Before the Jungle Banshee could crawl out of the terrifying crater, Meng Chao descended from the sky, raising a massive piece of wreckage that appeared to be a Crystal Engine.
Chains formed from Spirit Magnetic Material crisscrossed and wound around the Crystal Engine. Spinning at high speed, they drove its destructive power to the utmost limit with centrifugal force. The Crystal Engine became a colossal flaming warhammer, carrying the roaring fury of wind and thunder as it smashed viciously into the crater.
The Jungle Banshee let out an incomparably shrill scream.
Her long green hair split into hundreds of strands, like living vines and roots, burrowing into the cracks in the ground around the crater as she tried to draw more Spiritual Energy and matter from deep beneath the earth to replenish her nearly depleted cells.
But Meng Chao's Spirit Magnetic Material followed her like a shadow, likewise splitting into hundreds of cicada-wing-thin chain blades that tangled tightly around the vines and severed them all with brutal force.
No matter how bizarre the Jungle Banshee was, she was ultimately a Carbon-Based Lifeform and had to obey the fundamental laws of carbon-based lifeforms.
And the Monster Mastermind's greatest power was not individual combat strength, but expanding its psychic network, awakening the entire jungle, and controlling the overwhelming Beast Tide.
If the battlefield had been set within a thousand-mile expanse of lush, boundless, vibrant primeval jungle, the Jungle Banshee, supported by countless Spirit-infused Plants and monsters, would surely have seen her combat power surge tenfold or even a hundredfold. Even Meng Chao, Equipped with Spirit Magnetic Material, might not have been her match.
But the Golden Roc's construction and Testing Ground had undergone large-scale leveling and development. The ground was poured with Reinforced Concrete, and tens of thousands of special steel plates