Arthur said with nostalgia, "I remember when we used to run around with an energy scanner looking for precious plants and fighting their guardians."
Thor heard him, so he chuckled and said, "You must be talking about the intersect competition."
Then he said, "Indeed, times have changed. But we are still fighting for resources in one way or another."
Thor has changed just like him. His weak figure has become larger and muscular. His skin is still pale. In fact, he has become paler. But that's only because he used a white sheet of metal to replace his skin.
The Everlasting Wood Art tries to turn cultivators into various plants, while Thor's cultivation technique tries to turn him into a living metal statue.
Different parts of his body are made of various kinds of metal. Even his hair is metallic now. His hair is made of strands of different kinds of metals, which makes his hair colorful.
Apart from his white skin, another thing that is still the same is his eyes. His eyes are still multicolored. They are only brighter now, which makes them look like shining gems.
While the two of them were talking, the enemy was still advancing on the mobile fortress. The distance between them disappeared quickly because the mobile fortress was also moving forward and approaching the army.
The fact that the two parties were approaching each other reduced the amount of time that Thor had to eliminate every high-energy target in the ranks of the enemy. So he ordered the golems of the second army to go out to stop the enemies from advancing.
This was only a stopgap to the problem at hand. The enemies either had to retreat or the mobile fortress had to stop.
If the mobile fortress doesn't stop, it will have to meet he enemies. Once it does, the enemies will begin to attack the mobile fortress. If any of the enemy is carrying a bomb, then the mobile fortress will be in trouble.
But the defenders don't want to retreat. They want to continue approaching the mobile fortress.
The mobile fortress also doesn't want to stop advancing because it needs to advance if it wants to spread the influence of the Ethera tree all over the world of Aries. So what they have to do is clear the defenders out of the way.
In order to clear the way, metal golems and plant puppets streamed out of the mobile fortress. They were 10,000 in number. But this wasn't the limit of how much the mobile fortress could produce.
Each mobile fortress has been installed with a factory for producing golems. Since the Aries world is rich in resources, this factory is working nonstop, producing more golems. So these 10,000 are just the start.
Of the 10,000 metal golems and plant puppets, most of them are rank 3 with a power output of 102,400 or 10.24D. But there are a few at rank 4 with a power output of 10,240,000 or 10.24C. The rank 4 golems and puppets were the ones that led the charge of the second army.
Compared to nearly a million enemies, 10,000 soldiers seem far too few to fight. While the 100 times disparity in numbers is real, there is not much disparity in the power of both sides. This is because most of the troops in the ranks of the enemy are second-step beings with a maximum power of 10,000 or 100E or 1D.
Even the ones at the peak of the third step have a power output of 1,000,000 or 100D or 1C. Only the sun king is a fourth-step being with a power output of 100C.
There is no other being among the indigenous people with power between 2C and 100C. This shows a vast difference in power between the inhabitants of this world and the golems.
If not for the help of the gem kings of the gem people, with power output ranging between 2C and 70C, the defenders would have stood no chance against the Blood Skull army.
But even with the help of the gem king, the defenders are still at a disadvantage because Thor is picking off the powerful gem kings one by one with the spear of light gun.
If not, unexpected things happen, the golems will still win and clear out the enemies. All the mobile fortress has to do is continue providing fire support.
But as they were watching, the wind suddenly picked up on the battlefield. A large hurricane made of rapidly rotating glass fragments and stones descended onto the battlefield and smashed into the golems.
The hurricane was too large and powerful for the golems and puppets to avoid. But this also meant that the hurricane pulled and shredded some of the defenders in the army.
And because the soldiers of the enemy were weaker, it was far easier for the hurricane to drag and shred them. On the other side, it was more difficult to shred the golems, so the hurricane had to stay longer to eradicate the golem army.
The attack of the hurricane was an attack that damaged both friends and foes. For every 1 golem and puppet, 10 defenders were killed by the hurricane.
So 10,000 golems and puppets were lost while 100,000 enemies lost their lives. This was a great loss to the Blood Skull army, but to the inhabitants of this world, the loss of 100,000 lives was just a drop in a bucket.
Thor was so angry by this that he drew down the communication box in his hand and shouted angrily, "How are we supposed to fight like this?"
Arthur frowned and said, "This is new. It seems the world spirit has become desperate."
Thor snorted and said, "More like it has decided to play dirty and has lost all honor and martial integrity."
Hearing this, Arthur smirked and asked, "What is honor and integrity compared to survival?"