Chapter 22: The Lightning Storm

On the other side of the earth, an army of soul golems is marching silently.

This is an army that is unimaginable to ordinary people.

All of them are tall and heavily armed tall puppets over two meters tall, with heavy steel feet enough to kick dust on the ground and make pillars of smoke rise in the sky, more than 3,000 tower-like storming machines equipped with inert heavy armor as strikers, their right hands are equipped with giant scythes, awl hammers, and chainsaws that are difficult for normal humans to use, and their left hands are all equipped with a huge heavy shield like a door panel, and the thick alloy is forged with the most advanced techniques, enough to block most of the super and physical attacks.

Behind these assault golems are twice as many as them, and although they are weakly armoured, they are equipped with a variety of targeted weapons. They carry various types of ray generators, as well as physical throwing guns and firearms for long-range throwing shots, as well as targeted 'energy stance generators', and the weapons carried by these puppets are enough to instantly destroy a large legion in the era of ordinary people if they rain down at the same time, not to mention the energy shield formed by the resonance of the stance generator, which is enough to block the onslaught of multiple powerful superpowers.

This is the soul golem's customized means of ending against the Siboyan rebels who attacked their garden, the 'Hunter Army', a group of killing machines armed from head to tail to the teeth, and most of the superpowers can only flee when they see them, and there is no room for action at all.

But unlike what Chariot and the others had imagined, this army of hunters was not the one they had worked so hard to lead away—the army of hunters they were familiar with was now circling the north of the continent as before, and it would take about three months to return, but this one was a completely new army.

Soul golems are far more productive than the fugitive superpowers can imagine, they hold almost all the resources of this world, and since one is not enough to destroy their enemies, they create a second, and if the second is not enough, they don't mind creating a third, fourth, or even fifth.

They don't care.

"A high-intensity supernatural field reaction was detected, and a fugitive superpower was found in the left front, the number of four."

"Send the third team to clean up."

Centered on several 'weird' puppets with special shapes hidden in the army, the hunters' army organized a small team and rushed towards the plantation not far away, which was judged to be 'captured' some time ago.

A few scattered superpowers. Soul puppets will not be despised or careless, they are based on the program algorithm in their soul core, an elite suppression team, which is a reasonable number of superpowers without weakening the combat power of the headquarters, and can suppress those superpowers without damage, located in the center of the army, responsible for relaying information, and the core puppets of the army continue to move forward with the army, towards the predetermined goal, the 'base camp' of the fleeing superpowers.

But it didn't take long for the core puppet in charge of relaying the information to pause slightly, and its soul core received dozens of urgent messages one after another almost at the same time.

"Designation Tbeta-8453 loses signal."

"Designation Tbeta-8457 loses signal."

"Designation: Tbeta-8459......."

Numbered ......

"The third squad is completely wiped out. Preparation cancelled. Total extinguishment time confirmation...... Confirm it for 1 second. Search the library...... The match was successful. The enemy is a first-level superpower! ”

The core golem's observation window was filled with an almost endless waterfall of data, its eyes glittering, and it was rapidly processing information, and after a few seconds, the puppet had already made a decision: "Confirmed as a first-level high-level ability, according to the purge agreement, the target of the hunter's army has been transferred." ”

"All hands are ready."

In the wilderness, the momentum swallowed the sky and the earth, and the galloping huge steel army suddenly stopped, turning from extreme movement to extreme quiet, and the rectangular dense array instantly dispersed, becoming a scattered but regular formation like fish scales, and the next moment, the entire steel army turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and then rushed towards its own goal, the target worth destroying again.

At the same time, in front of the walls of the plantation, the shocking chariot blinked, and his unbelievable gaze followed his gaze, as if he wanted to see what was happening in front of him, but all that caught his eye was the wreckage of the suppression squad that had begun to drift away in the wind...... It was not so much wreckage as dust, and the fine silver mist fell on the earth and became tiny grains of iron sand.

What just happened? The old man barely saw anything, he just saw that the hunter army in the distance had split a small team to kill himself and the others, and at that time the chariot had almost given up calling Joshua to run away, but planned to leave with the invisible and demolitional two as soon as possible...... But what happened next was completely beyond his imagination.

The monstrous heavy golem equipped with inert metal marched forward with earth-shaking steps, it was a tricky enemy that the old man could not destroy quickly even in his full form, and this kind of enemy came in more than twenty of them, followed by twice as many ranged attackers as it did - this number was already a lore for ordinary superpowers, and most superpowers would never be able to defeat these extremely targeted enemies even if they ran out of energy.

However, in the face of such a tricky enemy...... The burly puppet floating in the sky, it only clenched its fist slightly, causing a burst of silver light to erupt from the spinning wheel of steel behind it, and all the attacking enemies were wiped out.

What kind of power is this? The chariot had never been seen before, he didn't even have time to see clearly, the enemy had completely disappeared, there was no wreckage left, he looked up in horror, looked at the figure floating in the sky, but soon, he found that the huge puppet and the black-haired boy on his shoulder were rising rapidly, he had gone deep into the air at a height of thousands of meters, and was still rising rapidly, the old man was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of something, and looked down at the ground.

Suddenly, the chariot gasped, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back, almost falling to the ground.

In the distance, the puppet stepped forward, the 'thunder' that shook the earth became bigger and bigger, a silver steel cloud was rushing towards the plantation at an extremely firm and exaggerated speed, the wind was howling, and you could see layers of semicircular cyan energy shields rising from the formation of the puppet army, they fused and resonated with each other, and finally formed a layer of translucent force field shields that seemed to be substance.

Looking at this scene, he couldn't help but think of the last decisive battle with the puppet army ten years ago...... In the valley basin in the western part of the Xiboya continent, more than seventy powerful superpowers led their own team, facing the army of hunters in the complex mountainous area, at that time, it seemed to be the same, silver dark clouds surging on the ground, and the cyan energy shield that had never been seen before rose up, withstanding the indiscriminate bombardment of countless superpowers, equipped with inert energy armor, and the heavy puppets who almost ignored the inferior superpowers burst into the formation in the shock of everyone, wielding hideous weapons and launching a massacre.

Since then, the rebels have not clashed head-on with the Hunters.

Is he trying to escape...... It's okay, such a powerful person shouldn't die in this situation. At this time, the chariot could no longer see Joshua's figure, and the turbid sky was shrouded in dust, and even the most advanced optical instruments could not penetrate this density of dust and mist, let alone the human eye.

However, just as the old man was being dragged away by the invisible and explosive in his heart, he did not know whether he was relieved or disappointed, and suddenly, a continuous thunderclap was heard from high in the murky sky.

Not only the chariot, but even the two superpowers who were in a hurry to escape and hide couldn't help but raise their heads and look at the sky that they couldn't see.

Not far away, the core puppet that was marching rapidly with the army also raised its head, and the camera was focused, and it also stared into the sky.

Then they saw—the sky that should have been hidden by countless dust and gravel and could never be seen clearly, suddenly sprung up with layers of incomparably deep darkness—a cold, damp aura spread rapidly, and almost instantly, the world around them seemed to change its appearance, as if it had been dragged into another world.

"It's ...... Hallucinations? ”

Shaking off the arms of the two people who had also stopped on his side, the chariot raised its head, and in his eyes, dense black spots suddenly appeared in the sky, covering almost the entire sky.

Thousands of sudden mistballs appear out of thin air in the dry sky, then disperse into clouds amid thunder and explosions.

The violent wind shook violently, and the suffocating black clouds spread high in the sky like ink dripping from water, almost covering most of the world in a few moments, and the almost endless water vapor rolled and accumulated in the wind, and they spread rapidly, covering all the sky in the field of vision, and then swallowing the setting sun!

Heaven and earth were completely darkened, and then, as high in the sky, the tall figure standing in the midst of the clouds and thunder raised his right hand, and the power that could not be described burst out from the puppet's rotating disc—at this moment, the silver gem dimmed, the cyan gem lit up, and his right hand fell heavily, and the sky thundered and thundered, and the torrential rain poured down!

Smack.

Dirty water droplets drip onto the glass mirror of the core golem's observation device, and the windshield wiper sweeps over it to ensure that the observation mirror is clear.

But after the first drop of water fell, lightning and thunder followed, endless torrential rain fell, a gloomy atmosphere spread, and the rain that came out of nowhere mixed with the dust in the air covered the whole land, and the rain that could almost be called muddy water washed the heavens and the earth, infiltrating everything and enveloping itself. The rain turned the surface of the ground into mud, and countless ground that could have been stepped on turned into swamps, and the majestic army of puppets was suddenly stagnant, and most of the overly heavy assault golems were stuck in the mud, almost unable to move.

According to the weather forecast for the garden, the next rain should be thirteen days away.

In the panicked army of puppets, such a stream of information flashed through the soul core of the core puppet, it had never encountered such a situation, even the machine felt confused: "The weather has changed, why." ”

"It can't be a superpower...... How can superpowers change celestial phenomena?! ”

On the ground, whether it was a chariot, an invisible, or a blast, the three rebel superpowers were dumbfounded—if they had turned the enemy into ashes in an instant before, barely within their comprehension, then changing the celestial phenomena of a place was completely beyond their imagination!

In the Sibeya Resistance, there was once a powerful superpower who could control the sandstorm, and he was able to single-handedly block the onslaught of the hordes of hunters, giving the others plenty of time to retreat...... But how can the ability to set off a small sandstorm compare to the celestial phenomenon of creating dark clouds that cover the sky out of thin air and rain endless rain? In the entire 100-year history of the Resistance, there has never been a superpower with such abilities and such energy levels!

Bang!

But reality didn't give anyone time to react, with a roar, more than a dozen cyan thunderbolts brewed between the friction of the clouds, and then smashed to the ground, the explosion appeared in the army of hunters, the thunder evaporated the water vapor, turning the rain into white mist, and the overly condensed violent electricity mixed with the high heat that melted everything, instantly penetrated the energy shield, destroying dozens of puppets.

The rain fell like an arrow, billions of trillions of water droplets were stretched into lines in the air, turning into sharp spikes, and in the sky, the roaring thunder did not stop, the thunder struck endlessly, and one after another cyan thunder fell, like a lightning storm whipping the atmosphere and the ground, as if the whole world was shaking violently.

"Wow—————— whoa!"

The core puppet that was helping the other puppets break away from the mud swamp suddenly sensed an extremely rapid alarm, and in the soul radar, it noticed that there was an incomparably bright spot of light in the sky, which was rapidly falling from a height of thousands of meters, and its speed was far faster than all the puppets, even faster than some disemboweling bullets.

"High-energy reaction detected!"

"The Mighty Ones are rapidly approaching, ready to attack!"

"Start attacking!" The core puppet gave a decisive order.

So, in the army of puppets, several strangely shaped soul puppets stepped forward, they were almost humanoid, and their whole bodies were like a giant beehive, and now, in the hive room, white light lit up, and a few seconds later, hundreds of human head-sized energy light clusters burst out from the hive at the same time, and then turned into a series of light particles, galloping towards the bright and huge light point in the radar!

But it didn't work - just as the self-guided supersonic light particles were rapidly approaching the point of light, a strange wave swept by, and all the light particles exploded directly in mid-air, and the majestic energy washed away the rain, temporarily creating a blank area in the atmosphere.

And at this moment, the core puppet found that the point of light in the soul radar was actually not falling in a straight line...... His orbit in mid-air tilted slightly, and then, just like that, he rushed straight towards the entire Soul Puppet Lord's main formation—

Bang bang bang - because of the heavy rain, all the ray generators were temporarily unusable, so the suppressive golems took out the spare physical ammunition and guns, and began to intercept the high-speed object, these golems were almost as accurate as any skilled soldier, and thousands of weapons that could be called anti-aircraft machine guns were fired in a volley, creating layers of fine firepower in the sky with almost no loopholes.

But there is no meaning, the bright point of light in the soul radar ignores all intercepting fire, it breaks through the atmosphere, and even continues to accelerate, getting closer and closer.

"Distance 2500, distance 1790, distance 430...... Prepare for the shock! ”

The core puppet used electromagnetic soul fluctuations to control the entire army of puppets to respond, but it was too late.

Bang——————boom!

It was as if a meteorite had fallen to the ground, and a violent explosion occurred in the front line of the army of hunters, and the violent shock wave shook the rain and atmosphere, causing the air to boil and storm wildly.

And right in the middle of the explosion, a massive mechanical body that had never appeared before in this world emerged from the hot cloud of steam and appeared before the puppets.

"That's what superpowers...... No, the authority of steel. ”

The floating ring slowly rotated behind him, and the silver, blue, red, black, gold, and white six-colored gems rotated, and Joshua clenched his right fist, at this time, the silver and cyan fragments were already dimmed, and the white steel fragments were shining.

In front of him were thousands of fully armed soul puppets on standby.

"Not bad."