Almost as soon as Vivian's voice trailed off, a shriek that was beyond all the sounds in the world, almost tearing the sky apart, came from afar. The sealed prison, which had been melted into a magma lake by the starship's cannon, shook again. Circles of dark red ripples stirred the hot magma, and a black shadow spread out from the center of the magma lake as if it came from hell.
The dark-red beam of light appeared again and eroded the sky of the alternate dimension at a faster speed than before.
"What the f * ck?!" Even Hao Ren could not help but exclaim. He had never thought that Nolan's cannon would be ineffective. "What the hell is that? It can survive the attack of the starship's cannon! Even the First Born was killed by this cannon! "
"Then there is only one answer. This thing cannot be destroyed by conventional means," the MDT said. "Or it is more powerful than the First Born."
"Nolan, prepare the main cannon!" Hao Ren immediately connected to the starship's mainframe. "Authorize the main cannon to fire at the ground in case of emergency."
Nolan immediately reminded him. "The main cannon uses high-frequency psionic attacks. There is a chance that it will directly destroy the local alternate dimension structure and even cause a slight leak to the main material world outside. Please confirm the firing command again."
Hao Ren's face was gloomy. He thought and made a decision, but finally nodded. "Confirm again. Charge the main cannon, but don't fire yet. Wait a minute, stop charging!"
He interrupted Nolan because something unusual suddenly appeared at the bottom of the dark-red beam of light in the distance.
A swaying, huge black figure stood up from the magma and shadows.
At first, he thought that it was a humanoid monster like the one from the Blacktide. But soon, he realized that it was a creature from the prime material world. It was a living person, or at least it was once a living person.
One-third of its body surface was covered in darkness, and some kind of negative force had made this person unrecognizable. Even at such a distance, Hao Ren could still see the terrible distortion and mutation of the burly figure with his extraordinary eyesight. There were weird structures like bone spurs on its body, and the left half of its body was distorted and swollen. Its skin was cracked, and what flowed out of the cracks was not blood but hot venom. Its heart was like an inflated basketball, and almost all the arteries were beating outside the skin.
The distorted creature stood up from the flames and shadows, and then an even more terrifying mutation began to appear on its body. Some kind of invisible power was constantly being injected into its body, causing its body to rapidly grow at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, it had become a giant that was more than ten meters tall, and energy waves that were even more terrifying than this huge body dissipated from its body.
The giant completed the transformation. He turned his head and stared in the direction of Hao Ren. There was no reason or thinking in his swollen and distorted dark eyes. He looked up and let out a crazy howl. The magma under his feet immediately solidified and then was torn into pieces.
"Hercules …" Hesperides murmured.
"Look at him!" Vivian could see more clearly from a high altitude. She instantly found something on the black giant's body that caught her attention. "On the chest, could it be that scepter?!"
Hao Ren looked and saw something on the chest of the black giant. It was a distorted scepter, embedded in the flesh of the giant. The exposed part was black, and at the end of the scepter was a large red crystal. The red crystal had broken, and there seemed to be something black surging in the cracked crystal.
Hao Ren judged the position of the scepter and realized that it was originally nailed to Hercules' chest. Now that Hercules had become a giant, the scepter embedded in his body looked like an inconspicuous nail.
"Two centuries ago, we nailed Hercules to the sealing stone at the bottom of the cage with the scepter," Hathaway said quickly. "He did it voluntarily to seal the power of the divine artifact."
"It seems that he has been completely corrupted in the past two centuries." Vivian took a deep breath. "Your sealing method is ridiculous!"
"The main cannon is ready to fire at any time," Nolan's voice came again. "Captain, do you want to order the attack?"
The giant in the distance strode forward. Behind him, a black tide rose up like a huge wall, as if he was leading a thousand soldiers. He raised his right hand and roared. His roar made the magma retreat and the earth crack. The brave hero of the past had no trace of humanity left.
Hao Ren did not know how Hercules survived the first bombardment, but he believed that this time the main cannon of the Petrachelys should be able to destroy the giant in one fell swoop. He had read the instructions and knew that the main cannon and the secondary cannon of his starship were two completely different levels of attack. But looking at the giant's crazy howl, some intuition suddenly made him suppress the urge to fire.
"Don't fire," Hao Ren took a step forward. "Cover me."
Vivian was stunned. "What do you want to do?"
"Don't you think this giant has a lot of secrets?" Hao Ren said as he prepared. "And the divine artifact, the 'boundary' that I don't know what it is. One shot and everything will be gone. I have to at least bring the divine artifact back."
The black giant strode forward, furiously charging at the few most eye-catching living people in the world. The pitch-black shadow covering his body twisted and rose like a raging flame, and not only did his mutated and swollen upper body not affect his speed at all, the black venom that dripped from the cracks on his skin fell to the ground and turned into little black devils, charging together with the giant like an army.
This terrifying enemy staggered but rushed over swiftly. Every time its footsteps landed, the earth would shake and the mountains would shake.
The lower armor of the Petrachelys shrunk inward, and after a series of structural changes, an ejection channel was exposed. A dozen silver-white unmanned attack drones roared out of the mothership and began to fire wildly at the enemies on the ground.
It was a wise move to carry some armed drones.
A dazzling lightning crossed a distance of a kilometer and split into dozens of small forked lightning bolts in the air, completely covering the body of the black giant. The black giant was hit by the lightning, but it only shook a little, and then continued to charge as if it did not feel anything.
Hao Ren held the plasma lance in one hand and the inspector's gun in the other. Under the double cover of the drones and Vivian, he faced the strange and terrible opponent.
The giant alone was only one of the problems. Another problem was the expanding "army" around him.
Around the giant, large swathes of darkness appeared out of thin air, and from these dark cracks — or rather, from the borders — came more and more monsters, just like the prelude to the Blacktide not long ago. But perhaps the attack from the starship's cannons had more or less damaged the core of the divine artifact, these shadows did not spread at a nightmarish speed like the Blacktide just now. The monsters continued to gather around the giant, and their expansion was somewhat suppressed by the armed drones flying in the sky.
The giant led the expanding shadow army forward, on the other hand, the armed drones in the air used firepower to suppress the spreading shadow army. Vivian's lightning and bat storm also began to entangle the giant's limbs. In this chaos, a blue light exploded. Hao Ren opened fire with his gun.
He thought that the distance was close enough. At this position, the powerful psionic gun was enough to deal a fatal blow to the enemy. And it was true. After a shot, the giant's entire arm, most of its shoulder, and one-third of its head were blown away!
"Roar —"
But after losing one-third of its head, the black giant let out a frenzied roar, and then endless shadows burst out from its wound like a storm.
What happened next stunned Hao Ren.
Amidst the thick smoke, the giant's severed limbs quickly regenerated, and the flesh and dust that fell from his wounds turned into a group of raging shadow monsters.
"Boom boom boom!"
The automatic cannons of the drones immediately cleared the new monsters, but they did not hit the giant. These autonomous combat machines had excellent AI, and they had judged from the results of Hao Ren's attack that the giant would not die after being attacked. Instead, it would immediately split into countless new bodies.
Hao Ren's Steel Membrane Shield glowed. He had been attacked by the shadow aura around the giant, and the dark servants around him had begun to attack him with all kinds of strange powers. He quickly retreated a distance, and then counterattacked with his pistol and spear while looking at the incomparably brave black giant.
Should he fire another shot to see if it worked? Destroy the giant's entire body with a larger attack range? Or try to find a weakness?
Hao Ren rejected all the plans one by one. Finally, his eyes fell on the scepter on the chest of the giant.
Sure enough, the best plan was to first separate the scepter from the giant.
According to Hathaway, there would still be energy flow between the scepter and Hercules, but that was because they did not have a more advanced isolation technology.
It did not matter. What Hao Ren did not lack was advanced technology.
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