In the blink of an eye, the two mechs were swallowed whole by the surging beast tide!
Only the sound of chainsaws cutting and flesh bursting came through Lava's communicator.
Five seconds later, all Lava could hear was static.
"..."
Aboard the Truth, everyone had witnessed the devastating scene.
"Calling the Truth. The Crimson Fortress Legion is expected to arrive on the battlefield in seven minutes."
"Calling the Truth. The Canghai Dragon's Roar Legion is expected to arrive on the battlefield in five minutes."
"Calling the Truth..."
As the calls continued to come through her headset, Dr. Yuan didn't respond to anyone herself. She simply transferred the calls to the communications officer.
She stood with her arms folded across her chest, her eyes fixed on the retreating formation below.
Five minutes ago, Dr. Yuan had begun broadcasting live footage of the entire front line to all the Watcher Legions heading toward the Silent Graveyard.
The move had shocked many people. No one had expected the first to arrive on the battlefield to be an independent legion led by Omega.
Even more astonishing, the commander of this independent legion was Yuan Zhen, vice president of the "Omniscient Hall."
But even more surprising to the other legions than seeing one of Omega's founders in person was the fact that her forces had no fewer than thirteen third-generation mechs!
That was a number many countries could scarcely imagine.
But Yuan Zhen didn't care what anyone thought of her.
"William, Robin..." Yuan Zhen repeated their names so softly that only she could hear.
"Five seconds left..."
Lava's gaze remained fixed on the spot where the two mechs had been swallowed, but there was an even more pressing problem at hand.
He couldn't afford to lose another mech!
Even if two more team members sacrificed themselves to buy those five seconds, his defensive formation would keep losing fighters as its firepower dwindled.
Until the next lull.
And when that came, death would be waiting for them all.
But death wouldn't make him back down!
Just as Lava was about to move his mech forward, another steel hand clamped down on his shoulder.
"It's not your turn yet, Captain."
The next moment, the two mechs piloted by the Liu couple swept past Lava's position and charged without hesitation into the oncoming beast tide!
Lava closed his eyes. Murky tears welled in the creases at the corners of his eyes.
He clenched his teeth, refusing to make a sound.
Even if everyone was headed toward the same fate, Lava still had to lead them firmly and fight to the very end.
He couldn't fall yet.
Vrrrm!
At that moment, an unfamiliar sound suddenly came from behind Lava, and his system issued a warning!
Lava instinctively obeyed his reflexes and dodged to the side.
A black, long-handled battle axe!
That strange hum was the sound of the axe breaking through the air at supersonic speed!
Before the Liu couple could even reach the beast tide, the axe skimmed between their two mechs and pierced straight through the hammerhead beast charging at the very front!
But the axe didn't stop there!
The huge battle axe plowed through the surging beast tide, carving a straight line through it!
At last, it buried itself in a mound of corpses piled high with monsters!
The surging beast tide came to a complete halt.
More than twenty monsters now had a ten-meter-wide hole in their chests!
Aboard the Truth, everyone was deeply shaken by what they had just seen. Even the communications officer, who was connected to the various legions, fell silent.
Only Yuan Zhen let out a long breath. She slipped her hands back into her coat pockets and turned her attention once more to the digital model that was nearing completion.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Xingtian walked forward step by step, his iconic red cyclopean eye fixed on Thunderclap in the distance.
Both the heavy mechs and the White Angels moved to either side, clearing a path for Xingtian.
Mary cautiously studied the mech, so familiar yet so strange.
Xingtian stood eighty-five meters tall. His entire body was clad in black heavy armor more than 2,500 millimeters thick. Beneath his two tusked shoulder plates were arm guards lined with razor-sharp teeth, while the sinister demon face jutting out from his chest armor was enough to make anyone shudder!
What Mary didn't know was that beneath this molecular memory armor, Xingtian's body was also covered in a layer of lightweight anti-energy inner armor!
Even just by appearance, Xingtian's armor was imposing enough to inspire dread!
And he stood five meters taller than every third-generation mech.
"Leave the rest to me."
No one had expected Xingtian to speak—and in a man's voice, no less!
Only then did Mary notice that there was no one in Xingtian's cockpit!
In other words, the mech had been acting on its own this whole time!
"Roar!"
Before anyone could come to terms with this, Thunderclap roared again in the distance!
"Fall back!" Xingtian extended his thick arm and spoke in a tone that brooked no argument.
"Fall back!" Lava still couldn't make sense of the situation on the battlefield, but he instinctively followed the other mech's advice and led the remaining mechs behind Xingtian.
Sure enough, just as Lava and the others had taken their positions, every monster lunged at Xingtian alone!
Lava couldn't see any ranged weapons on Xingtian, which meant he would have to fight the endless beast tide in close combat!
Images of William and Robin charging into the beast tide immediately flashed through his mind.
"You're committing suicide!"
But Xingtian ignored Lava's warning completely.
A silver-glinting Scorpion Tail shot out of Xingtian's right arm and hooked the giant axe embedded in the mound of corpses!
The next moment, the heavy, razor-sharp black battle axe was back in Xingtian's hands!
At the same time, the densely packed beast tide surged toward him like a colossal wave!
Rumble!
More than a dozen monsters swamped Xingtian's towering frame like a tsunami, while the beasts on the outskirts even clambered over their companions and scrambled toward the now-hidden mech!
In no time, countless snarling monsters had piled on top of Xingtian, burying him beneath them. In the surging tide, he looked like a living mountain!
"Prepare to fire!"
Lava shouted the order almost on instinct. Whatever Xingtian was, he was an ally now!
But just as all the heavy mechs raised their Vulcan rotary cannons, spinning up and ready to fire, the unexpected happened.
Bang!
Xingtian rose to his feet again, like a mountain surging up from the ocean depths, breaking free of everything weighing him down!
Then the red reactor in his chest let out a low growl!
With both hands on his axe, he swung it savagely at the beast tide before him!
A flash of black light.
Countless monsters were cut in half at the waist!
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