Chapter 16: The Night of Moonquake's Final Song (Part 2)
The roar of the giant beast never stopped as Beichen, Yagard and the weapons joined forces on their way.
At the same time, screams were heard from the surrounding buildings from time to time, accompanied by various chaotic noises, causing the entire city to fall into chaos at night.
"Strange, something's wrong."
As they ran towards the lake, Yagad whispered.
Yaye also ran while paying attention to the signs around him: "It seems that the commotion nearby is not directed at the giant beast. Look, there is such a loud noise, but there are no people rushing to the lake. Not even the Self-Defense Forces showed up."
"It does look a bit sinister." Ling Shuang pointed at the increasingly clear silhouette of the giant beast. "The eyes of the possessed Moon Messenger are red, but this thing's eyes are golden, and it doesn't have those blue-purple crystals on its body. Is it really the possessed Moon Messenger?"
“…”
Beichen's mood became more and more solemn.
"Anyway, let's go check out the situation. But if something seems wrong, everyone must prioritize protecting themselves!!"
"yes!"
"learn!"
However, when they arrived, even though they were mentally prepared, Beichen and his group still took a breath at the same time.
It was a monster two or three times larger than the largest possessed Moon Envoy Beichen had ever seen. In the darkness, one could only vaguely make out its upper body, which had two enormous arms and a head resembling a human with long hair. Its lower body was submerged in the water, occasionally churning and surfacing in the light, its shape remarkably resembling a fish's tail.
──It was like a giant mermaid.
At the same time, its surface texture was strange. It wasn't covered in fur or biological armor like the Moon Envoy, but rather a hard, reflective substance—but if it were a shell, its limbs moved with extreme agility and naturalness, without the slightest sense of encumbrance.
At this moment, the giant mermaid was once again roaring, piercing the night sky.
With this sound, the commotion in the city became even more severe. In the distance, sounds of various things breaking, heavy objects falling to the ground, and people screaming could be heard.
"What the hell is going on?"
Behind a small house by the lake, several people hid their bodies. Beichen was the first to frown and ask a question.
"Master...that thing...it's inciting the war machine."
Beichen was shocked when he heard Xiang Ying's words.
"Inciting war weapons? What's going on?"
"I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, whenever it barks, I feel a strange, violent impulse stirring inside me, but it's not particularly severe. Gemini brothers, how about you?"
"Yeah, us too, but luckily, we can suppress it."
Su Jie looked unhappy and took a step forward to stretch his neck.
"That thing actually wants to control us with such an unpleasant cry? It's really disgusting!"
"So, the riots in the city... are most likely because the war machines were affected by the shouting?"
Yaye frowned and reached out to summon the sickle.
"I'm going to meet it, you guys stay where you are."
"What! It's too dangerous, Yaye. That thing is so big—"
"Don't underestimate me, damn Matcha! ... Don't worry, I know my limits. I won't mess around with my life."
In response to Beichen's dissuasion, Yaye patted her shoulder and jumped into the lake.
The black light of the sickle drew a ghostly afterimage in the air and slammed into the head of the giant mermaid. The latter stopped screaming and stretched out a hand. With a clang of metal collision, Yaye's attack was stopped.
I saw Yaye's figure flipping backwards in the air, and then floating steadily in the air - by the way, Yaye seemed to have said that the Fallen Dark Race has the ability to float - then he lowered his body, pressed the sickle handle again, and rushed towards the mermaid!
Sizzle! !!!
The extremely harsh sound of metal scraping against each other cut through the entire night sky.
Yaye retracted the sickle again and jumped into the air, then flashed back to Beichen and the others.
"How about it?"
Yaye shook his head with a rare serious look.
"The skin is very hard. Even my hardness can't compete with it."
"So what should we do? ...Escape?"
Roar!!!
At this moment, the loud noise once again triggered the riot in the city. All kinds of riots, curses and screams came one after another, making Beichen's face pale as he looked in the direction of the giant beast.
"Miss Beichen, please allow me to defeat that thing. I suspect it has something to do with Chiyue."
Yagard, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke, and Beichen was shocked again when he heard "Red Moon".
"Is it related to the Red Moon? Yagad, are you sure?!"
"It's just speculation, so I have to go and make sure."
Beichen gritted his teeth and said, "Are you sure? Don't do anything that will get you killed."
Receiving the concern, the knight immediately smiled happily.
"Don't worry, I'm 95% sure."
"Really?" Beichen lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then nodded seriously, "Go ahead, I'll go with you!"
"Owner!"
"Little loach, are you crazy?!"
Their own weapons immediately jumped up, and Beichen smiled at them as if to comfort them.
"There's no reason for the sword to kill the enemy while the swordsman should retreat. Even standing at a distance and using the spirit crystals to help would be fine. Besides, since this is related to the Red Moon, I can't retreat."
"But it's too dangerous. Now is not the time to show off!"
Ling Shuang also pressed Beichen's shoulder with a look of disapproval.
"I don't want to take any risks, but I feel... this enemy is someone I must confront... someone I must understand clearly, or I'll definitely regret it. Just think about it, being able to incite the existence of war weapons—what kind of impact would that have on the entire world?"
“…”
"Understood."
Agard interrupted the warriors' dissatisfaction.
"Miss Beichen's wishes are everything. If you wish to join the battle, please do so. I will protect you. Rest assured, I will not let you be in danger."
“…”
“…”
“…”
Seeing that Yagad spoke so confidently, the warriors stopped persuading him.
After briefly formulating a battle plan and reaching a consensus, the group suddenly rushed out from the shadows beside the cabin. Six figures were like six lightning bolts, rushing towards the lakeshore with a fierce murderous aura.
"start!!"
Beichen ran to the lakeside and separated from the others. Together with Xiangying, Shuangzi, and Lingshuang, they crushed the spirit crystal "Ice Field" in their hands and threw it into the lake. In an instant, a large area of lake water condensed with a squeaking noise and quickly extended outwards.
Several people jumped onto the ice and rushed towards the giant beast, while continuing to throw spirit crystals forward to expand the standing area under their feet. Not long after, the ice surface immediately extended to the bottom of the giant beast, even freezing the thick fish tail under the ice!
Good opportunity, now it can't move in the water for a while!
when! !
Leading the charge was the long-handled axe in Yagard's hand. The wild white light came down with a whistling sound, as heavy as a thousand pounds. The mermaid stretched out her hand nimbly to block it, but the huge arm strength still made her whole arm numb, and she let out an unpleasant scream.
Then it seemed to be angry, its golden eyes locked onto the figure of Yagard who had just landed, and it raised its hand and swung it down suddenly - instead of retreating, Yagard took a step forward, swinging his long-handled axe to meet the attack. With a deafening bang, he steadily withstood the attack of the giant beast that was dozens of times his size - the huge pressure actually caused the thick ice under his feet to crack!
However, the Cavaliers were not content with just defense.
He gripped the axe handle with both hands and twisted his arms to move the center of gravity of the giant beast's hand. Then the axe drew a beautiful blade flower in the air, and swung it upside down from bottom to top at a tricky angle, diagonally stuck into the giant beast's fingertips!
The giant beast seemed to notice something was wrong and stopped exerting force, but just a second before that—
“Haaaaaaaa!!”
The knight roared with immense power, swung his axe horizontally, pressed down with his wrist, gripped the handle tightly, and yanked it back fiercely. A sharp tearing sound, accompanied by the beast's desperate cry, shook every living creature present—except Agard—so much that their ears went numb and their chests felt heavy with anger.
He tore off a giant beast's finger with force!
"here you go!!"
After finishing setting up the battlefield (using spirit crystals to freeze everything nearby), Yaye laughed wildly and rushed to the vicinity of Yagard to join the battle.
On the other side, the finger landed on the ice and slid for a distance, just in front of Beichen. She squatted down to check it out - it was really horrifying. The finger alone was as big as her entire leg, but this was not the most surprising thing.
"……What's this?"
Beside her, Xiang Ying suppressed his surprise and cried out softly.
Yes, the cross-section of the finger was completely different from what Beichen had imagined. There were what looked like fine "blood vessels" like wires, muscles composed of fibers with a strange sheen, and faintly glowing threads like electronic circuits in the middle. The light pulsed rhythmically, and slowly flowing out of the cross-section was a golden liquid.
"Golden blood?!"
Black Disaster screamed in shock—in this world, aren't weapons the only things with golden blood?!
Beichen was even more surprised than him.
What is this? It clearly looks like a living thing, but inside it is this kind of… this kind of structure that looks like a living thing, but I can't be sure it's a living thing?
It's like──
"A living machine...?"
She murmured to herself—but at this moment, the roar of the giant beast sounded again, and she suddenly realized that she was now on the battlefield and could not be distracted. No matter how many questions she had, she had to think about them after the battle was over.
She looked in the direction of the beast and took a breath.
The beast's sharp claws lashed out at Agaard like a violent storm, but the latter remained calm. His long-handled axe sent streams of white light crashing into the claws, opening the attack—the sounds of violent collisions echoed continuously at an unexpected frequency.
And during this gap, Yaye launched a harassing attack on its head from mid-air - every time it swung its claws at Yagad with all its strength, the black light of the sickle rushed towards its neck and eyes. Although it dodged or was defended because of its hard skin, the force of the attack on Yagad was also dispersed a lot.
At the same time, Ling Shuang, who had circled around the giant beast's back, jumped up and climbed up using the scales on its back. Only after he climbed to the back and grabbed the giant beast's hair (? ? ) to maintain his balance did he find a chance to observe carefully. He finally discovered what was covering the giant beast's body.
"Hey!!" He roared from the giant beast to the crowd below, "Its skin is made up of layers of iron-like material. There are gaps when it moves. Find the gaps and attack!"
After saying that, he took advantage of the giant beast's shaking of its body, aimed at the gap in the exposed iron shell, and stabbed the tip of the gun into it fiercely!
laugh!
The golden liquid suddenly splashed out, and the giant beast shook its body violently and let out an earth-shaking roar, almost shaking Ling Shuang off it. Then, it became furious.
It opened its mouth, and golden light slowly condensed from its mouth.
Seeing this action, everyone present was stunned.
They had seen this action countless times - it was the most commonly used and most terrifying trick of the Possessed Moon Envoy - the preparatory action for the Star Cannon!
Beichen was the first to come to his senses: Oh no, it's heading... straight ahead is the city! How many people will die from this one shot?!
Without time to think, she stretched out her hand, and the shadow transformed into a long sword in her hand and rushed towards the giant beast. Hei Huo and Su Jie immediately followed closely.
"Agad!"
"drink!"
Following Beichen's cry, Yagad roared, and the long-handled axe whistled as it sank into the iron shell of the beast's abdomen. This blow clearly caused the beast immense pain again. Its attention was once again focused on Yagad, and it swung down with force with its claws, but the movement of gathering the Star Spirit Cannon in its mouth did not stop.
Yagard raised his long-handled axe to block again, and the ice under his feet once again made a cracking sound under the heavy weight.
Beichen rushed to the nearby area and looked at the cracks in the ice. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to his mind!
"Agard, dodge the attack! Ice!"
The knight on the opposite side was stunned for half a second and then immediately understood Beichen's meaning. Then when the giant beast swung its hand down again, he jumped back with force and jumped out of the giant beast's attack range.
bump!
The giant beast's sharp claws slammed into the ice surface, and the cracks that had been growing bigger and bigger were completely shattered this time due to the fierce attack. The sound of splashing water was heard, and the ice surface cracked into several small pieces. The giant beast leaned forward, and its arms were buried in the water due to the huge impact.
Good opportunity!
Beichen immediately broke a spiritual crystal ice field and threw it into the water. In an instant, the cracked ice surface immediately solidified again, and one of the giant beast's hands was successfully frozen on the water surface!
Roar──
The giant beast leaned forward and struggled. Ling Shuang on its back successfully climbed to its head, jumped high, and stabbed at the gap in its neck. Yagard stepped forward and, with the cooperation of Yaye's dive, firmly blocked the movement of its other hand.
On the other side, Heihuo and Sujie each suppressed the movement of the hand buried in the ice, while Beichen climbed onto its body by stepping on that arm, jumped and grabbed the hair on its chest, aimed at the iron shell with an obvious gap exposed by the wide-open mouth, raised Xiangying and stabbed it fiercely horizontally - with a swish, the giant beast's side jaw was pierced horizontally by Xiangying!
The behemoth roared once more—but the annoying thing was, even after being attacked in the mouth, it didn't stop preparing the Protoss Cannon!
"Beichen!"
Ling Shuang stood beside its neck and reached out to her. She grabbed the other person and jumped hard, also jumping onto the shoulder of the giant beast. She held Ling Shuang's gun handle to maintain balance, then took out the eighth-level spirit crystal wind cannon and aimed it at the side of the giant beast's face.
"I wonder if you'll stop like this!!"
After saying that, Beichen crushed the spirit crystal wind cannon with a snap. In an instant, the high-pressure wind column hit the giant beast's head at a very close distance. A slight cracking sound was heard. When the wind cannon ended, the iron shell on the side of the giant beast's face was already in tatters, and golden blood was spilled everywhere.
Ouch!
The roar at such close range made Beichen's scalp numb, and he reflexively covered his ears. At this moment—
"careful!!!"
Ling Shuang on the side suddenly changed her expression and rushed towards her. The next second, a golden beam of light rushed past the two of them and hit the ice surface not far away, blasting a regular huge round hole in the entire ice surface.
──It actually twisted its head into a strange angle and fired the Star Spirit Cannon at Beichen!
Under the wind pressure generated by the Star Spirit Cannon, Beichen and Lingshuang rolled off the giant beast together. Xiangying turned into a human form in mid-air, and together with Lingshuang, he protected Beichen's body and fell to the ground.
“Woo—”
When she landed on the ground, Ling Shuang let out a scream of pain. Beichen stood up and saw that there was a large pool of blood on the ice beneath Ling Shuang!
"Ling Shuang, are you okay?"
She immediately turned Ling Shuang over with Xiang Ying's help - her entire back was covered in blood and flesh, with white bones even exposed in some places!
──It seems that he was hit by the golden star cannon while protecting her!
"Ling Shuang, cheer up!!"
Beichen's eyes became hot, and he immediately took out a few bottles of Star Spirit Ore solution and poured them on his back.
"I'm fine—" Ling Shuang said weakly in her arms, "Pay attention to the battlefield!"
Boom!
At this moment, a strange loud noise came from the direction of the giant beast. When they turned around, they found that Yagad and Yaye had used some unknown method to pull off the entire huge arm that was exposed outside!
The behemoth furiously began to concentrate the Star Spirit Cannon in their direction again, and at this moment, several huge arrows rushed through the air and went straight into its mouth!
Help is coming? ──Beichen looked in the direction where the arrow came from──
Lingdiel stood on the shore, legs apart, holding a massive crossbow in both hands, aiming at the beast with a bold, arrogant smile. Then, she released the retaining spring—swish, swish, swish! Over a dozen arrows hurled themselves at the beast in rapid succession, accompanied by a heavy, murderous whistling sound. Some were deflected by the iron shell, while a few, thanks to their powerful ejection force, pierced through the shell and lodged themselves in the beast's body!
What a fierce crossbow!
However, before Beichen could cheer for Lingdir's supporting attack, another figure flashed across her sight and came in front of her.
Rabies
"Glenshe!?"
"Come with me."
Ignoring Beichen's surprise, he lifted her arm and glanced at Xiangying.
"You stay behind and take care of the wounded. Crooked Claw, prepare for battle."
Mad Dog naturally gave orders to Beichen's weapons. A hint of unwillingness flashed in Xiangying's eyes, although he knew that Mad Dog's decision was correct - if they launched a surprise attack, the Twin Claws' attack power would indeed be stronger than his.
Beichen felt a little unhappy about this, but she also knew that now was not the time to go against Kuang Dog, so she stretched out her hand and let Hei Huo and Su Jie turn into claws and come to her hand.
"Walk."
Mad Dog disappeared in a flash, and the next second, he appeared in front of the giant beast. He kicked the hand buried in the ice with his side. A terrifying sound like bones breaking came from the arm, and it twisted into a strange shape. At the same time, several arrows roared and pierced the giant beast.
The behemoth's roar grew weaker and weaker. The iron shell on its chest and abdomen had been beaten down by Agard, leaving little behind, revealing the strange, bloody muscle fibers within. It gave up on gathering its large Protoss cannons and instead gathered small, bowl-sized Protoss cannons from its mouth and began firing indiscriminately at everyone present.
On the other side, Beichen went around to its side, observed it carefully, and aimed at a piece of iron shell on its side abdomen that was hit up by Yagard.
“──”
She took a step forward, jammed the hook at the front of the claw under the iron shell, and then—
“Ahhhh!!”
She let out a loud shout to gain leverage, and using all her strength, she swung her claws and stepped forward to the side and rear of the giant beast. A sound like flesh tearing was heard, and a large piece of iron shell was pried off from the giant beast as if it was being skinned!
"here you go!"
Yaye appeared near her at some point. He laughed loudly, and his sickle drew a black crescent in the air, piercing the bloody muscle fibers of the giant beast's abdomen. Then he slashed it horizontally without mercy!
Awooo──
Large pieces of muscle were cut off, and the giant beast screamed miserably again, and at this moment, the rabid dog's body suddenly moved.
With a few light leaps, he used the giant beast's body to easily leap above its head. Then, under the moonlight, his nimble body seemed to be suspended in mid-air as he made a preparatory movement that was as primitive and ferocious as a beast, yet as graceful and natural as an elf.
Then he delivered a thunderous punch to the giant beast's head! !
coax!
The arms, which were extremely small compared to the huge head of the beast, at this moment mercilessly sent the huge power contained in them into the body of the beast.
The beast's entire body emitted an indescribable sound of shattering and crumbling. After a violent jolt, it actually broke through the ice under the momentum of the attack and sank downwards. The entire vast ice surface was also shattered into countless fragments by the blow, and with a loud crash, it completely collapsed and disintegrated.
Xiang Ying, who was far away, noticed it early and successfully hid behind the case with Ling Shuang on his back. Although Yagad was very big, he was not clumsy at all. He jumped on several broken ice surfaces with excellent balance and returned to the shore in a few steps. Beichen, on the other hand, was very close to the giant beast and was caught off guard by the shock of the attack. He slipped into the water with the giant beast and drank a few mouthfuls of cold water - and was then pulled out by Yaye who was floating nearby.
When they turned around to look at the giant beast, it had become a tattered, limp corpse floating (?) on the water, while Glenshe stood firmly on the corpse, enduring everyone's gaze with an expressionless face.
──This is the power of a single blow from the next chief of the Tuling tribe!
Faced with such absolute power, even admiration and emotion seemed extremely pale. Except for Yagard, whose strength was undetectable, everyone expressed their affirmation of this power with silence.
I don't know when the commotion in the city stopped.
Shouts rang out all around, and many anxious footsteps rushed towards the lake. Glenshe seemed to dislike this chaotic scene. After taking a look at Beichen, he disappeared again. Lingdir waved to the Lingwusi who were rushing to the lake in uniform, who looked like soldiers. Beichen and his men also gathered together again to check on each other's situation.
Not far away, on the roof of an inconspicuous building, there was a man wearing an iron ghost mask and Chinese-style clothes, facing the lakeshore, motionless.
After a long while, a slightly amused laugh came from under the mask.
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