Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1260 Breaking into the Mechanical Mirror!
The moment Blackrock Fortress tore open the ethereal rift and led the Heavenly Kingdom's army into the Mechanical Realm, the giant clock in the Leo Tower at the core of the Mechanical Realm rang out heavily.

In the boundless void of gears, colossal gears, each over a thousand kilometers in diameter, began to accelerate their rotation. Smaller gears connecting to the larger gears emitted sharp meshing sounds. Simultaneously, stony continents, metal veins, gear-shaped mountains, and runes of order illuminated.

The dimensional sky, which originally operated on a twelve-hour cycle of light and darkness, was cut into a cold white all-encompassing illumination by the war alarm.

The shadow of Blackrock Fortress pressed in from the Aetheric Rift, with the Kingdom Fleet close behind.

Deep within the Leo clock tower, sixty-four demonic tomb inlays lit up simultaneously.

The [Singularity (I)], which had been dormant in the very center of the order axis, began to awaken, and the high-level demonic tombs on the outer layer of the Leo clock tower immediately entered a state of full-scale war.

Four Second-Tier Tomb Elders rose from the gilded structure hall, nine Third-Tier Tomb Elders unleashed the Order Judgment Runes, sixteen Fourth-Tier Tomb Elders took over the energy dispatch of the domain, and the Fifth-Tier Tomb Elders struck the gear-shaped ground with their data scepters. One after another, cold war commands were transmitted to each basic-tier demon tomb along the axiomatic links of the mechanical realm.

The 360 ​​million Demon Tomb has been launched.

The monocular, spherical, one-eye tomb crawled out from the gaps in the gears; the rectangular, two-eyed tomb ran along the defensive line; the pyramidal, three-eyed tomb raised its spear of order; the quadrilateral tomb unfolded its gear wings and took to the air; and the pentad tomb lit up its five-star core, beginning to connect the grassroots tactical network to the war calculations of the higher-level demon tombs.

The mechanical realm's production line—[Normanus Factory]—also reached full capacity at the same time.

The towering chimneys on the small gears spewed out clouds of black smoke, and the flames of the forge illuminated the two gear continents with a dark red hue.

Liquid metal is poured into a crystal mold, cooled, shaped, tempered, and assembled. Subsequently, batches of components are immersed in an activation tank with a viscosity similar to oil.

The Elder Axis inscribed its mission on the structural components of the newly born Punisher using fiery ancient script.

Stop the invasion of the Abyss from outside!

[Maintain the continuity of order in the mechanical world!]

[Cooperative Demon Tomb War System!]

[Clear the Abyss combat units!]

One by one, the Punishers rose upright from the tank, the slime in the tank sliding down their metal shells. Their eye crystals lit up one after another, and they were then transported to various gear defense lines and gear bridge junctions.

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At the same time, the nest teeth of the Fomi ant tribe also received war alerts.

Deep within a colonial inlay covering a majestic anthill city, the Queen's massive arthropod body stiffened slightly, the light spots in her compound eyes contracted simultaneously, her tentacles trembled rapidly in the air, and her abdominal rings emitted a low, rubbing sound due to a sudden change in pheromones.

She had previously interacted and cooperated with that blond Abyss Lord, so she understood that the wisest choice for ordinary forces facing a full-scale war between the Heavenly Kingdom and the pantheon of gods was to immediately withdraw from the edge of the chessboard.

Without hesitation, the Queen's pheromone command spread like a storm throughout the entire anthill city, causing thousands of workers, warriors, foremen, and Vermi ant guards to stop what they were doing.

They rush toward each meshing node of the gears according to the migration rules written into the collective consciousness.

“Sever the colony bearing, seal the outer tooth bridge, and relocate the larval nest chamber.”

"All soldiers, move to the perimeter defenses. Do not fire at the Heavenly Kingdom fleet. Do not respond to the Mechanical Realm's summons!"

At the edge of the colony's toothed edge, steel bridges built by the Fomi ants were dismantled, gear connectors were pulled out of their meshes, and the massive ant nest toothed edge slowly detached from its original track amidst a roar.

The Fumi Ant Clan has officially severed ties with the main battlefield of the Mechanical Realm.

In the distance, several colonies belonging to the Fomi Ants moved in sync, like a group of giant gears taken from a clock, carrying the ant nest city, the queen larvae, the working class and the warrior legion, slowly sliding further away along the edge of the void.

Fumi Ant Tribe: You give Luda a piece of your mind!

Faced with the barbarians and lunatics of the Heavenly Kingdom, the Queen of the Fumi Ants chose to simply flee with the mechanical gears of the Fumi Ants.

A full-scale war between the Kingdom of Heaven and the pantheon of gods in all the realms—let whoever wants to get involved do so.

The Fumi Ant Tribe chose not to take sides and went off to play their own game of wandering gears.

Several native travelers from the Mechanical Realm stood on small inlays in the distance, watching in disbelief as ant colonies broke away from the main battlefield, and as the Fomi Ants' gear continent, trailing the lights of their ant colonies, slowly disappeared along the void track.

Inside Blackrock Fortress, Eden quickly captured this scene.

The Fermi Ant Tribe colonies are withdrawing from the main battlefield of the Mechanical Realm.

Should we sink the gear-shaped continent?

Xia Xiu sat on the psionic throne, watching the anthill gears receding into the distance in the projection, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"This Queen of the Fumi Ant Clan is quite clever. Oh well, the Heavenly Kingdom isn't some vicious force. They've already wandered off on their own, so there's no need for us to take action against them."

We're not some all-consuming abyss; of course we can accommodate harmless little ants. So if they want to run away, let them run away.

Sigh, our heavenly angels are indeed too kind-hearted.

[Fire control lock released.]

The Fermi ant colony's tusk has been removed from the priority strike sequence.

The fire control cursors for Blackrock Fortress and the Heavenly Fleet went out one by one from the anthill gears, and the Fermi Ants in the distance clearly realized that they had escaped a calamity.

Those gear continents that had broken away from the main battlefield immediately accelerated their rotation, their edge gear bridges all retracted, and countless migration light towers rose above the ant nest cities, like a group of refugee planets with their families, sliding headlong into the depths of the mechanical realm's void without looking back.

Damn leg... oh no, damn gear, run faster!!!

If they don't run fast now, once Heaven and the Mechanical Realm fully engage in battle, the aftershocks of their fighting will be enough to turn them into dust.

The Mechanical Realm no longer bothered with the fleeing Vermi Ants.

On the Leo clock tower, the four secondary tombs simultaneously looked up, their gilded constructs' pupils glowing with a cold white light. They issued commands to the entire Demon Tomb War System with a series of geometric chimes.

The next moment, the Demon Tomb began to transform, and the order runes on the sixty-four inlays lit up layer by layer. Countless five-element tombs, four-element tombs, and three-element tombs were connected to the tactical network, while one-element tombs and two-element tombs surged toward the edge of the Gear Continent like a metal tide.

【Mechanical Realm: Transformation—!】

The massive, toothed continent began to overturn its armor plates.

The mountain split open, revealing the gear turret buried inside.

The riverbed rises, transforming into energy transmission tracks.

The city walls slid to both sides, unleashing crossbows, order spears, clockwork projectile wells, and large law cannons.

The connecting gears, the size of small islands, detached directly from their original tracks and unfolded into a fleet of gears in the void, with their outer blades spinning at high speed and their central cannons aimed at Blackrock Fortress and the Abyss Fleet.

Faced with the overwhelming abyssal demons, the Mechanical Mirror chose to strike first!
The Clockwork Knights were the first to charge. One after another, silver-gray construct knights sprang from the edge of the Gear Continent, their feet spewing blue-white flames of order, their lances trailing clockwork runes, like a swarm of metal bees flying out of a giant clock, heading straight for the vanguard of the Heavenly Kingdom fleet.

Then, the entire plane unleashed its firepower.

The cannons on the Gear Continent opened fire simultaneously, and metal shells, geared flywheels, order crossbows, and construct missiles filled the void, like a rain of iron fired from the depths of the mechanical mirror, crashing into the front of Blackrock Fortress.

The enemy not only refused to surrender, but also launched a counterattack against the Heavenly Kingdom!

Xia Xiu raised his index finger on the Psionic Throne, and Blackrock Fortress immediately deployed its Void Shield. The first layer of the Void Shield bulged outward like the surface of black water, swallowing up waves of artillery fire.

At the same time, a deep rumble came from the depths of Blackrock Fortress. The main cannon structure unfolded layer by layer, and the black muzzle slowly aimed at the Leo Clock Tower. Energy gathered along the inner circuit of the fortress, like a giant eye opening.

[Main gun charging—]

[Witch's Eye: 5%]

[Estimated strike power: 15%]

[Singularity] dared not take this shot head-on. It quickly made a tactical adjustment, and several large gear continents were brought in front of it.

The thick, interlocking armor plates locked together, forcefully blocking the path between the Leo Clock Tower and the Black Rock Fortress.

At the same time, the fourth tomb increased energy output, the fifth tomb rewrote firepower allocation, and the tenth tomb integrated the basic-level demon tomb array, raising the firepower of the entire mechanical defense line once again.

It wanted to interrupt the main cannon charging of Blackrock Fortress.

A massive gear continent was transformed into a gear cannon.

The cannon barrel is made up of thirty-seven interlocking toothed rings. The outer gears rotate wildly, and the inner wall is lit up with white and blue orderly flames, forcibly increasing the rotation speed of the entire continent.

The Punisher Factory, the Demon Tomb Outpost, the Law Warehouse, and several unfortunate Gear Mountains that originally lived there were all temporarily requisitioned as cannon cooling structures.

boom--

Snap!

The gear cannon fired a shot, and a ring of white cracks appeared in the entire mechanical realm void.

The beam of light struck the outer void shield of Blackrock Fortress. The shield surface first caved inward, and then shattered on the spot, like a piece of black glass struck by a hammer.

The exploded spatial debris turned into a ring of black sparks, sliding down the outer shell of the fortress. From a distance, it looked as if someone had scraped a layer of glowing black iron filings onto the Blackrock Fortress.

The power was quite impressive; one shot overloaded the first layer of the Void Shield.

Unfortunately, after the gear cannon fired, the barrel immediately began to overheat, and white smoke billowed from all thirty-seven layers of gear rings. Several four-element tombs that had just flown over to inspect the cannon were blown backward by the high-temperature steam, like several metal beetles scalded by boiling water.

Outside Blackrock Fortress, there are several layers of Void Shield.

Deep within the Leo Clock Tower, among the four Second Tomb Elders, the golden luster on one of them visibly dimmed, and the runes of order in his eyes began to flicker listlessly, as if he had been up for three nights straight.

A single Gear Cannon shot can shatter a layer of Void Shield in Blackrock Fortress. This result is impressive, so impressive that even the Mechanical Realm wants to create three more, ideally firing all four at once.

Unfortunately, my abilities didn't allow it.

Controlling a large gear-shaped continent to transform it into a turret, maintaining its rotation, energy, cannon barrels, heat dissipation, order runes, and recoil cancellation, has already consumed most of the energy allocation authority of the four tombs.

At the same time, the Tenth Tomb also needs to stabilize the basic-level demon tomb array, the Fifth Tomb needs to recalculate the fire trajectory of the Heavenly Kingdom fleet, and the Third Tomb needs to prevent some demon tombs from being dragged into a state of ronin due to the chaos of the battlefield.

The computing power ledger has exceeded the limit.

Moreover, the Heavenly Fleet and the Clockwork Knights Fleet were still engaged in a fierce battle in the void.

The Clockwork Knights, like a swarm of wound-up metal locusts, sprang out in droves from the edge of the Gear Continent, their lances trailing fiery tails of order, attempting to pierce the forward shields of the Heavenly Fleet.

The Trinity Knights' destroyers suddenly disappeared from the observation laws, and when they reappeared, they were already close to the side of a squadron of Clockwork Knights. The naval guns fired in unison, turning the entire group of knights into spinning parts.

The ships of the Knights of Saint Sebastian spewed purifying flames, the fire lines burning along the outer turrets of the Gear Continent, melting them into rows of spring-loaded projectile wells; the Knights of Saint Jacob Pereira, on the other hand, maintained the most stable position, their great cross sword emblems lighting up on their bows, and streaks of light from proverbs falling into the enemy ranks, forcefully severing the approaching barrier of order.

The fourteen Courtyard Fleets also opened fire furiously, engaging the Clockwork Knights in direct combat.

John Berkelson’s flagship pointed its bow at the Normanus factory, the main gun arrays lit up, and heavy Judgment fire slammed directly into the chimney-filled factory.

boom--!!!
Liquid metal gushed out of the crushing plant, flowing along the surface of the gears in several scorching rivers. The Punisher, who had just finished engraving the mission, stood up from the water tank and was blown away along with half of the workshop by the next round of artillery fire.

Inside Blackrock Fortress, Eden's notification sounded once again.

[First layer of Void Shield overload.]

The second layer of Void Shield is stable.

[Witch's Eye Charge Progress: 15%]

After reaching the expected charging target, Xia Xiu did not wait any longer.

"fire."

Deep within Blackrock Fortress, the cannon muzzle of the [Witch's Eye] was fully opened.

In that instant, the rhythm of light and darkness at the front line of the Mechanical Realm was swallowed up, and the gear-shaped void in the direction of the Leo Clock Tower seemed to be gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand.

Then, a black-gold beam of light shot out from the main cannon of Blackrock Fortress, piercing through the void where the two armies were clashing, and crashing directly into the giant gear continent that was being protected in front of it.

As the cannon fire fell, several large gear-shaped continents at the forefront were instantly pierced through.

The heavy, toothed armor first collapsed inward, and then the entire continent split open from the center. The Gear Mountain Range, the Order Fortress, the Demon Tomb Outpost, and the Gear Cannon that was dissipating heat were all swept into the black-gold annihilation tide. Before even a complete alarm could be sounded, they were turned into large swathes of shattered metal dust.

The gear cannon, which had just shattered a layer of void shield at Blackrock Fortress, was still overheating and charging when it was severed in the middle by [Witch's Eye] the next instant.

Half of the sixty-four Demon Tomb Teeth under the control of the Leo Clock Tower were brought to a standstill by the aftershocks of the bombardment, and a large number of connecting teeth were forcibly torn off, leaving large blank areas in the originally well-organized Demon Tomb War Network.

Even more serious is the loss of the base-level demon tombs.

The frontline tide composed of the First, Second, and Third Yuan Tombs evaporated a wide black trail directly in the path of the artillery fire; the Fourth Yuan Tomb's aerial patrol group was torn to pieces by the shockwave; and the Fifth Yuan Tomb's Five-Star Order Barrier was crushed by the black-gold annihilation tide before it could fully unfold.

Eden quickly gave its verdict.

[The enemy's Demon Tomb has suffered approximately one-third casualties; many small and medium-sized connecting gears have been broken; the gear cannon has been destroyed.]

[Large-scale shutdown of the outer warfare system of the Leo Clock Tower]