Nobody knows how to be a villain better than me.

While keeping an eye on Sefalu's movements, the ancient snake pursed its lips, nodded, and gave an affirmative answer in a low voice with a frown.

"I'm afraid so! In fact, not only does the land have mineral deposits, but the seawater is also rich in a large amount of metallic elements. It seems that with the data template and weapon prototypes of Atlantis, Sefalu can use the resources of the ocean to mass-produce things like giants, deep-sea warships, and wide-area annihilation weapons. We're in big trouble!"

Bang bang bang!

Under the cover of colossus soldiers and wide-area annihilation weapons, dozens of black warships, like sharks smelling blood, broke through the sea and crashed onto the shore, their hatches wide open.

Instantly, humanoid combat units, whose bodies were covered in jet-black metal shells and were mass-produced, flashed with crimson light patterns and charged toward the breach in the coastal wall with extraordinary agility.

Seeing this, the heroes of both old and new Greece spontaneously rallied the reinforcements from various city-states to plug the breach and relieve the pressure on the two gods.

Samael, gradually realizing that Medusa's Shield was becoming unsustainable, granted their request and removed a few sections of the less stable barrier, ordering them to hold their ground and await reinforcements.

But when they actually came into close combat, humanity began to suffer greatly.

These monsters were made entirely of a special metal, making them incredibly strong and resilient. Bows and spears were often at a loss when faced with something they had never seen before.

Often, mass-produced, low-quality humanoid combat weapons require a well-trained human soldier to expend nearly half of their magic power to barely defeat them.

The higher-ranking cyan-gold Atlantean soldiers could hold their own against the elite troops of various city-states in one-on-one combat.

As for the battle nymphs and divine blood heroes, they were entangled by a succession of golden-red figures wielding cylindrical weapons, almost equivalent to the Olympian guards of the Golden Age.

These powered armor-clad contraptions, driven by divine runes on their outer surfaces, are not very effective even against weapons specifically designed to pierce armor, such as giant axes and heavy hammers. Only divinely crafted and refined items can produce noticeable results.

At first glance, the sheer number of monsters almost filled the entire sea. Magical reinforcements casting spells from a distance, or human soldiers drawing their bows and crossbows, didn't even need to aim; they could simply close their eyes and throw the spells, easily blasting away entire groups.

This scenario was a nightmare for the defending troops, who numbered only a few tens of thousands at most.

Moreover, Greek city-states were known for producing heroes and favored elite troops. Their regular forces were limited. With such a disparity in numbers, even if the exchange ratio were one to two or one to three, the shallow waters and coastal areas alone would be enough to wipe out the soldiers here seven or eight times over.

If it weren't for the more threatening Titan legion being repeatedly delayed on the surface by Samael and Medusa, the few people below wouldn't even be enough to fill their teeth.

Seeing is believing, and Saifalu really taught him a good lesson.

Samael, whose understanding had been completely shattered, stared at Sefalu in the stormy sea and cursed under his breath.

Damn it, what happened to the one-on-one fight?

This isn't a vanguard, it's a mobile Zerg hive that can endlessly produce units!

However, upon calming down and thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. As a cutting-edge weapon used by Wilpa to prey on the planetary civilizations, it would be far too inefficient to destroy various intelligent races on its own.

Using alien heritage and existing resources to mass-produce autonomous weapons to assist in completing their mission is a conventional approach.

Poseidon went even further, gifting all of Atlantis's accumulated achievements over thousands of years to Sephalus, allowing her to max out her army-building skills as soon as she was revived—no wonder she didn't use them.

Your Majesty, you still say you're not the mole?

It's like a bleeding tank for friendly forces and a fuel pack for the enemy!

As the close-quarters combat intensified, casualties were reported on both sides.

"Dang-dang-dang!"

Atalanta sprinted forward and fired in rapid succession, piercing through the core of the magic furnace and sending up piles of metal fragments as dozens of red and black soldiers circled around the breach.

At the same time, a soldier who had lost his shield was dragged out of the formation by a metal snake tail when he was not careful. Several black soldiers rushed up and held down his limbs. The metal creature then opened its face, revealing a pitch-black interior.

Immediately afterwards, the light patterns on the leading soldier's body flickered, and a golden-blue vortex formed on his open face, drawing in the air.

In the horrific sucking, specks of light escaped from the mouths, noses, and orifices of the human soldiers, becoming nourishment for the monster, while their own bodies gradually became transparent and eventually shattered.

At this moment, beneath the Star Vanguard standing still in the stormy sea, dense light dust surged and rose, flowing into Sefalu's body, making the star patterns on her body even clearer and brighter.

"Not only their ether, but their intellect has vanished too! Are we...?"

Medusa, observing the situation, was startled and told Samael, Prometheus, and others about her discovery.

However, as they were speaking, the magical cores within the hundreds of giant warriors began to spin rapidly, frantically breaking free from their suppression. The spears of light, formed from strange runes in their hands, were immediately swung out.

Boom boom boom!

Although Samael and Medusa reacted in time, Medusa's shield, which was already at its limit, cracked in several places amidst the dazzling bursts of light, and even the main body of the shield showed wispy cracks.

"The barrier has been breached. Wide-area search complete. Multiple civilization entities confirmed. Execute the annihilation order!"

Like a muffled thunderclap, the sound echoed from within the Colossus's chest cavity.

In an instant, the nearshore waters surged, and a large number of creations from the Echdna Armory, including the Primal Hydra, Cerberus, and Naga Snake Woman, along with even more humanoid combat weapons, emerged from the shallows, their eyes bloodshot as they frantically charged toward the breach.

The already exhausted human defenders, seeing the destructive army surging ashore again, felt a pang of despair in their eyes. They had no energy or manpower to spare to plug the other cracks in the coastal wall and could only watch helplessly as the enemy poured in and surrounded them.

Tsk tsk tsk!

At the critical moment, sharp, piercing sounds of air being torn apart rose and fell in waves. Divine patterned javelins, obscuring the sky and blocking out the sun, rained down like a meteor shower. The metal constructs that rushed into the breach in the city wall collapsed in swathes, like wheat fields sliced ​​by a farmer's sickle, and were nailed to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a series of perfectly synchronized footsteps, like muffled thunder, came from afar, creating a terrifying roar. Amidst the billowing dust, a column of soldiers wearing Corinthian helmets, wielding bronze shields, and surrounded by spears, formed an intercepting arc, and all of them were muscular warriors exuding a fierce aura.

"No prisoners of war! No mercy!"

A pair of relatively slender twin siblings, wielding swords and shields, stood on either side, striking their shields with their swords while letting out chilling roars.

The soldiers skillfully stacked bronze shields, thrust spears through the gaps, and advanced ruthlessly and resolutely. After dismembering the metal structures in their path, they painstakingly strung together the hundreds of survivors like a hedgehog and carried them out, sealing off most of the gap. They also spared manpower to divert to both sides and replace their exhausted allies.

These flesh and blood bodies, like a turning millstone, crushed the metal creations that tried to break through the blockade into dust one by one.

It makes one even suspect that they are a group of monsters in human skin.

"It's Spartan reinforcements!"

The hastily assembled garrison from the surrounding city-states was overjoyed. Their muscles and bones seemed to have stopped aching, and their bodies felt as if magic was surging up again. They wielded their chipped weapons with all their might, cutting down the landing monsters one by one.

However, just as their morale was soaring, a dense array of wide-area annihilation weapons burst through the gap and flew into the air. Their massive cores gathered magical power and swept towards the crowd, sending flying limbs and severed bodies flying wherever the crimson beams passed.

"Athena above, with my shield, protect the city! With my sword, call forth victory!"

At the same time, dazzling figures, like shooting stars, streaked across the sky. Thousands of armored knights, riding celestial horses and clad in water-god-forged armor, led by dozens of Saint Seiya warriors, cleaved a host of wide-area annihilation weapons into exploding fireballs.

Leading the group were none other than several Typhon's offspring from Mount Ares, including the Chimera, the Sphinx, and the Nemean Lion.

These are the Pegasus Knights, carefully trained by Athens! Almost all of them have been drawn from their ranks!

Samael and Medusa looked up to confirm, then breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, along the southeastern woodland, smoke and dust rose, and the Hydra, with nine giant snake heads like small mountains, tilted its head back and spewed venomous flames and frost, clearing out the surrounding miscellaneous soldiers over a large area.

The snake mother, whose lower body was that of a snake and who had purple scales, gathered a dense array of magic diagrams in front of her. Outside the city walls, amidst the rumbling, the terrain changed drastically, with patches of poisonous swamps, falling rocks, and ground spikes frequently emerging.

The Caucasian eagle stirred up a fierce wind, its outstretched wings like sharp guillotines, swooping down and tearing, bursting into flames along its path.

Then, little nymphs with transparent wings followed behind, adding to the team carried by the Korkis dragon, and throwing their secret magic potion dew to their companions to restore their strength and aether.

Very good, the follow-up troops from the Alima Crypt have arrived as well!

The ancient serpent grew increasingly relaxed and turned to look at the sea to the east.

Waves surged diagonally towards them, and as the distance closed, thousands of bronze chariots, protected by a host of ocean nymphs, charged forward at breakneck speed.

Perseus, Telamon, Caenis, and a certain blue-haired woman with flowing skirts and a gentle, watery aura, stood atop a chariot, charging toward the stranded deep-sea fleet.

Furthermore, dozens of warships, clearly showing signs of repair, followed behind.

It's Thessalian chariot force and Trozen's warships! The woman next to Peleus, if I'm not mistaken, should be the sea goddess Thetis.

If the sea gods of Atlantis were to meet with misfortune, there would probably be very few sea deities in Greece with the same influence and power as her.

However, being able to urgently gather so many marine nymphs is already an unexpected boon to the situation.

"So, it's all settled?"

Samael saw more and more elite reinforcements from various city-states gathering at the front lines and turned to his old friend who was in charge of coordinating the situation.

Prometheus slowly opened his eyes, looked at the situation gradually being brought under control, and nodded in response with pleasure.

"In about two hours, the elderly and weak in the various city-states had completed their initial evacuation; more importantly, most of the troops we needed to gather had arrived, and the rest were on their way through the spatial gate!"

"Phew! Finally, I can let loose!"

Samael let out a long breath, released Medusa's fingertips, and cracked his knuckles as he turned his head and neck.

Consuming spatial power to open a wide range of spatial gates is not simply about evacuating the elderly and weak from front to back.

The more important objective is to clear both sides, tighten the defensive line, and concentrate forces from the rear and flanks to the front line, construct a defensive line there, attract the attention of the asteroid vanguard, and prevent these things from landing.

Now, the Star Vanguard and the monsters they control will not be able to advance into densely populated areas in the short term to collect intellectual particles and achieve sufficient evolution.

So now, after testing each other for so long, it's time for king to face king!

At this moment, with the severely damaged Medusa Shield in Samael's hands being recalled, the golden light barrier disappeared, and the coastal wall was completely exposed to the deep-sea fleet's cannon fire.

However, before the ship's cannons and the colossus could charge up and fire, a deep, dark shadow swept across the sea, creating ripples that twisted and shattered the nearby soldiers, sending them into the process of being reforged.

"Laaa!"

The Star Vanguard in the Stormy Sea chanted in a high-pitched, peculiar rhythm, its halo of light instantly blazing brightly. Its outstretched fingers extended into a hundred-meter-long giant sword formed by the convergence of seven-colored light pillars, which swept down across the sky towards the invading area.

"boom!"

A dazzling burst of light and flames rose and exploded as the black figure surged upstream within the magical beams!

Chapter 256 Let an Idiot Listen to Your Reasoning (4k)

"Boom boom boom!"

At this moment, seeing the powerful enemy rushing forward, the Star Vanguard's body flashed with golden and blue star patterns, and purple-black magic beams shot upwards like a meteor shower. Samael slashed down and up with his cross spear, and swept horizontally in a circular motion. At the same time, the golden wings on his back blocked left and right, like a shield and a sword, combining offense and defense. With the spear's momentum, he cut and shattered the incoming magic beams one by one.

Hundreds and thousands of arcs of light splashed outwards across the sea, creating water columns several meters high.

"puff!"

Soon, the ancient serpent rushed within ten feet, suddenly folded its wings and accelerated, its cross-shaped spear plunging fiercely into the arm of the wandering star soldier, tearing through the body composed of star patterns and special substances.

"boom!"

However, the Star Vanguard, surrounded by the stormy sea, immediately raised its arm, trying to swat the fly that had suddenly entered.

But Samael reacted faster, ducking to avoid Safalu's other arm grabbing. Without hesitation, he gripped the gun barrel, divine power surging within him, and charged towards the target's head and neck. The dragging blade left a long, narrow scratch on the Star Vanguard's arm.

"Laaa!"

However, as soon as he reached his elbows, Safalu tilted his head back and chanted loudly. The golden and blue light patterns on his arms shone brightly, and the shimmering ripples immediately pushed Samael away.

Furthermore, in the instant his opponent was airborne, Saifarlu, with agility disproportionate to his size, swung his seven-colored lightsaber and swept it across Samael.

"Light is darkness, and God comes from the devil."

I both destroy and I create.

I both harm and save the world.

No one escapes my grasp, no one is beyond my sight.

Glory, majesty, power, and authority shall all be mine!

My will will move through the heavens and roam freely on the earth. Pray, burn your sins, brand them, and the immaculate kingdom will descend—a hymn of divine grace!

The ancient serpent's wings trembled violently as it steadied itself. It loosened its grip slightly and tightened its hold on the spear. At the same time, its lips moved rapidly as it chanted divine incantations. The cross-shaped spear ignited with a hundred-foot-long golden flame. The powers of space and time intertwined and layered, and seven doors stood erect. A magnificent and elegant heavenly palace appeared in the sky and sea of ​​clouds.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The seven-colored giant sword in Saifalu's hand shattered four heavenly gates of light and shadow in succession, and stopped outside the fifth gate.

"Crush their lives, destroy their civilization! I am the sweeper! I am the reaper!"

However, the star soldier's chest trembled, and with his free left hand gripping the hilt of his sword, he unleashed a cold, emotionless roar as he swept his arms horizontally, causing the seven-colored lightsaber to burst forth with dazzling colors once more.

"Bang bang bang!"

The three spatial gates behind were shattered, and the rainbow-like sharpness clashed with the spear that burned with immense power and was shaped like a giant inverted cross beam of light.

"boom!"

The sky burst open like a cross of stars. With its power, the clouds were swept away, the sea was divided and its currents were cut off, and even the long-lasting storm sea was shattered. Saifalu staggered backward and fell to the side. At this moment, the lower half of the Star Vanguard was also fully revealed.

Half of Sefalu's body, which was shrouded in golden-blue light patterns, was embedded in the Eye of the Tide Sea, which seemed to be the reason why she had not moved at all.

Why would she be the one guarding him every step of the way? Could it be that there are still some secrets hidden in the Colossus Ocean and the Interstellar City Mountains?

Upon seeing this, Samael's heart tightened and his brows furrowed.

The star core in her abdomen is her central hub. Now is the time to force her to back down, even if we can't destroy it!

Seeing that the opportunity was in hand, the ancient serpent did not hesitate to turn and flap its wings, attacking the deep star core in the abdomen of Sefalu, which resembled a vast universe.

"Aaaaa!"