Outer Gods invade, stuff them all into your equipment inventory.

Before him was a massive furnace.

This is a towering steel behemoth.

The blast furnace, tens of meters high, rose from the ground, its interior emitting a continuous roar.

The outer wall of the furnace is made up of hundreds of thick metal plates.

Each metal plate was engraved with densely packed gear patterns and rune grooves.

The textures and grooves faintly glow with a dark red light.

The furnace is conical in shape, with a bottom circumference of at least twenty meters.

The furnace body narrows as you go up, with a thick exhaust pipe extending from the top and disappearing into the shadow of the dome.

At this moment, the furnace is running.

With a sharp whistle, the three gates at the bottom of the furnace opened simultaneously.

A blast of scalding air, accompanied by sparks, erupted out, followed by a group of figures emerging from behind the gate.

This is a gear-type monster with a humanoid silhouette.

Their bodies are flat, resembling an upright gear.

The edges of the gear disk were ground to produce sharp teeth.

These monsters have very short limbs, which are not their organs of movement.

These limbs are mainly used for steering and braking; when actually moving, they still rely on the torso's gears rolling forward along the ground.

"Spiked Blade Guards!"

Sean had seen information about this kind of monster in the materials left to him by Lon Dai.

The Toothed Guardian is a common monster in the Gear Abyss, known for its high-speed rolling charge and sharp gear-like body.

They are adept at using the terrain to accelerate, and then use their own rotating gear-like bodies as weapons to cut through enemies.

Once hit by their rolling momentum, even heavily armored units would find it difficult to withstand that level of cutting force.

With a wave of his hand, Sean summoned the knightly mechanical blade demons behind him, who immediately sprang into action.

The leading knight, Blade Demon, charged ahead, his metal war wolf letting out a low roar.

The silver beast reared up on all fours and charged toward the group of toothed guards who had just emerged from behind the gate.

Behind it, several other knights with sharp blades followed closely, forming a triangular assault formation.

The fanged guards also noticed the approaching enemy.

Their flat, gear-like bodies began to spin faster and then rolled along the ground, heading towards the direction of the Knight Blade Demon.

Two torrents of steel collided violently in the space in front of the furnace!

Then--

The outcome was decided in an instant.

The fanged guards' prized cutting attacks were utterly ineffective against the knight's blade demon's defenses; however, the knight's blade demon's counterattacks could inflict substantial damage on them.

In just one exchange, with the swing of the battle blade, one after another toothed guards were cut off from their gears, their bodies split open, and they were thrown to the ground.

The rolling attacks of those serrated guards were like child's play in front of the Knight Blade Demon—

Their gear-like cutting ability couldn't even penetrate the skin of the Knight Blade Demon, leaving only shallow white marks on its body surface.

He was then easily killed by the Knight Blade Demon.

In the blink of an eye, the group of toothed guards who poured out from behind the gate had all turned into scattered gear fragments and a large amount of metal debris.

Meanwhile, the Knight Blade Demon was completely unharmed.

Sean stood at the back, watching the overwhelming battle, a slight smile playing on his lips.

These Blade Demons possess forty percent of his physical attributes, which already overwhelms the Tooth Blade Guards in terms of attributes.

Moreover, each of them possesses at least two inherited skills from the Knight profession.

Sean felt it was only natural that he was able to win so quickly.

"But... this furnace can't be that simple, can it?"

Sean did not let his guard down.

Sure enough—as if to confirm his premonition, the three gates that had just closed emitted a dull, mechanical clicking sound once again!

"Click..."

The heavy metal gates slid open slowly to both sides again, revealing the furnace behind them, glowing red in the firelight.

But unlike last time, this time what emerged from behind the gate was not a toothed guard, but another kind of monster.

This is a mechanical body in the form of a walking turret.

Their base is a large ratchet mechanism consisting of dozens of closely meshing ratchet teeth and gears.

Above the base is a rotating metal observation column about 1.5 meters high, with its surface covered with heat dissipation grooves and reinforcing rivets.

At the top of the observation column is a huge eyeball.

His eyes slowly moved, scanning everything around him.

"Ratcheted Sentinel!"

Sean recognized the monster.

Among the materials Long Dai gave him was a hand-drawn illustration of this kind of monster.

These ratchet sentries did not immediately launch an attack after emerging from behind the gate.

They each moved to their positions in front of the furnace, and the ratchet mechanisms on their bases began to make rhythmic "clicking" sounds.

At that moment, all the ratchet sentries' eyes were fixed on the direction where Sean was.

Immediately afterwards, their base ratchet began to rotate at high speed, and at the same time, a row of launch ports suddenly sprang open on the side of the observation post—

Inside, there were countless iron arrows, each as thick as a finger.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"

The next instant, a dense whistling sound tore through the air.

Countless iron arrows rained down on Sean and his Blade Demon Legion like a storm!

Sean hadn't expected these ratchet guards to be so uncivilized.

Clang, clang—the iron arrows struck Sean's Iron-Eroded Devourer Armor, sending sparks flying.

The defensive power of the Iron-Eroded Devourer Armor was fully demonstrated at this moment.

Those iron arrows, strong enough to pierce ordinary steel plates, struck this armor but left nothing behind; they were immediately deflected and fell limply to the ground.

He was not injured.

But he was very annoyed.

"I was ambushed by a group of monsters?!"

"My sister-in-law can tolerate it, but my uncle cannot!"

"Wizard's Thunder Prison!"

With a low shout, a blue-white ball of light flew to the position above these ratchet sentries.

The next moment, amidst lightning and thunder, a cage of lightning enveloped all the ratchet sentries.

Violent arcs of electricity leaped and weaved between the cage bars, crackling and popping as they enveloped all the ratchet sentries!

The ratchet sentries were trapped in the sudden lightning cage, their red eyes flashing violently, clearly in a state of confusion.

Before the ratchet sentries could react, the lightning bolts falling from the wizard's lightning prison struck their metal shells one after another like divine punishment.

One after another, the ratchet sentries were reduced to useless slag under the ravages of lightning, collapsing on the ground in front of the furnace, emitting black smoke.

Those turret monsters that were just firing arrogantly a moment ago have all turned into a pile of lifeless metal scraps on the ground in the blink of an eye.

Sean stood outside the cage, coldly watching the ratchet sentries trapped in the lightning prison, constantly being electrocuted. The anger in his heart finally subsided a little.