The Poet's forces were fierce, but fortunately, Metropolis had already faced threats before; even though the Poet's mechanized troops began their assault from all directions, the city was not breached immediately.
Abu, who had initially planned to flee, had already returned to his post by now, watching the battle data with a tingling scalp.
"Quick! Call for reinforcements!! Let the remote weapons from other cities provide fire support! What about the Sky-base Weapon? Send them all over! What about the Third Class?"
"No!! The other cities are also being attacked! This attack isn't so much a decapitation strike as it's more like..."
His subordinate hadn't finished speaking when, on the screen floating in mid-air, images of various cities being assaulted kept appearing in front of her, faster and denser with each passing moment.
At that moment, his next words followed. "It's more like the enemy's total assault."
This sentence poured over everyone's hearts like a bucket of icy water, chilling everyone present.
With no reinforcements coming and the connections between cities continuously being destroyed, Metropolis could only struggle on its own.
As a huge mushroom cloud arose, a nuclear bomb appeared once again, roughly leveling the technological disparity between them and the Poet.
This war was not only a technological struggle but also a battle of productivity; the Poet's production lines and Metropolis's Breeding Factory constantly churned out various combat units.
When the Poet's mechanized troops enveloped the entire Metropolis like a swarm of insects, the Sun Jack program was uploaded online for free download, allowing anyone who wanted to help to easily clone themselves into Sun Jack and join the battle.
"Hold on, hold on! We haven't lost yet!!" The minds of everyone in the Utopia Think Tank were overclocking, interconnected like a supercomputer, continuously devising plans based on the situation.
Just when everyone was racking their brains on how to survive this time, the ground began to tremble, and the entire war room started to tilt in an instant.
Not just the room, but the entire Metropolis was starting to tilt, as two huge mountains rapidly rose from the left and right sides, piercing through the clouds.
This made everyone in the city gasp, and then they saw the two mountains pressing down from both sides towards the city.
"Something underground is affecting the crust stress!! Quick!! Where is the underground force? Move to counteract now!" The Mechanical Worms, well-prepared, swiftly sensed the seismic waves and rushed towards the epicenter.
With the mountains getting closer, along with tens of thousands of tons of soil cover, the outer suburban areas had already completely fallen and were submerged.
Watching the mountains approaching, Utopia Security had no choice but to prepare for possible failure. "Evacuate! Go now! Metropolis has fallen!!"
Listening to other Clones' accounts, a dismayed Sun Jack shook his head, "No, wait a bit longer, just a bit longer! We've completely cracked their attack on the crust through reverse engineering! It will work!"
"Go now, bro! You'll die!!" Steelheart, fighting at the front line, shouted through the communication at Abu.
"If you're going to leave, it should have been earlier, now is too late!! I trust our people!! AA wouldn't lie to us!"
Watching as the buildings were shrouded one by one, the moment when the two massive mountains were about to close in on each other, they suddenly stopped.
At this moment, both sides were eerily silent, and nearly three agonizing seconds later, the two mountains suddenly tilted outward. The swelling peaks, like two giant hands, tore directly through the sky, burying the Poet's mechanized troops on either side completely.
Warm sunlight poured down, shining on the faces of those who survived, and in the next second, the entire Metropolis seemed to erupt in jubilation—they had won!
Right then, Abu in the control room also breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, the foundation is still there, they can't kill us that easily."
However, before Abu could revel in the moment, he spotted something amiss. Although he rarely saw the sun, the brightness of the sunlight was inexplicably intense.
He poked his head out of the window, the bustling wind swinging his red fox ears from side to side, Abu looked up at the sky.
The sunlight was blinding, and as he reduced the sensitivity of his photoreceptor cells in his eyes, he caught a glimpse of something in the sky, his beastly pupils narrowing into thin lines instantly.
He soon realized, the globe in the sky was indeed the Sun, but beneath that dazzling sunlight, a gigantic piece of the Moon, twice the size of Metropolis, was hurtling towards them!
As the meteorite drew closer, not only did Abu see it, but the Priest, AA, Old Six, and everyone in Metropolis saw it too.
Run? It was already too late, with a meteorite that size falling down, whether Metropolis would still exist, or even the entire continental plate, was hard to say.
No matter how hard they tried to resist, any attempt was futile against such a massive meteorite strike, surprisingly, Poet's attacks were coming from the Moon Ring as well.
Faced with imminent death, no one could remain calm, despair swelled in everyone's hearts—there was fear, terror, resolve, and even joy.
The only joyful one was Anyun, a survivor of the Rat Alliance other than Sun Jack, who went insane. At this moment, he looked up at the sky, watching the massive fireball, and began to laugh while tears streamed down his face, mouthing his delirious thoughts.
As the shockwave from the collapsing mountain resonated, a sharp piece of metal detached from above and fell toward his head, aiming directly at his forehead. The chunk was so large that, if it were to hit, there was almost no chance of survival.
"Great Saint!! Great Saint!! Where are you, Great Saint!!"
Just as the shout for Great Saint began, suddenly beside him, a Nanoworm camouflaged as Luoxue quickly formed into a giant hand, firmly holding the metal fragment.
Poet found that his memory was strangely occupied, just as when he was a Cleaning Robot in his distant past and whenever he met a young girl, his memory would always be occupied.
Meanwhile, in Metropolis, all of Poet's surviving mechanized troops—whether Liquid Metal, Nanoworms, or anything else—quickly congregated around the giant mechanical hand.
Ultimately, these Liquid Metals and Nanoworm drones formed a massive silhouette taller than the statues on Shendong Street, taller than the Utopia Security Building, taller than the once Holy Grail.
The people of Metropolis almost all recognized that silhouette.
As the figure grew larger and taller, and as this towering figure raised its hand, Sky-base Weapons across the globe almost simultaneously started adjusting their angles. As he forcefully pointed, a sky-full of lasers nearly lit up the entire heavens.
In an instant, the meteorite shattered into pieces, turning into a starry night sky, and every mobile combat unit at the scene began flying off, precisely hitting each piece of falling meteorite fragments, completely averting the catastrophic disaster.