Free Web NovelChapter 270: Chapter 264: God War
When the feed from Demon Eye Node 15 came in, Allen was still multitasking, working at high intensity.
The feed opened on a high-altitude perspective, 120 kilometers away.
It was clear that the sky over the wasteland had been torn in two.
To the east were roiling, stacked thunderclouds. To the west, the sky was a murky brown, completely obscured by kicked-up dust. The boundary between these two weather fronts formed a distinct fault line, cleaving the entire sky.
A three-hundred-meter-tall Giant Humanoid Golem hovered beneath the thunderclouds.
Opposite it, a Morning Star-level Rock Armor Earth Dragon Emperor lay prone upon the earth, its Magic Power fluctuations exceeding 12,000. Its body was even larger than the Golem’s, each of its scales several meters thick.
The two behemoths were locked in a standoff, five kilometers apart.
The air between them seemed to freeze.
The Giant Humanoid Golem struck first.
It raised its right arm, and dozens of thick bolts of lightning converged in its palm. Arcs of electricity danced across its metal body, the extreme heat ionizing the surrounding air into a blinding, blue-white glow.
The raging, untamed electrical arcs were forcibly contained and shaped, forming a lightning spear over 200 meters long in its hand. At the spear’s tip, the electrical light intertwined, almost coalescing into a solid form.
The Golem waited until the arcs had converged to their limit, then swung its right arm and hurled the lightning spear.
All sound vanished at that moment—not because it was quiet, but because the speed of sound couldn’t keep up with the spear.
The lightning emitted a pure, violent radiance. A blue-white line of light shot from east to west, as if the sky itself had swung a sword.
The Dragon Emperor had no intention of dodging. Its massive body sank slightly as its limbs dug into the ground.
Wisps of golden, lightning-like patterns flickered around it, outlining a dense, almost tangible gravitational barrier.
The lightning spear slammed into the gravity barrier, and space itself visibly distorted.
A shockwave spread out from the point of impact, tearing up and pulverizing entire swathes of bedrock for several kilometers around. Before the rain of shattered rock could even hit the ground, it was ground into dust by the clashing energies.
The lightning spear rapidly decelerated and bent before the gravity barrier. Its internal containment Force Field collapsed, and it finally disintegrated into a sky full of stray electrical arcs.
The Force Field dissipated. A scorched mark dozens of meters long was left on the Dragon Emperor’s Rock Armor. The intense heat had melted the rocky scales, and dark red magma dripped from the wound, burning deep pits into the ground.
The Dragon Emperor had no intention of just taking the hits; its counterattack came swiftly.
Its dark golden Force Field suddenly reversed, switching from containment to projection.
With it at the center, the Law of Gravity was rewritten for tens of kilometers in every direction.
The ground collapsed upward, and the sky fell downward.
Shattered rock, gravel, ore, magma, entire layers of bedrock from deep underground—hundreds of millions of tons of matter were torn from the ground, suspended, spun, accelerated, and compressed.
Then, like a meteor shower, it all hurtled toward the Giant Golem.
Flashes of electricity erupted around the Golem. Countless thick arcs of lightning spread out from its frame, as high-energy bolts spontaneously blasted the incoming meteors out of the sky. An unending roar echoed across the wasteland, and the dust from the explosions dyed the sky a dim gray.
A high-density meteor containing a large amount of exotic metals broke through the electrical net and smashed into the Golem’s left arm.
The three-hundred-meter Steel Giant staggered from the impact. Its left arm shattered at the shoulder joint, sending fragments flying. The arm, dozens of meters long, detached from the body and plummeted toward the ground.
This stunned Allen, watching from hundreds of kilometers away.
But in the next second, he witnessed the profound power of a high-tier creation.
The broken metal fragments didn’t fall. They hovered in mid-air like iron filings drawn to a magnet, rapidly flowing back to cover the damaged area and reassemble themselves.
Three seconds later, the left arm was fully restored.
’A self-repair ability!’
Allen’s pupils contracted, his mind racing. It didn’t look like simple magnetism; the trajectory of the returning fragments suggested a form-restoration system based on metallic memory. Every single piece "remembered" where it was supposed to be.
He didn’t have time to think any further.
The Golem’s attack had already begun.
This time, it wasn’t just one lightning spear.
But three.
Three lightning spears formed simultaneously around the Golem, shooting toward the Dragon Emperor from three different directions. At the same time, two whips woven from electrical arcs extended from the Golem’s arms, each over three kilometers long.
The Golem strode forward.
The three-hundred-meter Steel Giant walked toward the Dragon Emperor, advancing through the sky full of meteors.
The electric whips swept out, lashing the flying chunks of rock into dust. The lightning spears struck the Dragon Emperor’s Force Field from three angles at once, forcing it to split its defenses.
The Dragon Emperor let out a low roar.
Its gravitational field began to change. Instead of projecting matter over a large area, it created numerous zones of sudden gravitational shifts along the Golem’s path.
The moment the Golem’s right foot entered one of these zones, gravity suddenly increased to dozens of times its normal value, then abruptly reversed. The powerful acceleration was enough to tear steel apart.
But the Golem’s Anti-gravity Array compensated and adjusted in 0.3 seconds. It merely staggered a step.
Then continued to advance.
The battle reached a fever pitch. The Golem activated its continuous discharge mode, turning the battlefield into a plasma Hell. Large swathes of the planet’s crust vitrified under the extreme heat. The Dragon Emperor continuously released its gravitational field and manipulated the earth to launch all sorts of attacks.
Destructive energy shockwaves continuously radiated outward. freewebnoveℓ.com
One split the sky to pieces with lightning; the other crumpled the earth into a paper ball with gravity. Every clash between the two behemoths was a small-scale cataclysm.
Allen kept his eyes glued to the feed while Jarvis faithfully recorded everything.
However, a wide-area gravity pulse swept through the sky 80 kilometers away.
The Anti-Gravity Runes on the Demon Eye Mark IV failed instantly in the abnormal gravity. The unit went out of control, dragged toward the ground by an irresistible force. During its fall, the Demon Eye passed through the field of stray electrical arcs radiating from the Giant Golem.
Its precision components were instantly fried, and the feed cut out.
[Demon Eye Mark IV Node 15 lost. Unrecoverable.]
Allen was silent for two seconds.
"Pull Demon Eye 16 and 17 back to two hundred kilometers."
From two hundred kilometers away, the sky in that direction had completely changed color.
Half was the spectral blue of the thunderstorm, the other half the dark gold of kicked-up dust. The two lights intertwined and clashed on the horizon. Every few seconds, a particularly brilliant flash would erupt toward the sky, accompanied by a visible shockwave ring spreading through the clouds.
Two gods were dueling in the twilight.
[Comprehensive Analysis: Both sides have entered a war of attrition. The Giant Golem has the advantage in firepower and mobility. The Dragon Emperor leads in defense and endurance. A victor cannot be determined in the short term.]
Allen stood in the Meditation Room for a long time.
Plasma containment. Rewriting the Laws of Gravity. Self-repairing damaged components.
These technologies were far beyond his current system of knowledge.
Each technology and ability represented a step on the ladder to a higher dimension.
’If only I could get my hands on the wreckage of that Golem. Even a single fragment with its circuitry intact would allow my technology to make a quantum leap. But alas, there are no "if onlys." Right now, I can’t even get close to a battlefield like that. But one day, I will master such advanced technology, too.’
Allen pulled his gaze away, forcibly cutting off his wandering thoughts. His Mechanical Mind suppressed all superfluous emotions.
He turned his attention to the sand table before him.
The first wave of 3,200 red dots was already approaching the two-hundred-kilometer line. The fastest among them were projected to enter the Purgatory Platforms’ strike range in three hours.
"Jarvis, file all the combat data you just recorded under the ’Target’ archive."
[Archived.]
"Combat readiness?"
[116 Purgatory launch Platforms are all on standby. 660 Spider Slayer Mark IIs and 20 Shadow Assassins have been deployed to forward positions. The Freedom Gundam formation is returning to resupply; projected to be at full strength in four hours.]
He closed his eyes, his main consciousness sinking once more into his Sea of Spirit.
The twenty-second Rune of the fifth Core Matrix was slowly taking shape within his Sea of Spirit.
In the world outside, a beast tide was bearing down, a Black Wizard’s conspiracy was unfolding, and Morning Star-level powers were clashing.
That was a war for gods.
He had his own war to fight.
