"The power penetrated excessively; it seems that such force isn't needed to deal with ancient beasts." Perfikot stepped down onto the ground through the snow and frozen earth, checking the damage caused by the previous shelling.
She bent down to pick up a piece of rock lted into a glass-like state by the high temperature, her fingertips brushing against the surface's refracted rainbow hues, while her gaze remained fixed on the grueso wound twenty ters away—the smoke still rising from the edges of the fist-sized penetration wound in the head of the ancient beast as large as a three-story building.
The high-explosive anti-tank round not only penetrated the ancient beast's skull but also left a deep crater behind it.
Ailey followed Perfikot, gazing at the back of the young alchemist with a complex expression.
The cold wind lifted the hem of Perfikot's white lab coat, revealing the rangefinder and a pair of multi-function goggles hanging at her waist.
The collision sounds from these portable instrunts she carried intertwined with the lingering reverberations of the electromagnetic cannon in the distance, creating a dangerous symphony in Ailey's ears.
"Trajectory deviation at 0.17, impact point off by..." Perfikot squatted at the edge of the crater, placing the multi-function goggles on her head and asuring the trajectory with the rangefinder.
Suddenly, she stopped recording—several ters away, a broken beast's tooth was wedged in the scorched earth.
It was a fragnt of the skull shattered by the shockwave, now reflecting the sunlight at a bizarre angle.
"Kinetic energy conversion efficiency exceeds expectations by 23%..." The pen tip moved swiftly across the notebook, recording the test data: "The steel core material produced high-frequency vibrations at supersonic speeds, resulting in a secondary cavity effect..."
At this point, Perfikot tapped her temple with the pen barrel, turning to look at the seemingly bottomless crater behind her.
Perfikot shone a portable flashlight downwards, estimating the crater's depth to be about ten ters.
Such a depth isn't actually that great, considering the high-explosive anti-tank rounds Perfikot used are modern warfare tools from the original world, designed specifically to pierce through tanks.
Though the impact hole might not be large, the penetration power is truly astounding.
For example, the shell Perfikot used had a caliber of 600mm, but the essential armor-piercing steel needle was only 100mm in diater, thus the impact hole was about that size.
Yet this over ten-ter-deep crater fully demonstrated how terrifyingly penetrative this thing is.
Perfikot was only using ordinary steel cores that underwent hardening treatnt, without employing tungsten cores or anything more severe.
The lack of extre asures was mainly due to cost considerations, as these were just shells, making them too expensive is inappropriate.
Of course, preparing one or two for turning the tide at critical monts is necessary, but that would be after all tests and adjustnts have been completed.
But Perfikot had no intention of reducing the electromagnetic cannon's power, nor diminishing the penetration ability of the high-explosive anti-tank shell.
The reason being that this ti she precisely hit the head of this ancient beast, achieving a one-hit kill without losing much kinetic energy from the steel needle.
If the shot had hit the chest or even an arm of the beast, blocked by muscles, bones, and other tissues, the penetration effectiveness wouldn't have been as good.
After all, the high-explosive anti-tank shell's steel needle was not designed for the massive scale of an ancient beast, making it difficult to inflict very effective damage without hitting a vital point.
Of course, if it could penetrate deep enough into the beast, for example, from shoulder to groin, it would still inflict sufficient damage, but it's typically hard to find such an appropriate angle of incidence.
Perfikot, considering multiple factors, deed it appropriate to design it this way.
Better to over-penetrate than fail to penetrate at a critical mont.
As for destructive damage, Perfikot prepared another type of shell.
However, she hadn't tested that one yet, because, at the mont, there wasn't a second ancient beast available for testing destructive effects.
Unless she used those destruction-focused shells to blow up the corpse of the already dead ancient beast.
But such an action feels sowhat wasteful.
After all, the corpse of an ancient beast, from any perspective, is a valuable resource, one that Perfikot could even use to create two sets of Godslaying Armor.
"What do you plan to do next?" Ailey approached Perfikot, gazing at the deep crater with great reverence.
"I plan to build a larger caliber electromagnetic cannon to mount on the Floating City. Although this one is powerful enough, it's still insufficient for slaying gods, especially a main god." Perfikot seed to be obsessed, in pursuit of greater and stronger weapon power.
Though Ailey frowned slightly at this, she didn't oppose it.
She didn't consider Perfikot's god-slaying intentions far-fetched.
Perhaps earlier, she would have thought humans must fight desperately to resist the gods' onslaught, hoping to survive the apocalyptic disaster instigated by the gods.
But after witnessing Perfikot's preparations, Ailey clearly understood that Perfikot's intentions extended beyond re resistance; she aid to annihilate the gods completely.
This was evident from the Godslaying Armor crafted by Perfikot.
Without the intent to slay gods, why create such a thing?
Especially as Ailey could sense that the Alchemy Puppet nad Beifa beside Perfikot genuinely possessed the power to slay divinities.
Normal subordinate gods might not even defeat this lifeless Alchemy Puppet.
Although Perfikot stated she couldn't craft another as powerful as Beifa without sufficient divinity materials, Ailey wasn't a fool. She could tell that even if Perfikot couldn't create another Beifa-level puppet, she could still make slightly inferior Godslaying Armors.
For instance, the ancient beast right before them could undoubtedly be used to construct Godslaying Armor capable of killing Divine Attendants.
After all, ancient beasts once troubled even the gods themselves.
These giant beasts were mostly unintelligent, yet they had great vitality and were formidable in battle, requiring either gods themselves or their subordinate gods to handle them. Otherwise, it was nearly impossible to slay an ancient beast with ease.
This illustrates how powerful a Godslaying Armor crafted by Perfikot truly is.
And now, with these floating battleships equipped with electromagnetic cannons, they, too, supported a strength capable of opposing the gods, leaving Ailey genuinely feeling that humanity might indeed have a chance to achieve victory in this battle against the gods.
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