Colonia Storm Tour

The Mind Control Device has only just entered the charging phase and still needs a full 10 minutes to recharge. For now, all they can do is launch an attack on the Benephedre Rebel fleet below with the arrows of the top-tier Colorleaf. Anyway, the Cloning Tank and War Factory are still mass-producing clones and war machines. If Colorleaf is not capable of wiping out a large number of troops in an instant, shooting down one aircraft in one attack is not a big deal, because the lightning and Medusa missiles of the Thor gunships and Aegis cruisers, as well as the machine guns of the slingshot hover anti-aircraft vehicles, can attack more efficiently than Colorleaf's psionic arrows.

At this moment, as more Venom Lizard airships entered their attack positions, they immediately launched a large number of plasma disc bombs at the Foehn naval warships and amphibious armored units below, bombarding them. Based on combat experience at the Pensacola Peak defense line, using Venom Lizard airships against warships with relatively fixed positions was effective in severely damaging the Foehn resistance's naval units. However, the Antarctic ice valley channel at the Pensacola Peak defense line was relatively narrow, and the naval fleet's battle formation was too narrow, which led to this result. Currently, the ice valley channel leading to the core of the Epsilon Pole base is wide, allowing naval and amphibious units enough space to maneuver and fire at the enemy. Therefore, most of the plasma disc bombs launched by the Venom Lizard airships bombed the seawater, causing a large amount of water vapor to evaporate due to the extremely high temperature. However, due to the low temperature and strong winds of Antarctica, the water quickly condensed and dispersed again, and only a few units were unfortunately hit by the plasma disc bombs or landed near them.

(Colorleaf, I sense a large number of Epsilon mind experts approaching from the sky. They are approaching our units in a fast fighter called the Soul Reaper. They are trying to use mind control to disrupt the order and control of the troops. So your attack target should be those Soul Reapers, and I need to deal with those Poison Lizard airships.)

After conveying the appearance of the Evil Spirit Soul Reaper to Se Ye via telepathic communication, Lin Haiyuan leaned forward and accelerated towards the Poison Lizard airships hiding behind the Fire Lizard airships and Evil Spirit series fighters. At the same time, he did not delay the aiming, locking, and launching of guided missiles. He shot down many Evil Spirit interceptors and damaged Fire Lizard airships, leaving a trail of smoke and a shower of missiles.

Upon seeing Lin Haiyuan flying towards them, the Epsilon units capable of anti-air immediately opened fire on him. However, his plasma shield, enhanced with the reflective attack ability, instantly activated. Aside from the swift Wraith Interceptors and Wraith Attack Ships, which escaped his ARO armor-piercing rounds, the Salamander Airship, repeating its previous mistake, unleashed a barrage of ARO rockets onto its armor, successfully blasting itself down. The Invading Saucers were also unable to withstand his dissolving ray, but the ray itself didn't cause much damage. However, some of the Heretics, who were charging towards their Salamander Airship, immediately commanded their Invading Saucers, attempting to stop Lin Haiyuan at all costs before the Salamander Airship, but it was too late.

Lin Haiyuan had already rushed to the front of a Poison Lizard airship. As the metal wings equipped with missile launchers fired six missiles in quick succession, blasting open the cockpit, he saw the captain piloting the Poison Lizard airship inside. He pounced on him, grabbed the clone captain with his bare hands, and threw him out of the cockpit. The Poison Lizard airship, now under Lin Haiyuan's control, began to fly erratically, tracing a twisted arc before transforming into a missile and hurtling towards the Plague God Siege Submarine, which was launching super-energy wave missiles. Lin Haiyuan accelerated and flew out of the cockpit of the Poison Lizard airship, which had already entered kamikaze mode. The other heretics, seeing this, cursed and immediately ordered the air defense units present to focus fire on the Poison Lizard airship in kamikaze mode. But it was too late. They watched as the enormous missile crashed into the Plague God Siege Submarine, creating a massive explosion that destroyed both the Plague God Siege Submarine and the Poison Lizard airship, creating huge overlapping ripples on the water's surface.

Chapter 181 Purple Twilight (Part 9)

Next, to the astonishment of the Epsilon forces, he moved like a superhero from comics and movies, using the speed and protection provided by his improved Garuda power armor and mind-reflection shield. He then used guided missiles to breach the cockpit's protective structure, ejecting the bewildered pilot, and then forcefully took control of the entire airship to ram into other air and submarine units. This was a classic case of using one enemy to kill another, or killing two birds with one stone. This immediately threw the artillery line of the Venomous Lizard airships into chaos, because Lin Haiyuan could accomplish all this in less than a minute and then move on to the next airship for a raid. Then they launched a kamikaze attack, and Iroha shot one target at a time, completely reflecting all attacks without showing any signs of fatigue. This ridiculous fighting style made the Epsilon heretics who were commanding the battle feel as uncomfortable as if they had eaten shit. These two scoundrels were causing chaos and destruction in their attacking ranks by using invincibility and reflective attacks. They had no choice but to hope that the Mind Control Device would finish charging quickly and blow up that pink-haired girl in a dress so that they would have one less thing to worry about. If only Iroha was invincible and reflected attacks, her stationary shooting would not have seriously disrupted the Epsilons' formation. At most, they would just not attack her.

Meanwhile, in her office, Yuri saw intelligence personnel reporting to her via the EVA system that Lin Haiyuan, wearing Garuda power armor, was using a missile to blast open the cockpit and forcibly hijack an airship to launch a kamikaze attack on her own flying units.

"It seems that his mental power level is on par with mine, or even on par with that female psychic named Seye. However, he is still a psychic and has his limits. His destructive actions cannot last long. Let the heretics continue to command the invading UFOs to intercept him. At the same time, change the deployment formation of the Poison Lizard air battleships to exhaust his stamina as much as possible."

Yuri knew that maintaining a reflective shield made of mental energy required a considerable amount of effort, and Lin Haiyuan also had to control the flight-powered armor, so she dared to conclude that Lin Haiyuan wouldn't be able to jump around in this sky for too long. However, she didn't consider that Lin Haiyuan was a being enhanced by Rahn's genetic modification, and his endurance far exceeded that of her, a mental ability user.

So, following Yuri's orders, a special squadron of intrusion UFOs was dispatched to intercept Lin Haiyuan and hinder his actions. If permitted, they were to ram into Lin Haiyuan to force him to stop or knock him away.

At this point, most of the Epsilon forces also realized that Clyde was no longer firing her powerful, trackable psionic arrows at their vehicles. However, for the psychic experts who were preparing to use Soul Reapers to cause trouble, this was quite bizarre. Clyde could accurately locate them among the large number of air units and then destroy their Soul Reaper fighters with a single arrow. Furthermore, her arrow speed was several times faster than before, meaning very few Soul Reapers could even enter the mind control flight path before being pierced and shot down by the oncoming psionic arrows. Therefore, those attempting... The plan to use mind control to create chaos on the battlefield quickly failed. As for the Lianlian Glacier Island, there was even less to worry about. Several Black Hawk squadrons had been deployed there, providing sufficient air power to destroy the Venom Lizard airships that were bombarding their defensive facilities and troops. Even if the number of enemy aircraft was so great that the Black Hawks could not attack the Venom Lizard airships, it would only require the Black Hawks to climb to a higher altitude and then swoop down to use freezing missiles to open up the Venom Lizard airships and achieve the desired effect of shooting them down.

For the next 10 minutes, Lin Haiyuan, who had been wreaking havoc on Epsilon's air attack forces, had to retreat back to his own naval front after running out of his guided missiles.

"I'll go back to base to resupply my ammunition and then come back," Lin Haiyuan left this message in the telepathic communication. He then activated the group recall function. As a pale blue light emanated from his body and his figure faded, he disappeared from his spot within two seconds and was then recalled to the vicinity of the crystal tower in the front-line combat base. Without saying a word, he immediately landed and jogged towards the Burning Wind Barracks. He needed to remove his equipment to resupply his ammunition, and also take a break and drink something to restore his energy before he could continue the high-intensity combat he had just been engaged in.

For the Epsilon heretics, Lin Haiyuan's temporary departure from the battlefield and return to their base in the ruins of Epsilon Base finally allowed the attacking forces, whose movements had thrown them into chaos, to regroup. However, when the Epsilon EVA reminded them that the Paradox Engine was expected to arrive at the perimeter of the Extreme Base in 5 minutes, all the heretics felt a chill. They knew that all their attempts to drive the Burning Wind Resistance forces out of the area had failed so far; they had not only failed to destroy their base, but they had also failed to annihilate their vanguard fleet.

Ten minutes later, all the mind control devices were fully charged, and then powerful streams of mental energy seemed to shrink into a singularity and disappear above the generator.

"Warning - A massive amount of psychic energy is gathering in your direction. Prepare to avoid it!"

Walker.net AI reminded everyone in the vanguard fleet and the hovering, firing Chroma above that the forward operating base was protected by a signal suppressor, making it impossible for the Mind Control Device to be used there. Therefore, the Mind Control Device could only be directed towards the top of their fleet, or perhaps towards Chroma, who was giving them a major headache.

Upon hearing the warning from WalkerNet AI, all warships and amphibious units quickly left their current positions and dispersed to the sides to avoid being directly in the center of mind control and being completely dominated.

(The mental energy they created using mechanical devices was indeed released towards me. It wasn't a waste of time for me to stand here for so long. His paradox engine shouldn't be bombarded by mind control right away. I should change positions and continue firing.)

As she spoke, Seye turned around on the spot, and with the fluttering of her long skirt, she transformed into a pink flash and disappeared from the original location. The next moment, another pink flash appeared in the area further ahead, continuing to use her bow and arrow to shoot at the Epsilon air units. She absorbed the firepower of the Epsilon air units and reflected it all back without missing a single one, sinking the most ferocious Salamander air warships into the sea. At this moment, several massive dynamic images of Yuri, forged from psychic energy, appeared where Seye had originally been.

“Be one with Yuri…”

Boom! Whoosh! Several waves of mental control exploded on the spot, creating huge sound waves and air currents that spread in all directions, blowing the small evil spirit interceptors, evil spirit attack aircraft and invading UFOs to pieces. However, the sizable Thor gunship and Salamander air battleship were unaffected. Of course, Seye herself was also unaffected; not even her hair was blown up.

"Heaven's net is wide, but lets nothing through."

Lin Haiyuan, speaking Tomokawa Norio's famous lines over the communications channel, flew from the front-line base once again toward the sea area where the vanguard fleet was located.

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As the sky above the battlefield darkened eerily, a large number of black thunderclouds spontaneously formed above the Demon Nest to the west, one of the signs of an impending lightning storm. Then, amidst deafening thunder, powerful lightning bolts randomly struck the ground. Since the Epsilon forces had already withdrawn from the storm's area of ​​effect, only the buildings that couldn't be evacuated suffered damage. The psionic sensors, radar towers, hellfire towers, and mind control towers—these four types of tower-like structures were essentially lightning rods in appearance. Therefore, the lightning storm instantly blasted these defensive towers apart. However, because there weren't many tower-like structures, and because the lightning strikes occurred above the Demon Nest, the interior of the Demon Nest was immediately struck dozens of times and left in ruins. The Demon Nest itself wasn't completely destroyed, only damaged, but the Aether Light Cannons placed around it were damaged, and many of the cloning jars surrounding the Demon Nest were also destroyed. In summary, the Lightning Storm only repelled the surrounding Epsilon forces and destroyed some facilities, without causing serious damage to the Epsilon defenses in the area. The Evil Nest on the southern glacial island, targeted by the storm's origin device, was not so fortunate. Located at the center of the "Summit Storm" cyclone, its external structure was easily torn apart by airflows with speeds comparable to those of a gas giant planet. The concave structure allowed even more wind to rush in, wreaking havoc on the Evil Nest's underground launch systems and tunnels. The surface defensive structures and production facilities were quickly torn to shreds by the violent airflow, spinning rapidly and making the airflow even more deadly. Although the affected area was smaller than the Lightning Storm, the concentrated energy release of the storm rapidly transformed the entire Evil Nest into a massive landfill. Furthermore, while the Lightning Storm's thunderclouds had exhausted their energy and dissipated with the extreme winds, the Summit Storm's cyclone energy was only half depleted. It could cause massive airflow disturbances that prevented light Epsilon aircraft on the periphery from flying normally. They would either be blown into the sea by the wind or collide with friendly forces. Even the air fortress Ilicara was shaken by the wind waves. With the rumbling sound of the storm, the cyclone of the climax storm finally turned into a visible shock wave that swept across the surroundings, blowing away infantry and light vehicles, overturning medium vehicles and some small and fragile buildings. Even heavy vehicles were pushed several meters by the shock wave. After the shock wave of the climax storm completely dissipated, the Aether Light Party Platforms deployed around the Evil Nest were destroyed and could only be dismantled and rebuilt rather than repaired and reused. Most of the production facilities were also destroyed by the storm. The upper part of the entire glacial island looked like a mess. The Evil Nest here also lost the ability to launch and land Evil interceptors and other Epsilon aircraft. [The Western Wraith Nest was severely damaged by the lightning storm, and its production facilities suffered heavy losses. However, the unidentified giant defensive structure was only slightly damaged and not destroyed. It is expected that they still have the ability to produce a large number of troops to attack, and can also repair the unidentified giant defensive structure to continue to maintain a deterrent against us.] [The Southern Wraith Nest has been paralyzed. There are very few Epsilon production facilities left on the Southern Glacier Island. They can no longer produce a large number of troops to attack us. The unidentified giant defensive structure has been damaged beyond repair. Epsilon will not have time to rebuild the unidentified giant defensive structure.] Walker Network AI displayed this notification message on the giant monitors of all commanders. This made all commanders have the same thought at the same time: the lightning storm of the weather control machine was useless. The apex storm created by the storm origin device was more reliable. It not only directly destroyed the Wraith Nest, but also ravaged the entire Glacier Island. As a result of the two superweapon strikes, the offensive intensity of the Epsilon forces attacking the frontline combat base was immediately reduced by about 80%. However, more Salamander and Venomous Lizard airships are landing from high-altitude orbit, and a large number of airdrop pods are also landing. It is expected that their offensive intensity will gradually recover to its original level. Meanwhile, the offensive intensity of the Epsilon forces attacking the vanguard fleet remains unchanged. With their mobile construction technology, they can quickly rebuild the damaged production facilities. Similarly, more airships and airdrop pods are landing from high-altitude orbit. It is expected that their offensive intensity against the vanguard fleet will further increase. Therefore, the current situation is that the Burning Wind Resistance has only weakened part of the reserve force of the second line of defense of the Epsilon Extreme Core Base. “We still have to wait for our Paradox Engine to arrive to solve the problem, unless we can deploy more Storm Origin Devices and replace that Weather Control Unit with one.” Seeing that the Lightning Storm’s effect was not ideal, Shinonono Tsukasa decisively ordered the removal of the Weather Control Unit, which had become impractical, to avoid wasting precious time. Without further ado, the EVA system immediately executed his order, dismantling the Weather Control Unit with construction robots. Then, the prepared Furnace Construction Site released a swarm of nanodrones that could be deployed as Storm Origin Devices. A new Storm Origin Device was immediately built and began charging. Meanwhile, the experimental teleportation platform deployed inside the base immediately used spacetime acceleration on the newly built Storm Origin Device. The experimental teleportation platform itself still had room for improvement, so Shinonono Tsukasa further improved it by adding a powerful Kedarin Crystal for spacetime acceleration. Just like the spacetime acceleration provided by the Protoss Nexus, it can increase the production efficiency of affected buildings by 50%. If necessary, it can be deployed on defensive buildings such as plasma fortress cannons to speed up the charging speed. Of course, the experimental teleportation platform equipped with Kel'dan crystals is currently the only one on this battlefield, so it can only accelerate a Storm Origin device whose charging progress is slightly behind. It's important to note that their Kel'dan crystal reserves are limited, with most being used to build Inspirers and Mohandar-class Void Radiance Ships. Since both the Foehn and Epsilon are currently using the same satellite network system, the footage of the experimental teleportation platform accelerating spacetime at the newly established Storm Origin device was immediately noticed. "Hmph, it seems the research team on the Flaming Wind Rebellion's side is truly formidable. They've even integrated the Protoss's spacetime acceleration technology into their experimental teleportation platform. We've lost our technological advantage." Lacking a technological advantage means a certain degree of disadvantage on the battlefield. The best proof is that they can no longer randomly open wormholes to send large armies over the Flaming Wind Rebellion forces. However, they can't solve the malfunctions of the Scrin wormhole generator and the enhanced hyperspace teleporter. Worse still, they can't confirm that these malfunctions were caused by the Flaming Wind Rebellion. Their research team hasn't discovered any problems with the technical principles either. Therefore, a terrifying suspicion is circulating within Epsilon: someone is secretly sabotaging things, but they have no idea who it is. Moreover, with the malfunction of the mind control network and the Flaming Wind Rebellion's rapid advance into Antarctica, they no longer have time to worry about this. The final battle for survival has arrived, and they can only rely on all the resources at their disposal to solve the problem.

Chapter 182 Purple Twilight (Part 10)

"Our attempt to bomb her with mind control had already been detected. Our mind control only hit the air, creating shockwaves that blew away our small aerial units and disrupted both sides' formations. It did nothing to harm her. Moreover, the supreme commander of the Foehn Resistance has returned to the battlefield to continue his sabotage."

Epsilon's intelligence agents conveyed to the heretics and Yuri via Epsilon EVA that the plan to use mind control to severely damage psychics had failed.

The heretics, seeing Iroha teleport away from her original spot on the giant monitor's battlefield view, knew that Mind Control was about to explode. So, they had already covered their faces or sighed and pounded the table. Therefore, they just sighed and continued to command their troops. Yuri had been paying attention to the battlefield situation, so she did not wait for EVA's words before making the corresponding expression and saying the corresponding words.

"In five minutes, the Paradox Engine will reach the outskirts of my Extreme Core base. Let all our Mind Control Devices aim at their Paradox Engine. If we can unleash all our Mind Control on their Paradox Engine, we might be able to severely damage and shoot it down. But the Foehn Resistance will certainly not allow our Mind Control Devices to be aimed at their Paradox Engine. So deploy Condensation Towers to protect our existing Mind Control Devices as much as possible. Hopefully, we can activate all the Condensation Towers before they use Time Stop."

Yuri knew that once her Extreme Core base fell within the influence range of the Paradox Engine's Sigma Tuner, Lin Haiyuan, the opposing player, was clearly a MO player who knew that the Mind Control Device's Mind Control could be used to severely damage the Paradox Engine. Therefore, he would definitely prioritize destroying the Mind Control Device while they were immobilized. Thus, she could only gamble on using the Condensation Tower to protect the Mind Control Device after one time stop. If she could preserve two Mind Control Devices, she would have a chance to severely damage the Paradox Engine. If they were lucky enough to destroy the Sigma Tuner section and disable their time-stopping ability, then the balance of this final battle wouldn't tip in their favor simply because the Burning Wind Rebels had time-stopping abilities—more Mind Control Devices could... "Bathing" the entire Paradox Engine, blowing its upper part into ruins, would render the relatively thin engine unusable for combat, even without its time-stopping ability. It would either have to crash-land on the sea or attempt a similar blunder like Tassadar's drunk driving into the Mind Ender Device. If the Paradox Engine were used as a whirlwind, only an ICBM could rival its crash power, but there's no more expensive whirlwind in the world—while the Paradox Engine is 24km long and about 10km wide, it lacks the density and mass to match its aspect ratio. If it did possess the same density and mass, even with a powerful enough engine, its mere presence on the sea surface would trigger visible tides.

However, Yuri Abel's core plan is to annihilate the vanguard and operational bases of the Burning Wind Rebellion, rebuild the defenses, and prepare to intercept the Paradox Engine to buy time for the Mind Ender's modification project.

Still, they failed to achieve their goal. As long as Lin Haiyuan and Seye remained in the sky above their vanguard fleet, it wouldn't be difficult for them to stop their air offensive, given their Thor gunboats and the Aegis cruisers and slingshot hover anti-aircraft vehicles on the sea. Furthermore, their vanguard fleet would occasionally receive support from the rear fleet that arrived ahead of time, making it impossible to wear them down. The evil spirit soul-stealers, originally intended to cause trouble, suffered heavy losses. Battle reports showed that the vast majority of evil spirit soul-stealers were hit and destroyed by psionic arrows before they even entered the mind control flight path, with no survivors. Their submarine fleet suffered heavy losses against a large number of destroyers and Osprey anti-submarine aircraft. The piranha mini-submarines, which required swarm operations, were ineffective against swarms of kappa hover tanks and crocodile vehicles. The giant squid, which had some destructive power, performed poorly. These giant squid exposed themselves to the enemy when slapping at ships and amphibious units, and they were so fragile that they could be completely destroyed by one or two shells.

The Plague God's siege submarine's super-energy wave missiles were intercepted by anti-aircraft fire. Due to the existence of slingshot-mounted anti-aircraft vehicles, there were almost no reports of super-energy wave missiles hitting their target locations. Overall, their naval and air force offensive fleet made little progress. The attack on the Burning Wind Resistance's operational base, which was located on their horizontal glacial island ruins, was also not going smoothly. The signal suppressor could prevent them from releasing support skills, making it impossible to break through with support skills. Their usual burrowing attacks were just cannon fodder against the Reversal Warriors and Chrono Legionnaires who filled their operational base. It was impossible to deal with the Reversal Warriors and Chrono Legionnaires with numerical superiority, because the Reversal Warriors and Chrono Legionnaires could be deployed in very tricky positions, even on top of base buildings for a high-altitude attack. The Tyrant Tank's three-barreled machine gun had no depression or elevation angles... so it was a real pain.

Their most formidable asset, the Venomous Lizard airships, also encountered difficulties. Numerous Black Hawk helicopters could effectively shoot down their Venomous Lizard airships and evade ARO rocket attacks using their speed. Invading UFOs would be dealt with. If the Venomous Lizard airships managed to maintain a small group just outside the range of the Skylight anti-aircraft guns and Shrike anti-aircraft drones, they could also shamelessly activate the Explosive Furnace's explosive barrier. The high-pressure, high-heat airflow constantly rising into the high altitude could quickly disrupt the magnetic field maintaining the plasma disc bombs, thus achieving the detonation effect. The massive explosive force of the plasma disc bombs would also be dispersed and neutralized by the high-pressure, high-heat airflow. Even though the Explosive Furnace needed time to recharge, it bought time for the air force to re-deploy. Meanwhile, the Storm Origin and Weather Control Unit had completed charging, and the powder weather crystal emitted... A pink light, followed by a pink energy beam crackling with lightning, shot into the high sky above the pole. The cyan wind cluster generated inside the Storm Origin Device also quickly disappeared at the midline point, and the device structure reset. In the upper left corner of the combat control panel of the commanders of Epsilon and Foehn, a warning message appeared that the Storm Origin Device and the Weather Control Machine had been activated. The Weather Control Machine cannot be activated for multiple reasons, mainly due to weather manipulation limitations. Performing two identical weather manipulations at the same time will cause mutual interference. Although the Storm Origin Device also uses weather control technology, it does not create thunderstorms to release lightning storms to bombard targets. Instead, it concentrates the wind generated by the mechanical device to a certain point to form a cyclone, so there will be no mutual interference. This also means that it is feasible to use the Storm Origin Device and the Lightning Storm at the same time.

After releasing their internal energy, the Storm Origin Device and Weather Control Machine began to recharge for another weather control and attack. However, they noticed through their telepathic sensors that the Lightning Storm and the Climax Storm were both aimed at the Wraith Nest, so they could only focus on evacuating the surrounding troops and advance the battle line to avoid further losses.

Chapter 183 Purple Twilight (Part 11)

Soon, as the sky on the battlefield turned eerily dark, as one of the signs of the approaching lightning storm, a large number of black thunderclouds formed unnaturally above the evil spirit nest on the west side. Then, amidst the booming thunder, powerful lightning bolts randomly struck the ground. Since the Epsilon troops had already withdrawn from the area affected by the lightning storm, only the buildings that could not be evacuated suffered damage.

The telepathic sensor, radar tower, hellfire tower, and mind control tower—these four tower-like structures were essentially lightning rods in appearance. Therefore, the lightning storm instantly struck and destroyed these defensive towers. However, since there weren't many tower-like structures, and the lightning was released above the Necromancer's Nest, the Necromancer's Nest was immediately struck dozens of times and became dilapidated. However, the Necromancer's Nest was not completely destroyed, only damaged. But the Aether Light Cannons placed around the Necromancer's Nest were damaged, and many of the cloning jars placed around the Necromancer's Nest were also destroyed.

Overall, the lightning storm only repelled the surrounding Epsilon forces and destroyed some facilities, without causing serious damage to the Epsilon defenses in the area.

The Evil Spirit Nest on the southern glacial island, targeted by the storm's origin device, was less fortunate. Located at the center of the "Summit Storm" cyclone, its external structure was easily torn apart by airflow comparable to that of a gas giant planet's storm. The concave structure allowed even more wind to rush in, wreaking havoc on the nest's underground launch systems and tunnels. The surface defensive structures and production facilities were quickly ripped apart into countless tiny fragments by the violent airflow, which spun rapidly, making the airflow even more deadly. Although the affected area was smaller than the Lightning Storm, the concentrated energy release of the storm rapidly transformed the entire Evil Spirit Nest into a massive landfill. Furthermore, while the Lightning Storm's thunderclouds had exhausted their energy and dissipated with the extreme winds, the Summit Storm's cyclone energy was only half depleted. It could cause massive airflow disturbances that prevented light Epsilon aircraft on the periphery from flying normally. They would either be blown into the sea by the wind or collide with friendly forces. Even the air fortress Ilicara was shaken by the wind waves. With the rumbling sound of the storm, the cyclone of the climax storm finally turned into a visible shock wave that swept across the surroundings, blowing away infantry and light vehicles, overturning medium vehicles and some small and fragile buildings. Even heavy vehicles were pushed several meters by the shock wave. After the shock wave of the climax storm completely dissipated, the Aether Light Party Platforms deployed around the Evil Nest were destroyed and could only be dismantled and rebuilt rather than repaired and reused. Most of the production facilities were also destroyed by the storm. The upper part of the entire glacial island looked like a mess. The Evil Nest here also lost the ability to launch and land Evil interceptors and other Epsilon aircraft.

The Western Wraith Nest was severely damaged by the lightning storm, and its production facilities suffered heavy losses. However, the unidentified mega-defense structure only suffered minor damage and was not destroyed. It is expected that they still have the capacity to produce a large number of troops to attack, and can also repair the unidentified mega-defense structure to continue to maintain a deterrent effect on us.

[The Southern Wraith Nest has been crippled, and the Epsilon production facilities on the Southern Glacier Island are nearly exhausted. They can no longer produce large numbers of troops to attack us. The unidentified giant defensive structure has been destroyed beyond repair, and the Epsilons will not have time to rebuild it.]

WalkerNet AI displayed this notification message on all commanders' giant monitors, which made all commanders have the same thought at the same time: the weather control machine's lightning storm was useless, and the climax storm created by the storm origin device was more reliable. It not only directly destroyed the evil spirit nest but also ravaged the entire glacial island.

As a result of the two superweapon strikes, the offensive intensity of the Epsilon forces attacking the frontline combat base was immediately reduced by about 80%. However, more Salamander and Venomous Lizard airships are landing from high-altitude orbit, and a large number of airdrop pods are also landing. It is expected that their offensive intensity will gradually recover to its original level. Meanwhile, the offensive intensity of the Epsilon forces attacking the vanguard fleet remains unchanged. With their mobile construction technology, they can quickly rebuild the damaged production facilities. Similarly, more airships and airdrop pods are landing from high-altitude orbit. It is expected that their offensive intensity against the vanguard fleet will further increase. Therefore, the current situation is that the Burning Wind Resistance has only weakened part of the reserve force of the second line of defense of the Epsilon Extreme Core Base.

"We still have to wait for our Paradox Engine to arrive to solve the problem, unless we can deploy more Storm Origin Devices and replace that weather control machine with Storm Origin Devices."

Seeing that the lightning storm's effects were far from ideal, Shinononozuka decisively ordered the removal of the weather control unit, which had become impractical, to avoid wasting precious time. Without further ado, the EVA system immediately executed his order, dismantling the weather control unit with construction robots. Then, the prepared Furnace Construction Site released a swarm of nanodrones that could be deployed as a storm origin device. A new storm origin device was immediately built and began charging. Meanwhile, the experimental teleportation platform deployed inside the base immediately used spacetime acceleration on the newly established storm origin device. The experimental teleportation platform itself still had room for improvement, so Shinononozuka further improved it by adding a powerful Keldarin crystal for spacetime acceleration. Just like the spacetime acceleration provided by the Protoss Nexus, it could increase the production efficiency of affected buildings by 50%. If necessary, it could be deployed on defensive buildings such as plasma fortress cannons to accelerate the charging speed.

Of course, the experimental teleportation platform equipped with Kedarin crystals is currently the only one on this battlefield, so it can only accelerate a Storm Origin device that is slightly behind in charging progress. You should know that they don't have many Kedarin crystals in reserve, most of which are used to build Inspirer and Mohandar-class Void Radiance Ships.

With both Foehn and Epsilon currently using the same satellite network system, footage of the experimental teleportation platform accelerating the spacetime of the newly established Storm Origin Device immediately caught attention.

"Hmph, it seems the research team of the Burning Wind Rebellion is really something else. They've even put the Protoss's spacetime acceleration function on an experimental teleportation platform. We've lost our technological advantage."

Lacking technological superiority translates to a certain degree of disadvantage on the battlefield. The fact that they can no longer randomly open wormholes to unleash massive armies on top of the Burning Wind Rebellion forces is the best proof of this. However, they are also unable to resolve the malfunctions of the Scrin wormhole generator and the enhanced hyperspace teleporter. Worse still, they cannot confirm that these malfunctions are caused by the Burning Wind Rebellion, nor has their research team discovered any problems with the technical principles. Therefore, a terrifying conjecture is circulating within Epsilon: someone is secretly sabotaging things, but they have no idea who it is. Moreover, with the malfunction of the mind control network and the Burning Wind Rebellion's rapid advance into Antarctica, they no longer have time to concern themselves with this. The final battle for survival has arrived, and they can only rely on all the resources at their disposal to solve the problem.

Chapter 184 Purple Twilight (12)

The 50% acceleration effect of spacetime acceleration quickly allowed Storm Origin Device No. 2, which was lagging behind in charging time, to catch up with Storm Origin Device No. 1 and begin to surpass it by 10 seconds, shortening the charging time to only 5 minutes. However, this would bring a minor problem: the power consumption rate would also increase with the spacetime acceleration. Fortunately, they had already built a nuclear reactor, so the power supply problem was not a major one.

Meanwhile, the heretics on the other side watched the rapidly counting down of the Climax Storm, feeling both envious of the spacetime acceleration it provided to buildings and terrified. At this rate, they would be attacked by the Climax Storm sooner than expected, and it was only a matter of time before their second line of defense collapsed. Their Aether Light Cannons might be destroyed before they even had a chance to function—the signal suppressors they had copied using CN technology from the IS world were ineffective against the Burning Wind Resistance, as evidenced by the previous Lightning Storm and Climax Storm attacks.

However, the mere superweapon strike was not the biggest headache for the Epsilon heretics. What truly troubled them was that the countdown to the Paradox Engine's arrival at the core of the base had ended.

"Waring: Enemy Air Armada Detected."

"Waring: Enemy Fleet Detected."

"Waring: Enemy Infantry Battalion Detected."

[We ultimately failed to defeat the Foehn Resistance forces at the entrance to the Antarctic Ice Valley Passage. The Foehn Resistance's Paradox Engines still managed to bring their main force there! Our Southern Hemisphere reinforcements are breaking through the automated bases they left behind along the Pensacola Line. Encircling the Foehn Resistance is currently impossible; we can only hold on!]

As the Epsilon EVA broadcast these voice and text messages, the battlefield vision of all heretics was forcibly redirected to the entrance of the Ice Valley Passage's extreme point. A fleet of Thor gunships, now sporting more mysterious and imposing black paint schemes with eagle wings and eagle heads, escorted the unprecedentedly massive Paradox Engines as they slowly advanced. In their movement state, the stern section of the Paradox Engines prohibited any friendly air units from approaching, as the exhaust plumes and heated airflow from the high-powered propulsion engines were deadly to most air units. When the Paradox Engines and the front half of the black Warhammer Thor gunship fleet, forming an eagle-shaped phalanx, appeared in the sky, a large number of Black Hawk helicopters, Barracuda bombers, and Hummingbird support aircraft formed massive formations. Accompanied by the piercing roar of engines and airflow, the planes hurtled over the Thor gunships and Paradox engines, quickly taking off towards the air defense line formed by the Epsilon airships and small air units, preparing to launch an attack. Meanwhile, dozens of US transport planes turned from the direction of the Paradox engines and flew towards the field airfield runway at the forward operating base to begin landing procedures. Thanks to the widespread use of VTOL technology, even relatively bulky transport planes can perform short takeoffs and landings without long runways. However, vertical takeoff and landing is still impossible by design. These transport planes carrying a large number of infantrymen will not airdrop infantry passengers to the base, because they are only carrying infantry passengers on special flights, and it is not yet time for them to carry out airdrop missions.

Following the transport planes, a fleet of dark green Vulture and Pteranodon attack aircraft flew in a horizontal formation over the Thor gunships and Paradox engines, heading towards the airspace battlefield ahead. On the sea, destroyers, Kappa hover tanks, Jackal mobile vehicles, Crocodile vehicles, robot tanks, Aegis cruisers, slingshot hover anti-aircraft vehicles, battleships, aircraft carriers, Leviathan motherships, and Peacemaker cannons, along with the underwater Flat Shark support submarines, formed a mighty naval fleet arranged in a shark-like formation, starting from the northern direction of the battlefield's field of vision. This naval force, mixed with a large number of amphibious units, combined with the Thor gunship fleet dominated by Paradox engines overhead, formed a terrifying and despairing air and sea fleet entering the battlefield.

The heretics who witnessed this scene on the giant monitor, even with their considerable army and production facilities mass-producing soldiers and vehicles, still felt immense pressure. They knew that defeating the main force of the Burning Wind Rebellion was no easy task, or rather, almost impossible. This vast naval and air fleet alone was enough to instill despair in the heretics who lacked equivalent weapons. However, they would not surrender or defect because of their apparent and psychological inferiority, for they were loyal Epsilon heretics whose lives and futures were tied to Epsilon—their fates intertwined.

A good commander will not betray his army, no matter the cost, and the heretics of Epsilon proved this well. A commander without loyalty to his army is nothing.

A better commander knows when to feign betrayal when they want you to betray your army, something the Epsilon heretics cannot do, given their pervasive telepathy.

The best commanders are those who shrewdly achieve complete control and lead people toward a better life. The heretics of Epsilon are not the generals who led the Soviet army to victory in the YR world, so they are not the best commanders, but only good and better ones. Once Epsilon detects their treacherous intentions, they will immediately disappear from their current positions.

"The inevitable has finally arrived. The moment of truth has come. EVA, how many more minutes will it take our scientists to complete the modification of the Mind Termination Device?"

Yuri sat in her seat and let out a long sigh. Her expression was somewhat dejected, like a lost child, but then she shook her head, regained her resolve, and resumed her demeanor as the leader of the Epsilon.

"Our scientists report that the military needs to buy them another 30 minutes before they can complete the final steps to activate the mind control device."

The loyal Epsilon EVA gave a disheartening answer: every second is crucial on the battlefield with the Paradox Engine. Thirty minutes is undoubtedly too long, but even so, they have no choice but to hold on. Otherwise, all that awaits them is utter and merciless annihilation. The sins and punishments of this battle between good and evil will eventually befall them.

"Show all the heretics the countdown to the project's completion time, so they understand that as long as they hold out until the 30 minutes are up, only annihilation awaits the Foehn Resistance. Their first time-stopping event won't do anything to us, at least not to our Mind-Ending Device. Our scientists work inside the Mind-Ending Device, but whether they will be affected by the time stop is unknown."

No scientist who studies spacetime theory has ever been able to tell Yuri precisely that time stopping cannot affect objects protected by the phase field.

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Specifically, the scientists responsible for enabling the Mind Terminator to perform a single "Mind Domination" attack all work in the underground structure beneath the Mind Terminator. However, they are still within the protection range of the phase field generated by the phase field generator. There, they can still work quietly, but they cannot interfere with the world outside the phase field. When the Epsilon Heretics heard EVA's voice start displaying a 30-minute countdown in the lower right corner, showing the remaining time until the Mind Terminator can perform a single Mind Domination attack, their faces showed various expressions. But they all knew that they had to withstand the frenzied attacks of the Cyclone Rebellion forces led by the Paradox Engine for 30 minutes. As long as they could hold out for 30 minutes, it would all be over. The Cyclone Rebellion would be completely wiped out in the massive explosion of Mind Domination, and their final victory would come. What they had to do next was clean up the mess left by the Cyclone Rebellion and continue their previous lives, but... it wouldn't be that simple.

Compared to the demoralized Epsilon forces who were feeling downcast after Paradox Engine arrived with its main force, the Burning Wind Resistance troops fighting on the front lines were greatly encouraged upon hearing the news that Paradox Engine and its main force were already outside the Epsilon Extreme Core Base, and once again roared and cheered with great enthusiasm.

(Lin Haiyuan, Miss Seye, our last force has arrived at the perimeter of Epsilon's extreme core base and is fully assembled. We will soon be able to deliver a fatal blow to their crumbling second line of defense. However, my intuition tells me that Epsilon will not surrender so easily, nor will they simply wait for us, with our immune zone mind control, to destroy everything they have.)

Shinonono no Nakamaru's voice emanated from the minds of Lin Haiyuan and Iroha—creating a long-distance telepathic communication tool using Kedarin crystals and Protoss technology was not difficult.

(As expected, girls' intuitions are generally the same. It's just that I'm a psychic, so I know more than you, Ms. Shinobu. I just caught a fact from Epsilon's communication network through my psychic vision and telepathy: they are trying to turn that machine called the Mind Ender, which controls the minds of most people on Earth, into a giant mind control device. In 30 minutes, they plan to use it to unleash an unprecedentedly powerful mind control attack to destroy our Paradox Engine... What a mess! Such a massive amount of mental energy could destroy everything here.)

Iroha directly transmitted this newly acquired intelligence as bad news to her, who was still in the Paradox Engine command room and was surprised, through telepathic communication.

(Turning the Mind Ender into a giant Mind Control device? This seems to be the last thing Epsilon's strategists could come up with to deal with us. But don't forget we still have time to stop this tactic to deal with their seemingly flawless defense. However, their phase field generator... is the biggest variable. We're unsure whether the phase field will disappear immediately after destroying the generator, or whether it will continue to function for a few seconds before disappearing, allowing external attacks to affect it. Our time-space erasure device can't handle such a large target.)

Shinonono thought that perhaps they needed to speed up their pace. They absolutely could not allow the Mind Terminator to release a super mind control attack intact to destroy the Paradox Engine. It could control the mental energy of almost the entire Earth. If it were artificially concentrated and released in one area, this primitive and simple mental energy could not only completely annihilate the Paradox Engine, but also drag most of the poles away.

(It really couldn't be worse than this. Immediately activate a time stop so our Barracuda bombers can leisurely destroy the phase field generator protecting the Mind Ender. Once the phase field generator is destroyed, we'll know how long that phase field barrier can protect their Mind Ender. At the same time, tear apart their second line of defense and deploy our mechanical creations. Creation Punishment and the two Apex Storms are enough to reduce the not-so-sturdy Mind Ender to just a skeleton. They can't possibly use a skeleton to activate Mind Domination.)

(However, besides being able to send a pair of Barracuda bombers to destroy the phase field generator, the rest of our air force needs to go all out to eliminate the enemy forces on the second line of defense of the Epsilon Extreme Core Base. So, Miss Seye, you have to risk it with me and find a way to take down that former fortified island that blocks the entrance to the harbor where Epsilon is located. This way, we can get a breakthrough and fight our way to the Mind Terminator. Once we are under the Mind Terminator, she won't be able to use any tricks she has.)

Lin Haiyuan quickly came up with a feasible method, and then relayed it to them through telepathic communication so they could prepare to carry it out. As for other methods? There was no better way. They couldn't sacrifice all their troops just to destroy a Mental Terminator. They were there to witness and create the end of Epsilon, not to become part of it. It would be too dangerous to pile all their troops around the Mental Terminator during a time stop; that would leave most of their forces besieged by Epsilon. They had too many production facilities and troops; two minutes of time stop wouldn't be enough for them to wipe them out. Besides, Epsilon didn't only have reinforcements from the Southern Hemisphere; they also had troops from other Antarctic regions. Therefore, they had to peel away the three lines of defense of Epsilon's core base at the pole layer by layer. They had now completely breached the first line of defense, and the second line was on the verge of collapse. A single activation of time stop would allow them to wipe out the Epsilon forces around the second line of defense with overwhelming force and build their outposts. The third line of defense was the last line guarding the Mental Terminator.

Given that the Mind Stopper has a 30-minute activation time for mind control, and each activation of Time Stop requires 12 minutes to recharge the Sigma Tuner, they actually only have two opportunities to use Time Stop.

(It seems like this is the only way, but Epsilon's southern hemisphere reinforcements have already broken through the automated combat bases we set up behind our Pensacola Peak defenses. It is estimated that they will only have 30 minutes to break through all the automated combat bases and reach the pole. Even if we set up three layers of automated combat bases to block their advance and consume a lot of their combat units, their strength is still considerable. Once they enter this situation where they launch a pincer attack on us, there is no other way but to use time stop to defuse the offensive.)

After Shinononozuka finished speaking in the telepathic communication, all the Fubuki Resistance units heard WalkerNet AI's EVA voice on their communicators.

"Time stop has been activated, and the enemy forces have been frozen in the current time and space."

As the sound of an energy gate being opened and energy surging violently echoed across the earth and sky, the sky above the entire pole instantly turned monochromatic. Even the overwhelming mental power that permeated the area could no longer maintain the purple hue of the sky. The entire pole looked almost like a black and white photograph, but speckled white light intertwined and twisted in the air. Just before the time stop was activated, the condensation tower protecting the mind control device immediately released a condensation shield to freeze everything inside. The time stop in the next second still affected the objects inside protected by the phase field, but it could only affect them; external attacks still could not affect the area.

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BGM: Mental Omega - A17-Time Freeze