Chapter 1271

Suddenly, the white beam of light piercing the sky startled not only the onlookers but also Lily herself. Her half-howl was abruptly swallowed back into her stomach, and her mouth snapped shut as if afraid of accidentally spitting something out. The remaining white light slowly overflowed from the corners of her mouth, rising and swelling like flowing flames on the downy hairs of her cheeks.

She bared her teeth at the direction of Lockmarton, sparks flying from her mouth.

Hao Ren watched this scene in astonishment, greatly surprised. What was that just now? How did Lily suddenly fire a light cannon?

However, noticing Hao Ren's astonished gaze, Lily could only shake her head in confusion, making a gurgling sound in her throat, obviously unable to explain it either.

The shouts and explosions of the surrounding battlefield pulled Hao Ren's attention back to the fight. He knew that now was not the time to pursue minor details. Lily's strange change could be studied in the future, but if Lockmarton wasn't dealt with quickly, the trouble would be huge!

Spiral Mountain had been completely engulfed in a grand and chaotic war, and the entire battlefield was undergoing earth-shattering changes in the flames of war.

And this battlefield seemed to be divided into two layers overall.

On the ground below, the Holy Domain Expeditionary Force's soldiers were still fighting desperately with Lockmarton's claws. The flesh and blood of humans formed a torrent, constantly washing over the land corroded by the power of nightmares, while the souls of the ancestors fought alongside them.

After Lockmarton's entity appeared, the Chaos Demons also seemed to be greatly strengthened. They condensed out of nothingness at an even more shocking rate, desperately defending the Spiral Mountain in the center of the battlefield. Under the cover of the vast ocean of light in the sky, the war was particularly tragic.

Clusters of white light jumped and shuttled across this battlefield. Those were Izhaks, Elizabeth, the Nangong siblings, and others. Regardless of their own strength, in this place corrupted by the evil god, the "Divinity of Raven 12345" that they carried more or less was already the strongest force to eliminate evil. It was precisely because of their activity that the Holy Domain Legion's defense line was able to hold out longer without collapsing.

And above this battlefield, a "war at the level of the gods" was taking place.

Ten Wardens flew in the air, launching attack after attack on Lockmarton's tentacles and本体, while three magic導 battleships seemed to represent "mortals stepping into the realm of gods with their own power," becoming the only human armed forces capable of fighting Lockmarton at this level. In addition, the main force of the attack was the sky-filled artillery fire, missiles, lasers, and armed autonomous machine swarms.

Hao Ren himself stayed on the ground to fight. On the one hand, he had to split his mind to control those summoned fire points, and on the other hand, he had to hold the Divine Spear Gungnir and the Godslaying Sword tightly, ready to deal with the strange and inexplicable things that appeared around him and the tentacles swept down by Lockmarton—the former were basically illusions from nightmares, but around Lockmarton, the illusions themselves were real!

This was a weapon combination that he rarely used—but it was particularly useful at this moment.

The Divine Spear Gungnir had been repaired. After obtaining this former Nordic "神器," Hao Ren specifically asked Odin about its usage and was now able to master it proficiently. In addition to its own sharpness, it could also summon energy missiles that could continuously track targets, which was most suitable for dealing with those elusive幻象 monsters that were not strong. As for the Godslaying Sword...

It was indeed noisy and annoying, but it was a true神器 that could cut off everything!

After practical testing, Hao Ren found that the Godslaying Sword could actually cut off Lockmarton's tentacles without any obstruction!

After possessing this kind of power, its noisiness seemed acceptable. And also, perhaps realizing that this was a crucial battle, the Godslaying Sword was not so annoying this time. Although it still uncontrollably opened its mouth from time to time, at least it didn't talk endlessly like usual.

A huge tentacle hung down from the clouds. It pierced through the layers of defense formed by the Wardens and lashed heavily at the human formation below. The enormous mental pressure crushed the mortal legions. At this moment, two beams of white light lit up from the human formation. Those were the divine术 attacks launched by Karasus and the Pope—these two divine術 hit the tentacle, causing the latter to twitch and retreat into the sky.

Lockmarton began to roar, roaring in the spiritual world of everyone. It projected its terrifying image into everyone's minds, launching another round of attacks in everyone's thinking, and soldiers were constantly falling into a trance and then disappearing out of thin air.

These warriors had defeated countless monsters in reality, their bodies were still strong, even without any injuries, but they were defeated on the battlefield of the mind, becoming Lockmarton's nightmare food.

But in the real world, the Wardens had cut off two more huge tentacles, and a round of miniature nuclear bombs bombarded the center of Lockmarton's 本体, shattering the clouds, blasting away the dense fog, and stirring up the core area of Lockmarton into a chaotic mess.

This chaotic and grand battlefield seemed to be happening on two levels at the same time, one in the real world and one in the spiritual realm.

Hao Ren felt that he had also been divided into two. As a demigod, he was able to "see" what Lockmarton saw on some level, and feel what was happening beyond human perception. He sometimes saw the indiscriminate bombing in the real world, saw the battle between the Knights and the Wardens and Lockmarton, and sometimes jumped into another battlefield, where he could only see countless shadowy monsters and amorphous lights colliding with each other, and sometimes various bizarre phantoms appeared, as if it was completely a dream.

He extracted his spirit from the mind battlefield and looked up at the sky.

Lockmarton's huge body was still floating there, and the repeated attacks didn't seem to cause any essential damage to it, but he could feel that the unprecedentedly powerful monster was erupting with great anger.

Lockmarton was furious—

Weak mortals were actually challenging the Nightmare King!

The Wardens who had been defeated once actually dared to come back!

A group of challengers who didn't know where they came from actually despised the majesty of the great Lord!

More importantly, it was such a group of weak, failed wretches who had actually done this step and were still fighting evenly with the Nightmare Tyrant, with no sign of being annihilated!

Hao Ren could feel Lockmarton's anger and read what he wanted to read from this anger—fear in addition to anger.

Those weak mortals had actually persisted until now and had such tenacious and indestructible power, which exceeded Lockmarton's expectations.

Because the mortal legions continued to weaken and contain the Chaos Legion, the entire Spiral Mountain had been completely surrounded, and Lockmarton's connection with the outside world was becoming weak. After losing these connections, the Wardens' attacks gradually posed a threat to it.

Not to mention the endless and powerful firepower bombing.

"Gaddon!" After sensing the emotional changes leaked by Lockmarton, Hao Ren immediately called out to the Mountain King Gaddon in the mental connection—as early as before departure, he had Gaddon bring a mental converter to ensure real-time communication during the battle, "Lockmarton is losing patience and confidence."

The Mountain King immediately gave instructions to other companions after hearing the communication, so all the Wardens erupted with all their strength, as if completely giving up the hope of defense and survival, and launched a fierce attack on Lockmarton that was almost suicidal!

Even Lockmarton, who was as strong as Lockmarton, was "flustered" and "dizzy" after suddenly encountering such an attack. Hao Ren clearly noticed that most of its tentacles began to shrink towards the central area, and the number of dream monsters shuttling on the battlefield suddenly decreased a lot.

Hao Ren then connected to the real world and sent a piece of instruction code to the "An" who was on standby.

Lockmarton temporarily turned to defense. Although it was already a frantic and illogical monster, some instincts still remained in its thinking. Faced with this unprecedented situation, it was feeling confused and uneasy:

What went wrong?

How did these Wardens suddenly regain their fighting spirit?

What are the human's trump cards? Aren't they always afraid of death?

What exactly are these insects trying to do?

Hao Ren himself had a mysterious ability to read the thoughts of high-level creatures in the dream plane, and he was now so close to Lockmarton. Lockmarton's special attributes made a fairly large area near it its "thinking diffuse area," so at this distance, Hao Ren was equivalent to directly entering Lockmarton's thought world!

Although Hao Ren could not directly read the other party's memory due to the huge difference in the ways of thinking between the two and the strong thought contamination of Lockmarton, Hao Ren could still directly sense Lockmarton's emotional changes with his demigod personality.

Especially as the battle progressed, these emotional changes became more and more obvious and stronger.

"It's time," Hao Ren prompted to the Mountain King Gaddon.

So the ten Wardens in the air roared at the same time, and then another kind of power erupted from them.

That was the power of God. Although it was not familiar, although it seemed to have some strange mutations, from the perspective of the form and essence of the power, it was indeed the power of the true God—and in Lockmarton's worldview and knowledge, there was only one God, and that was the Goddess of Creation.

The Goddess of Creation had resurrected? She was back? Or had she never fallen? Or had these Wardens found the legacy left by the goddess? Was this legacy something she had arranged back then, specifically to deal with the situation of failed containment?!

In an instant, the war in front of them changed from "the small and pathetic struggle of mortals" to a premeditated, planned, and successfully surrounded hunt with sufficient cards!

When the most feared thing in ten thousand years happened, even the Lord of Nightmare would fall into a nightmare.

Hao Ren saw that all of Lockmarton's tentacles contracted in an instant, and the power of chaos near Spiral Mountain almost disappeared in the blink of an eye. Layers of defensive forces appeared near the huge amorphous flesh block in the air, and then the monster's body erupted with powerful energy fluctuations. Under the shock of the energy fluctuations, the space near the entire Spiral Mountain was shaking unstably.

Then the sky above the top of Spiral Mountain suddenly cracked open, and a strange starry sky shone brightly outside the crack. In the starry sky, one could vaguely see many glowing and strangely structured things floating and operating.

Lockmarton's 本体 instantly passed through the crack and disappeared in front of everyone.

The prison that had been indestructible for ten thousand years, the 神性 barrier that Lockmarton had struggled so many times but failed to break through, actually opened a hole like this and "released" the prisoners inside.

At the last moment when the huge meat mass passed through the space crack, Hao Ren seemed to hear Lockmarton's last thought from the rapidly dissipating "thought field" around him:

"Huh?"