Chapter 610: Metallic Wail

The current shield has been depleted by 15%.

The seemingly innocuous words, spoken by an Astate clad in Terminator gear, indicate that the enemy's attack method can cause a certain degree of casualties.

One must know that the shield power of Terminator armor is unquestionably among the top in the Empire's military equipment.

Next.

The pack of Shark‑eaters needs no words; they recognize the Death Spirit warriors' attack is effective, yet their reaction and speed differ vastly, so they activate the Terminator's anti‑gravity function, quickly spread left and right, and again unleash a volley of explosive arrows toward the incoming direction.

Bang bang bang!

Ri~—Boom—!!!

Everything within sight is swallowed by a sudden burst of white light.

The interior of the ruin endures successive dense nuclear bombardments in a short span, but the Shark‑eaters, during this volley, do not establish a blockade; instead they allow the nuclear blast to indiscriminately ravage the ruin's interior.

After all, the enemy…

Or rather, the Space Death Spirits also possess a Defensive Barrier, which in theory would not endanger the surface.

Anyway, the Shark‑eaters are blood‑shot with rage; now only two thoughts occupy their minds.

First, to eliminate all alien forms that block them.

Second, before support arrives, to seize as many valuable assets as possible.

As for defeat?

They won't consider that; at worst they'll die.

At this moment, Taibelos, while using the Terminator's defensive field to resist the nuclear blast and employing the anti‑gravity function to increase agility, has his helmet screen replaying footage captured by a monitor.

The footage shows that the attackers are also a "metal wave", but not spiders or beetles—it's "humans"…

More specifically, they are metal skeletons with humanoid shapes, wielding massive firearms, their eyes emitting green light.

Everything just now happened extremely fast.

To mortal eyes, the second after this group of Terminators is hit by a barrage of beams, a nuclear bombardment unfolds, so ordinary vision cannot discern those metal skeletons.

By comparing the screen's image with data, Taibelos confirms those metal skeletons are cannon fodder units of the Space Death Spirits—Death Spirit warriors.

And on the right side of the screen, a brief dossier provided by the Emperor appears—

{Death Spirit warriors are the basic units of each tomb, transformed from former civilians who feared death, even infants; their personalities no longer exist, they lack autonomous reasoning, but can "steadfastly" execute superior orders.

A single or few pose low threat to Empire infantry units.

If gathered in numbers, they become a greater threat. }

Indeed, a single or few Death Spirit warriors cannot hit their Terminators, but when faced with tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, their few hundred Terminators are outmatched.

When the enemy attacks indiscriminately, a few unlucky brothers will get hit.

Hmm…

Seems we can no longer conserve ammunition.

Next, Taibelos and the entire squad unleash an unrestrained green nuclear explosion inside the ruin, i. e., a matter‑antimatter annihilation reaction.

Moments later, everyone fires their carried antimatter explosive arrows into the void.

The once solemn, dead, yet newly glowing "green vitality" ruin is now reduced to wreckage; all metal pillars, pyramids and other structures lie in ruins.

The Death Spirit warriors that posed a threat, as well as the spiders and beetles responsible for repairs, have long vanished.

Only the massive pyramid at the ruin's center escaped the green nuclear blast unscathed, not a single scratch.

Sensing the Shark‑eaters' ammunition shortage, the metal spiders and beetles surge again from the massive pyramid, commencing repairs on the ruin's structures.

As for the Death Spirit warriors, they are like endless Xiaoqiang, remaining silent and marching orderly away from the massive pyramid.

Among them, numerous several‑meter‑tall large skeletons flash by; it seems the enemy also deems the Shark‑eaters a "threatening" opponent, thus deploying higher‑grade units.

At this point, the Shark‑eaters line up in a single file centered on Taibelos, keeping roughly a hundred meters between each other.

The giants remain silent, but Taibelos, the squad leader, and over half the Terminators begin charging their melee weapons.

The remaining ten‑plus brothers are heavy‑armored Terminators; they merely fired their antimatter explosive arrows into empty space and have now switched to chains of other models such as Viper and Storm.

Immediately thereafter, the heavy Terminators kneel half‑crouched, deploying the miniature missile launch bays mounted on their backs, and…

Miniature light‑prism terminals.

Swish——Swish——!

Missiles with varied warheads burst from the bays, trailing white flames and moving at extreme speed to blanket the Death Spirit army.

Ri~—~!!

Simultaneously, the light‑prism terminals flicker with charging radiance, linking together among the heavy Terminators.

Then…

Whoosh—whoosh—!!!

The linked beams instantly form diamond‑shaped massive nets "◇", the first missile step slicing through any Death Spirit troops within reach.

Cannon‑fodder Death Spirit warriors are bisected or slashed, falling smoothly like elongated tofu blocks.

After all, among Human Empire technology, the proudest are the matrices and shields inherited from the Administrators, and the colossal devices capable of cleansing the cosmos.

At this moment, before the Death Spirits—whose bodies have not yet split into two or multiple sections—could continue crawling and surging toward Taibelos and his group, the barrage already arrives in succession.

Boom!!

Another green nuclear explosion helps the Shark‑eaters "clean up" the battlefield.

After the aftershock, a straight green light barrier perfectly separates the nuclear blast from the light‑prism matrix, sparing the massive pyramid and over half the Death Spirit warriors.

No need to think further; the armor power of just a dozen heavy Terminators cannot breach the ruin's core defenses.

"Heavy brothers, provide fire support, kill."

But after Taibelos issues the emotionless command, he uses the anti‑gravity device, becoming a after‑image that charges toward the pyramid.

Discarding the heavy Terminators, the remaining Shark‑eaters surge forward.

"…"

Even if the brothers were on the communication channel, the reply given to Taibelos was silence; just by looking at his posture one can see that this group of man-eating sharks never even considered whether their power was sufficient.

Just kill them and it's done.

Nearly a hundred giants over three meters tall charged into the enemy ranks, instantly raising a "gale" of metallic limbs; each man-eating shark terminator is an efficient meat grinder…

No, the Space Death Spirit has no physical body; it should be called a shredding machine.

And Taibelos further lived up to his epithet "Bloody Mad Shark"; no enemy before him could withstand even a single round, until…

"Ugh…!!"

Until a metallic-sounding cry of pain came over the comms channel, seemingly indicating that the man-eating sharks' smooth sailing—killing gods when they met gods, killing Buddhas when they met Buddhas—had come to an end.

(End of chapter)