96: Nightmare Beast - R'lyeh!

At this moment,

the gigantic blood array covering the entire plaza was emitting an increasingly intense, unsettling, eerie green light!

The light pulsed and breathed like a living entity, even dyeing the clouds above the plaza with a strange green hue!

An indescribable tremor and fear, originating from the depths of his soul, gripped Wilson’s heart through the screen!

His intuition screamed wildly!

Absolutely! This ritual must not be completed!

Otherwise, something a billion times more terrifying than the destruction of the city and the annihilation of the army would occur!

He snatched the communicator, no longer caring about his demeanor,

and let out a hoarse, almost cracking roar into the microphone:

“Divine Summer! War God Qin! Lord Kraken!!”

“There’s no time! Quick! Make your move!!!”

“That array must be destroyed!”

“They absolutely cannot complete the ritual,”

“Otherwise, everything will be over!! Hurry!!!”

However,

his warning was, in the end, too late.

Above the city center plaza,

Morgue stood directly above the massive array emitting an ominous green light, his arms spread as if embracing the entire twisted array,

his face filled with fanaticism, ferocity, and a pathological sense of satisfaction.

He suddenly turned his head, looking at the towering, unmoving giant shadow in the sea,

and let out an earth-shattering roar mixed with endless hatred and triumphant laughter:

“Hahaha—!!! Kraken! You arrogant beast!”

“If you had personally intervened from the start, perhaps... perhaps you really could have stopped all this!”

“But you were so conceited! So overconfident! Letting your pawns waste time!”

“Now—it’s all too late! The ritual is irreversible!”

“Feel true despair! Welcome—the Nightmare Behemoth, the patron of the Deep Ones, the Mobile Abyss—the descent of Lord Rlyeh!!!”

Boom!!!!!!!!!!!

As his last syllable roared out, the entire Los Angeles city center plaza... suddenly collapsed dozens of meters downward!!!

That massive green rune, emanating monstrous evil energy,

its light instantly became scorching to the extreme, as if transforming into a green sun!

Immediately after, the light sharply contracted inward, as if instantly sucked dry by something!

Thump!!!

A dull, indescribable thud, as if striking directly at the depths of one's soul, came from deep underground!

The entire city of Los Angeles, and even the entire California coast, trembled violently with this colossal sound! As if a planet had exploded deep within the Earth's core!

“Thump!!!”

The second colossal thud!

Closer! Heavier!

The collapsed area in the city center, the ground wildly bulged and cracked like a fragile eggshell!

Countless massive, bottomless fissures spread wildly from the plaza's center throughout the entire city!

Skyscrapers swayed and tilted like drunken giants, then collapsed in swathes with a thunderous roar!

Dust billowed skyward like a tsunami!

“Thump!!!!!”

The third colossal thud!

Right at hand!

Rumble—!!!!

At the center of the collapsed plaza, the earth completely burst open like a volcanic eruption!

Billions of tons of soil, rocks, steel, and concrete were hurled thousands of meters into the sky by an irresistible, terrifying force!

Then... under the terrified gazes of countless eyes worldwide... a pair of unimaginably vast, curved, giant scythe-like, terrifying chelicerae, shimmering with an eerie metallic luster,

slowly, with a terrifying power that crushed all obstacles,

emerged from the depths!

Just the tips of these chelicerae were comparable to a skyscraper!

Then, more!

More segments of a terrifying body, covered in thick, grotesque carapaces that seemed forged from decaying bronze and twisted bones,

one segment after another,

endlessly, laboriously, slowly, yet irresistibly... crawled out from the fissure!

Its appearance seemed to come with a reality-distorting force field!

The surrounding surviving skyscrapers twisted and collapsed as if kneaded by invisible giant hands!

Light around it dimmed and bent!

The air was filled with a strong, foul stench, like a mixture of sulfur and decaying corpses from the seabed, rotted for millions of years!

“Oh—my—God!”

In the underground Command Center,

the communicator in Wilson’s hand clattered to the ground.

However,

he showed no reaction,

just stared blankly at the screen, his eyes filled with uncontrollable terror.

Five thousand meters!!

At this moment,

Los Angeles Central Plaza on the screen

was occupied by a terrifying centipede-like monster, over five thousand meters long.

It,

was the Sea God Cult's ultimate nightmare creation—Rlyeh!

Its thousands of giant pillar-like segmented legs caused the earth to quake with every slight movement!

Its colossal body had not yet fully emerged,

yet its shadow almost completely enveloped the entire Los Angeles city center!

In comparison,

the previous hundreds-of-meters-long sea beasts were like insignificant parasites next to it!

Its head slowly rose, nine pairs of tyrannical compound eyes gazing furiously at this unfamiliar world.

The next moment!

“Roar—!!!”

A shriek capable of driving all intelligent life into madness and despair,

swept across like a shockwave!

The Nightmare Behemoth—Rlyeh,

had arrived!

The entire world,

at this moment, fell completely silent.

All cheers, exclamations, discussions... everything came to an abrupt halt.

Everyone stared blankly at the colossal creature descending upon Blue Star,

“Ho... how can there be something so big in the world... It... it's practically a mountain range... a moving mountain range!”

“I used to think Divine Summer’s Kraken was the biggest creature in the world... now compared to this... Kraken seems... seems like just a toy.”

“aishiba!!! Is this kind of monster really a carbon-based lifeform?! What sin have we humans committed?!”

“Wuwuwu... which big brother can tell me this is just an illusion... or that it's just big, but actually very weak, right?! Please!”

“...Sorry... True Sight Eye feedback... Nightmare Behemoth Rlyeh... Realm is 101st-tier Awakening Level... Strength attribute... exceeds 60,000 points...”

This message rang out across the global network like a final death knell.

“Six... sixty thousand points?! Haha... hahaha... I must be dreaming... wake up... quick, wake up!”

“Lord Kraken’s strength is said to be only over 6,000... a tenfold difference?! What’s the point of fighting?! Just surrender!”

“It’s over... all over... just now I thought Divine Summer was going to win... now it seems, no matter how many Dragon Blood Warriors there are, it won’t be enough for this monster to swallow in one gulp...”

However,

the most devastated at this moment,

were the more than thirty million Americans on US soil.

Originally,

they had seen hope in defeating the Sea God Cult.

But,

now only boundless, cold, suffocating... despair remained.