Chapter 148 (1/2)
The Second Cataclysm (4)
The battlefield was engulfed in a sudden silence.
Tssss!
The smell of dust and animal protein burning together filled the vicinity.
Surviving Ogatu troops had to spend seconds trying to figure out what just happened. Most of them were sick and frightened to the point where they couldn’t breathe properly.
The rain of flash with brutal power just wiped out more than half of Ogatu’s soldiers in one shot.
“Ah, ah…!”
The brain that had been frozen by fear began moving again. Their trembling eyes stared at the Tactical Fortress in the sky.
It launched a frighteningly precise interception. None of those hit by the rain of the slaughter survived. Considering that all of those killed were above S-Class in Earth’s standard, it had a tremendous killing power.
“C-command! Requesting a response! Command!”
The soldiers rang the communication, waiting for instructions on how to respond to the situation, but no answer returned.
The Ogatu individuals, who were in charge of the advance team, had also been killed by the airstrikes.
The traces around them were more vain than disastrous. Most of the bodies were oxidized in an instant.
The only thing that proved their presence in the dome was small amounts of flesh and blood that spread around where they stood.
“N-no way… I’ve never seen anything like that!”
The spectrum of items usually classified as EX-class was vast.
Those with high knowledge among the Ogatu quickly realized that the Fortress, which suddenly appeared in the sky, was one of the rarest of the EX-Class tier.
“No way!”
With the sound of electrification, a wave of blue light started to waver from the lower portion of the artificial island.
Like a fountain show waiting for the next climax, they blazed low and built up strength.
As such, for the next show, the blue flash would be heading down, not up.
“R-retreat!”
Terrible fear spread faster than the scent of death, entering our noses.
It went viral in an instant.
“Uhh… huh-!”
Still, the numerical superiority was evidently with the Ogatu species.
Nevertheless, they had no will to fight left in them.
What was fortunate for them was that the weapon of destruction in the air, the precision interceptor laser guns mounted on floating islands, seemed unable to fire in succession.
As proof of that, even after turning about half of the Ogatu unit into ashes swiftly, it recharged the energy without attacking immediately.
But when the second bombardment started, if it were of a scale similar to the first, the remaining half would also be killed instantly.
“Ahhh… Arghhh!”
Slave poachers fled in terror.
There was only one hole to escape from.
The Gate that they passed through when they came over to Earth.
Adam distorted his lips when he saw them running away, scared to death.
“At least they’re quick to judge.”
He sent a signal using the communication device in his ear to Euclid, who was in the control room.
The moment he murmured something, the reaction immediately arrived.
Whomp!
Prisoners wrapped in dark red blood film floated into the air, escaping from the bondage of gravity.
The Tactical Fort quickly and safely stored the blood-membrane bundle by inhaling them into the base.
Adam had confirmed that and transformed his body once again.
At that point, there was nothing left for him to protect, and the only thing left to do was to sweep the enemy forces as he wished.
Blam!
The sound of the air bursting echoed.
“Guuuuh!”
Screams followed.
“S-spare me!”
Adam’s arms turned into hundreds of red tentacles and pierced the backs of the fleeing Ogatu species.
The aliens screamed and collapsed as the hunters became the hunted.
It was a complete reversal of the situation.
Meanwhile, those lucky enough to escape his attacks rushed to the Gate, but-
– K-hahahahah!
There was an impenetrable wall, standing its ground, giving out a bizarre, twisted laugh.
Darkness clad with golden armor shed telepathy.
– You’re the kind that brings me satisfaction in slaughtering after a long while!
Genograche was genuinely delighted, rattling inside the helmet.
Unlike the monsters in the Tower, which rushed in a crazed state, the species in front of him knew fear.
Intelligent beings were his favorite preys to hunt.
He swung his sword.
Shhhhhh!
The leading Ogatu determinedly charged.
The expression on his face disappeared.
“!”
A red fissure formed in the middle of the pale face, and it split slanted.
The brutal sword energy penetrated through the pouring brain water, and blood then pierced through the air. After that, about a dozen soldiers who were running were deflected away, causing them to roll on the ground. None of them could stand up again.
Those whom the sword hadn’t yet touched stopped on their tracks. They exchanged glances, then-
“Ahhhhhhhh!”
In unison, they rushed in with the most potent skill they could invoke.
Genograche stood motionless until their attacks touched the armor.
However, just because he didn’t move, it didn’t mean that he wasn’t doing anything.
Zaaaap!
A faint current flashed.
Simultaneously, the blade of the sword he was holding, [Storm Breaker], trembled.
The lightning that lit up the darkness as it crept on the blade was fused with Genograche’s Mana.
The power that was about to explode was concentrated to its limits, then-
Boom!
It finally burst.
The sound of a blast followed, and lightning poured in.
Following a single sword path created by the golden armor, their broken bodies and charred limbs fluttered. Their intestines fell out, and a cruel hell unfolded.
Crushed and fragmented pieces of corpses were raining across the vicinity, like fallout or hail.
– K-hahaha!
As the devil watched the scene satisfactorily, he mumbled on the communication device. The transmission was shared with everyone. Genograche sent it to the Tactical Fort’s cockpit.
– Hey, battery! Charge!
A retort came right back from far above.
– I told you to be frugal!
Euclid, who remained in the Fort’s cockpit, looked at the view below, which emerged as a hologram.
The positions of the Awakened marked as allies were depicted there.
[Mana Legacy!]
The Fortress decorating the dark blue night sky once again drilled a hole in the dome’s wall.
Whoong!
Mana was sent through the gap. The dragon’s skill re-filled the Core of the devil.
– Alright!