Colonia Storm Tour

Lin Haiyuan immediately recognized what type of weapon these beams were, because their beam shapes were so cool and distinctive.

As the reconnaissance drones flew further forward, the anti-aircraft firepower of the higher-dimensional demons became increasingly powerful. Eventually, the anti-aircraft firepower network composed of matter decomposition waves and dimensional beams became so dense that it was impossible to evade, and only then were the last few reconnaissance drones still in flight shot down.

"We lost all the reconnaissance drones sent to scout the second leg of the route, but before that we had obtained initial intelligence on the second leg of the route ahead. Our satellite network has been confirmed to have been deceived by an unknown enemy known as the High Dimensional Demon using a large device. Now the second leg of the route is heavily fortified with anti-aircraft fire and a solid defensive line, Master."

Walker.com's AI immediately reported the investigation results.

"If you don't habitually do a lot of reconnaissance, you'll definitely get scared and beaten half to death if you rush in recklessly."

Lin Haiyuan was glad that he had sent reconnaissance drones, which he wouldn't mind losing, to conduct the reconnaissance. If he had sent the Colonia's flank air base with its fleet to suffer that kind of attack, it would have been disastrous.

"It seems that those enemies known as higher-dimensional demons have chosen a strategy of luring us in. They may have chosen to leave us a safe landing site in order to allow us to advance. It is even more possible that the incomplete coverage of the energy field is also intentional on the part of those enemies known as higher-dimensional demons."

Walker.net offered its analysis.

"Whether it's a trap or not is unclear. Those energy fields all originate from an unknown underground energy core, so it's very possible that these higher-dimensional demons have only controlled a portion of the floating continent's systems..."

Lin Haiyuan looked puzzled as he said this: "However, what I find strange is that the behavior of these high-dimensional demons is completely wrong."

"Why does this feel wrong? And what exactly are you referring to, Master?"

Walker.com AI raised two questions.

"First of all, higher-dimensional demons are beings from another spatial dimension, let's assume it's the fifth dimension. Then, these higher-dimensional demons are actually some down-and-out individuals or those being hunted. They leave the higher-dimensional space where they appeared, and use the jump or warp signals in our space to locate the coordinates of the dimensional world we are currently in. Then they use the same methods to come to our world... and begin to announce their feeding and invasion of various planetary systems, and to carry out orbital bombardment of planets with life. As for the feeding method, it will not be clearly stated, but their feeding is always accompanied by orbital bombardment."

Lin Haiyuan replied.

"It's already been recorded in the database. So what does the higher-dimensional demon want to eat?"

Walker.com's AI is waiting for the corresponding answer.

"All life forms, and they eat both meat and vegetables. They even eat canned food in front of us. However, their eating habits are beyond our comprehension, which is also a strange thing... Why did the higher-dimensional demons appear and stay in the floating continents left behind by the ancient pioneer civilization, instead of going out and announcing that this place is a hunting ground to catch prey and have a feast?"

Lin Haiyuan was surprised by this. As one of the major components of the high-dimensional invasion, which is considered one of the three major natural disasters along with the Purge Agreement/Void Demons, it was strange that the high-dimensional demons would stay in one place without moving, and didn't even have their own fleet.

“Master, based on the information that Ms. Exile was imprisoned here, these high-dimensional demons are probably jailers or similar roles. They are not given the hunting power that Master mentioned.”

Walker.com AI speculated.

"If they really don't have their own fleet, then they're probably just jailers or something... which makes things easier for us."

Lin Haiyuan had no intention of relying on his current fleet strength to fight the high-dimensional demon fleet head-on. If the main force of the enemy fleet appeared, he would be powerless to help Ms. Exile.

That wasn't an opponent he could guarantee a 100% victory even with his Colonia flank air base.

In short, the high-dimensional demons with only planetary defense forces and anti-air defense facilities are not difficult to deal with; the difficult ones are the high-dimensional demon fleets.

The fleet of the high-dimensional demons is mostly equipped with medium- and short-range weapons, and coincidentally, the time-stopping point of the air base on the flank of Colonia is also considered to be in the medium-range range.

The names of the creatures of the Green Faction among the higher-dimensional demons are unknown; only the blue ones are known as Shabanash and the orange ones as Dagar.

From the dialogue between the three high-dimensional civilization factions, we can see that these high-dimensional demons seem to have been chased by something and fled to "our" dimensional world, which seems to have a similar effect to the "hunter" mentioned in the Void Demons.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Vanishing into the Void (IX)

"Walker AI, can you detect any possible spacetime fluctuations using the Raven drone? If there are spacetime fluctuations, it means there is a dimensional portal in that place, and the forces of higher-dimensional demons will run out of the portal."

Lin Haiyuan asked.

Dimensional portals are essential for higher-dimensional demons to travel from their world to another. If a dimensional portal is destroyed, the higher-dimensional demons will become rootless and adrift.

"The interference from the gravitational signal is too great. We cannot detect the correct spacetime fluctuations. We may need to get closer to detect them, Master."

Walker AI's sensors are also limited by that poor gravitational field signal.

The poor gravitational signal here not only interferes with the warp, but also with the sensor's ability to detect spacetime fluctuations.

"Then we'll find a way to blow up everything there. At least the destroyed junk won't be usable. Now the entire fleet will move into the landing zone to secure the landing site and establish a fire base. All these high-dimensional demons must be killed, regardless of whether they are jailers or not. They must die."

Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com's AI were also unable to determine whether these higher-dimensional demons were truly "jailers," because they also appeared to be hiding on a floating continent created by an ancient pioneer civilization in order to avoid something.

Regardless, he didn't want to see higher-dimensional demons running rampant in the galaxy, because the Date A Live world, which was practically their home in some respects, was adjacent to this world. If higher-dimensional demons appeared next door, how far away would it be if they came to the Date A Live world, which they considered their home? It was probably just around the corner.

After all, the world of Date A Live is not without subspace fluctuations and corresponding special signals generated by faster-than-light travel. Those higher-dimensional demons came to other worlds by following subspace fluctuations and jump signals. If they could grasp the specific coordinates, it would not be difficult for them to appear.

"Yes, Master."

Walker.com's AI will thoroughly relay and execute Lin Haiyuan's orders.

The Colonia flank air base and the Kodiak warship, which had been stationary outside the cave entrance, began to turn together and truly enter the sky above the floating continent through the energy field entrance.

The plasma exhaust plumes from the two wings and the rear engine nozzles of the Colonia's flank airbase became brighter, allowing it to gain more speed for turns.

Just as the fleet turned and entered the interior of the floating continent, the high-dimensional demons that had been hiding in their defensive lines began to stir.

As if sensing their movements, these high-dimensional demons began to move, seemingly preparing to counterattack and prevent Lin Haiyuan's fleet from landing.

However, the landing zone in the first leg of the route is far from the defensive line formed by the high-dimensional demons in the second leg. It would be very difficult for these high-dimensional demons to stop the landing with just their two legs that can't close, unless they can run faster than a supersonic plane.

Dididi!

"Warning - Abnormal spatiotemporal fluctuations detected."

Walker.com's AI delivered the alarm message amidst the piercing sound, while simultaneously marking the source of the abnormal spatiotemporal fluctuations on the radar map. This source was so close that the sensors were able to detect the abnormal spatiotemporal fluctuations.

"Are they teleporting a large force here?!"

Lin Haiyuan quickly tapped a few buttons on his hand to turn the view of the Raven drones inside the monitoring landing site. He saw a large number of high-dimensional demons suddenly appear below as if they had teleported, and began to use the particle beam weapons in his hands to shoot at their Raven drones in the air.

The Raven drone's nanocomposite armor immediately developed some significant weld gaps.

"Startup time stopped! Duration: two minutes, Walker.net AI."

Lin Haiyuan immediately decided to stop time.

As the sound of the energy gate being opened and energy surging in violently echoed for several seconds, the high-dimensional demon ground forces that had suddenly appeared on the landing field ceased all movement amidst the reverberating sound.

"Alright, time stop really does affect him. Hunt the missiles, go!"

Lin Haiyuan manually controlled multiple Raven drones to target and release hunter missiles at those high-dimensional demons.

“Tagret acquire”.

A new type of hunter-killer missile is ejected from the multi-purpose exit. These hunter-killer missiles use particle impact warheads to destroy the enemy they hit. The composite warheads of electromagnetic pulse and neutron warheads are outdated and were designed to target magicians. They are not very effective against non-magician opponents.

Drop drop drop!

With a sharp, piercing warning sound, the hunter-killer missiles, their warheads marked with the universal green atomic symbol, had already locked onto those high-dimensional demons whose time had been stopped.

The plasma rocket engine ignited immediately, emitting a terrifying shriek as it charged toward the higher-dimensional demons.

Because it uses particle impact to strike the warhead, it is impossible to launch two hunter missiles at once, but the power is enough to make up for the loss of one.

Thump!

The particle impact caused the warhead to break apart and the explosion generated by the fuse to produce highly chaotic particle impacts, which effectively blasted the high-dimensional demon into a mass of fragmented debris that exploded and shattered instantly.

Amidst the explosive brilliance of the particle-impacted warhead, these high-dimensional demons that suddenly appeared from another dimension were completely destroyed in the domino effect generated by the particle impact.

But the sudden attack by the high-dimensional demons didn't end there. More high-dimensional demons appeared at any location on the landing field, and were then frozen into statues by the continuously active time-stop effect.

The raven drones continued to lock onto the high-dimensional demons that appeared and whose time was stopped, launching hunter missiles and using the power of particle impact to crush these high-dimensional demons that appeared in individual form one after another.

"Open fire on the Kodiak warships! Bombard any high-dimensional demons you see, and keep bombarding them until they're dead."

Half of Lin Haiyuan's fleet has already entered the interior of the floating continent.

He increased the flight altitude of the raven drones to avoid being easily hit by the ground forces of the higher-dimensional demons due to their low altitude, and at the same time, he gathered these raven drones to protect the fleet.

More high-dimensional demon forces suddenly appeared in the landing area, and like the high-dimensional demons that had arrived earlier and been blown to smithereens by artillery fire, they were destroyed by time-stopping.

Once all 20 Kodiak warships had entered the battlefield alongside the Colonia's flank air base, no more high-dimensional demons were teleported in to their deaths.

The high-dimensional demons on the other side also realized that continuing like this and "feeding kills" was pointless, so they should think of a way to take down their fleet.

"Time stops and ends."

Lin Haiyuan ordered the stop to end.

With a fading sound as some kind of energy gate closed, the time-stopping effect disappeared. There were no suddenly appearing higher-dimensional demons, so there was no need to maintain time stop for a long time.

"Master, it has been confirmed that these higher-dimensional demons use a more advanced cloaking technology than optical invisibility and mental illusion to hide themselves. They are as if they have disappeared from the current space, evading almost all of our instrument detection. However, once they appear, they will cause obvious spacetime fluctuations."

Walker.com's AI has analyzed the reasons for the sudden appearance of these higher-dimensional demons.

"They managed to evade the scan by moving to another space. Were they elven dragons?"

Lin Haiyuan frowned.

Of course, this little trick can't stop Lin Haiyuan from killing them. If the higher-dimensional demons want to interfere with them, they must return to reality, and then the Kodiak warship's 800mm triple-barreled guns will blast these poor higher-dimensional creatures into nothingness.

Just because you are a being from a higher dimension/world doesn't mean you'll be a god-like being in the three-dimensional world. At the very least, these high-dimensional demons are actually quite pathetic and can still be blown up.

The shells from the Kodiak warship's three 800mm guns blasted many craters into the frozen surface of the floating continent. Even just two minutes of ground bombardment was enough to make the surface of the floating continent look as if it had been hit by multiple small meteorites. In fact, the surface of the floating continent originally had many meteorite impact craters.

However, the noise created by the shelling seemed insignificant to the entire floating continent; it only caused normal shaking and did not further destabilize it.

The enemies around the landing zone have been temporarily cleared, but the forces of high-dimensional demons emerging from the second flight path have officially entered the first flight path.

These higher-dimensional demon forces are no longer the pure infantry units we saw earlier, but rather strangely shaped hovercraft. These hovercraft are not only large in size, but also equipped with powerful weapons. They are also the matter decomposers that the higher-dimensional demons have used repeatedly. However, these small matter decomposers may be even lower in output power than land-based matter decomposers.

To deal with ground forces without air cover, Lin Haiyuan didn't need to say much. He just needed to have the Kodiak warship aim and then fire continuously to bombard them.

The Kodiak's three 800mm guns had a range long enough to ravage those anti-aircraft vehicles from beyond their reach, and their ground forces were generally useless.

Lin Haiyuan did not send any ground troops into the battlefield; all of them were air units.

Faced with the shelling of the Kodiak warship, the high-dimensional demon's anti-aircraft vehicles displayed energy shields similar to those on its warships. These energy shields were significantly stronger than those they had seen before, effectively absorbing the explosive damage from the shells and the terrifyingly high temperatures from the plasma before flickering and disappearing.

The shields generated by the energy shield generators of these anti-aircraft vehicles still have a strength limit. When targeted by a Kodiak warship, the difference is only a few shells away from destruction.

The 800mm shells use plasma charges. Although one shot cannot instantly wipe out the ground forces of these high-dimensional demons, it doesn't matter. With nine shells from three turrets, the world can be quieted down.

Amidst the thunderous cannon fire of the Kodiak warship, the "anti-aircraft vehicles" of those high-dimensional demons were blown to pieces, not even falling apart. To this day, not a single high-dimensional demon's anti-aircraft vehicle has been able to get within the attack range of the Kodiak warship.

The Raven drones, which were originally scattered around the perimeter, have all gathered around the Kodiak warship to carry out additional defense and reconnaissance work.

The Raven Drone's greatest advantage, the Shrike Point Defense Drone, is useless against opponents like the High Dimensional Demons, because the High Dimensional Demons only use energy weapons and do not use any cannonballs or missiles to attack. Their attacks consist only of two powerful beams: matter decomposition waves and dimensional beams.

Once inside the floating continent with its thin air, the majestic, deep rumble of the Colonia's flank air base can be heard nearby on the battlefield.

"Walker AI dispatched four reconnaissance drones to determine the range of the enemy's dimensional beam."

Lin Haiyuan gave the order.

The "Planetary Beam" used by the higher-dimensional demons has a range 1.5 times longer than the tachyon spears used by players. Both shield-resistant and armor-resistant targets will take full damage, but the target acquisition is very unpredictable, at 0%...