Under Tawil's order, the scanning probe was removed from the foreign object. Two Empire technicians walked up to it and used their special scanning equipment to conduct a deep scan of the strange object. A few seconds later, a clearer image than before appeared on the information screen in Tawil's hand: a humanoid creature in battle, and a monster with barely humanoid limbs and a twisted torso.
Compared to the ugly half-human monster, the humanoid creature naturally attracted more of our attention. He looked like a muscular man, wearing a strange but well-made armor. The heavy armor was etched with complicated patterns, and the main joints had sharp steel spikes that made it a killing weapon. It was obviously not for decoration. The humanoid creature was holding a giant sword in his hand — please allow me to use the word "sword" to describe a sword. This thing looked like a door plank, I really did not know how to describe it. He was bending his body and slashing at the monster in front of him. The monster raised a severely deformed "arm" to block, but the entire arm and half of its upper body were sliced open like butter. Soon, we found the severed arm at the height of the monster's calf.
All the signs indicated that the calamity had suddenly befallen the two creatures when they were fighting fiercely. They did not even have the time to struggle before they were wrapped into a piece of space amber. Even the monster's severed arm did not have time to fall to the ground.
"The image is very clear. Saya, increase the intensity of the scan. I need the details of the second feed," Tarver ordered his men to send back more accurate images while he enlarged the holographic projection in his hand so that Shadora and I could see it more clearly. "It's a muscular humanoid creature. Its appearance is very similar to that of a modern human. It has the facial features and thick hair of a Nordic human. However, its body is abnormally large. If it can stand up straight, it would be at least 2.5 meters tall. Theoretically speaking, that's the case."
I nodded. The fellow who was taller than two Pandora: Fortunately, he's already dead. Otherwise, he would have died again.
"Judging from his appearance, he doesn't have any deformed joints due to giantism, so if it's not a genetic mutation, this tall humanoid creature should come from a civilization similar to Earth, but it's not human." Tawil tapped on the information screen in his hand. "Well, this is the details of his armor. There are a few strange words, but it can't be translated without comparison. Saya has already pierced the probe into this rock. Maybe we can collect some genetic samples without destroying the space amber. "
"Wow …"
Shallow Shallow let out a whimper, her face glowing with excitement. "It feels like we're filming a movie. Can we replicate him?"
"That's easy, Mistress." Tawil pushed up his spectacles. "But it's meaningless. This humanoid creature might come from a low-level civilization, and he's still using cold weapons. Although not all high-level civilizations use firearms, there's a high chance that this creature doesn't possess any valuable combat capabilities, even though he's huge — at least in theory."
"Tsk." Shallow Shallow clenched her teeth. "Everything has to do with war. Can't we form a basketball team?"
I winked at Tawil and muttered through our mental link, "Don't be so serious with your Mistress. She probably doesn't even know what she's thinking." "Also, don't even think about forming a basketball team. With Pandora and her sister at home, the death rate of this sport is too high."
"Mm, what about this monster?"
I pointed at the humanoid monster that was almost dismembered. One of its arms had been chopped off, and half of its upper body had been chopped off from its shoulder to its ribs. The monster's face was twisted and frenzied, and it looked like a still image of the mythical God of War versus the monster. Of course, we now call it Man and Nature.
"This is what's even more confusing." Tawil pointed at a series of curves on the screen. "That's also a human, but it's severely deformed due to some kind of mutation."
I was stunned.
This piece of space amber held quite a lot of secrets. Being from another world was enough for it to be displayed in the museum of any civilization in the universe, and the psionic reaction it produced during its transmigration had even confused the scientists of the Empire. Now, it was a piece of space amber that contained a humanoid creature and a genetically mutated creature. Could this be a treasure that some collector used to guard his house?
"Cut it open." Sandora pondered for a while, then made a chopping motion with her hand. "We don't need it as a collectible. Let this piece of stone have some value to the Empire."
"Your will."
Tawil saluted and turned his head to give an order. "Cut the sample!"
Several robots immediately responded to the order. These agile little guys flew to the surface of the space amber and poked out small high-energy laser needles. Then, they used blue and white lasers to start cutting the large "stone" that was a few meters in diameter. An unpleasant burning smell immediately filled the air. Tawil frowned and muttered, "It smells terrible. It smells like the buffer material of the battleship is burnt."
Sizzle sizzle. Accompanied by bright sparks, the object from the other world, which was several meters in diameter, was gradually separated into several pieces under the precise adjustment of the anti-gravity platform from the main body. In the middle of the platform, the unfortunate dead soldier and the monster under his sword were carefully protected, not the slightest bit of damage from the laser.
We waited patiently for a few more minutes, waiting for the machine to carefully extract the unfortunate person from the "amber". Out of curiosity, we immediately moved forward and faced the tall warrior who had appeared out of nowhere, as well as the ferocious and crazy monster under his sword.
It was a fierce man with a furious expression. The muscles on his exposed skin looked like they were about to burst his armor. This seemed to indicate that he came from an uncivilized civilization that still worshipped the strength of the individual. Shallow Shallow looked at the "huge" sword that was as big as a door in the other party's hand in amazement. She began to calculate how much this thing could be sold for if it was melted into molten iron and sold as steel plates. Meanwhile, Sandora muttered to herself as she looked at the monster whose organs had been cut out. "Ah Jun, I feel that this thing is a little weird. It smells disgusting."
"It smells terrible." I sniffed. "Tawil said that it smells like the buffer material of the battleship. But I think it smells like rotten eggs."
"I don't mean that. It's a feeling, a spiritual feeling. I hate this monster, but it feels familiar …"
"Your Majesty, please step back!"
Just as I was talking to Sandora, Tawil suddenly called out. He sounded a little anxious.
The three of us took a few steps back in confusion. When we were outside the yellow line of the anti-gravity platform, we realized that Pandora and Visca had each taken out their huge cannons. It seemed like they were ready to fire from their own houses. Tawil, who had issued the warning, was quickly pressing something on the holographic projection in front of him. His expression was shocked and solemn.
"I don't know if I'm seeing things. The sample just now showed signs of life. Wait, it disappeared. But there are still aftershocks …"
Tawil said in a hurried tone. I immediately looked at the anti-gravity platform beside us in surprise. The two corpses that had died in battle were still floating there, motionless like statues. But I wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but it seemed like the thing was really not dead. Hm, it was too lifelike?
"Crack, crack, crack …"
A light peeling sound caught everyone's attention. Although it was very light, the sound was very clear to our ears. In the next second, fine smoke that could be seen with the naked eye floated from the body of the tall warrior and the monster. This was the "amber" component hidden in the gaps of their torso. Due to the movement of their limbs, the "amber" component had fallen off and spread freely in a gravity-free environment, resulting in excessive PM2.5.
If something had mixed in just now, everyone would have gotten used to it.
"He's moving!" Tawil only had time to shout that. Another roar that was far louder than hers resounded in the garage. The eyes of the two-and-a-half-meter-tall giant suddenly moved, and the stiff skin on his face cracked. With infinite courage, the warrior let out a deafening roar, "Cilin Naziadar! Atalendisi！！”
In the midst of the battle roar, the greatsword in the warrior's hand began to carry out its unfinished mission. It suddenly swung down, trying to cut the twisted creature that might have been human but had now become a monster through genetic mutation, into two.
However, the blockage of the rock had erased the momentum that the greatsword had accumulated. The sword in the warrior's hand could only move forward a little under the power that he had accumulated in a hurry. In that split second, the "monster" that had been fatally cut came back to life. It let out a low roar that did not make sense. The monster dodged the direction where the greatsword came from. Even though it had lost an arm and half of its body was cut off, the creature seemed to feel no pain and performed a violent movement that would have broken the waist of a normal person. It narrowly avoided the fate of being dismembered.
Murky blood splattered on the ground along with the monster's movement. Immediately, ominous black smoke burst out. Looking at the smoke, Sandora was shocked. "Abyss!"
"Guards! Protect His Majesty! Seal the passage! Activate the purification field in the garage! Invasion of the Abyss! "
The ripples of teleportation flashed continuously in the surrounding space. Batches of royal guards armed to the teeth with heavy weapons formed an iron defense line around the few of us in a second. However, Sandora immediately used a mental command to stop these elite soldiers from firing their 'Protection Shots'. (This is an emergency operation when the Empire's leader is in danger. The royal guards who are teleported to the scene will attack any target that is not within the protection circle without a second identification. This includes rats and cockroaches.) I also stopped the two 1.2m sisters who wanted to throw a spatial bomb at home. (These two might have been agitated by the sight of two creatures that were twice their size fighting in front of their eyes.)
This was the first time that the City of Shadows, the capital of the Empire, had armed royal guards to face the enemy. Furthermore, it was accompanied by the extreme situation of an invasion of the abyss. In such a sensitive situation, ear-piercing alarms rang throughout the entire fortress. Amidst the alarms, all the heavy armored barriers outside the base floated with psionic energy. Layers of energy rose and separated the base. Energy fields that were strong enough to ionize ordinary creatures into atoms were activated in all the passages. Soon, countless isolation zones were formed in the base. A large number of Empire soldiers immediately received the alarm that the capital was being invaded. However, before this order could reach the outside of the fortress, it was canceled. The invasion of the abyss had been suppressed. The facts proved that this invasion was not premeditated. Other than the black smoke that was carried by a sample that had gone out of control, the capital of the Empire had not been attacked by the enemy.
While all the security units in the base were operating at high speed, the garage appeared to be calm. That is, if you didn't include the two humanoid creatures that were fighting to the death.
The royal guards who heard the news stood in a human wall. They held the special garrison submachine guns in their hands, and the blue shields on their bodies connected to form a barrier. Although the strength of the abyss energy that spread out in the garage was only at the level of secondary derivation (the abyss reaction of the second decay of the creatures that were infected by the abyss), it was because this place was deep in the capital of the Empire, and it was right next to the emperor, so the situation was very urgent.
Compared to these Empire soldiers who were shouldering the responsibility, Sandora and I looked rather calm. The spreading abyss energy wasn't strong. It couldn't even distort the minds of the ordinary Empire soldiers. Therefore, we could leisurely watch the heated battle in front of us.
Being watched by so many people, the two of them fought as if there was no one else around!
Although the monster that revealed the abyss attribute after it was resurrected was very agile, the other burly man was obviously more ferocious. He waved the alloy greatsword that was as light as a feather. The giant-like Nordic man roared and slashed the jumping monster in a way that completely exceeded the muscle output of carbon-based creatures. We could even see afterimages when he waved his hand. Some kind of dim silver halo gradually seeped out from under the skin of the warrior as he fought. At first, I thought it was the legendary "combat aura", but the energy counter in Tawil's hand indicated that it was a kind of low-frequency radiation. Although the efficiency was far lower than psionic energy, this radiation effectively resisted the abyss erosion that spread out from the monster and doubled the strength of the giant warrior.
The energy counter showed that in terms of strength and agility, this guy's fighting ability was even more ferocious than a fully armed Empire soldier or even a subordinate commander — this guy was definitely not human!
"Tawil, continue to record the data. The others, get ready to support the warrior. No matter who he is, he is fighting the abyss." Sandora ordered in a low voice, and the royal guards immediately listed the giant warrior wielding the greatsword as a friendly target.
Reality proved that the super warrior didn't need our support. In the enraged battle, the already heavily injured monster had almost lost the ability to resist. Even though it was crazy and fearless, when faced with a man wielding a greatsword who was like a meat grinder, the only thing it could do was delay its remaining arm from being chopped off by a few minutes.
The greatsword wielding warrior's body was filled with silver-white radiation energy, and this energy also extended to the weapon in his hand. This light seemed to be able to suppress the weak abyss aura on the monster, and the monster's flesh that was cut off lost the ability to produce black mist when it fell to the ground. But at the moment when victory seemed to have been decided, the monster that had fallen into a blind spot suddenly raised its head and looked in our direction.
It was impossible for us to guess the thoughts of creatures infected by the Chaos Abyss. At any rate, this creature that was about to die actually ignored the human-shaped meat grinder that was right next to it. Instead, it roared as it rushed towards the even scarier imperial guards. Originally, we had the attitude of watching these two mysterious creatures fight to the death, but when we discovered that we were also being targeted … Yep, at any rate, I didn't feel anything. However, the imperial guards in a circle were obviously furious. Several hundred heavy weapons simultaneously loaded and clanked loudly. But before they could open fire, a white shadow rushed out of the human wall and instantly sank into the body of the Chaos Abyss monster. The Chaos Abyss monster didn't even have the chance to struggle before it directly fell to the ground, silent and completely dead.
"Alert dismissed."
As the small amount of abyss energy in the garage was purified by the force field, Sandora waved her hand at the guard captain beside her in displeasure. "Such a weak enemy, why are you so nervous!"
The innocent guard captain didn't say a word in defense as he maintained his poker face and accepted the queen's rebuke. However, I felt wronged for him. Of course, Sandora could ignore these abyss monsters that weren't even comparable to small fries, but as a guard of the royal district, no matter how small fries they were, as long as they had anything to do with the abyss, he would immediately take the highest alert action. This wasn't about the situation, but about his mission. Of course, Sandora also understood this logic. She was just a little grumbling about the guards making a big fuss over a minor issue. A little grumbling was enough.
The guards dispersed the human wall that we saw as unnecessary. Sandora and I walked towards the mysterious warrior that had regained its composure. After its target was unexpectedly killed, the mysterious warrior didn't move at all as if he had been petrified, as if he was a battle puppet that had lost its target. However, when we got closer, the other party still moved slowly. The huge warrior slowly turned his head and looked at us who were approaching.
His gaze swept past Shadora and me. In the end, his gaze landed in a certain direction. His pupils rapidly contracted, and the muscles on his arms visibly bulged. It was as if he had entered a battle state again, but that was all.
With a clang, the heavy alloy greatsword fell to the ground. The tall warrior fell to the ground without a sound. The wounds all over his body finally burst open and blood gushed out like a ghastly fountain.
"He's dead."
Tawil said calmly. The MDT in his hand displayed the cold words, "Lifeless."
Sandora silently looked at the warrior on the ground. "Revive him. I want to see him awake before me at this time tomorrow."
"Your will."
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