Chapter 539 Sacrifice
"You go up first, I'll cover you." Ash said in a deep voice.
She had thrown away the machine gun and replaced it with the Dragon Breath Cannon. Although this weapon had a short range, it attacked in a fan-shaped pattern. Every time Ash fired, he would twist his body and wrist to make the Dragon Breath Cannon's jet cover a large area.
This is a cannon fighting technique invented by Nini. It is quite effective but requires extremely high physical fitness. Nini twists her waist every time she tries to use it.
"There's no other choice, let's give it a try!" Hodge turned and looked at the soldiers around him. These were the last few.
"We tie the rope ladder around our waists, then let the airship directly increase its altitude, and detonate the explosives the moment we leave the shooting position!"
"Lord Ash, please tell the airship."
There was also a banshee on the airship, and Ash had just established a mental link with her, so they could communicate in real time.
"I've already told you they're going to climb soon!"
The bones were almost in sight. The heavy machine guns were firing desperately, but more bones were rushing up than those that were scattered.
"Now!"
The steam engine on the airship roared loudly, and the operator instantly threw away all the weights, and the entire airship was lifted up! At the same time, the people on the airship also desperately pulled up the rope ladder, and Hodge, Gwen and others rose more than ten meters in an instant.
But the group of white bones also rushed up and pounced on the people in the air.
Ash looked down at the monsters and suddenly loosened his grip.
"Lord Ash!"
“What are you doing?!”
Ash didn't say anything. When she was about to fall into the group of bones after falling down a distance, six hands suddenly pulled out the dragon breath cannon and fired at the same time! A huge recoil erupted instantly, and all of it was directed downwards. Even Ash's heavy body was lifted up a long distance and caught up with the people who were rising. She threw away the dragon breath cannon and grabbed the rope ladder steadily.
Everyone was stunned by this scene, even Gwen was filled with admiration. This required great courage and determination, and she was afraid she could not do it.
No wonder Ash is recognized as the strongest person in Castel.
Hodge finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ash coming up, but he was still in disbelief. They actually survived? Surrounded by the white fog, they actually survived? Not only that, his soldiers were brought back intact, with so few casualties that they could be ignored.
After this battle, he must go back to Castel to recuperate for a while. It was really too exciting.
Just as he was imagining life in the sanatorium, the exclamations of the soldiers around him brought him back to reality.
"Lord Hughes, what kind of monster is that?"
Hodge lowered his head when he heard that, and then he froze as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head.
Countless bones were pieced together to form a huge skeleton, and a bone arm was grabbing at them fiercely! In a hurry, the skeleton only pieced together the upper body, but just half a skeleton occupied all the land below them! Gwen's machine gun sounded, and the dragon breath cannon in Ash's hand was also roaring. The airship above even risked dropping bombs, but these were too small in front of the big bone hand.
The skeletons were assembling quickly, and the speed at which the white mist was closing suddenly increased by who knows how many times. If this continued, they would surely die.
Even if they were not killed by the skeletons, the white mist that was about to close in would swallow them up forever.
Some of the soldiers around him screamed, some prayed. Hodge pursed his lips and slowly closed his eyes.
Ash's expression under her armor was as cold as an iceberg, without wavering at all. She turned her head and looked towards the south, which was the direction of Castel.
"My Lord, I'm sorry, I haven't fulfilled my promise and can no longer protect you."
Her six hands dropped.
Gwen on the side was still firing.
The battlefield had reached its most intense moment, but Gwen was a little absent-minded.
Time seemed to have stopped for her.
Gwen looked down and saw skeletons roaring in a sea of countless wriggling bones, twisted and hideous.
She raised her head and looked upwards again, at the blue sky, the white clouds high in the sky, the warm sunshine, and the huge airship.
She looked down at the heavy machine gun in her hand.
The resistance has always been like this. Looking up, you see Caster's beauty that can never be reached, and in front of you is an endless purgatory. Fortunately, you still have friends around you.
"Although it's terrible, this is my life. Fortunately, you are still by my side, so fight with me until the last moment, my friend."
She smiled happily, looking at the bones getting closer and closer, the loyal heavy machine gun in her hand roaring, ready to face her own end together.
But at this moment, she suddenly felt something in her heart and turned her head to look to the side.
A little girl with white hair was falling rapidly in the air and just passed by her at this moment.
It looks like he fell from an airship. It's strange, how could there be such a young child in the expeditionary force?
Looking at her, Gwen felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity in her heart, as if she was facing her younger self, facing the self who didn't want to grow up.
She looked at the little girl in confusion, and she saw that the girl opened her mouth and seemed to say something.
The wind was too fast for her to hear, but the answer suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Survive."
Gwen subconsciously stretched out her hand, but it was just a little off and she caught nothing.
She watched the girl fall down.
She fell down, into the giant bone hand that was about to close. Her tiny body was like a speck of dust in front of the giant skeleton.
Shouldn't this smooth white bone be stained with a little blood red? Gwen thought subconsciously, but the next scene made her open her eyes wide.
The huge skeleton suddenly stopped.
The wriggling sea of bones beneath the skeleton also stopped instantly.
Then, the entire skeleton instantly shattered into dust from its bony hand. A huge explosion burst out from its hand, and countless lights swallowed it. It wailed and tried to escape, but was completely sucked in.
The airship, Gwen and others were swept up by a strong wind and thrown upwards, rising just before the white fog closed.
Gwen stared blankly at the swirling white mist below. She survived, but she had a strange feeling, as if a part of her was dead.
Who was that little girl with white hair? Gwen didn't know her, and didn't know why she jumped. Could it be that she did everything just now? How could it be possible? Even Lord Isaac couldn't do such a terrible power?
Gwen felt her eyes were sore. She rubbed them with her hand and then stared at the tears on the back of her hand in a daze.
"I cried?"
Gwen couldn't stop her tears from flowing under the clear and warm sky.
(End of this chapter)
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