The scorched earth was still emitting heat after the Inferno incendiary bombs. Dark red molten matter remained in the gullies. Thick smoke rose from the scorched earth. The choking smoke was mixed with all kinds of nauseating smells. The remains of the mutants were disintegrating and rising, the flesh and blood of the chimeras were emitting a foul stench after being carbonized, and the pungent smell of magic energy reacting with the air.
Without the protection of a full set of protective armor and a Breeze Shield, breathing in this burning battlefield for even a second would be like falling into the abyss.
Fendil Werde led his soldiers across the battlefield from a gully. The protective runes built into the armor isolated and filtered the shocking heat and various poisonous gases in the air. But even so, when Fendil glanced at the scorch marks caused by the living fire elements, he still felt a surge of heat from the bottom of his heart. He frowned and looked up into the distance. He saw a layer of strange purple-black fog floating at the edge of the battlefield. There were faint roars coming from the depths of the fog. At the end of the fog, near the hazy horizon, he could see a black and ominous' mountain range '.
If he took a closer look, he could even see that there were countless fine structures on the surface of the "mountain range" that were slowly undulating and swaying. The overall shape of the "mountain range" was even slightly adjusted. A slight shaking and tremor was constantly coming from the ground. This tremor was caused by the slight movement of the "mountain range".
"Sir," a soldier's voice came from behind Fendil. "Do you think … that thing has found us?"
"That's impossible, right?" Before Fendil could speak, another soldier next to him said nervously. "It's so far away, and we're so small … In front of that thing, ordinary humans should be equivalent to a grain of sand, right? Can anyone really see a specific grain of sand on the ground from a hundred meters away? "
"My aunt can." Fendil glanced at the soldier. "When she was bored, she would even stand on the balcony and name a grain of sand in the garden. Then she would use a gust of wind to blow the sand away and find the grain of sand. As a legendary mage, she used this method to train her spiritual cohesion."
The soldier was dumbfounded. But then Fendil shook his head. "But I think even if that thing has found us, it won't care. Like you said, we are like grains of sand in front of it, and now there are millions of grains of sand on the battlefield. Every grain of sand wants to kill it. Its attention is all on the Deep Blue Well, and it should not care about what we, who are no threat to it, are doing."
"You're right … It doesn't need to care. The mutants and biochemical beasts around it are enough to give us a headache." The soldier smiled bitterly and shook his head..... and we have to set up a ground communication station near the area of the mutants on the scorched battlefield... Let's hope that the purification device can suppress the freaks...... "
"Cut the crap. Let's get to work." Fendil muttered in a low voice and took the lead. Before crossing the next ravine, he could not help but look up at the direction of the 'living mountain range' in the sky.
The shocking, living cataclysm was at the end of the land. Not far in front of it, the ground was covered with an 'eggshell' that emitted a pale blue glow. The 'eggshell' was the last layer of defense of the Deep Blue Well. The ugly and deformed 'Creeping Disaster' was crouching greedily in front of the Deep Blue Well, like a hungry beast staring at a feast. Countless minions were gathered around it on the vast battlefield, like mountains and seas.
Fendil could only see a corner of this huge battlefield, but he knew that countless fierce battles were going on in this land called the 'Tarash Plain'. The coalition forces from all over the Lolun Continent had entered this ancient land and were fiercely exchanging fire with the mutants and chimeras. They were pushing forward with difficulty and building purification devices. They were trying to reduce the pressure on the Deep Blue Well.
But to the Creeping Calamity, which was as huge as a mountain, most of the regular mortal troops on the battlefield could hardly pose a threat. The only thing that could truly resist the Creeping Calamity was probably the skyscraper fortress that was entering the Tarash Plains from the west.
The skyscraper fortress, as huge as a city, moved forward under the clouds. The thick radioactive clouds moved back over the fortress like a rock layer close to the top of its head. Light flashed in the clouds from time to time, which was a discharge caused by the partial penetration of the atmospheric steady-state boundary layer caused by the magic power that had accumulated for hundreds of years. The Gorgon skyscraper was like a guard around the body of a Giant Dragon, accompanying the Dawn of the Earthly World. Countless dragoons, dragonkin, and giant dragon warriors soared in the sky around the skyscraper like a swarm of bees.
In the command hall of the Dawn of the Earthly World, a huge holographic projection was showing real-time images from various fronts. Gina Prince stood in front of the command console, her eyes fixed on the images. In the center of all the images, Duke Baldwin Franklin, who was leading the ground forces, appeared in the air. Behind him was the ground burned by the incendiary bombs and a tall, metallic tower standing high on the ground.
"We have successfully taken the hills northwest of Tarash. The purification device is being activated," Duke Baldwin said quickly. "What's the situation on your side now? Is there any movement from the 'Creeping Disaster'? "
"It stopped very close to the Deep Blue Well. Its internal energy response is very unstable." Gina Prince looked up at another holographic projection next to her, which was the image captured by the long-range optical sensors of the Dawn of the Earthly World. "We are gradually approaching, but it doesn't seem to have any reaction. The supercritical accelerator is ready to fire once we are in range."
"The coordination of the troops on all fronts has been completed." Duke Baldwin nodded. "The ground forces will withdraw to a safe distance. At the same time, once you start the attack, the purification towers on all fronts will enter a state of charging and try to close the blockage wall. Commander Gina, this charging process is irreversible. We must succeed in one try. The enemy will not give us a second chance. "
"We have no room for failure from the beginning," Gina Prince said softly. Then she turned to the commander beside her and her expression became serious. "Shut down the production module. All energy is supplied to the shield and weapon system. Escort the fleet back to the fortress hangars. All supercritical accelerators are unlocked and the speed is raised to three."
"Yes! Commander! " The soldiers responded loudly. Then, a low humming sound came from the depths of the Dawn of the Earthly World. It was the roar of the massive power ridge as it redirected the energy. Then, a slight vibration came from the edge of the deck. It was the resonance when all the shield generators were activated. The huge flying fortress had accumulated all its power. The twelve supercritical accelerators on the edge of the fortress had opened their respective shields. The long acceleration track pointed to the end of the horizon.
Almost at the same time, a heart-palpitating feeling swept across the entire battlefield.
The 'living mountain range' in the distance seemed to have woken up from a deep sleep. It was motionless for a moment. The next second, thousands of tentacles on its surface suddenly pointed to the sky. Countless pale eyes bloomed at the ends of the tentacles, and all the eyes stared in the direction of the Dawn of the Earthly World. In this undisguised malice and murderous intent, the mainframe of the Dawn of the Earthly World sounded the highest level of alarm. A commander stared at the data displayed on the instrument in front of him and exclaimed, "The energy response in the target's body is rising sharply!"
…
In the vast grayish-white desert, a gust of wind suddenly swept across the world. Countless pale grains of sand were swept up into the sky in an instant and fell like a rainstorm near the collapsed throne. Then, the gust of wind stopped, and the big black book sleeping on the top of the pillar in front of the throne suddenly woke up from its sleep.
The travelogue named 'Werder' 'looked' at the sky in shock. It saw that there were other colors in the originally monotonous world of black, white, and gray. It was a series of shocking and extremely strange dark red marks. They rose from the black silhouette of the city in the distance and extended to the end of the desert on the other side, covering the entire sky above the grayish-white desert along the way!
The dark red stripes were like wounds in the sky. When Werder looked at them, they began to twist and squirm. Drops of dark red liquid seeped out like a rain of blood and fell into the endless shadowy sand below. In the distant wind came a strange sound that sounded like the cry of a baby or the roar of a beast. This shocking change and extremely disturbing phenomenon made 'Modir's Travels' exclaim, "My God — My Lady, what happened?!"
On the collapsed throne, the Lady, who was as large as a mountain and as graceful as a dark cloud, had stood up. She opened her eyes, and a pair of Amber eyes were staring in the direction of the black silhouette of the city. The dark red blood rain fell in her sight, but before it hit the ground, the droplets seemed to be affected by an invisible force and flew back to the sky. This strange scene repeated over the desert, and the cries of the baby and the roar of the beast that came with the wind became more and more mournful and urgent.
"I don't know …" The Lady of the Night lowered her head and glanced at the big black book on the stone pillar. "That thing is restless … It seems to want to leave this place."
"Then what should we do?" Modir's Travels' voice sounded a little panicked. Although he was once the greatest adventurer in the world, the huge change in front of him was obviously beyond his knowledge. "And hasn't it been wandering here for more than a million years? Its target has always been your throne. Why is it suddenly … "
"The reason is unknown, but I guess something might have happened in the mortal world." The gigantic figure in front of the throne spoke in a low voice. As he spoke, the gigantic black and white scepter was already in his hand. At the same time, a gigantic figure gradually appeared in the silhouette of the black city in the distance. It was a body of flesh and blood with countless limbs. It flew in the air like a floating "star of flesh and blood" and gradually moved higher into the sky.
The Lady of the Night stepped down from the throne. The blood rain falling from the sky was stopped by an invisible force. For a moment, it all stopped in the air and dissipated as the Lady of the Night moved forward.
"The reason doesn't matter, but if this' guest 'wants to leave … it won't be so easy." The Lady of the Night's deep and majestic voice came from the sky. She walked towards the floating "star of flesh and blood" in the sky. The scepter in her hand was already on her shoulder. This was the first time that such a murderous look appeared in Modir's Travels' eyes. "For so many years, it's not that it has trapped me, but … I have trapped it!"
…
A terrible roar cut through the sky above the Tarash Plain. In this brief moment, almost every Transcendent on the battlefield who could sense magic power felt as if a heavy hammer had suddenly smashed into their hearts. Magic power instantly vibrated and swept across the battlefield. The aberrations stopped attacking, the thick fog over the land stopped rising, and everything quieted down in the blink of an eye.
Fendil Werde, who was at the front line, looked up at the horizon in shock. He saw that the terrifying "living mountain" suddenly bloomed silently in the sky. The next second, several dark red "magic bullets" with an ominous aura rose into the air and flew straight in another direction in the sky.
Then, the whole world seemed to return to "flow". The loud roar, the screams of the soldiers, and the ringing of the communication devices poured into his ears like a tide.
The final stage had begun.
The high-energy reaction alarm reverberated throughout the hall. A thin layer of bubbles appeared in the container where the Cortex Prime was. The surging energy in the depths of the Dawn of the Earthly Dawn roared, causing the floor of the command hall to tremble slightly. Jin Na saw a large number of noises suddenly appeared on the monitor screen. Then, several dark red shadows cut across the sky in the distance and "fell" on the large shield of the Dawn of the Earthly Dawn like doomsday meteors.
In the blink of an eye, an ear-piercing roar echoed throughout the sky above the skyscraper fortress. Violent ripples appeared on the surface of the large shield. The entire fortress was trembling, and the strange creaking sound even made people wonder if this huge flying fortress would collapse in the next second.
However, the powerful fortress-level shield managed to withstand this round of attacks. The intense shockwaves caused by the dark-red magic bullets on the surface of the shield gradually dissipated. The remnants of the explosion flowed down the surface of the shield like rain. Kina stabilized herself amidst the shaking and shouted at the soldier beside her, "Report the damage!"
"Three groups of shield generators are overloaded. The power is weaker than the previous data. It seems that at this distance, the magic bullets launched by the 'Creeping Disaster' will be weakened."
"What about the supercritical accelerator? Is it in range? "
"Not yet, still need a little bit more …" The voice of the weapon system operator came from below the command seat. After a moment of delay, the young man shouted, "Enter range! Begin calibration! "
"After calibration, fire half of it. All sensors are at maximum power. Keep an eye on that thing. The Gorgon Fortress is on standby on both sides." Jin Na pressed hard on the railing in front of her as she stared at the Creeping Disaster that had "awakened" on the horizon. "We will fight it from this position!"
(End of Chapter)
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