I, from the Celestial Empire, have parachuted into Teyvat.

"We are confirming the laser guidance for the drone."

"Target confirmed, missile launch."

With a series of confirmation commands, another Galaxy-5 cruise missile roared into the sky from the launch site.

......

Above the swamp, the arrogant body, which had swelled and twisted due to devouring the consciousness of destruction, gradually began to recover. However, at this moment, a whooshing sound that tore through the air suddenly appeared again on the horizon.

Arrogant was startled and turned around, only to find the missile had already struck its face.

After the violent explosion, the smoke cleared, and the arrogant figure vanished once again.

Ivan scoffed in front of the screen, "They ran away again."

As soon as he finished speaking, the operator of the second drone squad reported: "Target spotted. The target is located 10 kilometers away from the previous location."

As he spoke, the operator switched the feed to the large screen in front of Ivan and the others.

The arrogant figure in the picture had just condensed in the tree roots when its body color returned to its original dim appearance.

This second missile rendered all the dozen or so Destructive Consciousnesses it had absorbed futile.

At this moment, you can clearly feel the arrogance's anger even through the screen.

Of course, the main force would not give the arrogant any time to breathe.

After the target was confirmed, the third missile was launched.

From among the tangled roots and vines, arrogance roared angrily: "Damn lowly creatures of Earth!"

After saying that, he punched the roots of the World Tree in front of him. The force of this punch caused the roots and the earth within a radius of several hundred meters to tremble violently.

However, at that moment, Arrogance, sensing something, suddenly raised his head.

High in the distance, six or seven drones were intently watching its location.

The moment he saw the six or seven drones, Arrogance abruptly turned his head to look.

Sure enough, a missile was already hurtling towards them, trailing a plume of flame.

His arrogant, red face twitched grotesquely, and the next second he waved his hands, a burst of red mist erupting from his chest and colliding with the oncoming missile.

After a loud explosion, the scorching air surged and dispersed the fog. Arrogance, taking advantage of the red fog, managed to escape the explosion in time and retreat to a distance of several dozen meters.

At this moment, his arrogant face was twisted with rage, and simultaneously, several red energy orbs shot from his eyes toward the drones hovering in the sky.

Inside the temporary camp, watching the signal drop-off on the large screen, Ivan calmly said, "Launch a new replacement drone and move the nearby drones over there."

Qin, stroking her chin, said, "Pride should be starting to realize that something is wrong. It gave us a warning just now."

Ivan looked back at the row of missile launchers on the launch site behind him, chuckled, and said, "Since it has already sensed something is wrong, and it has dodged this one again, let's send it another one."

A few seconds later, another Galaxy-5 cruise missile took off from the launch site...

Another half hour passed.

Over the course of several hours, Arrogance kept shifting its position, even hiding under some of the densely intertwined roots of the World Tree, but it was still completely covered by the drone reconnaissance network that spanned the entire airspace.

Each relocation takes less than a minute, and a missile attack is 100% sure to follow. Even an hour later, the frequency of missile attacks changes. When the arrogant one is on alert, it is completely monitored by drones in the sky, so the enemy will not launch an attack. But as soon as it makes a move to recover its strength, a missile attack will follow.

Even if Arrogance attempts to shoot down dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of drones simultaneously, the powerful logistics of the main force will quickly fill the gaps. When Arrogance realizes that no matter how many reconnaissance drones it tries to clear from the sky, it can't eliminate them all, and it's overwhelmed by the possibility of missile attacks at any moment, anger has gradually pushed its composure to the threshold of imbalance.

With such a rhythm and frequency of attacks, the opponent's purpose is clear: to constantly interrupt its power recovery process.

Arrogance understood this, but it had no other choice. If it wanted to regain its power, it could only deal with the group of Blue Star creatures, who were using this as an excuse to force it to show itself.

This is a blatant and overt conspiracy.

At this thought, the arrogance in his heart had reached an unprecedented peak of anger.

It has never been mocked like this before.

This is a disgrace to it as the original destroyer!

At this moment, the thought of tearing these lowly and despicable creatures apart had surpassed all other thoughts in its mind, completely dominating its thinking.

Thinking of this, arrogance suddenly surged into his head.

Dozens of kilometers away, everyone in the temporary camp looked up at the horizon.

On one stretch of the horizon, it looked as if a crimson shooting star was rising against the current.

Ivan raised an eyebrow slightly as he watched the streak of light shooting into the sky.

"They're here..."

The next second, the streak of light suddenly changed direction in the air and rushed towards the location of the main force.

In the blink of an eye, the red streak of light arrived.

Looking up at the red figure in the sky, Ivan chuckled and shouted with a hint of sarcasm, "This time, we've really met again."

With an arrogant gaze fixed on Ivan in the formation, he said in a cold tone, "I have traversed thousands of years and destroyed countless worlds, but today, I must say that you are the only lowly beings who have left a 'deep impression' on me so far."

"Really?"

Ivan bowed slightly.

"That would be our honor. Of course, your name will be forever recorded in the history books of Earth, and will remain forever in this moment."

Faced with Ivan's series of taunts and insinuations, the arrogance in his heart had been suppressed to the limit.

"If you want to kill me, then try it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the arrogant creature's entire body suddenly crackled and popped like bones exploding, and at the same time, two bright red flames ignited in its eye sockets.

"Starting tomorrow, this world on Earth will no longer have any history!"

The next second, the entire earth trembled violently...

Chapter 500 Reality Never Talks About Martial Morality

The earth shook violently, and the swamp began to boil.

Feeling the constant tremors beneath his feet, Ivan looked up at the arrogance high above.

At this moment, streaks of red energy swirled around Arrogance's body. Surrounded by the red energy, Arrogance's body twisted, expanded, and bulged continuously.

Seeing this, Ivan turned and shouted, "Fire!"

With two strange cannon shots like popping the cork of a wine bottle, two specially designed missiles, each about the size of a person's arm, shot into the sky, heading straight for the Arrogant figure whose body was constantly changing.

Like a needle puncturing a water-filled balloon, there was no violent explosion, but after the two missiles hit Arrogance, two clouds of white ice mist burst out.

Enveloped by the icy mist, layers of frost rapidly formed on the arrogant body, slowing down the rate at which the arrogant body expanded and changed.

Feeling the solid ice forming on his body, Arrogance immediately began to circulate his internal energy. A burst of red energy erupted, and Arrogance's body instantly burst into flames, as if a crimson sun had appeared high in the sky.

Arrogance attempted to melt the solid ice with the intense heat of flames generated by the outward burst of energy within his body, but the next second, Arrogance's expression changed instantly.

"what?"

Despite being scorched by the intense heat from the inside out, the ice on its body showed no signs of melting; instead, it solidified and grew thicker and thicker.

However, at that moment, two more strange cannon shots rang out.

Still reeling from the shock, Arrogance hurriedly looked down, only to see two identical missiles hurtling towards him. Now, Arrogance's body was too weak to move due to the influence of the solid ice.

After two muffled thuds, the erupting icy mist completely engulfed the arrogant body.

A few seconds later, a block of ice, about four or five meters in size, encasing Arrogance, fell from the icy mist in the sky and crashed heavily into the swamp in front of the temporary camp.

The moment the ice block fell into the swamp, the mud and water in the entire swamp froze at a visible speed and quickly spread in all directions.

On the ground, the main force also wore expressions of high alert, something they hadn't shown when facing arrogance earlier.

"Set up a barrier immediately!"

Ivan immediately gave the order, and all departments sprang into action.

Hundreds of soldiers immediately rushed out of the position, carrying dozens of silver-gray iron plates, and drove them firmly into the ground between the temporary camp and the spreading ice. Simultaneously, dozens of medium-sized cargo drones took off from the camp, each carrying an identical silver-gray iron plate, and flew towards the spreading ice over the swamp. Under the highly focused operation of the operators, the iron plates were dropped vertically, embedding themselves straight into the muddy water.

In this way, the silver-gray iron plate formed a square barrier, blocking the ice from spreading in all directions, and the ice successfully stopped spreading in front of the iron plate.

Seeing this, Ivan breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and the others also showed expressions of relief.

Become!

Xiang Feng said with lingering fear, "Luckily, nothing went wrong, otherwise we might have perished together with arrogance."

Yes, Ivan had already prepared all possible countermeasures for Arrogance's appearance, as he planned to lure Arrogance into showing himself.

These "peculiar" missiles are China's trump card against arrogance.

These specially designed missiles were developed earlier by the Alchemy Department of the Knights of Favonius, represented by Abedo, in collaboration with the Chemistry Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Weapons Research Institute. They were named Extreme Cold Missiles.

The projectile body was manufactured by the Huaxia Weapon Research Institute, using star silver ore, a specialty of the Dragonspine Mountains. The warhead was jointly developed by the Alchemy Department of the Knights of Favonius and the Chemistry Department of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, with its main material being a type of millennia-old solid ice discovered in the Dragonspine Mountains. This ice had once frozen a gigantic boar king in the mountains and was later discovered by a joint Huaxia and Mondstadt exploration team.

When this solid ice was first discovered, it shocked several major institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its internal temperature, calculated by Earth's standards, could reach a terrifying minus ten thousand degrees Celsius. The absolute zero on Earth is theoretically -273.15 degrees Celsius, far exceeding this physical limit. This terrifyingly low temperature resulted in an ice mist formed after the explosion of this extreme freezing bomb, a force of extremely pure ice elemental power. A single small piece could completely freeze a metropolis the size of New York City in the United States within half an hour—its terror was no less than that of a nuclear bomb. Only Star Silver Ore, a mineral that grows alongside millennia-old solid ice, could withstand such low temperatures for an extended period without deformation. The iron plate that Ivan and his group used to block the spread of the ice was a Star Silver Ore plate. Without prior preparation of Star Silver blocking steel plates, or if there had been a mistake during installation, Ivan and his group would likely be frozen solid by now.

Of course, the ice formed by this terrifying power is so solid that, according to experiments, few high-temperature substances can completely melt it in an extremely short time. To make it evaporate in a short time, a temperature of tens of millions of degrees is required, and so far, there is only one way to achieve this temperature—nuclear fission reaction.

In other words, if arrogance wants to break through this layer of ice on the surface of its body, it needs to unleash energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion, and it needs to be a continuous explosion.

Perhaps Pride at its peak could have done this, but Pride now certainly can't. After all, if Pride's power had recovered to this level, it wouldn't be hiding.

Of course, because the extreme cold bomb is extremely difficult to manufacture and has great destructive power, China and Mondstadt have only manufactured eight so far, and the use of each one requires strict review and application.

Before setting off, Ivan had applied to the Grand Elder for the right to use the Extreme Cold Bomb.

This time, they used four in one go.

It would be a lie to say I don't feel bad, after all, it's all money.

However, in order to ensure an absolute one-hit kill, all of this is worthwhile.

And now the results of the battle have confirmed that Ivan's choice was correct.

Looking at the arrogant face frozen in the ice in the center of the solid ice zone blocked by the barrier, Ivan took a deep breath.

Arrogance was thus "caught".

There were no earth-shattering battles, no tense confrontations between two armies; there were only sudden attacks and near-instantaneous kills.

Ivan and his men never intended to wait for Pride to unleash its full power before attacking; they aimed to catch you off guard and take you by surprise.