Although Shen He couldn't fly, he had Moon Marrow Spirit Liquid.
Using the Moon Marrow Spirit Liquid floating around him as stepping stones, he could still move short distances in the air.
He quickly leaped down with Ryougi Shiki. His peripheral vision caught a glimpse of Dr. Selvig on the roof of Stark Tower. He seemed to have woken up and was looking around in a daze.
I almost forgot about this guy.
Shen He rapidly approached the top of the high-rise.
"Dr. Selvig, have you broken free from the control?"
"Mr. Shen."
Dr. Selvig recognized Shen He. He quickly got up from the ground. Just as he was about to speak, his eyes rolled back, and he passed out again.
"Dr. Selvig?"
Shen He called out again, discreetly putting away the watch that shot out a sleeping dart.
Ryougi Shiki naturally noticed his little movement, but she didn't mind.
Shen He had kept the fact that Loki's scepter could close the portal a secret from Tony and the others, but he hadn't hidden it from Ryougi Shiki and the others.
He opened the castle gate and threw Dr. Selvig inside.
"Let's go help Jeanne first."
Shen He looked at the entire battlefield, and pulled Ryougi Shiki as they jumped down from the high building.
The appearance of new types of soldiers meant that the battle situation was gradually escalating.
In the original plot, Tony used a nuclear missile to destroy the Chitauri mothership still in outer space, closing the spacetime portal. All the Chitauri soldiers on Earth died automatically, and even the alien weapons locked down.
It was as if the real war hadn't even started. The poor Chitauri army was completely killed by the plot.
But now, Shen He had decided to expand the battlefield to gain greater post-war benefits.
The entire Manhattan would be the battlefield.
When he was originally planning with Lelouch, Jeanne had objected. However, Shen He eventually convinced her, the condition being that he would prioritize the safety of ordinary people.
It meant that if they couldn't successfully evacuate the ordinary people, they would have to close the spacetime portal and end the war early.
He felt that with the Saintess by his side, he didn't have to worry about completely losing his principles.
"Tony, how's the situation over there?" Shen He and Ryougi Shiki rushed to the battlefield.
"You're finally here. We can hold them off, but we can't evacuate anyone."
Tony was replacing his new Arc Reactor. His armor shell looked battered, with some parts exposing the inner workings.
This was a large plaza. A flying lifeboat attached to an aircraft carrier had originally landed here, hoping to evacuate some people. But obviously, the Chitauri soldiers had their sights set on this place, making it the main battlefield. Tony's Iron Legion, plus the civilian workers led by Jeanne, could barely hold their own.
Jeanne's Noble Phantasm protected the entire lifeboat, which had already gathered thousands of people.
"What's the situation with the population transfers elsewhere?" Shen He asked again.
"Most people have taken shelter in the subway stations. The subway has stopped running, and Steve is leading them to evacuate on foot through the subway tunnels," Tony quickly explained the whole situation. "About eighty or ninety thousand people are still on the ground. Saiki has gathered about fifteen thousand people, and there are five thousand here. Most of the rest are hiding in the high-rise buildings. Fortunately, these aliens aren't too interested in slaughtering ordinary people."
The population of the entire Manhattan area was about 1.2 million.
The center of the war, Stark Tower, was located on the edge, near the sea, which allowed the civilians on the outskirts of Manhattan to evacuate in the first place. Only about two or three hundred thousand people were actually caught in the battlefield. Steve and the Guardians had directed the evacuation of a large portion of the population in the first place. These remaining hundred thousand people were the last group of those affected.
This was the expected number of people.
Without the load of fighter jets, the aircraft carrier's maximum escort capacity was around fifteen thousand people at a time.
This meant they needed to make at least six trips.
"Jeanne's Noble Phantasm can't last for too long," Shen He exhaled, calling out the name of the new Servant, "Hub."
The moment the words fell, Hub appeared beside Shen He.
She was originally a hidden trump card.
Now that the situation on the battlefield had changed, they could only choose to have her appear early.
"Hub's current combat power is only seventy-four percent of her complete state, and twenty-three percent of her combat body," Hub was also wearing a smaller, close-fitting robe, and the non-removable parts on her head were slightly flickering with an elven glow.
In the days since Loki's arrival, Shen He had devoted nearly all his magical power to strengthening Hub, pushing her to a third-stage level at seventy-four percent completion.
In terms of her current battlefield capabilities, she was probably even stronger than Saiki Kusuo.
"Calculate the probability of successfully escorting these people onto the aircraft carrier," Shen He said, pointing at the people sheltered by Jeanne's Noble Phantasm not far away.
"Escort? Hub has not executed such a war mission."
Hub seemed to pause for a moment, but her super-high computational power had already yielded an answer.
"Eighty-four percent."
"Then I'll leave it to you." Hearing this number, Shen He also breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, if Hub were used as a weapon, it could produce more efficient results than escorting," Hub questioned. "In war, everything should prioritize killing the enemy. Saving them will not have a positive effect on the battle."
In her memory, that was indeed the case during the war that stretched for thousands of years.
The Machine Lifeform is a race that operates in units of Link Bodies.
For them, initiating attacks is forbidden, but once attacked, retaliation becomes inevitable.
In her mind, she recalled the humans whose homes were destroyed by them during that counterattack.
Considering human lives is meaningless when it comes to winning the war.
"Shen, where did you find this little girl again?" Tony's mouth twitched.
He sensed the same feeling from Hub as he had when Violet first appeared.
"Be good, and just listen."
Shen He just gently rubbed Hub's head.
A flicker of indecipherable data flashed in Hub's eyes.
That strange feeling again.
However, she understood what Shen He meant.
"Code read, armed—Commencement."
With a declaration that sounded like the start of a war, the mechanical parts on Hub's body extended, ripping through her robes, and then her figure vanished in an instant, appearing beside Jeanne.
——All-Directional Cross!
Vaporizing the ultra-concentrated spirit within her, this power that surpassed physics instantly transformed into a destructive spirit form, presenting a hemispherical distribution—a huge blue spherical particle membrane expanded.
Jeanne retracted her Noble Phantasm, sighing in relief. Her Noble Phantasm was also nearing its limit.
And this defensive barrier…
"Master." Jeanne turned to look at Shen He.
"I know," Shen He directly ordered Jarvis, "Cease the attacks, activate the escape pod's takeoff sequence. The armors remaining inside the defensive barrier will act as auxiliary propulsion, increase the speed!"
At the same time, he and Ryougi Shiki and the others resumed their attacks. Using the escape pod as a carrier, they could only transport a portion of the people at a time, so many had to remain on the plaza.
In everyone's sight, numerous flying crafts were scrambling to attack the blue particle membrane. Their laser energy blasts were all annihilated by this destructive spirit form. The Chitauri soldiers attempting to surge forward met the same fate; upon contact, they were reduced to charcoal, like dry trees consumed by intense heat.
This didn't appear to be magic, superpowers, or anything of the sort, but science.
Ross, who was monitoring the situation, suddenly had a fiery glint in his eyes.
He was now at the limit of his craving for strength.
But now was not the time.
Suppressing the urge to ask, he shifted his attention to the newly appeared small warships. These warships far surpassed human fighters in terms of speed, weaponry, and defense. However, the military's main force had also officially arrived.
It was an air force that could be described as covering the sky.
The most powerful country in the world in terms of military strength, with a military expenditure of nearly seven hundred billion dollars a year, had a total of over forty thousand aircraft of various types.
If one wasn't a match for the enemy warship, then use two, or three!
Continuous explosions appeared in the sky over the entire battlefield, making it impossible to distinguish whether it was a missile explosion, or an alien warship or human fighter being hit.
Now, the military, including the World Security Council, had erased any sense of complacency. These suddenly invading alien forces were not a vanguard unit here to warn, nor were they alien mercenaries here for a small skirmish. They were a powerful enemy with the strength to invade and occupy the entire Earth.
"If the battle situation expands further, nuclear weapons must be used." The World Security Council directly ordered Fury, "You are responsible for communicating with Chaldea."
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapon of the human military.
They are also the greatest hope of the human military against the alien army.
Fury did not directly object this time, because the allied countries of the United States had already dispatched troops, and non-allied countries were also urgently discussing a unified anti-war alliance.
As the World Security Council said, if the battle situation expanded further, it would be necessary to consider sacrificing Manhattan, or even New York.
Because this was already a matter of life and death for all of humanity.
When Shen He received Fury's notification, the wormhole had been open for more than two hours.
The army arrived on the battlefield half an hour earlier, which to a certain extent curbed the spread of the ground Chitauri army, because their numbers were too great for the Chaldea members.
By this time, thanks to the portal Hub was escorting, over sixty thousand people had already been evacuated.
The military had escorted twenty thousand people, leaving only twenty thousand with Saiki Kusuo at the center of the battlefield.
"The last group!"
Shen He, along with Jeanne and Ryougi Shiki, rushed towards Saiki.
The other Servants had already engaged in combat in the air, which was gradually becoming the largest battlefield.
It was clear that the Chitauri army commander finally understood that Chaldea and the others were the only obstacle to their invasion of this planet.
They stopped sending the mechanical dragons that transported ground troops.
The remaining ground forces and a large number of low-flying units all began to surge towards the area with the most people.
Jarvis also shifted the camera's focus here.
People all over the world could see that a large number of Chitauri soldiers were closing in on the church from all directions – on the streets, on the walls of skyscrapers, and in the air.
Inside the church were twenty thousand civilians packed tightly together.
All of them were unarmed and vulnerable, filled with fear and helplessness.
Not just the people of America, but those of other countries as well couldn't help but feel their hearts clench.
"Fourth Battle Zone needs support, repeat, Fourth Battle Zone needs support!" The officer in charge of defending this area felt immense pressure.
Due to the speed of the advance, the number of ground troops was far less than that of the air force. Here, there were only a few hundred soldiers, along with a dozen tanks and armored vehicles.
His soldiers were constantly shrinking their defensive perimeter inward. The laser weapons in the hands of these alien soldiers were incredibly powerful, able to easily penetrate tanks and even concrete. Although their own firearms could also inflict damage on the enemy, they were completely outnumbered.
Crack—
Suddenly, a clear cracking sound rang out.
Around the church, large sections of the road surface crumbled, with the hard gravel and roadbed slowly floating.
The camera focused everyone's attention on the person standing on top of the church.
Chaldea's uniform.
The hero who had protected these twenty thousand-plus civilians.
"I'm being focused on again…"
Saiki Kusuo tightened his hood, feeling a bit depressed.
Shen He simply gave up, waving his hand. The debris he had controlled with telekinesis scattered like cannonballs, instantly destroying a large number of Chitauri aircraft.
Then came the rising flames, the spreading frost, the howling hurricanes, and even lightning and energy beams...
The entire church had become Saiki Kusuo's personal stage. He didn't even move from his spot, a stark contrast to the aliens constantly rushing in to their deaths, and also a stark contrast to the military forces within the protective circle, who could only watch with envy. The exaggerated visual effects brought an unparalleled sense of shock.
A powerful psychic with multiple abilities was unleashing his full power, single-handedly stopping the entire army's advance.
The other battlefields might not have been so clear, but here, people all over the world truly began to realize one thing—
A powerful individual could truly possess more power than an entire army.
And when Shen He and the others joined the battle, the outcome was already decided.
Just three more people, yet they charged through the massive enemy forces with an unstoppable momentum. Each swing of their weapons carried immense power. Within just a dozen minutes, the seemingly numerous Chitauri soldiers were completely annihilated, with scattered corpses and shattered aircraft littering the entire street.
After impaling the last enemy with a shot through the car, Shen He strode towards the army.
"The enemy's ground forces are basically cleared. You will escort these people away from the ground and then leave this place as well, evacuating everything."
"I need orders." The officer in charge had just finished speaking when he suddenly stopped, covering his ears, "Yes! Everyone, escort the civilians to evacuate!"
Saiki Kusuo also teleported to Shen He's side at this moment.
"Finally free."
Shen He breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the battle in the sky, a smile of anticipation curving under his mask.
"Saiki, which level of enhancement card do you need?"
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