That protagonist is trash; I could do better!

Rumble~

The deck shook violently, and the flower boat that Hall was in was also affected. The plants twisted and grew wildly, and the magic circle that maintained the flower boat's flight was destroyed. It would crash soon.

As intelligent beings and humanoid beings, Hall also felt sorry for the plight of the forest elves. This is a common trait among humans, the most primitive form of what is called the mind.

But as the old saying goes, mercy to the enemy is the greatest cruelty to one's own people.

War is a desperate struggle where there is no way out and both sides are forced into a corner; retreat means annihilation.

Without the help of the Mechs, a single Forest Elf could easily wipe out humanity. If the Forest Elf viewed humans as a threat, they would have been eliminated long ago.

"Farewell, Miss Sink Nielbaren, the plenipotentiary representative of the Forest Elfs."

The portal opened, and Hall prepared to leave.

"and many more."

Sink Nielbarn called out to Hall.

The situation was beyond saving. As the sole representative of the forest elves, she calmed down and considered their future. With the essence of the creator god of the forest, Kainas, stripped away, the outcome was self-evident for the defeated side. Before long, the forest elves would be slaughtered to extinction.

More than dignity, she needed to think about how to salvage the situation and save the forest elves.

She looked up at Hall, gritted her teeth, and pleaded, abandoning all dignity, "You've given me two chances. There must be something you want in us forest elves. Can you give me a third chance? I'm willing to pay any price, including all the magical knowledge the forest elves have preserved, as long as you're willing to let the forest elves go."

The magical knowledge possessed by the Forest Elves is their most precious asset, something even the Skywing Elves envy.

A strange look appeared on Hall's face. The reason he gave the forest elves a chance was twofold: firstly, it was due to the prevailing circumstances, and secondly, it was to weaken the power of the forest god Kainas. In the end, he never expected the forest elves to agree. The same would have happened if Hall had become the forest elves' full agent.

As for the forest elves, Hall had no intention of exterminating them, mainly because he found it troublesome.

Hall didn't care about those legacies either.

There's no need to worry about the saying "if you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring." With the plan set at this point, the next step is to challenge the strongest.

If we lose, humanity will inevitably perish.

We've won, we've already got the Star Cup, why should we worry about mere forest elves? Even a thousand forest gods are nothing compared to them.

Whether or not to spare the forest elves depends entirely on Hall's mood.

Decisive action or a series of unexpected developments?

That felt great.

Hall stroked his chin, a malicious smile spreading across his face: "Give all your Forest Elves' magical research data to the Machine Race, and I will spare the remaining Forest Elves. From now on, the Forest Elves will become a vassal race of humanity for a period of one thousand years."

Yes, I accept.

Sink Nielbaren nodded hesitantly. It wasn't that Hall was making unreasonable demands; on the contrary, Hall's requests were simpler than she had imagined.

Pity?

Soon, she understood why, and tears of humiliation welled up in her eyes.

She remembered what Hall had said before: the Forest Elves considered humans and machine races as formidable enemies, but he didn't consider the Forest Elves as enemies at all.

In his eyes, forest elves are unworthy.

Chapter 263 Huggies and Rick

On the red earth plain, the roaring sounds were incessant, dark clouds rolled into huge vortexes, and black lightning danced wildly across the sky, connecting with the earth, creating a scene of collapse before the apocalypse.

Black lightning illuminated the massive mechanical fortress floating in the sky.

Its radius is about 100 meters, and its shape is circular. It has huge steel wings spread out on its back, which form a magical barrier to block the bombardment of black lightning.

At the front of this mechanical fortress, a dozen flexible hoses connected to Shubi's back. She watched Jibril, a winged creature, flying rapidly in the sky, her eyes flashing as she analyzed the current situation.

At the highest point of the mechanical fortress, a knight clad in medieval armor was engulfed in flames. He raised his right hand, generating a lightning spear which he hurled, colliding with hundreds of lightning bolts that split in mid-air to form a lightning net.

"How is it?" Rick asked nervously from inside the mechanical fortress.

The knight simply shook his head; the lightning spear's flight speed was nowhere near Jibril's, and even if it managed to hit her, it failed to break through her defenses.

The human expedition team suffered heavy losses in the encounter with Jibril, and now only Schwi, Rick, and Knight remain.

Knights are projections of the virtual reality world onto reality. Their abilities are primarily based on the Machine Race and the Skynet system. It can be said that the Machine Race represents the upper limit of their abilities. They can deal with some low- to mid-level races, but they could never defeat the Skywing Race, whose strength is comparable to that of the Machine Race.

In this fierce battle, only Hughie still had the ability to resist, but it was only a last-ditch effort.

"Interesting, it's just a lump of scrap metal, yet it makes me serious!" Jibril's lips curled into a cruel and ruthless smile. Her jet-black wings unfurled, scattering thousands of black spears that rained down on the mechanical fortress like a torrential downpour.

Rumble~

A series of explosions lowered the mechanical fortress's flight path, and the intense elf reaction impacted Schwi's body.

Shubi, hanging from the mechanical fortress, swayed, biting her lower lip and whispering absentmindedly, "We can't lose! Riku is right here!"

The halo in the eyes of the machine warrior fluctuated violently as it analyzed Jibril's magical attack. Mechanical wings rose behind him, unleashing countless beams of light.

"Giving dolls emotions is such a lowbrow thing to do."

Jibril scoffed disdainfully, flapped her wings, and landed in the rift valley below the plain. The following light cannon swept across, bombarding the earth and creating hundreds of huge mushroom clouds, plunging the sky and the earth into chaos.

Hughie murmured, "If we lose, Rick will die."

"Think quickly! Calculate quickly! Analyze quickly!"

"If you don't want to die..."

"Show weakness to the enemy to lure them into attacking."

"Show the enemy strength to make them wary."

"Shrink the battle zone, reduce computational data, and fight fire with fire."

"Run! Run with all your might! If I can't do it now, I'll leave it for next time."

"Spatial Obstruction!"

One side was flexible and adaptable, while the other remained as immovable as a mountain. Like two artillery platforms firing across each other, the war between the two most powerful races in the world melted a plain with a radius of hundreds of kilometers into a sea of ​​lava.

Jibril flew high into the sky, watching the distorted space unfold before the mechanical fortress, swallowing up the dark magic. She coldly said, "Using [Sky Shift] against me, are you mocking me?"

【Sky Shift】is one of the many uses of the Sky Wing race's strongest magic, 【Sky Strike】. The reason why the Machine race mastered this skill is because Azriel used it in front of the satellite 【Skynet】 to save Jibril last time.

For Jibril, this was a sign of humiliation.

"That's enough, let's end the game here."

Disappointed, Jibril proudly declared, spread her wings and flew into the air, her black energy wings fully unfurled, easily blocking all the light cannons from the mechanical fortress.

Jibril is the ace of the Skywing race, while Shubi is merely an analysis form within the Machine race, and her combat ability is not among the top of the Machine race.

The two are not even in the same league.

The black halo above Jibril's head magnified.

"Sprite reaction calculation in progress."

Hugh's expression shifted dramatically.

"More than 10 to the power of 21, completely exceeding the highest-level combat capability of the combat body."

In despair, Hugh calculated the difference in their strength.

"Find a solution quickly."

"Searching! Hurry!"

"Quickly find a script in the connector's database that can block this attack!"

"Item No. SGX215SFF40A545 [Collapse Roar], the trump card of the Dragon Spirit species... cannot be countered."

"Number SGF54502FSD4721545 [Ancient Seventy-Sixth Blessing] Ancient Forest Elf City Defense Barrier... will be penetrated."

"ID ADW145SF6121244 [Full Stealth]...The Vampire's Deception Magic...Cannot be effective."

High in the sky, the Skywing race looked down on all living beings. A beam of black light descended from the sky, pointing straight at the location where Shubi was.

"Farewell, scrap metal."

The Celestial Wing's trump card skill: [Sky Strike].

She smelled the scent of death in that black light that resembled a burning flame. In the past, she would not have hesitated or felt anything if she died while carrying out a mission.

But now Rick is right beside her, and she doesn't want to die, much less does she want Rick to die.

but···

She couldn't do it; she couldn't find a way to block [Sky Strike].

She is just a parser.

Crystal tears slid down Shubi's cheeks, her voice hoarse and desperate as she growled, "There are still so many things I haven't said!"

"I want to continue staying by Rick's side!"

"There are still so many things to do."

"It was so hard...so hard to finally get my heart from Rick."

Even if it's all in vain, even if the mathematical probability is close to zero, she still believes in hope; her heart won't allow her to give up like this.

"How can we give up like this!"

Shubi shakily raised her right hand, and the steel wings on the back of the mechanical fortress all condensed into blue light, connecting with the Elf Corridor, summoning elves with efficiency exceeding the limits that a mechanical body could withstand.

"【Complete Classic Opens】!"

"Construct a planetary defense network!"

Click~ Click~

Shubi's mechanical body burst open one after another, oozing out a blood-like liquid, and human skin melted because it could not withstand the excessively high spiritual reaction.

Hundreds of layers of magical barriers unfolded above the mechanical fortress, only to be easily crushed like glass.

The machine-type possesses the means to block [Sky Strike], but it is by no means a machine capable of analyzing physical abilities.

Jibril watched this scene with rapt attention: "That's right, just like that. Struggling with all your might and then despairing—that's the most suitable ending for the weak."

"I don't want to die!" Hughie struggled and screamed.

"I absolutely must not die here!"