Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 398: A Monstrous Beast

Alan brandished his saber and sent a stream of fire spreading out, landing on the ground/igniting some flammable matter. A few more balls of fire immediately lit up the nearby space. Suddenly, a male face with a painful expression emerged from the flames, followed by a strong body wrapped in a dark red shell, and a terrifying mouthpiece with its chest armor open to the extreme.

Guards!

"Everyone be careful!" Allen warned as he lowered his body's center of gravity, pointing at the imperial guards.

However, next to this guard, another figure of the same size suddenly appeared. Alan felt a headache from the two guards. When the guards discovered them, they began to rush over. There was no time for them to think. The enemy arrived in the blink of an eye. Edward shouted, "Allen, Regis, Belmore, and I will deal with the monster on the left. Everyone else greet the monster on the right. Stall it!"

Alan immediately understood Edward's tactics. The four of them could be said to be the strongest four on the field. Edward wanted to use his superior combat strength to quickly take down one of the guards and then deal with the other.

The guard rushed over and threw a huge fist at the crowd. Allen and the others immediately parted, and this punch landed on the ground. The nearby clay bags were shaken to the point of bouncing up, and then exploded, causing gravel to splatter everywhere. The shockwaves spread over the space within a dozen meters, and their momentum was astonishing. Two of Allen's fire balls were suppressed, and the light immediately dimmed.

Lucy and the Tang brothers separated from Allen and the others according to Edward's assignment and led the other guard away from them. Garner put the red leaf on a slope and picked up the huge sword. "You rest here. I have to go help."

"Be careful." Red Leaf nodded.

Garnett rushed to Lucy's side to make up for their lack of combat strength.

The battle raged.

The imperial guards were monsters created by the empress referring to her own body and gathering the excellent genes she had plundered from other planets. They were protected by thick shells and possessed tyrannical strength. Even though they were too big, they weren't as fast as the faceless ones. However, the monsters' reaction wasn't slow, and Alan knew it very well after a few battles. If the Guards could create a large number of them, then this army would be even more terrifying than the Sentinels under the control of the Saber Demon.

The imperial guards were no less powerful and defensive than the sentries, and they had the upper hand in terms of reaction. At this moment, Alan flashed to the right of the guard, and the blade emitted an indeterminate ray of light that directly sunk into the guard's thick shell. With Flame Breath Flash, the guard's thick shell was still unable to resist, and Allen had sliced a deep wound on his waist.

However, almost at the same time, the imperial guard threw out a huge tail, and the tail with bone needles twitched horizontally. Allen didn't even have time to dodge, so he could only block with a thousand square meters. The giant tail landed on the heavy saber, producing the sound of metal striking each other. Allen was sent flying by a tail, smashing into a soil bag nearby, directly scattering the soil bag.

He shook his head and propped himself up with Qianjun. A thin line of blood flowed out of his mouth and nostrils. Alan wiped his hand and rushed forward with a muffled snort.

On the other side, the guard who had just sent Alan flying was entangled by a tornado of wind blades released by Edward. Countless wind blades continued to rotate and cut. Single wind blades were unable to break through the defenses, but there were too many of them. Moreover, after the frequency of attacks reached a certain level, they were still able to deal obvious damage to the imperial guards. The Wind Saber Tornado enveloped the imperial guard's enormous body. The blade pointed at every part of the monster's body. Edward did not specifically attack any part of the body, but rather hoped to use this omnidirectional attack to find the weakness of the imperial guards.

At the same time, Regis would occasionally pull out a bright and sharp flash. Every time a flash appeared, the tornado would move the wind blade in the orbit of the flash away, leaving room for Regis to pass through. From this, it could be seen that Edward's Origin Energy was not that deep, but in terms of the accuracy of Origin Energy control, it was probably not much inferior to Allen's.

Regis's flash was like a high-energy cannon. Every time it hit the guard's body, it would stagger and explode into shards of the armor. Even the skin and flesh beneath the armor would explode into a gap. However, the guard's skin was thick, and the wound the size of a bowl was only a minor injury to him. After a few attempts, Regis began to adjust his target. Instead of aimlessly bombarding the guard, the flash concentrated on his legs.

After going back and forth a few times, the armor on the guards' legs had already fallen into pieces, and some of the wounds had even exposed bones wrapped in muscles.

The guard let out a roar during the battle, sending out circles of vibrations visible to the naked eye from the mouthpiece under his chest armor. The invisible shockwaves dispersed the tornado of wind blades that was harassing it, and the guards roared angrily as they rushed towards Edward. At this moment, Belmond approached the guard like a ghost. On the tip of his foot, his figure flickered and his body would occasionally turn into black mist. Whenever the black mist rose, Belmond's aura became blurry and indistinguishable.

As a result, the monster didn't notice him until he flashed behind the guard. The chain blade swam towards the guard's knees like a venomous snake, entangling it in an instant. Belmond lightly shook the chain blade and pulled it back. The chain blade vibrated and contracted like a sharp blade, easily cutting open the muscles that had lost their armor. Only after breaking the bones on the guards' knees did the monster discover Belmore's existence.

Unfortunately, it was too late. With a thud, it threw itself forward. Alan grabbed the opportunity and jumped onto the guard's thick back. Qianjun's blade overflowed with killing intent, and his saber flashed with lightning until it had no handle. Alan gripped the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands and changed the prick to push. He pushed Qianjun all the way to tear apart the flesh and blood of the guards and drew a winding path of blood on its back.

In the end, all of them broke out from the skeletal armor on the back of the guard's head, bringing with them countless fragments, as well as red and white colored liquid!

The guard's body twitched and finally stopped moving. Alan exhaled and pointed the blade at the other guard. A moment later, the battle ended. Looking at the corpses of the two guards, Garner sat down on the ground. When he looked at Allen and the others, his gaze changed. It could be said that both guards had died under Ellen and the others, and Garner himself had played a role in assisting them.

Allen and the others had a clear division of labor. Edward's Wind Blade harassment, Regis's Flash Break, Belmore's paralysis of the Guards' mobility, and finally Allen's fatal blow. Compared to the first imperial guard, the second monster had died faster and more thoroughly with their intimate cooperation.

However, after killing the two guards, Alan's expression was still tense. Edward muttered to himself as he faced the void and darkness in front of him, "We've already slaughtered the dog guarding the door. Now it's master's turn to play, isn't it? Why did he force us down? The answer should be revealed."

Rustle-- josei

Almost as Edward's voice faded, the distant darkness emitted the soft sound of something rubbing against the ground. That voice sounded very erratic, and it was hard to catch. If it weren't for the fact that the visitor moved so quickly that it gave rise to such an illusion. That was because the object was large, so it moved for a long distance, which was why this kind of phenomenon occurred.

"Edward, step back." Allen said. At the same time, Qian Jun shook lightly and ejected a few streams of fire, creating several other fires on the ground.

Edward did not try to be brave, he retreated behind Allen and only quietly stared ahead. Not long after, a fishy breeze blew from the darkness. The breeze carried a fishy smell that the middle-aged man wanted to vomit. The dense fishy smell reminded people of the Corpse Mountain and Sea of Blood. Only when the wind blew past the mountains made of corpses would it be possible for them to carry such a rich stench, right?

A low, suppressed roar sounded, and a few balls of blood-colored light lit up in the darkness. Following that, the silhouettes of some things gradually appeared. The shadows of these silhouettes were sharp, complicated, and emitted a dense and enormous aura. In the end, a painful female face first appeared in the flames. However, this face was as big as a round table. If this was a woman, then this was definitely a female giant!

However, when everyone looked carefully, they realized that it was not a woman's face at all. Instead, they were naturally formed patches. However, the patches were scattered across each other, naturally forming a pattern of a woman's face. When the woman's face was raised, an ugly head with several large compound eyes, covered in crown-like exoskeletons, opened its jaws, revealing a circle of inner teeth, shockingly crashed into everyone's line of sight.

This head was so huge that it was almost like the head of a truck. The impact of the scene caused no one else to be able to see it!

"This is … the Empress?" Alan seemed to hear himself groaning. It was not that he had never seen a giant monster before. However, as soon as the Empress appeared, her body revealed a strong hatred for life. The wide-open jaw seemed to devour all life in the universe.

The Queen, who had been developed as a biological weapon, had the ability to devour life and plunder genes. When it possessed its own will, this ability even affected its will, causing it to transform into an extremely evil creature. Under the flames, behind that ugly head, there was a huge body outline. The enormous body gave off a natural sense of pressure, coupled with the cold and violent aura emitted by the Empress, causing the temperature of the space to drop to a freezing point.

All of the Empress' compound eyes suddenly lit up at the same time, causing everyone's heads to ache. A mad but enormous will mercilessly smashed into their heads. Its will was like a giant beast, as if it wanted to crush their tiny, ant-like minds. Apart from a few people, Garner and the others couldn't help but scream miserably. As for the severely injured Red Leaf, she spat out two lines of blood from her nostrils and fainted.

Alan held his head and endured the heart-wrenching pain coming from his head. This feeling was somewhat similar to the mental impact of the Black Twilight King Snake back then. The Empress probably used a similar method. However, this giant creature that had survived for an unknown amount of time was tens of thousands of times stronger than the king snake, and the impact it had caused was naturally even greater. The Empress' will was like thunder and lightning, like a giant roaring in her ears.

However, in this roar, Allen read out the Empress' sporadic meaning: Genes! Completed!