"Severe? How severe?!" Sushang asked.
At this moment, a deep voice sounded from behind Otto: "Approximately… fifty-five standard Titans and thirteen Meteors."
Hearing the newcomer's voice, Dan Heng immediately looked up.
This voice… was very familiar.
"Mr. Welt!" Dan Heng said in a deep voice.
"Mm."
That Welt slowly walked out from behind Otto and introduced himself to everyone:
"I am Welt Yang, and also the one who simulated these mechs. Perhaps… you've met another Welt, but I am not him."
"Hehe~ The Alliance Leader is truly broad-minded, to openly admit in front of so many people that he's a counterfeit?" The corner of Otto's mouth curved upward.
"There's no such thing as counterfeit or not. To them, that me is the Welt Yang they know. So my self-introduction is still necessary."
Welt pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice to Dan Heng and the others:
"There's something very dangerous up ahead. For safety's sake, it would be best if everyone retreats first. Leave this place to me."
"?" Otto's smile suddenly froze beside him:
"Alliance Leader, did you forget about me?"
Welt ignored Otto's voice and spoke to the Cloud Knight on the ground:
"Can you still walk?"
The Cloud Knight quickly replied:
"Ah, yes! I'm already mostly recovered."
He supported himself with his hands and slowly stood up, moving his limbs:
"Two warriors, I'm completely fine now. Please let me lend you a hand!"
Faced with the Cloud Knight's request, Welt shook his head:
"No need. Thank you for your kindness. But that kind of creature is not something you can contend with."
He then looked at Dan Heng and Sushang in front of him: "You two should leave as well."
"Huh? Us?!" Sushang's mind went blank.
"I-We're in great shape right now! Dan Heng and I don't need to leave, right?"
Although Dan Heng's expression was grave, he also nodded:
"Mr. Welt, it's fine if Sushang leaves. Just let me stay and help you."
Seeing that these people were still insisting despite Welt's dissuasion, the blond man beside them gave a wicked smile:
"Everyone~ Perhaps you don't have much concept of the number of damaged mechs. However… you must have heard of Doomsday Beasts, right?"
"What? Doomsday Beast!!" Sushang exclaimed. "There are Doomsday Beasts on the Xianzhou right now?!"
Otto nodded lightly:
"Of course. And~ there's more than one. So are you sure you want to come along? I don't mind. But this Mr. Welt… seems to care extremely about your safety."
"Doomsday Beast——?! The Automaton Judge is still inside! What do we do now?!" The Cloud Knight wailed.
Doomsday Beasts were extremely terrifying existences within the Antimatter Legion. Usually, even one appearing was a catastrophic disaster. Now there were even more?!
Dan Heng's expression was also grave at this moment.
They had already encountered Doomsday Beasts back at the Herta Space Station.
Later, in the extremely deep ice layers of Jarilo, they had run into several more.
Whether it was Belobog or the Luofu, these ordinary soldiers could handle regular Voidrangers at best. If they ran into a few elite individuals, surviving would be difficult.
Let alone Doomsday Beasts.
"Sushang, let's first take this Cloud Knight to a safe place." Dan Heng suggested.
"Huh?! Dan Heng, do you also think we should retreat?"
"Mm. Trust these two gentlemen."
"O-Okay."
After careful consideration, Dan Heng, Sushang, and the surviving Cloud Knight all ran toward a safe area.
One minute later.
Only Welt and Otto remained here.
"Alliance Leader, after you?" Otto slightly bowed and made a "please" gesture toward Welt.
"Hmph."
…
The two cleared monsters along the way as they gradually went deeper.
The further in they went, the more extreme the distribution of monsters became.
There were only a few scattered Mara-struck soldiers left. More numerous were large numbers of Fragmentum creatures and Voidrangers.
"Awo——!!"
Accompanied by a wail, another Voidranger: Trampler died easily beneath golden chains.
Otto, carrying a golden cross, slowly retracted the chains and smiled at Welt:
"Old friend, why haven't you spoken this whole time? This makes me look very annoying, doesn't it~"
"I should state one thing first—you were already very annoying to begin with."
"Hehe, fine."
The two passed through shipping containers and crossed several piers.
Behind the dense crowd of monsters, they finally caught a glimpse of that enormous figure.
The entire area here was filled with strange mist. Even with Otto and Welt's vision, they had to get this close to clearly see the outline of the Doomsday Beast.
Beside that massive outline lay countless broken and battered iron lumps that had been beaten down.
Only two red mechs remained desperately fighting against the Doomsday Beast.
One was a Divine Mech Bardel that once belonged to Schicksal, and the other was Anti-Entropy's Hephaestus.
"Haha, Alliance Leader. Which mech body do you think will stand until the end? As far as I know, your Anti-Entropy's Hephaestus… was modeled after our Bardel, right? Such blatant plagiarism. Mr. Welt, doesn't Anti-Entropy ever feel ashamed?!"
The last two mech bodies were engaged in a desperate battle with the Doomsday Beast not far away.
Welt had already put in earplugs at this point, completely ignoring Otto's words.
After observing the situation for a while, he slowly extended his hand. Another enormous mech body condensed into form around him.
Unlike the previous mechs, this one was lead-gray all over. On its rear were four massive tactical tires. Its entire body resembled a small land aircraft carrier.
After condensing into form in the air, it crashed down heavily.
"Bang——!!"
Countless dust clouds rose.
The monsters beneath it were also crushed into pulp by this suddenly appearing terrifying mech body!
"Oh?" Otto glanced at that massive machine and couldn't help but feel curious:
"Hm, quite a peculiar model. I don't have any impression of it. Hiss… You probably never built this back then, right? If Anti-Entropy had something like this at the time, you definitely would have used it against me without hesitation."
Welt discovered that even with earplugs, he couldn't completely block out this bastard's provocative voice.
He took a deep breath, his gaze falling on the Doomsday Beast ahead.
At this moment, the two remaining red mechs had also been beaten into a sorry state, as if they would collapse at any moment.
"MHT-3 Peacemaker, activate tactical nuclear missile."
Under Welt's deep voice, that lead-gray mech body slowly moved toward the Doomsday Beast, its structures unfolding at the same time.
A small nuclear missile slowly extended its head from the top of the mech body.
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