Faith is the food of the gods.
It is also a gut-wrenching poison.
When the "Rational" will of all the people of Winred City transformed into a conceptual spear, precisely piercing deep into the divinity of the Mother of Rebirth, a war from within the deity's own body was brutally detonated.
Boom!
Streaks of blue electric arcs symbolizing logic and order exploded from the Mother of Rebirth's flesh without warning!
This was no external attack.
It was the divinity of the "God of Machinery and Creation" within Her body, which had not yet been digested, launching a desperate counterattack in response to the call of its homologous faith!
"Ugh ahhh—bzzzt—!!"
The Mother of Rebirth's shriek was no longer a divine oracle or a roar, but a painful wail mixed with the sound of high-voltage current, like a corrupted audio file.
Her vast and perfect divine body began to flicker at a high frequency, like an old television with a poor signal.
Lines of unknown blue code, cascading like a waterfall, abruptly appeared on Her smooth skin.
Her long hair, flowing with the starlight of the galaxy, intermittently disintegrated into piles of mosaics.
Within Her deep eyes, the purple nebula was savagely replaced by the glaring "ERROR 404" warning boxes.
Her divine body flickered frantically between a perfect goddess and a glitched mess of garbled code, the image tearing.
That spiritual pressure, powerful enough to make all creation despair, crumbled into dust.
In its place, waves of chaotic information streams, smelling of a server crash, madly assaulted everyone's minds.
"Her internal firewall has been breached!"
Inside the Commander Mecha, Lin Qingyue clapped her hands excitedly as she watched the data stream flooding the tactical screen.
"Internal system conflict, CPU usage at one thousand percent! Man, it's a divinity-edition Blue Screen of Death!"
She immediately issued orders on the team channel, her tone as lighthearted as if she were gaming at an internet cafe.
"Her server's crashed!"
"All units, kick the dog while it's down!"
"Targets! Every spot on Her body glowing blue or pixelated is a system BUG, a weakness!"
"Now, everyone, physically patch all Her BUGs!"
"Copy that!"
Lin Xiyue's response was the loudest, filled with the ecstatic joy of someone eager to try.
Facing that overwhelming Divine Might earlier, she could only stubbornly hold her ground, her stomach churning with frustration.
Now, not only had the BOSS's health bar appeared, but she had also crashed herself. This was a god-given opportunity!
"Watch me smash Her to pieces!"
Thump!
The heavy Mecha's engine roared like a steel beast. The front of the tower shield, taller than a church door, blazed with dazzling Holy Light as Runes flowed across it.
Controlling this hundred-ton steel creation, Lin Xiyue, a true "Hundred-Ton King," charged fiercely toward the old wound on the Mother of Rebirth's chest that was flickering with blue electric sparks!
On the other side, Su Wan had already made her move.
"Analyzing structural weaknesses... Locking onto energy overflow nodes... Constructing targeted strike model..."
Her cool voice served as the most precise tactical command.
In the hands of the Mage-type Mecha, the Ice Crystal Greatsword, dozens of meters long, glowed intensely, only to abruptly disintegrate in the next instant.
It shattered into tens of thousands of tiny ice crystal spears.
It rained down like a precision-guided punishment from the frosty heavens, covering the sky as it shot toward every area on the Evil God's body where a "BUG" had appeared.
These ice spears were not meant for destruction.
Instead, they were meant to drive the Power of Order's extreme cold into the chaotic flesh like nails, freezing and dismantling His energy cycle from within!
"Too fast... His movements are completely erratic, I can't keep up!"
Xia Lian's Cheetah-Type Mecha sped across the plaza, leaving behind a series of afterimages almost invisible to the naked eye.
But in agony, the Evil God's massive body was twisting wildly and unconsciously, skyrocketing the difficulty of long-range sniping to hellish levels.
Especially with the super-long-range sniper rifle she was currently using on her Mecha, which, while devastatingly powerful, required several seconds of energy charging to lock onto a target.
"Xia Lian, don't rush the attack!"
Lin Qingyue's voice sounded in just in time, as calm as ever.
"Your mission is to roam and use the detection module to mark His most unstable energy nodes! Share the coordinates with Su Wan and me in real time!"
"Understood!"
Xia Lian immediately adjusted her tactics.
The Cheetah-Type Mecha became a blue streak of light, darting at high speed around the battlefield, its precision optical lens on the mecha's head locked onto the Evil God in the sky.
Stream after stream of coordinate data flowed steadily into Lin Qingyue and Su Wan's tactical map.
Four people, four mechas, working in perfect unison.
Lin Qingyue commanded from the center, coordinating the entire battle.
Xia Lian roamed at high speed, acting as the battlefield's "eyes."
Su Wan provided long-range suppression, delivering precise "surgical" strikes.
While Lin Xiyue was the simplest, crudest, and most lethal main attacker!
"Break... apart... for... me!"
Along with the young girl's crisp angry shout, the tower shield shining with Holy Light finally struck the "pixelated" wound on the Mother of Rebirth's chest, harshly and accurately!
There was no expected sound of impacting flesh.
Only a crisp crack like glass being shattered, or a program being forcibly deleted.
The Holy Light of Order attached to the tower shield resonated internally and externally with the Power of Mechanical Divinity resisting from within the Evil God's body.
Kacha!
That "pixelated" wound left by the Power of Trailblaze really looked like a damaged display screen, and along with a large area of surrounding flesh, it was smashed and peeled off!
Below it, the churning, writhing, even more chaotic core flesh was revealed!
"Awoooo—!!!"
The Mother of Rebirth let out a shriek more agonized than any before.
This was no longer pain.
It was the terror of being erased from "existence"!
The Evil God finally realized that these mere ants piloting tin cans could truly kill Him!
The frantic will to survive overrode the systemic conflict.
A flash of desperate madness crossed the Mother of Rebirth's distorted face.
His body violently contracted, and countless tentacles of flesh sprouted wildly from His back, weaving into a colossal web that blotted out the sky as it slammed down toward the four mechas on the plaza!
This strike gathered all His remaining strength, brimming with the savagery of a mutual destruction!
"Xiyue! Raise the Shield Wall!"
Lin Qingyue's voice carried no hint of panic.
"Copy that!"
Lin Xiyue commanded her mecha, slamming the tower shield into the ground. The [Shield of Divinity] and the mecha's defense field activated fully, and a brilliant golden light screen erupted from the ground.
Almost simultaneously, Su Wan's sky-filling ice spears instantly shifted, converging mid-air to form a massive Ice Wall that blocked the path before the golden light screen.
BOOM!!!
The colossal web of flesh slammed down.
The Ice Wall held for less than a second before shattering into dust.
Immediately after, that peerless force struck Lin Xiyue's golden Shield Wall head-on.
THOOM!
A thunderous sound made the very space tremble.
Inside the cockpit, Lin Xiyue was pinned to her seat by a terrifying G-force, her vision filled with nothing but blinding red alarms and the violently trembling metal walls.
The plaza beneath the mecha cracked inch by inch, the massive impact sending the hundred-ton steel construct sliding backward tens of meters, plowing two horrific furrows into the hard ground.
The groans of overloading metal echoed incessantly.
Lin Xiyue felt her internal organs shift out of place as she coughed violently, the hot taste of rust instantly filling her mouth.
"I... I blocked it!"
She gritted her teeth and growled into the channel, her voice hoarse with pain.
"Excellent!"
Lin Qingyue's voice followed immediately, carrying the hint of a smile as the plan succeeded.
"Xia Lian, now!"
Just as everyone's attention was drawn to that world-shattering strike, the high-speed Cheetah-Type Mecha had already silently circled behind the Evil God.
In Xia Lian's pupils, only that fatal red dot remained.
That was the core located at the Evil God's center back, where the energy fluctuations were most violent, marked by Lin Qingyue on the tactical map!
It was the "stomach" where He suppressed and digested the Divinity of the "God of Machinery and Creation"!
It was His most vulnerable and fatal weak point at this moment!
Xia Lian's breathing, in this instant, merged with the mecha's cooling system, steady and cold.
She pressed the fire button.
"All missiles, fire!"
The muzzle of the heavy sniper rifle on the Cheetah-Type Mecha's back condensed a darkness that could devour light itself.
At the same time, the missile launch pods mounted on its shoulders sprang open, revealing a dense array of lethal warheads.
In the next instant, the light of destruction erupted all at once!