Pillar of Yita

But indirectly, it also extended the activation time of the Night Owl Crystal.

Approximately thirty-seven seconds remaining.

Seeing Fang Hong hesitating to open fire, Little Fatty was anxious, sweating on his forehead, estimating the shooting time for Fang Hong—should he fire now? He couldn’t help but think, but he dared not say it aloud, afraid of distracting Fang Hong at this critical moment.

But it was at this point that Fang Hong saw a flash on the wings of the opponent’s Clockwork Fairy ahead.

The wings of a Clockwork Fairy don’t flash; the flash was because the opponent adjusted the angle of the wings, refracting sunlight. And the opponent changed the angle of the wings, naturally, to adjust the flying posture of the Clockwork Fairy.

”It’s coming, just as expected.”

Fang Hong seemed to have anticipated this scene in his heart.

He suddenly raised his right hand—in the shocked gaze of Little Fatty beside him, the image seemed to stand up suddenly—no, to be precise, Fang Hong’s Hornet suddenly flew upward, ascending nearly a hundred feet.

At the same time, its vision maintained the opponent’s Clockwork Fairy in the center of the frame, equivalent to flying a nearly perfect arc with the opponent as the center.

At that moment, Little Fatty saw the opponent’s Clockwork Fairy halt in mid-air and suddenly turn backward.

But Fang Hong’s Hornet had already flown above the opponent, so the opponent’s sudden scouting behavior of turning ’back’ was in vain. Meanwhile, its pause in mid-air also exposed itself to danger.

Fang Hong immediately opened fire.

However, his Hornet was also in high-speed motion, causing the first round of fire to almost completely miss. The opponent seemed to seize this opportunity and immediately flew to one side. But Fang Hong quickly ordered the second round of shooting, lucky this time to accurately hit the side of the opponent’s shell.

Although the bullets merely grazed the Clockwork Fairy’s shell, the violent impact disrupted the opponent’s balance, causing it to lose speed and tumble down from mid-air.

”Damn.”

Little Fatty couldn’t help but curse upon seeing this scene. It was then he understood why Fang Hong had hesitated to speak earlier; the opponent had planned to sacrifice a Clockwork Fairy to probe what exactly was attacking them.

In other words, the opponent still hadn’t figured out what was attacking their Clockwork Fairy until now.

Unfortunately, when it comes to using Clockwork Fairies as cannon fodder, the opponent was clearly far inferior to Fang Hong—

Little Fatty glanced at Fang Hong, silently standing to the side with his right hand raised, and his shock was evident.

A master is indeed a master, unfathomable.

Fang Hong checked his core temperature, still 23% to reach the critical temperature, with two bullets left in the magazine—he quickly shut down the overload and Night Owl Crystal, then slightly adjusted the flying direction of the Hornet, allowing it to rise above the clouds.

Meanwhile, both were multitasking, controlling the other two Clockwork Fairies in a chase and evade scenario.

But ultimately, the human brain isn’t suited for parallel processing, so the chase and evade was initially entrusted to the system, until this moment when the battle ended on the other side, their attention simultaneously returned to this direction.

Fang Hong saw the other person’s Clockwork Fairy suddenly begin to turn in flight, and he instantly understood that the opponent had realized straight-line flying couldn’t match him.

However, the propulsion method of the Flexible Construct determined that, with stronger propulsion, larger constructions were inevitably less agile in turning. That wandering Alchemist was certainly a veteran, deducing this after losing just one Clockwork Fairy.

Unfortunately, it was a bit late.

Fang Hong simply used the plan against the opponent, unable to control the opponent to prevent turning, but at least he could limit the direction of the opponent’s turn—he ensured his Clockwork Fairy was always on the left side, forcing the opponent’s Clockwork Fairy to keep turning right.

And as the two headed into a predetermined direction beneath a hanging mountain range, suddenly two points of firelight appeared ahead—it was the Combat Fairies Fang Hong had long hidden there, finally opening fire at the opponent.

The wandering Alchemist was clearly astonished and immediately had his Clockwork Fairy evade to one side.

But he forgot, there were enemies behind.

Fang Hong hadn’t expected his Clockwork Fairy’s two bullets left in the magazine to achieve a decisive blow; the plan was merely to force the opponent’s positioning. In the next moment, he decisively commanded the second Hornet to open fire.

Right away, it was a direct three-round salvo.

He had the Clockwork Fairy unleash the remaining bullets in the magazine in one burst; with such luck, it shouldn’t be so bad as not to hit at all, right?

Fortunately, he wasn’t that unlucky, as the first volley already hit the enemy, turning it into flickering fragments in mid-air. Seeing this scene, Fang Hong wasn’t particularly thrilled, as he immediately shut down the overload and ordered the two Clockwork Fairies to return.

Otherwise, if they stayed longer, they’d eventually fall due to mechanical failure.

Moreover, the opponent could release a second round of Clockwork Fairies at any moment.

Fang Hong retrieved the Clockwork Fairies, lifted his Wind Goggles, looked back, and discovered everyone on the platform had already left, leaving only him, Little Fatty, Gita, and another Shield of Lufu member. He was surprised to see that Shield of Lufu member.

They were fourteen in total; Elisa and Luo Yu were a group, the remaining twelve could be divided into four groups, so how did an extra person appear?