harleyscars Chapter 39: Devouring Beast King
Chapter 39: Devouring Beast King
Inside the monitoring center, watching the battle unfold on the monitors, the staff felt as if an invisible hand was gripping their hearts tightly. They dared not even breathe.
On the sea, the earth-shattering battle of the colossal beasts has reached its most brutal finale.
"roar!"
The Octopus King's body was mangled beyond recognition; of its once-proud eight gigantic tentacles, only three remained. It gathered its last strength and drove its tattered tentacles toward the Golden Horned Beast to annihilate it.
In the golden-horned behemoth's crimson eyes, a hint of anthropomorphic weariness and contempt was revealed.
It's already tired of playing with it.
A giant tentacle descended, and its dark golden wings, which blotted out the sky, suddenly flapped!
"Whoosh!"
It left a trail of afterimage before disappearing completely.
When it reappeared, it was directly above the Eight-Clawed Beast King's body. The sharp horns on its head suddenly shone with a dazzling golden light, and then it folded its wings, transforming into a dark golden meteor that crashed down with terrifying power!
"Pfft—"
The golden-horned behemoth's sharp horn pierced through the center of the eight-clawed beast king's head without any obstruction. The immense impact propelled it out through its lower jaw with a thunderous roar.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The massive body of the Eight-Clawed Beast King trembled violently, its waving tentacles stopped in mid-air, then fell limply and scattered, and all the light in its eyes slowly faded away.
It has completely lost its vitality.
A one-sided massacre!
The massive body of the Octopus Beast King collapsed like a mountain, limp on the sea surface, stirring up the last waves.
The golden-horned behemoth slowly raised its head, the horn that had pierced its nemesis's skull untouched by a single drop of blood. It let out a joyful low growl.
Immediately, it opened its huge mouth and began to tear and devour the corpse of the beast king that had just died.
Inside the monitoring center, technicians stared blankly at the screen.
Luo Feng felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, and a chill ran through his entire body.
The bloody, savage, and primitive images on the screen delivered an unparalleled visual impact.
The Golden Horned Beast devoured things at an abnormally fast speed. The beast king's corpse, which was thousands of meters long and weighed over ten thousand tons, was like a snack in front of it.
Huge chunks of flesh were easily torn off. Even the hardest bones were chewed up, producing a teeth-grinding crunch.
Everything was transformed into pure energy and merged into its body.
It even lowered its head and sucked up every last drop of the blood that had stained the vast blue sea.
Less than five minutes had passed.
That octopus king, who dominated the Pacific Ocean and left the world helpless, simply vanished from the world cleanly and completely.
"Waaah..."
After devouring everything, the golden-horned behemoth roared to the sky, its voice joyful and satisfied, carrying the aftertaste of a hearty meal.
Its dark golden scales shimmered, and its size seemed to have grown slightly larger without its noticing.
After doing all this, its scarlet eyes suddenly glanced in a certain direction in the sky.
That's where human satellites are located.
That look in his eyes was undisguised disdain and indifference, as if he were looking at a group of ants that he could crush at any moment.
Immediately afterwards, under everyone's watchful eyes, the space around its figure began to distort slightly, as if forming an invisible energy field.
In the blink of an eye, its figure, along with that terrifying energy reaction, vanished from all the surveillance footage!
"Signal lost! Target energy response disappears!"
"Untraceable! No response detected by any radar, sonar, thermal, or bio-energy frequencies!"
"It...it just vanished! My God!"
A technician's scream finally broke the silence in the command center.
All that remained on the screen was a calm, azure sea.
It was as if the earth-shattering battle of the giant beasts and the bloody feast that had just taken place were nothing but a nightmare.
But that nightmarish, dark golden figure is deeply imprinted on everyone's soul.
"It can perfectly conceal its aura...isolating it from all energy detection!"
Thor slammed his fist on the alloy control panel, making a loud thud.
The sturdy tabletop was instantly dented, leaving a fist-sized dent.
"How are we supposed to fight this? We don't even know where it is!"
Hong remained silent, staring at the last frame frozen on the screen.
Those two golden horns piercing the sky magnified and magnified in his eyes.
Everything was in sync, yet everything was in chaos.
It devoured metal and life energy, completed its first evolution, and its strength steadily stepped into the first level of the Hengxing level, or even higher!
This was far more powerful than the trajectory he remembered, and... far ahead of schedule!
The butterfly's wings eventually stirred up a hurricane, bringing about the most desperate outcome.
"It can perfectly conceal its aura!"
In Luo Feng's mind, Babata exclaimed in amazement.
"If he wants to, the light of the dome will be completely unable to detect his movements or energy fluctuations! Unless there is a detection device several levels above it, it simply cannot be found! It's over! Utterly over!"
"Luo Feng! A B6-level laser cannon! That's the only B6-level laser cannon left! We must act now before it completes its second evolution; it can still pose a fatal threat!"
Babata's voice sent a chill down Luo Feng's spine.
He finally understood Hong's profound meaning and the heavy burden on his shoulders.
After a long silence, Hong let out a long breath and slowly turned around.
His heavy footsteps echoed like a death knell in the silent monitoring center, striking the hearts of everyone present.
"Continue with the monitoring and report any abnormal areas immediately."
Then Hong looked at Luo Feng.
"Now, do you understand?"
Hong's voice was hoarse and deep. Although things were out of his control, he remained calm and confident.
"That's the whole point of why I had you modify the Dome of Light."
He pointed to the empty sea and said, slowly and deliberately:
"It's like a ghost, something we can't see or touch, yet it could appear at any moment above any of our base cities. We don't know where it is, where it will appear next, or what it will devour to continue its evolution."
"It must have only recently advanced to the Hengxing level and hasn't fully adapted to its surge in power yet. As it grows stronger, we... will be like a group of blindfolded death row inmates, waiting for the executioner's blade to fall, not knowing when it will strike."
A terrifying aura slowly rose from Hong's body.
"We don't have time, Luo Feng."
"We must find it as quickly as possible, and then... kill it!"
"With every minute we give it time to grow, our hope diminishes. When all the metals in the world become its evolutionary fuel, that will be the end of our civilization."
Luo Feng clenched his fists, his sharp nails digging deep into his palms, causing a stinging pain, but also making him more clear-headed than ever before.
He met Hong's gaze and nodded heavily.
"I understand, leave it to me."