The crane's engine roared as its mechanical arm slowly adjusted its angle.
A ring of silver-gray steel fortress settled securely around the Treant's lower body.
It was a specially designed circular defensive structure, forged from Zheng Gold Alloy.
Thirty meters high and ten centimeters thick.
Firing ports covered its surface, their dark openings facing in every direction.
Sunlight struck the metal surface, reflecting a cold gleam.
"Sir Treant, please grab this securing cable!"
A soldier stood on a branch, pointing at a thick steel cable as he shouted.
The Treant extended its branches and wound the steel cable around its trunk.
The branches tightened, drawing the steel fortress snugly against the trunk.
Click, click-
Mechanical locks clicked into place one after another.
The fortress was fully secured.
When the Treant moved, it stood up, lifting the fortress off the ground without hindering its progress.
When it took root for battle, the fortress settled onto the ground, instantly becoming a thirty-meter-high steel wall.
Anyone who saw this design would have to call it brilliant.
Elsewhere, above the Treant's waist.
Several soldiers were installing weapons on its thick branches.
Though they called it installation, they were actually having the Treant cooperate with its branches, securing the weapons according to structural mechanics to prevent recoil from affecting it when they fired.
"Howitzer in position!"
The crane steadily lowered a 155mm Howitzer into place.
It looked strange: a long barrel with only a recoil-damping base and an ammunition compartment behind it, all unnecessary structures removed.
The Elf Warriors immediately stepped forward and secured the gun to its mounting points.
Click, click, click-
The locks clicked crisply.
The howitzer did not budge.
Next came rocket artillery launchers, Multiple-Barrel Autocannons, surface-to-air missiles, laser weapons, Demon Clan Energy Block power units...
They had originally planned to use