158: Chapter 158 A Demon God Descends from the Sky and Slays a Fourth-Order Demon

"Chen Chen," Shen Wanbing's voice drifted down from the fourth floor.

The blue light of her concentration ice heart necklace was operating at maximum power, but her speaking speed was two beats faster than usual.

"Two situations."

"Speak."

"First, the number of survivors from the outer zones gathered around the Floating City has exceeded 1,500. Their composition is extremely complex, with remnants from at least three war zones mixed in. Jiang Jiuyou's Shadow Division is shorthanded; she has called three times in a row on the encrypted channel."

Chen Chen frowned.

"Second—"

Shen Wanbing's voice changed.

"I intercepted an encrypted frequency broadcast. The source is unknown, but the signal strength is extremely high. The content is..."

She paused for a second.

"The energy extraction range of the Tyrant Totem is too large. It's continuously absorbing experience fragments from all living beings within a three-kilometer radius. The energy fluctuations generated by this process have... awakened something."

Chen Chen stopped in his tracks.

"What thing?"

"A top-tier indigenous power of the second map."

The blue light of Shen Wanbing's concentration ice heart necklace pulsed at a frequency never seen before. "The Blood Origin Royal Court."

The temperature inside the carriage dropped by two degrees.

Jiang Yanxue stopped her blade-wiping motion.

Blood Rose withdrew her aphrodisiac fragrance.

"Distance?"

"Approaching the Floating City," Shen Wanbing's voice dropped to its lowest. "The numbers—"

A holographic panel popped up.

On the Radar screen, a massive crimson high-energy reaction was lunging toward the Floating City's coordinates from the northeast at speeds breaking the sound barrier.

They were densely packed.

"The vanguard has at least two hundred Tier 3 units." Shen Wanbing's finger slid across the panel, zooming in on the leading light points. "The four at the head... their energy fluctuation signatures have reached Tier 4."

Tier 4.

In the entire Zone 069, the strongest enemy Chen Chen had fought was the Bishop of Ashes, who was barely at the peak of Tier 3.

Tier 4 was an entirely new level.

"How far are we from the city?"

"Thirty minutes."

Chen Chen's hand moved onto the weapon control panel.

Just then, the encrypted communication channel exploded.

Jiang Jiuyou's voice burst in.

It was accompanied by the sound of violent explosions and the screeching of tearing metal.

"Chen Chen!"

Half of her voice was shredded by the sound of gunfire, but every word was crystal clear—

"We're surrounded! The shield can hold for ten minutes at most!"

When Jiang Jiuyou's voice erupted from the encrypted channel, the Ghost Fortress was still twenty-seven kilometers away from the Floating City.

"Shield energy has dropped below thirty percent! Tier 4 commanders are concentrating fire on the northern section of the dome!"

Chen Chen pushed the engine power from full load to above the red line.

The maglev engine emitted a sharp overload alarm, and the forty-five-ton steel behemoth pulled a nearly white-hot streak of light through the Magnetic Storm Jungle.

The speedometer jumped past 380, 400, 420—

"Shen Wanbing, preheat the Void Annihilation Matrix."

"Already charging."

Shen Wanbing's voice in the communicator was extremely tight. "Energy storage at ninety-three percent, full load in eight seconds."

The holographic panel displayed a real-time feed of the Floating City.

The dark-gold A-rank energy dome was flickering violently, its surface covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

Outside the dome, a dense army of alien races blotted out the sky—at least two hundred Tier 3 Winged Beasts were circling and bombing above the dome, while countless Terrestrial Alien Races on the ground were gnawing at the Magnetic Anchor Pillars.

In the very center, a Four-Winged Giant Beast over fifteen meters in size hovered directly above the dome.

Its entire body was covered in blood-red crystalline carapace. With every flap of its four wings, it would shoot out a dark-red energy beam, striking the dome and causing ripples to explode outward.

Tier 4.

A commander of the Blood Origin Royal Court.

"Shield at twenty-two percent!"

Jiang Jiuyou's voice burst in again, mixed with dense gunfire and explosions.

"Someone in the city tried to open the South Gate to surrender to the aliens—I've already dealt with them!"

The screen cut to the inside of the city.

At the South Gate of the Floating City, three corpses lay in pools of blood.

The head of the leader had been blown apart, brain matter splattered all over the ground.

Jiang Jiuyou stood atop the city wall, her dark-red cloak billowing in the airflow.

Faint smoke still drifted from the muzzle of her large-caliber sidearm.

Her voice reached every corner through the city broadcast: "Anyone who takes a step back will be executed without mercy."

Over 1,500 survivors from the outer zones were huddled in various parts of the city, trembling with fear.

No one dared to move again.

Iron Wall led the remnants of the military to set up all fire points beneath the dome, pouring ammunition toward the Tier 3 Winged Beasts outside.

But the caliber was too small; the bullets only left white marks on the blood-red crystalline carapaces.

"Shield at fifteen percent!" Shen Wanbing's voice rose half a pitch.

The Tier 4 commander opened its bloody maw and let out an air-shattering roar.

A segment of stilted Common Tongue flooded the public channel—

"Insects in the city! Lay down your weapons! Hand over control of the Floating City!"

Its four wings charged simultaneously, and dark-red light converged into an energy sphere over three meters in diameter.

"Send out all your women—as blood food! Otherwise, once the city falls, this King will skin and de-bone you one by one!"

Jiang Jiuyou stood on the wall, her ice-blue pupils reflecting that growing energy sphere.

"Shield at twelve percent—"

The energy sphere smashed down.

The cracks in the northern section of the dome instantly tripled in size, and the dark-gold light dimmed visibly to the naked eye.

"Eight percent!"

Jiang Jiuyou gripped her sidearm tightly.

She looked up toward the horizon.

There was nothing.

"Five percent—"

The Tier 4 commander's four wings charged again.

With this strike, the dome would surely break.

It grinned hideously, its blood-red vertical pupils filled with sadistic pleasure.

Then, it heard a sound.

A sonic boom that shattered the clouds came from the direction of the horizon.

Everyone looked up at the same time.

A blue-and-white streak of light tore through the entire sky, moving so fast that the naked eye could only catch an afterimage.

The forty-five-ton dark-gold steel behemoth shot out from the gaps in the Magnetic Storm Jungle at over four hundred miles per hour.

The diamond-shaped prisms of the Void Annihilation Matrix on the roof had stopped rotating.

Locked on.

Chen Chen's voice erupted across all channels—

"Area suppression, clear the ground."

A deep blue light curtain poured down from the roof of the vehicle.

It covered a 120-degree sector with an effective radius of eight hundred meters.

Within the area swept by the light curtain, over three hundred Tier 3 Winged Beasts circling outside the dome... didn't even have time to scream.

Flesh, bone, and crystalline carapaces were all directly erased on a physical level.

Within the eight-hundred-meter radius, it was completely clean.

Not even ash remained.

Over 1,500 people in the entire city lost their voices simultaneously.

The binoculars in the hand of Iron Wall's adjutant dropped to the ground.

Jiang Jiuyou stood on the wall, head tilted back, watching that dark-gold steel behemoth charge from the horizon.

Her short silver-white hair whipped loudly in the air currents.

The forty-five-ton Ghost Fortress, at four hundred miles per hour, crashed directly into the guard formation beside the Tier 4 commander.

Two Tier 3 Winged Beasts were smashed into fragments on the spot, while not even a scratch was left on the dark-gold armor.

The armored door popped open.

Chen Chen jumped out.

A five-hundred-meter free fall.

A twenty-fold gravity field exploded beneath his feet.

The moment he landed, a Tier 3 terrestrial alien beast that had rushed forward was slammed into the ground by the gravity field; its spine snapped in the middle, and its limbs splayed out in four directions like a piece of paper that had been stepped on.

Chen Chen stood up, stepping on its corpse.

The void-rending ship-slaying blade was unsheathed.

The Tier 4 commander finally reacted.

Its fifteen-meter-long massive body turned sharply, its four wings flapping simultaneously as blood-red crystalline spears condensed from the void, piercing toward Chen Chen's chest.

The speed was extremely fast.

The power of Tier 4 far exceeded any enemy encountered before.

Chen Chen raised his blade and met the attack.

Purple gravity pulses spread along the blade's edge, colliding head-on with the blood-red spears.

BOOM—

The shockwave spread in all directions, and the rock platform beneath his feet shattered instantly.

The spears cracked down the middle.

They snapped into two pieces.

For the first time, shock appeared in the Tier 4 commander's blood-red vertical pupils.