owlsbooks Chapter 242 Fortress and Demon Tide 2
Chapter 242 Fortress and Demon Tide 2
Xiao Tianhao turned his head sharply and saw that Lin Tian had stepped forward and was standing at the forefront of the city wall. The wind was blowing his robes, but he stood as still as a rock.
Lin Tian gazed calmly at the devastating tide of demonic creatures, as if he saw not the threat of death, but merely a patch of weeds that needed to be cleared.
He spoke, his voice not loud, yet it reached clearly the ears of every soldier standing ready for battle and every general prepared to die, carrying a calm that was both reassuring and incredibly arrogant:
"No need for that. Leave it to me."
What?!
Xiao Tianhao and everyone around him who heard those words went completely blank for a moment, almost thinking they were hallucinating.
Hand it over to him? Alone? Facing this horde of tens of thousands of monsters, a catastrophe in itself?!
This is absolutely insane!
However, before they could recover from this extreme shock, Lin Tian had already made his move.
He didn't even make any incantation or spellcasting, didn't draw complex runes, and didn't gather any surging magical energy fluctuations—at least, no one present could sense that level of fluctuation.
He casually raised the Star Devouring Staff, which seemed to be made of solidified nebula and had a deep, dark core embedded at its top, and pointed it three times at the three core areas where the monsters were most concentrated in the distance, like a conductor gently waving a baton.
next moment--
"BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!"
It was as if the entire world had been torn apart!
Without warning, three enormous, eerie blue rifts, their edges brimming with destructive energy, were forcibly torn open in the sky in front of the city walls! Like three terrifying giant eyes from the astral plane, they suddenly opened!
[Starstorm]! And it's a one-time, triple attack!
Fragments of stars, beams of destruction, and void energy of indescribable ferocity poured down from the three rifts like a celestial river overflowing or a divine judgment of annihilation, precisely covering the three areas where the demonic tide was most intense and densely packed!
"Awooo—!"
"Hiss—!"
Countless monsters were instantly vaporized, decomposed, and annihilated in the dazzling yet deadly starlight, without even being able to utter a scream!
The ground beneath them was also eroded several meters deep, leaving three shockingly large scorched craters!
This is just the beginning!
Lin Tian slightly turned his wrist, and the staff casually drew a semi-circle.
【Universal Guidance】!
An irresistible, terrifying gravitational field suddenly formed, enveloping most of the remaining monsters!
Those surviving monsters, thrown into chaos by the instant evaporation of their companions, were as if seized by an invisible giant hand, involuntarily colliding and squeezing against each other, forcibly pulled together to converge at several central points, forming "monster mountains" composed of twisted limbs and desperate roars!
Immediately afterwards, the staff's trajectory reversed!
Shinra Tensei!
"Bang--!!!!!"
A terrifying repulsive force, even more awe-inspiring than thunder, erupted! Centered on those "monster hills," it was like several invisible meteorites crashing into the water, creating ripples of destruction!
The monsters that had just been forcibly gathered did not even have a chance to struggle before they exploded in all directions at an even faster speed than when they arrived, like tattered dolls that had been thrown out hard!
The sounds of bones cracking, shells breaking apart, and internal organs bursting... blended together into a brief but brutal symphony of death!
Minced flesh, severed limbs, and filthy blood... poured down like a torrential rain, then fell in a drizzle, staining large swaths of land an eerie dark red.
It only took a few dozen seconds.
Perhaps even shorter.
As the stellar rift slowly closes, as the terrifying gravitational and repulsive fields dissipate into nothingness.
The surging tide of monsters that had been like a black ocean in front of the city walls... had vanished.
Apart from a few scattered remnants of soldiers at the edge, terrified and scrambling to escape into the distance, and the three huge craters on the ground and the battlefield littered with blood and flesh fragments, there was no trace of any large-scale presence of monsters.
It was as if the devastating attack just now was merely a collective illusion.
A deathly silence fell over the city wall.
Absolute silence, so profound that even the sound of breathing had almost vanished.
All the soldiers, whether new recruits or veterans, whether archers, mages or heavily armored warriors, were frozen in place as if under a spell.
Their mouths were agape, their eyes bulging almost out of their sockets, their weapons hanging limply at their sides, and some even unconsciously loosened their bowstrings, oblivious to the crisp sound of arrows falling to the ground.
Their gazes, filled with unparalleled shock, bewilderment, and an almost religiously fanatical reverence, focused on the young monk who stood calmly at the edge of the city wall, his clothes perfectly neat.
In his ears, he could still hear the lingering, low hum of the stellar power, as if from the ancient starry sky, and the faint rustling sound of the monster's remains turning to ashes.
Xiao Tianhao felt his throat go dry, and his heart felt as if it were being tightly gripped by an invisible hand, almost stopping its beating.
He turned his stiff neck with difficulty, little by little, to look at Lin Tian beside him.
This iron-willed commander, who had seen countless corpses and considered himself to have a will as strong as steel, found his hands trembling slightly.
He recalled that when they last met, Lin Tian was quite strong, but still within his comprehension.
But how much time has passed? This increase in strength... it's not just like riding a rocket, it's like tearing through space and leaping through time! Is this really a level of power that humans can achieve?!
Lin Tian acted as if he had done something insignificant, slowly retracting the [Star Devouring Staff], as if the terrifying power that had just changed the world had nothing to do with him.
He turned around, his gaze calmly meeting Xiao Tianhao's, who was still reeling from the shock, and spoke indifferently, his voice still devoid of any emotion:
"It seems the leader in charge didn't show up this time."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Tianhao took a deep breath of the air, which was filled with the strong smell of blood and burnt flesh, barely managing to suppress the shock that was about to burst from his chest.
He looked at Lin Tian with an extremely complex expression, which included shock, gratitude, disbelief, and finally, a deep sense of awe.
His voice was dry, with a slight tremor he himself didn't even realize, as he replied, "Yes...yes. It's too cunning..."
His heart was already overwhelmed by a monstrous storm: 'It's only been a short time... and Lin Tian's strength has already reached such a terrifying level?! This is simply... a walking natural disaster!'