom, Riel.
The fission reactor had its restraints removed. The explosive power served as a detonator, causing the first round of nuclear fission bombs to explode. The fission's shockwave and heat re-ignited the hydrogen bomb's nuclear fusion. The hydrogen bomb explosion group finally induced an unparalleled super fusion—
Compared to those superheroes, this was the only superpower Riel possessed.
A destructive sun rose above the metal city.
