Chapter 989 - 434: Ecosystem
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Burning armor-piercing bullets with calibers over thirty centimeters shattered the bodies of the Blood Demon Servants. Even the Elite ones of Fierce Tier found it difficult to survive under such fierce firepower.
This was a unilateral massacre.
Initially, the Blood Demon side still attempted to break through using sheer numbers.
After all, the firepower of these heavy machine cannons, while fierce, still had cooling and reload periods.
But they soon discovered that in this tree wall maze, all shortcomings were compensated for, as these layered, sometimes even mobile gigantic tree walls trapped all entering Blood Demons inside, consciously grouping them together to be slaughtered with ferocious firepower!
In just a quarter of an hour, tens of millions of Blood Demons were executed!
Even those Heroic Spirit Demigods standing on the Titan Giant Mechanisms couldn’t help but feel shocked at this sight.
"Such a large-scale battlefield, can only be seen on Mars," sighed one Heroic Spirit.
"This is just the beginning," Zhao Jie shook his head. "The pros and cons of the tree wall maze are obvious; the opponent will not be stopped so easily."
Almost as soon as the words were spoken, changes appeared within the Blood Demon Army.
Among the mixed Blood Demon Servants, two distinct forces emerged!
One was the Blood Demon Giants, hundreds of meters tall, with dispersed positions. Near each Blood Demon Giant were several Blood Demon Wizards providing defense. They rapidly approached the tree walls, surrounded by the Blood Demon Servants.
Another force was formed by Blood Demon Followers who reached the King Tier. They concealed their presence within the Blood Demon Servants, nimbly climbing over the tree walls.
"The other side finally reacted," Zhao Jie remarked.
𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
These two forces were clearly aimed at addressing two weaknesses of the tree wall maze.
One was to break down the walls; as long as the tree walls were destroyed one by one, the heavy machine cannons without cover would be easy to destroy.
The other approach was a covert assassination; the movement of these tree walls must have their operators. Once the operators are killed, even if the walls could still move on their own, they would not coordinate with the cannons as effectively.
Indeed, the opponent guessed correctly. Each tree wall maze had at least one King Tier stationed, and each large region even had a Heroic Spirit!
Besides these, there were over a hundred Fierce Tier Generals.
Of course, their lives were well protected. Back in Peng City, when Chu Xiu and the others went out to fight, Green Lady’s Divine Strange Plants offered protection, allowing quick returns to the center without even Demigods being able to catch up!
The setup here followed the same logic; each Awakened one’s "command point" had corresponding retreat plants. Unless the five Demigod Blood Demons acted personally, even surrounded, they could usually retreat calmly.
Moreover, within the tree wall maze, these plants had sensory and information transmission abilities, allowing commanders to grasp Blood Demons’ dynamics in real-time, preventing them from approaching easily, making assassination difficult, and potentially leading to counter-encirclement by Awakened ones hidden in the tree walls.
As for the Blood Demon Giants attempting to destroy everything...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Intense flames erupted from the Titan Giant Mechanisms as burning points slowly ascended, then gradually changed angle under gravity, like burning meteors falling from the sky!
These meteors aimed at the Blood Demon Giants!
A group of Blood Demon Wizards’ expressions changed dramatically as they raised protective shields, but these shields shattered instantly upon contact with the shells, like glass hit by a rock!
The next moment, the remaining force of the shell hit the Blood Demon Giant!
"Boom!"
A large hole appeared in the Blood Demon Giant’s chest, and its body fell backward as if losing balance!
And this was far from the end; more shells fell from the sky, looking up like the apocalypse in mythical legends, burning meteors falling from the sky!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Gigantic craters over twenty meters in radius appeared at impact points, and the explosion fragments created destruction zones over a hundred meters, with large numbers of Blood Demons falling like sieves!
Witnessing this scene, Chu Xiu couldn’t help but reveal a faint smile.
As everyone knows, missiles fly far but are extremely expensive, with long-range rockets costing tens to millions apiece.
Ordinary kinetic cannon shells, however, are different, boasting affordability and effectiveness through sheer volume.
The Titan Giant Mechanism’s towering height allowed these purely gunpowder-propelled shells to soar over a hundred kilometers! And its two thousand meters altitude offered immense gravitational potential energy! Once converted to kinetic energy, it not only increased the shells’ power but also offset some air resistance.
Additionally, the amplification from Spiritual Arrays and Zhou Yanyang’s cannon talents enhanced the shells, maintaining considerable destructive power upon landing!
"I can’t afford seventy million per missile, but firing two-hundred thousand per armor-piercing bullet is no problem?"
And purely kinetic cannon shells are harder to intercept—a missile might get shot down by close anti-air weapons, but how do you stop a hundred-kilogram weight falling from the sky?
Thousands of fire cannons roared simultaneously, and dense shells fell like raindrops, causing all Blood Demons to fall, human and horse alike!