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Chapter 297: 231: Baker’s Shock! Vow of Desolation!
Chapter 297: 231: Baker’s Shock! Vow of Desolation!
Chapter 297: Chapter 231: Baker’s Shock! Vow of Desolation!
Zheng Cheng mounted the city walls, gazing into the distance.
At the far end of the dark fog, the ground was roiling, with monstrous creatures that resembled giant earthworms marching on.
These massive, bloated bodies were continuously contorting in the earth, and at the forefront of their skulls was a gigantic mouth bristling with sharp tusks.
Huge rocks and ground that blocked their path were effortlessly crushed and devoured, their movement was swift.
“Sandworms!”
The figure of Shadell hurriedly ran over: “Lord! Those are the sandworms that breached our Canglan Desert defensive line!”
“They can easily burrow into the desert and dig tunnels from beneath, emerging easily from behind us … ”
At this moment, her face is filled with obvious panic, as if recalling something deeply traumatic.
Zheng Cheng reassured her, “Shadell, don’t worry, this is a mountainous area, they will find it difficult to burrow.”
“Is, is that so … ”
Under Zheng Cheng’s soothing words, Shadell’s expression finally stabilized.
Zheng Cheng, using the Central Radar Life Monitoring Technique, got specific information about the sandworms.
[Name: Sandworm]
[Species: Alien Beast/Xenomorph Larva]
[Type: Regular Soldier]
[Star Level: Six-star]
[Level: LV60]
[Length: 780cm]
[Weight: 8450kg]
[Constitution: 265]
[Strength: 12]
[Agility: 26]
[Spirit: 19]
[Skills: Sand Transformation, Swallow, Burrow]
[Description: Among the Xenomorph larva, these are the best at burrowing. They can crush and swallow the earth with their giant mouths, and in a very short time, they can dig a tunnel through the ground. ]
“Burrow … ”
Zheng Cheng’s eyes flashed: “Damn it! The bunkers are in trouble!”
His homeland defense line had three lines.
The first line was the bunkers spread around the homefront.
Hundreds of bunkers encircled the homefront, guarded by armored martial art soldiers.
Any Xenomorph who attempted to attack the homefront on the ground would be targeted by the martial art soldiers inside the bunkers.
The Alien Beasts, however, could not attack the martial art soldiers inside the bunkers.
The second line was the arrow towers surrounding the homefront.
A level 6 arrow tower, standing twenty meters tall, was equipped with fifteen crossbows and manned by twenty soldiers.
In an instant, hundreds of sharp crossbow bolts could be fired, the regular Alien Beasts simply could not withstand it.
The third line was the walls of the homefront.
This was the last line of defense to protect the homefront.
Normally, regular Alien Beasts would suffer heavy losses from the martial art soldiers’ attack when passing the first defense line of bunkers.
However, now the bunkers were faced with the burrowing sandworms…
Sure enough, as the sandworms were being attacked by the martial art soldiers inside the bunkers, they started to roar loudly.
They opened their huge mouths and viciously bit the ground with their sharp tusks.
With a rumbling sound, the hard ground was bitten into very apparent cracks.
The bunkers started shaking violently with the dust and smoke billowing everywhere.
A few unlucky ones were even hit by the falling rocks and were in an embarrassing situation.
Hundreds of sandworms crammed into the narrow mountainside constantly biting and ramming, completely demolishing the several bunkers at the forefront.
The group of armored martial art soldiers hidden inside the bunkers had all perished.
“Lord!”
Baker swiftly ran over: “Do we need to send reinforcements to the bunkers? As long as … ”
“No need!”
Zheng Cheng shook his head: “I trust my soldiers.”
“What? This … ”
“Captain Baker, your duty is to station at the lookout tower and kill the Flying Thunder Dragons in the sky. As for the sandworms on the ground, I have a plan.”
“This … ”
Baker’s face changed slightly; he heard the displeasure in Zheng Cheng’s tone.
Is he trying to make decisions for his lord?
He promptly replied: “Yes, sir!”
Baker reluctantly turned around and left. In his view, Zheng Cheng was apparently prepared to abandon the soldiers in the frontline bunkers.
It’s understandable, after all, they’re facing Six-Star Alien Beasts.
But those soldiers were their own civilians, to be abandoned just like that…
Being a noble, being a lord, how could one abandon their loyal subjects?
As nobility, it is their duty to protect the common folk…
As he walked away, he couldn’t help but looked back but immediately, his eyes were widened, mouth agape, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
At the farthest end of the battlefield, midway in the charge of the sandworms, an army of soldiers clad in black armor poured out from the bunkers.
They were wielding giant swords and roaring as they charged at the sandworms!
Facing the frantic bites of the sandworms with their gaping mouths, these soldiers astonishingly jumped from the ground, leaping more than a dozen meters high.
While dodging the attack from the sandworms’ jaws, they fell onto the backs, heads, and necks of the sandworms.
Without hesitation, they thrust their giant swords into the heads and necks of these sandworms.
The sharp, long steel swords immediately left deep, bone-deep wounds on these sandworms, the cries of the sandworms were unceasing, unbearably clear and agonizing.
Their massive stature was indeed an advantage when attacking.
Their sharp tusks could even shatter giant rocks.
But at this moment, when facing the iron-armored martial art soldiers who are less than two meters tall and appeared like children in front of them, they didn’t have a viable strategy to kill them completely!
Every time they opened their huge mouths to crush the annoying little bugs in front of them along with the boulders, these soldiers could easily dodge and stab them in return.
The constitution of the sand worms was far superior to that of the armored soldiers, but their strength and agility were significantly inferior!
This led to another situation.
The iron-armored soldiers could attack the bulky, clumsy sand worms relying on their speed.
But the sand worms had no way to attack them!
Thus, under the relentless attacks of the martial art soldiers, one by one, the sand worms were slain.
Their enormous bodies lay outside the valley, acting as effective obstacles for more soldiers rushing from behind!
More armored soldiers rushed out from their bunkers, their figures morphing into assassins, archers, moving through the swarm of sand worms, waving their weapons wildly, continuously slaughtering the sand worms!
“Kill!”
“Brothers! Kill them!”
“For our lord! Wipe out these alien beasts!”
With Zhang San, Niu Jindao, Chen Zhong as leaders, six hundred iron-clad soldiers were divided into three groups, they firmly blocked hundreds of sand worms at the outer rim of the valley.
“How…how is this possible!”
On the city wall, Baker also noticed this situation, his mouth wide open in shock.
“He…heroes?!”
“So… so many heroes under the lord’s command?”
The tense Baker even changed his way of addressing them.
Sadie proudly said, “Who said they are heroes? They are just ordinary five-star level soldiers!”
“Impossible…!”
Pointing at more than six hundred iron-clad soldiers in the distance, who are leaping around and slaying the six-star level alien beast sand worms, as easily as slaughtering pigs and dogs, Baker stammered, “This strength, this agility, and this speed, only great swordsmen of the Desolate World could achieve!”
“Even if they are heroes, they must be level 60, six-star professionists to do this… wait, why aren’t they using any skills?”
“Where is their battle vigor? Their battle technique? How come they don’t even have battle vigor covering them?”
Sadie gave him a sidelong glance and said, “I already told you, these people are just ordinary martial art soldiers, not heroes, where would they get their skills from? Let alone battle vigor…”
Beck still found it hard to believe: “How could this be… pure strength and speed?”
“This is the power of our lord!”
Sadie put her hands together, her eyes glowing with admiration, “Our lord’s power can drain the power of alien beasts and then transfer it to us.”
“As long as our lord exists, not to mention Jasha Island, even if it’s the entire Desolate planet or the world of the alien insects, all will be conquered by us!”
“What?”
Baker trembling, “Draining the power of alien beasts… and transferring it to us?”
His mind began to tumult.
He dared not believe this.
But… right at this moment, the iron-armored soldiers who are engaged in battle with the six-star beast sand worms are undeniably proving one thing: fact!
What Princess Sadie is saying is a fact!
These are Sand Worms…
In the Desolate World, these creatures have easily breached several human city defense lines.
After all, Sand Worms can burrow 40 to 50 meters underground and suddenly launch an attack from behind humans.
This kind of surprise attack is impossible to completely block.
Only those who practice battle vigor or heroes could kill these Sand Worms in the open field.
Unexpectedly on Jasha Island, he witnessed these regular five-star soldiers slay the Sand Worms that had once massacred hundreds of thousands of humans on their Desolate Planet!
This scene is enough to overthrow everything he thought he knew!
And also…
Just now, Princess Sadie with her powerful magic that she conjured up all by herself!
Fire-type magic combined with Wind-type magic, the power of the combined magic under Princess Sadie’s control reached an unparalleled height.
She was even able to shroud hundreds of Flying Thunder Dragon within her magic at once. The range of her magic and its power have even exceeded that of a magic tutor.
Keep in mind that Princess Sadie had awakened her power and became a hero less than a year ago!
This kind of power… is just too terrifying!
“People from Blue Star who came to Jasha Island, they are all auxiliary heroes, they call themselves professionists.”
Baker thought, “Mr. Zheng Cheng, who recruited me here, can drain the power from alien beasts and transfer it to us. Even ordinary people can bear it…”
“Could it be to say that, he is the real Savior!”
“But…”
His voice was full of hesitation, “The humans from Blue Star have a distinguished person like Mr. Zheng Cheng, why haven’t I heard about their ordinary people…”
Shaking his head he suddenly had a new thought.
“Regardless, Mr. Zheng Cheng is a lord I should devote myself to!”
“Not only for my own sake but also for all the humans on the Desolate Planet…”
With a decided heart, he no longer had any hesitations, quickly walked up to Zheng Cheng, knelt down in reverence.
“Honorable chosen one, Mr. Zheng Cheng, please accept my utmost loyalty.”
“I am willing to be your sword, your servant, your steed, clear all obstacles for you!”
“In my name, Beck Roland!”
Zheng Cheng curiously asked, “What is this…”
Sadie quickly pulled Zheng Cheng’s sleeve and said, “This is the pledge of the Desolate! The highest vow in our Desolate World, no one can betray it!”
“My lord, Magician Beck Roland has fully devoted himself to you!”
“Even if you order him to die now, he wouldn’t hesitate!”
At that moment, Zheng Cheng’s eyes flashed, abruptly sensing that Beck Roland’s loyalty had, at this instant, reached its maximum.
100 points!
Loyalty until death!