Sub-Level Defense Subsystem World.
Large war-warning lights dotted the entire world, bathing the sky in deep crimson.
The entire world was in a state of war, and the alarms had never stopped sounding.
Though the alarms were shrill and piercing, they were firmly drowned out by another sound: a faint but ceaseless gnawing.
It was the sound of monsters devouring everything.
The Ancient Monsters steadily advanced across the battlefield.
Two-thirds of the world had already fallen. Only the central defensive strongholds remained unconquered.
It was a grueling, protracted campaign.
Fortunately, the Ancient Monsters had plenty of experience with this. They alternated between offense and defense, organizing their forces with calm precision and not the slightest impatience.
Lord of Barren Ancient and the strongest monsters under his command had not appeared on the battlefield.
They were conserving their strength in the rear, quietly waiting for the moment of the decisive battle.
They had once destroyed eighteen thousand eight hundred Subsystems, six hundred and forty-seven of which were worlds like this Sub-Level Defense Subsystem World.
So the monsters knew exactly how to win this war at the lowest possible cost.
All they had to do was follow the methods they had worked out before, step by step, and they would claim final victory.
But they didn't know that someone was silently watching everything from above.
Gu Qingshan.
He had just arrived in this world, invisible.
"A world on the Technology Side... but something's strange..."
Gu Qingshan watched the combat mechs battling the monsters and murmured to himself.
Unsure what to make of it, he flew down and landed in the middle of the battlefield.
At that moment, dozens of Ancient Monsters swarmed a five-meter-tall combat mech, knocking it to the ground and tearing into it in a frenzy.
The combat mech did