novelraw Chapter 439: Swordlight Startling Swan
Chapter 439: Swordlight Startling Swan
Feng Jue pointed with two fingers like a sword, and thrust forward.
"Zheng—!"
The Startling Swan emitted a pleasant tremble, transforming into a streak of light too fast for the naked eye, sweeping past the bone-armored mist creature that had charged to the front.
The creature's forward momentum halted abruptly.
The next second, a thin line of blood crawled from its forehead all the way to its tail.
Then, the massive body split neatly along the blood line into two halves and crashed to the ground.
The cut was smooth as a mirror!
The Startling Swan did not lose any force as it continued in the air, tracing an elegant arc and consecutively piercing the cores of three monsters behind.
Where the swordlight passed, whether thick bone armor or tough hide, it was easily torn open.
Feng Jue stood where he was, posture straight as a pine, controlling the Startling Swan with pure will. The sword moved with his mind, weaving an impenetrable death net of blades before him.Any creature that tried to approach was instantly dismembered by that swordlight.
The three of them stood back to back, forming a solid triangular defensive formation.
Liu Ziming's Purple Thunder handled area clearing and suppression.
Xu Hao's teleportation and daggers covered gaps and cleaned up threats.
Feng Jue's Startling Swan acted like the sharpest spear, executing those elite monsters with the strongest defenses or greatest threat.
Purple lightning danced wildly, figures flickering, swordlight startling like a swan!
The three moved in seamless coordination, each exploiting their Life Soul traits to the fullest, and managed, against all odds, to hold this shattered section of wall against wave after wave of frenzied monster assaults.
The piled corpses at their feet grew higher and higher, blood nearly dyeing every brick.
But individual valor felt so insignificant in the face of such a massive Mist Surge.
The number of monsters seemed endless, while their spiritual energy drained at terrifying speed.
Worse, three mist creatures exuding the terrifying aura of Peak Special-risk had already climbed to halfway up the city wall.
Their oppressive silhouettes, like three mountains, weighed on the hearts of every defender.
"I can't hold on... spiritual energy is almost gone..."
Liu Ziming's face turned pale. A bolt of Purple Thunder slashed out, its power far weaker than before, only managing to repel one monster rather than kill it outright.
Xu Hao materialized beside him, his dagger covered in sticky fluid.
His breathing was also rapid. The wounds on his arms had split from overusing his power, blood flowing nonstop.
Feng Jue retracted the Startling Swan, the longsword hanging before him.
He pressed his lips tight, eyes icy.
Suddenly!
A streak of earth-yellow light shot out from the tower, so fast it left a long afterimage in the air, instantly crossing thousands of meters to appear outside the wall, hovering directly in front of the three giant mist creatures.
The light faded.
A middle-aged man clad in dark-gold general's armor was revealed.
His entire being radiated a heavy, majestic spiritual energy like the earth itself, clearly a Sea Realm powerhouse.
It was Shi Potian, the supreme commander stationed at Iron Wall Fortress.
"Kill with me!"
Shi Potian's voice rang like a bell, his roar infused with Sea Realm spiritual energy, striking hard at the three giant mist creatures and the masses of monsters below, forcing them into pained shrieks and stalling their movements.
He clenched his right fist and smashed it forward.
The space ahead grew unbearably heavy.
A terrifying fist will, as if bearing the weight of an entire mountain range, crushed through.
"Boom!!!"
The scorpion-like mist creature that bore the brunt shattered from the inside under that force. Its hard shell and flesh disintegrated instantly into a spray of gore and wind.
The other two giant mist creatures roared in terror and instinctively tried to retreat or attack.
But Shi Potian's fist will already enveloped them.
He transformed his fist into a palm, hands pressing the air.
"Quell!"
Shi Potian flashed and appeared above one of the many-headed serpent-like mist creatures, planting his right foot and bringing it down with brutal force.
"Crack!"
Several of the serpent heads and the massive body exploded under that strike, ripped apart by the terrifying power contained in the blow.
The other giant bear-like mist creature covered in heavy rocky armor was struck through by an empty-space punch from Shi Potian, its thick defenses pierced, its core shattered, and its huge body collapsed, lifeless.
With a few movements, the three Peak Special-risk mist creatures were completely wiped out.
The might of a Sea Realm powerhouse was this terrifying!
Shi Potian hovered in the air, hands forming a seal, and a towering mountain phantom rose behind him.
"Mountain Firmament Quell Demon!"
The mountain phantom suddenly enlarged and slammed down onto the monster tide below.
Where the mountain phantom spread, low-level mist creatures exploded like crushed ants, and even some stronger foes found themselves crippled and sluggish, their strength greatly reduced.
Pressure on the wall dropped sharply.
Liu Ziming, Xu Hao, and Feng Jue leaned on their weapons, panting heavily, and stared at the godlike figure in the sky with awe at absolute power in their eyes.
"Sea Realm... is this the power of the Sea Realm..."
Liu Ziming murmured hoarsely.
Xu Hao wiped the blood and sweat from his face and let out a heavy, relieved breath: "We're saved..."
Feng Jue's gaze ignited with an even fiercer hunger for strength.
With Shi Potian, the Sea Realm powerhouse, forcefully intervening, the collapsing defenses of Iron Wall Fortress finally stabilized, at least for the moment.
...
Prior to this.
Capital City.
The highest-level encrypted communicators carried by several elders and military heavyweights suddenly erupted at the same time.
The sound was abrupt and urgent.
Faces on the viewing platform changed instantly.
Especially the military bigwigs and the Three Elders; they all sprang to their feet at once.
One of the Three Elders grabbed his communicator and, before he could reach a secluded spot, pressed the answer key right where he stood.
After less than three seconds of listening, the usually unflappable expression on his face turned grave...
Almost simultaneously.
The roar of the marshal from the Military Department exploded: "What? Say that again? The entire line? Larger scale? Goddamn it!!!"
No further words were necessary.
Everyone on the viewing platform of the necessary rank could smell the crisis from those two leaders' loss of composure.
The celebratory music had ended abruptly without anyone noticing.
The crowd in the square, which had been boiling with excitement, also sensed something wrong.
The noise quieted, countless confused eyes turned toward the suddenly frozen viewing platform.
The Three Elders spun around and faced all the core members on the platform. Not caring whether the crowd below could hear, one of them announced, word by word:
"Emergency military situation! Ten minutes ago, in Daxia's southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest—our four border defense lines—simultaneously... encountered super-large-scale Mist Surges!"
Although some had suspected, when the confirmation came, a collective sharp intake of breath rose from the viewing platform.
Entire lines!
Simultaneously!
Super-large-scale!
Everyone present understood exactly what that combination of words meant.