77: A warship has crashed! A new landmark for Black Iron City!

"I'm rich! This halo is pure gold!"

Li Qiang was riding on the Inquisitor Gabriel's neck, his hands desperately digging into the floating halo above the other party's head. He used all his strength, his face flushed red.

Gabriel, crushed under hundreds of players piled on top of him like a human pyramid, felt an unprecedented humiliation.

He was a noble Heavenly Inquisitor, an executioner beneath the Divine Throne. When had he ever suffered such an indignity?

These insects not only desecrated his warship, but now they wanted to strip him of his equipment!

"You... all deserve to die!"

Destructive red light burst from Gabriel's electronic eyes. Since his dignity was completely gone, they would all return to dust together!

He abandoned all resistance and inversely injected the last of his sacred energy into the already damaged power core behind him.

"Warning! Energy core overloaded!"

"Warning! Fusion explosion imminent!"

Piercing alarm sounds echoed frantically inside the warship, and red light covered every corner.

"Holy crap! He's going to self-destruct!"

Wang Wei's mechanical eye immediately caught the terrifying energy reading, and he let out a heartbroken roar: "Run! Everyone, run!"

However, it was too late.

Boom—!!!

A white light, impossible to look at directly with the naked eye, suddenly exploded from the location of the power room, instantly engulfing everything.

The first to be hit were the hundreds of players still pressing down on Gabriel. They didn't even have time to scream before they were reduced to basic data streams in the extreme light and heat.

In the last second before being swallowed by the white light, Li Qiang only managed to forcefully stuff the glittering energy halo into his inventory.

The explosion's shockwave, like the hand of a god, easily tore through the warship's thick deck.

The entire Heavens Punishment, this floating warship representing heavenly majesty and glory, broke in half during the violent explosion, losing its last bit of power. It transformed into a massive, burning steel coffin, plummeting irrevocably and decisively towards Black Iron City below!

"Abandon ship! Everyone abandon ship!"

In the communication channel, Retired Soldier King roared hoarsely.

The surviving players rushed out from various corners of the warship, looking at the rapidly enlarging ground below, experiencing the ultimate version of high-altitude bungee jumping.

"Oh my god! We're going to die, we're going to die!"

"Don't panic! Press B to open your parachute!... Crap, I didn't buy one!"

"Brother up ahead, wait for me! I'll step on you to go down!"

For a moment, a "rain" of players fell over Black Iron City.

Some players skillfully opened their low-quality gliders bought from the mall, which, though wobbly, at least allowed them to control their direction.

Some players directly hugged a huge warship fragment, using it as a surfboard.

More players flailed their limbs in the air, letting out excited and terrified screams, then "splat" fell to the ground, turning into white light and returning to the city to resurrect.

In the real world, in Su Mu's underground base.

"Oh dear, don't let it hit my bathhouse."

Su Mu watched the falling fireball on the screen, a lollipop in his mouth, operating the control panel unhurriedly.

Using his authority as the Fire Seed, he quietly applied a faint gravitational deflection in front of the warship's falling trajectory.

Thus, under the terrified gazes of countless surviving dwarves in Black Iron City, the massive warship, like a Heavenly God's skeleton, grazed the outer wall of Black Iron City and finally plunged at an angle into the constantly churning lava lake next to the city.

"Boom—!!!!"

It was as if the end of the world had arrived.

At the moment of impact, time seemed to stand still for a second.

Immediately after, hundreds of millions of tons of lava were churned up by the immense impact, forming colossal crimson waves thousands of meters high, then falling like a torrential rain.

The entire Black Iron City trembled violently, as if it could fall apart at any moment.

When all the dust settled.

Everyone looked on in shock at the scene before them.

Half of the massive floating warship was deeply embedded in the bottom of the lava lake, while the other half towered above the surface of the lake, its fractured section still burning with fierce flames and emitting thick smoke.

It was like an apocalyptic steel mountain that had appeared out of nowhere, becoming a new, striking landmark for Black Iron City.

[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to all players for successfully repelling the Heavenly Realm Vanguard!]

[Server-wide Announcement: The epic battle "Black Iron Defense" has ended in victory! All participating players receive +5000 Contribution Points and the limited title "Heavenly Realm Undertaker"!]

[Server-wide Announcement: New map unlocked—"Crashed Sky Fortress." Warning: This area has various risks such as energy leaks and structural collapse. Please explore with caution.]

After a brief silence, there was a thunderous cheer.

"We won! We won!"

"Holy cow! Look at that ship! How many good things must be on it!"

Li Qiang, who had just resurrected in the city, looked at the [Inquisitor's Energy Halo (Legendary·Damaged)] in his inventory, still warm, then at the huge "treasure mountain" in the distance, his eyes instantly turning red.

He raised his arm and issued the first charge order after victory.

"Brothers!"

"Don't just stand there!"

"That's a pie falling from the sky! Charge! Let's go scavenge!"