Chapter 26: 10,000-meter Sniper Battle
Su Mo and Ragnarl, who had transformed into a dragon, stood on the high platform in the square of the capital of Elysien, looking at the blue sky above their heads.
The morning sun was too bright, the weather too clear, to be the day of a decisive battle, a day of impending catastrophe. Beichen and the warriors beside her had already taken off, flying to Chita, in plain sight. Sumo, Ragnart, and Glenshe stayed behind—they had been entrusted with protecting Elysion for the day.
Representatives from various countries used their spirit crystals to go back one after another, leaving only Galina, Lingdier, Firello, Rui, and Redis - the core figures of the Elysion Alliance.
Logically speaking, they and Su Mo should have been as anxious to return home as everyone else to deal with the domestic situation, but they only used coded spirit crystals to instruct their confidants to assign tasks, and then gathered together on the platform.
"Is this the final battle?" Lingdier's eyes were filled with emotion. "We did nothing and let her face the most formidable enemy. This ally is really a bargain."
"That's not something you would say, Your Majesty Lindimia." King Firello of Sazam snorted and laughed. "If we can stabilize and control our country today, it will be the greatest help we can give her."
"Besides, there are many things we can do."
Ruy smiled.
"As a member of the Elysian Alliance, we can't really do nothing."
"That's right." Redis said, glancing at Glenshe. "Not bringing the strongest spirit warrior to the final battle is a bit strange. Leaving behind with the funeral mad dog is really a luxury."
Glenshe glanced at Su Mo who was standing behind him, and after obtaining his consent, he turned around and narrowed his eyes at several allied kings.
"She asked me to help with some things. If you have time, you can come and join in the fun."
"I don't think anyone would be free at this hour." Carina tilted her head and smiled, "But I'm willing to help."
"Carina!"
Filello growled in dissatisfaction, but Queen Silvia obviously ignored him.
"We'd be more than happy to help you." Xiao Peng interrupted Filello's next words like a fox, smiling and nodding at Carina. "It's not a big deal... I just have to accompany Glenshe to be a blasting expert."
"ah?"
On this side, Xiao Ping and several kings of the allied countries entered into a discussion. On this side, Su Mo chuckled at the war machine coming behind him.
"I've had enough. Why are you sitting here and leaving your own country alone?"
“…”
The warrior standing behind him was not Yizhi, but the unfamiliar face with light blue hair.
"Forget it. Anyway, I'm known to the outside world as the 'Dark Emperor'. If that 'Ming Emperor' can't suppress this level of chaos—I'll find an excuse to officially depose him later."
“…”
Su Mo was talking to himself, but the warrior didn't say a word. Seeing this, Su Mo turned around and raised his eyebrows at him.
"You want to go too?"
"……Um."
"Do you think she'll appreciate your help? I brought you along this time just to fulfill your wish to see her a few more times. I can't guarantee what will happen if you push her too far."
The aura around the light blue-haired warrior grew even colder.
"You'd better stay here quietly. If you mess up on the battlefield again, she won't just give you a Star Spirit Cannon. Instead, she'll dismember and chop you into pieces from head to toe."
"She recognized me?"
"what you think?"
Su Mo curled his lips in amusement.
"You're wearing the chain she gave you on your wrist, isn't it so she can recognize you? She's giving me face and doesn't want to argue with me at this critical moment, so she didn't hit you."
“…”
Upon hearing this, Zhan Qi's whole body shook and he almost fell down.
…She had recognized him long ago, but she hadn't shown any concern for him at all. ──No, Su Mo said, she wanted to kill him, but she didn't do it because of Su Mo.
But even so──
"Even so, I still want to go."
He lowered his head and spoke softly but firmly.
"What do you want to do? Help or cause trouble?"
"Even if it were me, I wouldn't hold back at such a critical moment," Zhan Qi laughed wryly at himself. "I just wanted to see... if there was anything I could do for her."
"All right."
Su Mo shook his head and sighed.
"Go ahead. ...I hope we can meet again in the future."
"……Thanks."
The warrior whispered this, took a deep leap, jumped off the platform, and disappeared.
“What a pity.”
Looking at the direction where he disappeared, Su Mo's eyes were a little complicated.
"Why—you always have to pay such a huge price before you can grow."
On the other side, Beichen and others were sitting on the back of the dragon-like Yagard and moving to the vicinity of Chita.
As soon as they got there, everyone was stunned - near the giant tower in the sky and in the desert on the ground, for some reason, there were countless densely packed violent iron ghosts wandering around. Monsters of various types, sizes, and shapes occupied all the vision. A rough estimate was that there were at least tens of thousands of them!
"Looks like Xiaxue is ready—"
Looking at the enemies all over the sky and the ground, Beichen laughed dryly and twitched the corner of his mouth.
"It would be strange if you weren't prepared. You've already announced your battle plan to the whole world."
Xifeng rolled his eyes, then squinted and looked around.
"According to Xiaxue, these things should be controlled by that mutated possessed Moon Envoy, right? Let's find that possessed Moon Envoy first. Atlas, how is it? Can you sense where he is?"
Atlas was silent for a moment, then shook his head.
"It can be detected within a range of one hundred Sanmars, but the specific location seems to be interfered with and cannot be located."
Beichen touched his chin.
"That's it, the others will be the vanguard to eliminate these things and attract the enemy's attention. Xifeng and I will leave from here and find a place to shoot down the possessed Moon Envoy."
"I understand." Xiang Ying nodded and patted Xifeng's shoulder gently. "The master's safety is in your hands."
"rest assured."
Xifeng reached out to Xiangying and showed him his storage space. In addition to the various spirit crystals and supplies neatly arranged inside, there were also countless bullets whose names looked scary.
"Let's go, we will clear the way for you, be careful." Yaye got up from the dragon's back and stretched his muscles.
"Everyone, please be careful. You can't get hurt by an enemy of this level!"
"Don't worry, little loach, just watch my brother and I in the sight of the West Wind!" Black Fate grinned and patted the dragon scales on Yagad's back -
"Jealous Dragon, let's go! For your queen, blast those flies to pieces!!"
Roar──
Then, amid the deafening dragon roar, a huge silver-white figure rushed towards the giant tower on the horizon, and Beichen, holding a gorgeous sniper rifle, jumped off the dragon's back. Photons flashed, covering the figure of the girl in military uniform, and both the girl and the gun disappeared in the wind.
Xifeng's full-body combat weapon lacks the ability to levitate or fly, but to compensate for this, it has another very useful function - photon camouflage.
Although Xifeng could not carry Beichen flying, the Red Moon Armor could. So Beichen used the Red Cone, summoned the armor on his back, hid his body in the strong wind, and turned around to head towards the Red Tower.
"Why did you choose me as your partner? To take down that thing, perhaps it would be more efficient to work with Xiang Ying and Atlas?"
"Not necessarily. Your D-shaped terrain map and target-locking abilities are quite useful. Besides—Xifeng, you've suffered at his hands before, right? This time, I'll help you get your money back with interest!"
“…”
Xifeng didn't say anything, but just made an ambiguous hum in Beichen's hand.
And at this moment, the battle started in the distance.
First, it was Yagad's dragon roar that instantly attracted the attention of most of the enemies flying in the sky. For a moment, large groups of steel monsters turned around and rushed towards the silver dragon. From a distance, it looked like countless pigeons covering the sky, besieging an eagle.
However, Yagad simply swung his long tail, flapped his wings violently, and flew towards the top of his head. As he flew, the monsters that besieged him also followed closely, forming a somewhat terrifying long line of monsters behind the dragon. From the distance of Beichen, they were so densely packed that they looked like stinging bees.
After flying for a while while dragging a large group of monsters with him, Yagad seemed to have confirmed that all the besieging monsters were behind him. He suddenly braked in the air, and his huge dragon body turned gracefully and powerfully in the air, facing the countless violent iron ghosts of all sizes rushing towards him.
Then it exhaled a huge, high-temperature dragon breath!!
Boom──────! !
In an instant, golden flames seemed to form a wall in the sky, and the fan-shaped dragon breath roared and engulfed the pursuit team following the dragon. The monsters' dying wails and angry screams resounded through the sky, and could be clearly heard even from such a distance. Before the golden fire dragon breath burned out, many monsters had been burned into a pile of charred blocks and fell from the sky.
"So... so strong..."
Beichen was so frightened by the crisp and domineering dragon breath that he got goosebumps, and the hand holding Xifeng's gun handle began to tremble slightly.
"What? Are you scared?" Xifeng chuckled teasingly.
"No." The Queen of the Wasteland looked at the silver-white dragon in the sky, and a murderous smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"I'm excited."
On one hand, the dragon's breath seemed to have entered a cooling-down period, and the giant dragon continued to fight with the remaining dense enemies in the sky with its claws and tail sweeps. At the same time, Beichen flapped the red star wings behind him from another direction, rapidly approaching Chita - and then found a commanding height among those buildings and landed.
Xifeng was a little confused:
"This is not the main tower."
"Yes, I know, but this place is good for observing the battle situation. If we want to find the possessed Moon Envoy among so many enemies and fight him, wouldn't it be very dangerous to put it in the main tower? It would be disastrous if the central point was destroyed."
"Yes. Then."
After finding a high wall as cover, Beichen leaned sideways with the gun handle in his hand, pointing the barrel at the battlefield.
At this moment, the dragon's attack power has been reduced.
Just like when Beichen and his party faced Ragnarl, the enemies were scattered and were flying flexibly at tricky angles, and could not be easily hit by dragon claws and dragon breath. So, the rest of the people who had been pinned on the dragon's back for a long time slid down from the dragon's back at the same time and officially rushed into the battlefield!
Yaye's black scythe, like an ominous crescent moon shining in the sky, outlined streaks of black light. Where the tip of the blade passed through the air, it left behind countless overlapping perfect long black straight lines. The enemies who collided with these lines were as if their life trajectories were cut off, their armor burst open, and golden blood splattered everywhere.
Xiang Ying summoned countless floating secondary swords, which released a huge white rain of light. The deadly white lines, like a meteor shower that appeared out of thin air in the daytime, crossed a long distance and pierced the head of a monster in the distance that was about to condense the Protoss Cannon into a hedgehog. Then, before another enemy attacked, the secondary swords combined into a huge shield to block the rapidly approaching Protoss Cannon.
Atlas raised the wings behind him high, and with his hands and the surrounding floating turrets, more than a dozen Protoss cannons with tail-chasing function fired rapidly. Even if some smaller and more agile enemies fled for dozens of meters, they were eventually hit and blown into a bloody mess. The next second, a huge blue Protoss sword condensed in his hand, and with a tricky reverse slash, he knocked several approaching enemies nearby and sent them flying backwards.
Gu Yinyue - Heihuo and Sujie - appeared on his arms. At this time, he was wearing Sujie's full-body combat form - a full-white executioner suit. The red and white patterns and the handsome features shrouded in the shadow of the hood made him look more fierce as a warrior.
He was wearing the Black Disaster and White Tribulation on his arms, and holding the huge sword of Longyun in his palm. Logically speaking, without a flying weapon and without using floating spirit crystals, he should have fallen straight down - but he didn't.
He fell from the dragon's back, and when the time was right, he stretched out his claws and stabbed a monster's body with force while falling. He jumped over and climbed onto its back, then raised Longyun high and stabbed the opponent's neck with force!
With a loud metallic sound, the monster's neck was pierced by Longyun's sharp sword, and golden blood spurted out. But before the monster finished struggling and began to fall, Gu Yinyue jumped again, swung the claws in his hand violently and pierced the wings of another monster. He turned over again and rode on its back. After twisting its head and flying crookedly to the vicinity of another monster, he chopped it down with Longyun again!
Pounce, hook, flip, slash—and pounce again.
The gray-haired warrior who had no flying ability actually used the enemies in the air as moving stepping stones without using the floating spirit crystal. Not only did he not fall, but he jumped up layer by layer in such a simple, neat and incredibly beautiful movement. The more he killed, the higher he jumped, and his height almost reached the top of the main tower!
The scene was so shocking that Beichen was stunned for a few seconds in front of the sight. But she quickly came to her senses, took a deep breath, switched the bullets to the "strong shock bomb" column, and launched an auxiliary attack from a distance to protect everyone in the main battlefield.
The "strong shock bomb" was made by consuming a lot of precious materials. It is a bullet specially designed to deal with violent iron ghosts. Because the iron shells on the surface of those monsters are too hard, bullets attacking from the outside cannot cause much damage to them. Therefore, directly using high-frequency strong vibrations to directly damage their internal organs will have a very good effect.
Bang!
A large gray-black bullet shot out from the barrel, flew over several thousand meters, and hit a violent dragon-shaped iron ghost that was about to attack Xiang Ying from behind. It twisted painfully in the air for a few times, and then flapped its wings unwillingly a few times before falling down powerlessly.
"Okay, come again!"
Beichen narrowed his eyes and aimed at another violent iron ghost through the sight. It was biting on Yagard's tail and couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he tried. So Beichen fired three tail-chasing bullets in a row to drive it away from Yagard, and then fired another strong shock bomb and successfully shot down another one!
"Five... Ten. Good job, don't let up. If you miss a shot and waste my bullets, I'll make you pick up the bullet casings and swallow them."
Xifeng said something that was either to encourage or to intimidate, and counted the number of enemies killed for Beichen - probably because the violent iron ghosts were larger in size, they were easy to hit after being magnified and aimed at, so her current shooting efficiency was very good, one shot per enemy.
──But even so, there are still a lot of enemies flying in the sky. Since the battle started, they have eliminated nearly half of them, but the circling enemies, the interweaving firing of golden Protoss cannons, and the roars of giant beasts one after another still occupy most of the aerial battlefield.
How long will the war last if this continues?
Beichen glanced at the D topographic map on the side again with some concern - so far, there was still no sign of the possessed Moon Messenger.
But at this moment, Xifeng hummed with interest.
"Hey, that Naraka boy is great."
"Naraka?"
"He's on Yagad's back—have you noticed? Every time he attacks, the angle changes. I just saw that no matter where Yagad is facing, he keeps changing the angle of attack in a clockwise direction—this is the second round now, look."
As Xifeng finished speaking, a light purple light flashed on the dragon's back, and a thin line shot out from the muzzle of Naraka's gun. After a few seconds, the sky opposite was filled with brilliant balls of light. The light was so dazzling and overbearing that it almost covered the color of the sky in this direction!
But that's not the point.
There weren't actually many enemies in this direction, and the chain explosion attacks that filled the sky should have only killed a few violent iron ghosts at most.
But at this moment, Beichen discovered from the scorching light that there were many charred black shadows falling down one after another.
"What's going on? Could it be that those violent iron ghosts put it up on their own and were blasted by Naraka?"
Beichen murmured in confusion.
"How is it impossible?"
Xifeng answered with an evil smile.
"Why? ...Ah."
Before he finished asking, Beichen understood.
There must be something in that direction that's preventing Naraka's attack from passing through. So even if the violent iron ghosts had to commit suicide by forming an iron wall, they would still stop this terrifying enemy attack.
——Except for the possessed Moon Envoy manipulating these monsters to do this, there is no other explanation.
In other words, he is most likely hiding in that direction!
Beichen was delighted and immediately readjusted the zoom range of the 3D topographic map to allow more terrain to come into view. Then, sure enough, 10,039 meters away, a small red dot appeared on the 3D topographic map.
"Damn, that's a bit far. It seems to be beyond your range, Xifeng?"
"So what if it's beyond your reach? Haven't you already mastered that 'technique impossible for humans'?"
Xifeng lowered his voice, which was rare, and spoke in a slightly gentle tone.
"Give it a try. If you're my contractor, you'll be more confident."
"Um!"
Beichen nodded vigorously, then her expression became stern and she crossed out the "Shenhuang Bullet" column in the bullet column.
Bang!
A bullet with golden light was fired out - this is the most lethal bullet currently formulated. Not only does it have a strong explosive force, it also carries a highly biotoxic and corrosive nature. Even if it is the Star Killer "The One Who Laughs at All Things", the possessed Moon Messenger who was hit would probably be half-dead.
But the problem is that the range of this bullet, with the strength of the August-level westerly wind, can only reach 4,000 meters at most. So the next few thousand meters -
Less than three seconds after the bullet was fired, Beichen had quickly crossed out the "boost bullet" column in the bullet column, then focused on the position where the previous bullet was fired, pulled the trigger, and fired again!
Bang!
The booster bullet had no attack capability, but it had an extremely fast flying speed and could extend the range of other bullets. The latter bullet caught up with the previous one and accurately stuck at the tail of the "Shenhuang Bullet". A small blue flame burst out from its back, accelerating its flying speed as it flew rapidly towards the Star Killer ten thousand meters away!
If Beichen were a pure human, it would be absolutely impossible for her to achieve this kind of skill. Even though she now has the support of countless Xifeng's covenants in her body, she practiced for several months before successfully practicing this skill. But even so,
"Damn it, the trigger was a little off, the trajectory is off! I'm going to miss at this rate!"
"Trajectory correction chart!"
Beichen's face paled, but she immediately suppressed her panic and forced herself to calm down. She glanced at the trajectory correction chart provided by Xifeng, then gritted her teeth and, as if thinking quickly, took aim at the still-speeding "Shenhuang Bullet" again. With a pull of the trigger, a tail-chasing bullet was fired!
Bang!!
The range of the tail-chasing bullet was only more than 5,000 meters at most. Therefore, when the chasing Shenhuang bullet had chased halfway, it fell and exploded as its range was exhausted. The airflow of the explosion caused the trajectory of the Shenhuang bullet in front to change again, returning to its original trajectory. Finally, it successfully hit the killer's abdomen, exploding a large piece of blue-purple blood!
“Success!!”
Beichen and Xifeng cheered at the same time - perhaps this shot was so wonderful that Xifeng couldn't even maintain his restraint and coldness. He couldn't help but return to human form, hugged her and kissed her cheek hard, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.
To be able to react in such a short time to determine which bullet to use to correct the trajectory and calculate the correction direction and launch angle - that means that her understanding of these bullets has reached a terrifying level - how can he not be proud of this!
The Star Killer in the distance fell several meters after being shot, and his figure was a little shaky, but he still managed to stabilize his body in mid-air - then, he suddenly looked in the direction of Beichen and Xifeng!
Xifeng immediately came back to his senses from the joy of a successful attack and returned to his weapon state - the next second, ten tail-chasing bombs, twenty explosive bombs, fifteen strong acid bombs, the eighteenth-level spirit crystal "Flame Tornado", the eighteenth-level spirit crystal "Wind Fang", and even the red Star Spirit Cannon - a raging wave of attack and defense, attacking the Star Killer one after another and dispelling the opponent's Star Spirit Cannon. During this ten thousand meter rush, although the Star Killer dodged most of them with his agile body, when he flew in front of Beichen and Xifeng, he had been hit by the aftermath of the attack and was bleeding, and even his face could not be seen clearly.
When he was ten meters away from Beichen, he roared and raised the Star Spirit Sword in his hand. Beichen aimed at his chest and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang!!
The powerful bullets had long been used up, and what was now rushing out of the gun barrel were only the most common "normal bullets".
But even this kind of bullet is enough when facing an enemy only ten meters away.
The speed of the bullet was, after all, faster than that of a human, and it penetrated the enemy's body. The body of the Moon Envoy suddenly stopped, and the golden-red eyes under the blood-stained forehead were now wide open, looking at Beichen unwillingly.
Obviously - there are only a few meters left.
As if silently saying so, he kept his eyes wide open, stopped his movements, and then, finally, he could no longer flap his wings, and finally fell straight down and disappeared in the vast space below the Red Tower.
A few seconds later, the remaining violent iron ghosts in the sky suddenly let out a cry, and then began to retreat and scatter. Not long after, they disappeared completely.
“We won!!”
Keeping holding the gun, Beichen looked at the sky with a bit of disbelief. The sky was full of enemies just now, but now there was only the silver dragon.
"We defeated the last Star Killer!!"
Regardless of whether his companions in the sky could hear him or not, Beichen raised the barrel of Xifeng's gun high and roared excitedly and full of fighting spirit.
And as if in response, Yagad let out a powerful and joyful dragon roar from a thousand meters in the sky.
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