448: A formidable foe in the future? Just an appetizer!

Gu Qinghan smiled and said to Lu Chengfeng:

“It never hurts to try, and look, it worked.

This way, the difficulty of our attack is greatly reduced.”

The Death Knights swarmed forward, and soon another twenty Death Knights flew into the sky.

Another shriek came from the forest, and everyone could hear an element of urgency in the sound.

It was as if the intelligent entity in the forest had fulfilled his promise and wanted the bandit, Gu Qinghan, to quickly leave his territory.

But Gu Qinghan simply laughed, and the skeletons that had appeared in the Bone Tomb suddenly began fighting amongst themselves.

This sudden change startled everyone, but Gu Qinghan wore a look of complete confidence on his face.

Everyone gathered together, watching the skeletons turn into piles of broken bones.

Soon, Gu Qinghan stretched and turned to the assembled people, saying:

“Remember, our enemy might be an existence far beyond what you can imagine.

The current predicament is merely an appetizer.”

Someone opened their mouth but said nothing.

He wanted to say that this ‘appetizer’ had nearly cost them their lives, but the thought of Gu Qinghan’s power made him close his mouth.

Immediately after, everyone heard a faint, ethereal whale song:

Woo... The Professionals looked around, some even frantically drawing their weapons.

But they quickly realized they were on land—how could a whale appear here?

It wasn't until one person stuttered and pointed ahead that everyone discovered the source of the sound.

In the area where the skeletons had fought each other, a massive whale suddenly appeared, its entire body forged from white bones.

The whale was a hundred meters long, its body swaying slightly in the air, and the surrounding bone fragments were like ripples it sent out.

“This... is this power that humans can wield?”

This thought arose in everyone's minds, and then they saw the great whale move.

The huge whale slammed out a wave of bones, sending it toward the forest.

Then came the second, and the third!

After the three bone waves concluded, the massive Bone Whale surged forward, striking several rows of trees before diving headfirst into the ground.

People frantically searched for the shadow of the Giant Whale, only to find that in the distant forest, some mutated trees suddenly tilted and fell.

A Giant Whale emerged from underground, swallowing an unknown number of trees in one gulp, and then its entire body transformed into a bone-shredding machine.

This strike tore an opening at the edge of the forest, laying the groundwork for the three bone waves that followed.

The first bone wave violently slammed over; the bone fragments contained within were like countless sharp knives, grinding down the tree trunks.

Once the trunks could no longer support their own weight, they were carried by the bone wave deeper into the forest.

Many mutated birds flew up, and not a few unlucky ones were instantly pulverized into a bloody mist by the bone wave.

Following this was the second bone wave.

Building on the previous two attacks, the second bone wave carved a deep gully into the forest, like a mistake left by a barber's trembling hand on a customer's head.

But before the third bone wave arrived, a sharp cry suddenly erupted from the forest.

This shriek was different from the previous ones; the contained fury was unmistakable.

Subsequently, a whirlwind suddenly swept up from the forest, directly meeting the third bone wave.

The two collided, and the bone wave was quickly broken down by the whirlwind, gradually losing its power as it spun.

Of course, the whirlwind's momentum was also weakened by seventy or eighty percent, and it quickly dissipated at the edge of the forest.

Another sharp cry rang out, and then everyone saw a massive Mutated Bird rise from the forest.

That creature possessed incredibly wide wings; its wingspan was at least nearly a hundred meters.

On its body, all the feathers had a faint cyan fringe, as if someone had deliberately painted them on.

But everyone knew that the feathers and fur of dragon-transformed Mutated Creatures would fall off.

Therefore, if this creature wasn't an exception, it meant one thing.

The things on its body that looked like feathers were actually its scales!

In its talons, the creature clutched an extremely thick tree trunk, and the immense force caused the tree to burst into countless wood chips.

Subsequently, this massive creature violently flung the tree it was holding, smashing it fiercely towards Gu Qinghan's position.

The huge figure of the Dragon Bear appeared, swinging its claws and tearing the log in half.

Then, the Dragon Bear roared at the behemoth in the sky, shaking the surroundings so much that people covered their ears.

A strange feeling arose in everyone's hearts: that they were currently watching a sci-fi blockbuster.

Yet, they had to admit that everything happening was something they were personally experiencing.

“This is too terrifying... Is this really an enemy humans can fight?”

Lu Chengfeng's voice trembled for the first time, but it wasn't from fear, but from the excitement of facing a powerful enemy.

He wished he could rush up and fight the opponent, but his rationality told him that would be suicide.

Gu Qinghan merely waved his hand, and more than half of the Death Knights flew toward the behemoth in the sky.

There were now nearly eighty Death Knights; after forming their formation, their momentum was surprisingly no weaker than that of the massive Mutated Bird.

The huge Mutated Bird flapped its wings, instantly generating a whirlwind that contained many of those feather-like scales.

The whirlwind collided with the fallen trees along its path, pulverizing them almost instantly.

But the Death Knights raised their shields, completely protecting their mounts and themselves, and stubbornly pushed forward.

A few seconds later, the massive whirlwind actually disappeared.

Following a volley of short spears, the two sides began to fight. Gu Qinghan also took the opportunity to fly into the sky with the help of the Crow King and saw the creature's attributes.

[Dragon-transformed Mutated Golden Eagle (Monarch): Level 54]

[Combat Power: 395,000]

Although this creature's combat power could be called terrifying, Gu Qinghan always felt that something was amiss.

Seeing Mutated Birds of Prey continuously flying out of the forest to join the battle, the pressure on the Death Knights gradually increased.

But Gu Qinghan took no action; instead, he flew back and asked Lu Chengfeng:

“You've had people die during this time. Where are the corpses?”

Lu Chengfeng didn't know why Gu Qinghan asked this question, but he immediately replied:

“They were taken back into the forest. They were probably eaten.”

Gu Qinghan nodded, his gaze thoughtful as he looked into the forest.

This dragon-transformed Mutated Golden Eagle was definitely a powerful enemy, but Gu Qinghan always felt that its appearance was too rushed.

So rushed, in fact, that it seemed like it came out just to die for some other entity.