# Chapter 2455: Because Afraid of Death, Maxed Out Defense?
After Jiangnan went dark and started diving, Xiao Chuihuo's Sunset Red Heavenly Group, after dealing with the Divine Spirit Group Army, headed over to support Odin and the others!
Currently, the only human teams still under siege were Odin's group and Mi Ye's group!
Saint York clenched his teeth. The plan had gone awry. No one expected that Xiao Chuihuo's single Nuclear Fusion Creation would seal the victory!
His level of trouble was even comparable to Jiangnan's!
Now he could only pray that the other two siege groups were progressing smoothly and could eliminate at least half of the human contestants, right?
Otherwise, this siege would be a huge loss — a failed endeavor that cost both troops and resources!
But danger always coexists with opportunity. If they couldn't eliminate the humans, the Angel Race would have no way out!
They could only gamble!
The various Sequence Support Groups shifted their focus back to the battlefield where Odin and the others were fighting!
Could there be someone as monstrous as Jiangnan or Xiao Chuihuo over there too?
However, since the battle began, Odin's situation could be described as exceptionally sluggish!
They were up against the Steel Group Army!
It consisted of a series of powerful races: the Metal Clan, Crystal Clan, Carbon Filament Clan, Tungsten Armor Clan, Mother Magnet Clan, and others — all notable races in the Starry Sky!
They were in no way inferior to the Hidden Spirit Clan or the Parasite Entity!
Moreover, most were material-type lifeforms, extremely difficult to kill, and the group army numbered nearly 1.5 million!
They also received support from three million insect soldiers of the Insect Race. The Carbon Filament Clan used their puppet-on-strings technique to manipulate the insect soldiers as cannon fodder, charging into battle!
This protected the main body of the group army from damage. Additionally, the Steel Group Army even had support from the Celestial Star Race!
The Crystal Clan inherently possessed the ability to store energy, being natural energy crystal sources. They had placed crystal marks on the Celestial Star Race contestants!
This allowed them to directly borrow the nearly limitless energy of the Celestial Star Race!
Although those major races had orchestrated this siege against humans, intending to watch from the sidelines and reap the benefits, they also provided covert assistance to the group armies to increase their chances of taking down the human teams!
Logically, it should have been easy, but the existence of the Fusion Domain made things extremely difficult for the Steel Group Army!
Odin's team could be said to be packed with Space System users, and they all had Rift Demon Butterflies!
The Grand Hall was even constructed based on several Space System domains, extremely dreamlike, with maneuverability that was downright abnormal!
After over an hour of fighting, they hadn't achieved any significant results!
What frustrated the Steel Group Army even more was that the humans had a cheater like Barty!
With a 45-second Whisper of the Divine shared through mental links, they lost all initiative!
So far, Odin's side had suffered no casualties because they simply couldn't be hit. Barty had foreseen every situation and could always dodge in advance!
The battle situation they perceived was a full 45 seconds ahead of the Steel Group Army!
The group army felt utterly powerless!
Similarly, Odin and the others hadn't inflicted any damage on the Steel Group Army either!
This army's defense was as tough as an unbreakable turtle shell!
At this moment, it was slightly earlier than the time when Xiao Chuihuo and the others used their power-ups for a counterattack!
Odin and the others hadn't consumed all their power-ups from the start either; they had been holding back until now!
If they had used them immediately, their trump cards would have been exposed. Who knew whether the Steel Group Army and the Divine Spirit Group Army were in contact?
Once Odin's side used them first, the news would reach the other group armies' ears, and Xiao Chuihuo's strategy would become ineffective!
So it was best to use them simultaneously! They had to consider not only their own situation but also the other battlefields!
During this period, Odin had also taken the opportunity to familiarize himself with the Steel Group Army's tactics — knowing yourself and your enemy, so as not to be caught off guard!
At present, the Steel Group Army's formation was extremely tight!
The Mother Magnet Clan's leader, Yong Ci, sat at the very center, leading ten thousand Mother Magnet clansmen to jointly unleash the Universal Magnetic Field!
It enveloped the entire Steel Group Army!
Any matter or energy within the Universal Magnetic Field would be affected by the magnetic field, unable to control their own movements, and even domains could be penetrated!
Once trapped inside, one would be directly imprisoned!
At the same time, the Carbon Filament Clan's methods were equally absurd. Their leader, Hei Si, had a bizarre appearance, looking like a ball of yarn!
All Carbon Filament clansmen were like this, their bodies composed of extremely fine carbon filaments, incredibly tough and capable of cutting anything. The thinnest carbon filaments were even invisible to the naked eye!
They dispersed their carbon filaments outward, weaving them into a net within the group army, wrapping it into an extremely complex carbon filament sphere to prevent Odin and the others from infiltrating in any form!
Touching the carbon filaments would directly silence and seal techniques, even drain energy instantly, and could turn one into a puppet controlled by the Carbon Filament Clan!
At the nodes of the carbon filament net hung energy crystals from the Crystal Clan, like bombs ready to explode at the slightest touch!
The ends were linked to the Crystal Clan's Energy Gathering Ring Array!
Meanwhile, the Metal Clan's leader, You Jin, had his clansmen jointly release a Metal Assimilation Force Field, stacked on top of the Universal Magnetic Field!
Anyone charging inside would have their bodies assimilated into metal, and the force field could control any metal!
These methods stacked together were already extremely abnormal, and the Tungsten Armor Clan elevated the Steel Group Army's defense to another level!
The entire Tungsten Armor Clan was made of Tungsten Card Immortal Gold for defense. This metal's strength was incredibly abnormal, capable of absorbing physical and energy impacts to a great extent, and its own hardness was no less impressive!
It was a rare metal no weaker than Strong-Phase Alloy!
Even today, many War Fortress's defensive armor and the core components of forbidden weapons rely on Tungsten Card Immortal Gold!
The fact that they put the character for "Armor" in their race name as meat tanks speaks volumes about how absurd their defense was!
They were a group of shield mountains that had put all their points into defense!
Under the efforts of the Tungsten Armor Clan's leader, Wu Lu, the entire Steel Group Army was clad in Tungsten Card Immortal Gold battle armor, even the insect soldiers were not left out!
Above the Steel Group Army, hexagonal shields of Tungsten Card Immortal Gold materialized one after another!
Each was the size of a red giant star, revolving around the Steel Group Army under the force field, combining freely!
One could say they had maxed out their defense — an unbreakable turtle shell!
A true Steel Torrent, Heavy Armor Legion!
Even the Silicon-based Firepower Justice Legion would have to curse a few times upon seeing such defense, right?
Although the Steel Group Army didn't have the ability to suppress void like the Star Soul Clan, they had still forged themselves into an impregnable iron wall. You could teleport and maneuver in!
If you weren't afraid of getting stuck inside!
After fighting for a long time, both sides had just been scratching each other!
Thanks to Barty's Whisper of the Divine, the Steel Group Army's attacks rarely hit the Grand Hall!
The Grand Hall also didn't dare to casually enter the group army's battle formation. Even with teleportation, phasing, and various other abilities, once they appeared inside, they might well be trapped and unable to get out!
Hei Si gritted his teeth and turned to look at the Crystal Clan's leader, Jing Ming:
"What's the situation? We can't keep going like this! If it were just them, we could still fight, but if Jiangnan comes over and uses a Dimensional Reduction Strike, none of us will be playing anymore!"
A seemingly impenetrable defense would only end up as a photo against someone like Jiangnan who didn't play by the rules!
Jing Ming's entire body flickered with dazzling light, his energy fluctuations extremely terrifying!
"What's the rush? Small-scale attacks can't take them down, and they'll just dodge. So let's make the attack range so large that they can't avoid it! Continuous assault!"
"Anyway, with their abilities, they can't break through our defense! The advantage is ours!"
The Celestial Star Race's energy supply gave the Crystal Clan nearly unlimited energy, enough to organize large-scale attacks without worrying about running out!
You Jin gritted his metal teeth: "Damn major races, they're just bullying us because we're weak! Tsk... I hope they keep their promises afterward!"
Wu Lu said calmly: "No need to worry. A few of the top strong group armies competing with us are in the same situation, all forced to make a move against humanity!"
"If we're talking about delaying things, we're all the same. At least this way, during the fierce battle period, we won't have to face the major races' harvest!"
Yong Ci sneered: "That's assuming we take down these humans without too much loss. Otherwise, do you think they'll spare us?"
The several leaders fell silent, their gazes becoming more determined. The path to survival was carved out by killing!
The Steel Group Army, pushed to a dead end, could only go all out and cut down the obstacles before them!
Jing Ming narrowed his eyes: "Careful, the Grand Hall is making a move. Could they be getting restless seeing us gathering strength for a big one?"
"Disrupt their rhythm!"
Over at the Grand Hall, the light gradually brightened, becoming more radiant than ever before!
You Jin narrowed his eyes: "Red Gold Armor-Piercing Cones! Saturation firepower suppression, fire!"
The next moment, above the Steel Group Army, countless Red Gold Armor-Piercing Cones, each over a thousand kilometers long, materialized!
Dense and covering the sky, on the carbon filaments spread across the Starry Sky, lightning flashed. The Carbon Filament Clan's carbon filaments themselves were the best energy conductors, capable of transmitting energy without loss!
Combined with the Universal Magnetic Field, they even directly generated an ultra-strong electromagnetic field!
Countless Red Gold Armor-Piercing Cones went through layer upon layer of acceleration from the electromagnetic field!
Flying toward the Grand Hall at terrifying speeds, each was stacked with layers of buffs!
They were accelerated to the limit speed that the armor-piercing cones could withstand — one more increment and they would disintegrate. One could imagine how terrifying their kinetic energy was!
Yet facing such an attack, the Grand Hall domain remained motionless, directly confronting the overwhelming rain of armor-piercing cones!
Barty looked speechless: "See? I told you they'd attack like this, right? Sigh... ever since I learned the Whisper of the Divine, there are no more surprises in this world, huh?"
Baldr ground his teeth, glaring at Barty!
Then both of them spoke simultaneously:
"You humble bragging bastard, have some limits, you prophetic slut!" ×2
Baldr's face turned green: "Can I gut this bastard? Right now!"
Odin rolled his eyes: "Stop messing around! The attack's coming. Someone block it, just for show."