Chapter 286: Chapter 209: Ultimate Form_1
Translator: 549690339 I
Less than ten seconds after the true direction of the Giant Wave Vertical Team had been revealed, all-out war had officially begun.
The Human Freedom Front’s reinforcements sounded the horn of the total offensive.
The flames of war instantly covered the entire globe.
No matter in which direction the Giant Wave Vertical Team was advancing or retreating, other vertical teams’ fighters came to cover them.
In just over ten minutes, the more than six hundred strong Giant Wave Vertical Team had crossed no less than ten small and medium-sized battlefields.
The radium’s minions were extremely frenzied, relentlessly pushing forward without regard for losses, determined to break through the defensive lines.
The reinforcements, too, intercepted and countered at the cost of their lives.
Battleships lay across the sky.
If a battleship was destroyed, the Eagle Strike Warriors would use their bodies to block the way.
When the Hawk Armor was destroyed, they would substitute their flesh.
Even though there were thousands and millions of comrades covering them, the Giant Wave Vertical Team still couldn’t avoid being rushed by a small number of radium’s minions.
These various types of machines were targeting Nora Camp directly.
Those that could break through multiple blockades and get close were mostly the most powerful weapons among radium’s minions, with their performance far exceeding that of the “Kite” and “Sparrow,” their materials more robust, their power more formidable, their weapon systems more advanced, and their force field defenses thicker.
Some of the medium equipment’s capabilities were even on par with the customized version of the Morrowind system, which Harrison Clark himself had operated last time – the human’s most powerful weapon.
Photon speed particle propulsion engines, fusion high-temperature beam energy guns, neutron compression burst coverage bombs, gravity field full coverage battle command systems, direct biological battery power supply systems…
Some Harrison Clark had used before, some he had not, and some were only imagined by the weapon research institute as ultimate weapons during the last war, now equipped on these war machines.
Harrison Clark, leading a squad of twenty Special Operations Team members, twisted and turned, left and right, doing their utmost to cover their comrades’ forward advance.
Despite Harrison Clark’s all-out efforts, the gap between friend and foe remained wide, and the losses continued to mount for the Giant Wave Vertical Team.
In the desperate flight of these ten odd minutes, the six hundred strong Giant Wave Vertical Team was left with less than three hundred.
Many soldiers died sacrificing themselves to block lethal attacks that Nora Camp couldn’t avoid.
When Nora Camp ordered the troops to move towards the East Sea, all the soldiers learned the true purpose of this operation, understanding that the only goal of it was to cover Nora Camp’s retreat.
The fellow soldiers of the other vertical teams used their flesh and blood to form multiple lines of defense, while they themselves were the last line of defense around the team leader!
Everyone knew the value of that chip, so without any need for mobilization, as long as there was an opportunity, all the surviving vertical team fighters unanimously chose to employ “saturated meat shield defense”!
Harrison Clark had also blocked no fewer than two shots for Nora Camp, but his ability to manipulate shields was stronger, his operation speed faster, and his energy concentration more perfect, so he barely managed to resist.
His Special Operations Team was the most elite, but also took on the heaviest combat duties and suffered heavy casualties.
His team members were falling one after another.
Each time someone fell, a new member would automatically step up within the vertical formation based on their internal strength assessment rankings.
When the second-ranked fell, the twenty-first stepped up.
If the twenty-first had already been killed, the ranks would automatically fall in line.
By the time they arrived at the East Sea coast, Harrison Clark’s Special Operations team had lost more than half its members, with casualties even higher than ordinary soldiers.
Ahead of them lay the vast ocean, and in the distance, the reinforcement lines had formed a dense multi-layered defensive line in the air, finally blocking all attacking radium minions from the outside.
Nora Camp was using the primitive sonar system to communicate with the hidden warships lurking deep under the sea that had shut down all their power sources; the others stood by on the spot.
Finally able to catch their breath, Harrison and the others began to check their squad members’ statuses.
Apart from Harrison himself, the original top-ranked Oliver Yeoman was still alive, followed by the third, seventh, eighth… twenty-sixth…
After that, there was a sudden jump to the vertical team ranking sixty-third, Daniel Thompson.
Lion had just joined and was currently the lowest ranked member in the Special Operations Team.
There was a large gap from the second to the last low ranking forty-second to sixty-third.
From the beginning of the eastward advance to the present, the Special Operations Team had already suffered two rounds of casualties, and only a few people with a combination of luck and strength had managed to survive by a fluke.
Ordinary soldiers who joined battles with the same intensity as Harrison Clark suffered such heavy casualties.
This was the gap in strength.
Those with insufficient strength could only make up for it with their lives.
“Lion, you sure came in at the right time.”
Harrison Clark blinked and smiled at Daniel Thompson.
Actually, he was quite happy.
Now that they were safe, if Lion had joined a few minutes earlier, his ordinary strength might have already cost them.
Although Lion would always die, Harrison Clark didn’t want him to die too early this time, as they hadn’t had a proper reunion yet.
Daniel Thompson glared at him, “How can you even smile at a time like this?”
He was dissatisfied with Harrison Clark’s seemingly calm demeanor after losing so many comrades.
But he quickly realized that Harrison Clark, aside from being his student, was his squad leader as well.
Their mutual command relationship made Lion feel somewhat awkward.
Harrison Clark didn’t explain too much but just looked up at the sky.
There will always be sacrifices, so we can only be happy for the living survivors.
Far away on the horizon of the sea, a huge blue whale, like a small island, surfaced.
The surface of the blue whale was marked by rotting patches covered with moss, and countless deep-sea parasitic plants and animals, resembling a small ecological system.
The hidden warship had arrived.
This surprise attack was planned five years ago.
The hidden warship had buried itself in the depths of the sea during a covering raid five years ago.
After five years, it finally saw the light of day.
At the same time, a dazzling white glow suddenly erupted in the distant sky.
This white light rushed into the sky, piercing the heavens, detonating the clouds, and directly hitting a space-based weapon floating in the sky.
The ground began to rumble, and their bodies slightly lowered as the air pressure on them suddenly increased by 50,000 pascals.
As towering as a mountain, a massive orange-yellow light curtain rose rapidly in the distance and diffused into the surrounding area.
Nora Camp stood beside Harrison Clark and said, “The Transcend Fleet has detonated a mutually assured destruction weapon.”
Harrison Clark nodded in understanding.
This was his first time hearing such a weapon name.
Judging by its power and hearing its name, it was evident what it was for.”Mmm.”
Bang!
“Let’s go, get on the boat.”
Nora Camp waved her hand, adjusted the Hawk Armor that had somehow been damaged with a hole, turned around and walked forward, stepping on the sea surface.
Everyone followed.
Just as everyone had just stepped on the sea surface, and their feet touched the water waves, a small black dot suddenly appeared in the distance where the reinforcements were forming a defensive line.
This thing flew forward in a straight line with a strangely colorful compound force field shield.
Its shield had a diameter of about twenty meters, easily tearing apart the defensive line of reinforcements.
No matter what kind of physical weapon hit it, it was quickly shattered into pieces, and its characteristics had already taken on a taste similar to the Solar System Barrier, but the essence of its effect was still far from the same.
Bang… bang… bang…
When everyone reacted, the ghostly thing was hovering just over 150 meters in front of them, facing them from a distance.
A huge wave was coming head-on.
The floating crowd swayed up and down along the waves.
As for Harrison Clark, he somehow had already stepped to the front of the team, leading Nora Camp behind him by about ten meters.
Everything happened too fast, surpassing the limits of an ordinary soldier’s eyes and nerve response.
Oliver Yeoman, whose reaction was relatively fast, used the battlefield information gathering system of his Hawk Armor to understand what had just happened.
Even the Hawk Armor’s fully automatic battlefield information gathering system couldn’t fully react!
Oliver Yeoman only saw a long light band representing a massive amount of energy coming from a distance.
At the same time, another equally powerful energy transfer erupted beside him, forming a straight line that moved forward.
Then, at more than a hundred meters in front of everyone, it released an explosive amount of energy.
The two light bands, each representing two different things, fell into everyone’s eyes: one was Harrison Clark, who had already switched his Hawk Armor to a space assault mode.
The other was a black mechanical beast about eight meters tall.
Around the black mechanical beast, black halo discs would occasionally flash, with arcs of electricity hidden within the black light.
Every time an arc flashed, a strong wind would blow from the small black light disc, creating gigantic waves like a tsunami.
That terrifying process of energy compression could be discerned by the naked eye alone, revealing a technology humans had never seen before – one capable of forcibly compressing space.
The three loud explosions were each caused by the collision of the two forces, spreading out and using the shock waves to stabilize the atmosphere.
Oliver Yeoman’s teeth were chattering.
It was too fast!
From the moment the black beast appeared at a distance of over a hundred kilometers to when it engaged Harrison Clark in combat and retreated, it took less than two seconds!
Nora Camp also stopped in her tracks and issued new instructions.
“Everyone, retreat separately,” Nora Camp issued a new order, “all disperse and retreat, whoever can escape, one is one. Our mission has failed.”
Her tone was calm but carried an inexplicable sadness.
She recognized this type of mechanical beast.
Radium’s most advanced and ultimate weapon so far – the Halo War Beast.
In the past five years, since the Halo War Beast first appeared on the battlefield, the Human Freedom Front has fought it at least a hundred times.
Humans are well aware of its unmatched strength; it truly has the terrifying power to destroy an entire vertical formation with just a single unit, as long as there is enough space for actual combat.
It is said that Needham Brown, the strongest human warrior, once escaped from the pursuit of the Halo War Beast.
But so far, Needham Brown is the only survivor.
Nora Camp believed that Harrison Clark, the mysterious warrior beside her, had the same strength as Needham Brown.
But it wasn’t enough.
Because the past Halo War Beasts did not have such black-light discs on their surfaces.
This is a new technology.
Combining the information from the chip in her hand, Nora Camp knew what it was.
Miniature pseudo-curvature engine.
There’s no way to escape anymore.
The mission has failed.
At this moment, the black halo beast did not rush to attack, perhaps Radium had developed a cat-and-mouse taste?
Has Radium’s emotional nature intensified?
How terrifying.
As she issued the command, she moved closer to Harrison Clark.
A transparent chip slipped from the sleeve of her Hawk Armor and into her palm, and she wanted to quietly place it on Harrison Clark’s back.
She believed that with Harrison Clark’s wisdom, he would surely understand her intentions.
She was going to act as bait and cover Harrison Clark’s escape.
However, Harrison Clark suddenly raised his left hand and made a gesture to push back behind him, “Don’t bother with the meaningless tricks. You can’t hide from Radium. There’s only one way: you guys go to the warship. I’ll handle this.”
Silence from everyone.
Logic told them that this was impossible.
But in front of Harrison Clark, his Hawk Armor once again began to change shape, gradually compressing from the huge space assault form and then suddenly expanding again, finally turning into a five-meter tall iron-armored soldier, like an ancient general.
A sharp, unpolished blade appeared in the general’s hand.
This was the ultimate form of Hawk Armor for single combat, consuming three times more energy than the assault form.
Harrison Clark suddenly said somewhat irrationally, “I heard in the intelligence that the Hawk Armor originated from the Morrowind System, but its peak performance is many times that of the Morrowind System, and now it has been modified through so many generations, it should be even stronger, right? It is said that this equipment has completely surpassed the current human endurance limit, and no one has ever been able to unleash its ultimate performance, not even Needham Brown, right?”
Nora Camp: “Yes.”
“Then you all get out of here!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the next instant, towering waves exploded one after the other.
Harrison Clark and the Halo War Beast had become entangled in battle..