Chapter 1
The Strongest Energy Reaction

Strong signals were registering in the radar room, a chaotic and massive energy reaction emanating from the seabed.

In an instant, the captain understood everything. He knew that the enormous reaction must be coming from a follower of the Gale Apostle. Only those followers could cause such a nearly chaotic reaction on the energy radar.

"Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!" the captain shouted.

Even without his orders, the entire ship sprang into action. The Evolver forces responsible for security rapidly moved to the deck. The steel blades in their hands gleamed with a cold light, and their armor looked so reliable and sturdy. But everyone knew that those seemingly excellent equipment could not improve their chances of survival in a battle against the Apostle's followers!

Compared to Second Evolution beings, the human world's Evolver forces seemed too weak. Except for the Pioneers who could barely fight them, other forces were completely crushed when facing them!

Fear.

An intense sense of fear quickly spread wildly throughout the freighter.

The strong energy reaction was getting closer and closer, already within three kilometers of the freighter. Everyone's face was unusually solemn, including the Evolver soldiers. Goosebumps began to rise on everyone's skin!

"Distance: 1200 meters!"

"Distance: 800 meters!"

"Distance: 500 meters!"

"Launch torpedoes!" the captain shouted loudly.

Two harpoon-shaped torpedoes shot from underwater towards the location of the intense energy reaction, cleaving two paths through the water!

Since the world's changes, many transport ships and planes had been equipped with weapon systems. However, due to model limitations, the weapon systems were all basic, effective against ordinary sea beasts, perhaps, but against the followers…

No one knew what the result would be.

The torpedoes accurately hit the energy reaction target, but there was no strong explosion.

In the radar room, the energy target that was rapidly approaching the freighter suddenly stopped.

"Was it... effective?" the captain asked urgently.

Inside the radar room, the staff responsible for monitoring stared intently at the red dot on the monitor screen. Suddenly, the red dot that had paused for a few seconds moved again, but instead of rushing towards the freighter, it changed direction and rushed straight towards the surface!

*Poof!*

A roaring sound of water breaking rang out, and a huge shadow, wrapped in a waterfall of water, leaped into the sky. In the daylight, the people on the freighter finally saw the true face of the creature in the huge shadow.

It was a massive giant whale shark, hundreds of meters in size, with a row of bone fins on its back, creating a striking visual impact. The sense of oppression it gave was also extraordinary. Just looking at its sharp teeth, which were about three meters long, one could know that tearing open the freighter's steel hull would be no more difficult than tearing a piece of white paper!

However, the strong energy reaction did not belong to it.

A figure with wings on its back was standing quietly on the whale shark's head, as firm as a mountain. It was tightly clutching the torpedoes that had just been launched from the freighter in its hands. The five-meter-long torpedo body was pressed against its palm, and the tail was still spewing flames. The terrifying impact continuously impacted its body, but its body remained motionless!

What terrifying power!

This was a God-Descended Follower. Its physical strength was outrageously strong. The torpedoes that were enough to sink a heavy freighter were like two firecrackers played by children in front of it!

Under the shocked and frightened gaze of the crowd, the follower arched its body like a large bow, raised its arm, and suddenly burst out with all its strength. The two torpedoes pressed in its palm were instantly reversed and thrown back!

*Peng peng peng!*

A harsh sonic boom rang out in the air. The speed of the torpedoes thrown by the follower was actually faster and more violent than when the turret had fired them before!

*Boom!*

An Evolver soldier who was already standing in formation on the deck, with quick eyes and hands, directly pulled out the new energy gun from his waist, pulled the trigger, and hit the oncoming torpedo with a high-heat bullet, instantly detonating it.

At the same time, another Evolver soldier wearing heavy armor leaped high like a nimble ape, and with a flash of the arc of the steel blade in his hand, he forcibly cut the torpedo in half!

*Boom!*

Both torpedoes were detonated before they approached the freighter, and strong flames exploded in the sky above the freighter.

The soldier who split the torpedo withstood the surrounding intense bursting high temperature and fell from the air towards the deck, his eyes filled with a world of flames.

But the flames suddenly swirled up, and a figure squeezed into the flames. A pale hand stretched out directly and pierced through the soldier's chest!

"Pretty brave…" In the flames, the follower, who was still standing on the whale shark's head a second ago, was now waving its wings, carrying the soldier like a prey. Fresh blood was constantly dripping from its fingertips, and it held the Evolver soldier's still-beating heart in its palm!

"Blocking one of my attacks, you as a low-level creature, is enough to be proud of!" A morbid smile appeared on its face, and its mouth stretched to an exaggerated angle: "It's just a pity, you can't block a second time."

Its arm shook slightly, and an indescribable force spread rapidly. The soldier's expression twisted and became hideous, as if he wanted to roar angrily, but in the next second, his body, along with the armor outside his body, exploded into the finest dust, and was completely vaporized under the scorching heat of the flames!

In just a few seconds, a brave and powerful Evolver soldier was completely erased from this world!

"Tell me… what kind of materials are you transporting this time?" As the flames scattered, the follower stood high in the sky, looked down at the crowd on the deck with a condescending gaze, and asked softly.

"It's grain," the captain said, gritting his teeth.

The cargo being transported this time was a special alloy. Due to its high level of confidentiality, even he was not qualified to witness the true face of this alloy after it was loaded onto the container from Gale Breath Island.

And in the warehouse, although a layer of grain was spread on the containers holding this alloy as camouflage, everyone knew that this camouflage had no practical meaning at all!

Once the other party started searching, it would be exposed immediately!

The follower did not show any importance to the hundreds of Evolver soldiers on the freighter at all, as if it was taking a walk in the park, and gently landed on the deck and walked towards the warehouse.

*Ka-cha!*

The warehouse hatch was violently broken open.

"Prepare to fight to the death!" The captain gritted his teeth secretly, preparing to give an order to lead everyone on the ship to fight the follower to the death.

But at this moment, a beam of azure light suddenly burst out from the broken hole in the freighter's warehouse door, hitting the follower with unparalleled precision!

*Boom!*

The people on the ship were also stunned.

That beam of light...

"The warehouse does not contain the so-called alloy at all, but Mech Warriors!" A soldier roared in surprise!

The follower was blasted into the sky, its skin scorched black, its wings torn to shreds, and it was in a terrible state!

"You dare to deceive me!" It paused in the air for three seconds, then suddenly screamed frantically.

"This is a trap! A trap!"