The "Pacifistas" were powerful robots Vegapunk had created based on Bartholomew Kuma. They were so formidable that even the Straw Hat crew before the Summit War had needed to gather their entire crew and fight bitterly for a long time to defeat one.
In the One Piece World, a single robot cost as much as a main Navy warship. That was because the One Piece World's basic industrial productivity was weak, and all the components and alloys had to be specially made.
The World Government ruled by the Celestial Dragons would never improve the basic industrial level. That would strengthen the military power of every nation and threaten their rule. Besides, they never lacked money as long as they kept collecting the Heavenly Tribute.
The Marvel world's basic industrial level was centuries ahead of the One Piece World's, so naturally, the cost of manufacturing components was drastically lower. After joining S.P.E.A.R., Lin Hao had used all kinds of black technology to earn vast amounts of funding for the organization. Now, S.P.E.A.R., like S.H.I.E.L.D., was not short on money.
Thus, Lin Hao deployed more than a hundred Pacifistas at once as if dumping dumplings into a pot. The towering robots stormed into Wakanda's capital, firing lasers nonstop from their hands and mouths.
The "Lighthouse of Africa" was instantly engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins.
Agonized wails rang out everywhere.
"Bastards!!!"
On the platform before Wakanda's royal palace, the tallest building in the distance, Prince T'Challa's face twisted with rage.
He turned and rushed toward his sister's laboratory, intending to put on the vibranium suit and become the Black Panther.
"Stop!" Queen Ramonda called after him. "His Majesty is absent. Do you want the people to know that you secretly took the Heart-Shaped Herb?"
"But..." T'Challa looked up and saw the capital in ruins, with countless citizens dying in the inferno.
"Even if you put on the suit, you can't defeat so many robots."
Ramonda was no ignorant housewife. After observing coldly for a while, she discovered that the robots possessed formidable defenses. The royal guards who had rushed over could barely break through their armor with vibranium spears, but could not pierce through it.
The robots' offensive power was even greater. Leaving aside the lasers they fired casually, their raw physical strength alone was enough to shatter stone monuments. Any royal guard struck by a single slap would basically lose the ability to move.
Only the Black Panthers of each generation in all Wakanda were qualified to consume the Heart-Shaped Herb. Put bluntly, the royal guards were merely well-trained ordinary soldiers. They could dominate conventional armies from other nations with the vibranium spears in their hands, but that was all.
The royal guards did not possess full-body vibranium battle armor, so their defenses could not compare to those of the Black Panthers throughout the generations.
That was only natural. If every royal guard had a set of vibranium armor and carried vibranium weapons, how could Wakanda's king sleep soundly?
Even when Thanos attacked, Wakanda's royal guards had fought aliens with nothing but spears, even though the rhinos were clad in vibranium skirt armor...
"Go. Organize the citizens to retreat into the air-raid shelters in your capacity as prince." Ramonda lectured her son. "That is what you should be doing."
Compared to foolishly rushing forward to kill enemies, organizing the citizens' evacuation during a crisis could also win over the people and lay a solid foundation for succeeding to the throne in the future.
The main problem was that he could not win. If he could, then rushing forward and driving back the enemy with a few punches and kicks would not only win public support but also reinforce his prestige.
After ordering the royal guards beside her to take T'Challa away, Queen Ramonda remained on the platform before the palace. The enemy had attacked Wakanda, most likely for vibranium. While her husband was away, she needed to hold them off until he returned.
As long as the enemy wanted something, there was still room to negotiate.
Besides, Wakanda was not entirely incapable of fighting back.
After the attack began, the energy cannons distributed throughout the capital's districts automatically returned fire. The energy shells they launched struck the Pacifistas, and one blast could collapse the metal skeleton supporting a robot's body.
Fortunately, the robots felt no pain and were especially durable. Even when damaged, even with limbs missing, they could continue attacking.
"Ordinary alloys really are still lacking..." Lin Hao watched the images on the screen in the Ring Fortress command room, his desire for vibranium growing ever stronger.
Vibranium being in the hands of Wakanda's trash was simply a waste of treasure. If Marvel had not officially designated Princess Shuri, those people would only know how to make vibranium armor and spears, perpetuating that tradition for thousands of years.
These selfish, ignorant black people controlled the greatest wealth on Earth, yet had not contributed the slightest thing to the progress of human civilization.
If Wakanda had possessed more advanced weapons when Thanos attacked, or if it had contributed its vibranium to make a suit of armor for each main fighter, perhaps Director Thanos would never have had the chance to snap his fingers.
Was there not enough vibranium?
They had clearly even put vibranium skirt armor on rhinos!
These black people had been so afraid outsiders would discover that Wakanda possessed vast amounts of vibranium that, even when humanity faced extinction, they still refused to yield any, watching tens of billions of Earthlings die.
Lin Hao felt no psychological burden whatsoever in attacking such a trash country.
Since ancient times, divine artifacts belonged to the virtuous. Since the Wakandans refused to use vibranium to contribute to human civilization, Lin Hao would seize it for himself.
"The main cannon has finished charging."
Hearing that, Lin Hao gave the order decisively. "Keep firing. Let the fortress force its way in."
Once the order was passed down, yellow lasers emerged from all around the Ring Fortress's edges, converging like trickling streams upon the main gun platform floating at its center. Then the main cannon fired.
Yellow lasers of varying sizes formed the outline of a golden umbrella frame in the sky.
The handle of that golden umbrella frame slammed heavily into Wakanda's protective barrier. The opening that had been about to heal widened, gaps spreading across it like ugly white patches on a human face.
After the laser bombardment, the Ring Fortress charged forward again.
This time, the battered protective barrier collapsed under the impact. The Ring Fortress successfully broke through and loomed over Wakanda.
The energy cannons on the ground naturally turned their muzzles and fired dense barrages of energy shells at the Ring Fortress. The fighters in Wakanda's hangars also automatically took off under the central control system's command, swarming toward the Ring Fortress like a hive of bees.
"Shut down the main cannon. Let the secondary cannons fire freely. Take out their planes and energy cannons," Lin Hao ordered coldly.
The main gun platform floating at the Ring Fortress's center returned to its firing position within the fortress, while the numerous secondary cannons along the fortress's edges began firing freely.
Lasers shot toward different parts of Wakanda's capital. Beams thicker than those of the Pacifistas struck the energy cannons on the ground, and before long, ground emplacements exploded one after another.
Both sides used energy weapons, and their targeting systems were evenly matched. Every shot hit its mark.
The Ring Fortress remained protected by its barrier, but Wakanda's ground emplacements could not withstand such saturated attacks.
Although the ground emplacements also had protective shields, they were too thin and broke at the first strike.
"Your Majesty, the enemy is powerful. You should relocate somewhere safe first. Once reinforcements from the other tribes arrive, we can retake the capital."
Only one capital appeared in the Wakanda films, but the five major tribes actually each had their own territory. With the capital under attack, the royal family still had room for a strategic retreat, though a defeat would inevitably draw criticism from the other tribes.
But if they could not even keep their lives, what future would they have?
The Ring Fortress had descended to less than a hundred meters from Wakanda's royal palace, so Lin Hao's Observation Haki easily locked onto Queen Ramonda below.
"Trying to run?"
Without another word, Lin Hao rushed toward the nearest hatch and jumped straight down.
Conqueror's Haki swept through the area. The people in the palace below foamed at the mouth and collapsed unconscious.
Seeing their commander jump down, the other agents swiftly descended from the fortress aboard floating lift platforms, catching up to Lin Hao as he moved through the air with Geppo.
After opening a small gap in the protective barrier, Lin Hao led his agents into Wakanda's royal palace and easily captured Queen Ramonda.
Now, aside from T'Challa, the royal family was all together.
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