Chapter 1 A Barrage of Missiles

Under a barrage of missile tactics, not only was the Ocean Apostle unharmed, but it had become even more powerful. Its life energy reaction had almost reached the detection limit of the instrument, the data was alarming, and it was impossible to accurately monitor its specific strength!

"This beast... how could this beast be so strong?" Li Zhi asked, his voice trembling slightly.

An ordinary armor-piercing bullet can penetrate 60 meters of reinforced concrete, and in the artillery fire that had just bombarded the Ocean Apostle, there were more than seventy such armor-piercing bullets alone. In theory, even Mount Tai should have been blasted through!

But the reality was that these incredibly powerful artillery shells had not killed it at all, not even injured it!

"Aww!"

From where the smoke of the artillery fire was billowing, another terrifying screech sounded.

An invisible sonic wave spread across the battlefield.

Bang!

The life energy detector used to monitor the battlefield suddenly exploded, and a large amount of crystal fragments shattered and flew, piercing Li Zhi's skin.

Blood trickled down his chin, and a stinging sensation came.

But at this time, the pain on his body was nothing at all. What was even more unbearable for Li Zhi was the psychological pressure.

The life energy detector exploded...

This meant that the strength of the Ocean Apostle had exceeded the monitoring limit of the life instrument.

He immediately turned his head to another detector used to monitor the intensity of attack energy. In the area where the Ocean Apostle was located, the energy reaction color of the invisible air wave emitted by the screech was close to light black!

"Its attack power has increased again! It's already... already close to the power of a light nuclear weapon!"

There were many instruments in the command post used to monitor the battlefield. The instruments used to monitor life energy reactions and attack energy reactions were not the same. At this time, the instrument monitoring the attack energy reaction showed that the Ocean Apostle's attack power was at least several times stronger than when it had just entered the field.

If the Ocean Apostle's attack power when it first entered the field was only equivalent to a heavy missile, then now it was close to a small nuclear bomb with a yield of a thousand tons!

"How could this be?" Everyone present felt their mouths dry and their brains buzzing.

The Ocean Apostle was strengthening too fast, so fast that they couldn't react at all.

"Could it be... that one of its divine descent abilities, 'Roar,' has a stacking effect on increasing attack power?" At this moment, a genetic research expert of evolutionaries suddenly spoke, his voice trembling, "There is no other explanation!"

As soon as this was said, the entire command post became silent.

An extremely strong chill enveloped everyone's body and mind.

If this was true, then the Ocean Apostle could infinitely stack the Roar divine descent. Then, if given enough time, it could truly possess power surpassing nuclear weapons!

Who could resist a creature that could casually create nuclear fusion?

Even this giant defense city, built with a lot of human effort, would probably be smashed to pieces by its tail, right?

...

Meanwhile, on the battlefield outside the defense city walls.

A burly Pioneer held a steel saber, his brow twitching wildly.

His name was Cha Kaijin, and he was a regiment commander in the Pioneer Legion, as well as the leader in charge of this special operation outside the defense line. The entire Northern Military Region's evolutionary forces and Pioneer warriors were under his command.

In this defense battle, the Northern Military Region and the Pioneer Legion had a total of about eight thousand participants, of which the Federation's evolutionary troops were seven thousand and three hundred, and the number of Pioneer warriors was seven hundred, a ratio exceeding 10:1.

After Li Tianran took command of all human forces, he also generously distributed a lot of evolutionary fruits to various countries, so the number of evolutionary troops in various countries had increased.

But in this war, although the number of evolutionary soldiers in the Federation far exceeded the Pioneer warriors, the number of enemies killed by the Federation's evolutionary soldiers was less than half of that of the Pioneers.

The reason was simple. Most of the Federation's evolutionary soldiers were of the atavistic type. Even if there were occasional divine descent or smart brain type warriors, their combat effectiveness was not as good as the Pioneers, whose various data had already reached their peak.

Most Pioneers had eaten their fill of LV4 fruits, and their bodies had reached the upper limit of one evolution.

Ordinary evolutionary soldiers had only eaten one fruit, barely completing evolution. If weapons and equipment were not taken into account, their combat power was basically similar to that of ordinary Beast Kings.

However, the degree of cooperation between the Federation soldiers was very excellent. Since the beginning of the war, the casualty rate had not been as high as Cha Kaijin had previously expected, and could even be said to be very low.

Overall, the casualty ratio of this mixed army composed of the Pioneer Legion and evolutionary soldiers against the beast tide should fluctuate around 1:100.

This was already a very good record.

Although there was assistance from the Mechanical Berserkers, it was still worthy of praise.

"At least until now... not a single Federation soldier has hidden behind the Pioneers because of cowardice or weakness." Cha Kaijin took a deep breath. He was not a member of the Federation, but a survivor from a small country. Since joining the Pioneer Legion, he had always had a very deep prejudice against these so-called powerful countries' armies.

Because in the previous few Doomsday Eras, these powerful countries' armies had behaved exceptionally cowardly and timid in the face of the beast tide, but when they fought among themselves, they were exceptionally active and powerful...

After the Doomsday Era occurred, some small countries did not perish under the attacks of the beast tide, but were destroyed by the plunder of the big countries.

Even Kuangxi Island had been targeted by powerful countries.

Therefore, many Pioneers had deep resentment and contempt for the powerful countries.

Before this war started, Cha Kaijin also believed that the Federation's evolutionary warriors would most likely hide behind the Pioneers and pick up the kills of the old, weak, sick, and disabled, but the reality was completely different from what he had imagined.

These Federation evolutionaries, whose strength was far inferior to that of the Pioneers, did not show any fear or retreat. On the contrary, they behaved exceptionally bravely when charging, even further ahead than the Pioneers!

This was completely different from the style of many powerful countries' evolutionary forces that Cha Kaijin had worked with before!

During a brief rest period of a few minutes, Cha Kaijin finally couldn't help but ask a captain of the Federation soldiers why they knew that rushing to the front with their combat power would be very dangerous, why they knew that hiding behind the Pioneer Legion could maximize their lives, why didn't they do so?

Was it because of orders from above?

Or was it fear of Li Tianran's punishment for their cowardice after the war?

The Federation captain's answer was very unexpected for Cha Kaijin.

He said: This defense mission is originally the Federation's, it belongs to the Northern Military Region! The Pioneer Legion is here to assist, to help!

And to have the allied forces helping them rush to the front, while their main force hides behind...

The Federation troops couldn't afford to lose face!

This answer made Cha Kaijin silent for a long time, and also made him change his mind about the Federation troops.

At least... at least in terms of the military's duty, the Federation's troops were different from other powerful countries!

"Regiment Commander!"

Just at this moment, a New Energy bullet grazed Cha Kaijin's shoulder and exploded directly less than three meters behind him.

A scorching wave of fire came from behind.

A small Beast King, only half a meter in size, was about to launch a sneak attack, but was directly blasted to pieces.

Cha Kaijin turned his head and saw several Pioneers cut a bloody path out of the battlefield and come to him, their faces somewhat pale.

"Regiment Commander, what should we do next?" several Pioneers asked urgently, the steel sabers in their hands dripping blood, and their combat uniforms were already damaged.

Cha Kaijin looked up at the center of the battlefield.

They were not afraid of any sea beasts. With the assistance of the Mechanical Berserkers, they even had the confidence to intercept the sub-sequence Followers outside the city walls.

But...

At this time, in the center of the battlefield covered by the smoke of artillery fire, the figure of the Ocean Apostle gradually emerged, becoming clearer.

Unlike the generals in the command post inside the giant defense city, who were absolutely safe, the Pioneers and evolutionary warriors standing on the battlefield, only a short distance from the Ocean Apostle, could most clearly feel the suffocating aura coming from the front.

It was like the advent of absolute terror!

Oppressive and desperate to the extreme!

At a distance of several hundred meters, Cha Kaijin felt that his breathing had become extremely difficult!