278: Slaying the King of Mermaids

Simultaneously, two Jiangcheng submarines that had been lurking underwater finally bared their fangs. They silently approached the Frost Giant Whale, which served as both mount and throne, and launched lethal heavy torpedoes.

The torpedoes slammed into the giant whale's massive body at extreme speeds. Upon impact, the cavitation effect was triggered to its limit! The terrifying underwater explosion didn't just blast a hole; it formed and instantly collapsed a massive bubble inside the whale's body. This internal destructive force was something even a Tier 3 intermediate giant whale, known for its formidable defense and vitality, could not withstand! It let out a mournful cry as its internal organs were severely damaged, its massive body rolling in agony, staining a large area of the river red with blood.

The Red Alert fleet's rain of missiles continued to pour down, smashing into the sea as if they cost nothing. The Jiangcheng fleet also opened fire with full force; the metal storm from the close-in weapon systems shredded approaching sea beasts into pieces, while the secondary guns continuously picked off any stragglers.

“My god... the Red Alert Legion's fighting style...” The Jiangcheng fleet Commander muttered as he watched the nearly continuous missile launch signals on the Radar screen. “In just this short while, hundreds of missiles must have been launched, right? Back in the day, that would have burned through billions in military spending... This is truly a damn ‘tycoon’ army...”

At this moment, the tide of battle seemed to turn, yet the Mermaid King was still struggling and the beast tide remained surging. Suddenly, a massive shadow appeared on the distant horizon, accompanied by a low roar, tearing through the air at an incredible speed—it was the airship kirov airship!

Its massive frame cast a suffocating shadow over the water, the shadow sweeping across the surface at a startling speed.

“Bastards! Despicable! Faithless humans!” The Mermaid King was completely enraged. Her beautiful face contorted with extreme fury, and her sea-blue hair danced wildly without wind, like living sea snakes! She raised her coral magic wand high, and her entire body erupted with a brilliant deep blue light! This time, she mobilized nearly all of her power!

The waters of the Han River seemed to receive a royal summons, converging toward her frantically! A super tidal wave, hundreds of meters wide and over a hundred meters high, rose under the guidance of her wand. Like a wall of water connecting heaven and earth, it carried a destructive aura meant to crush everything, advancing slowly and unstoppably toward the Jiangcheng fleet, which was already surrounded by the beast tide and smoke! This terrifying wave, like the true wrath of heaven, resembled the surges from the deepest parts of the ocean.

Everyone in the Jiangcheng fleet, including several high-level experts, looked at the world-ending wave that blotted out the sky with despair in their eyes. Before such natural might, the steel warships appeared so tiny.

At the critical moment!

Inside the command room of the airship, the captain's gaze was as calm as water, staring at the advancing wave on the screen and the tiny fleet before it.

“Reached the maximum projection distance of the iron curtain device. Maximize energy output; prepare to project the Iron Curtain force field,” he ordered calmly.

Atop the airship, a massive matrix device covered in complex energy circuits rose slowly and began to rotate violently, emitting a low energy hum. The high-energy fusion reactor pumped surging energy into it frantically.

“Fire!”

An invisible yet extremely high-energy converged beam shot out from the center of the device, instantly crossing several kilometers to precisely envelop the perimeter of the Jiangcheng fleet!

“Hum—!”

A colossal, translucent spherical energy force field was generated out of thin air, tightly protecting the entire fleet within!

In the next second, that world-destroying hundred-meter wave slammed violently against the force field!

“Rumble—!!!”

The expected destruction of ships and loss of life did not happen. The giant wave was like it had hit the world's sturdiest dam, diverting and collapsing along the curved surface of the force field, turning into a sky-filling waterfall. The scene was so spectacular it left everyone speechless! Inside the force field, the fleet remained unharmed, experiencing only slight vibrations and the deafening sound of water!

“Is... is this a miracle?” Countless officers and soldiers of the Jiangcheng fleet looked at the ‘water curtain cave’ sliding down the invisible barrier outside their windows, shocked beyond measure.

The airship had now flown into the core airspace of the battlefield.

“Activate the biological infrasound wide-area interference device, full power, covering the entire beast tide area,” the captain continued to order.

A type of high-energy biological infrasound, inaudible to humans but highly disruptive and destructive to biological nervous systems, rippled out from the airship as the center.

Instantly, the surging beast tide below seemed to have its pause button pressed. A large number of low-tier sea beasts began to lose their sense of direction, colliding with each other as their formation fell into chaos. Even some Tier 2 sea beasts showed symptoms of sluggish movement and energy disorder.

“Lock onto the Mermaid King, concentrate interference power, match the Mermaid King's frequency, resonance enhancement, maximum output sound pressure!”

The ultra-high sound pressure infrasound beam acted like invisible shackles, precisely enveloping the Mermaid King, who was struggling to steady her breathing and attempt to gather water elements again. Her delicate body shuddered, and for the first time, a look of horror appeared on her face! She felt her connection with the surrounding water elements severely weakened, and the surging energy within her became incredibly sluggish, as if she had fallen into an invisible quagmire; her strength was less than ten percent of its peak!

“Target controlled. Open all energy-gathering units of the high-energy matrix laser cannon, charge, and lock onto the target.” The captain's voice was devoid of emotion.

The lower armor plates of the airship's massive hull slid to the sides, revealing a dense honeycomb of small laser energy-gathering matrices. Hundreds of matrix units lit up simultaneously with blinding white light, frantically drawing energy from the reactor.

“Fire.”

There was no world-shaking explosion. There was only a beam of pure white high-energy laser, condensed to the extreme with a diameter of several meters and a brightness exceeding the sun. Like a sword of judgment swung by a god, it shot from the matrices beneath the airship, crossing space in an instant at the speed of light to shine upon the immobilized Mermaid King.

There was no explosion, no scream.

Under the laser irradiation containing terrifying energy and extreme heat, the Mermaid King's beautiful body began to disintegrate and dissipate at the molecular level. The coral magic wand in her hand turned to ash, her ice-crystal scales turned to smoke, and along with her angry and unwilling gaze, they all returned to nothingness within the pure white pillar of light, as if she had never existed.

A Tier 3 high-level being, the Mermaid King who ruled over millions of aquatic creatures, was instantly purified under the dimensional reduction strike of ultimate human warfare technology.

(Brothers, is the superweapon cool? Is the Iron Curtain awesome? If you've seen the movie Battleship, you can imagine scenes like that. The Mermaid King was beautiful and could even reason, but this is a racial war, a fight to the death, hehe. Thanks for the support, friends. Are there any Hunan locals among the readers? What should I write about Hunan? If you have good suggestions, post them in the comments.)