SWDnovel Chapter 182 Cross-Border Showdown! Using the President as Material for Training!
Chapter 182 Cross-Border Showdown! Using the President as Material for Training!
The dragon's head, which was bigger than a truck, was slammed solidly into the hard rock ground by Jiang Ming.
Stone fragments flew everywhere, and dark purple dragon blood gushed out.
"Roar..." The dragon let out a painful groan, frantically flapping its wings in an attempt to break free.
"Still dare to move?"
Jiang Ming loosened the dragon's horns, clenched his right fist, and, taking advantage of the downward momentum, delivered a powerful punch to the back of the dragon's head.
The [Tear] effect, which comes with the Frenzy Boiling, is triggered.
This punch pierced through the dragon's indestructible, mutated scales, and half of his arm smashed into its skull.
A violent force exploded within the dragon's skull.
The dragon's body convulsed violently a few times before finally collapsing to the ground, its pale green vertical pupils quickly losing their luster.
[Defeat the Mutated Winter Guardian Dragon (Lv.52, Lord-level) – A Level Above Its Own!]
[Experience Points Gained: 350000!]
[Obtained: Abyss Frost Dragon Core (Purple Epic).]
[Obtained: Aberrant Dragon Bone Spine (Purple Epic).]
The battle ended so quickly that Marlowe and Chen Qi didn't even have time to react.
Chen Qi swallowed hard, looking at Jiang Ming standing atop the giant dragon's head, flicking dragon blood from his hands, his voice trembling: "Marlowe... is Ming-ge even human?"
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"
Marlowe wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
The sight of tearing apart a level 50+ lord dragon with bare hands is truly shocking.
Jiang Ming jumped off the dragon head and casually collected the materials that had been exposed.
He strode to the platform and grabbed the fragment of the [High-Level Dimensional Teleportation Portal Blueprint].
The moment he picked up the shard, the crystal display stand where the shard had been placed suddenly lit up with a blinding red light.
Om-!
An extremely complex magical projection quickly took shape in mid-air.
In the projection, a huge figure appeared, sitting on a throne of bones.
The figure was completely shrouded in black mist, with only a pair of scarlet eyes peering through the fog, staring intently at Jiang Ming.
A pressure ten times more terrifying than the Thousand-Eyed Mountain of Flesh traveled across space along the projection.
"Humble mortals."
The voice projected sounded like two rusty metals rubbing together, making one's eardrums ache: "You dare steal my AllSpark Matrix, and even dare to lay a finger on the portal blueprints..."
Jiang Ming picked at his ear and interrupted him rudely: "Who are you?"
The figure paused noticeably, seemingly surprised that a human from a lower-level plane would dare to speak to him like that.
"I am Baal, the Lord of Destruction and Grand Commander of the Seventh Legion of the Abyss!"
A savage killing intent flashed in his crimson eyes. "Hand over the source of the fire and the blueprints, and I may bestow them upon you..."
"Chen Qi, smash this crappy projector for me."
Jiang Ming was too lazy to listen to his nonsense.
"Okay!"
Chen Qi raised the magic-powered rifle and fired a burst at the crystal display stand.
Bang bang bang!
The crystal display stand was smashed to pieces, and the projection in mid-air instantly distorted and disappeared.
In the final second before the projection vanished, Baal's furious roar echoed through the vault: "Arrogant ant! I have locked onto your dimensional coordinates! The army of the Abyss will..."
The sound stopped abruptly.
Jiang Ming walked to the shattered crystal display stand and picked up a black crystal that shimmered faintly from the ruins.
"Lock my coordinates?"
Jiang Ming looked at the spatial magic patterns remaining on the crystal and smiled.
He tossed the crystal to Marlowe.
"Boss, what's this?"
Marlowe caught it in a flurry of activity.
"The reverse space anchor point left by that idiot."
Jiang Ming turned and walked out of the treasure vault. "Connect this to the chariot's navigation system. Isn't he going to send a large army?"
Jiang Ming dusted himself off and strode away.
"We've laid an ambush on him."
Outside the passage to the underground treasure vault, ten Abyss Executioners, each eight meters tall, squatted obediently beside the tracks of the heavily armored fortress.
Upon hearing footsteps, the ten burly men stood up in unison, the eerie blue flames beneath their helmets flickering twice, as if they were lining up to greet them.
Jiang Ming threw the black crystal with magic patterns in his hand into the cockpit.
"Marlow, connect this thing to the tank's radar control system."
Jiang Ming grabbed the handrail, flipped over, and jumped onto the roof of the car.
Marlowe caught the crystal and fiddled with it on the control panel for a while.
Several data cables popped out and were plugged directly into the surface of the crystal.
The holographic screen was instantly covered by a blinding deep red.
"Boss, the coordinates have been analyzed."
Marlow stared at the rapidly fluctuating data on the screen, took a deep drag on his cigar, and said, "The energy level on the other side is skyrocketing. That bastard is forcibly tearing apart the spatial barrier. At this rate, the reverse portal will be forming above our heads in ten minutes at most."
Upon hearing this, Chen Qi immediately perked up, gripping the machine gun's control stick tightly with both hands: "Brother Ming, should we retreat to a safe distance first, or should we open the main gun and block the door?"
"Withdraw what?"
Jiang Ming leaned against the turret armor, a dangerous smile playing on his lips. "They've come all this way to deliver goods, shouldn't we prepare a proper welcome ceremony?"
Jiang Ming flipped his wrist and pulled out a large pile of things from his storage ring.
I just tore apart the Frost Dragon and obtained the [Abyssal Frost Dragon Core] and [Distorted Dragon Bone Spine].
In addition, there were two whole boxes of high-level explosive crystals that were taken from the Winter Treasury.
These things were piled on the roof of the car, emitting extremely violent energy fluctuations.
"System, synthesize."
Jiang Ming issued the command in his mind.
[Analyzing the synthesis formula...]
Main materials: Abyss Frost Dragon Core (Purple Epic) + Aberrated Dragon Spine (Purple Epic)
[Auxiliary Material: 100 High-Grade Explosive Crystals (Blue, Rare)]
[This synthesis has a 40% failure rate. Do you confirm?]
"confirm."
A blinding burst of light erupted from the roof of the car.
A few seconds later, the light faded.
A giant bomb, two meters long, dark blue in color, and covered with bony spikes, appeared in front of Jiang Ming.
Inside the bomb, it seemed as if an endless blizzard was sealed away.
Synthesis successful!
[Obtained: Extremely Effective Absolute Zero Space Collapse Mine (Purple, Top-Tier Epic Consumable)]
[Attribute: The explosion instantly generates an absolute zero freezing force field, causing the collapse of spatial structures within a 500-meter radius. It inflicts devastating damage on targets below level 60.]
Jiang Ming patted the large landmine with satisfaction.
"Marlowe, drive to the high point at the edge of the basin."
Jiang Ming pointed to the huge pit left behind by the Thousand-Eyed Flesh Mountain, "Have those ten laborers outside bury this thing in the very center of the pit."
"Alright!"
The tank tracks turned, and ten Abyss Executioners dutifully carried the two-meter-long space mine, trudging heavily to the center of the pit. They quickly dug a large hole, burying the mine completely, and even thoughtfully covered it with a layer of minced meat as camouflage.
After finishing their work, the ten workers quickly retreated to the side of the tank.
The heavily armored fortress retreated to a rocky highland two kilometers away.
Jiang Ming sat in the command center, his eyes fixed on the radar screen.
"Main cannon charging, mech mode ready."
Jiang Ming issued instructions methodically.
Time passed second by second.
Above the ruins of the Winter Capital, the black mist that had previously dissipated began to churn once more.
An extremely glaring scarlet crack suddenly appeared in mid-air.
As soon as the crack appeared, the surrounding space emitted a cracking sound as it struggled to bear the weight.
The raging abyssal energy poured down like a tsunami, sweeping up rubble and severed limbs from the ground and into the air.
"They're here!"
Marlowe stared intently at the screen.
The crack was forcibly opened by a pair of invisible giant hands, expanding to a width of over a hundred meters.
Immediately afterwards, the dull sound of horses' hooves came from deep within the crevice.
A squad of heavily armored knights, their bodies engulfed in eerie green hellfire, charged out of the crevice.
Their warhorses were made entirely of bones and flames, and they carried heavy lances that were four meters long.
【Seventh Legion of the Abyss - Nightmare Knight Vanguard (Lv.45 - Elite)】
Quantity: 200
As soon as the knights landed, they lined up in perfect formation at the edge of the pit.
That chilling aura was enough to make any top-tier awakened team on Earth feel despair.
Following closely behind is the three-headed [Abyss Siege Beast (Lv.50·Warrior)], whose size is comparable to a heavy tank.
From the depths of the crack came Barna’s maniacal laughter, like two pieces of rusty metal rubbing together.
"Humble mortal! My vanguard has arrived! Hand over the Source of Fire, and I may consider extracting your soul and turning it into…"
"You talk too much nonsense."
Jiang Ming leaned back in his chair and lightly tapped the detonation button on the control panel.
boom--!!!
There was no firelight.
In the center of the deep pit, an extremely pure dark blue halo exploded instantly.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
The dark blue halo expanded outward at supersonic speeds, instantly covering an area with a radius of 500 meters.
The Nightmare Knights' vanguard, which had just formed ranks, didn't even have time to react.
The hellfire on their bodies was extinguished the instant they came into contact with the halo.
Absolute zero!
Two hundred Lv.45 elite knights, along with the three Lv.50 siege beasts, were completely frozen into lifelike ice sculptures in less than a fraction of a second.
Then, the second blow came.
Space collapse!
Click, click—
Centered on the deep pit, the space within a radius of 500 meters resembled a mirror shattered by a sledgehammer, revealing countless dark cracks.
The terrifying cutting force generated by the collapse of the spatial structure instantly acted on those ice sculptures.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Two hundred Nightmare Knights and three-headed siege beasts were instantly shattered into a shower of ice powder.
Not a single drop of blood was shed; it was wiped clean without any bleeding.
[Defeat 200 Abyss Nightmare Knights (players of a higher level) to gain experience points...]
[Defeat 3 Abyss Siege Beasts (beyond your level) to gain experience points...]
System notification sounds echoed in Jiang Ming's mind.
On the other side of the crack, Baal's maniacal laughter was abruptly cut off, like a male duck being strangled.
The whole world was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
"Holy crap..." Chen Qi swallowed hard, looking at the ice powder storm in the distance. "Brother Ming, your lightning was too powerful. It wiped out an entire company."
"Basic operations."
Jiang Ming stared at the crack in mid-air. "The real culprit hasn't shown up yet."
The aftershocks of the spatial collapse impacted the crimson crack in mid-air.
The aftershocks of the spatial collapse impacted the crimson crack in mid-air.
The portal began to twist violently, its edges flashing with unstable electric light.
"roar--!!!"
A roar filled with extreme rage exploded from the depths of the crack.
"Insects! How dare you destroy my vanguard legion!"
A gigantic demonic hand, covered in black scales and with nails like blades tens of meters long, suddenly emerged from the crack.
That hand clung tightly to the edge of the crack, trying to forcibly stabilize the collapsing teleportation channel.
Immediately afterwards, the other hand also reached out.
Two giant hands, one on the left and one on the right, forcefully tore the spatial rift apart.
A terrifying figure with twisted horns on its head and covered in dark golden magic patterns was slowly squeezing out of the crack, resisting the repulsion of the plane's laws.
【Baal, Grand Commander of the Seventh Legion of the Abyss - Lord of Destruction (Lv.62 - Cataclysmic Level)】
[WARNING: Target is an extremely high-risk, catastrophic-level creature!]
[Currently suppressed by the plane laws of the Aurora Continent, all attributes have decreased by 40%!]
The violent pressure, like a tangible hammer, slammed heavily onto the icy highlands.
The ten Abyss Executioners surrounding the chariot knelt down under this oppressive force, trembling so much that they could not even hold their swords.
"Brother Ming! This monster's level is over sixty!"
Chen Qi stared at the blackish-red warning light on the radar, his voice trembling slightly.
Jiang Ming ripped open the seatbelt buckle on his chest and pressed the bright blue diamond-shaped button on the control panel.
"So what if you're level 60?"
Jiang Ming's eyes were filled with fervor. "Suppressing 40% of the attributes is like a dog with its teeth pulled."
"Form liberation!"
Rumble—!
The heavily armored fortress emitted a deafening mechanical clanging sound.
The dark blue spark energy flowed wildly across the surface of the car body.
The tracks folded, the turret flipped, and the source material tendrils of the chassis quickly wove together into thick mechanical muscles.
Just two seconds.
A massive, dark gold-colored mech, standing twenty meters tall, rose from the ground and stood atop the icy highlands.
Jiang Ming sat in the main control room inside the mecha's chest cavity, his hands gripping the control sticks.
"Chen Qi, warm up the secondary guns, ready to take control at any time. Marlowe, push the engine power to maximum."
"clear!"
midair.
Baal finally managed to force his upper body out of the spatial rift.
His eyes, burning with scarlet flames, were fixed on the dark golden mech below, which was radiating powerful energy fluctuations.
"High-dimensional mechanical creations?"
Baal's voice boomed like thunder across the ruins, "No wonder you dared to provoke me! But before absolute power, even a pile of scrap metal can't save you!"
Baal suddenly raised his right arm, palm facing the mech.
A mass of pitch-black abyssal energy was rapidly compressed in his hand, instantly transforming into a thirty-meter-long spear of destruction.
The spear was wreathed in black electric arcs that could burn through even space itself.
"die!"
Baal hurled his spear.
The Destruction Spear tore through the air with a piercing sonic boom, instantly traversing a distance of two kilometers, and slammed into the mech's chest armor.
boom--!!!
A terrifying explosion erupted in front of the mech's chest, and the black shockwave shaved off an entire layer of the surrounding ice and rock.
A cruel smile spread across Bal's lips.
This strike would pierce through even a dragon of the same level.
But the next second, his smile froze.
The black smoke dissipated.
The dark gold heavy armor stood firmly in place, without taking even half a step back.
On the astral meteorite armor on his chest, where the spear had struck the bullseye, there was only a faint white mark, and not even the paint had come off.