The Creators: From Night City

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Although their individual combat capabilities are low, they do not rely on individual force, but rather on swarms of nanobots capable of overwhelming a crowd.

Since life support systems are not required, these robots are like roast ducks on a rotating oven, with each drop pod capable of carrying sixteen such combat robots.

They certainly couldn't harm Jiang Bing, but that wasn't their mission either; their only purpose was to hold him back.

Following closely behind were enormous war machines, real war machines.

A floating combat platform with a volume of over ten meters, featuring diamond-shaped floating turrets and snowflake-like combat armor.

Without any announcement, the 'Mother Domain' had given up on the idea of ​​capturing him alive. As soon as the second batch of paratroopers landed, a barrage of supersonic depleted uranium munitions rained down on Jiang Bing like a storm.

A large number of anti-gravity smart mines were scattered across the battlefield by boat-shaped aircraft flying overhead. As soon as they sensed the presence of any unauthorized targets nearby, they would self-destruct, spraying liquid nitrogen and steel balls.

These measures were also intended to restrict Jiang Bing's movement.

Meanwhile, Edm carried the heavily injured Eve and retreated rapidly into the depths of the desert.

While it is true that he is the only 'Nieqiba' to have successfully evolved, he would still be no match for the 'Mother Domain' in a formal war where they spare no expense.

Chapter 656 Space-Based Kinetic Weapons

In reality, when the intensity of the war escalates to the planetary level, the resources and power that the 'Mother Realm,' as a super AI, can mobilize simultaneously are incomparable to those of humanity, which will eventually disintegrate into a pile of sand. This is also the main reason why humanity was the first to be defeated by the 'Mother Realm.'

Although the 'colonization zone' has been retreated to for decades and only one of the three rail elevators remains, resources are much scarcer than before. However, once a state of war is entered, the 'mother's domain' still has a wealth of resources.

As the airdropped pods fell, the number of nanobots, resembling an ant colony, gradually increased, eventually forming a wave-like offensive of human forces.

Jiang Bing could often crush a large number of robots with a single strike, but his body, made of nano-elements, allowed them to regenerate rapidly. As long as there was enough energy, they were virtually inexhaustible.

This phenomenon continued until the golden flames ignited.

The flames of creation were powerful enough to melt all things, maintaining a clear domain several meters wide around Jiang Bing. Any enemy who dared to enter this area would instantly vanish into nothingness amidst the rising flames.

However, the "mother domain" doesn't care.

Quantity is her weapon.

The hundreds and thousands of missiles, however, embody her will.

Flames rose up, and the explosion almost engulfed the space around Jiang Bing, but it was quickly pushed back by the golden flames.

"Give up the resistance. Your struggle is ultimately futile. In the future I foresee, you have no chance of winning."

Her response was Jiang Bing's seemingly futile and stubborn persistence.

He has to persevere.

The ether conversion rate of these nano-elements is astonishingly high. It can be said that Jiang Bing doesn't need to do anything now; he just needs to withstand the attacks of these nanobots, which is equivalent to having a cheat code that gives him 100x experience while he's AFK, and his ether reserves are growing rapidly.

So he pretended to be overwhelmed and charged left and right, as if he was desperately looking for a chance to break through, but in reality he was secretly taking advantage of the 'Mother's Domain'.

Unfortunately, his attempt was quickly discovered by the 'Mother Domain'. When the power loss of the returned nano-elements exceeded the average threshold for the third time, the 'Mother Domain' finally noticed the clue and waved its hand to mobilize the surging nano-army to retreat like the receding tide.

"You are indeed extraordinary, but no matter how extraordinary you are, you are still just a mortal."

The last woman who dared to speak to Jiang Bing like that was a dumpling skin named Himiko.

As the 'Mother Domain' was declared, several teacup-shaped strike ships flew over the battlefield. Upon reaching their designated positions, the 'Hive' rocket array launch ports on their bellies opened, unleashing a barrage of fuel-air explosives and sticky gel incendiary bombs.

These are all special attack methods against flesh and blood.

The simultaneous detonation of hundreds of bombs almost instantly drained the oxygen within a kilometer radius and created a brief period of core solar temperature.

Unfortunately, despite the raging fire, Jiang Bing easily withstood the attack. Instead, he took advantage of the gaps in his dodges to steal a considerable amount of nano-elements from the enemy.

Jiang Bing, no longer concealing his intentions, was like a cyber Pac-Man, his ethereal flames expanding and maintaining a domain of tens of meters, scraping the ground three feet deep as he rapidly passed by.

Eat, eat, eat like crazy!

He paid no heed to the fact that the surrounding sand had turned into a glassy state from the scorching flames, nor to the fact that the air was distorted by the intense heat, nor to the fact that the flames filled almost everything around him, leaving him with no way to escape and his body covered in sticky gel, turning him into a blazing fireman.

None of this could deter his determination to forge 'ether'.

He ran frantically.

The second wave of strike ships swept across the battlefield, dropping cryogenic pulse bombs, directional electromagnetic pulse bombs, and oxidizer aerosol bombs—all special types of bombs designed to target mechanical bodies.

However, the result caused the 'mother domain' to raise the alarm level by several levels.

Because all of these methods were useless.

Jiang Bing has already wiped out most of the ground troops she deployed.

Having suffered a silent loss, the 'Mother Domain' didn't even utter a harsh word. She merely glanced at Jiang Bing before launching her killing move.

Located outside Earth's orbit, the 7th segment of the equatorial ring suddenly underwent a minor orbital change. Numerous mechanical devices were activated, rapidly assembling a 1.2-kilometer segmented electromagnetic acceleration orbit and aligning it with the location of the Great Desert.

Jiang Bing was happily licking the ground when he suddenly stopped and turned his attention to the sky.

His long-dormant "Jiang Bingyi's jolt" was now giving him a warning.

A tungsten-uranium alloy column, 0.8 meters in diameter and 6 meters in length, covered with a high-temperature resistant hafnium carbide coating, was inserted into the corresponding slot of the electromagnetic acceleration track.

As the superconducting capacitor array of the Star Ring "Weaver" power supply array frantically draws power from the Star Ring solar panels, the segmented room-temperature superconducting coils unfold a seven-stage progressive acceleration, gradually transforming this metal rod into a "space-based kinetic energy weapon" capable of shaking the Earth's surface.

Jiang Bing didn't run, and he had nowhere to run at the moment. This level of attack couldn't be resolved by running a few kilometers.

If you're going to run, you have to run the instant the shell leaves the barrel.

An electromagnetic field of 1.2 kilometers accelerated a 6-ton tungsten rod to Mach 12 in 4 seconds. The rod silently ejected from its orbit in the airless space, but was scorched red as it passed through the atmosphere, resembling a falling blood sun, and drew out a shrill scream.

Of course, the sound reached the ground several seconds after the bombardment, since a speed of Mach 10 or so is enough to outpace the speed of sound.

Jiang Bing started moving the instant the shell was fired, breaking the sound barrier in less than half a second, and sprinted desperately into the distance.

Dodging such attacks beyond visual range (provided they can be sensed) is essentially useless if you try to dodge before the attack is launched.

Strikes from outer orbit can essentially ignore all evasion on the ground during the aiming phase; with just a slight adjustment of the muzzle, they can hit the vital points directly.

The most effective way to dodge is to wait until the cannonball leaves the barrel and its trajectory is determined.

However, the 'Mother Domain' does not play by the rules.

During high-speed flight, the metal column suddenly deployed its four folding stabilizing wings at the tail, in exchange for a further reduction in flight speed and the ability to make minor attitude adjustments.

While accuracy cannot be guaranteed at this speed, the power also means that the impact point does not need to be within a few meters of the target.

In fact, its core lethal range is within 100 meters, while the normal lethal range is within 2 kilometers.

Like a falling star, under the combined guidance of all the combat devices deployed on Earth by the 'Mother Domain', the tungsten rod struck near Jiang Bing at an impact speed of Mach 4.5.

A sun suddenly appeared in the vast desert.

Chapter 657 Arrival

This was certainly not caused by the general descending into the otherworld he was loyal to, but rather by the tungsten rod striking the surface.

This impact released energy equivalent to nearly a thousand tons of TNT, directly evaporating all the material at the impact point. The resulting overpressure shock wave pulverized nearly thirty meters of sand and gravel, while hundreds and thousands of tons of sand were thrown into the sky by the following shock wave, forming a sandstorm powerful enough to block out the sky.

Those within a thousand miles of the impact point could feel a distinct tremor emanating from the ground.

Although Jiang Bing, as the target, avoided the core impact point of the tungsten rod, he was still enveloped by the released kinetic energy.

He was pressed against the glass-like inner wall of the meteorite crater. His once-strong [Power-Taotie] was mostly destroyed in the attack and was slowly but stubbornly repairing itself.

"Surrender!" The projection of the 'Mother's Domain' reappeared near Jiang Bing.

"You have nowhere to escape. There will be as many attacks as you want. You can only endure them in vain. There is no way to avoid them until death comes."

Jiang Bing wiped the golden blood from the back of his hand that he used to protect his face, looking somewhat disheveled.

He usually bombards others with mindless firepower, but he never expected to be outmaneuvered by the other party in this world.

"You know what? You've successfully angered me, and I promise this is a mistake you don't want to face."

The [powerful - Taotie] receded like flowing water, and Jiang Bing pulled himself out of the glass pit.

"Impotent rage only invites ridicule, Sabur. You yourself once said that there aren't that many right and wrongs in this world, only excuses for when one is powerless." The little girl in the 'Mother's Domain' avatar delivered a scathing taunt with an expressionless face, almost making Jiang Bing burst out laughing.

But he suddenly fell silent.

"Alright, 'Mother's Domain,' I don't want to argue with you anymore. You know, since I've 'officially become a full-fledged member,' I've never truly gone all out."

He brushed the sand off his trousers and non-existent dust off his body in a very down-to-earth manner, asking himself, "Do you know why this is?"

Jiang Bing walked across the smooth, glassy surface as if it were flat ground.

He emerged from the crater, surrounded by numerous weapons of war. Gazing at the vast, boundless desert, he looked up at the starry sky. His extraordinary eyesight allowed him to easily penetrate the atmosphere even in broad daylight, spotting the three giant star rings that, though somewhat damaged, still revolved endlessly around the Earth. A ferocious smile spread across his face.

"Because I'm poor, I haven't been able to find a suitable place or a qualified target for me to 'exercise'."

The golden flames in his eyes gradually intensified, and by the time he turned to look at the projection of the 'Mother's Domain,' the flames had already transformed into tangible patterns, spreading from Jiang Bing's eye sockets to his limbs and bones.

He burst into unrestrained laughter, as if he were back on that rainy night when he first put on the mask and hunted scavengers at the Coronado Farm.

At that time, he was all alone, without any help or shackles.

"I've had enough of all this red tape."

He said.

The change happened in an instant.

That higher-dimensional being finally, proactively and with all its might, collapsed towards the present dimension, descending upon the mortal world at the cost of burning a massive amount of ether.

Suddenly, a faint sound arose in the silent desert, like millions of people praying in the ears of all living beings who witnessed this scene.

"Did you hear something?" Lily, who was the furthest away, still stammered as she spoke her discovery over the communication channel.

“No sound waves were detected in the environment, but my cognitive units tell me that it sounds like someone is praying.” Eve also frowned.

Edm, meanwhile, stretched out his two pure white single wings and stared in disbelief at the far-off center of the desert.

He lived a long life and knew a lot, yet he was also the most shocked and felt the most incredible, his soul almost trembling.

This is all because, as an 'Ancient Evil and Wonder,' he is quite knowledgeable, which is why he was able to understand some of the prayers that permeate all dimensions of the mortal world.

"Lord Black King, please descend upon Washington with your angels! This white pig keeps kicking down my shop door and demanding money; my daily laundry allowance is barely enough to buy rice..." (in Chinese)

"God of the earth... Black King, I beg you to let the roots of the ash tree strangle the necks of those white demons, to avenge my granddaughter who died at school (Sioux language)."

"Thanks to the Black King, I have no worries about food and clothing, and I am not bullied." (in English)

"You are a god descended to earth, Lord of Night," (in English)

"May the Black King protect me, and may I crush His enemies (gunshot)."

"May my soul return to the Black King's command."

"By the Black King! I will lead the charge!! (Roar)"

"Black King, you've worked wonders! The medicine you gave me is simply miraculous! My son's smallpox hasn't left any marks. Tomorrow I'm going to repay the favor and offer you back this big pig's head!"

"Overtime, overtime, endless overtime, how come everyone has my phone number? (Female voice in English)"

"The boss paid out wages again, meow, we can't finish eating, meow (hunter's words)."

"Guardian of witches, crimson demon, kingslayer, may you forever watch over the mortal world, and protect magic and truth from being swayed by royal power (common language in the wizarding world)."

But all the chaotic prayers were ultimately overshadowed by one message.

"By the Black King!"

"By the Black King!!"

Men and women, young and old, the elderly, the weak and the disabled, those who seek enlightenment, the devout, those who hate, those who follow, those who revere, those who convert...

As countless beings chanted in unison, the power of faith that was constantly being generated but not yet melted by the 'etheric furnace' was briefly leaked into the mortal world along with His deliberate collapse.

Endless golden flames suddenly erupted, the sky was like a golden waterfall hanging upside down, and flame marks grew on the earth. The laws of physics were twisted and taken over at this moment, and the world briefly welcomed a being that did not belong to this mortal world.

The Forger has arrived.

He could have been without form, but 'Jiang Bing' anchored His existence in a concrete form—a magnificent human figure, whose body, as if cast in gold, stood on the vast desert, its radiance flowing and briefly obscuring the sun's brilliance.

His size was so great compared to the others that it was as if a mythical Titan had stepped out of fantasy and into reality, allowing the trio, who were dozens of kilometers away, to witness his miracle.

With its three star rings, the 'Mother's Domain,' capable of monitoring the surface in all directions at all times, could naturally see it as well.

"It's been a long time since I've gone all out."

The sound carried far and wide, stirring the soul.

He extended his fingers, which were like those forged from light, and flicked the second tungsten rod aside as if swatting away a mosquito. The immense kinetic energy burst forth beside him, yet it could not harm him in the slightest.