Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 540 - 24: Cataclysm
On the battlefield.
Accompanied by Empress Isabella’s high-pitched roar, thousands of knights wielded dazzling light blades and charged toward the ancient abomination ahead.
The massive Titan suddenly accelerated with agility that didn’t match its colossal size, leaping hundreds of meters and wielding a gigantic plasma light saber at the enemy in front. Almost in the instant when the blinding beam obstructed vision, its left hand swiftly transformed into a black cannon mouth, and deep blue electromagnetic light appeared. At a distance of less than a hundred meters, this Titan fired three shots at Edward I.
Buzz.
Crack.
An extremely shocking scene appeared on the battlefield.
Edward I in the distance simply raised his palm, a light blue Spiritual Protection Field opened up, directly enveloping his silhouette, and the enormous plasma light blade halted just ten centimeters away from him, unable to move forward any more. Ahead of him stood a gigantic Titan, towering over thirty meters, and with the physical impact unleashed by this behemoth, even a steel fortress might be directly cleaved apart.
Unbelievable!
The spiritual power of this ancient abomination was unimaginably immense. Su Ziyu thought that he might be able to block three to five electromagnetic cannon shells with his full Spiritual Power, but to continuously defend against multiple attacks at such close range is something unachievable.
The Spiritual Energy would be drained quickly.
The spiritual power of this ancient abomination seemed endless.
So far, Su Ziyu hadn’t encountered such a terrifying enemy. Even if both sides had a Spiritual Ability Level of 10, his winning odds in actual combat might be less than twenty percent.
He estimated that only by entering the Divine Form could he barely keep up with the opponent’s combat rhythm.
Boom boom boom.
The energy beams fired from the Titan’s left cannon instantly engulfed Edward I’s figure. Amid the dull, enormous explosion, his silhouette was directly blasted away, but the target quickly floated back up. His body showed almost no apparent damage, just the crown on his head was slightly tilted.
Since the suppression barrier blocked all spatial nodes, neither Edward I nor anyone else could use space-folding abilities.
Su Ziyu didn’t dare to step onto the battlefield easily.
In this area, his flashing was also ineffective.
"Attack is effective!"
"The target’s Spiritual Ability Field has been damaged by 75%!"
"As long as the damage exceeds the recovery speed of his Spiritual Ability Field, we can kill him!" said an excited scholar wearing a monocle as he stood up in the operation command room: "The previous orbital strike has already breached his outer Dark Energy Shield. If the others can keep up, we will definitely succeed this time!"
The excitement in the command room abruptly ceased.
On the projection screen, a subtle change in Edward I’s expression appeared, then his tattered cloak billowed, accompanied by an explosion of spiritual shockwaves, piercing low whispers resounded.
In an instant, the entire command room filled with wails.
Many people’s expressions contorted in pain, collapsing on the ground, struggling, screaming, veins surfacing on their bodies, heartbeats accelerating rapidly, faces gradually twisting, and the light of reason fading bit by bit.
"Alert! Alert!"
"Detecting high-intensity mind whispers!...Analyzing!...This ability highly suspected to be [Profane Words]!...75% similarity!..."
"Detecting high-intensity spiritual pollution!..."
"Alert! Alert!"
"Detected unknown spiritual entity descending!...Target showing unknown changes!..."
"Suspected void spirit entity is descending into the current area!..."
The sudden burst of mind whispers made Su Ziyu involuntarily groan, and he quickly activated his Mind Defense Barrier, then used his spiritual power to cut off part of his external perception, isolating these eerie whispers from his mind.
——"Spiritual Vision!"
An unknown entity, invisible to the naked eye, descended.
In Su Ziyu’s vision, the Titan’s left arm in the distance suddenly twisted bizarrely, and the unbreakable ancient alloy arm was folded back nearly ninety degrees. Accompanied by crackling sparks, the Titan’s twelve-meter-long mechanical arm was forcibly snapped.
The figures of the Empire Knights were strangely suspended in mid-air.
They retained their appearance just before death, charging toward the enemy before them, but the breath of life had long departed from them, as if something had directly extracted their souls, leaving only hollow flesh shells.
A spiritual light flickered in Su Ziyu’s eyes.
The next second.
An extremely terrifying humanoid aberration appeared in his vision. Over one hundred meters tall, it had an enormous head covered with eyes, six pairs in total. Its upper body slightly resembled a human, but its lower half was a blur of shadows. Behind it was a swirling pitch-black void projection, tendrils of black mist extending from the void, forming arms with only three fingers, some directly interfering in the real world to seize the huge Titan before them, while others passed through the bodies of the Empire Knights.
Through Spiritual Vision, Su Ziyu could see the souls of the Empire Knights struggling fiercely within its misty arms.
Under the dual vision, the naked eye saw the cold shells of the Empire Knights, but Spiritual Vision revealed their souls being forcefully expelled from their bodies. Deprived of their formidable equipment and unbreakable light blades, the souls of these Empire Knights were just slightly more resolute than ordinary strong individuals, devoid of any other special abilities.
"A soul-side offensive capability?"
"Damn it!"
"These Empire knights are doomed!..." Su Ziyu’s mood instantly became much heavier.
These Empire knights are very powerful.
But all of this is predicated on the fact that they possess incredibly powerful exoskeleton armor, have undergone biological and bionic transformations to strengthen their bodies, and have plasma light blades from ancient technology. This ability to banish the soul from the shell completely exceeds their defensive range. The moment their souls are struck out of their shells, all their equipment becomes mere decoration. No matter how strong, this equipment cannot change their current predicament.
What awaits them next will be a massacre!
No, wait!
Someone is approaching that ancient abomination.
In Su Ziyu’s view, a blood-red figure flashed across the sky. Unlike the other Empire knights, she seems to see these smoke-like arms and directly slashes them with a plasma light blade.
Empress Isabella.
She, like Su Ziyu, can see these spirit-like arms.
"Monster!"
"The saint created by the Empire has indeed been assimilated by you!..."
"You actually used the saint created by the Empire to massacre the citizens of the Empire!..." An angry and sharp roar sounded, and the figure in blood-red armor charged straight toward the spirit body behind the ancient abomination. The suddenly exploding spiritual shockwave directly blew everyone nearby away, even pushing the massive Titan back more than ten meters.
A dazzling pillar of light rose.
Boom.
Su Ziyu’s vision was directly obscured, but he could see the bodies of Empire knights falling from the sky, and those spirit bodies descending from the void dimmed significantly.
"Warning! Warning!"
"Detected a large number of insectoid life forms approaching!..."
"Warning! Warning!"
"Detected a massive swarm of insects approaching!..."
The sharp alarm of the Space-Time Monitor System sounded, and when Su Ziyu turned his head, he saw a huge shadow in the distant sky. Upon closer inspection, it was thousands of black-winged spiky flying dragons. Each had appendages extending from their bodies, covered with armor-like shells, flying solely by spiritual power, including insect queens and overlords, along with countless swarm-like alien insects quickly approaching the battlefield.
They are in the thousands upon thousands! They cover the heavens and the earth! They seem endless!
Boom!
About ten kilometers away, the ground suddenly cracked open, and with a collapsing pit, dozens of giant tunneling insects emerged. Their enormous mandibles opened one by one, releasing countless swift insects, lurkers, spiders, and giant scorpions.
In an instant, they converged into a black tide, surging directly towards the battlefield in front.
"Eliminate the calamity!..."
"Retrieve the genetic seed!..."
"The brain insect is preparing to establish the spiritual network!... Activate the hive!... Raise the Dark Energy Spore Cannon!... Initiate the Robe Orbital Strike!..."
A few thousand kilometers away from the battlefield.
Accompanied by the splitting ground, a massive hive came into view for the world, with the central fleshy structure rapidly swelling upwards. In a blood-red membrane split underground, a turret with a diameter of over fifty meters and height of about 180 meters, entirely composed of dark red flesh, extended out.
Thick flesh pipes, each a meter in diameter, connected to the underground hive, resembling the roots of a tree, providing not only nutrients but also the vast spiritual ability field from the brood mother.
"Warning! Warning!"
"Detected a 10th-level spiritual fluctuation!... It’s the insectoid spiritual waveform!..."
"The brood mother!"
"It’s the spiritual fluctuation of the brood mother!..."
Inside the rebel army’s underground base, sharp warning alarms sounded, and the person in front of the instruments was already at a loss for words, while everyone else had ashen faces.
Above the underground hive.
About 35,000 meters above the ground, a blood-red, jellyfish-like flesh lifeform with a diameter of around thirty meters floats, its surface smooth and covered with tendrils below. It connects spiritually with brain insects thousands of kilometers away, transmitting everything seen by the brain insect back to the central hive below.
"Target locked!"
The massive dark red Dark Energy Robe Cannon began to wriggle slowly. Accompanied by a sudden spiritual fluctuation outburst, dark cyan energy clusters shot across thousands of kilometers towards the distant battlefield.
"The swarm."
"Strike."
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