harleyscars Chapter 316 Reinforcements from Atlantis
Chapter 316 Reinforcements from Atlantis
"Saint Michael?"
Captain Louis had no idea that he had been mistaken for an archangel descended from heaven by the supreme Pope in the Vatican.
He now only felt that his arms were so sore that he could hardly lift them.
His "qi"... or rather, the "power of faith" as he understood it, was being rapidly depleted.
He and his Templar Knights were indeed very strong.
They were like a sharp scalpel, precisely cutting into the most critical point of the beast tide, and at one point turning the tide of the battle.
However, there were just too many monsters!
So many that it's despairing!
They killed a group of monsters, and immediately, even more monsters surged up behind them.
It seemed endless.
St. Peter's Square was covered with a thick layer of blackish-green blood and the monstrous limbs and torsos.
The nauseating, fishy stench in the air was almost suffocating.
"Captain! Our 'energy' is almost gone!"
Hans's "war cry" had lost its initial imposing power and had become somewhat hoarse.
He just used the last electromagnetic sniper bullet to blow up the head of the last "Screamer".
Now, his precious sniper rifle has been turned into a fire poker.
The "priest" squad responsible for casting "Light of Purification" were also pale-faced and had dry lips, clearly exhausted.
"Damn it!"
With a single sword strike, Louis decapitated a "Corruptor" that lunged at him, its scalding green blood splattering all over his face.
He could feel the golden light on his sword rapidly dimming.
At most, in ten more minutes.
Once their "qi" is exhausted, they will be completely swallowed up by this black ocean!
"Call for backup at command!" Louis yelled into the communicator. "Tell them! We need heavy firepower! We need thermobaric weapons! Blow this damn square, and us all, into the sky!"
He had already prepared for the worst.
As a descendant of nobility, a Knight Templar.
To die on the battlefield, wrapped in a horse's hide, is their highest honor!
"Captain! No! Our communications have been jammed again!" the communications officer cried out in despair.
Louis suddenly raised his head.
There, in the sky above Castle of Saint Angels, behind the beast tide.
Suddenly, a gigantic shadow appeared, several times larger than the "Screamer"!
That was a creature that looked very much like a giant bat.
Its wingspan, when fully extended, is several tens of meters!
Its body was covered with a layer of dark purple scales.
The most terrifying thing is that it has three huge, constantly rotating eyeballs on its head!
Every single one of them radiated a chilling, sinister red light!
[Name]: The Beholder
Threat Level: C
[Biological Characteristics]: A powerful, psychic-type, calamity beast. Capable of releasing various forms of mental interference and psychic shockwaves, paralyzing electronic devices over a wide area, and creating hallucinations.
[Weakness Analysis]: Its three eyeballs are its energy core, spiritual core, and life core.
"C...C-rank, a Calamity Beast!"
Louis looked at the automatically synchronized encyclopedia data on his tactical goggles and felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head!
No wonder their communications were being jammed!
No wonder their reinforcements haven't arrived yet!
It turns out that behind the beast tide, there was a terrifying behemoth hidden!
That "Gaze" had obviously also discovered Louis, and his group of little insects that had been hopping around in its territory for half a day.
It, those three, enormous eyeballs, simultaneously turned toward St. Peter's Square.
"Buzz—!!!"
An invisible, yet terrifying mental shock, a hundred times more powerful than the "Screamer's" sound waves, swept in like a tsunami!
"puff!"
In the square, all the Italian soldiers who were still struggling to hold on instantly bled from all seven orifices, clutched their heads, and collapsed to the ground in agony, completely losing their fighting ability.
And the Templars were not having an easy time either.
Although they had "qi" protecting them, they were all struck hard in the face of this absolutely overwhelming spiritual power!
Louis felt as if his head had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer!
I saw stars before my eyes and heard a buzzing sound in my ears.
He even had hallucinations!
He seemed to see his beautiful fiancée waving at him from afar, urging him to hurry home.
"No! This is...an illusion!"
Louis bit his own tongue hard!
The intense pain brought him back to a sliver of clarity.
However, many of the knights around him, whose will was weaker, had already completely succumbed to illusion.
Some of them threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground, and wept bitterly.
Some, however, attack their own companions as if they had gone mad.
The formation was instantly thrown into chaos!
It’s over.
A flicker of despair crossed Louis's mind.
In the face of monsters of this level, these "newbie players" who have just started are simply no match for them.
Just then.
"Boom—!!!"
A deafening roar, louder than thunder, suddenly came from the horizon!
That voice was filled with a wildness, violence, and undisguised arrogance!
Everyone who was still conscious instinctively raised their heads.
In the city of Rome, under a blood-red twilight sky...
A huge, dark shadow was approaching at high speed in an extremely savage manner!
That was a gigantic spaceship that they had never seen before!
The spaceship's shape resembles a giant axe, magnified thousands of times!
The ship's hull was pitch black and covered with all sorts of menacing rams and turrets.
The huge, red "Blood Axe" emblem on the bow of the ship stood out conspicuously in the firelight.
"What...what is that?"
Louis muttered to himself.
He had never seen a warship of this style in the military of any country.
It doesn't look like a product of Earth.
It's more like it came straight out of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie!
"Who cares what it is! Blow it up!"
Inside the spaceship's bridge, a one-eyed, burly man with a towering frame and a hideous scar on his face was smoking a thick cigar. He was watching the screen, observing the surging tide of beasts and the C-class "Gazer" hovering in mid-air. His eyes gleamed with greed.
He is none other than the leader of the "Blood Axe" mercenary group—"One-Eyed" Aug!
One, a notorious and ruthless character in Atlantis!
"Captain! Down below, it looks like the European 'Knights Templar'! Should we greet them first?" a crew member asked.
"Say hello? Say hello my ass!" Aug spat a mouthful of phlegm onto the ground. "I'm here to make money! Not to make friends!"
"Didn't you see that? That flying, big-eyed thing? That's a C-rank! Killing it will get us at least a thousand merit points! Enough for us brothers to live it up for months!"
"All main guns! Secondary guns! Lock onto that big eyeball! Fire a salvo! Let these surface bumpkins see how powerful the 'Blood Axe' is!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Then, Aug gave the order.
The massive "Blood Axe" warship opened all of its dozens of cannons on its sides simultaneously!
One by one, the massive cannon barrels, shimmering with a deep blue light and crackling with electricity, slowly extended and aimed at the distant, C-class "Gaze"!
"Fire!!!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Dozens of energy beams, even more dazzling than lightning, instantly ripped through the sky!
Like a vast net woven from death energy, it completely enveloped the "Gaze" that hadn't yet reacted!
That poor, C-rank Calamity Beast didn't even have time to let out a single howl.
Its hard, scale-like armor, its proud mental shield, was instantly torn apart like paper before this terrifying firepower, comparable to the main guns of a battleship!
The entire body was vaporized and evaporated in mid-air!
All that remained was a cluster of dazzling, energetic fireworks.
Sold out instantly!
A warship of unknown origin.
One round, unreasonable, a volley.
Just like that, they easily and instantly killed a C-rank Calamity Beast that had left three hundred Templar Knights helpless!
St. Peter's Square was deathly silent.
Louis, and his companions who were still conscious, all looked up at the sky, as if looking at God, at that domineering, enormous black shadow, as if looking at God.
Their minds were blank.
Only one thought remained.
"This... damn it, where did this god come from?"