Colonia Storm Tour

Alice almost forgot that she was facing Artemisia, not Lin Haiyuan.

"That's really great. If we had packaged it into a construction vehicle, it would have been quite troublesome."

Lin Haiyuan replied.

Packing the construction site into a motorized construction vehicle and then stuffing it into a shredder for total destruction is a highly feasible explosive operation for ending and enhancing expert-level AI.

A few seconds later, the communication channel emitted a new communication access prompt tone.

"The Long-Ray Vision drone has completed its infiltration mission. Once the Long-Ray Vision drone establishes contact with the GLONASS satellite system, we will be able to completely infiltrate this out-of-control base and bring the out-of-control AI back on track. However, all of this will take time. Battalion Commander Artemisia, your mission is as follows: protect the equipment in the command center from being destroyed."

Odin has given a new task.

"How long will it take, Your Excellency Odin?"

Lin Haiyuan wondered how long it would take to gain control of the entire Epsilon base by hacking into an Epsilon construction site.

"15 minutes, Battalion Commander Artemisia, the Reapers created by the out-of-control base have arrived at the corridor leading to the base. Teleport reinforcements immediately: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."

As soon as Odin's countdown ended, seven Wind Magicians instantly appeared beside Lin Haiyuan, without any dazzling blue light effects—because they used the teleportation device on the warship.

"Battalion Commander Artemisia, we have just completed our mission of guarding the warship. Now, we are under orders from Political Commissar Youhua to help you guard the command center until the mission is completed!"

The Wind Magician reported that they were all carrying silver-white beam guns.

"You've arrived just in time and have been a great help. It would be a bit troublesome for me to guard the command room alone. Please stay in the command room and be ready to destroy any objects that may appear from the ceiling, floor, or walls."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he handed over the defense mission in the command room to the Burning Wind Magician who had been teleported over.

"Leave it to us. But please be extremely careful, as most of the troops from the out-of-control bases that have access to the construction site are pouring in here."

The Wind Magician cautiously reminded her.

"Ah."

Lin Haiyuan twirled the Heroic Spirit War Maiden in his hand and left the command room to meet the enemy.

From the sky above the Epsilon Mind Legion base, in FraxinusEX, one can see cyborg soldiers with strange equipment, known as "Reapers," pouring into the construction site.

Some of the Libra clones, who were originally dispatched to draw the fire of the four auxiliary magic cannons, no longer entered the battlefield but instead followed the Reapers into the Epsilon Construction Site.

Upon seeing this, Gardenia on Fraxinus EX immediately used the Convergence Magic Cannon, and the main cannon fired a golden beam of light that instantly wiped out a large number of Reapers and Libra clones that were pouring into the Epsilon Construction Site.

The Epsilon Mind Legion base AI, now desperate and reckless, began attacking itself with Antares Cannons and Hellfire Towers.

[Beep beep beep! The AI ​​of the out-of-control base is attempting to use defensive structures to destroy the construction site to prevent it from being taken over!]

Fraxinus EX issued a warning.

Gardenia and others witnessed the Epsilon Construction Site being tossed about like a tree in a storm under the attack of multiple heat energy clusters.

"Doing that will kill itself, right? It's really out of control, trying to kill itself to stop being infiltrated. Prepare to retract the magic cannon and wipe out those defensive facilities attacking the construction site."

At this moment, the game FraxinusEX, in which Gardenia is located, is no longer under attack from the evil interceptor.

Because both evil spirit lairs were destroyed by the Convergence Magic Cannon attack, if Lin Haiyuan had been on the battlefield just now, he would have seen swarms of evil spirit interceptors crashing out of control. As for the Libra clones, they were no longer a problem for Fraxinus EX; their attacks were as insignificant as tickling. Moreover, the number of Libra clones was decreasing because more Libra clones were assigned to the Epsilon construction site to deal with the magicians who had infiltrated it and the server equipment that had been infiltrated by the Clairvoyant drones.

The charging time for the Converging Magic Cannon was short, so before the Hellfire Towers and Antares Cannons could unleash their third burst of heat, the devastating beam of light swept across the defensive structures of the attack site like a brush, leaving only a shallow trench in place.

However, taking down the advanced defensive structures around the Epsilon Construction Site does not mean that Antares turrets in other locations cannot turn their turrets around to attack the Epsilon Construction Site.

"We need to destroy those defenses faster to stop them. Warships advance to the airspace above the construction site. Auxiliary magic cannons prioritize targeting the Antares turret, with the Hellfire Tower as a secondary target."

With the help of Hua Zhizi, they simply had the warships fly over and provide them with powerful firepower cover.

"If we get close to the base, those Inferno air defense platforms are very likely to launch an attack on us immediately."

Charlotte told her that there were also formidable mobile anti-aircraft weapons inside the base.

"Like World Tree Leaf 2 to 11, launch World Tree Leaf to destroy those Purgatory air defense platforms and bombard five-star missiles to eliminate those Libra clones attacking warships."

Youhua Zhizi immediately thought of another ingenious use for the World Tree Leaves: these independent CR-UNITs could also attack enemies like floating cannons or mines.

"learn!"

This operation had been known from the beginning at the Valkyrie camp, so the magician crew members were not surprised by it.

Nine World Tree leaves were ejected from the branches and then, under control, attacked targets that had not yet been reached by the convergence magic cannon.

These World Tree Leaves are used in a very explosive way. They generate defensive random fields using their built-in display devices, and then, like exploding bees, they swoop down and smash the bird heads of Antares turrets or the tops of Hellfire Towers with their hard random fields. Meanwhile, the Gatling guns, with their limited power, cannot break through the generated defensive random fields in a short time.

Therefore, we can see that these World Tree leaves, which are shaped like arrows without feathers, are like eagles, flying over and crashing into the defensive facilities before immediately rising to escape the fire of Gatling guns and other anti-aircraft weapons.

Needless to say, the five-star missiles were completely ineffective against the Libra clones. They couldn't even defend themselves with explosive darts before being obliterated in the explosion.

Another golden beam of light shot out from the main cannon, this time the converging magic cannon completely cleared away all the defensive facilities behind the Epsilon Mind Legion base construction site that could threaten the construction site.

The auxiliary magic cannon is not as powerful as the main cannon. It takes two or three shots to completely destroy the Antares turret, which is, after all, a heavy defensive building.

Now it's the turn of the AI ​​controlling the Epsilon Mind Legion base to experience the feelings of the London garrison facing the air fortress Ilicara. However, being an emotionless AI, it doesn't feel any emotions and simply dispatches anti-air units to attack the seemingly defenseless FraxinusEX according to programmed logic. At the same time, it also tries to contact the two nearest Epsilon base AIs to request reinforcements.

The Psychic Legion base AI, which is currently losing most of its main anti-aircraft firepower, has no reason not to contact the nearest AI and request the Oxidizer anti-aircraft support vehicle and the rescue team composed of Elikar and the Salamanders for assistance.

However, by the time Elikara and the fire lizard, who were still some distance away, arrived, it was too late. Elikara and the fire lizard were both slow to deploy, and as for the poison lizard airship, that thing couldn't attack air units.

- Brunhilde + The Spirit Dress of the Extinction Angel (Illustration from Volume 15 of the original novel)

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Holy crap, I got sick from high school too, damn it...

I'll leave the second watch to fate; I feel unusually cold right now.

The original illustration even included a limited-edition spirit dress; I imagine the only thing that will look like in reality is removing the fabric on the sides of the skirt and the veil on the head. As for what it originally looked like, we'll probably have to wait for the anime to come out.

Chapter Nineteen: Instinctive Action (VII)

The Libra replicants and Reapers that flooded into the Epsilon construction site immediately rushed to the command center to eliminate the enemies invading the base and destroy the infiltrated servers.

The combat effectiveness of replicants and reapers, who do not have a terrain advantage, is highly questionable when facing the Forest Plains, which has arbitrary domain amplification and protection.

Several Libra clones, facing Lin Haiyuan who was blocking their way, undoubtedly attacked her with pitifully powerful explosive darts, while the Reapers, who came from behind, blasted her with beams of heat from their heads.

These weapons are too fast for an average person to dodge, but for Lin Haiyuan, who was using Artemisia's body, these attacks were either quite obvious or quite slow.

Magicians naturally possess an advantage in intuition, and the more elite the magician, the stronger their intuition. Artemisia is an elite magician, and this intuition is further enhanced by her psychic abilities (mental power).

The thermal clusters and explosive darts all struck the spot where she had been standing, and by the time the clones and reapers reacted, the Heroic Spirit War Maiden's spear blade was already in front of them.

These magically formed gunblades easily sliced ​​through the Reaper's head cannons and mask, and then a single thrust pierced the half-mechanical man's head, which was then easily pierced by the Heroic Spirit War Maiden, becoming part of her weapon.

With a sweep of her spear, the explosive darts and thermal clusters flying towards her were all deflected by the Reaper corpses. At the same time, the unrecognizable Reapers flew to the side, and Lin Haiyuan disappeared from the spot, rushing to the Reapers, raising the spear in her hands and spinning it rapidly above her head.

Under the rapid-fire barrage of the spinning blade and the tail of the gun, the Reaper's cannon, visor, and head were cleaved in two and flew into the distance. Quickly turning around, the Reaper, whose head was split in two, gracefully dodged the heat beam and then kicked the Reaper in the waist like a soccer ball. The Reaper, spinning like a cannonball, immediately knocked over a row of friendly soldiers.

As these Reapers and Libra clones rose to their feet, the spears of death descended from the sky, ending their lives.

However, eliminating these Reapers and Libra clones does not mean that there will be no more clones and Reapers attacking in the short term. On the contrary, another wave of Libra clones and Reapers has already launched an attack.

Due to the distance and the lack of ranged weapons, Lin Haiyuan used his spear to repeatedly lift up the corpses of the Libra clones and Reapers and hurled them at them.

These corpses, which formed human shields, not only blocked all the attacks for Lin Haiyuan, but also knocked down some Libra clones and Reapers.

She used the corpses as cover to get close to the Reapers and Libra clones, wielding her spear like a storm of pear blossoms, piercing and knocking down a large number of Reapers and Libra clones.

Meanwhile, the seven magicians who remained in the command room witnessed a scene straight out of a horror movie: an alien monster descending from the sky.

"Wow, are these monsters also a result of genetic mutation?"

The magician stared in astonishment at the monsters falling from the sky, then fired his beam gun, piercing through several of the monsters that had fallen from the ceiling.

"There doesn't seem to be any other explanation, but why do these monsters look somewhat familiar?"

As the magician spoke, he also fired his gun, eliminating the monsters that were falling from the sky.

"Thinking about it, I also have a feeling that I've seen this somewhere before..."

The magician pondered for a moment and then suddenly realized, "I remember where I've seen it before, the facehugger from the movie Alien!"

"What?! A facehugger!"

The magician was so startled that he immediately shot and killed a string of monsters to calm his nerves.

"No wonder it looked so familiar, it's a facehugger. But isn't that a monster from a movie? Why is it here?"

The magician had a bad feeling.

"I don't think anyone in this world has ever gone to the planet Sedus and then brought along a monster that shouldn't have been there while passing by an asteroid. Plus, the colors are so different, it can only be attributed to genetic mutation, right?"

The magician couldn't think of a reasonable explanation other than genetic mutation.

"The possibility of genetic mutation is infinite, so if you're unlucky enough, a monster similar to the Alien could appear. Fortunately, such a genetically mutated monster is just a shell."

Alice's voice came through the magicians' communication channel.

"Yes, just as Chief Alice said, these facehugger-like monsters are surprisingly fragile, and we also have the protection of the Free Domain, so these monsters cannot break through our defenses."

The magicians felt that they were not like the almost unarmed humans in those alien movies; those monsters that seemed terrifying to ordinary people were nothing more than that in their eyes.

“If those monsters from movies really came to Earth, they would definitely cause disaster. We must eliminate these monsters on the moon forever, even if they only look similar.”

Lin Haiyuan knew very well that Epsilon had not created any more monsters after producing the two monster soldiers, the Spirit and the Poisonous Lice.

“In that case, we would need to deploy more autonomous cameras and World Tree Leaves to search the moon, which could take a long time.”

The first thing Hua Zhizi thought of was relying on the reconnaissance equipment in "FraxinusEX" to find these genetically mutated monsters that shouldn't be in the World Tree.

"No need. When the time comes, FraxinusEX will return to the Colonia Flanking Air Base as planned. Then you can go back to the Colonia Flanking Air Base to rest. We will then teleport FraxinusEX to Antarctica. We will leave the remaining survivors on the moon to the drones."

Alice can currently only deploy Terror Drones on the moon, but Terror Drones are perfect for dealing with monsters that are helpless against metal armor.

"Can we also use drones to deal with those genetically mutated clones?"

Gardenia asked in confusion.

"No matter how robust those genetically mutated clones may appear, they cannot withstand the slashing of a terrifying drone's titanium alloy dismantling claw."

Alice still didn't believe that these lunar berserkers had any ability to perfectly deal with the terrifying drones without having the initiative.

In fact, a better option would be the Megalodon mech plus the Megalodon reinforcement tower. Those lunar berserkers would be quickly "evaporated" by the energy field around the Megalodon mech, especially when there are a lot of Megalodon mechs. The only fate awaiting those swarming berserkers would be to be cut in two by the plasma blades or evaporated by the energy field.

"learn."

A gardenia responded.