Chapter 49: Attack beyond visual range
Walter, who was still sitting on the train with everyone else, suddenly opened his eyes, clasped his hands together, and instantly disappeared from the train amidst everyone's surprised faces.

Belloberg, frontline ramparts.

Within 10 minutes of the earthquake, the Silvermane Guard had made preparations for battle.

Jeppard stood majestically on the city wall, his power armor creaking, his eyes firm as he looked ahead.

"Sir, according to the analysis of the rear data department, the energy source of this earthquake came from Yongdong Ridge. If nothing unexpected happens, it is the same enemy we faced seven years ago."

"The same one...?"

Jeppard's eyes were heavy as he recalled the last words Yao Luo said to him.

"I'm heading to Everwinter Ridge. While I'm gone, I'll leave the rest to you."

The figure standing with his hands behind his back facing the city wall still remains in his memory. Now he is standing in the same position as Yao Luo, so naturally he has to look at things from Yao Luo's perspective.

"Always be careful and be prepared for the highest combat readiness now."

"Yes!"

In the army, absolute obedience to orders is a soldier's duty. Even if there is no enemy within the observation range, after several years of battles in Yaoluo, the Silver Mane Iron Guards have already learned to prepare in advance.

Multiple layers of transparent energy defense shields have been set up, and with Jeppard himself in charge, nearly a hundred experts in protecting lives have gathered here. Under the control of everyone, they can exert their maximum defense capabilities. Even if facing the same offensive as seven years ago, they are confident that they can hold on completely.

As soon as an order was issued, all departments of the Silver Mane Iron Guards took immediate action, arranging defense facilities in an orderly manner, making the already impregnable city walls even more solemn and majestic.

Apart from gusts of cold wind, there were no dangerous targets within the Silvermane Guards' field of vision and machine observation distance, but there was an invisible pressure lingering in the hearts of the Silvermane Guards' soldiers.

"It seems like something terrible is coming." This thought lingered in every soldier, but they were not afraid. They believed in their training, the weapons in their hands, the leadership of their commanders, and...

Belloberg will never perish because of this.

Time passed minute by minute, the reconnaissance facilities watched again and again, and the soldiers were on high alert, but at this tense moment, they could not see anything.

Because some attacks may not be launched within the line of sight.

The first sound that rang in the soldiers' ears was the sound of the protective shield that Beloberg had formed by using almost all of his energy during the war being shattered.

There are seven layers of defense shields, each one stronger than the last, stacked up like flowers blooming above the city wall.

In an instant, the sixth layer was shattered, and the strongest seventh layer had also begun to show cracks and was about to collapse.

He didn't even see what kind of attack it was. The speed was too fast to be captured by the naked eye. The star core just struck and breathed out, and it actually broke through the seven-layer defense shield in an instant. The whole process was estimated to be no more than 1 second.

If no defensive measures were taken, all the Silver Mane Iron Guards on the city wall would be killed on the spot.

And at this critical moment, the one who stepped forward was one person.

"Ahhhh!"

The body was faster than the mind. In an almost impossible time, Jeppard moved forward and blocked!

The soldiers of the Silvermane Guard were by no means mediocre, but it was not until then that they could clearly see the source of the attack.

It was a huge ball of light hundreds of meters across, enough to block the vision of all soldiers.

The outer circle of the light ball was dancing with flickering electric light. The simple leakage of energy was enough to reduce the bricks and tiles on the city wall to ashes. At the center of the light ball's energy, nearly black matter was rotating, annihilating everything that was blocking its view.

The power armor on Jeppard's body was the first to make a sound of being overwhelmed. This was not because it was poorly made. On the contrary, if it was not equipped with Beloberg's most advanced energy radiation system, no matter how strong Jeppard was, facing this energy that was enough to burn mountains and boil seas, he would be reduced to ashes in an instant.

"Give Captain Jeppard a helping hand!" Reacting quickly, a group of Silver Mane Iron Guards with the power to protect life instantly stepped forward, stood behind Jeppard, and injected the power of protection into him.

Even with the combined strength of nearly 100 Destiny Walkers, Jeppard still retreated again and again. A part of the huge city wall had already been turned into nothingness. If he retreated a few dozen more steps, this horrific attack would most likely penetrate into the city.

"How can we lose here when we haven't even seen the enemy's appearance?"

"Block it with all your might!"

Although he said inspiring words, the defense line composed of nearly a hundred masters and Jeppard was like an ant pushing a basketball, and was about to be crushed. "The ambition to build a city with ice and snow will never end!"

In front of the crowd, Jeppard, who was bearing the greatest pressure, had tears and blood in his eyes, but he still gritted his teeth and output the power of destiny. Under the selfless defense of everyone, a miracle happened.

An illusory yet extremely real city wall appeared out of thin air in the middle of the battle line, locking the huge light ball of hundreds of meters in place.

"Block, block!"

The soldiers below gritted their teeth and actually pulled themselves forward, intending to use their flesh and blood to block the current attack.

The power of unity is undoubtedly great. The combined strength of the Silver Mane Iron Guards was able to stop the "breath" that was comparable to the energy level of a hundred nuclear bombs. The difficulty of this was no less than a gorilla rubbing out a nuclear bomb with his bare hands.

But miracles are ultimately limited.

No matter how strong the will is, the hardness of the material world will not increase accordingly. Many Silver Mane Iron Guards' power armor has even melted under extremely high temperatures.

Jeppard, who was standing in the front, was bleeding from all seven orifices and was standing there only by willpower, or in other words, he had lost consciousness.

The white light of destruction pushed forward once again, and until the last moment, not a single Silver Mane Iron Guard present was able to pull away and turn around to escape.

Faced with the danger of annihilation, the wavering rate was close to 0%. Such a situation is almost a miracle that cannot be repeated in military history.

"Yao Luo... Your Excellency, I have to come to see you first..." His hands dropped uncontrollably because they had lost the bones that supported them. His blue pupils had dimmed. At the last moment, Jeppard wanted to fall forward instead of taking a step back.

At this critical moment, a figure that was somewhat familiar to Jeppard stepped over the crowd and appeared in front of him.

The white light was covered by black and red, and the rubble on the city wall floated upwards uncontrollably, and then, like a volcanic eruption, it rushed up to the sky!

The familiar energy made Jeppard's dull blue pupils light up slightly, but his eyes were blurred by blood and he could not see the person in front of him clearly.

"Commander Yao Luo...is that you?"

"I'm sorry, it's not."

Before he could say more, the mysterious man who appeared here raised a thin and inconspicuous cane.

The miracle of gravity reversal occurred again, and the black-red substance gushed out like a waterfall, enveloping the huge ball of light. In the astonished eyes of the Silver Mane Iron Guards, this destructive force that was hundreds of meters taller than the city wall was...

It flew away!
At a speed invisible to the naked eye, the ball of light flew up into the sky unhindered. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared from sight and soared up through the atmosphere.

At this moment, the roar of the violent collision reached the ears of the Silver Mane Iron Guards.

He even had time to hold up Jeppard who was about to fall. This elegant man gently adjusted his glasses. His gray eyes in the black frame were still calm, with only a barely noticeable worry in the deepest part.

The person who came was Walter. At this moment on this planet, there was probably no one else who could cross dozens of kilometers as quickly as he did and provide support here faster than flying.

Walter, who had been paying close attention to the energy source, carefully observed that more than ten seconds ago, a tiny amount of energy separated from the main body and rushed towards the wall of Beloberg.

Worried about Beloberg's fortifications, Walter used the fastest method available at the moment to get there.

"Gravity slingshot."

Walter turned himself into an origin, feeling the gravitational fluctuations caused by the rotation of the planet. At the right time and in the right place, with almost stringent energy operation precision, he accomplished this feat.

It arrived at the front line only a few seconds later than the white light of destruction, but it was fortunate that it was only a few seconds, otherwise several city districts near the city wall would have been reduced to ashes before Walter's eyes.

Wiping the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, Walter turned around and looked into the distance.

"Based on this casual attack alone, the threat level of this star core is estimated to be no less than the strength of the Catastrophic Vanguard."

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