Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 754 Ambush
Time passed second by second, but the Starfire warriors lying in ambush halfway up the mountain still hadn't seen the enemy.

If you want to break through from the ground to the mountain, this mountain pass is one of the few shortcuts. If the target plans to launch an air raid... the airships patrolling nearby will also be able to detect its tracks immediately. The skirmish that breaks out in the sky will naturally be loud enough for the ground troops to detect.

Could it be that the troops stationed at the foot of the mountain have successfully intercepted and killed the evolved beings?
For some reason, Sek felt a sense of loss. He couldn't personally participate in the battle and make outstanding contributions to the operation, which made the Starfire Warriors, who were originally highly anticipated, seem to have little presence.

"Boss, look!" a soldier on lookout duty shouted in a low voice, "There's movement in the woods below!"

Sek immediately snapped out of his daze and peered down... In the deep, dark primeval forest, bursts of dazzling flames suddenly erupted, looking as if someone had lit fireworks.

etc! Something's wrong!

Of the entire Starfire Special Forces team, only the "Demon Wolves" led by Gallagher were not ordered to lie in ambush, but to patrol a small area near the mountain pass using their hunting and tracking talents.

The area where the fire and strange noises appeared was one of their planned patrol routes!

"Contact the Gallagher Squad immediately and ask what happened?" Sek's eyes narrowed, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart. "Hopefully, it was just an accidental encounter with a monster roaming nearby..."

A piercing crackling sound came from the alchemy communicator, followed by a series of explosions in the forest, this time closer to their ambush location.

"Buzz—Buzz—Galagrir Squad—Buzz—Enemy encountered!"

"We—Zzz—are leading it toward the ambush area—Zzz—ready to engage the enemy!"

A voice suddenly rang in his ears, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over Seke's head... The combat units deployed at the foot of the mountain had failed to intercept this alien monster, and it had indeed seized the opportunity to rush up the mountain!

The target did indeed astutely evade the aerial interception, intending to sneak through the dense forest on the ground and silently launch a surprise attack on the mountaintop.

In this way, they would naturally be unable to evade the patrol lines set up in advance by the Starfire Warriors. Once the "Demon Wolves," which are skilled at group hunting, are released into the wild, they can be immediately sensed and locked onto by the birds, beasts, and insects around them, even if they make the slightest noise.

"The wolf cubs have encountered their target! They're leading it to the designated ambush site. We're preparing to engage them!"

Sek practically forced the words out through gritted teeth, his body inside the armor trembling even more violently as danger loomed... The battle he had always longed for was about to begin!
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The evolved being's rapid running pace suddenly stopped, and the single eye on its chest and abdomen, slightly open, rolled its eyeball with a rather human-like gesture.

It seemed to realize that its actions had been completely controlled by humans... From the battle that had just broken out at the foot of the mountain, the enemy's well-prepared tactics were all aimed at slowing it down and preventing it from reaching the summit to destroy the target that posed the greatest threat to its kind.

From the moment of its birth, the main consciousness had instilled a great deal of knowledge into it, the most important of which was to guard against spellcasters among humans who wielded magic, and the bizarre attack methods they possessed derived from the inherited core. Ordinary metallic substances that could not serve as energy carriers could unleash terrifying power capable of devastating even the differentiated carriers. Since the start of the war... the two differentiated carriers that the race brought from the deep sea were both destroyed by those cataclysmic bombardments.

Of course, this also strengthened the main consciousness's belief in regaining the core of inheritance. As long as they defeat this despicable lower race again and seize the core that was stolen from them, the entire race will surely usher in its final evolution and upgrade.

After shaking off the group of human spellcasters who had just intercepted it, the evolved being carefully avoided the enemy's aerial patrol units as it advanced up the mountain. The pure energy weapons mounted on their vehicles could indeed pose a great threat to it, and it was best to remain hidden until it achieved its ultimate goal.

But just now, it unexpectedly encountered a group of human soldiers in a strange state.

These creatures, whose bodies emanate no magical energy, are completely encased in ordinary metal that has been fused and forged. Despite their enormous size, they move with extreme speed, resembling true nocturnal beasts in the completely dark forest.

They spotted themselves almost instantly, but instead of engaging in battle, they exchanged a few words through the metal armor and then decisively turned and fled uphill.

The evolved being was certain that they were not spellcasters, nor did they possess the same abnormal energy surging within them as the human soldiers who had just surrounded him.

They were just a group of ordinary humans encased in tin cans, their armor adorned with gleaming metal weapons... This primitive method of forging solid weapons from molten metal was so primitive and inferior to the mimicry weapons their race created by condensing liquid ink crystals that it was laughable.

If the other side hadn't gained the power of ascension from the stolen inheritance core to strengthen itself, it would probably have been crushed and destroyed by them like insects long ago, instead of suffering several defeats for no reason as soon as it landed on the surface.

Thinking of this, the evolved being immediately sprang into action, following behind the group of helmeted warriors.

Although they were just a group of harmless, ordinary insects, since we had encountered them, we had to wipe them out to prevent them from alerting the group of superhumans at the foot of the mountain and attracting their pursuit.

As it spoke, it suddenly flashed as it ran, and then used dimensional travel several times in succession, catching up with a target that had fallen to the back of the fleeing group in just a few breaths.

In order to conserve the already limited liquid magic crystals in its body, as well as the abnormal energy that supports its ranged attacks, the evolved being directly extended its slender, twisted long arm and grabbed at the shoulder of the human who was running headlong.

It planned to use the crystal armor covering its entire body to pierce through the metal can containing the frail human in front of it with the purest physical attack.

When the palm touched the surface of the other's armor, it was not the familiar coldness, and its hardness was far beyond that of ordinary cast metal... at least it could not be easily penetrated by the crystal armor covering the body.

Is this a mimicry weapon developed by humans specifically to counter them?

Just then, the human whose shoulder it had grabbed suddenly twisted his body and raised his left arm toward it... A short, thick metal tube, which seemed to be fixed to the outside of his forearm by a mechanism, suddenly burst out with a bright white light from its front end.

(End of this chapter)