MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter

Chapter 677  - 677: Stability

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

The sounds of four successive explosions echoed, as four artillery shells with tail flames landed on a distant tank.

The entire tank exploded violently. The two players inside the tank and other teammates standing on the tank were immediately swallowed by the explosion. Their bodies didn't even get thrown out by the blast, they were just turned into pieces straight away.

Seeing others occupying a tank had initially got everyone's adrenaline pumping.

But now, looking at the still-burning tank and thinking of the players who had been obliterated, everyone's enthusiasm was instantly extinguished.

One player had already made it quite clear: the durability of these tanks was now depreciating, and there might be damage. They were basically unrepairable without advanced engineering skills.

Besides, even if there were functional tanks, given the previous situation, Starfire Team wouldn't let them approach the other tanks. Any movement was bound to get hit by tank firepower.

"You are too wasteful, Enchantress. This is a tank, it's just running low on durability, and the parts are not damaged." Li Yao complained on the team channel since not only a tank represents combat power, but it also influences his plan.

"But this kind of deterrence is the most effective," the Unparalleled Enchantress said.

Speechless, Li Yao then turned to the others and said, "It seems that you won't object anymore. After occupying here, you can get supplies here."

Li Yao walked to the center of the square and planted the small flag in his hand. The flag billowed in the wind, instantly transforming into a huge heavenly war flag, about ten yards tall.

Then a two-hour countdown appeared on the Starfire Team's interfaces. In two hours, as long as they still occupied this place, the base would be considered occupied by Starfire.

"The Demons in this area have temporarily lost their highest leader, and they are naturally timid. Their combat power is much worse than before. This is a good time to earn military merits. You'd better earn more military merits before the new leader arrives," Li Yao reminded.

The remaining players' eyes lit up, instantly moved. They all expressed that they would come here for supplies after two hours and hoped that Starfire would not reject them.

Li Yao agreed, he couldn't refuse.

Although they had occupied this base, it belonged to heaven, and it still required Angels for daily maintenance. The Angels were here to reclaim this place, so they would never refuse.

Of course, everything supplied here needed to be exchanged with military merits.

"You take my pets and sweep the monsters that want to regroup here. I will continue repairing the tanks. I will send a message when the repair is complete." Li Yao found some remaining ammunition in the old underground warehouse and resupplied the tanks.

The members of Starfire Team began tirelessly killing the monsters who wanted to regroup inside the factory, while Li Yao was working overtime, assembling dozens of repair robots from a pile of parts.

Li Yao took stock of the usable materials in the factory and frowned.

The amount of usable items inside was running low. After observing the bed crossbows used for defense, Li Yao realized that there were originally hundreds guarding this place. But even if Li Yao recycled the unusable ones for repairing others, he only estimated that forty could be repaired in the end.

The stockpile of tanks was about one hundred and fifty, but given Li Yao's current abilities, he could only repair about sixty or seventy.

The rest of them had important parts damaged. Although it wasn't impossible to manufacture those parts, it would take too much time and was simply not worthwhile.

What worried Li Yao more is that the production line for making tanks was severely damaged. It would take at least a day to start making tanks again.

Li Yao spent an hour repairing the quickly repairable bed crossbows.

Then, he started repairing the tanks. In the remaining hour, Li Yao started with the simple ones and miraculously repaired three tanks.

The four tanks of Starfire Team ceaselessly bombarded the surrounding area, intimidating the demons.

Some of the demons fled this place, causing other players who were considering unstated plans to give up their unrealistic ideas.

Two hours later, the heavenly war flag began to emit a rich white light.

A faint white light shield spread out, covering the entire factory.

At the same time, a white light gate appeared in mid-air.

Squads of Angels appeared here. The leading Angel saluted Li Yao and said, "Officer, we are ordered to guard the Tank Manufacturing Base."

Li Yao nodded and asked, "How many angels are there?"

"We're not sure. We had originally been killed by Demons, and our souls fell asleep. It was this heavenly war flag that recalled and revived us. Although this flag can summon thousands of Angels, I don't think there will be so many." replied the leading Angel.

Li Yao frowned and said, "Alright." I command you to take charge as the manager for the production of tanks, directing all the angels here."

"Yes, sir." Li Yao looked around and saw that there were at least five hundred Angels.

Li Yao continued repairing the tanks, and the angel supervisor began to arrange things.

About three hundred golden-armored Angels were distributed around the Tank Factory to purge demons and protect it.

With heavy hearts, they consumed their points to equip themselves and left one after another in search of other bases that could be occupied.

The rest of the time was, other members of the Starfire Team patrolled around in a tank each.

About fifty angels became various functional NPCs, which are called supply sellers.

The supplies here are all special products of heaven. They include potions, scrolls, weapon ammunitions, and many others. These all have a strong aim against demons and can significantly enhance the speed of hunting demons.

But without exception, these supplies need to be exchanged with military merits.

Moreover, for each demon killed by the battle angels, one-third of the military merits would be credited to the Starfire Team, leaving the other teams green with envy.

With heavy hearts, they consumed their points to equip themselves and left one after another in search of other bases that could be occupied.

The rest of the time was, other members of the Starfire Team patrolled around in a tank each.

Meanwhile, Li Yao and the remaining angels began to arrange the Tank Factory. Besides those that helped Li Yao repair the tanks, the remaining angels would start producing tanks by tomorrow morning.

But the starting output was pitiful, producing at most five tanks per day. However, the provision of ammunition was a lesser concern.

Still, if Starfire Team were to exhaust the stock of ammunitions in the warehouse, resupplying would require military merits. Though cheaper than other teams, they also needed to exchange at least the cost price. @@novelbin@@

The entire mainland was now shrouded in the horrors of war. After a day in the trial grounds, most players had died more than three times.

Only a very few players had not yet faced death, and fewer still had actually managed to occupy a base.

Not all bases were equally valuable. Occupying a base does not mean that everything will go smoothly.

Without Li Yao's engineering prowess, making a base fully combat-ready was virtually impossible.

Furthermore, killing a Warcraft-level boss was not an easy task.

Of course, there are also bases with other professional preferences, such as Enchantment Research Institutes, Alchemy laboratories, and Equipment Forging Factories.

In order to thoroughly exploit a base, one's professional level must reach an advanced level.

All the players here were undoubtedly experts, but the issue lay in the fact that only a limited number of these experts had advanced professional skills...