Chapter 641 Assistance

Thanks to old man Chronos' "assist," the astonishing commotion caused by the Titans directly drew away half the demon hunters from the Lightway platform. Even a Master-level demon hunter serving as commander led a team to intercept. The defensive strength opposing Hao Ren instantly decreased significantly.

But Hao Ren still didn't charge out. He silently sensed the energy fluctuations coming from afar, calculating the battle situation of those demon hunters encountering Chronos and the ancient Titans.

Demon hunters were indeed quite powerful, and as artificial species, they possessed innate advantages over many conventional races. But that didn't mean they were invincible—after all, demon hunters also had combat tiers, and among the anomalies they eliminated were also great masters and powerful figures.

Ordinary demon hunter units would still bleed and sacrifice against the Olympian's trump card war machines.

Sure enough, not long after, Hao Ren noticed the two remaining Master demon hunters on the Lightway platform suddenly communicating anxiously.

It seemed they had received battlefield intelligence from the commander who had departed earlier: the unit had encountered suddenly emerging ancient Titan giants, and the battle had fallen into a stalemate.

To the great anticipation of Hao Ren's group, the remaining demon hunters acted again. Another Master-level commander led dozens of elite warriors away from the platform.

Clearly, in the judgment of these defenders, the greatest threat to the Underworld Palace at this moment was those Titan giants suddenly climbing out of the Underworld. The rest of Mount Olympus had been basically cleared, and all resistance from the Olympian "gods" was currently compressed within the Poseidon Temple. No divine reinforcements would emerge from elsewhere. Therefore, the priority of guarding the Lightway entrance had decreased. In necessary situations, withdrawing the defensive forces here to deal with Chronos was a matter of course.

Their judgment wasn't logically wrong—if Hao Ren and his group of time-space tourists hadn't interfered.

After the second wave of demon hunters left the platform, Hao Ren knew this was the best opportunity. Waiting any longer wouldn't make the guards leave; it would only delay the hard-earned chance. So he opened his dimensional space, summoned a spatial implosion bomb, and waved his hand: "Go!"

The demon hunters stationed on the platform were tensely watching the energy storm erupting from the depths of the Underworld Palace. By the time their commander reacted, a half-meter-high, silver-white metal cylinder had already traced an arc in the air and crashed heavily among the soldiers.

A veteran warrior shouted, "Enemy attack!"

The instant that warning sounded, the silver-white metal cylinder exploded. Unlike the roaring blast of a conventional bomb, its explosion carried a strange sound like shattering glass, and no flames erupted. The moment the cylinder ruptured, the surrounding space began to twist, then formed a spherical event horizon with a speed too fast to react to. Within the event horizon, the entire space collapsed towards the center!

The spherical event horizon expanded rapidly, forcibly sucking everything around it. The demon hunter warriors closest to the blast point didn't even have time to cry out before being pulled in, rapidly stretched into long strips, and sucked into that terrifying gravitational collapse point. The demon hunters slightly farther away reacted quickly. Their powerful neural processing ability and combat talent allowed them to make the most appropriate response even without understanding what it was: use all their strength to teleport away from the spatial collapse point.

The Master-level demon hunter was even more powerful. He had originally been captured by the gravitational pull of the spatial collapse point, and even his body had been twisted and deformed. But at that critical moment, he still maintained his thinking ability, and used mental power to forcibly push himself to teleport outwards—nearly half his body was torn apart by the spatial collapse, but the remaining half, with his head, still managed to escape!

Knowing he would die, this commander directly threw away his weapon and, with the fastest speed of his life, reached his remaining arm towards the alarm device at his waist.

But his movement was only halfway completed when it was severed by a beam of silver light descending from the sky.

Hassans's holy silver longsword struck, dividing the Master-level demon hunter in two.

The severed head spun in the air, his face filled with extreme shock. He couldn't believe his eyes even in death, unable to believe that the enemy suddenly appearing before him was actually the supreme commander of his own Holy Crusade legion.

"Sorry, I can't let you mess things up in this spacetime," Hassans glanced at the demon hunter Master he had instantly killed, his eyes sweeping over the emblem on the other's chest. "I'll remember you, I'll buy you a drink later when we get out of here."

Lilly, carrying her increasingly proficient alloy greatsword, slammed it onto the ground near Hassans with a bang, incidentally smashing a hapless demon hunter guard into a broken mess of bones. Then she swung her sword, using brute force to directly chop away all the surrounding enemies, before turning to shout at Hassans, "Don't slack off! What time is it to be inviting people for dinner..."

Hassans: "..."

With multiple contacts with this former top dog of the demon hunters, his understanding of the other party deepened, and he wisely gave up communicating with her.

The platform was a scene of flashing blades, flying blood and flesh, and roaring gunfire.

With a spatial implosion bomb clearing the way, Hao Ren's group, suddenly emerging from the shadows, easily controlled the situation and routed the demon hunter guards. After a brief resistance, the guards were declared completely annihilated.

And the most gratifying thing was that the Master-level commander was instantly killed by Hassans's sword before he could send out an alarm signal.

Thus, the Holy Crusade legion, which was organizing the final siege in the Poseidon Temple, still didn't know that a third-party force had intruded on the battlefield.

After quickly clearing the Lightway platform, Hao Ren finally let out a long breath: "Our movements here will be noticed soon."

"That's right, the commanders of each level have to make a circuit call every once in a while. Any missing group will be quickly noticed," Hassans said quickly. "We have less than twenty minutes of secret activity time. After twenty minutes, the upper-level commanders will notice that there is an enemy force outside of the monitoring range on the battlefield."

Faint rumbling and tremors were still coming from the depths of the palace complex. The powerful energy storm in the distant sky showed some signs of weakening, but had not completely dissipated.

"Chronos is still distracting the demon hunters, but we can't rely entirely on those brainless Titan giants," Hesperides glanced back at the sky, then turned towards the rotating beam of light at the edge of the platform. "We should now..."

"Wait," Hao Ren stopped Hesperides, who was about to activate the Lightway. "It would be dangerous to go over like this."

Hassans nodded: "That's right, every entrance and exit of the Lightway is guarded. After we pass, we will directly face the defensive legion—and the number of guards on the Lightway platform of the Poseidon Temple is about twice that of here."

Hesperides shrugged: "It's already a miracle that we could sneak all the way here. In the end, we will inevitably have to break through with force. Or do you have another trick up your sleeve?"

At the end, she was looking at Hao Ren.

Hao Ren grinned: "How could it be a trick, it's actually a pretty simple tactic..."

As he spoke, he opened his dimensional space, took out a few small tactical nuclear warheads and a large pile of square metal boxes. After those metal boxes were opened, they revealed blue, glowing crystal fragments inside. Hao Ren then took out a dozen plasma bombs, set them all to the activated state, and stuffed them into the gaps between those blue crystal fragments.

Little Hesperides had been in a state of excitement and curiosity since the battle just now. At this time, seeing the very powerful Brother Hao Ren took out a pile of things that looked very fun, she was immediately full of curiosity and went up to her.

"Don't touch it!" Hao Ren grabbed the little girl who was walking towards those metal boxes with a quick eye and hand. "There's radiation!"

Lilly instinctively felt a huge danger, and couldn't help but ask: "What is that thing?!"

"Nolan had indigestion after speeding back once, and vomited a lot of this stuff from the power furnace's circulation pipeline—it's a deteriorated energy crystal that she overclocked herself, it can't be relied on as an energy source at all, but because it's been radiated by psionic energy, this thing is deadly to ordinary carbon-based creatures if you touch it or even brush against it... Everyone check your life-support collars, we'll probably have to pass through a large radioactive area later."

Hesperides' cold sweat poured down her forehead: "...You're just insane..."

Hao Ren chuckled and didn't defend himself. Instead, he directly pushed those dangerous explosives into the starting end of the Lightway, then gave Hesperides a thumbs up: "Activate it."

"Are you sure this thing won't directly collapse the other end of the Lightway? Then we won't be able to get through."

"Don't worry, the nuclear warheads will automatically launch after they pass, and explode in the air at a relatively safe distance. The remaining radioactive crystals won't have much physical impact after being detonated. What's deadly is the radioactive dust and energy rays. And I've observed the material of this platform. I'm sure this is all high-grade alloy that the Olympus family brought from their home world. It's very strong, and it won't break so easily."

Hesperides curled her lips, thinking that this insane guy had indeed made arrangements, so she had no more doubts and directly activated the Lightway.

Of course, she hadn't come into contact with the "divine" technology of the Olympus era, but that didn't mean she didn't know how to activate these Lightways. After all, there was a huge "drive" word on the control panel next to her...

Six and a half tons of explosives were sent to the Lightway and entered the clouds under Hao Ren's watchful eyes.

After waiting for a moment, he waved to everyone: "Now it's our turn!"