Magic? My Iron Torrent will sweep it all away!

With such a massive body moving at this speed across the ground, the unmanned legion simply couldn't avoid it!

While the unmanned combat vehicle responsible for covering the rear was still firing, the gray-black giant claw had already swept across the position, crushing the turret, tracks, and support frame into the shattered ground.

Several massive combat robots from the Kona civilization, which were trying to scatter and take cover, were hit by the edge of the shield, causing them to lose their balance and disintegrate while tumbling.

Immediately afterwards, Baroque moved laterally and crashed into a ground formation of the Kona civilization.

Explosions lit up the ground one after another, and the densely packed unmanned combat units were crushed by its massive body before they could spread out.

"Close-range forces cease combat and withdraw along the designated route; long-range firepower maintains containment!"

Seeing the loss list rapidly increasing, Zheng Jinren immediately changed the route of a mech carrying antimatter bombs to the area that Baroque was attacking.

The moment the Pangu mech broke free of its cover, Baroque's direction of advance changed.

It abandoned the retreating convoy ahead, its massive body bypassing a patch of loose rocks and lunging towards the unmanned Kona position on the other side.

"It's dodging missile-carrying mechs!"

The information soldier quickly superimposed the two movement trajectories, and whichever direction the antimatter vehicle approached, the demon would actively increase its distance in that direction.

This is no coincidence.

Zheng Jinren immediately ordered another vehicle to approach from the side, but the result was the same. Baroque preferred to let the target that had already entered the attack range go rather than move any further in the dangerous direction.

Antimatter bombs can kill it, but mechs carrying bombs can't catch it.

What's more troublesome is that the mech carrying the missiles had already begun to evade before it even reached the effective detonation position.

The Watchers quickly sent a firing plan, preparing to use unmanned forces in front to hold off the enemy while launching a surprise attack with hypersonic missiles carrying antimatter bombs.

"Keep the containment forces dispersed, and the mechs carrying antimatter bombs retreat!" Zheng Jinren adjusted the deployment simultaneously.

The missiles of the Kona civilization rose from their distant launch positions and quickly switched to their attack paths.

But just as the missile was lifted off from the launch pad, Baroque suddenly stopped attacking.

It actually abandoned the unmanned troops around it and turned around to rush into the underground passage behind it.

"Damn it! It retreated, so much earlier than expected!"

The massive body smashed through the remaining rubble at the cave entrance, its front end quickly sinking into the ground, while the rear half of the body then contracted and disappeared into the churning dust.

Even as the missile was approaching, the underground monitoring system had already detected the high-speed downward vibrations.

It didn't hide at the entrance of the cave, but continued to retreat deeper into it.

The fire control system continuously corrected the impact point, attempting to guide the warhead along the entrance. However, the winding underground passages made it impossible for the high-speed missile to change course in time.

A flash of light appeared in the sky, and the hypersonic missile accelerated rapidly at its tip, crashing into the cave entrance like lightning. A burst of intense light erupted from the cave entrance!

A massive explosion occurred.

The reconnaissance footage instantly lost detail, and the surrounding equipment automatically switched to protection mode. By the time the backup footage from a distance was restored, the original exit had been expanded into a huge collapse zone.

Rocks were blown away, the ground fractured, and the remaining unmanned equipment nearby also disappeared.

The explosion slowly subsided, new detection equipment was deployed, and soon data was transmitted back: the underground tremors were still ongoing!

"A direct hit was not achieved; the target's life force is still present."

In the command center, everyone remained silent.

The antimatter bomb wasn't powerless; it simply didn't explode where it was supposed to. The demon had retreated underground beforehand, and the thick rock layers absorbed most of the threat for it.

The strategic weapon launched to kill the demon god ultimately only resulted in a collapsed hole.

For a creature capable of digging so quickly, this hole is hardly a loss.

However, the first attempt at least confirmed one thing: the demon wouldn't wait until it saw the antimatter bomb rushing towards it before it fled.

Their domain, or rather their sixth sense, extends further than expected!

Continuing to launch in the same way will only cause it to repeatedly burrow back underground, forcing the Xia and Kona civilizations to deplete their strategic reserves.

A few minutes later, a new tremor appeared on the side of the explosion area.

The ground rose again, and Baroque emerged from another wasteland. But this time, it did not rush to attack. It merely poked its body out of the ground before retreating back inside.

"What is it doing?"

The staff officer's question was quickly answered.

A while later, the ground fractured in the third area, followed by the fourth, and the underground tremors between the several exits quickly connected.

The demon is digging a hole!

Each exit it opens provides it with an additional escape route when operating on the ground.

"It has figured out a way to deal with us. The original entrances were too few; once attacked, we wouldn't be able to escape in time!" A staff officer stared at the map, his voice trembling.

"Now it's preparing to pave its way out."

At that moment, another alarm went off.

The first newly formed opening showed signs of dense life activity.

In the reconnaissance footage, large numbers of lesser demons, vicious hounds, and heavily armored demon soldiers surged toward the surface along the sloping, rocky slope, with massive siege beasts and high-level units mixed in behind them.

The 4,000-meter-class spatial wormhole did not stop operating after it brought the demon god here.

The underground passages it expanded and maintained are continuously supplying subsequent legions.

The long-range firepower immediately shifted to the cave entrance, and the first batch of low-level demons who rushed up were blown down in droves, but the demons behind did not stop, and continued to pour out over the rubble and debris.

Subsequently, five high-risk targets emerged one after another.

Judging from the speed, he is a seventh-tier demon lord!

They appeared from different exits, using the terrain as cover, and pounced on the unmanned forces that were firing from both flanks.

One tracked artillery position was the first to be attacked, and the Pangu mechs on the perimeter went forward to intercept it, but their speed was clearly inferior.

Pangu's speed was already slower than that of a seventh-order being, and with the added gravity here, it would be quite good if he could break the speed of sound.

A thick bone blade swept across the position, and several artillery pieces, along with their towing equipment, overturned.

"The retreat route on the west side is blocked; the engineering formation on the north side requests fire support!"

"More high-level demons have been detected at the third exit; current forces are unable to maintain close-range containment!"

If there are only low-level demons, ranged firepower can suppress the cave entrance.

However, the demon god could emerge from underground at any time, and the demon lord was constantly attacking the retreating troops. Any fixed position that was exposed for even a little while was in danger of being destroyed.

Moreover, the Demon Lord was also very shrewd, knowing to hide in places where there were nuclear bombs.

If a hypersonic missile were to attack, they would take cover underground in advance.

If robots carrying nuclear weapons try to block them, they will send sixth-tier demons to besiege and deplete the nuclear weapons.

The war on the third planet went straight into a fierce battle, turning into a meat grinder!

The successive explosions of nuclear bombs, viewed from high above, resembled a series of dazzling flashes of light.

One of the staff officers stood up:

"General, the mechs carrying the antimatter bombs must move forward; we can't wait for the kill window to open any further!"

"Our losses are enormous!"

The losses from the demonic attack, coupled with the collateral damage from our own nuclear bombs, were simply unbearable.

Every attack on a seventh-tier demon lord is like a nuclear bomb exploding in one's own army, resulting in heavy losses!