Tens of meters tall, the colossal monsters could easily destroy buildings, and the sanity-eroding impact they emanated could reduce a small city to a wasteland in moments.
These were indescribable, unconquerable super abominations.
And there were two of them!
Yet, these two… no, more precisely, one of them, the black giant with four thick arms, strode across the wide road, charging towards the dark behemoth in the distance.
A heavy impact!
The sturdy road cracked and splintered, a gale sweeping outwards. The glass of surrounding buildings shattered, and the walls of those closer cracked open with horrifying fissures.
The two colossal shadows engaged in a fierce battle!
Anderson of the Super Combat Division, accompanied by several elites, leaped across rooftops, rushing forward.
They dared not get too close, stopping two to three kilometers away from the battlefield. Even at this distance, the whispers in their ears were piercing, and the very fabric of space ahead seemed to warp and writhe.
Experiencing it firsthand, Anderson and the other awakened individuals increasingly understood the terror of these super abominations.
He had previously considered trying to stop the colossal shadow, but now he realized that by the time he reached the super abomination’s vicinity, the overwhelming tidal wave of sanity impact alone would drive him mad, leaving him with little strength, let alone the ability to stop it.
Human effort was utterly incapable of confronting such monsters.
Only monsters could fight monsters!
At this moment, two colossal monsters were locked in combat, their fighting styles simple and brutal: charging, punching, or sweeping their tails.
To experts like Anderson, super abominations possessed no technique, only crude movements of striking and being struck.
However, under the terrifying power and sheer mass, every crude movement carried devastating destructive force.
Each collision resounded with thunderous booms, and even slight contact caused skyscrapers to shatter and crumble.
Randomly flung debris from damaged buildings fell with dull thuds.
Had they been any closer, even without the wave-like sanity impact, these aftershocks, these flying ‘rubble,’ would have been enough to end their lives.
Anderson and the other awakened individuals stood frozen, stunned. After a long while, someone managed to swallow hard.
“I never expected these super abominations to start fighting each other?”
“Do abominations fight and kill each other?”
They didn’t know; they had never seen it before.
But,
“Whatever the reason, this is good news for us.”
“Exactly. That dark behemoth was heading towards the city center, and now it’s been stopped by the four-armed giant. At least our Wave City is safe.”
“We were saved by a super abomination?”
“This must be divine providence, it’s wonderful!”
“Is there a possibility that this giant super abomination is an awakened ability, transformed from an awakened individual? Or is it controlled by one?”
“Interesting idea, you could write a sci-fi novel.”
“Not only have we never heard of such an ability, but even if it existed, what level would someone need to be to control a super abomination? That would no longer be human.”
“So it’s likely a coincidence, that two super abominations erupted into a grand battle. As it stands, they won’t be able to decide a winner anytime soon. The only question is, how long can their fight last? Will they stop fighting soon?”
This was Anderson’s concern, and the possibility was not small.
The reason for the super abominations fighting was unknown, but humans, which were like food to abominations, were plentiful ahead.
If he were an abomination, what would he do? Of course, he would stop fighting.
The more instinctive their actions, the more they would do so.
If these two super abominations continued their advance…
Anderson clenched his fist.
If that were the case, they would have to rely on their flesh and blood to find a way to lure them away!
He spoke,
“I’ll stay here as a contingency. You go deal with the cultists in the city and find the surging ritual energy nodes!”
“There’s no time to waste.”
Above, the red moon grew ever more piercing, its blood-like glow instilling a deep sense of unease.
Within Wave City, the Super Combat Division, the Wave Nation’s military, civilian awakened individuals, and others were all in action. Not all of them were deeply righteous, but under the threat of disaster and death, they all began fighting the cultists.
Fighting might not mean death.
Surrendering, however, would certainly mean death.
Battlefields were scattered everywhere, the flames of explosions rose intermittently, and smoke filled the air, the peace of the bustling metropolis thoroughly shattered.
“Found it!”
“This must be the energy node we’ve been looking for!”
Several Super Combat Division elites looked at the floating crimson dot before them, their faces filled with joy.
Energy nodes were truly difficult to find!
This particular node was hidden in the basement of a residential house. They had stumbled upon it during a fight with cultists, discovering an anomaly, a cultist hideout.
They found it by chance while searching.
This was the first node discovered by the Super Combat Division!
The awakened individuals immediately took a photo of the node and sent it to headquarters, then asked, “What do we do now? How do we destroy this node?”
“Move aside, let me handle this.”
A Super Combat Division soldier raised his personal rocket launcher. The rocket, trailing a tail of flames, struck the crimson dot.
Fire erupted, and a blast of wind and heat surged forward.
The entire basement was scorched black. The ceiling above had already been ripped open during the previous fight. Now, with the intense explosion, flames raged. However, the crimson dot floating in mid-air remained, completely unharmed!
“Could it be that hot weapons can’t affect the node, just like we can’t deal with abominations?”
A top elite remarked.
This possibility was high. Before pondering further, one of them clasped his hands together, and a fiery ball formed between them.
This fiery ball was infused with a large amount of life energy by the Super Combat Division awakened individual.
The fireball technique, imbued with his conviction, was unleashed with a fierce roar.
The basement exploded violently once more.
The Super Combat Division elite, enduring the gale, stared intently at the swirling dust and smoke before him. As the smoke gradually dispersed, what appeared before them…
Was the still intact crimson dot!
It was like a phantom, untouchable, unharmable.
“Is this really the ritual node?”
“According to the intelligence given to us, it’s roughly this. Moreover, appearing in a cultist hideout, something so unscientific, it’s definitely abnormal and must be destroyed.”
“Wait, perhaps we can try using life energy as a blade.”
An awakened individual said.
His ability was related to his eyes; he could vaguely see abominations and some energy flows.
He had also glanced at that mysterious letter before.
He hadn’t read it carefully, only a rough scan. It seemed to mention something similar.
He couldn’t recall clearly. Now, he stepped forward, used his awakened ability, and stared intently. Soon, he discovered several fine tendrils around the spherical node.
Some were shallow, others deep.
They were gently stirring.
He remembered!
A few lines from the letter flashed in his mind. The awakened individual injected life energy and simultaneously swung his combat knife.
*Swish—*
*Swish, swish, swish, swish—!*
Starting from the shallow red tendrils, he carefully severed them one by one. He made one mistake, accidentally severing two tendrils simultaneously, and the entire spherical node immediately restored itself, the severed tendrils regrowing in an instant.
The elite awakened individual took a deep breath and continued to wield his heavy combat knife as if it were a surgical instrument.
Finally,
When he had severed all five tendrils in order from shallow to deep, the crimson energy node before him shattered like a bubble.
The Super Combat Division elites were excited and overjoyed!
“Quick, report this discovery to headquarters!”
“We’ve destroyed one node. As long as we destroy the rest, we can end this ritual and break through the red moon’s blockade, right?”
“Victory is in sight, we have hope!”
“We destroyed a node in just half an hour. There shouldn’t be many remaining nodes. Let’s work harder and find them all.”
“Woohoo—!”
…
“This is the 7th energy node, phew, it’s exhausting!”
“Destroying the nodes is easy, but Wave City is too big. All our stamina is spent on running.”
“Other squads have also destroyed a few nodes, their efficiency is high, and they haven’t encountered any troublesome ones.”
The team led by Yiluoxi was the main assault force.
When other squads encountered tough opponents, they were responsible for providing support.
However, up to this point, there had been no need for their support. Other teams had shared coordinates with them.
Yiluoxi rubbed his chin, “It is indeed a bit strange. Logically, there should be a very large number of cultists in Wave City, but we haven’t encountered a single black-robed cultist so far. The battles have been a bit too easy.”
Even she sensed something was wrong, something very wrong.
Bai Yanshi said, “There have been changes. The cultists encountered at the later nodes were stronger. Even though they were gray-robed cultists, their strength and speed were greater.”
“I can confirm that. The gray-robed cultist just now even had the upper hand in strength over me.”
Was it a coincidence?
Or…
…
“The High Priest spoke correctly.”
“This Blue Star world is indeed a bit unusual. It’s clearly a native world, yet it can quickly locate the ritual’s energy nodes.”
“Moreover, the awakened individuals’ strength is unexpectedly high, with some capable of commanding disaster-level abominations!”
On top of a tall building, the Blood Whisker strongman gazed at the four-armed giant demon.
He was greatly surprised upon first seeing this disaster-level abomination. Regardless of the method, commanding a disaster-level abomination was beyond his expectations.
However,
“The High Priest predicted all of this.”
“Even if you did not forcefully elevate your power with an abomination, but were a naturally gifted prodigy who awakened to the fourth level of the non-human grade in a short period, it would not change the outcome.”
The Blood Whisker strongman snapped his fingers.
In the distance, in the surging Wave River, another terrifying colossal shadow appeared and lunged towards the four-armed giant demon.
And within his field of vision, he could see three crimson energy nodes about two kilometers away from the black armored demonic dragon.
At this moment, circles of red light were emanating.
Absorbing the ritual’s power, the red light enveloped the black armored demonic dragon, and this colossal shadow grew stronger and stronger. From being evenly matched with the four-armed giant demon to completely suppressing it, it had already bitten off one of its giant arms.
And now, another colossal shadow was approaching from afar.
The Blood Whisker strongman grinned.
“The ritual nodes are right before you, but as long as these abominations exist, you will never be able to destroy them.”
“Enjoy despair, native strongmen of Blue Star.”
…
Several kilometers away,
Anderson hid in a tall building, looking down at the road below, his eyes wide.
“Another group of cultists is arriving.”
“What are these cultists preparing to do?”
“The abominations ahead seem to be increasing as well.”
Although these groups of abominations were not surging towards the city center, and were even staying put, Anderson’s sense of unease grew stronger and stronger.
Especially seeing the four-armed giant gradually retreating, he had a premonition that if the giant fell, their last hope would vanish.
Could it be that this four-armed giant was truly on their side, the human side? Was that possible?
Anderson chuckled self-deprecatingly, “What time is it, and I still have such unrealistic thoughts? Wait…”
In his field of vision,
On the shoulder of that terrifying four-armed giant, there seemed to be a slender figure with fluttering hair.
Anderson’s pupils constricted.