Chapter 1398 - The Bloody Battle in the Mountains (2) (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Captain, they are climbing up!”
“Fire only when they get closer; we do not have as many bullets as the machine gun squad to spare!”
Cat’s Claw found a suitable roosting location and raised his Van’er rifle. While waiting for the enemies, he kept an eye on the position of the floating island. He was unsure if it he was seeing things, but the floating island appeared to rise in altitude. Previously he could barely make out the edges of the island, but all he could see now was the craggy bottom.
But one thing was for sure, the floating island had taken this period of time to close in on the Impassable Mountain Range and its gigantic shadow had covered a corner of the mountains. Upon thinking about the probability of them having to fight under its shadow, Cat’s Claw felt stifled, as though a heavy rock was crushing his back.
We have to get rid of those damned demons and leave this mountain before the floating island arrives.
Probably sharing his thoughts, the machine gun squad finally let loose the moment the Spider Demons entered a range of five hundred meters, spewing out tongues of fire from their muzzles at the targets on the slope.
In that moment, the valley became heated.
Cat’s Claw pulled the trigger when the enemies reached the 150-meter mark, the distance he was most confident of.
“Fire!”
The muzzles of all the guns stirred up a flurry of snow instantly.
Although none of them were professional marksman, the majority of them had modified their weapons under Van’er’s influence. In semi-automatic mode, so long as the Van’er rifle didn’t jam, it could unleash a metal rain not inferior to a machine gun squad’s.
Faced against the tough miniature Spider Demons, the meaning of having concentrated firepower reached a whole new level. If it were the ordinary troops of the First Army equipped with standard issue, it would had been difficult to stop the large quantity of fearless Spider Demons.
Suddenly, a black light shot out from the forest like a huge ripple that instantly penetrated everyone.
It disappeared as fast as it appeared, the entire process taking less than a second. If not for the shivering of the comrades next to him, Cat’s Claw would had thought that it was all an hallucination of his.
“Did… you just see something?”
“It looked like some black ripple?”
Cat’s Claw touched his own body but sensed nothing different. The defensive line did not suffer from any damage, proven by the endless stream of gunshots.
“It most probably came from that weird stone pillar.” A comrade reloaded a new magazine and spoke, “Those things are extremely bizarre, they are clearly rocks on the exterior, but they have flesh and blood inside.”
Cat’s Claw no longer pursued the matter. Compared to the harmless black light, killing the approaching Spider Demons was more important. But he quickly discovered that the snow vista before him had become darker, as though the sun had been blocked.
Damn it, has the floating island already entered the mountainous region?
He raised his head, but was stunned by what he saw.
The fortress was still in its original place, but the sky had changed.
The bright and clear day turned dark and gloomy while golden streams of light shuttled through the dark clouds, as though it was being accumulated. The speed of the sudden change completely surpassed that of any meteorological phenomenon, causing an extreme unease to arise in his heart.
Everyone detected the change above their heads.
In the short span of 10 seconds, the dark clouds had gathered and blocked out all light.
Tens of thousands of lights continued to gather and faintly blossomed in strength.
Why does it feel that we have seen this scene before…
Cat’s Claw suddenly drew out a bugle horn. Right before he could even blow into it, countless lightning bolts smote down through the clouds in a circular radius and continued expanding out, instantly falling right onto the assault force’s defensive perimeter!