176 A Threat Appears (2/2)
Thunderous roars resounded through the air. Regardless of the level of their cultivation, every beast that touched the barrier collapsed in a pile of blood and mangled flesh. Bright red blood spilled across the land, but more beasts charged forward, fearless of death. The barrier trembled and blood splattered across it.
Waves of emotions swept through Wang Baole as he witnessed the madness. It was then that the Fire God Cannons started firing rampantly. The loud cannon shots sounded as if the heaven and earth roared in unison. Each cannon fired five blasts, forming five salvos of cannon shots—five waves of killing shots!
Each wave was a hundred-odd beams of light shooting across the skies. The sunset skies lit up in a fiery instant. The beams of light fell like rain, shooting through the protective shield and landing on the Beast Tide.
The earth trembled, its quakes rippling outwards without pause. Hordes and hordes of beasts were torn apart instantly and turned to dust. The explosive power of five hundred cannon beams decimated half of the Beast Tide outside the barrier.
Seas of blood and mountains of corpses spanned as far as the eye could see!
However, within a blink of an eye, the next wave of Beast Tide surged forward and took over. Hordes of beasts gathered without rest in the distance. Their numbers seemed to grow, and they charged at the shield without pause. The shield warped and bent under the attack as if it couldn't withstand such force for much longer.
In the skies, the hurricane approached. The seven Foundation Establishment realm beasts at the edge of the hurricane neared steadily, and the suppressive aura exuding from them seemed to grow ever more vicious.
Big-bearded commander-in-charge narrowed his eyes and cursed, ”Didn't the Federation predict a small-scale Beast Tide? Screw that. This is the first time I'm seeing a Beast Tide of such proportions!”
In a moment of haste, big-bearded commander-in-charge sent a plea for aid to the primary stronghold. However, the situation at the primary stronghold was equally dire. In fact, every stronghold was currently facing an unprecedented Beast Tide; the primary stronghold especially, because a Core Formation realm Beast King had made an appearance!
Upon hearing the sighting of a Beast King, big-bearded commander-in-charge inhaled sharply. He watched with reddened eyes as fractures appeared in the protective shield under the assault of the beast hordes. Viciousness flashed through his eyes. He raised his hand abruptly and barked out an order.
”Self-destruct the barrier. Let's give these wretched creatures one hell of a blow. Fire God Cannons, ten salvos of cannon shots! Array Formation troops, activate the array formation inscription. The Second Army, the Flying Sword Rites!”
Big Beard issued his commands. Soon after, the collapsing barrier holding off the Beast Tide exploded and caught the beasts unaware. Its sudden explosion was like a huge scimitar; it swept across the land, amidst the screams of beasts, slicing their bodies into clean halves!
It was then that thousands of cannon beams exploded from the Fire God Cannons in ten consecutive shots. The earth quaked, and waves of air rose into the heavens. The beams fell alongside the virtual scimitar, and triggered another wave of slaughter!
The decimation of a huge horde of the beasts still didn't put a dent in the sea of beasts. The growing number of beasts, eyes red with rage and howling for blood, was like a flood surging into the three-thousand-meter distance separating it from the stronghold. They rushed towards the mountain peak where the stronghold sat in a mad frenzy.
If one were standing atop the highest point in the stronghold with their gaze lowered, they would see ferocious-looking beasts charging forward in hordes. Their numbers were uncountable and stretched into the distance with no end in sight under the darkening sunset skies…
Within the seventh primary stronghold's sphere of jurisdiction, all minor strongholds were faced with the same predicament at that moment. The Beast Tides they faced were all beyond the scale expected by the Federation!
That was especially so for the seventh primary stronghold, where the Beast Tide was overwhelming to an extreme and included the presence of a Core Formation realm Beast King. The Foundation Establishment realm beasts under the Beast King's command were equally dangerous, and they mobilized a grand army of beasts. Even the seventh primary stronghold faced the threat of danger.
The entire seventh line of defense raised the alarm—it was an emergency!
At the same time that a great army of beasts assailed the seventh line of defense, the first to sixth primary strongholds in the Federation—and the areas under their commands—were also defending against huge beast armies beyond their wildest imagination!
The fourth primary stronghold, especially, was at the brink of being broken through. The beast armies targeted it as the main breaching point, mobilizing eight Beast Kings!
No one knew why the round of Beast Tides had arrived so suddenly and with such vehemence.
The Federation did respond as soon as they could. However, the battlefields spread across too many locations, and the aid they could render wouldn't be able to reach everyone. They could only prioritize military aid to the fourth primary strongholds.
The four Great Dao Colleges were activated as well, as were the senators and the various factions. They weren't headed towards the battlefields outside the strongholds though. That, to their mind, would be meaningless.
Under the Federation's secret orders, the highly skilled from the various political forces would—using the opportunity presented to them from the surging Beast Tides—leave the Federation and infiltrate the primordial jungles. Their target… the sea of beasts within the primordial jungle land!
It was where the base of the beasts sat!
The strategy had the intention of setting up an ambush on one hand and, on the other, the aim of launching an attack from behind. They planned on forcing the enemy to retreat from their own forward assault to deal with the split attacking forces. Of course, the success of the strategy rested on the seven primary strongholds standing strong against the enemy forces!