#996 - Trampling through hell
The sky was burning.
Ultron exhausted all its firepower, but there was no way to destroy and disarm the King's Seat before it reached the blast site—
It used all its firepower, with tens of millions of robots, artillery, and missiles fearlessly charging into the sky, but the hope of interception grew increasingly slim, forcing it to change its strategy.
In that instant, all of Ultron's weapons and robots stopped operating, dedicating all computing power to correcting and adjusting combat modes, and escaping with data.
The Iron Knights descended in a chaotic rain, roaring against metal and flames, but also in that instant, they all ceased thinking as the battlefield froze.
After all, the Latverians had only recently emerged from the old era. To them, the King's Seat, like its name, was the king's chair, a symbol of power. Even though they knew this scene would happen, they were still greatly encouraged and shocked to see Riel resolutely smash the symbol of power into the enemy's position.
Endless white light engulfed the world.
The direct vaporization zone of this nuclear bomb had a radius of 5 kilometers, and Ultron's most core units, data centers, and communication arrays all vanished—
Followed by earth-shattering tremors!
Boom—!!!
The sky collapsed, the earth tore apart, and the power of sixty million tons of TNT exploded in the air, a fireball more intense than the sun rising high, engulfing the entire steel world in endless heat waves!
This heat wave tore through the atmosphere, and the shock wave swept across everything like a flood devouring the world. Everywhere it went, all metal turned into incandescent liquid, and Ultron's industrial area, which resembled hell, truly became hell!
Near the epicenter, metal was melted into a red-hot lake of lava. In the area swept by the explosion, even sturdy metal would wither and collapse. The orderly industrial area was tilted and crooked, and robots turned into wreckage.
Flames still burned, and rolling black smoke obscured the sky. The land after the nuclear explosion became a boiling purgatory, and molten steel flowed like a river of fire, slowly flowing through the torn battlefield.
Bang.
Riel was the last to land on the ground.
The power of this bomb was indeed beyond imagination, but the scale of Ultron's mechanical hive was equally exaggerated. The explosion's impact range could reach ten thousand square kilometers, but compared to the mechanical hive covering one hundred and fifty thousand square kilometers, it was still difficult to achieve complete success.
The Iron Knights' air-dropped positions were on the periphery of the mechanical hive city, where they could clearly feel the explosion, but would not be caught in areas that would cause casualties.
At this moment, although Riel didn't need to pilot a Titan, his fully armed form was still about three meters tall. The heavy armor covering his body was full of power, and the sound of his steps on the metal floor was no less than that of a Titan.
It seemed that only the howling of the storm remained in his ears, and the world tended towards silence after the terrifying destruction.
But it wasn't over yet.
EMP interfered with wireless communication, but Riel could use the cross-dimensional communication module on each Iron Knight to transmit limited-bandwidth communications—
[Riel: It's not over yet.]
It's not over yet.
Ultron is a super AI with an extraordinary evolution speed, and eliminating it in any version is no easy task!
On the main battle line, all Ultron robots lost control, as if turning into garbage and crashing to the ground. Latverian soldiers, whose minds were interfered with by the nuclear electromagnetic pulse, thought that the explosion had played a decisive role and roared wildly!
“Kill these robots!”
The tracks of powered armor sped wildly through the desert. The soldiers held large-caliber machine guns in one hand and red-hot high-frequency blades in the other. Countless soldiers frantically shuttled through the chaotic Ultron robots, reaping the mobility of these scrap metals—
Drones completely occupied the sky after losing their opponents, carrying out round after round of bombing, round after round of assault. The advance of the front line progressed dozens of kilometers in the time before the fireball extinguished, directly reaching a position where the mechanical hive city could be clearly seen!
They cut off Ultron's logistics lines, blew up communication arrays, and eliminated mechanical soldiers, shouting and fighting happily!
But Riel's voice suddenly appeared in their minds:
[It's not over yet!]
[Combat alert: Residual units detected—]
Ultron soldiers who had fallen in the desert trembled and stood up. In the eyes of the soldiers, it was as if zombies had returned to the world, sending chills down their spines. Drones struggled to take off again from the sand, and blood-red indicator lights flashed wildly.
There was also a hoarse metallic sound!
“This is not the end.”
The Latverian soldier used the high-temperature blade in his right hand to cut the Ultron in half before it could recover, but an Ultron robot on the ground suddenly sprang up its arm and slammed the missile in its hand into the leg of a fast-moving soldier!
Boom!
“We... are still here.”
Just before the Latverian drone dropped its bomb, the factory that was expected to be destroyed suddenly regained power, and the deactivated defensive machine guns suddenly fired at the drones!
Boom!
The bomb exploded above the factory, but the drone was also hit and crashed to the ground!
Even more shocking was the core factory of the explosion:
Right in front of Riel, right in front of the Iron Knights, in the broken core hive city, countless metal arms and countless broken Ultron robots slowly crawled out from the cracked walls and earth!
Ultron changed its strategy. It did not "die" with the nuclear explosion, but completely adjusted its data structure in that limited amount of time, splitting into countless signals and hiding in equipment all over the Middle East!
EMP interfered with all communications, which meant that each of these robots was given the ability to self-iterate by Ultron.
Each one was a newly awakened Ultron.
The nuclear explosion dealt a heavy blow to Ultron, but as Riel had predicted—
They had to kill every Ultron robot and destroy every data body carrying Ultron's consciousness.
The nuclear electromagnetic pulse simultaneously interfered with Ultron and the Latverian Legion, which meant that the war had truly entered a white-hot state—
From the perspective of modern warfare, it could now be considered "melee combat."
The battle that followed was the true descent into hell, a hell constructed of metal, heat waves, and radiation, with no way out.
Pfft—
Riel's Leader's Blade directly pierced through the combat robot in front of him:
[Riel: Iron Knights, soldiers, the atomic light has cut off all of Ultron's combat networks. It can only rely on the self-combat consciousness inherent in those scraps to fight—]
[Riel: Grab your weapons, concentrate your minds. Today, we will kill through its lair. Today, we will destroy this killing machine here and end this nightmare!]
[Riel: This is hell, the hell we are about to destroy—]
[Riel: Raise your weapons, fear nothing!]
Christopher was the first to react. The Titan he piloted raised the long knife behind him, and with one slash, shattered a row of stiff Ultron robots:
“We are on the ground...”
The Titan's feet slammed hard on the corpses of these robots, looking towards the flaming cracks and underground structures:
There, countless Ultron robots with intact structures walked out of the production line, trembling as they loaded drives into their weapons.
It was hard to imagine that Ultron could still fight back after such an explosion.
This terrifying mechanical city had at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of robots.
That meant that each member of the Latverian Legion would have to kill an average of dozens, or even hundreds, of Ultron robots.
His Majesty the King was right: This was hell.
But it would be the hell they would kill through.
“Until... we trample through hell!”
The Titan leaped up and rushed towards this hell.
