Chapter 186: The Amerika Team's Onslaught

Chapter 186: The Amerika Team's Onslaught

The upper echelons of the Descension Faction were in a state of fury as the laboratories on the third and fourth floors of the base were breached.

This secret base had been established at a tremendous cost by the Descension Faction, and now it had been destroyed by the attackers.

As a result, the Descension Faction's leadership issued furious orders for all available armed forces to provide support.

The Sykes official authorities offered assistance, but the Descension Faction declined.

The reason was that the contents of the Delims 3 Research Base could not be disclosed to the authorities or any other factions.

Otherwise, the secrets within the base would become a pretext for other factions to attack the Descension Faction.

For the Descension Faction's leadership, the laboratories within the base were crucial, but the faction's popularity was even more so.

The faction's popularity was the Descension Faction's foundation, and if the base's secrets were exposed, their support might plummet, leading to budget cuts and halved investments.

This was something the faction leaders could not accept, so even though the Delims 3 Research Base was under attack, they refused to accept help from the authorities or other factions.

...

Outside the Delims 3 Research Base.

A swarm of two hundred drones gathered to provide support for the base.

As soon as the drones arrived outside the base, they were met with fire from the Autonomous Fire Suppression System robots.

Then, twenty-four cutting-edge armed drones took to the skies to intercept the two hundred drones.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

The two sides engaged in fierce combat. Xavier Matrix, controlling the ground fire system and the drone squadron, managed to shoot down over one hundred and fifty drones at the cost of losing one of their own. Several dozen drones flew into the base.

In addition to the destroyed drones, a few others sustained damage.

The damaged drones descended into the transport vehicle, where the repair system began patching up the damaged areas.

A few minutes later, the repaired drones took off again to rejoin the battle.

Fifteen minutes later, Alex Austin's Amerika Team arrived outside the base.

This was a factional mission issued by the Descension Faction's leader, who had promised significant rewards.

Therefore, the Amerika Team rushed over without delay.

Upon their arrival, they witnessed a clash between mechanical units on both sides.

Harris, the Esper, raised his sniper rifle and blew up a drone with a single shot, asking, "Do we need to clean up all these drones?"

"This is a piece of cake; give me a minute," said another Esper as he took flight towards the drone swarm.

He conjured a tornado, tossing the drones about in the sky before slamming them together, causing them to explode and fall.

In less than a minute, over twenty drones were eliminated.

At the same time, Alex Austin charged forward with the Radiant Shield, blocking the fire from the Autonomous Fire Suppression System and swinging his hammer.

Thunder rumbled as the hammer's power unleashed a devastating attack.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Autonomous Fire Suppression System was destroyed.

The Amerika Team cleared out the external mechanical units and entered the base, following the path created by the Nanobot Explosive Robot.

However, when they reached the entrance to the underground level, they found that the entrance had been blown up.

"Damn it! The entrance is blocked, and these Xia people are just stalling for time," shouted an Amerika Team member, kicking a stone at the entrance in frustration.

The alarm from the Delims 3 Research Base had already been sent out, along with information about the intruders, including several brief video clips.

Although the video clips were fragmented, they were sufficient for the team to identify the intruders as the Xia's Esper squad.

This was another reason why Alex Austin decided to take on this mission.

The last time they tried to capture Xavier Matrix, they almost succeeded, but the Xia's Espers intervened, preventing the Descension Faction from gaining a significant advantage.

"What now? Do we need to clear these rocks?" Harris, the sniper, asked.

"Too time-consuming," Alex Austin ordered. "Kalim, blast another entrance."

Kalim, a white Esper and the heavy artillery specialist of the Amerika Team, took out an RPG rocket launcher and loaded a rocket. He found another position and asked, "Is this spot okay?"

A white female member of the team placed her hand on the wall, closed her eyes, and used her X-ray vision to see through the wall. "Move two steps to the right. Yes, that's the spot."

"Retreat!"

Kalim and the others quickly moved back to the wall, aimed the rocket launcher at the designated spot, and fired.

Boom!

The rocket blasted open a large hole, causing a piece of the ceiling to collapse.

"Let's go!"

Alex Austin had no time to worry about the base's destruction and immediately led the team inside.

Along the way, all entrances were blocked.

They had tried the regular passages, but after the alarm sounded, all passages were locked down, and it would take time to reopen them.

Moreover, some passages had been blown up.

To descend quickly, they had to rely on directional blasting, just like the intruders.

After blasting open two entrances, Kalim began to express his dissatisfaction, "Do you know how expensive my rockets are? When we get back, each of you will use your Divine Energy to create a rocket for me, or I won't open any more entrances."

Alex Austin glanced at him and said, "After we get back, I'll have the ASE Consortium fully equip you with rocket launchers."

"That's more like it," Calum finally agreed to continue leading the way.

As a heavy artillery user, his firepower was indeed formidable, but this ferocity was built upon money and resources.

An RPG rocket launcher wasn't expensive on Blue Planet, and it only cost 100 dollars in the Americas.

However, bringing an RPG rocket launcher into the Abyss Battlefield wasn't something that could be solved with 100 dollars; it required Divine Energy for assimilation.

For ordinary Ability users, using RPG rocket launchers was simply unaffordable.

Nevertheless, Alex Austin's team of Ability users had the backing of the ASE Omniscient Eye Alliance.

The ASE Alliance was the largest capital family alliance on Blue Planet, and each of the 33-level families in the alliance were wealthy enough to rival nations.

Now, at the end of July, the ASE Alliance had already amassed an enormous amount of Abyssal resources.

With these vast resources, they had nurtured Alex Austin's team.

The two weapons Alex Austin used, the Stellar Shield and the Thunder Hammer, were both A-Class weapons.

Having two A-Class weapons on a single Ability user, one could imagine what kind of existence he was in the Americas.

Within the American nation, he had already earned the title of "Thunder God Austin."

The other Ability users in his team also received abundant resource support.

Calum, the heavy artillery user, could bring a large number of RPG rocket launchers into the Abyss Battlefield, indicating the extent of their resources.

These RPG rocket launchers were naturally not something Calum could assimilate with his Divine Energy; they were all bought and paid for by the ASE Alliance.

...

At this moment, on the fifth underground level of Delims Base 3, Lu Heng led the team in preparation for the breakthrough.

Just two minutes ago, Lu Heng had received a notification from Xavier Matrix.

He learned that Alex Austin's American team had already entered the base, and the external mechanical units had been mostly destroyed, unable to continue their interception.

Lu Heng checked the time; it was already 11 PM, and only one hour remained.

"Let's begin the breakthrough. We'll start with the laser matrix," Lu Heng said after arranging the action plan, synchronizing the timing with Xavier Matrix.

"The energy supply system will cut off in 3 seconds. The disconnection time is 30 seconds."

The holographic display screen showed a countdown: 3, 2, 1...

In the final second, Lu Heng ordered the start of the breakthrough.

The moment the energy supply was cut off, the Shadow Clone jumped into the fifth level and then began sprinting down the corridor.

Over a hundred laser beams swept towards it, and the Shadow Clone dashed at its fastest speed, trying to dodge the laser fire as much as possible, but it still shattered after two seconds.

Immediately afterward, Su Muyu controlled the Divine Feathered Eagle to rush into the corridor, flying along the ceiling, continuing to attract the laser matrix's attack.

While the laser matrix was attacking the Divine Feathered Eagle, Mechanical Tiger Anka fired six mini-missiles into the corridor, locking onto and attacking the laser matrix.

However, the laser matrix immediately abandoned the Divine Feathered Eagle, turning to intercept the mini-missiles.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

The six mini-missiles were instantly intercepted and exploded in mid-air.

The fragments didn't hit their targets before exploding, but the blast still damaged two laser launchers.

The Divine Feathered Eagle continued flying forward, attracting the laser fire while also observing the laser matrix structure in the corridor.

Just as the Divine Feathered Eagle was about to be blasted by the lasers, it used the skill Blazing Ray, erupting a 1200-degree high-temperature ray that incinerated over a dozen laser launchers.

After using the skill to deplete 10 seconds of the laser matrix's energy...

"Go! Everyone, follow me!" Lu Heng grabbed Su Muyu and leaped into the fifth level.

Su Muyu immediately activated the Prismatic Force Field, blocking the laser matrix's attack.

The mechanical units that followed unleashed their firepower, striking the laser matrix.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

One by one, the laser launchers were destroyed in the assault.

After Su Muyu's Prismatic Force Field lasted for 6 seconds, the skill ended.

Lu Heng immediately swung his sword, executing the Rift Slash, creating a rift trace to continue blocking the laser fire.

The rift trace lasted for 3 seconds. When it ended, Mechanical Tiger Anka's outer metal deformed, forming a giant shield at the forefront, activating the Flame Shield skill to block the final second of the high-energy laser.

After the final second ended, the laser matrix's battery energy was depleted, and the laser intensity rapidly decreased until it disappeared.

Lu Heng checked the time and said, "We only have 9 seconds to destroy all the laser launchers! Hurry!"

Initially, the calculated time was a 30-second energy cutoff, and the laser matrix's battery capacity could support 20 seconds, leaving a 10-second window.

However, in actual combat, the laser matrix didn't operate at full power for the entire 20 seconds, resulting in a 1-second discrepancy.

Although they only had 9 seconds, it was enough.

Lu Heng drew his sword and flew forward, slashing and destroying all the laser launchers in his path.

Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, Yuan Yaoyao's Black Feather Spirit, and all the mechanical units, including the White Feather Spirit, spread out and fired with all their might, destroying every laser launcher within their line of sight.

In 9 seconds, the team unleashed their most ferocious firepower, turning the entire laser matrix into ruins.

(End of Chapter)

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