At the edge of their vision, enormous mechanical feet swept aside the smoke of battle.
An eighteen-meter-tall, one-eyed metal giant stood upon the earth, yet it possessed none of the mysterious beauty expected of a Beyonder item.
Instead, it looked more like some kind of mechanical creation—
"That's it?"
Upon realizing this, Victor shook his head.
The staff officers behind him exchanged glances.
"General, should we withdraw?"
The adjutant swallowed and asked cautiously.
For the enemy to deploy a weapon like this at such a moment, they probably believed it could turn the tide of battle.
"Withdraw? No, those are just a few oversized metal shells."
Victor shook his head. He knew all too well what those mechanics were capable of.
Sequence 4 Alchemists could indeed give life to inanimate objects and create enormous Alchemical Puppets.
But they still had to obey certain rules—the larger the object, the more terrifying the amount of spirituality needed to animate it.
Yet the fluctuations of spirituality coming from these eighteen-meter-tall monsters were remarkably weak.
Under such circumstances, even basic movement would have been quite an achievement.
Deploying these flashy contraptions now was most likely an attempt to frighten his forces into retreating.
At that thought, Victor drew the military saber engraved with runes at his waist and pointed its tip at the distant Zaku. "Relay my orders to the entire army. Prepare to charge."
"But, General—"
"Forget everything else!"
Victor cut off the adjutant. "Tear those lumps of metal apart, and the Loen defensive line will collapse."
The orders traveled down the trenches.
At the vanguard battalion's position, hundreds of heavily armored infantrymen from the Two-Headed Giant Legion rose to their feet.
Their commander was a hulking bald man over two meters tall.
"Brothers, did you hear the general?"
The Bald Commander hammered