The next day, Bloodweeping Corridor. The beasts followed the surveyed freight route to the front line, where they joined up with the troops that had arrived earlier.
A berserk gale howled down from above the gentle slope, whipping the cloaks on the backs of the war beasts.
Directly ahead of the passage, a barrier layered with three tiers of heavy crystal armor blocked the canyon. Sharp, cold-glinting chevaux de frise jutted diagonally into the ground in an interlocking pattern. Eight Tier Two Crystal Spike Cannons were mounted between the battlements. Behind the dense firing ports, more than a dozen bloated Tier Two Javelin Beasts heaved violently, their abdomens rising and falling. The pale bioengineered bone spears within their chambers had already been compressed to the limit!
Farther back, in a recess in the rock wall, the transport convoy loaded with sutured bio-membranes and neutralizing agents was pinned firmly behind cover, unable to advance even an inch.
The road was right before them, yet it had been welded shut.
[Hannibal] lay prone across the broad back of his mount. His rough hand patted the thick, reassuring layer of bioengineered skull beneath him, and savage fervor burned in his eyes.
"Son, I've fed you premium nutrients for three days. If you can't smash through this lousy door today, I'll stew you myself after the battle!"
Before his voice had even faded, the two blood-red arrows [Tian Ce] had drawn in the Mind Network suddenly exploded in his mind.
"Tier Three guard showing itself! Dagger Squad, take it! Siege Team—smash the damn thing for me!!"
Roar—!!
Accompanied by a berserk howl that shook the rock strata, a concealed side door in the barrier burst open. A Tier Three Fiend dozens of meters long, covered in heavy prismatic crystal armor, crushed the chevaux de