Chapter 584 (2/2)
Hao Ren showed no time to bother with the cat. He pushed the cat-maiden away and said to her, “Remember what I’ve told you before leaving home? We’re going for an adventure; you would listen to me and follow what I do. If worse comes to worst I’m going to send you back home.”
The cat-maiden quickly nodded.
The water bubble slowed down and slowly came near to the mysterious city of the deep sea and hovered over the lamp strips. The water bubble broke silently and the seawater began to pour in but was isolated by their personal body shields or magical effects. Shaqira quietly swam to a large black rock nearby, motioning everyone to come. Through some magical trick, she made it possible for everyone to talk to each other in the water. “Look at the glowing lights in front? It’s the dividing line between the city and the wilderness. Usually there should be a lot of sirens out of here… but now nobody is here.”
“There’s an air of tension around here; I can smell a certain negative scent,” Y’zaks frowned. “Perhaps your queen is forbidding the sirens to come out.”
Lily stretched her neck and looked up for a long while before she suddenly pointed to space above Nasaton. “What is that?”
Hao Ren looked in the direction where Lily was pointing and saw a layer of light-blue film over the city, and there was a massive maelstrom just outside the film—the maelstrom was translucent like a projection, but the MDT said after performing a remote sensing that the phantom maelstrom was gradually materializing. It could have been there for a month, and the day of its complete transformation might be around the corner.
The scale of the maelstrom was almost the size of the city below. Hao Ren looked at the weird phenomenon in awe, and could not imagine what this thing was for, but it was clear that only a lunatic would make such a thing in his own backyard!
“That…that’s the location of the protective wall!” Shaqira saw also stunned seeing the maelstrom. Bubbles were foaming out of her mouth when she spoke. “There is a portal outside the protective wall?”
“Your general had mentioned a maelstrom before she passed out. I’m afraid this is it,” White Flame suddenly said from behind. She was silent all the while to maintain her ‘normal’ demon hunter demeanour, but this time, she could not help but asked, “What are you going to do to?”
“God knows,” said Sorma as she came out from her horror. “No, we must enter the city immediately. The maelstrom needs the magical power of a large number of people to form; the Queen must be drawing a lot of energy from the planet… No, it could be worse…”
“Okay, so now anyone has any plan?” Y’zaks hummed and said, “Nasaton should now be heavily guarded. We must quietly enter the city and then quickly capture the Queen of Sirens without alarming the guards, if possible. It’s best to hold up all her close officials. We also need to prevent them from launching something that would blow everyone up indiscriminately, such as detonating the maelstrom. I can feel the power of that maelstrom. It’s no less destructive than the curse that tore Helcrown apart from the Obsidian Plain. Once it blows, it’s hard to say how many of us would survive; probably we don’t even have time to react.”
“Besides, we also have to control that gigantic brain,” Hao Ren reminded. “This is the most important thing. The Queen of the Sirens is just a puppet, and no one knows there are how many such puppets out there.”
Hasse had been listening indifferently, but when he learned that these aliens really wanted to stop the crisis, he also joined the discussion. “The most appropriate solution is to control all of them at the same time or, even better, kill the brain immediately and capture the Queen alive. I just overheard Shaqira said that you had an encounter with the gigantic brain before. You know what it is? How powerful is it?”
“It’s a kind of monster from … an alien planet. It floats and moves at a speed human could barely attain. With its dozen of tentacles and strong physical strength, it could perform spatial spells. However, the nastiest thing is its mind control ability, where it can shakes even the strongest will, and the longer the fight is, the severe the influence will be,” Hao Ren chose the most careful wordings to explain. “I’ve just killed the… avatar-like one. I don’t know how strong the real one can be.”
Hasse listened quietly before he finally nodded his head and said, “Looks like head-on attack would be a problem. Surprise attack is the way, if can.”
“The biggest problem now is how to get into the city,” Hao Ren exhaled, looking up at Nasaton. He then turned to look at Shaqira for a moment. “Now it’s all your show.”