Special effects: Starting with Ultraman Tiga

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The strange creature in the thick fog broke through Shocker's bombing zone and rushed to the first line of defense, where it engaged in close combat with Shocker's strange creatures and Venerables.

Shen Yun observed the battle through his binoculars, and his expression became slightly subtle when he saw the Jaguar Venerable's multicolored body.

Red, blue, yellow, black, white...

The Jaguar Rangers, right? (Both Hyakujuu Sentai and Agito aired in 2001, so it's hard not to suspect that the colors of these Jaguar Rangers are just for show, since Hyakujuu Sentai also happens to have these five colors.)

However, Shen Yun quickly suppressed these rather subtle feelings and turned to carefully observe the battlefield.

He deployed the largest number of troops on the first line of defense.

The first line of defense is crucial. If we cannot stop these millions of fog monsters and allow them to advance unimpeded, the defenses built up later will be breached very quickly.

As the army of strange creatures shrouded in thick fog drew near, the colorful Jaguar Venerables summoned their respective weapons from the halos above their heads, slaughtering the fog monsters in different ways.

The leaden-white Jaguar Venerable, wielding the Bow of Arrogance, sniped at the flying monster attempting to ambush him from the air.

The jet-black Jaguar Venerable, wielding the Spear of Greed, charged into the army of fog-shrouded monsters, wreaking havoc. The deep blue Jaguar Venerable and the crimson Jaguar Venerable, both summoning the Sword of Greed, followed closely behind.

The orange-yellow Jaguar Master has no weapons; he can only rely on his claws, superpowers, and speed of 300 km/h to kill his enemies.

Above, flocks of Raven Masters flew at a speed of 340 km/h and crashed their hard heads into the foggy army of flying monsters.

At such high speeds, the flying monsters in the dense fog are either dead upon contact or injured upon grazing.

Each time the Raven Masters charged forward, they could smash or knock down all the flying fog monsters in a straight line.

Meanwhile, the Ant Venerables, under the command of the Knight Ant Venerable, were efficiently reaping the lives of the Fog Monsters.

The mirror monsters also used their respective abilities to kill and devour the strange people in the thick fog.

But the strange creatures in the thick fog seemed inexhaustible, continuing to surge in, making the battle extremely fierce.

As time went by, casualties also occurred on their side.

An orange-yellow jaguar was pounced on by a fog monster that rushed out from underground. The surrounding fog monsters also swarmed on top of each other, layer upon layer. When the fog monsters dispersed, the orange-yellow jaguar was completely gone.

The fog monsters that devoured the orange-yellow jaguar Venerable also grew stronger, transforming from low-level monsters into elite monsters. (The lower-level Venerables weren't very strong; even Shoichi, who couldn't fully control Agito's power in the early stages, could easily defeat this yellow jaguar.)

Watching her subordinates being devoured alive by the strange creatures in the thick fog, Queen Jaguar Venerable couldn't help but tighten her grip on her scepter, seemingly wanting to intervene herself.

"It's not time for you to make your move yet." Shen Yun, having seen through Queen Jaguar Venerable's intentions, immediately reached out to stop her and said in a deep voice.

The Queen's strength surpasses that of the lower-ranking Venerables, while the Queen Ant Venerable, who belongs to the higher-ranking Venerables, possesses the formidable power to kill AGITO in its Burning Form.

Now is not the time for them to make their move.

"When will we have to wait?" Queen Jaguar turned to look at Shen Yun and asked in a slightly deep, magnetic voice.

"It won't be long, I'll make the arrangements."

"Hmph." Queen Jaguar Venerable snorted softly upon hearing this, and said no more.

After calming the female leopard down, Shen Yun kept an eye on the battle situation at the front while glancing down at the time on his watch.

In less than fifteen minutes, the first line of defense was breached by the strange creatures in the thick fog. The Shocker monsters and the Venerables, who had not suffered much damage, immediately retreated to the second line of defense.

After the Shocker monsters and Venerables withdrew, a series of violent explosions immediately occurred in the first line of defense, cutting off the pursuing army of fog monsters and buying the Shocker monsters and Venerables some time to retreat, so as to avoid some unnecessary casualties.

However, this little trick did not stop the strange army of fog for long, and they soon rushed to the second line of defense.

In less than five minutes, the second line of defense was breached by the strange figures shrouded in thick fog, followed by the third, the fourth...

Shen Yun looked at the time on his watch; there were only ten minutes left until an hour later.

But the strange creatures shrouded in thick fog had already broken through the tenth line of defense and were surging towards the last three remaining lines of defense like a tidal wave.

The overwhelming, seemingly endless thick fog and strange figures were truly terrifying.

Shocker's monsters, mirror monsters, and Venerables also suffered considerable losses under the onslaught of the fog monster army.

The lower-level Venerables alone have already lost over a hundred. Some mirror monsters, which are not very intelligent and not very strong, but also not in groups, have also been eaten by the fog monsters.

As for Shocker's monsters, apart from the weaker Orphnoch clan which suffered greater losses, the other monsters did not suffer significant losses.

It can only be said that the appearance of the Venerable One and the Mirror Monster was truly timely.

Otherwise, the strange man's losses would probably be even greater.

Shen Yun put down his binoculars, turned to look at A2, and asked, "Is everything set up?"

"Everything is already set up," A2 nodded and replied.

"Have all the city residents already evacuated?"

"They've all been evacuated," A2 said.

"Alright, pass the word down and prepare to retreat," Shen Yun nodded and gave the order.

"clear."

Time passed slowly, and the last line of defense was breached by the strange army of fog-shrouded creatures.

Seeing this, Shen Yun also looked down at his watch. Their defense time had exceeded the target time by fifteen minutes.

"Retreat immediately!" Shen Yun issued the order to retreat.

After receiving their orders, the Shocker monsters and the Venerables ceased their fighting and withdrew from the battlefield as quickly as possible.

After all the strange men and venerable ones from Shocker had left, Shen Yun then retreated and set a fire.

Under Shen Yun's arrangement, hundreds of Sky Cyclone aircraft launched warheads filled with liquefied natural gas into the airspace above the army of fog monsters.

Thousands of warheads filled with liquefied natural gas exploded above the army of fog monsters, and the colorless liquefied natural gas was also sprayed all over the fog monsters.

With the strong winds created by the Shocker bird monster, the fire spread extremely quickly, and within just two or three minutes, the entire forest was ablaze.

The raging fire almost dyed the entire sky red.

Under the wind created by Shocker's bird-like monsters, the uncontrollable fire rapidly swept towards the monsters shrouded in thick fog.

These strange figures, covered in liquefied natural gas, instantly ignite upon contact with an open flame, turning them into human-shaped torches.

From a distance, the continuous human-shaped torches are quite a spectacular sight.

Although the Fog Kingdom comes from outer space, these oviparous Fog Monsters are ultimately carbon-based life forms.

All carbon-based life forms are intolerant of high temperatures; a temperature of nearly 2000 degrees Celsius is enough to burn the strange creature in the dense fog to death.

With the fire preventing their escape, Shocker's strange men and Venerables calmly retreated into the empty city.

While the strange army in the thick fog had not yet arrived, Shen Yun summoned the leaders of various strange forces and the three Queen Venerables to arrange all the subsequent battle plans.

As for the Mirror Monster...

The mirror monsters couldn't stay in the real world for long. Halfway through the battle, they all crawled into reflective objects and returned to the mirror world, where they would then ambush others from any reflective surface.

It seems they followed us.

Before long, the strange army of fogged creatures, leaving behind countless charred corpses, stormed into the deserted city.

Shocker's monsters, Venerables, and Mirror Monsters hiding in mirrors are also engaged in street battles with the main force of the Fog Monsters in the city.

Queen Jaguar Venerable, leading her colorful Jaguar Venerables, was the first to engage the strange creature in the thick fog.

Cities are not like wilderness; they contain a large number of buildings.

With these buildings dividing them up, the fog monsters were unable to take advantage of their numbers.

Especially in some narrow places, even if surrounded by strange people in the thick fog, you only need to deal with a limited number of them at the same time.

In an instant, fierce battles broke out in various parts of the city.

And in the mirrors throughout the city, mirror monsters appeared one after another.

They were watching the strange figures in the thick fog outside, ready to strike at any moment.

In the face of these fog monsters who cannot enter the mirror world, the mirror monsters are almost invincible, and can only be preyed upon by them. The fog monsters have no way to deal with them.

Queen Ant Venerable wielded the Yellow Springs Axe in her hand, cleaving another attacking fog monster in two, leaving a mountain of fog monster corpses piled up around her.

Her jaws, which resembled ant mouthparts, were slightly open, as if in a show of defiance.

Her red, vertical pupils watched as the dense fog monsters before her showed no signs of diminishing and continued to surge in. She led the Ant Venerables in a retreating battle, luring them into the encirclement according to Shen Yun's plan.

Without their numerical advantage, these strange creatures in the thick fog were actually much easier to deal with.

With the siege from all sides underway, and having lost their numerical advantage, it's only a matter of time before the Fog Monsters are completely wiped out.

Some might escape, but the impact will be minimal.

"It's over." Shen Yun stood on high ground, watching the battle nearing its end, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The remaining young monsters were much easier to deal with.

……

The mothership shrouded in dense fog.

The incubation chamber continues to hatch baby monsters, and the hatched baby monsters keep crawling out of the incubation chamber and quickly crawling towards the outside world.

The area around the fog-shrouded mothership had become a dead zone, devoid of any living creatures.

These newly hatched young monsters have to travel over mountains and rivers to reach more distant places to feed.

"Gala, Ame, Ajit. How are my lovely children?" asked the Mother of the Fog.

"Mother of the Fog, the situation is not optimistic. The power on Earth is far greater than we imagined. Those low-level monsters are no match for the Shocker monsters." Ami put her right hand to the corner of her eye, sharing the scene she saw, and said.

As a priestess of the Fog Kingdom, she can see what the Fog Monsters see.

"That's right. No matter how many low-level monsters there are, they are no match for the Shocker monsters and will be easily slaughtered by them. Mother of the Fog, I think we need more mid- to high-level combat power," Galai said solemnly.

Against a powerful monster, sheer numbers are unlikely to be effective.

The situation on Earth is different from that on any other planet.

On other planets, there is no organization like Shocker. The lowest-level monsters could easily wipe out a planet with sheer numbers.

However, on Earth, the human wave tactic is clearly not feasible.

It's not that it's impossible, but the enemy has too many powerful mid-to-high-end combat forces, which can greatly suppress the human wave tactics of the dense fog.

They must also cultivate a sufficient number of mid-to-high-end combat personnel, and then supplement this with a large-scale human wave tactic.

After seeing the footage shared by Ya Mei, the Mother of the Fog immediately said, "It seems that our current model does indeed need to be changed."

The Mother of Fog can lay hundreds of millions of eggs at a time, and all of these eggs can hatch into baby monsters. (The Sunfish can lay 300 million eggs at a time, and the Mother of Fog laying 100 million is an understatement.)

However, these hatched young monsters can only grow into the lowest level of monsters at best.

If she wants to produce eggs that can hatch into powerful monsters, the number of eggs she produces will be greatly reduced.

Galai, Ami, and Ajit, these three cadres of the Fog were specially cultivated by her.

After making her decision, the Mother of Fog changed her method of laying eggs.

It actively fused the scattered eggs, producing nearly 100,000 eggs at once, each more than ten times larger than the eggs of a young monster.

And these nearly 100,000 monster eggs began to hatch under the power of the Mother of Fog.

……

After wiping out all the fog monsters, Shen Yun also took the time to go back and check on Yui.

After a check-up, it was found that Yui had only suffered some minor injuries and was a bit mentally exhausted. She would recover after two days of rest.

After examining Yui, Shen Yun received orders from the leader of Shocker to lead a team to support other cities attacked by the fog monster army.

Although the city administrators also organized people to resist, they reacted too late and did not evacuate the entire city's residents as decisively as Shen Yun.

This has led to a terrifying number of fog monsters.

His number has just reached tens of millions, but the number in other places is already close to 60 million.

Although these places also had the support of the Venerable Ones, it was of no use against such a terrifying number of people.

Shen Yun did not hesitate upon receiving the order from the Shocker leader. He left behind the Fangblood, Gurongi, and Orphnoch to deal with the remaining juvenile monsters.

He himself, along with A2 and Metamorphosis, led Shocker's monsters and the remaining Venerables to support other disaster-stricken areas.

(End of this chapter)