Night Raid
After an unknown amount of time, the wind slowly died down.
The red-haired young man who was sleeping against the door suddenly woke up from his dream. He opened his eyes groggily and saw the dark clouds above his head being blown away by the wind, revealing a round...
The dark golden eyes suddenly contracted, as if seeing something incredible. Lei had already fallen asleep beside him, and Mason broke out in a cold sweat amidst his soft snoring.
This was the first time he saw the night world, but he did not see the moon.
Without the fog covering it, the sky revealed its true appearance, a strange gray-black color, with ominous moonlight reflected in the dark golden eyes. The thick clouds like meat were wriggling, surrounded by a huge blood-red pupil, looking down at the earth coldly.
What the hell, what the hell, what the hell is this! ?
Mason came to his senses and instinctively looked away before he could look into the moon's eyes. He no longer thought that the technological trees in this world were weird. There was no normal place in this world!
At the same time, with his alertness at full blast, he heard something else.
The sound of smoking from the watchtower.
Lei's tiny purring sound.
[Snake] The subtle grinding sound of the internal core operation.
as well as……
The sound of whispering is so close.
He had heard a similar sound when he approached the previous monster. Mason narrowed his eyes and took the first look at the Iron Snake beside him.
The snake's eyes glowed in the darkness, indicating that it was functioning normally. However, the town's gatekeepers were completely indifferent to the strange whispers, and seemed not to have detected the monster's presence.
In the darkness of the night, the people on the watchtower were still patrolling. Everything was quiet, so quiet that it was eerie.
The young man's expression darkened, and his face revealed a cold look even when he wasn't smiling. With a sudden premonition, Mason suddenly jumped to the side! A translucent spider limb pierced the place where he was lying almost at the same time.
It was a huge spider. Its translucent body was barely visible. Its upper body was human-like, with eight deformed arms growing from its back. Its lower body was a giant spider, with a sac full of translucent spider eggs hanging from its tail. It kept flashing and moving with the surrounding environment, making it difficult to tell where it was.
"No wonder no one noticed... Can you turn invisible?"
Even though the fight had already begun, the people on the wall did not react at all. The red-haired young man narrowed his eyes, raised his foot and kicked Lei to wake him up, then pounced on the snake beside him.
The steel structure showed no reaction to the monster before it, but the blinded vision ended there—the sharp edge of the scales scratched the young man's palm, and the blood in the wound turned into threads, climbing up the metal like lightning.
"His blood is silver, and his bones are gold. And all that is watered in his bones and blood is his armor."
The prayer was deep and holy, and countless complex lines appeared on the young man's face. The steel snake hissed, like a giant beast that was circling in the myth. The violently rotating core made a compressed steam sound, and a pair of sharp wings broke out in the center of the spine. It rushed straight towards the spider!
The monster was crushed to the ground, and the spider eggs in its sac exploded into countless small spiders, which crawled densely onto the steel snake. The latter was wrapped in spider silk and spewed out hot flames from its mouth.
The two beasts rolled, bit, and fought on the ground. Lei held back a scream and subconsciously banged on the door, trying to alert the people in the watchtower of the danger. But no matter how loud the noise was, the people on the siege did not respond.
The young man's heart skipped a beat, and a bold idea suddenly came to his mind. There were many small spiders near the place where they found the monster. Could it be...
This thought was so terrifying that Lei almost panicked and forced himself to stop thinking and curled up in a corner. Ordinary people were so powerless in front of monsters.
He watched the fighting gradually approach the door where he was standing. Suddenly, a figure leaped high up in the darkness.
The dark golden pupils were as bright as molten lava. The man grasped the monster's huge limbs and pulled them out. The blood in his palms flowed on the translucent joints, turning into an invisible spear. He stepped on the back of the giant snake and stabbed the entangled transparent spider with his backhand!
“——!!”
The spider twisted and screamed in its dying gibberish, causing Lei to have a splitting headache. But the Bloodline One just coldly drew out his spear and stabbed again.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, the violence was unstoppable, and the extreme aesthetics of violence even made the viewers feel a little short of breath.
But it was not over yet. The steel snake flapped its wings, and the spout below lit up with deep blue flames, sending it high into the sky. It stretched its body wantonly, like a truly world-destroying giant snake from a myth, arrogantly overlooking the human territory.
The whole town was already brightly lit.
People crowded onto the street, looking up at the sky with doubtful expressions. The man standing on the giant snake's head lowered his eyes, casting a cold and indifferent gaze at the wall where the watchtower was located.
The guards still stood guard, constantly patrolling back and forth, ignoring the giant snake and the noise of the crowd.
A middle-aged guard was smoking in the direction of Oreius. The cigarette holder in his hand had burned out, but he was still biting the mouthpiece and exhaling non-existent smoke. Everyone maintained a false sense of normalcy.
Under their feet, a dense giant net spread out in all directions, and the translucent threads swayed gently in the night breeze.
Covering the entire watchtower and the city wall.
Under the dim torchlight, the silhouettes of the patrol team became more and more rigid. They looked like puppets that would not respond to anyone unless they stepped on the net.
The young man raised his lips frivolously and jumped directly towards the watchtower. With a loud noise, a large piece of silk thread broke and disappeared. All the guards turned their heads, drew their weapons and stared at him intently.
"This level won't stop me."
The red-haired young man snatched the attacker's sword and slashed it across his wrist. The blood-soaked white blade, entangling the thorns, emerged, as flawless and clean as a wish.
He rushed forward with unstoppable force, knocking out one and throwing him off the wall. The giant snake deftly caught the fallen one and brought him to the ground. People rushed to meet the injured, and at the same time looked at the man strolling leisurely on the wall with fear.
"…Who is this person…"
They heard the people around them muttering to themselves, and they couldn't help but agree. Insects have always been tricky and special monsters.
Their extraordinary vitality and reproductive capacity are the nightmare of all humans. Even the lord does not dare to break into the spider's web and kill them.
Countless fearful and suspicious eyes followed his figure. The man remained unmoved and knocked out the last person, then threw him off the wall.
Following the source of the threads, he pushed open the closed door of the watchtower, and on the bed lay a half-human, half-insect monster. Most of his body was still human, but below the waist he had become spider legs. Countless spider threads spread out from his body in all directions, waiting to turn this place into a complete feeding ground when he woke up.
"I was a little confused as to why you were the only one who survived despite being so seriously injured."
"You were already parasitized by that time, right? The monster came to cooperate with you and transformed this place into a hunting ground."
"But why did you go back to save him? You could have just abandoned Lei and pretended to be seriously injured. The guards here would have definitely come to see you for intelligence, and then there would be no enemies left in this town."
The young man narrowed his eyes, and strange red lines climbed along his cheeks and neck, forming a mysterious totem. The monster that had woken up at some point was looking at him, or more precisely, at the lines on half of his face.
Those patterns are like countless spreading vines, and if you look closely, they reveal endless madness and malice. They are exactly the same as the scarlet thorns that make up the long sword's guard.
After a moment, the monster finally made a strange insect-like hissing sound.
"At that time, I still had human thinking and had not completely transformed. If not, this town would have been our nest."
"Indeed, if it were you at that time, I might not have been able to do it."
The man smiled slightly, teasingly telling the unbelievable truth. He raised his weapon, and the blade shone brightly in the darkness.
"Do you have anything else to say?"
The monster showed some reluctance in its eyes. It was halfway through its transformation and had no fighting power. Otherwise, it would not have needed to ask its own kind to help it parasitize humans.
"Without you, we would not have been found."
"I'm really sorry. It's my fault that you guys happened to fall into my hands."
The sword flashed, and in the excruciating pain of piercing his heart, the half-man, half-spider monster's eyes went blurry. He saw the tall captain waving at him, and the scout with a sullen face standing beside him with his arms folded. They were saying, "Come here quickly! Kao, you're the only one missing!"
This was a memory that once belonged to humans. In the boundless mist, only a pair of bloody eyes flashing red light appeared. The black mist invaded his soul, and he felt calm in the cold. The monster turned around, crawling with spider limbs, and stepped into the chaotic muttering.
His soul has returned to the black mist and there is no turning back.
The monster once named Kao slowly fell down. The man let go of the hilt of the sword and looked down at the broken threads under his feet. These evil things that can control humans turned into beautiful fluorescent lights when they were broken. The young man sighed: "If Lei knew, he would definitely be very sad."
"This is nothing new, we have many people dying every day. Injury, disease, or even just looking at the traces left by a creature can cause contamination and even mutation."
A slightly deep and steady voice came from behind him. Mason turned around and saw a middle-aged man standing at the door.
The man was wearing a white satin shirt, black trousers, and a symmetrical gray vest. He was polite and courteous. He nodded politely to Mason.
"Thank you for your help, my friend. I am Baron Amira."