<h4>Chapter 1623: Amantir’s End</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    The fighting on Amantir started underground, but the scale of the destruction had already spread across the’s surface, and half the was consumed in a catastrophic disaster. Even from space, the terrifying changes on the’s surface were obviously visible.


    Sman stood on the Aiur’s bridge, watching the images sent in from the external surveince cameras with his adjutant. Amantir’s image was in the middle of the holographic projection and took up almost three-quarters of the space. Everyone could clearly see that near Amantir’s equator, the entirendmass was buckling and folding upon itself.


    That was where Amantir’s control center was. A massive templeplex there was visible from orbit, and it was now being torn from the middle as continuous explosions trailed along the cracks towards the cluster of buildings nearby. Temples and shrines, big and small, all shook violently as thend they stood on liquefied like melted butter. They were quickly sinking into the heart of the, as though a ck hole had appeared at the core of the and was consuming the whole.


    Of course, there were no ck holes, and Sman was very clear on why the was copsing on itself. Like Agodal, Amantir’s internals consisted of a massive cavity with many strong crystal pirs that supported the outer crust while they served as energywork nodes. To have the entire crust copse meant that something incredible must have happened within the crystal piryer.


    Before then, Sman had received an encrypted message, and after decoding it, he found out the n that Hao Ren and the sprites had developed. When he saw the catastrophic changes to Amantir’s surface, themander could only gawk in awe, “They really blew the entire crystal piryer up...”


    “Only a part of it,” the young adjutant corrected him.


    “But this is still an insane n,” Smanughed bitterly as he shook his head. “I have to admit, the creativity of the observers is way above that of us conventional and conservative soldiers. I think any guardians conducting this infiltration mission would not have pulled this off, even if they are able to get into the heart of Amantir.”


    “Based on the calctions of the time the’s support system is able to hold on after the copse of the pirs, thebat within the Lair of Nightmares is probably at its end.” the young adjutant said, “But we have yet to receive any news about their sess. The control center is alreadying apart, their time is short.”


    “The continuing disintegration of Amantir’s crust is the best possible news, that means the monsters do not have the spare attention to stabilize the, and the havoc within their itself has not ended.” Sman shook his head before looking to another set of projections, “And the drones have yet to act...”


    The screen beside him showed the image of the droid army. After the guardians and the droid army had retreated to the area and faced off against the corrupted ones in the distance, the movements of the droids were a mystery to the guardians: Arge number of the droids have builtyers uponyers of barriers at their rally point and many more other droids came warping into the sector, and all of the new entries were notbat types.


    And a stream of droids kept going in and out of the sector, and at times they could seerge units of unknown usage being shipped in as well.


    And in thetest movement, Sman saw them dragged a few massive crystals into the mysterious ‘construction zone’. The size of the crystals was like a mountain, and its energy signatures terrifying.


    The droids did notmunicate with anyone, and the guardians did not have permission to enter the droids’ base, and using active radar or any other monitoring and surveince equipment to scan a friendly camp would, of course, be seen as a very provocative signal, so Sman and his shoulders could only look on at the busy machines working day in and out without a clue of what was going on inside.


    Until noon today, the activity ceased and as the droids seemed to havepleted the mission their master had assigned them, and now entered standby mode while they await new orders: They had been in this state ever since.


    As Sman wondered what the standby droid army was up to, he caught sight of movement of the droids at the outer ring of the camp. They were scattering away, seemingly to make way for something.


    At the same time, the adjutant eximed, “Received encrypted transmission. It says. Shadowlord has lifted the Oscars!”


    That was one of the weird code words the observers have left him. Sman did not understand the terms used in the message but he knew exactly what it meant: The observer’s infiltration team was sessful!


    They had destroyed the Lair of Nightmares, and have seized the crystal of Amantir!


    “Report! The droid swarms have started moving and they are shutting down the barrier around the base. Massive energy signatures detected within the heart of the swarm! The energy signature is off the charts! Repeat, the energy signature is off the charts!”


    “They are going to attack Amantir?” Sman could not help but grip on to the armrest. “The observers have yet to withdraw...”


    Hao Ren had told him that he had a withdrawal n in ce, but Sman did not know the details of the n, and as he saw the movement of the droid swarm he realized that the final assault was about to start, and Amantir would be the focus of all weapons. But until now, he had yet to see Hao Ren and his team escaping the.


    As Sman was feeling curious, a tiny sliver of blue light shed on the holographic projection.


    The sensitive external monitors noticed the tiny blue light and expanded the image. Sman was finally able to clearly see that it was an argent starship. The observer’s high tech gship.


    The argent starship had clearly activated a piece of eleration equipment, and while it was not using hyperspace engine she had pretty much almost broken light speed. Ayer of reinforced shields appeared and covered the entire ship like a drape, at the same time, a moving projection floated across the hull, and on it was two lines of words that Sman did not recognize.


    Top dog brawler. Gxy’s Fastest.


    Nn charged towards the corrupted one’s base like a bolt of lightning, and as she crossed the demarcation line she started deployed her decoyunchers as about ten ellipsoidal metal objects wereunched into space and immediately became optical decoys mirroring the Petrachelys. Arge number of projections were quickly exchanging ces as they charged towards the corrupted one’s defense tforms. Thetter had reacted as many interceptors and mutants quickly took to the air as the anti-air cannons roared. Yet Nn was so fast that none of the corrupted’s tracking and targeting equipment were able to get a bid on her. Meanwhile, the enveloping barrages simply hit the decoys that were left by Nn.


    Within the copsing Lair of Nightmares, the swarms of mutants and corrupted monsters had surrounded Hao Ren and the rest as the rampaging mutants and minions of nightmares shed against the defensive perimeter the automated drones andbat droids had set up. Hao Ren and the rest had retreated to the center of the circle and were using various long-range attacks to take out any enemies that managed to break through.


    Lily, in her mega husky form, was still exhausted from thebat earlier and was lying powerlessly at the back. Y’lisabet and Rolliey by her bushy tail and were being healed by Nangong Wuyue. In fact, almost everyone had been patched one at least once, and they were taking turns to enter the fray.


    After using a Venomblood Arrow to take out a brain monster hiding in a corner casting an offensive spiritual spell, Vivian turned towards Hao Ren, “Is the homing signal still unstable?”


    Hao Ren took a quick nce at the MDT, “The monsters have probably figured that we are withdrawing. Their disruption signals are intense, but we already have a lock-on..”


    The MDT followed up loudly, “Nn is on her way and will arrive in a bit. The dimensional signal is strengthening! I need a bit of time to recalcte the homing marker! Not too long, a few minutes will do!”


    Y’zaks casually tore a mutant that had rushed towards him into two,ughing loudly as he tossed the corpse aside. “Hah! That we can manage. After the brain monster’s death, these minions are pretty much pitiful.”


    “They are still many though.” Nangong Sanbaughed bitterly.


    Hao Ren did not mind that. “Well, they can send more if they want, but they’ll all get blown away.”


    Right at that very moment, Nn broke through Amantir’s orbital and atmospheric defense rings. With an elegant and dangerous anti-parabolic curve, Nn cut through the equator rift.


    “Homing marker has been re-calibrated! Commencing teleportation!”


    A white light enveloped everyone, and within the light, Hao Ren gave the charging mutants a slow-rising middle finger.


    “Goodbye, suc—”


    The white light disappeared and everyone disappeared into thin air before the mutants. The only thing left behind was a giant metallic object with a flickering red light on it.


    A few secondster, a massive explosion ripped through the crust as a mushroom cloud sted out of themand center.


    And just within these few seconds, Nn had reached deep space, and everyone on the bridge looked at the mushroom cloud rising slowly. Nangong Sanba could not help but break the silence. “Say, weren’t the droids there were already gonna st it to pieces? What’s the point of that explosion?”


    Hao Ren had an inscrutable look on his face, “What do you know. This is called a character’s mark. Every heroic character will always leave a mark after wreaking havoc. Zorro even leaves a bloody Z mark behind.


    The MDT immediately mmed against Hao Ren’s head, “Those characters leave a letter, a flower or a bloody poker card, and you had to leave a bomb behind, the f*ck are you on?”


    Hao Ren did not mind that at all and simplyughed it off as he turned towards the scene in space.


    The startled corrupted army was chasing Nn like a swarm of locust, but they were thrown far behind as thedy pilot mmed the elerator, and farther away in deep space, the droid base had opened up. Once all camouge, barriers, and decoys were taken down, a titanic space structure appeared before everyone.


    This was a facility cobbled together at thest minute, and the mountain-sized crystals were arranged into a spear-shape as a good number of argent metal beams and connecting strobes connected the crystal into one single object, and at the point of the spear tip, a powerful energy torrent had already converged into a globe of blinding light.


    For anyone familiar, these crystals were actually part of CARS...


    “The Annihtion Lance’ charging ispleted.” Nn’s holographic projection appeared on the bridge and her face excited and smug. “Let’s send those fools that can’t even chase after my fumes to hell!”


    Nangong Wuyue immediately raised her tail and poked her brother. “Why does Nn sound so different ever since she started to drag race.”


    “Shhh, softer. Don’t let her hear you.”