Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 718: Holding on and Departing [6.6k words]

"Roar--!!"

In the wilderness, there was a huge spider-web-like crack that seemed to tear the entire world apart. Millions of abyss creatures roared and turned into a huge wave that was thousands of meters high, crashing down from the end of the earth.

Boom——! !

In the sky, pitch-black lightning as thick as buckets fell from the cracks, and the ground wherever it passed turned into a dark death zone. The deafening roar of thunder seemed to shatter the entire world.

Is that the end of the world? Or a nightmare?

“It’s fake…it’s fake…”

"It's...it's over. We are dead..."

In the abandoned fortress, the wandering infected people who were attracted to the entrance by the noise looked at the dark tide that was rolling in like a tsunami in the distance, and looked at the abyss creatures that were so hideous that just one look at them was enough to give people nightmares for days. Their legs went weak and they fell to the ground in despair.

"It's actually... true..."

In front of another empty side door, the old teacher looked at the scene in front of him with the same expression of fear and awe. The only difference was that he was not frightened by the appearance of the abyss creatures like the other wandering infected people. Instead, he seemed to have discovered something. He scanned the abyss beasts one after another with rapid breathing, matching them one by one with the strange-looking "totems" he had learned from ancient books in his mind.

it is true……

The legend is true...

There really is a disaster beast that can tear the world apart, and there really is a pitch-black monster that appears accompanied by black thunder!

“I see… ahem! So that’s how it is?!”

In a trance, a large number of ideas that had never been confirmed were connected in the old teacher's mind at this moment, causing an indescribable excitement to reveal in his turbid eyes.

Wrong…all wrong!
The beast of disaster is not a fabricated legend, and the dark beast is not just another version of the beast!
The devil is real, and the hero who defeats the devil is also real. The only difference is that there is no betrayal here at all!
No... I shouldn't say it doesn't exist. If the oath mentioned in the ancient book is correct, then betrayal does exist, but it's not the hero who betrayed the Demon King, but...

"Roar--!!!"

Suddenly, a low roar like that of a giant dragon exploded from the tide formed by the abyss creatures. A snake-like abyss monster with a body length of several thousand meters, which looked like a moving mountain from a distance, roared and marched across the earth. The old teacher suddenly came back to his senses and remembered that they were facing a huge crisis.

but……

"Haha, it seems that we can't struggle any further this time?"

At the main entrance, the charming black-haired woman holding a cigarette glanced at the desperate infected people behind her, looked at the lion-haired man beside her, and smiled.

The lion-haired man just stared at the tide approaching in the wilderness. After a moment of silence, he took a deep breath, raised his head and roared:

"Everyone, stand up for me!!!"

"They haven't even entered the giant beast's stomach yet! They're all like weaklings! Don't they want to live anymore?"

"If you don't want to die, stand up, go back and get your weapons, and gather at the bottom level! These beasts are obviously passing by here, and they can't come to deal with us specifically! As long as we can find a good place to hide, we only need to deal with the small ones that sneak in. After they rush past, we can still live happily on the food in the fortress! ”

"Do you understand?!!"

At the main entrance, the lion-haired man roared, causing many people present to tremble. Many stray infected people who were frightened by the momentum of the abyss creature army fell to the ground, looked at each other, and finally gritted their teeth and got up from the ground. At this moment...

"Wait a minute, Lion... Boss Lion Fang, look at the route they're taking, it seems..."

A voice with a slightly unbelievable tone was heard, and one of the lion-haired man's men seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly pointed at the dark waves in the distance and spoke. Upon hearing this, the lion-haired man looked back and was also stunned.

"We've separated..."

"Is this...avoiding this place?"

Confusion, doubt, astonishment, disbelief... For a moment, all kinds of emotions sprouted from the crowd. Everyone looked at the dark waves in front of them, and watched them suddenly separate to the two sides of the abandoned fortress like waves hitting reefs, far away from the abandoned fortress where they were, and they couldn't help but stand there in a daze.

Rumble——! !

A deafening roar echoed from the wilderness, and if someone looked down at the earth from high in the sky, they would find that an incredible scene was happening in the wilderness at this moment. Millions of abyss creatures seemed to have received some instructions. When they approached the abandoned fortress for a few kilometers, they suddenly avoided it, and then tacitly gathered together again from the back of the abandoned fortress.

From afar, the fortress in front of us was like a reef in a flood. In an incredible way, it stood firm in the waves formed by the abyss creatures, becoming the only strange existence on the land covered by the dark torrent.

"what happened?"

At the main entrance, an infected person was looking at the incredible scene in front of him, muttering, while the people around him all showed the same bewilderment. You looked at me, I looked at you, and obviously no one could explain the reason for this scene. Just when everyone was immersed in this subtle atmosphere that seemed like a miracle, some of the infected people who were paying attention to the situation around the wilderness seemed to have suddenly discovered something, pointing in a certain direction and shouting:
"Hey! Look over there! What is that?!"

After the words fell, many people subconsciously looked in the direction pointed by the infected person who spoke, and then...

Everyone saw the golden-red "sun" suddenly rising from the end of the earth.

boom--! ! !
The next moment, an earth-shaking explosion sounded from the end of the earth. Tens of millions of degrees of heat and extremely violent extraordinary energy swept up from the sky and turned into a huge fireball that was tens of kilometers wide. Under the influence of the golden-red mushroom cloud, it bloomed from the earth little by little.

The terrifying explosion that could instantly shatter a person's eardrums swept across the land. As the golden-red "sun" rose, a gray-white "wave" suddenly appeared on the other side of the land. If you zoom in, you will find that it is just like the dark torrent. It is not a "wave" at all, but...

——Millions of Moon Demon Zerg troops.

"Roar--!!!"

The next second, two torrents, one large and one small, collided with each other, and a large number of abyss creatures collided with the gray-white defense line formed by the Moon Demon Zerg. In an instant, the overall "I"-shaped defense line was impacted into a "(" shape, and quickly began to move towards a "〈" shape.

From afar, the defense line formed by millions of Moon Demon Zerg was like a rubber band that could not bear the weight and was suddenly stretched to its limit by the impact of the abyss creatures.

Millions of Moon Devil Zergs fought with the abyss creatures, and then they were defeated step by step due to the absolutely crushing numerical disadvantage, and quickly reached their limit state. When their defense line was about to be broken, the Moon Devil Zergs that were originally tightly lined up suddenly dispersed in twos, so that the gray-white defense line that had been like a dam blocking the charge of the abyss creatures suddenly turned into a sieve-like fishing net structure.

Boom——! !

In an instant, the vast number of abyss creatures that had lost their obstructions continued to rush along the earth under the instinctive trend, and the loose gray-white defense line was constantly turbulent under the impact of the dark waves. It looked like a fishing net that was constantly floating in the surging tide. While letting the sea water pass through, it also successfully intercepted a large number of abyss creatures in the defense line.

"The first, second, and third lines of defense have been filtered out, and the enemy's numbers still maintain an overwhelming advantage!!!"

"Damn it, how many of these guys are there?! Keep going! Get the other lines of defense ready for filtering! Don't conduct a head-on interception!!"

"Get the ace troops ready! There are also trap areas! Don't worry about anything else, just activate them all and stop as many as you can!!"

"Report, a new abyss crack has appeared in the 14th line of defense area! A large number of abyss creatures are attacking from it, and it is expected to collide with the 14th line of defense in five minutes!"

"Fourteenth... Damn it! How many are there?! How many are there..."

At the same time, in the wartime command room of the Kota Fortress, more than seventy large screens were being projected there. Around the screens, one could see commanders in charge of different lines of defense giving orders quickly with sweat on their foreheads. The cooling modules of the thinking-assisting devices worn on their heads were running so fast that the refrigeration modules in the command room could not lower the temperature.

If you look at the largest main screen, you can see that in the bird's-eye view of the battlefield taken by tens of thousands of high-precision drones from an altitude of hundreds of thousands of meters, more than twenty areas are occupied by abyss cracks of varying sizes. A large number of abyss creatures rush out from them, colliding with the defense line formed by the Moon Devil Zerg and war technology, and rushing towards the direction of the Kota Fortress at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Left wing! Armored forces, listen up, give priority to covering the left wing area with firepower...!"

“Evade! All members of the Ninth Line of Defense, take note, evade immediately! Switch to long-range attack mode, and do not engage in a head-on collision with the Abyss Unit No. 07…!”

Urgent commands rang out from the operations room which was divided into a dozen small soundproof rooms. The roar of artillery fire and the roar of the Moon Demon Dragon kept coming from the radio. Looking at the screen, one saw that the Moon Demon Dragon, which was supposed to be the overlord of the sky, was like a helpless moth under the rush of the abyss army. It could only flap its wings desperately in the dark tide of abyss creatures, spit out the dragon breath in its fire sac as much as possible, and then fall back to the ground under the bite of abyss creatures, burst out the last glory from the fleeting light of the undead ritual, and then transformed into an undead bone dragon and soared into the sky again.

"Report, the first and third lines of defense have been completely breached..."

"Report, the 14th line of defense has been attacked by a dominant-level abyss beast, and is about to..."

Time passed bit by bit, and various pieces of news that were clearly not good news kept coming from the external defense lines, causing Ryan, who was standing in front of the chief of staff, to subconsciously clench his hands. His eyes moved quickly back and forth on the big screen, but his expression remained very calm.

As one of the earliest war talents discovered by Xin Lailai, there are actually many people in the fortress's command room who are better than him in terms of qualifications. However, Ryan still serves as the chief of staff. The fundamental reason is that as the person who has experienced the most wars, his experience is far beyond the reach of those novice staff officers who have only had time to train for less than a week.

"Report, the seventh line of defense has been completely breached, and new high-risk Abyss troops have been discovered. There are suspected to be more than three Overlord-level units! Lord Ryan, we..."

"Don't panic! It's just that the outer defense line has been breached. Our mission is not to defeat them, but to buy enough time from them!!"

"Notify everyone to have the eighth line of defense enter filtering mode immediately. Meanwhile, the ninth and tenth lines of defense should prepare to retreat..."

"Tell the ace troops to pay attention. After eliminating the overlord-class unit in the Abyss Unit No. 013, abandon the armor and operate the spare units located in the tenth line of defense to fight. Prepare to kill the newly appeared Abyss Unit..."

"Also, notify all internal defenses to prepare for the impact. We have to stop these families here completely..." A somewhat panicked report was heard. Ryan heard it and just shouted calmly. At the same time, he looked at the big screen in front of him. The thinking aid device worn on his head was running rapidly, and one instruction after another was quickly issued amid the buzzing sound of the heat dissipation module.

boom--! !

On the screen, another huge golden-red fireball shot up into the sky. It was the fourth "Sun Seed" to be detonated in this battle. As time passed, the gray-white defense lines on the screen were swallowed up by the dark waves one after another, and finally...

“Report! The 19th line of defense has been attacked! Overlord-class Abyss units have attacked from underground, the number… is more than five!!!”

On the screen, when the countdown that originally showed 24 hours reached the single digits, a rapid report suddenly came, causing Ryan, who was in the commander-in-chief position, to slightly shrink his pupils, and his mind suddenly tensed to the extreme.

More than five Overlord-class units?

Let the ace troops... No, the ace troops are now at the 16th line of defense. If that line is breached, it will only have a worse impact on the situation.

There is no other choice but to...

"Tsk, inform everyone!! Have the 19th Line of Defense prepare to retreat, and use the decoy troops to lure those Overlord-class..."

"Report! Attack movement detected! It's... it's Lord Black Sword and his men!!"

"Varied……"

"Thank you for your hard work, Ryan. Just leave these guys to us. Just focus on the command."

Hearing the content of the new report, Ryan's face suddenly showed a trace of anxiety. Just as he was about to ask what was going on, the screen on his right suddenly switched to a scene of a rapidly advancing battlefield. The black-haired young man's profile appeared on the screen. After saying something calmly to the camera, he suddenly turned into an afterimage under Ryan's gaze and rushed towards the terrifying beast in the camera.

Lord Black Sword...

Hearing the familiar voice ringing in his ears, Ryan was startled at first, then he reacted quickly, with an extremely bright light in his eyes. He took a deep breath, looked at the people in the command room and the communication officer beside him, and shouted with all his strength:

"Everyone! Implement the backup plan, change the strategy, and abandon the decapitation operation against the high-risk units! Instead, prioritize luring and delaying, and cooperate with Lord Black Sword and his men to carry out the operation!!!"

……

boom--! ! !
[Hint: Magic Scroll: Earth Surge (Level 4) has been used! ]

A huge roar exploded from the battlefield filled with the roars of abyss creatures. On the ground, Xin Lailai pressed one hand on the ground. His mental power surged, and the magic scroll in his hand turned into an ochre-colored magic circle hundreds of meters wide, guiding the surrounding earth elements to turn into rock waves hundreds of meters high, which lifted up the ground centered on himself.

"Roar--!!"

An angry roar resembling a wolf's howl exploded, and a huge abyss wolf with four attributes all at 100 points and enough abilities to easily kill ordinary third-level top-tier contractors broke out from the waves of rocks. Several vertical pupils looked in the direction of Xin Lailai, and while roaring, it exerted force on its four limbs, and rushed towards Xin Lailai with a deafening sound of breaking through the air, and then...

Zheng——! !

There was a loud sound of a blade being unsheathed, and almost at the moment when the Abyss Demon Wolf rushed to within a hundred meters of Xin Lailai, the figure of the White Demon suddenly rushed out from a space crack that appeared out of thin air. The blood-red long blade in his hand swept through the air with wisps of black lightning arcs, and instantly passed over the neck of the Abyss Demon Wolf.

Abyss Blade Style·Heavy Blade!
boom--! !

The wolf skin, which was harder than ordinary legendary armor, was easily broken by the blood-red long blade whose sharpness exceeded 200 points. The long blade wrapped in black thunder directly ignored the various damage reduction and defense capabilities of the Abyss Wolf, and instantly penetrated through its flesh and blood, causing the Abyss Wolf, which had already pounced into the air, to suddenly freeze. Its body fell back to the ground in wisps of drifting black smoke and was beaten into a pulp by the surging rock waves.

[Hint: Temporary team member · White Devil (Reincarnation Paradise) has killed the secondary overlord-level abyss aberration · ? ? ? (Unnamed)]

A cold reminder sounded, and Xin Lailai took a quick glance at it before taking a decisive step. The scales and feathers on his back fluttered, bringing him to the side of the White Demon. After glancing at the scene in the distance, he spoke to the person behind him:

"Brother Randy."

"Understood~!"

Om-! !

As soon as he finished speaking, a silver-white space formation suddenly appeared under their feet, instantly wrapping up the two of them. Then, space fluctuations erupted, and the figures of Xin Lailai and Bai Mo suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving the abyss creatures that rushed forward empty-handed.

"Done~! By the way, which one was that just now?"

"Twenty-nine."

"Tsk tsk, what a pity! If we weren't in a war world, we would probably be able to make a lot of money with these guys~!"

At the top of the fortress, Randy, who teleported the two back, looked at the war scene in the distance that looked like the end of the world. He looked at the abyss creatures rushing towards the inside of the defense line, and sighed. At the same time, he looked at the defense line in the distance, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

"So, this is considered stable, right?"

"If there is no change in the subsequent offensive, it should be."

Xin Lailai answered, casually took out two bottles of mana potion, drank them all, glanced at the countdown at the edge of his vision, looked at the battlefield in the distance that had gradually stabilized, and there was also a hint of strangeness in his eyes.

In fact, according to their original idea, it would be great if their legion could hold on for 24 hours. But after they assisted their camp in dealing with some high-risk abyss units, Xin Lailai, Randy and others miraculously discovered that their camp performed much better than they expected.

Relying on the filtering of 21 fronts and the manual operation of a large number of top commanders, although the current situation is still at a great disadvantage, if the momentum continues, with their assistance, the fortress has a great chance of being able to hold out until the core of the world enters the perfect stage.

"Tsk tsk, even though the environment of this world is a bit rotten, I have to admit that the locals here seem to have quite a talent for fighting?"

Randy clicked his tongue, looked at the battle line in the distance that had obviously stabilized, and sighed, while Xin Lailai nodded slightly, a hint of approval in his eyes.

To be honest, as far as facts are concerned, the main inhabitants of the Dark Glory Continent are indeed gifted in warfare. Take the staff group he formed for example. Originally, he expected that the Tower could produce a dozen war geniuses out of a hundred million people. But the fact is that the number of people who met his requirements reached three digits, forcing him to change the small staff group he had envisioned into a large war department, otherwise there would not be enough space for so many people.

"But, in this case, if the three of us fail, it would be a bit embarrassing, right?"

After looking at the distant scene for a while, Randy shrugged and said jokingly.

There are two ways to complete their mission, and now, since their camp can hold out until the core of the world enters the perfection stage, it means that as long as the three of them survive, this world mission can be completed with a guaranteed 35% gain. In this case, if they can't achieve better results, it can be said that they can't even beat the natives of the Dark Glory Continent.

"Then find a way to complete it."

Xin Lailai said, retracted his gaze, then sat down cross-legged and entered a state of meditation.

There are still two hours before the World Core (fake) enters the formation stage. If the situation is very critical, he would definitely not dare to enter the meditation state so carelessly. But now that the situation has stabilized, he will naturally take advantage of this last period of time to adjust himself to the best condition and meditate for a while.

As Xin Lailai took action, the white magic on the side turned his head to look at him, and then sat down cross-legged under Randy's gaze and entered a state of meditation.

"..."

Randy, who was standing by, looked at this scene, his eye twitched slightly, without saying anything, he closed his eyes silently, and started meditating with his eyes closed, imitating the other two.

Time passed by bit by bit. The sounds of explosions, roars, fighting... all kinds of noisy noises seemed to fade away at this moment, and were completely unable to disturb the three people on the top of the fortress. Finally -

[Notice (Void Tree): Please note that all participants in this world battle, "World Core (Fake)" has entered the formation stage, the special area ??? The current status has been changed! ]

A cold and majestic reminder sounded, and the next second, the three people on the top of the fortress opened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other.

"Brother Randy."

After the calm words fell, Xin Lailai stood up and looked at Randy beside him, and Randy nodded slightly, closed his eyes, and his mental power surged towards his feet.

Om-! !

The next second, a dazzling silver-white light burst out, and a huge space teleportation array that had been prepared long ago appeared under the feet of the three people. Waves of violent space fluctuations emanated, and Xin Lailai and the other two simply took out a small bottle in a very synchronized movement, drank the liquid inside, and looked forward with calm and solemn eyes.

"Let's go."

"Ah."

boom--! !

A few seconds later, a huge roar was heard, and an extremely violent space fluctuation broke out, instantly smashing the abyss creatures affected along the way. When the space fluctuation calmed down, the figures of Xin Lailai and the other two had disappeared from the spot, leaving only a slowly healing space crack there, showing what had happened here.

……

(End of this chapter)