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Building the Giant Tower Six demons rushed me, trying to draw my attention, while dozens of ghouls curved around our fight and headed straight for the slowly rising tower behind me. On the far side of Cheng Rui’s creation, Chi Li was busy holding off wave after wave of ghouls and ghoul infantry. The enemies used speed, swarm tactics, and the fact that they were not using fire magic to try to wear down the red-haired witch, break through her defensive spells, and reach their target. Whoever…-
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Upgrading the Mecha A suit of armor could only hold so much technology. Its shape, and the need to accommodate the wearer, also created a whole series of engineering problems. A larger device with a simpler shape could easily be far more powerful than a combat suit at the same technological level. And when deployed on the battlefield, it did not endanger the person who made it. As the person in question, Cheng Rui considered that last point very important. Which brought him back to his…
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Emergency Charge With chaos raging all around us, I could only spare a hurried glance in Cheng Rui’s direction to make sure the accident had not thrown him into a situation even worse than the one we were already in. The military bombardment had not only destroyed the city’s buildings; it had shattered every last hope I had that my hometown might one day recover. Aside from the invaders’ black metal fortifications, the entire city center had become wasteland. Not a single building still…
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The More Limits, the Stronger the Effect For the first time in more than a week, Cheng Rui began to wonder whether choosing Engineer as his second class at level five, instead of continuing to focus on being a wizard, had been a mistake. Sure, he could build cool magitech weapons and armor. Those creations could easily crush a small squad of monsters or withstand artillery fire, and when he went all out, he could make them in a cave from a box of scraps within minutes. But when he was not wearing…
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Breaking Out of the Tunnel Compared with my other abilities, Instant Action was extremely expensive for what it did. But it was a trump card that could help in many situations, and hopefully as it leveled, it would evolve into something less costly. As for Defensive Rebound, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the defense associated with it did not have to be chosen immediately when I acquired the ability. Instead, it could be chosen for each particular “situation,” though whether…
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New Abilities Unfortunately, after more than ten additional minutes of thinking, with the weight above us seeming to grow heavier by the second, no one came up with a safe way to leave the tunnel without risking further collapse, a large explosion, or both. Beneath the ruins, given our time limit, fire magic and high-tech abilities simply could not solve the problem. Both Chi Li and Cheng Rui were willing to try some bizarre solutions, but I firmly refused. If our escape was going to cost someone…
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Buried in the Tunnel Another distant explosion shook the ruins. Several tons of fractured concrete and brick, lifted by the blast wave, howled over my head. Dust and soil sifted down through the cracks like gray rain. None of it truly fell on us while we huddled below. The invisible dome I had made stopped it. But I could still feel the enormous weight pressing above us. Most of the load was resting against the tunnel walls. Some collapsed masonry had wedged itself over narrow gaps, but what…
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Tornadoes Destroy the Artillery Positions Two high-altitude drones recorded the army’s first major battle on its own soil in decades with mechanical indifference. Images were transmitted in real time to at least seven different facilities for preliminary analysis, from theater command to headquarters in the capital, to civilian contractors, and even farther still to the drone operators themselves. Computers and humans evaluated firing accuracy and damage before sending the review back to mission…
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Artillery Bombardment Heavily guarded artillery positions had been established twenty-five kilometers from the city. Previous encounters with enemy ground forces, along with intelligence on their patrol patterns, indicated that their infantry could maintain speeds above thirty kilometers per hour for long periods and sprint up to forty kilometers per hour for short bursts. It was therefore necessary to guard against possible attacks by enemy strike teams or airborne units. The standard doctrine…
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The Army Moves Out At first, the abnormal weather around Sanguang City did not attract much attention. Heavy fog was common in Sanguang. A morning fog of such small scale hardly merited concern. Then the strangeness worsened. Out of nowhere, the local atmosphere began showing sharp rises in temperature and pressure. Humidity reached saturation within minutes. Electromagnetic interference stronger than that of the most violent thunderstorms disrupted meteorological sensors across the…
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