owlsbooks Chapter 147 Dongjiang City's Strongest External Aid
Chapter 147 Dongjiang City's Strongest External Aid
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The No. 3 defense line in the south of the city.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and the nauseating stench of blood.
"Fire! Don't stop! Maintain suppression! Machine gunners, fire all your bullets!"
Commander Zhao, the commander of the defense line, lay behind the sandbags, his voice long since hoarse from shouting.
He held an assault rifle in his hand and fired wildly at the gray street a hundred meters away.
Gun muzzles spewed flames, and dense trailing bullets wove an impenetrable net of fire across the night sky.
But it didn't work.
Hundreds of translucent black shadows drifted along the street.
They had no physical form, but rather resembled wisps of distorted smoke, moving freely through the hail of bullets.
The bullets hit them, passing right through them and creating craters in the concrete wall behind them, without even causing a ripple.
"Company commander! We can't hit it! What the hell is this monster?!" The machine gunner next to him roared in despair, the barrel of the heavy machine gun already red-hot and emitting white smoke.
A dark shadow suddenly accelerated, skimming the ground for dozens of meters before pouncing directly on the machine gunner.
The machine gunner instinctively raised his hands to block.
The shadow pierced straight through his chest.
There were no wounds, and no bleeding.
The machine gunner froze, his eyes instantly losing focus, and his skin visibly shriveled up, turning him into a skin-and-bones mummy in just two seconds, falling stiffly into the trench.
"Little Li!" Old Zhao's eyes widened in fury as he drew his pistol and fired seven or eight shots at the shadowy figure.
The dark figure was unharmed, turned its head and stared at Old Zhao, letting out a piercing screech.
The defenses were completely in disarray.
The soldiers watched as their comrades inexplicably turned into dried corpses, and their mental defenses crumbled even faster than the battlefield itself.
Conventional weapons are completely ineffective; this war is simply unwinnable.
Less than a kilometer behind the defense line lies Dongjiang City's largest civilian resettlement site.
More than 50,000 unarmed survivors were crammed there.
"It's over." Old Zhao looked at the approaching shadowy army, gave a bitter laugh, and pulled the pins on the four grenades strapped to his chest. "Brothers, if we lose this position, we won't survive either. Fight these bastards to the death!"
Just as he was about to jump out of the trench.
The screeching sound of tires came from behind.
Two heavy armored personnel carriers crashed through the roadblock and came to a stop sideways in the center of the position.
The car door was kicked open with a bang.
Jiang Ming, carrying the exaggerated giant sword [Chaos Fire Thunder Prison], strode off the vehicle.
Chu Tianfeng and Lei Zhan followed closely behind.
Chu Tianfeng gasped when he saw the scene in front of the position.
"It really is a ghost-like monster..." Chu Tianfeng gritted his teeth, turning to look at Jiang Ming. "What do you plan to do with it? We just tested the incendiary bombs; they can't burn its physical form at all!"
Jiang Ming ignored him, his gaze sweeping over the shifting shadows.
A system notification sounded in my mind.
【Shadow Wraith (Lv.15)】
[Danger Level: High]
[Characteristics: Physical immunity, life force absorption, and elusive spirit ability.]
"There are quite a lot of level 15 monsters." Jiang Ming twisted his neck, and his joints made a cracking sound.
When Old Zhao saw Chu Tianfeng, he rushed over: "Brigade Commander! Why did you come in person! We need to retreat quickly, this position can't be held, conventional weapons are completely ineffective against them!"
"Shut up, let's see how he fights." Chu Tianfeng pointed at Jiang Ming's back.
Old Zhao was stunned, staring at the young man who wasn't even wearing a bulletproof vest and was only carrying a large sword.
"Him? Commander, are you crazy? That's a monster immune to physical attacks! Are you suggesting he go up there with a melee weapon to his death?!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a shadowy wraith broke through the front sandbags and lunged straight at Jiang Ming's back.
Old Zhao instinctively closed his eyes.
"Whoosh—"
Jiang Ming didn't even turn around. He gripped the hilt of the sword with his other hand, and the greatsword was instantly drawn.
The broad blade drew a crescent-shaped afterimage in the air before striking the vengeful spirit with pinpoint accuracy.
The emptiness of not being penetrated by bullets.
With a deafening roar of thunder, dazzling arcs of dark blue electricity suddenly erupted from the [Hellfire Thunder Prison] sword.
The power of lightning instantly tore through the vengeful spirit's disguise, and then the high-temperature flames contained within the blade erupted out.
"squeak--"
The vengeful spirit let out an extremely mournful scream. Its translucent body twisted violently under the lightning and fire, and it didn't even last a second before exploding into a cloud of black smoke, which dissipated in the wind.
[Defeat the Shadow Wraith (Lv.15) to gain 1500 experience points.]
The crisp notification sound made Jiang Ming raise an eyebrow.
"The experience points they give are quite generous."
He turned around, holding the greatsword upside down in one hand, the tip of the sword carving a scorched groove in the ground.
The eerie blue arcs of electricity, like tiny snakes, coiled between his arm and the blade of his sword, emitting a chilling crackling sound.
The audience was silent.
Old Zhao's mouth dropped open, and he even forgot to throw the grenade he was holding.
The monster that had been swarmed by a heavy machine gun for ages without even a scratch was annihilated by this young man with a single sword strike.
"You just said physical immunity?" Jiang Ming turned his head and glanced at Old Zhao. "Who told you that my attack was a physical attack?"
Chu Tianfeng stood behind, his fists clenched tightly, his eyes blazing with fanaticism.
He guessed right!
The weapon in this kid's hand has high-level elemental magic damage!
This is the most scarce and coveted extraordinary power currently available to the Blue Star military!
"Chen Qi, Ma Luo, you two stay in the position and provide cover," Jiang Ming instructed.
"Understood, Brother Jiang!" Chen Qi picked up his rifle. He knew his gunpowder weapon was useless, so he simply stood and watched the show.
Marlowe yawned boredly and patted the dire wolf's head.
Jiang Ming turned his head and looked at the dark mass of vengeful spirits in front of him.
To others, this was an unsolvable massacre.
But in Jiang Ming's eyes, this was simply a tailor-made ATM of experience packages.
"Come on, let me see how many swords you can withstand."
Jiang Ming suddenly exerted force with both legs, unleashing his full strength attribute of 30 points.
He was like a cannonball, crashing directly into the area where the vengeful spirits were most concentrated.
A vengeful spirit tried to interfere with him using its mental powers.
Jiang Ming didn't even try to dodge.
The Lv.10 divine skill [Iron Will] activated automatically. The mental shock that could drive ordinary people mad was like a gentle breeze in his mind, without even causing a ripple.
"Too weak."
Jiang Ming gripped his sword with both hands, exerted force from his waist, and unleashed a sweeping attack that was devoid of any fancy moves.
"boom!"
The sword energy, mixed with violent thunder and flames, stirred up a devastating storm on the street.
Before the dozen or so vengeful spirits could even scream, they were instantly vaporized by this violent elemental power.
Jiang Ming didn't pause at all; his feet moved swiftly, and the greatsword felt as light as a feather in his hand.
Every swing, every downward strike, inevitably leaves behind swathes of shadows.
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He was like a heartless meat grinder, weaving through the monsters with abandon.
Wherever it passed, lightning flashed and flames rose.
The shadowy wraiths that once inspired despair are now like moths drawn to a flame, turning to ashes in droves.
The Blue Star soldiers on the position were all dumbfounded.
Some people even rubbed their eyes, wondering if they were dreaming.
"Brigade...Brigade Commander..." Old Zhao swallowed hard, his voice trembling. "This...this is one of our men? This fighting power, he alone could take on an entire armored battalion, right?"
Chu Tianfeng didn't speak, but his violently heaving chest betrayed his extreme inner turmoil.
What is meant by "dimensional reduction attack"?
This is called a dimensional reduction attack.
The hole that tens of thousands of soldiers in the Dongjiang Military Region couldn't fill even with their lives, this kid, wielding a sword, managed to cut through it all.
In less than five minutes.
Jiang Ming single-handedly slashed down hundreds of shadowy wraiths on the street, leaving only a dozen or so scattered individuals.
Jiang Ming stopped, shook off the remaining energy from the blade, and let out a long breath.
The experience bar on the panel surged dramatically.
Just as he was about to harvest the remaining few, a sudden change occurred.
The dozen or so surviving vengeful spirits suddenly stopped attacking, letting out piercing shrieks as they rapidly converged on the center of the street.
The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, and a layer of white frost formed on the ground.
Countless black wisps of mist surged in from all directions, frantically pouring into that convergence point.
A massive black aggregate, five meters tall and covered with distorted human faces, slowly took shape in the mist.
【Gathering Nightmare (Lv.25, Warrior-level BOSS)】
[Danger Level: Extremely Lethal]
[Characteristics: Complete physical immunity, psychic shriek, soul devouring.]
"The BOSS has finally appeared." Jiang Ming narrowed his eyes and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly.
"roar--"
As soon as the aggregated nightmare took shape, the hundreds of distorted faces opened their mouths simultaneously, emitting a semi-transparent sound wave that was visible to the naked eye.
This is not sound; it is pure spiritual shock.
The sound waves spread in a ring, sweeping across the entire position in an instant.
"what!"
Old Zhao clutched his head, let out a piercing scream, and collapsed to his knees.
Blood gushed wildly from his eyes, nostrils, and ears.
Hundreds of soldiers on the position fell down in unison, like wheat being harvested.
They writhed in agony on the ground, some even trying to smash their heads with the butts of their rifles because they couldn't bear the excruciating pain of their brains being pulverized.
Even seasoned and battle-hardened soldiers like Chu Tianfeng and Lei Zhan couldn't withstand this blow.
The two men knelt on one knee, gritting their teeth, their faces ashen, too pale to even hold their guns.
Chen Qi and Marlowe weren't much better off. Marlowe's massive body collapsed to the ground, while the dire wolf was so terrified that it defecated and urinated in fear.
Jiang Ming was the only one standing in the entire arena.
[Attacked by a mental shriek.]
[Iron Will triggered; Immune to mental damage.]
Jiang Ming stood still, not even a strand of his hair was disheveled. He frowned as he looked at the soldiers rolling on the ground.
This boss may not have any other special abilities, but its large-scale AOE crowd control is truly disgusting.
If it's allowed to keep howling, these people on the position will turn into idiots within minutes.
"Chu Tianfeng!" Jiang Ming shouted, turning around. "Did you bring any high-explosive grenades?"
What do you need grenades for?
Physical attacks are completely ineffective against this thing!
But he has no other choice but to rely on Jiang Ming.
He used all his strength to point to a green metal box behind the armored vehicle.
"There...there..."
Jiang Ming strode over and kicked open the iron box.
Inside, dozens of standard high-explosive grenades were neatly stacked!
Jiang Ming casually grabbed two grenades and at the same time took out two dusty gray crystals from his portable storage card.
It was the [high-concentration necromantic crystal] that they had obtained from the ghouls in the underground shelter.
"Open your eyes wide and look carefully, this is real technology."
Jiang Ming clasped his hands together, pressing the crystal and the grenade together.
In his mind, the talent for synthesis was instantly activated.
[A synthesizable recipe has been discovered.]
[Scrapped High Explosive Grenade] + [High Concentration Necromancer Crystal] = [Nether Shock Bomb (Consumable)]
[Attribute Preview: The explosion does not produce physical fragments, but instead releases a high-intensity psionic shockwave, causing devastating structural damage to psionic targets.]
A faint white light flashed in Jiang Ming's palm.
When he opened his hand again, the two originally green iron grenades had turned into dangerous objects with eerie gray patterns on their surfaces, emitting a ghostly glow.
Despite the excruciating pain, Chu Tianfeng watched the entire scene unfold before his eyes.
Transforming scrap metal into extraordinary artifacts out of thin air?!
What kind of divine power is this!
Jiang Ming pulled the pin, swung his arm, and slammed the stun grenade hard at the Aggregation Nightmare.
"boom!"
There was no deafening gunpowder explosion.
A blinding, eerie blue halo exploded outwards from the point of blast.
When the halo swept across the massive body of the Converging Nightmare, it was like scalding water being poured onto a snowdrift.
"Aww—"
The nightmare let out a piercing scream, and the distorted human faces on its body rapidly melted away in the blue light.
The originally solid black mist was blasted into pieces, revealing a red-glowing crystal core hidden in the chest area.
That's its physical core!
"I've found you."
Jiang Ming narrowed his eyes, stomped his right foot on the ground, and leaped into the air.
In mid-air, he pressed down on the air with his left hand.
Purple Epic Skill - [Gravity Spell]!
An invisible, immense pressure descended from the sky, slamming heavily onto the aggregated nightmare.
The nightmare's massive body suddenly sank, as if it were being pressed down by an invisible mountain, making it completely unable to move.
Jiang Ming gripped the hilt of the [Hellfire and Thunder Prison] sword with both hands, and using the momentum of the fall, poured more than thirty points of power into the sword without reservation.
"Overload!"
The lightning and fire power on the sword instantly surged tenfold, transforming into a terrifying sword beam two meters long.
"laugh--"
The greatsword pierced the red crystal core in Nightmare's chest with precision, as if cutting through tofu.
The raging lightning flowed directly into Nightmare's limbs and bones through the crystal core.
"Bang!"
The crystal nucleus exploded on the spot.
The five-meter-tall aggregated nightmare didn't even have a chance to struggle before it instantly disintegrated, turning into a sky full of black ash that scattered all over the ground.
[Defeated Nightmare of Aggregation (Lv.25, Warrior-level BOSS), gaining 2500 experience points.]
[Obtained: Nightmare's Howl Necklace (Blue, Rare).]
[Obtained: High-level Spirit Essence *3.]
The battle is over.
That maddening sense of mental oppression vanished instantly.