Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1043 The Second Horizon War!

The East China Sea is ablaze.

That wasn't a metaphor; it was a real picture of hell.

The moment the [Lever of Heaven] pierced the Cape Kailan oil field and white flames rose from the deep sea, the entire ocean began an irreversible fire. The once calm sea surface resembled torn flesh, with black oil gushing continuously from the seabed. Drilling platforms collapsed, refining towers exploded, and metal debris was twisted by the intense heat.

The [Eternal Flame] began to engulf everything, but the oil field's reaction was more intense than Xia Xiu had anticipated.

The moment the oil strata collapsed, the crude oil compressed beneath the seabed was ignited by a massive amount of EVE particles, erupting with a force akin to a thousand volcanoes erupting simultaneously. Oil continued to gush from the cracked seabed fissures, mixing with the black fuel and turning the seawater thick and dark.

Monitoring values ​​have skyrocketed – the oil content in seawater has exceeded the standard by two hundred times.

This sea is turning into a flowing oil field.

The reason soon became apparent.

The drilling rigs at Cape Kailan have long been modified by Chaos Technology. Their pipeline structure runs through the entire seabed network of the East China Sea. When the main oil layer burns and the pressure becomes unbalanced, those pipelines become channels for leakage.

What was originally a catastrophe at Cape Kelan has now spread along the ocean currents.

Guided by the topography, the waters of the East China Sea surge northward, eastward, and westward, carrying oil strata with them. Black waves carry fuel across the ocean surface, and flames spread along the waves.

Their behavior can be described in one word—escape!!!

The oil sea seemed to come alive. Sensing the threat of the white flames, the oil flow converged into countless dark channels, escaping along the ocean currents like countless tentacles trying to escape from the center of death.

However, the flames released by Xia Xiu were no ordinary flames.

That is the solar element extracted from the [inextinguishable candle]. It does not rely on air or the combustion of matter; as long as it "exists," the flame can burn.

Then, the white flame began to chase the oil flow along the ocean current.

From the air, the East China Sea resembles a black cloth set ablaze. Flames spread outwards from the center, their paths like divine strokes, cutting through the night.

Beneath that hellish landscape of light and fire, the people of countless islands witnessed this scene, as magnificent as a sunrise.

The night sky was set ablaze.

At that moment, everyone in the entire East China Sea saw it.

Without any warning, and without the brewing of a storm, in a single instant, the sky suddenly brightened, as if a falling sun had crashed into the sea. Then, flames spread with the ocean currents, burning from the direction of Cape Kelan all the way to the horizon.

The entire ocean is on fire.

The flames were white, like light spreading in liquid.

The sea surface transformed into endless blazing waves in the night, each crest exploding with flames, the water vapor shimmering with dazzling light as it burned.

The sea breeze, carrying the smell of high temperatures and tar, swept in, making the air seem to melt.

When people's skin came into contact with that wind, it felt like being pierced by a fire needle.

Some thought it was a hallucination, but when they saw the drilling platform engulfed in flames and seabirds turn to ashes and fall into the sea, all doubts were replaced by fear.

One booming sound after another came from afar. It wasn't thunder, but the East China Sea roaring, the East China Sea weeping.

The burning oil layer churned beneath the water's surface, like countless giant dragons struggling on fire.

The shockwave from the explosion swept across the island, causing buildings to tremble, windows to shatter, and the cries of children, shouts for refuge, and the blaring of alarms to blend together.

Above that terrifying and chaotic light and shadow, the white flames continued to spread.

It chases the escaping oil waves with the ocean currents, burning along the ocean veins, as if cleaning up the entire ocean.

At this moment, the East Sea became a lamp lit by the gods.

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……

Meanwhile, not far from that burning heart of the sea.

The night sky was like a curtain torn apart by flames, with a layer of blazing white light shining at the horizon.

The echoes of the explosion still lingered, and at the edge where the flames intertwined, the wolf pack's airship formation skimmed low, like an iron torrent bursting forth from purgatory.

The roar of the hovercraft's engines shook the sky, its tail nozzles spewing long, silver-blue flames that traced blinding trails across the waves, which were glowing red with fire. The air was thick with the smell of burning oil and smoke, and the sea breeze, carrying scorching heat waves, pounded against the hull, making the metal plates tremble.

The First Son—Lupercal Abraham—stands on the springboard of the flagship airship.

He has now entered [war mode], his body has swelled to four meters tall.

He held onto the railing of the hovercraft with one hand and placed the other on the hilt of his sword at his waist.

Static flashes appeared in the Horizon Communications channel, but his voice pierced through the noise like iron, reaching the ears of every soldier steadily and powerfully:

"First Company—Prepare to advance into the war zone."

"Target: Hedra Line. Destroy their drilling platforms and clear the energy nodes."

"Sacred Domain coordinates synchronization complete."

"Psionic channel calibration complete."

Behind him stood a hundred warriors who had completed the nineteen holy forging surgeries, arrayed in formation like a silver-gray wall.

They are all over two and a half meters tall and wear heavy powered armor known as wolf pack armor.

It wasn't a cold, lifeless machine, but a steel body that breathed and had a rhythm—psychic pulses flowed within the armor, accompanied by a deep hum.

The wolf head emblem on his chest gleamed with a cold metallic light in the firelight, and the inscriptions on his shoulder armor were his personal number and the Holy Forging Mark.

Their footsteps were heavy and orderly, causing the entire ship to tremble slightly, even on the steel armored deck of the hovercraft.

This is a true war machine.

Lupercal slowly drew the [Wind King Sword] from his waist.

The sword was entirely transparent, like a blade formed from condensed wind, with pale blue light flowing within. The moment the psionic energy coalesced, the blade resonated, emitting a sound like the howling of the wind.

He raised his hand and pointed forward.

"Wolf Pack - Assault!"

A deafening roar erupted instantly.

The hatches of all the hovercraft opened simultaneously, and silver-blue psionic jets illuminated the night sky. Hundreds of warriors leaped out of the hatches almost at the same time, psionic shields unfolding beneath their feet—a semi-transparent, arc-shaped light screen that unfurled against the gale and flames, exploding into a dazzling white light on the sea surface.

They crashed into the sea with an impact force several times the speed of sound, and the psionic shield released a burst of energy the moment it hit the water, creating a wave wall tens of meters high.

The entire company completed the landing at that moment.

Their target: the Hedra Islands.

Lupercal stood suspended in mid-air, the wind ring behind him spinning into a triple halo. Psionic energy spread from beneath his feet, layer upon layer of golden curtains covering the entire battlefield, the air "frozen" beneath his authority.

"Second, third, and fourth companies," he ordered in a low voice, his tone as steady as a divine declaration, "cooperate with Monford's Shepherds to infiltrate the other islands in batches. Prioritize destroying wells, pipelines, and chaos energy facilities; avoid direct combat with the main fighting forces."

A uniform echo came from the communication channel.

"Follow me!!!"

On the sea, countless airships began to disperse.

The East China Sea front was completely ignited.

Above the burning ocean, the silver glint of the wolf pack intertwines with the white flames.

White fire from the heavens is cleansing, and the order of the horizon is attacking.

This night will be remembered as the first day of the Second Horizon War.

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……

A storm raged over the Hedra Islands, with thunderclouds as dark as ink.

Flames stretched across the distant sea, turning the entire night sky crimson as the East China Sea burned. Beneath this blood-red sky, a piercing whistling sound suddenly exploded—

boom--!
The First Company, led by Lupercal, the son of the First Prince, fell from a height of several hundred meters.

A hundred wolf-children clad in power armor plummeted to the ground like meteors, their psionic shields shattering into bursts of light. The shockwave overturned coastal defenses, tore metal platforms apart, and instantly transformed the ocean waves into massive surges that crashed against the shore.

The moment they landed, the entire coastal defense zone of Hedra Island shook as if an earthquake had struck.

The steel ground bent and cracked beneath their feet, and even the seawater receded. Then, the island's alarms blared shrilly.

The ships built by Chaos Technology swiftly turned their cannons, their turrets flashing with blue-black psionic beams. The fleet on the sea began firing in unison, hundreds of energy projectiles shooting into the sky with fiery trails, densely packed and overwhelming the descending wolf pack.

The explosion's spray almost completely obscured the entire coastline.

The night in the Hedra Islands was completely illuminated.

However, all that firepower was blocked by an invisible barrier.

Lupercal raised his hand, and golden light patterns spread from his palm, instantly forming an incredibly strong psionic barrier.

This is the [Barrier of the Heart]—a defensive miracle born from the Son of the First Return.

The psychological barrier descended from the sky, like an inverted dome covering the entire war zone.

boom--

boom--

boom--

Whether it was the guided energy cannon, the explosive energy projectile, or the shockwave, everything was blocked and turned into a rain of light. Energy and flames were compressed and exploded in mid-air, like a meteor shower that scorched the sky, but they could no longer cross that defensive line.

The wolf pack advanced.

They burst out of the explosion's flames and leaped directly onto the Chaos Ship, the metal deformed by their force as they slammed onto the deck.

These giants, standing 2.6 meters tall and fully armed, are like weapons forged from steel and faith.

They marched forward in ranks, their explosive weapons gleaming.

Bang—bang—bang—bang—

The sounds of exploding arrows and shrieking screams blended together, turning the entire sea into a symphony of chaos and death.

At the forefront of the battle, the Son of the First Return led his most elite terrorist mobile squad, riding the waves.

They approached the three leaders directly.

The burning deck, the capsized ship, and the flames illuminated the three figures.

Number One, Serun Kro, God of Lightning;
Number Two, Avar Lem, at the Bottom of the Black Tide;

Number Three, Noel Yuglin, the Ship Swallower.

They are the pillars of the Harmony Association and the guardians of order in the East China Sea.

But at this moment, facing these steel giants from the horizon, they felt for the first time a mixture of anger and unease.

You scum... Horizon's lackeys!!

The roar was like thunder tearing through the storm.

Number One Serun's hair exploded in lightning, and he almost became the core of the thunder. Behind him, thunderclouds churned, and arcs of electricity poured down like collapsing mountains.

The air pressure in the minefield suddenly surged, the gale was compressed into an invisible shockwave, and even the ocean waves fell in the opposite direction.

"Since you all want to seize the East China Sea—then you'll all drown in the thunderstorm!!"

His arms were outstretched, and in an instant, thunder poured down like a celestial river.

[Electric-Electric Fruit - Awakened Power - Thunderclap!]

The sky was completely illuminated.

Boom~~~
Boom~~~
Boom~~~
Tens of thousands of lightning bolts fell from the clouds, crashing onto the sea like a golden waterfall.

This was a true thunderstorm apocalypse.

The lightning contained billions of volts of destructive current. The moment it struck, the seawater was instantly vaporized, and the ground melted and cracked.

The sky over the entire island of Hedra was ablaze. Lightning and thunder merged into one, as if a god were wielding a whip to punish the sea. The air was filled with the smell of burning and the crackling of metal, and the storm itself trembled.

But this was only the beginning. At the height of the lightning's intensity,

The sea suddenly darkened.

That darkness was not a shadow, but a kind of "devouring" of light, as if a higher-dimensional void had torn open the surface of this world.

"...The Cage of No Light, open."

Number Two, Ava, murmured softly, his tone calm, yet it sounded like he was pronouncing a death sentence for the world.

[Dark-Dark Fruit - Awakening Power - Cage of No Light!]

He slowly pressed his palm into the sea.

In an instant, the entire ocean collapsed.

The waves were dragged and folded, and light twisted into vortexes in mid-air, sucked into the abyss by an invisible force. It was an extreme visual illusion—space was like a crumpled cloth, and even the air was being torn apart.

The turbulent undercurrents of the ocean floor transformed into countless tentacle-like shadows, rising from the abyss. They stretched and intertwined, like nightmare creatures from the deep sea, carrying the stench of decay and death.

Those undercurrents pierced through the steel plates of the ships, dragging them into darkness; some collided with lightning in the air, the lightning being swallowed up in an instant, leaving only a muffled sound and a resonance echoing in the void.

Light and darkness clash.

Thunder and abyss tore at the sky above the entire Hedra Islands; on one side was a burning sky, and on the other was an endless, collapsing darkness.

Countless arcs of electricity flashed and crisscrossed, and the waves were torn apart by gravity, surging upwards into the sky. The whole world seemed to be split in two by two extreme forces.

Amidst that chaotic destruction, Lupercal Abraham stood at the heart of the storm.

He held the [Sword of the Wind King] in one hand, its blade flowing with silver-blue energy, refracting sharp arcs of light amidst the lightning.

With a slight lift of her other hand, the command was transmitted in a low voice over the communication channel:
"Terrorist Mobile Squad, take up positions."

Ten warriors stood side by side, tall and armored like towers, with fire and lightning dancing wildly around them.

"--assault!"

Lupercal took a step forward.

At that moment, the storm seemed to make way for him.

Thunder and fire separated beneath his feet, and the thick fog and shards of light were torn into two straight paths.

[Sword of the Wind King] - Horizontal Slash.

The sword light flashed like lightning, slicing through the air and creating a vacuum layer, followed by a deafening sonic boom. That slash tore a gap in the current of lightning ahead. Arcs of electricity danced around him, only to be neutralized by an invisible barrier.

That's his second mechanism—[the Barrier of the Heart].

A semi-transparent barrier appeared around him, blocking all external attacks.

Whether it's thunder or the tentacles of darkness, they can only explode silently outside that barrier.

At this moment, the thunderstorm of Serun No. 1 was unleashing its full power. Tens of thousands of lightning bolts descended from the sky, forming a deathly curtain covering the entire island.

"Die, monster of the horizon!!" he roared, as arcs of electricity crawled through the air, condensing into a sea of ​​lightning.

Lightning pierced Lupercal's vision, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

First Mechanism: The Law of Retaliation.

His heart beat in sync with the world, and an indescribable force of cause and effect spread from within him.

The lightning struck, but the moment it touched him, it was twisted by some kind of "reversed logic".

boom! ! !
The electric arc backfires, flowing back to its source.

In the sky, Serun's expression suddenly changed. His arm was blasted apart by his own lightning, and his blood turned into sparks that sprayed out.

All the lightning he released would return to him in a bizarre path, tearing at his muscles. Although he quickly repaired himself using the elemental transformation awakened by the fruit, this strange scene still horrified him.

Lupercal looked up and said coldly:

"He who harms me with lightning will surely perish with lightning."

His voice was amplified by the storm, like the proclamation of the Son of God.

(End of this chapter)