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The group fought for over ten minutes, unleashing massive firepower and killing countless magical beasts.
When the last bizarre magical beast—a twenty-five-meter-tall creature with eight legs and four tusks like a mammoth's protruding from its head—was struck simultaneously by six plasma blasts, hundreds of tons of flesh evaporated. Its remaining meat burned into a torch, and the battle was officially declared over.
The weapons of every Knight Mech were sizzling with smoke. The two grand nobles ordered everyone to rest temporarily, replenish their ammunition, and send damaged units to the rear.
Several hundred heavy vehicles were driven alongside the Knight Mechs by the Tech-Priests.
Using the heavy loaders mounted on the vehicles, they replenished the Knight Mechs' spent Armor-Piercing High-Explosive Rounds and plasma fuel tanks.
Three Knight Errants and ten Armiger Knights had been severely damaged in the battle.
Although their pilots had survived, those thirteen Knight Mechs could no longer be used. They could only be towed back to the icebreaker by heavy vehicles for repairs.
Reloading the ammunition took around half an hour. During that time, the corpses of the magical beasts slain by the Knight Mechs gradually dissolved into pus.
No one knew how the muscles and bones of these monsters had developed, but they liquefied incredibly quickly—faster than ice cubes melting beside a campfire.
And once their flesh and bones had turned into pus, the pus vanished shortly afterward, leaving nothing behind on the ice.
Naturally, the Knight Mechs observed this scene. The Silver Shield grand noble asked Li Qinwu:
"Inquisitor, you understand those monsters best. Do you know what is happening?"
Li Qinwu glanced at the snow pit, now spotless and white after the magical beasts' deaths, and said:
"These monsters are not physical entities.