66 The Eternal Swarm

All the people started gathering at the entrance of this cave which was just besides the huge tournament venue that ace had built before hand. The gate was 10 m wide and it was directly going inside the mountain.

the siege worm had hollowed out the mountain completely and all the material was used to produce tons of iron while all the soldiers were running on gasoline as it was the cheapest fuel available right now for ace. The other reason for him to use the gasoline as fuel was that the engine for utilising such type of fuel is easy to make.

the manufacturing process was very simple and it was easily programmable into the robot. The other equipments were running on nuclear power which required constant power to be supplied and those equipment which had a huge amount of power consumption. for example he had a furnace which were used to melt and forge different kind of metal parta which required a huge amount of electricity to be provided to it. the nuclear power was the best way to get this electricity and the only bottleneck being the lack of the water.

Ace was temporarily using the underground water harvested by the siege worm to cool down the reactor. it wasn't a permanent solution as he had to utilise so many resources to cool down the reactor and the water needed to the reactor from the underground water sources.

even though the manufacturing system that ace had put in place inside the hollow mountain was highly inefficient, it was still producing hundreds of robots every day as by now he had 17218 robots manufactured. there were separate production lines which were producing four different robots.

The first robot he was producing was a worker class robot. he didn't need too many of them as there were only 1000 of them which were replaced if broken once in a while.

the second class of robots were the foot soldiers which were high in numbers as he almost produced 8000 of them. the foot soldiers were equipped with several weapons, the first weapon being a small gun which was about to fire 650 rounds per second. the bullets were specially designed to explode when they came into contact with a hard surface and penetrate if they came into contact with the soft surface.

this would ensure that if the round came into contact with armour, it would explode and destroy a portion of the armor. it will also ensure the heat released by the round would damage the armour extensively and when the soft human skin came into contact with the round, it would be able to easily penetrate deep inside the body and do huge amount of damage.

the third type of robots that flew out of the cave where flying drones. the sole purpose of these drones was to monitor the situation and give commands to the foot soldiers. of course, the drones weren't without any weapons as they were equipped with small explosive grenades that they can rain down from the sky on the enemies and create a hell on earth in matter of seconds. they numbered less than 4500 as they were hard to manufacture and also required some light metals to make in order to reduce fuel consumption.

the last robots were named as Beatles. but they were nothing like beetles as they were actually mobile tanks, they look like standard ancient Earth tanks but they were more streamlined to achieve better performance and protection and the cannons were replaced by four heavy anti aircraft guns of ancient earth. the technology was later perfected and fused with highly mobile platform of streamlined tank with high mobility.

each gun was able to move 360 direction and they can either fire in one direction in group battle or kill approaching enemies from all around the tank. Ace decided to only reveal three of those tanks for now.

Ace flew in the middle of this army and landed on the leading brown and grey coloured tank as he looked at all the cultivators. " This is my army of puppets, they are called the Eternal Swarm and i am warning all of you right now, if you think my strength is joke, you are free to make a move now. " He said as he smirked " But if you do, you won't have a full corpse..."

" What arrogance! "

" He dare threaten us! "

" We are no pushovers! we are from great sects and you think you can scare us with those puppets of yours! "

there were a few people who were given the job of probing and initiating the first attack, the four major competitors of the dragon's corpse agreed that one of the master rank elder from the shadow sect would make the first move. the elder slowly walked forward as he directly attacked the Sector lord with intention to kill.

probing was a difficult task so he didn't attack out in open but attacked ace from behind. There was a small dagger condensed from his spritual force which was poison and corrosion attribute spritual force. He was proficient in throwing the knife at short distance and the dangerous attributes would work and destroy the target inside out.

of course ace wasn't unaware of this as Alice had already warned him. " master I am detecting a huge amount of spritual force being concentrated on this person. he is going to attack...please be careful..." Alice was hidden inside the cave but she was able to be with ace with the help of his War Devil armour.

Ace didn't dodge as the tank he was standing on moved as one of the cannons shot one round towards the knife and other three aimed at the shadow sect elder. all of this only took a second after the knife left the hand of the elder as elder knew that he was exposed. he didn't know what those puppets were but they looked like strange cannons on the mountain that were said to have killed the dragon.

he had a defensive equipment for this kind of situation as he deployed a small arm guard. it released strange force as a red barrier appeared in front of him in split second but as soon as it was formed, the cannons fired simultaneously.

* Vrrrr * * Boom boom boom boom boom *

all of the people standing there were forced to cover their ears as the position where the elder was standing was covered with smoke. slowly after several rounds, the cannons stopped.

* Tsssss *

there was white smoke coming out of the barrel of the guns as slowly the dust cleared. The first thing that came into the view was a broken leg, then an arm and then far away there was another arm which was broken from shoulder. the area where the cannons fired was filled with huge holes and there was blood everywhere. the elder was dead as ace smirked.

" As i promised, you won't have a full corpse after I'm done with you..."