novelraw Chapter 663 - 318: First Kill of a Tier Two Giant Beast, Death Confirmed
Chapter 663 - 318: First Kill of a Tier Two Giant Beast, Death Confirmed
As Lin Feng pulled the trigger, the Thermite Annihilation Cannon, containing eight hundred points of fearsome destructive power and thousands of degrees of high temperature, took direct aim at Han Tao, who had just landed.
The latter, having leaped off the mountaintop, suffered from extremely severe impact damage. Even with the hydraulic buffer assistance of the power armor, Han Tao’s legs still endured the pressure of a collision exceeding several tons.
This directly resulted in both legs being fractured, significantly reducing his movement speed and reaction time.
So even if he sensed the imminent threat of death at this moment, he found it very difficult to respond in time.
However, although his legs were weak, his hands were still in perfect condition!
In a moment of desperation, Han Tao, who was rolling on the ground to cushion the impact, suddenly used his hands to push off the ground fiercely, launching himself forward.
With the assistance of the power armor, the speed was astonishingly fast, reaching a hundred meters per second.
And the Annihilation Cannon, arriving at supersonic speed, took only a brief second to hit the target from its firing point at the mountaintop. Even though Han Tao reacted swiftly and decisively, at most, he managed to escape to the outer edge fifty meters away from the center of the impact zone...
He would still be impacted by the explosion.
However, compared to him, the situation was even more desperate for the true target Lin Feng had locked onto: the Tier Two Early-stage Desolate Wolf Beast, which had leaped down from the mountainside.
Also known as Wolf Two, it was ranked second among the three Early-stage Giant Beasts of the Desert Wolf Race, at Level 22 evolution.
During the chase, incessantly harassed by the small rockets equipped on Xu Wanfeng’s power armor, it opted to take the risk to attack the Rock Horse Warrior...
Faced with a drop of over two hundred meters, it leapt mid-air, charging ferociously, creating nearly a second where its massive body remained suspended.
Although it could control its limbs and body posture, lacking a point of leverage, it couldn’t alter the trajectory of its leap and landing spot. Over the next second, the trajectory of the Desolate Wolf Beast’s movement was easily calculable.
Thus, the position locked by Lin Feng’s scope was precisely the Desolate Wolf Beast’s final point of impact, merely three meters away from Han Tao’s original position.
Even though Wolf Two instinctively sensed the crisis of looming death, as the flash of flame from afar drew nearer, and alarm bells rang loud in its mind, it couldn’t make any effective evasive measures.
Unable to find a support point, the motions of its limbs and body landed only on the foam-like air.
Finally realizing within the last 0.1 second that it couldn’t effectively dodge, Wolf Two regained its senses and began to execute its final coping measures.
To minimize the lethal damage of the cannon attack, the Desolate Wolf Beast turned its body, curling up, exposing its limbs and relatively unimportant tail to face the human artillery attack.
Although Wolf Two had foreseen that the rapidly approaching cannon shell carried immense power, likely causing severe damage to itself and possibly threatening its life...
But at this moment, avoiding catastrophic damage to its head and torso was its best possible effort.
As the Annihilation Cannon arrived, there was a tremendous roar!
An explosion comparable to a 200mm-caliber battleship heavy cannon instantly erupted in the valley.
Except for the central damage area and blast radius, the power of the Thermite Annihilation Cannon, especially regarding damage to evolutionary life forms, actually surpassed that of large-caliber heavy cannons.
After all, the sustained high-temperature melting damage could significantly reduce the self-healing recovery capabilities of advanced life forms.
This prevented them from stimulating their wounded cell tissues to proliferate and divide rapidly using their vigorous life force to achieve swift repair.
Indeed, under continuous hundreds of degrees of high temperature, even evolutionary cells couldn’t complete normal division and replication, with a risk of being directly dehydrated and cooked.
Thus, the final effort made by this Desolate Wolf Beast, if confronted with a regular large-caliber heavy cannon, might still hold a slim chance of escape.
Even if its limbs were blown off, tail shattered, or abdomen impacted with organs ruptured, as long as its torso wasn’t severely torn, and its head remained intact, its vigorous life force as a Tier Two Giant Beast could swiftly mend fractures and shattered bones, rapidly regaining mobility.
Once the explosion’s smoke and dust settled, the Desolate Wolf Beast might still have the ability to counterattack or the chance to flee.
However, what Wolf Two didn’t expect was that the shell targeting it did not contain regular explosives but rather a white phosphorus chemical agent that burned continuously.
Therefore, even though Wolf Two had a slight reprieve after the explosion, more than 70% of its body had been burned off, and its fine steel mane and wolf hide, in particular, were directly melted and torn.
Exposing the muscles and blood vessels underneath, continuously cooked to charred by the high temperature.
The burnt area exceeded thirty percent.
The pair of forelimbs initially used to shield its wolf head were scorched and fell off as charcoal, while its skull was exposed, with ghastly white bones bared beneath the evaporating blood, still struggling and howling incessantly, looking particularly eerie and terrifying.
Yet more despairing for Wolf Two was the persistently high temperature following the explosion in the vicinity, initially four to five thousand degrees, now still six to seven hundred degrees.
Even though dozens of seconds had passed and the smoke raised by the explosion had almost dissipated...
The temperature within twenty meters of the explosion center remained five to six hundred degrees.
This caused the energy and nutrients stored within Wolf Two’s body to, no matter how much it stimulated the surviving tissue cells, at most only compensate for the areas being perpetually cooked.