MTLNOVEL Chapter 850: 452.333
"Hail! Great Sky Elves, who gaze upon all beings!"
Dong!
The great bell tolls once, and the deflectors of the fighter planes swiftly adjust, like eagles preening their feathers.
"Hail! The vector nozzles never cease to spit fire!"
Dong!
The great bell tolls a second time, the attitude control nozzles rotate back and forth, emitting the sound of metal resonating.
"Hail! May the ammunition ignite with precision pursuit!"
Dong!
The great bell tolls a third time, pilotless fighters spring open their weapon bays, surrounding ammunition and drones swiftly return, self-fixing onto the launch racks like bees returning to the hive.
"Hail! The Night Mother General personally guides every missile!"
Dong!
The great bell tolls a fourth time, and monks cover the fighters with talismans and scriptures, anointing the radomes with fresh, pure balm. In the complex electromagnetic environment, the avionics systems of the fighters suddenly recover.
"Supreme God's protection."
The pilots clasp their hands over their chests, praying devoutly, grabbing their helmets, and boarding the aircraft once more.
"For the Night Mother! We fight to the death without retreat!"
The priest led the monks in ceaseless prayer, the power of faith blessing every bullet from the cannons.
Fighters were electromagnetically catapulted off the combat platform, engines spewing flames, driving them swiftly forward, charging towards the Implant Gear forms that had decimated countless lives.
This time, blessed by the deities, they piloted the fighters with such precision, reaching near perfection in man-machine integration.
"Glory belongs to the Night Butterfly!"
On the other side of the battlefield, Li Aozi was adjusting the settings of a large Implant Gear.
"The Night Butterfly's forces are vast, combined with the enhancement of the legendary commander, I hardly have time for resupply or rest, and soon, their elite troops will arrive."
Thus, a slight increase in efficiency is needed.
The task demands the total annihilation of enemy forces, and Li Aozi plans to leave no survivors or deserters, so he cannot completely crush the opponent's morale.
To keep the enemy continuously sending in reinforcements, Li Aozi continued to hold the central free-fire zone, occasionally taking hits on purpose, making the foe believe they had a chance to eliminate him.
——Using the Meteor Fall Technique for a full sweep is inadvisable.
Doing so would too easily alert the enemy; knowing your overwhelming strength, they would refrain from using wave tactics to exhaust you, and instead use elite forces to contend with you.
There are only two methods to handle individual strong opponents: one is to make them too divided to respond, and the other is to deploy your strong individuals.
But now, with the enemy's formation already cleared, Li Aozi knew that the average commander would definitely choose to encircle and kill using fighters—like a merry-go-round.
There are three types of mobile units in the cosmos:
Mecha Troops — responsible for boarding maneuvers and completing outer space operations, with certain escort duties, belong to a complex high-tech military unit.
Combat Orb — Numerous spherical combat devices prepared for ordinary soldiers, they are the main force in swarm assaults, and due to their low cost, are typically the rides of clones, also mockingly referred to as 'cannon fodder coffins'.
Then there are the high-mobility fighters — without concern for aerodynamic layout in the cosmos, solely focusing on acceleration and sharp-angle maneuvers, this makes fighters the leading cavalry in breakthroughs.
However, with the toll of war, the quality of fighter pilots has deteriorated tremendously.
Considering this, the butterfly faction's fighters chose to use conservative, high-tolerance tactics: continuously using wide-angle maneuvers to launch attacks from various layers of three-dimensional space.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Dense missiles flew with purple flames, their trajectory nimble and swift, even escorting Implant Gear couldn't intercept them.
Bang! Clang—! Boom!
Continuous explosions blossomed on Li Aozi's armor, the splitting energy of fission bombarded relentlessly from all angles, gravity could deflect light entities and was immune to beams, but it couldn't withstand precise and repeated artillery fire.
Layered armor continually burst into flames, divine blessings took effect, each missile unstoppable as it pierced through gravity's vortices, hard armor-piercing warheads hit the armor, rapidly melting and erupting; innumerable streams of molten metal spread until they stopped before Li Aozi's porcelain-like skin.
Yet even now, Li Aozi's health points still remained at 100%.
The missiles from [Death Link] had long hit him, continuously transferring the damage into the cosmic space, the actual harm Li Aozi suffered was less than what natural regeneration could cover.
"——The trap is set."
Li Aozi wasn't deliberately choosing to take hits.
Thus, the opponent's main battleships would only hover, providing support fire, rather than relentless barrages, drastically reducing the pressure Li Aozi faced.
The strategy was correct, and the methods were sound, the Night Butterfly's air force was also powerful, the coordination between their commander and priest had caused considerable damage to his defenses.
"Look! He's already completely still!"
They did a great job.
"The brain isn't keeping up, right? How could any biological reaction possibly keep pace with our maneuvers!"
Truly a skeletal legion trained by the Eye of the Galaxy.
"Don't let your guard down, the opponent might still be reloading and continuing the attack runs."
It can be said that even though they are essentially a third-rate civilization, in the Layer Abyss, few armies match their precision and decisive execution.
"With the blessing of deities, surely victory is just a matter of time!"
The fighters turned into purple butterflies, circling Li Aozi's form, continuously launching harassing attacks.
There was just one thing they got wrong.
[Command execution complete]
Li Aozi raised his hands, embedding them into the surrounding flesh.
[Implant Gear Tool · Multi-splitting Arm in position]
Neural tentacles connected and interfaced, transmitting signals steadily.
[Neural Link complete]
Snap!
The armor plates slowly opened like petals blooming, revealing eight specially crafted arms—each arm with six fingers, splitting apart outward, revealing the pods inside.
Arcane Missiles could only be released manually, which posed a significant problem.
Because a normal person only has two hands, even with an exoskeleton, that limitation couldn't be overcome.
But the Implant Gear can break through human limitations, performing a neural link with the Implant Gear arms created using identical DNA, allowing them to serve as firing units.
[Arcane Missile selection complete]
[[Bloodline], [Canyue], [Dark Light], [Gravity], [Weak Force]…]
[A total of 3,890 Arcane Missiles selected]
"Your only mistake was—being unable to defeat me."
Li Aozi grinned wildly, locking onto one target after another with his X-shaped flesh visor.
"It's raining."
The next moment, the eight arms quickly rose, the split pods instantly gushed forth with massive arcane radiance.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!
Countless, immeasurable waves of various Arcane Energies, each with its effects, streaked across the starry sky of the Eye of the Galaxy, overwhelming everything, and descended upon all present targets.
Unblockable, unstoppable, unpredictable.
Because Arcane Missiles do not belong to any conventional weapon type, they are not weapons at all.
They are mandates, the very laws of Cosmic operation.
Thus, this is not slaughter.
No matter the size of the ships or fighter planes, whether mechas in maintenance or recovery pods, anything lacking friendly identifiers was subjected to devastating strikes at that moment!
——This is divine retribution.