"Report! The Third Army Group's heavy firepower has been completely wiped out!"
"Report! The fighter formations have been annihilated!"
"Report! The Tenth Army Group has arrived at the battlefield!"
"Report! The South Sea Fleet has completed its deployment."
"Command orders continued saturation strikes against the enemy motherships! Buy time for the civilians to evacuate."
"Comrades, the Super Soldier Company has entered the field. Hold the line."
Lin Xiao took a moment to enter the command channel. The reports coming in one after another made his heart tighten.
The troops had suffered devastating losses. They were buying time with soldiers' lives.
"Crow, leave the Evacuation Point to Leina. Take your people and assist our brother units. Focus on eliminating the enemy escort ships!"
"Yes! Water Chicken, Quail, Magpie, each lead a squad and support our brother units."
Crow left with the War God Squad. Only Leina, Ge Xiaolun, and Lian Feng remained to guard the Evacuation Point, leaving its defenses rather thin.
"Goddess Squad, head to the Evacuation Point and defend it. Male God Squad, continue searching for civilians. Zhao Xin, you're fast. Get into the city and shout for everyone to come out!"
"Qiang Wei, how is the evacuation going?"
"Most of the citizens have already gathered here with the troops. The rest should still be hiding."
"Tell them to bring everyone here within half an hour. After that, we'll begin our counterattack."
Commanding a battle really was no easy task. He had to keep an eye on the entire situation and make adjustments at any moment. After all, the battlefield changed by the second.
After taking a few drinks of nutrient fluid, Lin Xiao slowly rose to his feet. He wanted to see just how powerful those motherships really were!
"Lin Xiao, don't you need more rest?"
"No. Let's go!"
Lin Xiao pulled up the worried Qi Lin and flew into the sky.
"This is bad, Lin Xiao. The enemy mothership has opened fire."
Lian Feng's warning startled Lin Xiao. The main cannon was no joke. The key was where it was aiming.
A thick beam of light shot from the mothership's cannon, tearing across Tianhe City's sky. Its target was unmistakably the civilians' Evacuation Point.
"Damn it, do these bastards love killing civilians that much? Leina, get up there!"
"Damn, damn, damn! I'm on it!"
Leina summoned a massive shield and stepped forward, directly blocking the mothership's main cannon. The tremendous kinetic force drove both her legs into the ground.
"Hahaha! This goddess fears nothing!"
Lin Xiao was speechless at Leina's chuunibyou declaration and raised his head toward the mothership in the sky.
A gap had appeared in the brother units' firepower. Four motherships had freed themselves up. Seeing the first mothership's main cannon blocked, the other three began charging theirs as well.
"Fuck it! Blue Star One, fire the Thor Cannons!"
Lin Xiao opened the control panel, swiftly locked onto two motherships, and pressed the firing button.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Blue Star One in outer space fired two thick blue beams in succession, plunging into the atmosphere. This time, they were at full power, far stronger than the shot used against Morgana before.
The enormous blue beams descending from the heavens were incredibly fast, already arriving above the two motherships.
The Light Energy Barriers capable of blocking nuclear bombs were utterly useless against the Thor Cannons' formidable penetration.
Countless eyes focused on those two blue beams. At the instant they pierced the motherships, time seemed to freeze for several seconds.
Boom! Boom!
The two motherships exploded in the sky, turning into enormous fireballs.
No one had expected Lin Xiao to pull off something like that, but the impact was tremendous.
The Taotie, who had suffered almost no losses since the battle began, had suddenly lost two motherships. It was undoubtedly a massive boost to morale, shattering the despair.
The bombardment raining down on the Taotie motherships abruptly intensified severalfold.
But Lin Xiao could not relax. It was only two motherships. There were still thirteen left, and the remaining mothership's main cannon had already fired.
"Lian Feng, block it for a moment! We're coming!"
Lian Feng gritted her teeth. A blue-gold shield appeared, her Flight Wings spread fully behind her, and she shot into the sky to meet the incoming massive beam.
The moment she made contact, Lian Feng felt an immense force pushing her backward. Even her Flight Wings at full power could not withstand it. The temperature around her was also rising madly, and within moments, she was drenched in sweat.
Seeing Lian Feng being forced back inch by inch, Lin Xiao fully spread his Flight Wings and charged toward her.
Lian Feng did not have a divine body. If the immense force slammed her into the ground, she might be injured.
Lin Xiao and Qi Lin raised their shields. Just as Lian Feng was about to be blasted down, they blocked the main cannon's attack for her.
The Flight Wings behind all three of them opened to their fullest, and they forcibly pushed the main cannon's attack back.
"Returning a favor is only proper. Lian Feng, Qi Lin, activate Super Plasma Ray!"
A ring rose into the air and hovered above the three of them.
"Super Plasma Ray."
The three extended the arms not holding their shields and fired Plasma Rays at the ring.
After absorbing enough energy, the ring unleashed a massive, irregular white beam that tore through the air, following the main cannon's beam straight into the mothership's cannon barrel.
Boom!
This mothership fared even worse than the previous two. The collision and explosion of the two energies instantly vaporized a huge section of it, while the remaining portions detonated with a thunderous blast.
The gap between gods and humans was displayed at that very moment. Leina had taken a main cannon shot and was completely fine, while Lin Xiao and the other two had only blocked half a shot and were already sweating profusely.
"Haha, Lin Xiao, fire a few more shots and blast them all out of the sky!"
After the three landed, Leina immediately ran over and spoke with a face full of excitement.
"How could it be that easy? Otherwise, would we need to work this hard?"
Lin Xiao waved a hand and watched the enemy's movements. The motherships were still being held back by allied forces, while the escort ships filling the sky had already dwindled considerably.
The most exhausted member of the Super Soldier Company was arguably Monkey Bro. From the beginning until now, he had been battling those escort ships in the air. The number of escort ships he had destroyed was impossible to count.
The massive frames of the three War God Mechas had helped Monkey Bro absorb plenty of firepower. The War God Mechas had been designed from the start to draw enemy fire and cover smaller combat units.
"Lin Xiao, judging by the current situation, the Taotie will probably begin the God-Slaying Operation."
Leina looked worriedly at the Taotie motherships. They still had another major trial ahead of them.
"God-Slaying Operation? Do the Taotie have that capability?"
"Of course they do. Don't forget, their master is Death God Karl."
Lin Xiao thought for a moment, glanced at the Evacuation Point behind him, and asked.
"Qiang Wei, how is the evacuation going?"
"We just sent off the largest group. The other teams probably won't make it here within half an hour."
"Qiang Wei, contact them and tell them to hide. We can't worry about them now."
Qiang Wei had already teleported away the teams gathering large numbers of civilians. Lin Xiao could no longer spare attention for the scattered groups that remained.
The Taotie motherships had begun deploying Taotie soldiers, preparing for close-quarters combat.
"Super Soldier Company, gather around me and prepare to engage."
Lin Xiao grabbed Leina and flew toward the rooftop of a high-rise. Qi Lin, Lian Feng, Ge Xiaolun, and Qiang Wei followed.
The enemy was gathering its forces, and Lin Xiao's side was doing the same. The Male God Squad and Goddess Squad climbed the nearby high-rises one after another.
"Monkey Bro, you've worked hard!"
Monkey Bro and the three War God Mechas also returned, hovering on either side of the building.
"Haha, Old Sun had a good fight."
Sun Wukong carried the Golden Cudgel over his shoulder. Judging by his expression, he truly had enjoyed himself.
"Qiang Wei, I have a task for you. Break through from the flank and blow up their motherships!"
"Okay!"
Qiang Wei nodded without the slightest hesitation and flew off in another direction.
"Ge Xiaolun, go protect Qiang Wei!"
"Okay!"
The black wings on Ge Xiaolun's back flapped as he chased after Qiang Wei.
"Qi Lin, lead the War God Squad's snipers and show them what fear is."
Qi Lin nodded and gestured to the War God Squad. Myna led three snipers out of the formation and followed Qi Lin to find sniping positions.
"War God Squad, Monkey Bro, the skies are in your hands!"
"They're here. Everyone, stay sharp!"
As Lin Xiao arranged their tactics, the Taotie also completed their assembly. Every mothership released thousands of Taotie soldiers clad in full armor, each standing atop a flying craft.
Twelve motherships meant tens of thousands of enemies, while Lin Xiao's side had only a little over thirty people. The disparity in numbers was enormous.
"God-Slaying Operation begins. Target: enemy commander. Charge!"
With the furious roar of a Taotie commander, tens of thousands of Taotie surged toward Lin Xiao like a flood.
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