novel bin Chapter 457 The Carnival of All Races
Chapter 457 The Carnival of All Races
As dawn finally broke through the thick leaden clouds, dark golden sunlight poured down on the devastated central plain.
The pungent smell of gunpowder mixed with the strong stench of blood filled everyone's nostrils with the cold wind.
Within a radius of a hundred miles, the scorched earth was covered with mountains of demon corpses, resembling a painting of purgatory.
The outer perimeter of the Great Xia fiefdom.
Soldier Wang Qiang operated the exoskeleton device, and the hydraulic drive shaft emitted a slight buzzing sound.
He pointed, and two quadruped mechanical dogs beside him immediately took off with their alloy legs, accurately biting the remains of a Tier 1 vicious dog and dragging them into the tracked recovery vehicle behind.
On the Great Xia army's side, the soldiers only needed to operate mechanical equipment to automatically sort the spoils of war near the fiefdom, which were then transported away by transport vehicles.
They even had a break to take out their individual rations and recover their strength.
Demon corpses are generally quite large; a single demon corpse is as tall as a person, while a normal person would weigh around 150 kilograms.
The demon's corpse weighed over 500 jin (approximately 250 kg), more than three times the weight of a human.
Without the assistance of exoskeletons, the Da Xia people would have had to rely on machinery such as forklifts and bulldozers to clean up the mess.
In this respect, the physical condition of the Great Xia soldiers was indeed far weaker than that of the warriors of the various tribes of Terra...
In contrast, the Terra coalition positions, just a few kilometers away, presented a completely different picture.
The scene was bustling with activity, resembling a large construction site.
More than 100 meters underground.
"Bang!"
Thorin the dwarf kicked the charred rocks blocking his path, sending fragments flying.
He gripped the runic hammer tightly and looked around.
He was lucky enough not to have suffered too many injuries in the battle, so he was able to join the task of collecting the bodies.
As the landslide rocks blocking the road were cleared away, an underground tunnel several kilometers long was revealed.
There was no soil inside, only a smooth, mirror-like crystal.
That was a giant, vitrified crater formed by the instantaneous melting of rocks by the high temperature of several thousand degrees after the explosion of the Great Xia bunker-buster bomb.
In the center of the giant pit, a giant earth-burrowing dragon, larger than a train, lay there.
Its front half turned into a pulpy mess, while its hard shell remained intact, and dark brown mucus kept oozing from its body.
The terrifying power of the bunker-buster missiles shattered their internal organs into a pile of mud.
Thorin gasped, seemingly realizing that dwarves also preferred to live underground.
If this were attacked by the Great Xia, the scene would be...
He shook his head, not daring to think about it further.
He turned and roared at the dwarf warrior wielding a pickaxe behind him.
"Hurry up!"
"Drag this burrowing dragon out!"
"The Great Xia is offering a high price for this huge one! The more we dig up, the more shells and weapons we can exchange for!"
The dwarves' eyes lit up as they listened, as if they were seeing tanks and airplanes instead of demon corpses.
They wielded pickaxes and chains, shouting slogans, and used brute force to drag the massive corpse out.
The wind howled in the sky.
A huge shadow blocked out the sunlight.
Thousands of giant dragons are doing the work of aerial transport.
They extended their sharp dragon claws and gripped the mangled remains of the fifth-tier siege beast tightly.
Its fleshy wings flapped vigorously, stirring up clouds of dust from the ground.
"Move everything you can for me!"
The Dragon King, watching from the sky, roared like muffled thunder, berates the exhausted young dragons around him who were panting heavily.
"Do you still want the custom-made weapon from Great Xia?!"
The Dragon King was well aware that Great Xia's production was limited. If the settlement was slow and other races placed their orders first, then the Dragon Clan would have to wait in line.
Although he himself did not use the custom-made weapon of the Great Xia in this battle, he saw his clan dragon use it!
One shot is all it takes; dragon's breath is nothing compared to that!
There are also laser towers, which cause chaos and death to demons wherever they fly, greatly compensating for the dragon race's weakness in combat power.
Combined with the dragons' own breath attacks, the kill rate is astonishing.
Sure enough, upon hearing about the customized weapons, the lazy dragons instantly became as if they had been injected with chicken blood, letting out high-pitched dragon roars as they dragged mountains of monster corpses towards the gathering point.
On the edge of the land, the elves are traversing the boundary between the scorched forest and the plains.
Elder Muyu waved his staff and chanted a spell.
Hundreds of thick vines burst from the ground, binding tightly dozens of winged demons that had been burned to charcoal by white phosphorus bombs.
He walked to a huge crater and looked at the traces of the high-level demons that had been instantly vaporized by the plasma cannon, leaving only a layer of black ash at the bottom of the crater. His brows twitched.
It turned straight to ash!
"Elder, the technology of Great Xia seems even more advanced than our magic." A young elven ranger swallowed hard, gripping his longbow tightly.
"Each has its strengths," Elder Mu Yu said, stroking his beard with a deep gaze.
"Speed up and collect the complete body."
"The Great Xia factory has limited production capacity. We need to exchange the demon corpses for money as soon as possible, and then place an order for Great Xia's weapons and equipment so that we can be at the front of the queue."
At this time, the most difficult task of recovering the bodies took place on the eastern coastline.
The seawater is no longer blue; it has turned a nauseating blackish-purple.
The smell of blood mixed with the smell of the sea was nauseating.
Countless demon corpses were floating on the sea, stretching for more than ten nautical miles.
This sea area endured the bombardment of depth charges and torpedoes by the Great Xia Navy's escort fleet, as well as the close-range detonation of two neutron nuclear bombs.
The seawater was still warm and contained some residual radiation, but fortunately it would decompose quickly. For the Terrans' physical condition, short-term exposure would not cause any problems.
Just let the holy light purify it later.
Tens of thousands of orc mermaids dived into the sea to begin the salvage operation.
These tens of thousands of merfolk were initially intended to be deployed along the coast to defend against the underwater demons.
However, Long Zhan refused, saying that cannonballs have no eyes, and besides, they were underwater, making it too easy to accidentally injure someone.
So the orcs incorporated these merfolk into their technological legions, assigning them tasks such as driving tanks and armored vehicles, and attacking with firearms.
The fact that they were dispatched here for the salvage operation is a testament to their expertise.
The seabed mud and sand churn.
A fifth-tier sea dragon, several tens of meters long, lay belly up, stuck between the rocks in the trench.
Its scales, which could withstand forbidden spells, were mostly blown off by the nuclear shockwave, leaving it a bloody mess.
Hundreds of burly mermaid warriors swam closer, hurling thick alloy chains that tightly bound the sea dragon's bone spikes.
"pull!"
The leading mermaid warrior roared.
With hundreds of people exerting their strength simultaneously, a large amount of undercurrent was stirred up on the seabed.
The sea dragon's corpse was so heavy that the chains were taut.
"Too heavy! I can't move it!"
Of course, this is an exception; most demon corpses only require one mermaid warrior.
Seeing this, the water spirit on the other side waved its staff, causing the seawater to surge violently.
Water elements converged to form a huge vortex, and the gentle water flow subtly penetrated beneath the sea dragon's body, creating a powerful lifting force.
The underwater mermaid warriors immediately felt a significant reduction in pressure.
"Thank you for your help!"
"Start now!"
The orcs and elves worked together perfectly, and the enormous corpse of the sea dragon slowly rose to the surface, stirring up towering waves.
Immediately afterwards, the remains of deep-sea liches and demonized mermaids were dragged out one after another.
The water spirit manipulates the water flow, washing and pushing it towards the beach.
The centaur Grom stood on the beach, looking at the mountain of demon corpses that shimmered with an eerie magical glow, his face filled with barely suppressed ecstasy.
How much Great Xia equipment could this buy!
"Brothers, hurry up, move everything off the beach, don't block the bodies from getting ashore!"
The elves and orcs on the shore shouted as they carried away the demon corpses.
The various tribes of Terra displayed unprecedented enthusiasm for the spoils of war.
The entire process of collecting the body somehow created the illusion of a nationwide carnival.