Chapter 767: Imperial Capital Crisis (Part 3)

"Hurry! Highest-level defense!!"

"All Magical Cannons, charge up! No matter how many people die, smash that mountain to pieces for me! You can't let it fall!"

In the defensive trench below, the commander of the Great Xia Military Department had bloodshot eyes, roaring desperately and at the top of his lungs!

Accompanied by the roaring sounds of rapid mechanical gears meshing and energy pumps operating!

Hundreds of heavy Magical Cannons deployed at various commanding heights in the city and hidden among the buildings quickly turned their barrels under the lock of the radar!

"Fire!!!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hundreds of thick, azure high-energy beams rose from the ground with a piercing screech!

These pillars of destruction, representing the crystallised combination of Great Xia's highest technology and magic, intertwined in mid-air into an airtight web of lethal firepower, fiercely bombarding the bottom of the rapidly falling earth mountain!

The power of these heavy Magical Cannons was terrifying in the extreme; ordinarily, even if they encountered an S-rank beast tide, a single shot could vaporise a mutant beast dozens of meters tall!

Yet!

When these azure high-energy beams fiercely collided with the earth mountain!

The imagined scene of boulders collapsing and the mountain body shattering did not appear!

"Bang! Bang! Rumble——!"

Violent explosions rang out in succession in mid-air, kicking up balls of fire exceeding a hundred meters in diameter and dust filling the sky!

But when the dust was slightly blown away by the falling gale, the hearts of all the Great Xia soldiers looking up sank to the bottom of the valley!

That mountain had only had some peripheral gravel and soil blasted off by the terrifying high temperature of the Magical Cannons!

Under the powerful blessing of the dark yellow Earth-element Law, the internal density of its massive main structure was compressed to an unimaginable degree, practically more unbreakable than the hardest alloy in this world!

A simultaneous volley from these formidable Magical Cannons, enough to destroy a modern aircraft carrier fleet, was actually unable to completely destroy it!

"Damn it! The density of that mountain is not right! That is rock forcibly compressed by Advanced Laws!"

Seeing this, Lin Zhu's originally fair and pretty face lost all color.

She clenched her silver teeth, hastily manipulating the countless thick mutated vines below to soar into the sky, attempting to form a giant green shock-absorbing net in mid-air to forcibly catch the falling mountain!

"Hold your ground——!" Lin Zhu shouted angrily.

"Puchi——!"

However, those incomparably tough vines, which could even strangle S-rank mutant beasts, the moment they made contact with the bottom of the mountain, were crushed into green juice flying all over the sky by the terrifying gravity mixed with high-dimensional coercion!

In the face of overwhelming power, her proud Wood Law was so fragile and unbearable!

"Lin Zhu! Step aside!"

At a critical moment!

Zhao Qingcang, whose face had been as gloomy as water and who had been silently gathering power, let out an angry shout!

He knew all too well that if this thing were allowed to smash down solidly, more than half of the imperial capital would turn into ruins within 0.1 seconds, and the number of casualties would be in the tens of millions! Great Xia's national fortune would suffer an irretrievable heavy blow!

"Hum——!"

Terrifying silver light burst from Zhao Qingcang's eyes, and the bones all over his body were making unbearable cracking noises!

His hands rapidly formed seals in front of his chest, and the surging magical power within him—belonging to the God of War of Great Xia and an SS-rank Space-type powerhouse—poured out without reservation!

"Great Spatial Shift! Get the hell—out of here!"

Veins popped out one by one on Zhao Qingcang's forehead, he pushed his palms forward, his eyes wide with fury!

The Void Realm directly beneath the mountain underwent distortion to an extreme degree!

A huge silver spatial rift several thousand meters long forcefully met the falling mountain!

"Crack——!"

The mountain's massive body fiercely smashed into the spatial rift, and the fragile spatial barrier emitted a terrifying, teeth-aching cracking sound, on the verge of completely collapsing!

"Ugh!"

Zhao Qingcang groaned softly as a mouthful of blood surged up his throat and overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

But he firmly supported his hands pushing out the Void Realm, his eyeballs covered in bloodshot veins, and forcefully used the unreasonable Law of Space at the nick of time to completely swallow that entire mountain into the Void Realm passage!

In the sky, the oppressive feeling that blotted out the sky disappeared.

The next second!

"Rumble rumble rumble——!!!"

Above a wilderness more than ten kilometers away from the imperial capital's urban area, that spatial rift was forcibly torn open once again!

That huge earth mountain was fiercely spat out, carrying matchless kinetic energy as it heavily smashed toward the ground!

When the mountain landed!

The earth shook!

A nakedly visible, tens-of-meters-high earth-yellow dust shockwave crazily swept outward close to the ground, destroying all trees and rocks along the way!

Even across a long distance of more than ten kilometers, inside the imperial capital city, people still truly felt the terrifying earth-shaking effect!

"Rumble…"

Countless hundred-story skyscrapers shook crazily in the violent tremors, emitting unbearable metal-twisting sounds.

Large areas of glass curtain walls shattered in patches, crashing down onto the ground with a clatter.

Cars on the street were shaken into rolling over one after another, their alarms blaring in unison.

Countless civilians were shaken to the ground by this strong tremor, holding their ears tightly, their minds blank, their hearts filled with lingering fear of surviving a catastrophe.

Almost!

Really just shy of less than half a second, all of them, along with this bustling city, would have been crushed into a pool of blood and mud by that mountain!

High above in the sky.

The gale howled, blowing everyone's robes to flutter loudly.

Seeing that his strike, sufficient to slaughter a city, had been desperately broken by Zhao Qingcang, the burly man who had waved out the earth mountain felt not the slightest annoyance of his plan falling through.

Instead, he propped his giant axe against the Void Realm, raised his head, and let out an uninhibited, sneering laugh.

"Yo?"

"You can take quite a beating, little mouse of the current world."

The burly man patted the non-existent dust on his hands, looking down condescendingly at Zhao Qingcang, whose mouth was overflowing with blood and whose chest was heaving violently, his face full of mockery.

"However, looking at your strained appearance, you've reached your limit, haven't you?"

"An ultra-large-scale spatial transfer of that level just now consumes magical power extremely quickly, right? How many times can you use it? Three times? Or five times?"

The burly man stepped forward, the violent coercion belonging to the Dominator of the old era rising step by step once again, locking tightly onto Zhao Qingcang and Lin Zhu.

The dozens of Dawnbreaker Guild powerhouses behind him also let out mocking laughter one after another.

"I'm telling you——"

The sneer at the corner of the burly man's mouth slowly subsided, turning into extreme condescension.

"That mountain just now didn't even use three-tenths of my strength!"

"That was merely an appetizer, a kindly warning to your Great Xia."

He extended a finger as thick as a carrot and shook it at Zhao Qingcang.

"I hope that when you speak with us, your attitude can be a bit more polite."

"Otherwise, the next mountain…" The burly man licked his dry lips, killing intent chillingly evident, "will directly smash open the gates of your Military Department, making these tens of millions of people be buried with them!"