My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 397 - 316: The End of War, Banner of the Free Iron Curtain
Among these heavy machine guns, each bullet is a Divine Tree Bullet. The Fearless Mechas of the Ranger bodies transformed from their original Scout-type bodies into specialized units for combat against the Insect Race War Soldiers and the Insect Race Queen.
The iron torrent advanced on Rongdu, and after the Insect Race War Soldiers and the Fearless Mechas engaged, this chlorinated battle completely broke out.
Waves of fire and explosions swept through Rongdu. At this moment, the high-ranking members of the Super Iron Curtain who originally surrendered to the Insect Race also became mere cannon fodder, but in truth, the moment they turned into insects, their original selves were long dead.
What survived was nothing more than an insect with the memories of its predecessor, cloaked in human skin.
Even when these insects disguised as elderly, women, and children approached the allied forces, pretending to be pitiable and pleading for help, no one would sympathize with them. What awaited them was a barrage of Divine Tree Bullets, or the Scorched Earth Flamethrowers.
As Xue Dili stated before the war, do not have any sympathy for the swarm. Even if you see familiar faces and pitiful children, they are merely the enemy’s disguises, devoid of emotions, sense of pain, fear, or terror.
Then the momentum of the frontline seemed to gradually slow, reminiscent of when the insects were forced into urban combat in West Sea City on the Giant Beast Star, dragged through the brutal urban warfare by the inhabitants and the Free Iron Curtain for tens of hours.
And now, the allied forces were similarly bogged down in the swarm’s brutal urban guerrilla warfare.
The swarm, covering the sky and earth, came from behind Rongdu, and every building in Rongdu became a hiding spot for the insects.
The difficulty of executing the Scorched Earth Plan within city clusters increased significantly. The Scorched Earth Flamethrower, featuring highly pressurized liquid flames for combating the swarm, could cover areas of tens of kilometers.
However, in the city, the flames could not instantaneously melt buildings and steel; they would rebound after collision. Even reducing the power, the Scorched Earth Flamethrower can cover hundreds of meters, making it less suitable for urban warfare.
Thus, the effectiveness of the Scorched Earth Mechanized Soldiers was significantly reduced in urban combat, but even so, they served as a strict father to the swarm.
The liquid flames would seep into every corner of the city, incinerating any hidden insects. Even those hiding tens of meters underground in sewers would be engulfed and incinerated as if filled with relentless maggots.
And behind the advancing Fearless Mechas were those sweeping through the remaining regions.
This included the interim leader of the Free Iron Curtain, Aigole, holding a rifle, clad with pouches of Divine Tree bullets.
Any remnant of the insect swarm would be hit by Divine Tree Bullets, subsequently imploding into pitiful corpses as all life force was devoured by the Divine Tree.
"Advance! Keep pushing forward!" Aigole shouted to those behind him.
He raised his gun and charged back into the ruins where his life detector beeped incessantly from within the semi-melted obsidian remains, warning of the lingering swarm inside.
This was a shelter in Rongdu, well-known to Aigole, born and raised in the city.
However, when he completely cleared the area and blasted open the shelter door, he found a blonde girl staring at him in terror.
In that instant, Aigole was utterly stunned.
Underneath the steel helmet, the 26-year-old Hell Vanguard Army captain stared blankly at this blonde girl, who, since the fall of Rongdu, had appeared numerous times in his dreams.
"Aigole, is it really you? Aigole, have you come to save me?" the blonde girl gazed at Aigole with delight, seemingly recognizing him even through his thick exoskeleton and face shield, exclaiming joyfully.
She even wished to rush forward and embrace the childhood friend who enlisted several years ago.
"Don’t come any closer!" Aigole roared, hands gripping the trigger tightly, trembling.
Other Free Iron Curtain soldiers clearing the ruins seemed to notice the situation and a few approached.
"Aigole, don’t you recognize me? I’m Alena, remember? Back at Democratic Academy, you sat right behind me. I recall you loved to nap in class, and your drool would soak through your textbooks..." The blonde girl said, looking at Aigole’s gun barrel, placing one hand over her chest, the other awkwardly dangling.
The supporting Free Iron Curtain personnel fell into silence upon hearing these words, yet still held up their guns.
"Aigole..." The girl seemed to keep calling out, yet as unknown reasons caused her to cry too, she opened her mouth, seemingly saying...
"Do not approach me, kill me..."
Beneath the heavy exoskeleton, the merely captain-ranked soldier wept, drenching his face shield.
"Boom!"
The Divine Tree Bullet struck the blonde girl’s forehead instantly as Aigole fired.
In her expression of shock and distortion, the Divine Tree completely burst her open, scattering arterial and chitin under the human skin all over...
In the distance, towering flames rose as a barrage of missiles from the distant outpost fell onto Rongdu like a meteor shower. The explosive lights seemed like colorful fireworks, similar to the time that girl took him to watch fireworks upon graduation.
Others came over to comfort the captain.
"My love is the homeland, keep taking back Rongdu." He stated, picking up the gun and rejoining the purification of the swarm.
This time, he seemingly had more reason to obliterate the swarm entirely.
...
The battle for Rongdu lasted a full 18 hours, and after the 18th hour, the location of the Insect Race Queen was marked by the instruments of the Interstellar Corps, after which thousands of Fearless Mechas descended from the sky as the Titan fell.
After continuing combat for several more hours, the Insect Race Queen was slain. Deprived of the endless supply of freshly bred pure-blood Shabu Insect Race, the swarm fell into chronic death, and the counter-offensive on Rongdu seemed to be a complete success.
After another dozen hours, the swarm in Rongdu was wiped out completely.
As the Free Iron Curtain flag was raised over the ruins of Rongdu, at this moment, it seemed the whole war was finally over.
Lost was the Insect Emperor and numerous War Soldiers. Even though billions of pseudo-insects still roamed worldwide, they could no longer impact the overall situation.
Even as pure-blood Shabu Insect Race were massively lost, Xue Dili also began implementing his plan.
"All creation procedures are complete now..."
Holding the Seed of the World, he flipped through the Chapters of "Innovation Era." This Treasure granted Xue Dili the ability to directly perform the formal Innovation Era ceremony under the power of World Consciousness. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
The World Consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain might understand this, knowing only Xue Dili could save it; thus, even if akin to a young lady wedged to an enemy, it entrusted everything to Xue Dili, pleading with him.
However, Xue Dili’s Genesis merely considered the rescue incidental.
The nearly billion-strong pseudo-insects seemed to feel a great catastrophe looming. At this moment, anywhere in the whole world, one could see a Great Light Wheel appearing in the sky, and a profound fear arose instantly.
In hysteria, they seemingly became conscious of the impending crisis.
"With your bodies, reshape the world’s myriad forms!"
The Seed of the World immediately soared skywards. At the moment of contact between fingers, the entire world was engulfed in endless light.
Surely, beyond all expectations, the hundred billion pseudo-insects were annihilated by this Genesis; their energy served as the foundation for constructing a new world, their bodies disintegrated into the purest organic matter.
At the site of their disassembled corpses, flowers bloomed, trees grew.
Only the true pure-blood Shabu Insect Race remained, yet all of them were marked by the world, and after Xue Dili transmitted their coordinates to the Fearless Mecha’s network.
This war came to a complete end.
At sunset, the Free Iron Curtain flag stood firmly in the center of the ruins, fluttering in the wind.
...
However...
"Wait, what does it mean for the Divine Tree in the Insects Pit to bloom and prepare to bear fruit?" Xue Dili, who had just crafted the Innovation Era in the Rongdu ruins, listened in terror to the information relayed from the outpost...
