Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'

Crack, bang, clang!

Newly born components rapidly deformed, perfectly fitting the structure under the combination of magnetic mechanical forces. The power tubes and neural lines were instantly supplemented. He slightly swung his arm, and the sponge-like muscles charged nearly unobstructed, capable of more precise and flexible movements.

"Mentor, you have become stronger."

The mechanical apprentices on the ground looked on enviously. Compared to ordinary [Mechanics], most of their bodies had undergone substantial transformation, with some even completely abandoning their flesh to upload their consciousness, becoming complete members of the Machine Race.

"The more humans fail to defeat us, the more they need powerful machines. And when powerful machines are defeated and fused by the mentor, humans go on to study even stronger machines... No matter what they do, they cannot escape this spiral of fate."

Du Zexin did not respond to the apprentices' compliments and praises.

He lifted a monitor, six dark red eyes gazing towards the sky.

"Clear, dark blue sky..."

He instinctively wanted to stretch out his hand to block the sunlight, but before he could, the lens had already zoomed in automatically, with the AI-assisted program capturing various angles of the sun and cloud photos, while archiving them to the cloud.

Du Zexin stared blankly at the clear sky, a doubt quickly rising in his heart:

"...What am I doing?"

Has the sky become like this, indicating that Lord Entropy has been defeated?

But even if Lord Entropy was defeated, then how would the sins committed by the Four Nations in the Outer World, and humanity's original sin, be redeemed?

Is the real enemy Lord Entropy?

Isn't the entity that has killed the most humans—simply humans themselves?

—Such thoughts did not appear in Du Zexin's thinking program.

To this day, he was very aware that there was no turning back.

Azure Star was beyond saving, whether it was the Red Arrow, the Frost Plated, the Sky Ring, Zhenxu, or Li Aozi, who had returned.

All of this was too late.

"Lord Entropy was not the source of all these tragedies."

The missile launcher retracted, the ax blades folded, rotating into the forearm.

Du Zexin silently tread on the sunlit land, with the mechanical apprentices trailing closely behind, continuing their assault on the Red Arrow troops.

"Wait a minute! Cease fire! Stop firing!"

An officer from a Red Arrow unit shouted over the radio:

"We have already responded to His Excellency Li Aozi's call and disarmed—uh ah!"

Du Zexin folded away the missile launcher on his back and coldly continued the march.

Their target was not only the Red Arrow Imperial City but the entire Four Nations Group.

What could be left for the world was only the cruel remnants of blood and steel, along with their name—Judgment Mech Cavalry.

"Mr. David Lyn, the Judgment Mech Cavalry is approaching our northern border."

The Third Rule presented the intelligence as David Lyn found himself without a force to utilize, the entire border line having been filled with troops by him, even stuffing an ant into the battle line to resist the advancement of the Apostle of Entropy.

"How much progress is left on the particle accelerator?"

David Lyn asked.

The technical team quickly transmitted the data:

"The main program and setup are complete, still lacking... 2 hours and 55 minutes."

"How about the Sky Ring side?"

"The Stellar Path is not fully completed; the other side might need 4 hours or even 5 hours."

Too slow.

David Lyn lifted a pipe, took a deep draw, and fell into silence.

Not enough, no matter how, this was not enough.

He scanned each battle line, needing to divert a force to obstruct the advance of the Judgment Mech Cavalry, and not just any force would suffice.

Upon careful scrutiny, David Lyn believed that only General Sallyan's most elite special forces: the White Lion Cavalry, and the Federation's strongest ground force 'Twin Queens' Winter Division.

And these two forces were both engaged in an encirclement battle against the Red Arrow Empire.

David Lyn personally engineered an unprecedented pincer movement on the geisha path of the Sky Ring. The White Lion Cavalry, despite lacking air force support, performed 38 consecutive tactical interpositions against 12 of Red Arrow's divisions, cooperating with the Winter Division to encircle these Red Arrow armies into a dumpling.

With continued reinforcement, the Red Arrow Empire's most elite Red Dragon Armored Division, Likov Skull Division, and other elite units would be completely annihilated. By then, the Frost Plated Federal Defense Forces would have become the truly strongest ground force on Azure Star!

This was not a joke. Compared to Zhenxu's mainly light infantry armed forces, the Frost Plating Federation, whether in terms of mecha troops or artillery, would surpass the other three nations combined by that time.

Plus, with the already powerful Frost Plated Air Force and the disarmed Sky Ring, David Lyn would become the leader in the history of the Frost Plated ethnicity most likely to unify the world.

At that time, Li Aozi would always need a proxy to govern the planet, and he would undoubtedly be the sole Emperor of humanity.

This temptation...

David Lyn naturally understood how enticing it was.

To turn the entire planet into his possession, to become the unifier of the human world, to lead the Frost Plated ethnicity to true global dominance for the first time.

"Frost Plating is my everything... I realized this a long time ago. Whether allies, enemies, loved ones, family, or friends, before my country and ethnicity, before the social aggregate condensed by the entire Frost Plated people, everything pales into insignificance."

David Lyn certainly knew such an outcome.

For the country, for the ethnicity, for this society, someone must sacrifice.

His gaze was incomparably calm, solemn and deep, like an interminable night from beginning to end.

So—

"Abandon all encirclement of the Red Arrow Empire's troops."

The moment David Lyn issued the order, all the Frost Plated generals and officials in the command bunker immediately stood up, turning their eyes to His Excellency the President, each face filled with incredulity.

"Your Excellency..." The Minister of Defense opened his mouth: "Are you sure? This is the only opportunity, Li Aozi's alien fleet is eyeing us, the Red Arrow's forces will soon be wiped out. So far, Li Aozi has been friendly towards us. If we miss this chance, Frost Plating will be—"

"Azure Star is not just the Azure Star of the Frost Plated People, that's all."

David Lyn said calmly:

"Deploy Winter Division, White Lion Cavalry to the northern border of the Federation."

"Yes."

The General Staff immediately began transmitting combat orders to the front lines.

"The multi-pronged offensive of the Apostle of Entropy has been contained; now, with His Excellency Li Aozi's cooperation to eliminate the remnants of Ersha on Azure Star, we can force Lord Entropy to leave this planet."

"The Red Arrow announces a complete halt to all military actions! Only a small fraction of armies are acting independently."

"With the sun out, the Frost Plated Air Force can provide support everywhere! We have won three battles in succession with the Expeditionary Army of Zhenxu and the Descender's forces, advancing with great triumph."

With one victory after another, following Li Aozi's troops' intervention, within less than an hour, the ground conflict was nearing its conclusion.

This true life-and-death battle had finally reached the decisive stage.

"Your Excellency, although the Judgment Mech Cavalry is not allied with Lord Entropy, their target is the same, and that place will be the main battleground of the final battle."

The intelligence transmitted by the Third Rule was given to the AI for detailed analysis, which after discussion, concluded the final battle location:

"Frost Plating Federation's border city—Radiant Light City—Jianlin County—Fertile Village."