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Chapter 284 Super-powerful Rock Digging Machinery

The super-large rock excavator, also known as the Cobra excavator, is named for its resemblance to a giant cobra. Its function is to excavate large-scale machinery.

Players can encounter this mechanical monster at the deepest part of the second stage, "Pyramid," in Metal Slug 2 and its enhanced version, Metal Slug X.

Because of its enormous size, players can only see its wide-open mouth that is constantly swallowing upwards in the game, and cannot see its entire body at all.

In some ways, it's more like a tunnel boring machine than an excavator.

Its wide-open mouth has an internal structure very similar to that of a tunnel boring machine. It is better at digging holes than excavating. However, due to its shape, it is actually better at swallowing and destroying tower-shaped buildings than digging holes.

Like Cheng Tian, ​​many players probably have a very deep impression of this mechanical BOSS, because the scenes involved in its BOSS battle are more oppressive than many big BOSS battles.

Players control a squad of peregrine falcons who can only jump and climb upwards on a tower-shaped cylinder. Meanwhile, the super-powerful rock-cutting machines with their mouths wide open will keep swooping up the tower and biting at you. If you don't jump in time, you will die in the terrifying mechanical maw.

The Mechanical Serpent is a rare vehicle in the entire gaming world, specializing in "destroying tower-shaped structures".

The unit currently devouring the Black Tower is none other than the Ultra-Digging Machine, which has been further enlarged in size!

Each level of the Black Tower is essentially a compressed space that has been interfered with by the source of the demon. The size of the tower body is far less than that of the internal space. Cheng Tian's super-powerful rock-cutting machine is designed to be able to swallow the tower body whole!

The mechanical serpent in the original work also has a name called "Nero," which Cheng Tian quite likes, so he continued to use that name.

The blueprints for this machine were naturally derived by Billy Gates through reverse engineering of the wreckage destroyed by the Peregrine Squad inside the pyramid. However, due to its extremely limited application scenarios and the high cost and materials required for its manufacture, it has no manufacturing value under the current wartime conditions. Therefore, the Gates Foundation does not have, nor does it intend to put, this mechanical serpent on the market.

At most, we can just throw the blueprints up there and see which sucker is willing to buy them.

As a result, Cheng Tian used the Black Pearl's creation privileges from Ys Origins to manually create one.

Of course, since it was done by taking a shortcut, the ownership of this item is tied to the Black Pearl, making it a "limited-time story item".

And most importantly, even though the Twin Goddesses have almost perfectly recreated all of Nero's combat skills with the Black Pearl, there is one thing that makes this engineering vehicle impossible to truly control and drive.

That is, the corresponding energy source is lacking.

In theory, as long as there is enough Cleria ore, it is indeed possible to power such a behemoth. However, the problem is that the Cleria ore vein has been sealed by the Twin Goddesses, and it is not possible to take it out easily in the short term. The pitiful amount of ore "exploited" from the players is simply not enough to support such a behemoth. It can only be extended and laid out in a "vein" manner throughout the entire body as Cheng Tian requested.

So...

Click click click click click click click~~~
Inside the cockpit of Nero the Cobra, engulfed in flames, Cheng, whose body was completely devoid of flesh and blood, was having his once pristine white jaws clashing rapidly under the flames, as if in laughter. Meanwhile, the mechanical snake frantically gnawing at the outer walls of the Black Tower was also spewing out the same flames.

Ghost Rider form! Hellfire enchantment! Vehicle hellification!
The super-powerful rock-digging machine "Nero the Great Serpent" has been imbued with life through the enchantment and modification of Hellfire, becoming a colossal tower-devouring monster, a hellish serpent, that walks between life and death!
The flames emanating from the giant serpent's entire body were genuine hellfire infused with angelic power, and Cheng Tian's magic directly replaced the energy needed to power it. Of course, with Cheng Tian's current mental attributes not even reaching their peak, it was simply unrealistic to expect him to control this terrifying behemoth for an extended period... but Cheng Tian possessed a vast reserve of soul fragments!

The Hell Serpent, which has already devoured more than half of the first level of the Black Tower, opens and closes its mouth, surging upwards each time. Cheng Tian's mana bar drops rapidly, like water leaking out. At the same time, in the inventory space that Cheng Tian deliberately made room for, azure potions appear endlessly.

This is a mana potion that can be directly exchanged with the goddess using soul fragments under the tower defense counter-attack rules.

Each recovery restores around 50 points, and theoretically, it would take 8 bottles to fully restore Cheng Tian's mana... but it doesn't have a cooldown!

Cheng Tian's mana bar was leaking like crazy, but the mana regeneration potion, which wasn't on cooldown, was still replenishing at the same time.

Meanwhile, the presence of Bazett, Saul, and a host of projections continued to generate soul fragments for Cheng Tian.

We can hold on! We can absolutely hold on! Victory is just a matter of taking down the Black Tower first!
boom!
The sudden, intense vibration from the fuselage made Cheng Tiankong's hollow eyes involuntarily look out of the cockpit. He then saw Dareth, his eyes filled with panic and anger, begin to gather his magic power, which was full of negative human emotions, and create a large number of magic missiles to bombard the hellish serpent in the tower.

Possessing the "source of evil," Dares understands the essence of the Black Tower better than anyone. Yet, the colossal entity before him can devour it and inflict almost irreversible damage. The implications are clear—

This fiery hellish serpent must have used a large amount of pure Cleria ore!

Destroy it! We must destroy it with all our might!

Darres's judgment was correct; the Cleria ore did indeed provide the most crucial "defense-breaking" effect in destroying the creations of the Demon Root, but two factors further amplified this effect.

One is the Hell Serpent's inherent attribute of "200% increased efficiency in destroying tower-shaped buildings".

The other one is the "911" title that Cheng Tian is wearing at this moment.

Since the Twin Goddesses were built entirely in imitation of the Black Tower, the White Tower automatically acquired the "Twins" attribute when it was located in the same area as the Black Tower.

Having twin attributes and being a tower-shaped building, how will it be treated?

Faced with Dares's magic missile attack, Cheng Tian, ​​the boss inside the Hell Serpent, responded by summoning a large number of golden sanction arrows from a distance. With low damage, high frequency, and superior mechanics, he clashed with the magic missiles. Meanwhile, under Cheng Tian's control, the main body accelerated its devouring of the Black Tower.

The giant serpent leaped upwards again, and its mechanical maw, now infused with Cleria ore, opened and closed once more.

Just as the Hell Serpent completely devoured the first level of the Black Tower, Dares was struck as if by a heavy blow. At the same time, all the remaining monster units belonging to the "Crying Domain" on the entire battlefield exploded on the spot, turning into countless fragments of souls!
The first level of the Black Tower, the Azure Cry Domain, is shattered.

All wind-type monsters in the Azure Cry Realm will no longer spawn.

Five more floors until the Black Tower is completely swallowed!
(End of this chapter)