Chapter 719: Chapter 596: God of Lies and Shadow Net
High above the foreign territory, a silver fighter jet sped through the intertwined flames of warfare. The laser beams firing from its front were like the sharpest spearheads, severing the claws of a legendary behemoth. Then, amidst its agonized roars, the jet swiftly turned its body, dodged the flaps of its wings, and shot it down with several missiles!
In such a brutal battlefield, stalling upon landing meant certain death. Facing the ground-scouring thermobaric bombs and the Sun Flame Cannon, even a legend would struggle to survive under such assaults.
Having dealt with this foe, Lydia did not stop for a moment and quickly headed towards her next target.
A scared Kode sent out a thankful electromagnetic wave, using the projected field to repair the damaged Alchemy Protection. Only then did his heart, which had been in his throat, somewhat relax.
The journey ahead was just as nerve-wracking, but undeniably safer by comparison.
To cover for unlucky wizards like themselves, stranded on the other side of the foreign territory, the council had dispatched a whopping one hundred fifty supersonic fighter jets for escort missions and focused elimination of potent flying creatures to prevent direct aerial breaches by the enemy.
After more than three grueling hours, Kode and others finally saw the Shattered City, renovated numerous times.
“Thank goodness, we’ve finally made it back!” Hill almost cried with joy the moment the airship landed.
Kode’s legs were also shaking a bit. Apart from the attack by the legendary behemoth, the most dangerous moment during the trip was when a Sun Flame Cannon strike passed horrifyingly close, about twenty meters away from the airship at the edge of the conical destruction zone.
Although an electromagnetic signal warning of the Sun Flame Cannon’s firing was sent beforehand to allow them to dodge, the weapon’s range was so vast that once caught, everyone would instantly be reduced to atoms!
The one responsible for receiving Kode was an old acquaintance, Mori. Those who had just escaped death didn’t bother catching up; instead, they anxiously inquired about the current situation and how many were still stranded in the foreign territory.
Clearly, they were neither the first nor the last batch to reach the Shattered City. Within those three hours, more than a hundred thousand people had already been evacuated, and it was estimated that within the next half hour, everyone outside would return, and the city’s defending troops would also depart.
“So, that means we have at most four hours to evacuate?” Kode frowned.
If he remembered correctly, many wizards from various nature conservation societies had applied for research projects on the ecology of the foreign territory’s oceans, which were extremely far from here. With the airship’s speed, it would take at least ten hours to reach the Shattered City.
“I’m afraid we can’t wait for them,” Mori said helplessly. It wasn’t that the council had chosen to abandon these people, but current circumstances made receiving their electromagnetic transmissions impossible, and chances were slim.
The attack from the prime world had been too sudden and too intense. Even legendary wizards couldn’t withstand the energy blast from just the first wave…
Those unfortunate enough to be in the blast radius almost certainly had no chance of survival.
Kode sighed. “Well, since that’s the case, let’s stay and help out.”
Mori was instantly overjoyed; they were desperately short on hands right now. When the guards began their staged withdrawal, it would be the moment when defenses were most likely to falter.
Although they planned to use hydrogen bombs to massively bombard and cover the gaps left by the last evacuating personnel, they still needed some powerful forces to ensure no accidents occurred.
With the council chairs absent, the Grand Wizard was already the highest combat power they could muster!
“Look … look up at the sky!”
While the two were conversing, a sudden outcry burst forth, and Kode and the others immediately looked up, a chill running down their spines!
An energy-made lightsaber of almost infinite length slashed down from the sky, its terrifying force instilling a sense of impending death among the gathered wizards.
Fortunately, the lightsaber’s target was not them, and it veered off to carve a vast canyon across the explosive battlefield!
This was none other than the antimatter sword!
As the target of a light sword attack, the God of Flames narrowly avoided being cleaved in two on the spot. Although he entered with the most impressive presence, he indeed possessed the weakest power and had been targeted extensively by Lynn, which had infuriated him.
The searing heat capable of distorting time-space and dissolving materials exploded from around him, surpassing the power of stellar flares—a storm of flames obscured the entire sky.
Under temperatures reaching hundreds of billion degrees, all surrounding elements rapidly disintegrated, and soon, rain of fire began falling from the sky!
Although this fire rain was merely the aftermath of the spell, its power remained formidable, indiscriminately striking every part of the ground, targeting both the fierce Mersai emerging from the temporal rifts and the Wizards defending the Shattered City.
Lynn dared not make his call for help too obvious, otherwise, the beings on this planet might easily be targeted by the opponents as vulnerabilities.
As for the mere hundred billion degrees of temperature, he didn’t take it seriously at all—his body was already enveloped beneath a Neutron Shield, and the temperature necessary to dissolve neutrons was in the trillions!
However, to lead the battlefield away from this foreign land and avoid causing too many accidental injuries, Lynn still moved out of the coverage of the flames storms.
In fact, the gods who had descended to this foreign realm did not specifically target the ants below; after all, for them, although the Believers were essential for maintaining their power, in the end, even a large number of deaths were just a number!
The God of Flames erupted again, but having achieved no results, bellowed in fiery rage.
“Ankara, what are you still waiting for?”
The God of Flames was unbearably frustrated—three gods had arrived in this foreign land, yet only he was visibly fighting the opponent.
The God of Life and Creation had gone to deal with those strange-looking alchemical creations which posed no small threat, while the God of Lies, Ankara, had been hiding in the shadows since the battle began, only stepping in to help at critical moments.
At the shout of the God of Flames, Lynn immediately became alert. Compared to the God of Flames, who only had weak Divine Power and couldn’t pose a significant threat, it was the other god, whose priesthood and power were completely unknown, Lynn truly feared.
Lynn’s internal senses had expanded to their limit. A sudden, inexplicable sense of crisis emerged, but the area was so filled with the opposing Divine Power that it was impossible to pinpoint this unknown god’s specific location.
Lynn was guessing the opposition’s priesthood and potential abilities, and the sense of crisis in his mind grew stronger.
This left Lynn utterly puzzled. He was under the safeguard of the Neutron Shield, and even for gods with medium Divine Power, breaking through this protection was no easy task.
Since the threat did not come from the outside, it had to be coming from within!
The next moment he realized this, Lynn found that part of his Magic Power had suddenly gone out of control!
No, that wasn’t the right way to put it because this part of Magic Power was never his own to begin with.
The one who acted was the God of Lies, Ankara, whose priesthood involved deception and disguise. He could even integrate his Magic Power silently into the Divine Power of other gods, striking a deadly blow at the most critical moment!
Silently, the Divine Power spread across the entire area turned into fine threads, instantly forming a vast network of shadows, which quickly closed in, covering thousands of kilometers of airspace within it.
Trapped in it, Lynn was like prey captured by a spider, a strange tearing force applied simultaneously to his body and soul.
The true form of the God of Lies, Ankara, finally revealed itself—a hundred-meter-tall Blood Desire Mother, all blood-red with peculiar mottled patterns on her back, her huge, limb-like legs trembling on the Shadow Net like plucking strings, channeling invisible force through the threads into Lynn’s body.
Her eight-eyed head opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, seemingly looking forward to relishing in this feast…