Great, we're doomed now!

Satellite signals were interrupted, fiber optic transmission experienced massive delays, and the screens of countless electronic devices began to flicker...

Volume 11: On the Day of Destiny: Chapter 511: The Destroyer Serpent, the Filthy Dragon Crodras

Wow~

The seawater surged to both sides, forming two giant white waves, and the Destruction Serpent—Clodras—burst out from the crack.

Its size was even larger than what could be seen from the trench, and its wingspan was so wide that it seemed to cover half the sky. The wing membranes were covered with dense holes, as if they had been gnawed by something.

His dark red skin was covered with a layer of sticky black substance that gleamed oily in the sunlight, like some kind of solidified grease.

—You can vaguely make out the appearance of "Zoga", but the two are not creatures of the same level at all.

"..."

The black dragon let out a low roar, a muffled sound as if squeezed from the depths of its throat. With this roar, it flapped its wings and soared into the sky, and a large amount of black, viscous substance peeled off its wing membranes and spilled onto the sea surface.

boom!

The slime burst into flames the moment it hit the water, covering the entire sea surface!

Flames leaped in the waves, and black smoke rose up, merging with the dark clouds in the sky and completely blocking out the sunlight.

Kurodras flapped its wings and flew forward, casting shadows wherever it went. The flames and black mist left a long trail behind it, like a burning river flowing through the air.

Its flight altitude is not very high, perhaps due to its size and damaged wings. Compared to the native species Zoga or Melba, its movement speed is sluggish. However, the wind pressure it generates is extremely terrifying. The fluctuation range clearly exceeds the area touched by its wings. It is more like an invisible force field moving around it, causing this destructive storm to blot out the sky!

Its slowness was only relative to dragon-type monsters that could cruise at several times the speed of sound; in reality, it was still quite fast in the eyes of humans, and soon it had crossed a large area of ​​sea and was approaching the coastline of Australia.

At the same time, even more creatures emerged from that deep trench!

At first, there were just a dense cluster of flashing red dots deep in the ocean, like countless lights that kept going out and then coming back on. Then those red dots began to rise, faster and faster.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

One after another, dark figures leaped out of the water and spread their bodies in the air.

It is about ten meters long and its shape is like an elongated flying fish, but its whole body is covered with dark, pitted skin, and its limbs have sharp claws and teeth that reflect a cold metallic gleam in the sunlight.

In terms of appearance, they resembled dragons from an RPG game, and their numbers were countless. They surged out from under the sea, densely packed together, like a moving dark cloud, closely following Kurodras, advancing forward hidden in the black mist.

...At TPC headquarters, the screens in the command center switched images simultaneously. Satellite images showed a huge black cloud over the South Pacific, moving toward land at an extremely fast speed. Infrared imaging revealed dense heat source signals beneath the cloud layer, the scale of which was simply suffocating.

"Since the Lightning Man operation began, we haven't faced so many targets... Good!"

Megumi Kijima stood in front of the control panel, her hands resting on the table, her eyes scanning the data on the screen.

"All personnel are on Level 1 combat readiness."

"Communications in Southeast Asia have been severely disrupted, and the Aerospace Forces have lost their satellite navigation and remote command capabilities."

Ye Rui's words made her pause for a moment, and she tapped her fingers lightly on the table.

"Initiate Project Fimbule."

"!"

Ye Rui was clearly taken aback for a moment, but quickly recovered and turned to another computer that he rarely used to start the authorization process.

The name "Fimbour" comes from "Fimbour's Winter" in Norse mythology, a time when the world was plunged into darkness and cold, all things lost their vitality, could not communicate with each other, and humans could only rely on their own strength to survive.

For TPC, this plan is similar to the nuclear winter contingency plans of various countries during the Cold War. The activation conditions are very strict, and it will only be activated when global communication systems are severely disrupted and electronic coordinated operations are impossible.

Once this is brought out, it means that TPC will abandon most of its advanced high-tech weapons, and the entire operation, from equipment to communication methods, will have to switch to a more "primitive" system.

Even the instruction itself was issued via a "wired" method, directly bypassing radio waves and quantum communication.

"They have confirmed the orders and are switching to combat mode. The drone units are withdrawing from the combat sequence, ground defense emplacements are being activated, and all manned aircraft are beginning to be fitted with independent computing modules... The Yahapp reactor is still usable, great!"

The Yahapu Reactor was a piece of Ironblood technology brought by Ye Shou. Although it had near-infinite energy, it had the side effect of interfering with radio communication, so it was later replaced with ancient technology and Magus Power.

However, its advantage is that it is almost unaffected by any electromagnetic interference and is very durable, able to maintain operation even in extreme environments!

Throughout the entire "Finbul Project," the Predator technology is a crucial component because it was born from brutal battles and is highly adaptable to such apocalyptic scenarios!

"The older models are now all activated and are taking off."

At the same time, evacuation alarms sounded in coastal cities.

The sound of broadcasts echoed through the streets, mixed with the footsteps of the crowd and the cries of children. Uniformed guides waved glow sticks at intersections, leading the crowd toward the underground shelter.

One by one, the doors opened, revealing staircases leading underground. Orange lights illuminated the passage, and people filed in, managing a semblance of order. After a while, the gates slowly descended, the barriers closed, and everything on the ground was sealed off.

Then, the city's surface began to change:

Those conspicuous high-rise buildings slowly sank down unnoticed, replaced by "bait" structures that were identical in appearance but had vastly different internal structures, rising from the ground. Their surfaces were covered with a special coating, and their tops emitted a soft glow in the darkness, as conspicuous as lighthouses in the night, seemingly guiding someone's way.

Sure enough, the monster horde also sensed the light.

The flock of dragons began to split up, no longer following Kurodras closely, but flying towards different points of light, like a group of moths attracted by flames, except that the sharp hissing emanating from their mouthparts was far more terrifying than that of the tiny insects.

"Automatic cannons...fire!"

boom!

boom!

boom!

A series of fires exploded among the flying dragons, dense fireworks bloomed in the air, and wreckage fell one after another. The density of the black mist visibly thinned out.

But before those falling objects even reached the ground, more dragons surged out of the black mist, trampling over the mangled bodies of their companions as they continued to charge forward, emitting high-pitched and piercing cries.

"There are too many!"

Countless dragons surged forth, their dark red bodies flickering in the firelight. Their flapping wings stirred up a foul-smelling wind as they swept through the city, their claws capable of tearing through even the armor of cannons!

The aerospace force was still firing. Each salvo from each fire unit tore more than a dozen flying dragons to shreds, but they did not retreat or even dodge. They just charged straight forward, and even when their comrades in front of them were blown to pieces, they did not change direction. It was as if they were driven by some force, or as if they had no fear at all.

Soon, humanity's steel will be defeated by the flesh and blood of monsters...

On the coastline, Kurodras arrived "late," flying ever closer. As it flapped its wings, slime dripped from its wing membranes, drawing flames onto the land. The substance seemed alive, spreading along the sea to the shore. The beach that first came into contact with the flames instantly turned charred black, melted by the high temperature into irregular, glassy blocks.

With a sudden flap of its wings, it accelerated across the beach, leaving the burning seawater behind. Flames covered the coastline and began to spread across the plains and mountains, illuminating the entire sky and mingling with the black mist to form a murky orange-gray...

After flying an unknown distance, the desolate Gobi Desert stretched out below it—it had reached the Australian outback.

Fortunately, it chose this sparsely populated, wild continent and did not land on the side with dense urban clusters; otherwise, the flight path alone could have caused the deaths of tens or even millions of people, whereas there is no such concern in inland areas.

The golden sand dunes stretched out in waves, gleaming dazzlingly in the sunlight. Kurodras's shadow slid across the sand, darkening the undulating lines one by one. The low bushes and scattered cacti were uprooted by the wind pressure as it passed, twirling in the air before igniting into fireballs that crashed into the distance, raising clouds of dust.

suddenly--

A crimson lightning bolt appeared in the sky without warning, striking straight down from the heavens. It was so fast that the air didn't have time to move aside, leaving a long white trail behind it, like a red-hot blade slicing through the sky.

Kurodras sensed the danger, but its massive body couldn't dodge in an instant. It could only slightly turn its head, attempting to take the blow with its shoulder.

boom!

Darram's fist, carrying high temperature and kinetic energy, slammed hard into the base of its right wing from above.

The explosion resounded across the vast desert, like a thundercloud playing simultaneously. The shockwave lifted sand grains tens of meters high, creating a massive circular sandstorm that spread in all directions.

"Awooo!!!"

Kurodras let out a shrill cry as its body was slammed from the air by the immense force, tumbling and crashing onto the sand. Its right wing snapped at the joint, the torn wing membrane scattering in the air, its bodily fluids spontaneously igniting and setting off a series of fires.

Bang-!

Its massive body crashed onto the sand dunes, creating a high wave and carving a long trench in the ground.

Black Dragon struggled to get up, its four thick legs kicking up large amounts of sand.

Just then, the sand beneath it suddenly bulged up!

A massive mechanical shark burst from the sand, its head a spinning alloy drill bit that, with a sharp whistling sound, precisely pierced the tendon of Kurodras's hind leg.

The sound of flesh being torn apart was exceptionally clear in the empty desert. The black dragon's body trembled violently, its support vanished instantly, and its entire leg bent uncontrollably. It couldn't help but let out a low howl, and its massive body tilted to one side, kneeling on the sand.

It was Masaki Keigo's subterranean shark, but it was unclear how it could have been moved to the depths of Australia in such a short time.

The next moment, before the dust had even settled, Lucifer's figure emerged from the smoke and dust. He raised his right hand and aimed his palm at Kurodras's head. The freezing ray hit him precisely, and the chill spread rapidly on the contact surface. The black fluid instantly froze into a thick layer of white frost.

Kurodras's head was completely frozen in a matter of seconds. Almost simultaneously, Dyna appeared from the other side. As if just sensing it, he adjusted his posture in mid-air, raising his hands together above his head. Energy was gathering and compressing in his palms. Without accumulating power for long, he unleashed the beam of light with all his might as soon as the energy reaction reached its peak.

boom!

Kurodras's head was shattered in an instant, the fragments scattering like ashes blown by the wind.

In a perfectly coordinated attack, the three Ultramen landed on the sand, forming a triangle around the black dragon's remains. They exchanged a glance, but before they could speak—

Kurodras suddenly stood up!

The headless body stood up on the sand, its four legs supporting its weight once more. Dark flesh buds surged from the severed neck, growing, intertwining, and weaving at a visible speed, solidifying into a completely new head within seconds.

Darram made the first move, pushing off the ground with both feet and shooting out like a cannonball, his right fist, glowing with a scorching red light, smashing towards the black dragon's side of the neck.

Lucifer simultaneously cut in from the other side, his fingers together forming a hand chop, aiming at the joint of the black dragon's foreleg and slashing down.

Dyna did not charge forward directly. He took a half step back to create distance, raised his hands again, and began to gather his strength.

The three of them moved almost in sync, their perfect coordination suggesting they had rehearsed countless times!

...On the other side, Tiga was flying rapidly over the city.

He remained in mid-air, his body enveloped in a layer of pale golden light, like a low-flying meteor. The dragons that weaved through the city streets were directly knocked away as he passed by, their dark red bodies torn to shreds by the powerful impact at the moment of contact, like scraps of paper blown away by the wind.

On the city's main roads, the density of the flying dragons has visibly thinned out, but more small individuals continue to pour in from the sea.

Tiga didn't slow down. He circled around a tall building, his toes almost brushing against the rooftop antenna, then accelerated again, flying towards the next area with the highest concentration of flying dragons.

-

Above the Pacific Ocean, directly above the trench.

Carmilla hovered in mid-air, her skirt fluttering in the sea breeze. She looked down at the churning seawater, her expression calm.

The crack in the trench was widening, with rocks constantly breaking off and falling into the bottomless darkness. Black mist was still gushing out of the crack, spreading like ink in the water and turning the surrounding area into a deep, murky mess.

She didn't fly down, nor did she intend to make a move; she simply remained there, quietly watching the crack...

Volume 11: To the Day of Destiny: Chapter 512: A Trivial Matter (4K)

Above the desert, the aftershocks of the explosion still reverberated in the air, and scorching air currents carrying sand grains struck Lucifer's breastplate, producing a dense crackling sound.

Kurodras had been fighting three Ultramen for a long time. This monster with incredibly strong regenerative abilities seemed to have inexhaustible stamina. In the fight against multiple opponents, the Ultramen were actually at a disadvantage.

"Roar!"