Chapter 637: Iron Blood Battlefield! Frontline Assignments!

It was past one in the morning, the sky pitch black.

Yet around the entire wall, countless high-intensity lamps illuminated the area as bright as day.

On the wall, two rows of blinding red warning lights flashed, stretching endlessly to the horizon.

The front alloy gate had not opened, but low, ferocious beast roars still seeped through it.

In the distant sky, clusters of "clouds" hovered, faint crimson glimmers flickering within.

They were not real clouds—they were vast numbers of avian beasts!

"The wall gate will open in 5 minutes and 23 seconds!"

"All guild and legion members, assemble before the gate for identity scanning and frontline assignment."

"The wall gate will open in 5 minutes and 22 seconds, please all..."

Around the entire wall, massive electronic alerts rang out repeatedly.

Xu Jingming, landed on the ground, followed the voice prompts toward the wall gate.

Boom—boom—

Low engine roars rose as troop transport trucks rolled in from afar and halted near the wall.

Immediately, large numbers of psychics poured out of the trucks.

They quickly formed orderly ranks on the open ground.

Unlike ordinary psychics, they did not wear light combat suits.

Instead, they wore heavy alloy battle armor, each step heavy with weight.

Clearly, on the frontline, survival mattered most—agility came second.

"Heavy Legion." Xu Jingming watched them from afar.

The Great Xia's Senbai Gorge also had many such heavy battle units.

The psychics of the Heavy Legion not only wore armor, but their weapons were uniformly standardized alloy shields and battle blades.

Even their cultivated combat techniques were mostly identical, allowing them to combine releases for unexpected power.

"Master Zongshi, greetings!"

"Master Zongshi!"

"My lord!"

"..."

Besides the Heavy Legion, there were also ranged Elemental Legions and support personnel.

They kept arriving nonstop via troop transports.

After disembarking, upon sensing the faint aura of a seventh-rank Master-level psychic emanating from Xu Jingming,

all of them respectfully bowed.

When they saw the Seven-Star Master President badge on his left chest, their respect deepened into intense admiration.

In the entire Mobei Master-level squads, there were no more than one hundred Seven-Star Masters.

"This badge really has its uses." Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

On the battlefield, he could even use this badge to issue orders to smaller legions, commanding them to protect him.

This was a direct, unyielding order from the Mobei military to all legions.

After all, cultivating a seventh-rank Master was far harder than training a thousand low-rank psychics.

Of course,

it was not without cost.

Once this right was used, one must serve the Mobei official military for ten years.

Thus, few Master-level cultivators actively exercised this right—unless truly in dire straits.

"Ding-ding-ding~~~"

"Identity verification in progress: Simon, Legion Commander of Acrylic Legion, identity confirmed. Scanning soldier identities..."

"One thousand psychic soldier members confirmed. Your assigned defense sector is X-24."

"Upon the wall gate opening, depart immediately."

Before the wall gate, countless smart flying devices, roughly fist-sized, darted through the crowd, projecting virtual beams.

They scanned legion soldiers to verify identities.

Once confirmed, they notified the corresponding defense sector.

These deployment decisions were jointly formulated by artificial intelligence and powerful tactical masters.

Aimed at minimizing casualties while repelling this wave of beast incursions.

Each legion psychic wore an earpiece, able to receive real-time updates and adjust tactics.

Of course, the Degaka Legion had none.

Because they did not take orders from the military, nor did the military bear responsibility for them.

On the battlefield, life and death rested entirely on themselves.

Unlike official legions, who could still call for aid from one another.

"No wonder Mobei is a supercity—its frontline battlefield is orderly, steeped in iron-blooded resolve."

Xu Jingming silently marveled.

This was because Mobei's frontline stretched impossibly long—six hundred thousand square kilometers.

Just the wall encircling the entire city was nearly three thousand kilometers long!

Only on Blue Star, where supernatural powers and advanced technology coexisted,

could such a wall—three thousand kilometers long, over seventy meters high—ever exist.

Of course, battles don't break out at every section of the city wall.

Still, there are stretches of four or five hundred kilometers where beast tides might come sweeping in.

Without precise tactical arrangements, everything would fall into chaos.

Zhen'an City of Great Xia is different — with a battle line of just over twenty kilometers, a single ninth-rank Martial Saint can hold the whole situation in hand.

"Beep beep beep~~~"

"Identity confirmed. Welcome, Zhou Xuan of the Qixing Sect from the Dejiaka Battle Group, joining Battlefield 3."

A smart aerial craft hovered in the sky not far in front of Xu Jingming, quickly scanning out his identity.

Perhaps it was his imagination, but after his identity was scanned, Xu Jingming felt the craft's voice seemed noticeably gentler.

"Your certification information shows you are an A-rank elemental fire-type ability user.

May I ask whether you follow the Warrior path or the Elementalist path?"

The smart aerial craft asked.

"What's the difference between the two?" Xu Jingming asked curiously.

"An Elementalist only needs to mount the city wall and unleash long-range spell-type combat skills — no need to enter the front line directly.

A Warrior must join the front line and engage the fierce beasts in close-quarters slaughter."

The smart aerial craft replied.

"I see."

After a moment's thought, Xu Jingming replied: "I follow the Warrior path of close-quarters slaughter."

Compared with Warriors, Elementalists standing on the city wall were undoubtedly far less dangerous — all they had to do was throw out skills.

But on the beast-tide side, there were also fierce beasts skilled in elemental manipulation.

Long-range spell damage — there was damage, sure, but it all depended on luck.

Compared with that, clearly going straight into the front line to slay fierce beasts yielded ability points more efficiently.

"Understood. Will you be acting alone?"

The virtual light projected by the smart aerial craft had not scanned anyone else around Xu Jingming, so it spoke up to ask again.

"Yes," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Understood. Assigning your defensive sector now."

After only a few seconds, the smart aerial craft's voice sounded again:

"Master Zhou Xuan, the sector assigned to you is Area S-12.

It's roughly 20 kilometers from the main gate. After the gate opens, please proceed there immediately.

However, I must remind you that the front-line battlefield is extremely dangerous.

We recommend that all Master-level experts operate in teams."

The smart aerial craft projected a virtual map, precisely marking the location of Area S-12.

Hearing this, Xu Jingming couldn't help but smile faintly.

This little robot sure does care about people.

After confirming his defensive sector, Xu Jingming was just about to step toward the city gate.

Suddenly, a slightly amused voice sounded from behind him:

"Brother, are you alone? The sector we're stationed at is also S-12 — any interest in joining us?"

PS: One chapter today, will make up for it tomorrow.