bookpower Chapter 247 : The Power of the Artificial Emperor Beast
Chapter 247 : The Power of the Artificial Emperor Beast
Chapter 247: The Power of the Artificial Emperor Beast!
Aside from its normal active form, the City Demon also possessed a stationary form.
The so-called “stationary form” meant that it could truly transform into a modern city.
This super-giant demon could revert into a city of modern civilization through its stationary form.
At that time, streams of vehicles could travel normally along elevated highways, and various buildings would stand quietly in their original locations. All the facilities within the city could operate normally.
It was truly unbelievable.
A Level 3 Demon BOSS of the wasteland actually possessed such a bizarre ability—but as the level of Monstrous Civilizations grew higher, they also displayed increasingly strange and surreal characteristics.
When it transformed into a modern city, the City Demon essentially became a gigantic trap used to hunt prey.
Whether human forces or other monster forces, once they unknowingly stepped into the city, they would become prey for the City Demon.
Long, long ago—before the Demon Civilization took control of the Ruins Continent—the City Demon had already used this exact trick.
At that time, it quietly disguised itself as a modern city in a certain region of the Ruins Continent.
A Level 1 Monstrous Civilization discovered it and subsequently moved their entire population into the city to live there.
When the next day arrived, the entire Monstrous Civilization had already been completely digested by the City Demon.
Not only that—even human Mobile Cities that came to the Ruins Continent to develop and survive would also fall victim.
Considering that humans were highly vigilant, the City Demon would actively change its body shape, transforming its appearance into that of a ruined city.
This was sufficiently attractive, because human Mobile Cities were accustomed to collecting metal resources from urban ruins.
But once a human Mobile City drove into the city, the nightmare would begin.
Through this method, the City Demon had hunted countless prey over the years, becoming increasingly powerful.
During this time, the Demon Civilization also continued expanding outward, wildly conquering cities and seizing territory.
Once the entire Ruins Continent had been captured, the City Demon was assigned a new mission—guarding this Level 1 region.
For this super-giant demon, the task felt rather boring.
But it would soon end.
Because a new uninvited guest had arrived.
In the distant sea, a massive shadow slowly emerged from beneath the water.
The sea surface first collapsed into a whirlpool several kilometers in diameter. Then it erupted violently, with a towering column of steam shooting straight into the sky. The resulting tsunami instantly swallowed the coastal building ruins.
Amid the rolling waves, the outline of the massive creature gradually became clear—
Its skeleton was composed of a high-density titanium alloy frame, and every joint was equipped with reinforced hydraulic drive systems that produced a deep mechanical hum like thunder when operating.
The beast’s head resembled a deep-sea predator cast from steel. Its eyes were two sets of super sensor arrays capable of simultaneously scanning infrared, X-rays, and electromagnetic waves. Its armor consisted of a modular, replaceable ultra-defensive composite coating. A retractable missile bay was mounted on its back, and its thick mechanical legs contained rocket thrusters.
The secret weapon of Titan Throne—the artificial Emperor Beast “The Fallen Rak”—had appeared.
“I feel that your control over this mechanical body is becoming stronger and stronger, Rak.”
Inside the command room of the Leviathan Heart Research Base, the person in charge, Kane, spoke leisurely.
Rak let out a low growl, seemingly agreeing with Kane’s statement.
Immediately afterward, its eyes locked firmly onto the city ahead, releasing a warning growl.
As an Emperor Beast, it naturally possessed an extremely high level of vigilance. The detection systems within the mechanical body further granted it powerful sensory capabilities.
Now, Rak had already noticed that something was wrong with the city blocking its path.
“Yes, your guess is correct,” Kane said. “The city in front of you is a super-giant organism. And the reason I brought you here is to test your combat capability.”
At this moment, a large number of personnel were deployed inside the command room.
They were primarily responsible for controlling Rak’s movements, combat actions, and weapon systems.
But after thinking for a moment, Kane came up with a new idea.
“Transfer all control authority to Rak,” he said.
Everyone froze in shock upon hearing this.
“Mr. Kane, isn’t that a bit too risky?” a researcher stammered. “This artificial Emperor Beast cost our organization enormous manpower, resources, and materials to create. If we let Rak act on its own and it gets destroyed, the loss would be tremendous!”
Others also voiced their agreement.
Kane simply shrugged and spread his hands.
“Only this way can we obtain the most natural combat data.”
Following his order, the researchers gradually released the various control restrictions and completely transferred control of the mechanical body to Rak.
Rak immediately let out an excited roar. At this moment, it could feel itself gradually gaining full control over the body.
Meanwhile, the City Demon also sensed the hostile presence and began transforming into its active form.
In terms of size comparison, Rak was at an absolute disadvantage.
Although it was a mechanical giant beast several hundred meters tall, compared to the vast and magnificent body of the City Demon, it seemed completely insignificant.
After several minutes of roaring confrontation between the two sides, the battle erupted.
The City Demon launched the first attack.
It directly swung its left arm—formed from more than a dozen elevated highways spiraling together—like a massive hammer toward Rak.
The attack was simple yet terrifying, because the City Demon’s arm and palm alone could cover dozens of square kilometers.
For mortals, it would be nothing less than a catastrophic disaster.
Rak remained calm and composed. Its hydraulic joints emitted piercing metallic screeches as its body began moving at high speed. It climbed along the City Demon’s arm, avoiding the devastating attack.
The moment the giant palm struck the ground, the land within a hundred meters rippled like waves, raising clouds of dust several meters high.
Rak moved agilely across the City Demon’s body. From afar, it looked like an ant climbing on an elephant.
But...
This ant possessed the power to kill that elephant.
Moments later, Rak reached the City Demon’s back.
It opened its massive jaws. The Proton Howl Cannon inside its mouth roared, and the dark crimson energy sphere forming at the muzzle completely ionized the surrounding air. A torrent of energy more than a hundred meters in diameter tore through the sky, melting a crater hundreds of meters deep into the City Demon’s back.
Molten steel and buildings poured down like a torrential rain, forming a boiling lake of metal and rubble on the ground.
At the same time, the missile arrays on Rak’s shoulders locked onto several critical joints of the City Demon’s limbs and fired simultaneously. The missiles struck those points precisely, triggering chain explosions. During the chaos, Rak swung its ultra-high-temperature plasma cutting tail blade toward the City Demon’s knee joint.
The blade, heated to thousands of degrees, instantly melted the stadium dome forming the knee joint into glass-like crystals.
Yet the strike only caused the City Demon to stagger slightly.
For such an enormous body, that level of damage was equivalent to a human having the skin on their calf scratched by a craft knife.
However, the real crisis soon arrived.
Rak’s combat system analyzed the City Demon’s energy core—
A steel heart mutated from a super power plant.
Upon discovering this, Rak immediately changed its tactics and concentrated firepower on the City Demon’s chest area.
The second volley of the Proton Howl Cannon melted a passage through the outer layer of the steel heart.
Rak seized the opportunity and charged forward, fighting its way directly into the City Demon’s chest cavity.
During the advance, it unleashed maximum firepower, crazily bombing the interior and triggering continuous explosions.
After reaching the vicinity of the steel heart, Rak fired the Proton Howl Cannon once more and blasted it apart.
The explosions inside the City Demon illuminated the entire sky.
But the expected scene of the giant beast’s death did not appear.
Instead, the City Demon’s enormous body suddenly disintegrated into thousands of buildings.
Each building grew facial features and twisted limbs, then fled in all directions.
It turned out that this super-giant demon was actually composed of countless building demons.
The scene instantly became extremely chaotic.
Gas station demons, station demons, apartment demons, skyscraper demons—various building demons fled frantically.
Rak stood still, somewhat stunned. Clearly, the scene before it was difficult for even it to comprehend.
Inside the command center, Kane applauded.
“Excellent performance, Rak!”
Not only had the battle results exceeded his expectations, but more importantly—
It proved that the Artificial Emperor Beast Project was indeed feasible.
Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on Kane’s lips.
Without a doubt, Titan Throne would manufacture more and more artificial Emperor Beasts in the future.
Even world-class ones.
Peninsula Zone, Tomorrow.
Li Ye was currently holding a meeting with his companions and members of the City Committee.
The main topic of the meeting was the establishment of a new department.
The Trade Department.
The primary responsibility of the Trade Department would be to sell the blueprints obtained by the Tomorrow Alliance from attacking low-level Monstrous Civilizations, thereby generating revenue for the alliance.
Each member would need to be very familiar with market prices across the wasteland.
Given the current environment, the main trading partners of the Trade Department would be the Three Major Human Organizations. As for outsourced processing businesses, they were basically impossible to conduct.
The Trade Department’s staff size was initially set at around twenty people.
After the department was established, its members would be responsible for negotiating prices with the Three Major Human Organizations. As the Alliance Leader, Li Ye could then act as a hands-off manager.
Once everything was decided, the City Committee members departed to begin preparing the Trade Department.
Just like the Public Security Bureau, the Trade Department would also fall under the jurisdiction of the City Committee.
The next topic Li Ye and his three companions discussed was the Tomorrow Alliance’s actions on the Ruins Continent.
Originally, Li Ye had planned to push all the way into the inland and attack the capital of the Demon Civilization, kill the ruler of the Demon Civilization, and obtain that Tier 3 City Crystal.
However, there was a major problem.
The super-giant demon deployed in the sky by the Demon Civilization.
Because of its existence, the Tomorrow Alliance could hardly deploy its Aerial Forces in external battles.
Once they attracted the attention of that super-giant demon, it would be a complete dimensional suppression.
And without the ability to deploy Aerial Forces, the Tomorrow Alliance’s combat power would be greatly reduced, severely hindering their plan to attack the Demon Civilization’s capital.
But Li Ye soon came up with a new idea.
Not only did the Demon Civilization possess Tier 3 City Crystals—
The Three Major Human Organizations also had them.
The Tomorrow Alliance could purchase one through trade.
“Alliance Leader, your idea is indeed feasible,” Zhou Xing said thoughtfully. “If we have enough Crystal Coins, we could even buy the complete three-piece set for city promotion.”
“So our current direction is making money?” Yang Zheng asked.
“More or less,” Li Ye nodded.
With this new idea of earning money to purchase a City Crystal, the Tomorrow Alliance’s strategy underwent a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree shift.
Instead of pushing deep into the inland, they would develop the Level 3 region they currently occupied.
They would gather wild resources, hunt demons in the region to obtain dropped resources and blueprints, sell them to the Three Major Human Organizations to earn money, and slowly accumulate enough funds to purchase a Tier 3 City Crystal.
Li Ye felt that compared to fighting all the way to the Demon Civilization’s capital, this method might actually be better—and possibly even faster.
City Crystals were usually priceless and rarely available, but the Tomorrow Alliance had always maintained a good reputation, so they should be able to purchase one from the Three Major Human Organizations.
“Then let’s do it this way,” he said.
Over the next dozen days, the Tomorrow Alliance stopped focusing on advancing inland and instead concentrated on developing the Peninsula Zone.
During this time, the Intelligence Panel refreshed again.
This time, there were seven pieces of intelligence. Because a long time had passed, Epic Intelligence and Legendary Intelligence had also refreshed.
[1. So far, the human side has destroyed 37% of the low-level Monstrous Civilizations. Meanwhile, the monster side has basically driven out all visible human forces from the wasteland. (Intelligence Value: Ordinary)]
[2. A total of eight Emperor Beasts have now landed on the Ruins Continent. (Intelligence Value: Excellent)]
[3. A BOSS-level “Atmosphere Demon” exists in the sky above the Ruins Continent. Its size is equivalent to the entire Ruins Continent. Be extremely careful. The Atmosphere Demon’s attention is limited, so do not create large disturbances that might attract it. Its attention is currently focused on the southeast. (Intelligence Value: Rare)]
[4. The Demon Civilization has deployed a total of sixteen BOSS-level demons to block all routes leading inland. (Intelligence Value: Outstanding)]
[5. The Three Major Human Organizations plan to build a super Airborne Mobile Giant Island capable of supporting a population of several million. Furthermore, they plan to establish a modern nation on the island. The location of the island has already been chosen—a fragmented territory of Ocean Continent. (Intelligence Value: Epic)]
[6. Ninety-four nautical miles southeast of the Peninsula Zone, there are large amounts of Mobile City wreckage. Five months ago, humans and monsters fought a massive naval battle there. (Intelligence Value: Epic)]
[7. The following is a distribution map of oil fields and natural gas fields in the Peninsula Zone and nearby seas. (Intelligence Value: Legendary)]
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After reading the intelligence, Li Ye’s expression changed slightly.
His speculation had been correct.
The Demon Civilization had indeed deployed a group of super-giant demons to form a massive defensive line around the outer perimeter of the Ruins Continent.
Together with the Atmosphere Demon deployed in the sky, both land and sea routes to the inland were completely sealed.
It had to be said—
This Super Monstrous Civilization truly had strategic vision.