Chapter 540: 540
Chapter 540 The Great War: Part 4
The rolling black clouds were hitting the massive holy city of Henricqal, engulfing it like a massive balloon with a pure white light inside and the endless black mist on the outside .
A strange shriek came from the inside of the black clouds, followed by a series of wings fluttering . Inside were numerous black vulture-like monsters with four wings, no feather, that relied on some strange energy to fly . Each bird monster was at least a dozen meters long . It was unable to count how many of these birds existed because there were too many of them . They just looked like a blanket of darker clouds, swooping out from the black mist and down toward Henricqal .
A loud boom was heard . On the ground, anti-air cannons started to fire into the air . Shells were shot at hypersonic speed through the air and blowing every monster that came into contact with them into pieces . As the shells exploded, the sky turned into a sea of fire, burning those monster birds out of the sky .
More monster birds were coming . They had no sense of fear as if all they cared was charging forward, carrying the Blacktide, and flying down toward the pure land below .
Anti-air shells lit up the sky, dyeing the atmosphere into a bright-red sea of fire . It stopped most of the monster birds but still a small number—about several hundred—of them, broke through the line of fire, shrieking as they swooped down onto the pure city below .
“Snowstorm Mirage!”
A beam of light shot up from the city . The light beam then broke up into hundreds of smaller beams of equal thickness in midair, hitting with precision every monster bird that tried to swoop down from the sky .
Amid the swoosh and slashes in the air, the monster birds were frozen into ice sculptures before shattering under the powerful sword energy .
Tiny pieces of frozen blood and body parts rained down from the sky . But before they touched the ground, the powerful holy power force field of the Sanctum had purified them .
Ten million people were praying together . Even if only part of them were sincere, the holy power produced was still more concentrated than during normal days . Not to mention the sacred crystal font was continuously releasing its holy power .
Tenko Kasumi leaped up, carried by a snow disc into the air . As she rose to about a thousand meters, she stopped near the battlefield that was still lit up by anti-air shells and looked at the swarm of monster birds .
Behind her was an army of cleric warriors, clad in flying suits and gears . Everyone was carrying a flying device on his back . The device was a hybrid of dark energy and holy power technology . It looked like a silver backpack, capable of setting up a hover magic circle that lasted for a day .
Everyone followed Tenko Kasumi . They formed a massive circle to hold back the monster birds in the surroundings .
“Beware that the anti-air firepower is going to stop . Next, it will be our turn to do the honors . The shells are non-renewable . The resource gathering has become difficult . After depleting the ammo stock, it is our turn to fight,” Kasumi said .
“Don’t worry . Whoever has come, no one is thinking of going back alive!” Her new aide-de-camp was a young lady with blonde hair . Her previous aide-de-camp was dead after a monster attack .
“Get ready . ” Tenko Kasumi had noticed that the anti-air firepower had intensified, which meant that the arsenal was going to run out of ammo very soon . It was a signal .
As she raised her holy power sword in the air, the anti-air firepower stopped .
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“Snow Halo Slash!
The holy power longsword fired numerous ring-shaped, white blades all of a sudden . These white sharp blades spread outward like snowflakes, slashing those attacking monsters .
“Up!”
The aide-de-camp shouted as she flew in a direction with her body covered in powerful holy power . The rest followed as holy power burst out to propel them into different directions .
Those who came up there were at least Oppressor-class elites . Average fighters would not stand longer than ten minutes . As it was difficult to fly in the air; the monster birds would have eaten them alive before they knew it .
Tenko Kasumi stopped, just letting the few hundreds of her comrades hold back the sea of monster birds . She looked into the distance at the black clouds . Inside the rolling clouds, a huge blood-red eye with a vertical pupil appeared and stared at her .
All of a sudden, the cry of a monster bird rang through the air, shocking the clouds as the thing roared at Kasumi . The black clouds began to disperse, exposing the mother of all monster birds inside .
It had many wings on its back, no mouth, no nose, no ears, just a gigantic eye with a vertical pupil that stared at Kasumi . Compared to other monster birds, this mother of all monster birds was at least several hundred meters long . It looked like a floating island when it was in the air .
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Tenko Kasumi found herself looking as small as a sesame seed in front of that thing .
“You are… too noisy!”
Kasumi’s face looked hideous . As she condensed a pair of holy power long swords in her hands, holy power flakes swirled around her .
“I’m going to slaughter you!”
She hollered and leaped forward . Her body faded into a beam of light as she charged at the mother of all monster birds .
The Steel Lord was carrying a broadsword, the blade of which was as wide as a person’s waist, standing on the city wall, looking down at the land below .
Thousands, perhaps, millions of gray monsters that looked like mini dinosaurs were lunging out of the black water and scaling the wall . Clerics were roaring furiously as they waved their weapons in their hands, killing every monster that came up the wall . Blood was splattering, body parts of monsters and humans scattered on the wall .
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Far out in the distance, the black water suddenly rose as if something big was coming out of it . The thing was coming at speed . Its target was the wall .
On the wall, a dozen beams of holy light condensed into spikes and shot out at once at the rolling thing on the surface of the black water .
Holy light and the contaminating power of the black water clashed in a spectacular explosion, with groups of white glow rising in the air . But the shot did nothing but only slow down the massive thing a little . It was still rolling in the wall’s direction . Some dinosaur-like, gray monsters did not manage to get out of the way . They drowned in the black water and never resurfaced again .
The Steel Lord’s face looked grave . Taking a deep breath, he raised his broadsword in the air . Sparks started to flicker on his body, his gray hair suddenly becoming as red as fire, his red body armor glowing as if a red hot iron . Starting from him, heatwaves expanded into all directions .
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