Chapter 590 (1/2)
The tunnel towards the palace was just before their eyes. This place was the core of Nasaton and should have been brilliantly lit, but yet it stood in a gloomy darkness and the giant bulkhead and tunnels were seemingly smothered by the darkness that permeated from the deep abyss. Leaving a pathway without end before the group.
Y’zaks looked at the two tattered uniforms behind him. “We’ll be on our own now.”
Shaqira nodded without a sound and lead the group.
They soon passed another series of tunnels and blast doors and the foreboding atmosphere was more and more obvious. The brain monster had made this place its lair for far too long and had changed the entire atmosphere of the palace. Anyone stepping into the place was seemingly being watched by countless of hateful gaze. The siren wail was heard again from afar and most of the palace guards knew by now that there are intruders as the blast doors were sealed one by one. It was just a matter of time before they reached the palace grounds proper. Battle was imminent.
Hao Ren followed Shaqira through the last door and entered a wide domed hall. This was a resplendent hall made out of white metal and light green crystals. A shining pearl hug from the dome as lines upon lines of light shone through the stained glass dome. It was almost as if the rainbows were dancing in the water.
But the group had no time to gawk and the awesome throne room as the door behind them sealed shut and a wave of Siren guards dashed out from the top of the dome!
The siren guards were in their serpentine form and fanned about the group to surround them. Behind the serpents were a group of mermaid soldiers. They held position as soon as the encirclement was complete. Raising their enchanted tridents, they blast out a series of soul-shattering shrieks.
Vivian was preparing a cloud of icicles to attack but the shrikes immediately shook her and with her spell forcibly broken a ring of ice from around the group. The shrieks too had disrupted Y’lisabet and Teuton’s spellcasting. Only Y’zaks the demon lord could withstand the mental assault and throw a three meter wide molten fireball towards the sirens. The fireball drew steam as it sped through the water before colliding with the Sirens and smashing through the dome.
This was just the start of things, as Hao Ren pointed his silver spear to fight his way out, a massive rumble came from all across the room. As the green crystals around the room sunk, a new wave of enemies appeared. These group were glad in massive shell carapace and were about the side of a battle tank. Their limbs shone with menacing glow of magic and cold light permeated from their appendages.
Hao Ren gasped in horror and turned back towards Shaqira, “What the hell are those?!”
The Siren was deploying a shield to ward off the shrieks as she yelled back. “Mantis shrimp form! And also crab form!
Lily with her Frostfire Claws deployed, could only looked on apathetically, “You can this monster of a tank…. mantis shrimps?!”
Hao Ren looked around him and was at least glad that the giant sea monsters at least did not have a human face on them. That at the very least left the mantis as only ‘fearsome’. He then turned towards Wuyue and yelled. “You are forbidden to change into this form from now on! It’s just god damn weird if when you guys change into that!”
Wuyue had bravely curled into a ball behind the team as she maintained the barrier. She immediately yelled back. “Is this the time for that?!”
As the three siren’s magical barrier had managed to block out the mind rending shrieks, Vivian took the opportunity to counter attack. A swarm of bats with cold light on them darted towards the sirens encircling them midair. A few meters before the siren guards the bats spread out as they turned into a torrent of freezing wind to assault the enemy lines. The sudden drop in temperature below freezing point had turned many of the sirens into ice blocks and they fell limply onto the ground. Lily too had swung her Frostfire claws towards the awesome looking…. mantis shrimps. Alright, alright, even though they are mantis shrimps, they were still the size of a MBT! This was no joking matter!