Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

"The corruption of evil has always been rooted in this land, and the divided nation has left people no time to pay attention to the spread of pollution..."

The gigantic [Mountain and Sea Scroll Nautilus] carried everyone at high speed toward the Black Stream Tree Sea. Shu was very familiar with the conditions of these lands. The land outside Great Wilderness City had long been in a similar state, but fortunately, the soldiers and civilians of Great Wilderness City were united and determined, and with Shu himself in charge, the pollution of the land was far less severe than here.

“These villages have been completely polluted, and the residents have all turned into collapsed bodies, but the Bolivarian government is completely indifferent!”

Shu frowned. She tried to purify the land as she had done in the Great Wilderness City, but as soon as her fingertips touched the earth, a strong stinging sensation hit her. The pollution was too severe, and the source of pollution was too powerful. The level of pollution in the Great Wilderness City could only be considered environmentally friendly and pollution-free in the face of the Black Stream Tree Sea.

"Woo!"

Shu withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted. Purifying the level of pollution in the Great Wilderness City had almost exhausted her power. If the source of pollution was not eliminated, her purification ability would be nothing more than a drop in the ocean in the face of the Black Stream Tree Sea.

"This can only mean that the seal on the King of Amber has been broken. Theresis, he actually left such a parting gift."

In Kal'tsit's memory, although the Blackflow Tree Sea had always been leaked with demonic pollution, it had never reached such a level as today.

The plants corrupted by the evil spirits have also become extremely dangerous collapses. The sea of ​​trees is growing wildly, eroding the boundaries of civilization just like the out-of-control sea creatures of the past.

"In other words, the King of Amber must be completely banished in order to eradicate the pollution here."

For Lotin, facing the higher-dimensional rulers in the wasteland was actually safer than facing them in reality. The annihilation phenomenon that occurred after the higher-dimensional rulers were banished from reality was far more threatening than these higher-dimensional beings themselves.

The gigantic [Scroll of Mountains and Seas Nautilus] is approaching the Blackflow Forest, and the reforged and materialized [Heart Steel] greatly increases the range of [Sunfire Aegis]. The polluted forest is instantly ignited, and the collapsed plants are classified as monsters by the system. Thus, the unique passive [Sacrifice] of [Sunfire Aegis] begins to take effect significantly. The wildly growing, dark forest is burning and gradually receding, allowing Lotin to lead his followers and companions deeper into the forest.

"Hey, if you go crazy from being too far away, I won't be responsible."

W held up the [Legion Command] with great responsibility. As the Demon King's standard-bearer, she made the flag serve to resist the collapse and contamination. Although many Rhodes Island operators had rather awkward relationships with her, they had no choice but to gather around W at this moment.

“Mr. Nautilus, I can use Anana to drive the nearby Originium veins, thereby limiting the impact of the collapse.”

The Doctor had already demonstrated her ability to use the Originium to restrain demons during her final battle with Theresis, but Lotin still wouldn't allow her to act so recklessly.

"Doctor, the annihilation of binding a fragment of a demon has already pushed your body to near full capacity. This time, we are facing a high-dimensional ruler who has almost descended into reality. You cannot take the risk."

"You just need to protect everyone. If you have the capacity, use the information stored in the Originium to bombard the demons."

Lotin stopped the doctor from having dangerous thoughts, as that was indeed beyond the doctor's capabilities.

While it's almost impossible for the Doctor to completely contain the annihilation caused by a higher-dimensional ruler like he did with that demonic fragment, preserving his companions during the annihilation shouldn't be a problem.

“I understand, Mr. Nautilus.”

The doctor nodded obediently. She already knew that Loting planned to face the Amber King in the Black Stream Forest alone, and all she could do was support Loting in any way she could.

Each step Loting took deeper into the Blackflow Tree Sea, the collapsing pollution released by the Amber King became more severe, forcing Loting to switch to the [Light Knight] skin to combat the effects of this pollution.

Everyone except Lotin and the Deepsea Hunters huddled around the Imperial Command that W had raised. In the boundless chaotic black currents all around, it was almost the only small boat. If they stepped out of the flag's protective range, they would be instantly swallowed up by the chaotic pollution of the demons and transformed into empty shells.

"Ah, I found you."

"The sealed King of Amber, the heart of the Black Stream Forest."

Loting observed the damage to the Amber King's seal with the naked eye; it was a thick trace of Sarkaz sorcery, extremely similar to the Coffin of Exile of the old lich Freymont, suggesting that the passage connecting to the wasteland had been widened.

"Please note that I will destroy this crumbling seal and then completely banish this extraterrestrial demon."

The hammer and axe, surrounded by light, cleaved through the endless black currents around it. The weak, collapsing entities that approached were banished by the holy and merciless death light, and the seal that bound this high-dimensional ruler was also shattered.

The pitch-black silt began to churn, and a massive amount of malicious and disordered information expanded and scattered outwards. A piece of amber rose slowly from the silt, emitting an eerie light.

Space was distorted, and the rules of reality were almost rewritten, but the Kazimierz's cognition anchored the existence of the Light Knights, and the collective consciousness of the large group confirmed Skadi's uniqueness. The distortion of the collapsing contamination had no effect on Lotin, Skadi, and the other Deepsea Hunters.

It is a conceptual entity, and concepts can only be defeated by concepts. The higher-dimensional ruler in the wasteland of Letania was dispersed by the cognitive torrent of the Knight of Light, Nautilus. However, the chaos level of the Amber King seems to be even higher than that higher-dimensional ruler. The cognitive anchor of the Kazimierz people alone is not enough to deal with such a large amount of disordered information.

The Holy Knight's cognitive barrier and Skadi's bioelectric signals as the ruler of the horde impacted—or rather, filled—the meaningless chaotic information naturally emitted by the Amber King with an orderly torrent of information. Lotin and Skadi gained the upper hand, but it was still not enough to banish the Amber King back to the wasteland and completely disperse him.

"Doctor, let me help you drive Anana as well."

With Lotin's tacit approval, Theresa floated to the Doctor's side, where Lotin was providing her with unlimited mana so that she could cast the most complex Sarkaz spells.

Former best friends briefly put aside their differences and stood on the same side again. Even though Theresa knew that the doctor probably didn't really want to reconcile with her, she still supported him wholeheartedly.

They didn't reunite to fight side by side for each other, but for Lotin, who was struggling against evil.

Subsequently, driven by Anana, the source stones of the entire Korosa mine resonated, and a third meaningful and orderly flow of information began to impact the Amber King.

Chapter 297: Annihilation

The Sarkaz's ancient sorcery further extracted energy from the Originium, which to some extent reduced the burden on the Doctor and Amiya, allowing them to synchronize more Originium through Anana. Kal'tsit, a bio-robot created by a previous civilization, also relinquished most of her control over her own body and instead distributed computing power to the Doctor through Monster-3, further alleviating the Doctor's burden.

"Prepare to destroy the Amber King's projection in reality, Skadi. Is the Legion currently capable of preserving itself amidst annihilation?"

When the projections and possessions of higher-dimensional rulers are destroyed in reality, they will trigger massive annihilation in reality, which is how the scorching winds and scorching earth are formed.

Loting prepares to switch to the [Shan Hai Hui Juan] skin and grow to gigantic size the instant the annihilation is triggered, using his massive health and the W skill shield that grants him a significant buff in this situation to withstand the annihilation.

"While we are now capable of being immune to the effects of demonic corruption, the horde is not yet capable of being completely immune to annihilation."

Skadi can destroy her own minions along with higher-dimensional rulers, but she cannot make herself completely immune to the physical damage caused by annihilation.

"Alright, then let the hunters hide behind my shield."

After speaking, Loting slowly raised his hammer and axe, concentrating his energy into the short end of the hammer and axe. With Loting's current magical strength, he could easily raze the entire Blackflow Tree Sea to the ground with a single ultimate skill. Part of this energy could also counteract the energy released during annihilation, thereby reducing the impact of annihilation spillover.

"Chaotic and disorderly demons, I will banish you here!"

Lotin did not use words like "expel" or "exile," but instead declared that he would drive away the Amber King, just as he had driven away another higher-dimensional ruler before the Eternal Palace.

The Knight of Light symbolizes the most inhumane principle of fairness and equal exchange, foreshadowing the most rigid order and rules. Although the cognitive anchor provided by the Kazimierz is limited, Lotin can still radiate a deadly ray that is fatal to demons in this form.

As energy converged at the tip of the hammer and axe, the surrounding polluted silt and the collapsed pollution that had gathered into black mist were instantly cleaved apart by the golden light, dissipating and revealing the barren, arid land.

"Turn into light for me!"

Loting roared and unleashed his ultimate skill. The terrifying death ray instantly engulfed the churning mud and the eerie amber-like crystal. The projection of the high-dimensional ruler and the amber crystal it possessed were disintegrated in an instant. Neither the distortion of physical laws nor the spatial structure could stop the Holy Death Ray of the Light Knight from devouring the entire mud that enveloped the amber crystal.

At the same time, the neural signals of trillions of oceans and the information torrents emitted in a directed manner after the source stone veins are activated are also impacting the essence of the Amber King, and its concept is being obscured and dissolved.

The annihilation occurred in that instant, and at the same instant, a mountain-like bronze giant appeared at the center of the annihilation, the surrounding bronze demon mask serving as the shield of Nautilus' W skill in the Mountain and Sea Scroll was enduring unprecedented and intense damage.

The bronze anchor was deeply embedded in the ground, and the solid matter created out of thin air by magic was offsetting the losses from the annihilation. What was originally going to last for days or even months of annihilation gradually subsided in just a few hours.

Even though Lotin kept using mana to create soil and rocks to fill the gaps left by the annihilation, the powerful annihilation still took away a large amount of ground material, leaving behind a giant depression comparable in size to a mobile city.

This near-devastating consequence is why Lotin is unwilling to confront the higher-dimensional rulers in reality; the secondary disasters and collateral losses it brings are simply too enormous.

"Unbelievable! Such a powerful demon was actually driven away by Lord Gonggong."

As a fragment of a giant beast, Shu inherited many magnificent memories of the ancient civil war between giant beasts from Sui. However, the shock of the scene before him was incomparable to any battle between giant beasts in his memory.

"No, without Skadi and the Doctor's help, I'm afraid I could only banish Him back to the wasteland instead of completely expelling Him as I have now."

The demons are the last major problem Terra has left him for the short term. Once he solves the demons in the North and South Poles, he can enjoy a long enough period of leisure to live as freely as Ling.

[Congratulations, host, you have reached level 17. Please select how to allocate your skill points.]

After a long wait, Lotin finally leveled up to level 17 after defeating countless collapsing entities and dispelling two high-dimensional rulers.

The Blackflow Tree Sea was erased from the map of Terra, and the withered sunlight shone on the ravaged, parched land. In the end, Lotin protected civilization from destruction, but the civilization's prosperity—that was not within the scope of his obligatory labor, a business that was subject to taxation.

"Ha, I've actually started to feel a little lazy too."

Although Lotin has been traveling the world to solve the common threat to all of Terra, he feels that everything has slowed down since he subdued the Sealings. He no longer faces his enemies and develops with the same eagerness as when he first came ashore.

"Darling, are you tired of it?"

Laurentina's gaze was gentle and affectionate; she had actually been worried that Lotin might be overworking himself.

“It’s not that I’m tired of it, my Laurentina. I’ve just stopped valuing some things as much as I used to – ah, of course, not my feelings for you.”

Seeing that Laurentina was almost in tears because of his first sentence, Lotin affectionately added an explanation.

"Once you defeat the demons of the South and North Poles, and subdue 'Sui,' you'll have plenty of time to spend with us, won't you?"

Skadi was dreaming of such a future, where her time alone with Lotin was always interrupted by all sorts of unexpected situations, and she longed to receive Lotin's favoritism and compensation afterward.

"Of course, but then I'll have to pick up a grumpy lady from inside the Originium, won't I?"

Upon hearing this, the Doctor, Skadi, Laurentina, and Grandia, and even W, all looked at him with a wary and resentful gaze.

Of course, it was Skadi who ultimately voiced the complaint.

Shu, who held more conservative views on this matter, turned her head away shyly. She really didn't understand why her older sister had gotten involved.

"Even if she is the creator, I will not back down. After everything is over, you must stay with me first!"

"I've always wanted to experience with you what it's like for people from the mainland to have a beach vacation..."

Skadi seemed to have read Siesta's promotional posters, which described a "romantic seaside vacation" that fascinated her.

"Wait, there are strange phenomena in Sami Snow Plains; demons are becoming active..."

The ultra-shortwave bioelectric signals from Hysi transmitted visual images to Skadi, the ruler of the horde. In the northern stargate, the projection of the demons was emerging into reality. The Cyclopes were ready to seize the spoils according to the will of the Demon King and Kazdel, but Hysi's biological defenses had not yet been breached.

"Your Highness, an urgent communication has come from the Life Spine: large-scale collapse and contamination radiation have also been observed in the Southern Stargate!"

W relayed to Lotin the shortwave communication from Ersula on the behemoth ship "Life Spine"—due to interference from Originium and Star Pods, long-distance shortwave communication in Terra was not very efficient, but it was enough for Ersula to transmit the most critical information to Lotin.

“Skadi and all the sisters of the Sui family, please travel to the north immediately using the painting by Xi in the Mountain and Sea Scroll.”

"The Doctor and I are heading to the Foehn Hot Land!"

The largest demonic uprising has already occurred. The rift in Bolivar has just been closed. Ursus's inner guards, Sui's remaining power, Yan Kingdom soldiers, and Skadi's retinue are guarding the northern border. The southern land of Burning Wind was completely a no-man's-land before Loting sent the exiled lich tribes to guard it. This is why Loting personally went to Burning Wind.

Chapter 298: Those Who Attain the Righteous Path Receive Much Help

Even at the height of Ursus's power, the snowfields in the northern border region had only undergone limited development. The outposts here lacked the resources of important border towns like those in Yan Kingdom, making their situation even more dire.

"I said, those crawling things are really weird."

"Ha, the higher-ups said those are rare and protected animals, and you'll be punished if you touch them."

Two sentries gathered around the fireplace were discussing the new type of terror fish that roamed the vast snowfields. They had fully adapted to the frigid environment and evolved specifically to counter the threat of evil spirits.

Compared to those individuals who focused more on physical destruction when fighting Agor, these Terrorfish, born specifically to fight demons, enhanced their ability to transmit bioelectric signals. Each Terrorfish can project a large group of collective consciousness onto the demonic projection of the target within a certain period of time, thereby scattering the opponent with a massive flow of information, although this often causes the Terrorfish that tries to do so to roast themselves within minutes due to neural power overload.

"Anyway, at least there have been fewer strange things happening lately, haven't there?"

The potatoes on the stove were cooked, and the Ursus sentinels began to consume their only, albeit singular, food supply.

"Wait, wait, wait! Look at that! Is Kazimierz attacking?"

A potato fell to the ground because the sentry saw a dark army marching.

"Don't be silly, do you even know which direction Kazimierz is in? How could they possibly have reached here? Besides, these dark-skinned soldiers don't look like those gleaming armor-wearing knights."

The sentries took up their weapons and began to guard against the dark army, but the dark army ignored the sentry post and marched straight into the snowfield, deeper and farther away.

"The pitch-black Kuranta, could it be the legendary Khan's army?"

Among the sentries was a Kuranta soldier whose ancestors were Qazimirians, but who had immigrated to Ursus four generations ago. The fear and suffocation this army instilled in him naturally reminded him of the Nightmare Khan's army.

The sentries did not fire, but simply reported to their superiors, who, unsurprisingly, brushed the matter off with vague orders.

Just as the sentries were preparing to resume eating roasted potatoes, another uninvited guest appeared near the outpost. Ah, it was their old adversary, the Ursus infected guerrillas.

The sentries were indeed on high alert this time, but was this place too remote and lacking in value for the guerrillas?

But the guerrillas did not approach the outpost again. Like that strange, dark army, they headed straight into the depths of the snowfield.

"The spirit is my old adversary."

Bozokasti's physical condition improved considerably due to the continuous use of life potions. Upon learning that Lotin was busy dealing with the demon problem, he consulted the guerrillas and, with everyone's unanimous agreement, led his team here to support the defense of the north.

"Is that young man a descendant of nightmares? Has he come here intending to complete his heavenly journey by fighting against monsters?"

Bozokastie immediately recognized that the person was a descendant of Nightmare, and he was surprised that he could still see this rare divine bloodline.

Indeed, that black army was the ancestral army summoned by Tora, who followed the path he had chosen to arrive at the northern snowfield.

"Don't worry, those creatures are the relatives of that Agorian princess."

Seeing that some guerrillas looked hesitant when they saw the Terrorfish, Bozokasti brought up the explanation given to him by the Royal Council when they contacted him. After learning about Kazdel's current situation, he fully recognized the Demon Lord Nautilus the Conqueror.

After the guerrillas left, the sentries tried to eat the potatoes for the third time, and unsurprisingly, they dropped them on the ground for the third time.

This time, only one person and one horse came.

The sentries noticed that the man and the horse looked very similar to the "rare animals" of the snowfield, and after watching the man cross the outpost, they quickly lost interest.

He is none other than the Tidehunter Knight. After Skadi ascended to the Great Lord, he regained his freedom of thought. He deeply regretted the atrocities he committed while being tortured by the Sea King, and thus resolved to atone for his sins through a chivalrous journey of asceticism.

Although his will was free, he still possessed the ability to receive some of the bioelectric signals of the sea creatures. The Tide Hunter Knights learned from this that a large group was gathering in the North to fight against the demons, so they set off for the North.

Meanwhile, beside the heart of the giant beast, the brothers and sisters of the Sui family were able to reunite for the first time. Compared to the threat of the evil demons, the revival of Sui was insignificant. Whenever Luo Ting had time to visit Yan Kingdom, Sui would pass away completely.