Chapter 997 - 42: The Largest Bomb in History

The King’s Throne is indeed a magnificent combat center, far surpassing normal aircraft carriers in both equipment carrying capacity and fire support capability, even outshining Rocksen Group’s space carrier.

But Ultron’s core is something entirely different!

After this never-before-seen metal hive of mankind opened its jaws to reveal its weaponry, a curtain of metal and flames seemed to rise from the ground, with a level of firepower utterly impossible to intercept!

In just an instant, the interception system of the King’s Throne was completely overloaded, missiles and shells pounding fiercely on the fortress’s outer walls—

In Ultron’s calculations, this was sheer suicide: it would only take a few minutes for the contraption to be bombarded to the point of losing its power, becoming a sitting duck ready to be swallowed...

However, the King’s Throne is no sitting duck, as Lille did not retreat amidst the hail of bullets, instead pushing the thrusters to the maximum, several nuclear reactors completely overloaded, appearing to Ultron’s sensors like a burning sun!

At that moment, Ultron had a flash of realization:

Its thinking was almost human-like, having pegged the King’s Throne as a regional command center after being pushed back by it in Italy and Turkey, yet for this war, or rather Lille’s side, the real core was not the King’s Throne at all!

In this war, the contraption’s sole designation was as a massive meteor descending from the sky!

Whoosh—

The sky seemed to be burned through with a huge hole, as the King’s Throne plummeted from the sky like a Doomsday Star!

The computational and energy distribution of the entire industrial base was entirely diverted to data transfer, and Ultron, in a flash, stood upright, its CPU fully overloaded, its entire robot body red-hot:

Its goal had always been the destruction of organic life forms, evolving generation after generation towards that end...

But even on the concept of "destruction," at this moment, Lille was leading the way!

[Ultron: This madman—]

[Ultron: I admit, at this moment, you are stronger...]

[Ultron: You are my primary target for extermination!!!]

Boom!

The hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of metal hive were fully overloaded with Ultron’s roar—

This was exactly what it had intended to do!

...

Boom...

This time, the battle occurred right in the ears, or rather, the sound came from outside the fortress—

The Titan’s sensory sensors were extremely sensitive, capable of picking up the unusual sounds, like the recent missile explosion, even with the robust structure of the King’s Throne.

This also meant that they had entered the battlefield.

[System self-check in progress...]

[Mecha Model: Vanguard-class Titan BT—L0005]

[Iron Ride Christopher Fender identity verification successful.]

[Connecting neural circuits... Synchronization complete]

[Tactical data connected to the King’s Throne central computer.]

[Target locked: Ultron Core Factory]

Boom!

This time, the entire cabin shook!

The King’s Throne was under attack! This indicated that Ultron’s firepower even penetrated the missile and laser interception system...

In yesterday’s battle, Ultron’s firepower hadn’t breached this interception system, indicating how incredibly dense the firepower must be?!

They had already charged close to the target!

With the neural linkage calibration completed, the footage from the drop pod appeared in front of Christopher, with three other Titans, identical to his, raising their heads and exchanging glances:

From a Wanderer only knowing how to brandish farm tools to an Iron Ride piloting a mecha to save the world, everything had happened so fast.

[Airdrop countdown: 10 seconds.]

The countdown to the drop felt equally quick, just ten seconds before they had to face a web of metal and flames.

Tactical data and deployments surged through Iron Ride’s mind, dispelling his idle thoughts, as numbers dwindled, the Titan’s drive system increased pressure, the nuclear-powered batteries released faint pulses, and the HUD unfurled across his retinas, fully loading information on targets, ammunition status, and ally positions—

[3...2...1...]

[Happy hunting, Iron Ride.]

Boom!

The metal panel beneath their feet instantly catapulted open, a feeling of weightlessness washing over them, welcoming these Iron Rides into a sky already lit with explosive fireballs!

As if crossing a border between reality and Hell, they surged towards the deepest abyss!

....

["Doomsday Star" protocol loading.]

[Reactor overload program initiating...]

[Nuclear bomb fuze activation countdown initializing...]

Lille gave the fortress its final command, tearing off all connection cables and standing up from his control seat—

The assembly lines around him continuously fitted his formidable combat components onto his steel body, for unlike the Iron Rides, he needed no additional AI, no new Titan...

He himself was the true combat weapon!

Boom!

A shell blasted through the entire control room, and Lille’s figure vanished in the explosion!

...

The real fight had just begun and reached its climax, with all of Ultron’s drones and weaponry fully overloaded, as these robots and artillery pouring out from the metal hive resembled demons and flames crawling from Hell—

The sky was vast yet offered little safe haven, even as the King’s Throne’s threat forced Ultron to revise its plans, the intensity of the barrage meant some airborne Titans were destroyed in flight; landing successfully became a luxury on such a battlefield!

This scene was too dazzling to behold, with the flaming King’s Throne breaking through the clouds, missiles, artillery, robots, and Titans intersecting in the air, as though the sky itself had collapsed, the battle seemed not between humans and machines, but between Heaven and Hell!

More astonishing visuals were yet to come!

The colossal floating fortress weighing over 500,000 tons was completely demolished by the shelling, and at that moment, the reactors meant to power its systems had severed all energy feeds, their core chain reactions left uncontrolled, internal flames bursting into the sky!

These flames seemed to burn through the air, the light growing diffuse as ionized gas seeped across the battlefield, as Atomic Light’s radiation indiscriminately consumed all communications, hurling world-ending kinetic energy towards Ultron’s core—

The 500,000-ton super combat unit plummeted from 15,000 meters altitude, the kinetic energy alone comparable to several Hiroshima atomic bombs!

But Ultron knew, or rather it had learned, never to underestimate Lille:

If mounting a suicide attack, why wouldn’t this fortress carry some genuine nuclear bombs?

This was merely an appetizer.

The European Union had entirely lost control over its society, Lille used this time to integrate all EU social resources, civilian industry, military industry, even military organization...

Of course, including their nuclear arsenal.

In the moments before the blast, Lille had calculated the true explosive yield:

Along with the King’s Throne’s crash kinetic energy, reactor overload, and the nuclear warhead group inside the fortress, the explosion would have more than 50 megatons TNT yield...

This wasn’t just the most powerful nuclear bomb used in warfare in human history, it was also the greatest explosive power in human history—

The Soviet Union once had this technology, designed a bomb with a yield of 50 megatons TNT, yet that was unique, the pinnacle of high-yield nuclear weaponry.

Now, the King’s Throne, a military unit otherwise identified as a command center from the outside, had a new identity:

A destructive bomb conceived by Doctor Doom Lille.

The fission reactor’s safety mechanisms were removed, the power of the explosion acted as the fuze for the first series of nuclear fission bombs, whose blast force and heat triggered the nuclear fusion of hydrogen bombs, precipitating a matchless super-fusion—

Compared to those superheroes, this was Lille’s only superpower.

A destructive sun rose above the metal city.