Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Vallad's face turned green.

"Is this the legacy of the Starry Sky Dwarfs?" He gritted his teeth, his expression no longer elegant, his crimson eyes fixed on the slowly cooling cannon. "Indeed impressive!"

Liu Nian's ears twitched, and he immediately said, "A galactic dwarf?"

Valard glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "You should have noticed it too, this city doesn't have the style of the undead."

Liu Nian nodded.

"Because it wasn't built by the undead at all!" Valard's voice deepened, tinged with suppressed excitement. "This city—is actually the core of an omnic ark that has been transformed into an inverted pyramid shape!"

"The AI ​​Ark?" Liu Nian was taken aback.

"You haven't heard of it?" Valard raised an eyebrow. "The Omnic Wars, the main storyline event of Season 7. The Star Gnomes' superflagship was called the Omnic Ark, a giant warship capable of traversing planes. Later, the Ark was destroyed in the war, disintegrating into countless fragments scattered across various worlds."

He pointed to the pyramid beneath his feet.

"The core of the Ark is hidden inside this inverted pyramid. Back then, it used the overload and damage of its main engine to initiate interdimensional teleportation and escape the battlefield. Unexpectedly, it ended up crashing on the Southern Continent, and then that stinking skeleton of Shams dug it out! Hmph, what good luck!"

Liu Nian narrowed his eyes.

The flagship core of the Starry Sky Dwarf?

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

No wonder the city's technological style looked so familiar, no wonder Shams was able to build an eighth-level main city like this—this old guy wasn't building a city at all, he was constantly repairing and modifying it based on the core module!

"So you attacked this place not just to occupy territory?" Liu Nian asked.

"Territory?" Valard scoffed. "We don't even care about this wretched place in the Southern Continent. Our main purpose in coming here is for the core module of this AI Ark."

"You want the technology inside?"

"Not only that." A burning glint flashed in Valard's crimson eyes. "What we need is the technology to build the perpetual engine! Once we master that technology, we can leap to the top tier of this cyber hell!"

Liu Nian's heart stirred.

Eternal Engine?

This is something he's been longing for!

I almost got it back then in the omnic war chariot on the battlefield of the heavens, but unfortunately, Gamir came along out of nowhere.

Ugh, that thing can't be put in my backpack, otherwise it should have dropped after I killed Gamir on the Reincarnation!

"Was that giant cannon also from the Ark?" Liu Nian asked.

"Probably," Valard said. "But judging by its power, it's only about one-tenth of the original. That half-baked Shams couldn't possibly have fully grasped the Star Gnomes' technology. Look at that base; it's clearly just forcibly installed."

He paused, then turned to look at Liu Nian.

"Oregon - I need your help."

"explain."

"That giant cannon can only fire once every ten minutes, and it's our biggest threat during the siege. I need your help to take it down!"

"But there's a defensive barrier, so I can't get through," Liu Nian said.

He could have easily rushed in; all he had to do was activate the Heavenly Manifestation Technique...

But he wouldn't reveal his true identity and become a sucker under these circumstances.

"A barrier?" Valard's lips curled into a smile. "You don't need to worry about that."

He raised his hand and pointed to the rear of the vampire army, to the flying carriage pulled by eight nightmares—no, to that exquisitely crafted coffin!

"Who is the commander-in-chief of this campaign?"

Liu Nian looked in the direction he was pointing.

He had actually seen it a long time ago, but he hadn't asked about it.

The carriage hovered at the very rear of the vampire army. Its eight heads were engulfed in dark purple flames, and its hooves pounded in the void, each step creating a blood-red ripple.

The carriage doors were tightly closed, and the windows were completely covered by dark red curtains, making it impossible to tell who was sitting inside.

But judging from the level of those eight nightmares, all of them being level 999, one could guess that the person in the carriage was definitely not a nobody.

"That is..." Liu Nian squinted his eyes.

"Prince Dracono," Valard said with a hint of respect, "the fifth-ranked among the thirteen vampire princes!"

Liu Nian raised an eyebrow.

fifth?

That's quite a high ranking.

"Can he break through the defensive barrier of the Golden Royal City?"

"Yes," Vallad said, "but it will take time, though I estimate it will be soon. The prince has been preparing since the very beginning of the attack."

He paused, his scarlet eyes fixed on Liu Nian.

"Once the adults succeed, we need to rush in immediately and destroy that giant cannon! Otherwise, if it keeps firing, our losses will be enormous!"

Liu Nian nodded: "Understood."

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Shams' mechanical clone stood on the platform at the top of the inverted pyramid, overlooking the entire battlefield, a hint of smugness flashing in the dark red will-o'-the-wisps.

"You vampire bats think you can breach my Golden Royal City?" he scoffed. "Wishful thinking! With the Annihilation Scythe in hand, you won't even get in!"

At that moment, he noticed that the carriage behind the vampire army had moved.

The eight nightmare heads simultaneously roared to the sky, and dark purple flames on their bodies suddenly exploded, transforming into eight pillars of fire that shot into the heavens.

The carriage doors were not open, but the curtains on the roof were lifted by themselves.

A cloud of blood mist slowly rose from the carriage.

The blood mist was as thick as liquid, swirling, condensing, and shaping in mid-air, eventually forming a humanoid silhouette over five meters tall.

As the blood mist dissipated, a man's true face was revealed.

He was a middle-aged vampire who looked to be in his forties. His skin was not the pale white that vampires usually have, but rather a faint bronze color, as if he had been sunbathing a lot.

However, it's obvious that vampires wouldn't like sunbathing, which means their skin color is naturally like that.

His features weren't particularly handsome, but he had a commanding presence. He had thick eyebrows, large eyes, a high nose bridge, and tightly pursed lips, giving him the look of someone who had long held a high position and was decisive in his actions.

What's most striking is his eyes—not scarlet, but a dark gold.

【LV999 Dracono (Vampire Prince - Eternal BOSS)】

Dracono hovered in mid-air, his dark golden eyes sweeping across the entire battlefield before finally settling on the defensive barrier of the Golden City.

He raised his right hand.

The palm is open, and a strange Rubik's Cube floats above it.

I don't know if it was his weapon or some other strange object.

In short, the Rubik's Cube was spinning rapidly under the stimulation of his blood energy. Dracono seemed to be completely focused on manipulating the Rubik's Cube, and sweat was already beading on his forehead, as if manipulating the Rubik's Cube had consumed a lot of his physical strength.

Once all six sides of the Rubik's Cube were in place, Dracono suddenly tossed the cube high into the air.

Suddenly, each square of the Rubik's Cube opened outward, revealing a blood-red sphere inside.

Then, the sphere appeared outside the barrier of the Golden Royal City at an almost instantaneous speed and crashed into it!