Xyrin Empire-Chapter 172 - : Fixed Target

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: Fixed Target

The small plain, covered with red rubble, fell into silence, with only the occasional salty breeze bringing the sound of distant ocean waves to our ears. Before me lay an open plain, but as long as I focused my spiritual power, all invisibility effects would be nullified, and I could see two hundred Xyrin Soldiers stealthily gathering on that plot of land in rather sly poses.

Well, actually, the warriors’ postures weren’t sly at all. It’s just that seeing a Knight-faced Uncle squatting on the ground, chuckling lowly while cleaning his gun, made me feel like the entire hunting plan reeked of slyness.

Pandora stood quietly two meters in front of me to the right, her body occasionally emitting a weird “beeping” sound, which I found quite amusing—As far as I knew, Pandora’s current body structure was basically the same as a human’s, so these beeping sounds… Could it be that this girl used this method to entertain herself when bored?

When I asked her about it afterward, it turned out to be true…

Just as I was beginning to feel a bit sleepy, the enemy, at long last, arrived as expected.

Under my mutated spiritual perception, a subtle energy swiftly gathered in the center of our encirclement. Along with it, there was a faint smell in the air that stung like sulfur. Sandora gestured to me, signaling to watch Jaina’s reaction.

I turned my head and found that Jaina had no reaction whatsoever.

Sandora’s voice echoed in my mind, “This energy fluctuation doesn’t belong to Azeroth’s magic system, nor is it related to elemental power at all. Only your mutated spiritual power and our full-spectrum radar can detect it, so the little girl can’t perceive anything abnormal. This seems to be why the sudden appearance of a small group of demons has puzzled the powerful beings of Azeroth.”

Indeed, I felt it too. The way this energy gathered was bizarre; it seemed to have no effect on the surrounding elemental energy. I didn’t even know where this energy came from. It appeared out of nowhere and gathered without interacting with any other surrounding energies, making me curious about its peculiar nature—Because, according to common sense, the stronger the energy, the less stable it is, and it’s more likely to react with other forms of energy bodies. Why did I encounter one defying common rules today?

“It’s mutated Ghost Energy,” Sandora clarified in time, “The most prevalent energy in the Xyrin Empire is Ghost Energy derived from the decay of Void Energy. However, this kind of mutated Ghost Energy isn’t widely used because it’s too stable. Triggering a reaction requires very complex equipment, which is about thirty percent more energy-efficient than ordinary Ghost Energy. Due to the high complexity of the related equipment, this type of energy is only used in scenarios requiring massive energy and where energy security is crucial, like—long-distance space transmission!”

Ghost Energy… The Burning Legion couldn’t possibly possess such an energy source representing the highest technology civilization. Hence, their Ghost Energy technology’s origin was quite apparent…

Yet, I still had some doubts, but there was no time to discuss them in detail now.

Twisted shadows began to appear in the air. Even though Jaina was completely oblivious to the energy gathering around her, any non-blind person could now observe the unusual situation.

As the traces of the rippling air became more apparent, the Xyrin Soldiers lurking around unlocked their weapons. Then, a space gate with a bizarrely twisted light screen appeared before our eyes.

This was a medium-sized space gate, about ten meters in diameter. The other side seemed to be a massive black platform, but due to the severe distortion of the scene, I wasn’t entirely sure. The moment the space gate opened, that stench, similar to sulfur, suddenly returned stronger than before—It seemed the homeland of these demons didn’t boast the best air quality.

Jaina’s face displayed undisguised shock because she clearly saw such a large space gate, but she couldn’t detect any magic fluctuations at all. It’s not an exaggeration to say that if she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, even if the space gate had opened right behind her, touching her back, she would have been completely unaware!

How could this be possible? According to the most basic sense, opening such a large space gate required an astonishing amount of magic power. Such intense magic fluctuations shouldn’t be undetectable, not to mention from up close; one should be able to faintly feel them even from another end of the continent!

So, it’s true what they say, ignorance really is scary…

Under our expectant gazes, one by one, large and robust figures finally walked out of the space gate, appearing before our eyes.

So these were the demons?

Truly ugly…

The prey that appeared before us was right on the mark, fifty in total, led by a male demon with huge bat wings on his back, bare-chested, and with dark skin—likely the only one capable of flight, as Lin Xue had mentioned. Following the male demon were two demon guards, each standing three and a half meters tall, their muscles like cast iron under their black-purple skin. These demon guards seemed to take pride in showing off their muscular bodies, a typical land battle meat shield, even mimicking the armorless demon’s agility by going shirtless—how fitting, let their muscles test the powerful kinetic energy of ballistic weapons!

I took a closer look and indeed noticed that one of the demon guards had a broken horn on his forehead, which appeared as though it had been forcefully snapped off, leaving an uneven break. I wondered who had the strength to break the hardest single horn on the head of the demon guard, known as the king of close combat. That brute force, most likely, was beyond what most Xyrin soldiers could handle.

Well, I guess I’ll give that demon guard some special attention in a moment; hitting him until he can’t take care of himself should do.

The rest of the forty or so demon soldiers and three leaders were naturally inferior, but the murderous aura emanating from their nearly three-meter-tall figures and thick iron armor was not to be underestimated. Demons truly lived up to their fierce reputation.

As soon as the fifty demons left the teleportation gate, they immediately looked around cautiously, and then the winged demon at the front shivered suddenly.

“…Why do I feel like I’m being watched by a bunch of sleazy eyes?”

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What sharp perception!

Sicaro, who was in charge of the infantry command, made a snap decision without hesitation, and gave the order, “Attack!”

The Xyrin soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, instantly deactivated their invisibility systems, and two hundred single soldier cannons aimed at the enemy in the middle of the encirclement opened fire at the same time!

The demons were instantly dazed; they had just emerged from the space gate and had not had the chance to properly observe their surroundings when they were suddenly surrounded by a strange group of air-appearing warriors, and then the huge weapons in the hands of these previously unseen black-armored soldiers roared and spit out powerful flames, instantly injuring their proud strong bodies!

Simultaneously, as the demons were shocked, I was equally astounded.

My God, was that a normal body? That was *** like steel plates!

The EN-03 triple-barreled single soldier cannons used by the Xyrin soldiers were things I was more than familiar with: hailed as micro tank cannons and having an overwhelming firepower advantage in light weapons of the same category (the term “light” is relative to Xyrin warriors). From the outside, they looked like three six-barrel Fire God Cannons mounted on a rotating cannon axle, but their caliber was a whole twice as big as the human-made Fire God Cannons, and their ammunition was also different: these formidable-looking babies could switch out dozens of solid or energy warheads, reaching a blistering nearly a thousand rounds per second in close to medium range combat. When two hundred EN-03 cannons fired together, not to mention flesh and blood, even a tank battalion would turn into a field of recyclable trash in a minute—but these fifty demons actually blocked it?

Yes, they blocked it! Despite being splattered with flesh and blood and looking extremely miserable, none of these demons died. I could not help but admire their willpower and combat awareness; under such immense pain, they were still able to maintain optimal combat formation, calmly enter battle mode, and in that initial round of saturation strike, they even managed to protect their vital spots!

Just when I was surprised that the Xyrin warriors’ attack had not achieved the expected results, Sicaro suddenly raised his right hand, “Second attack squad, switch to titanium alloy sabot bullets!”

What? Change ammunition during battle?

Sandora and I both raised the same question simultaneously, then turned our probing gaze towards the excited, slightly blushing War Lolita, Pandora.

The latter immediately responded to our confusion with rare excited emotion, “This is to test the killing power of various bullets against demons… Also, to prevent the targets from dying before the end of the test, we have reduced the weapon’s fire intensity…”

So that’s what it was…

Sandora and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for those demons being used as fixed targets…