Chapter 717: Chapter 504: Angry Iron Plate Stands Tall on This Land

Since a significant portion of the participants in the Mechanical Spirit Cup are pilots directly played by important characters from the production team.

In other words, from the initial design, the pilot has been an essential part of the mech’s capability!

Next, all the mechs must choose their landing spots.

Then...

Leap from ten thousand meters in the sky!

In an instant.

All commentary live streams displayed a panoramic view of the entire Lost Continent, along with the route objectives for this run.

This is a circular continent, with its widest part measuring over three hundred kilometers in diameter, featuring diverse terrains.

Forests, snow-capped mountains, abandoned cities, underground mines, fissures... various resource points and challenge zones are marked, with different colors indicating their levels.

The map and route were released a week before the competition, studied by all the participating teams.

They are aware of their objectives, of course.

Almost immediately, someone piloted their mech to the platform’s edge.

Because of this, as the platform just skimmed past the first blue resource point—a vast primeval forest, eight mechs have already shot to the platform’s edge like arrows from a bow and leaped down.

From a distance, it looked like eight steel meteorites, glittering with various lights, began their descent from the sky along different trajectories.

For spiritual artifacts of this level, excluding some extremely rare designs, the possibility of not being able to fly is almost non-existent.

These eight meteorites almost seemingly have no intention of landing in the same place, as if they intend to avoid battle, and all their trajectories were determined after a subtle observation.

Three chose to continue flying to farther, resource-scarce but less competitive areas.

Some, confident in their strength, decided to seize and directly occupy this blue resource point.

Mechs began jumping off the platform like dumplings being cooked.

On the Lost Continent, it seemed like a spectacular meteor shower had started.

As the platform continued moving forward, the surrounding scenery quickly retreated, with remaining mechs getting exceedingly close to the endless white glacier below.

This was the first purple resource zone along the route.

"Glacier"!

At this moment.

The [Frost Tiger] from Lei Mi Heavy Industries made a move.

This twenty-meter-long quadruped mechanical tiger abruptly awakened from its faux slumber, stood up like a real beast, and then leaped strongly from the platform edge.

In the next moment, it roared in the sky.

Roar!!

A roar mixed with thunder, piercing the clouds, shattered the sky as the black and white mechanical tiger’s body was instantly covered with a layer of frenzied arcs and chilling frost, transforming into a white meteor with a long ice-blue tail flame.

The white sonic boom ring was instantly shattered, and in less than ten seconds, this meteor harshly smashed into the glacier surface below.

Boom—!!!

A terrifying shockwave burst forth immediately along with flying ice shards, spreading like a ring, with the kinetic energy and skill destructive power forming a massive cloud of white steam and blue electric light.

From the point of impact, gigantic cobweb-like cracks spread several kilometers across the solid glacier in all directions.

Moments later, the cloud slightly dispersed.

You could see the colossal black and white tiger standing unscathed at the center of the massive crater it had created, filled with a scene of carnage.

——A dragon-like Tier Five Magical Beast had already been shattered into pieces by this earth-shattering strike, its dark blue remains scattered everywhere.

But soon, it transformed like vanished data into a green light stream.

Then, an extravagant-looking purple chest appeared before the white tiger.

In an instant, the numerous spectators locking their views on it were about to explode with excitement.

[Damn, so this is what a first-person viewpoint in spectating is like]

[Holy shit, is this a simulated purple-level [Sacrificial Impact] mystic technique? Achieving mystics with spiritual artifacts without Spirit Beasts?!]

[Has any expert calculated the power of this strike?]

[It’s on par with a Five-Star Peak Spirit Master with a purple Spirit Beast, and judging by the stance, True Master Dan is clearly holding back!]

[That wind noise, that falling sensation, I almost really thought I was going to crash into the ground! So exhilarating!! I almost ○ myself!]

——This user has been banned.

The bullet comments in all live streams were rolling rapidly.

The first move from the mechs of the four major corporations almost astonished the entire audience.

Very soon, the remaining three mechs chose their targets.

The third purple resource zone, a massive cave entrance on the surface.

The [Battle Top · Xing Tian], which had been quietly rotating at low speed, turned into a black light and leaped down.

Its rotation began to accelerate.

It’s as if with the increase in speed, it’s subtly enlarging.

Three meters... five meters... ten meters!

When it landed precisely into the cave with a boom, it had grown many times larger than before.

The fourth purple resource zone was a medium-sized city, reminiscent of a city’s remnants, filled with dilapidated buildings.

The [Chaos]’s body armor that looked like plasticine suddenly spread out, ejecting countless tiny, unknown interference devices resembling tentacles.

In front of it, the descent process seemed absent of wind resistance, devoid of sound barriers, lacking any momentum yet incredibly fast in a strange manner.

A few dozen seconds later, it reached the sky above the fourth purple resource zone, the "Heart of Lake Island".