Chapter 316
by fanqienovelChapter 316: The Sacrifice of Mortals is Never Meaningless!
"Ugh…"
"Damn it…"
Valaharl felt the violent tremors in the Crystal Walls, the vibrations sending agony through her awareness.
Though as the Will of the World, Miss Valaharl lacked human "pain," her suffering remained utterly real.
"But I must hold on!"
"My children fight so desperately—how can I give up?"
"And I am Valaharl!"
"The world most cherished by the Giant God!"
"I will never just wait for death!"
Valaharl scanned the Bubble World’s interior.
Disaster struck again; the world, having barely begun to recover, plunged back into inferno.
"Bang—Boom—!"
"Boom—!"
The earth erupted violently. Patrolling mortal warriors were hurled skyward by massive roots bursting from below.
They shrieked as they fell, landing as lifeless corpses.
"Ah hahahaha…"
"Burn it all!"
"Kill—!"
"Roar—!"
Countless high-ranking demons poured into Valaharl, their iron hooves trampling land that had only just begun to heal.
Though losses mounted, resistance never ceased.
"Rat-a-tat-tat…"
"Biu biu—!"
The crackle of gunpowder weapons and magical beam rifles echoed across the battlefield.
"Wheeze… Hiss…"
Valaharl militia, wearing respirators and wielding standard-issue firearms, steadily resisted the unending demon tide.
But…
"Foolish mortals!"
"Is this all your strength?"
"Too feeble!"
"So pathetically weak!"
The towering despair demon strode thunderously over the rubble-strewn streets, flanked by the powerful Hellish Abomination that guarded him like a bodyguard.
“Perish, all of you—!”
“Swish—!”
The despair demon swung his long whip with a vicious grin!
“Ah—!”
“Ugh…”
The abyssal magic whip swept horizontally, shearing off a layer of earth and exposing the dug-out positions and trenches to the demons!
“Swish—!”
Another lash followed.
“Ah!”
“Damn it…”
Screams rose one after another.
Stripped of trench cover, the exposed mortal militiamen were swept into the air by the whip.
Some burst into chunks of flesh and blood rain mid-flight, while others appeared intact but were already lifeless.
The battle turned dire.
Positions fell almost every second, claiming hundreds of Valaharl mortal warriors.
Yet…
“Rat-tat-tat… rat-tat-tat… thud…”
“Zap-zap—!”
Gunfire and magical beam shots never ceased.
In Valaharl, not one militiaman retreated a single step.
Retreat was unthinkable.
The concept simply didn’t exist for the Valaharl people.
They knew only one truth—“The time had come to serve the Giant God!”
Even when the despair demon and Hellish Abomination finally crashed into the flattened trenches…
“Pshhh—!”
A bayonet pierced his flank from nowhere, stinging the despair demon with unexpected pain.
“What…?”
He stared down, stunned to see his demonic Steel Skin breached.
As a high-ranking demon, he couldn’t fathom how some ordinary bayonet had stabbed him.
Shock ignited into fury!
“Roaaaar—!”
The despair demon roared loudly, venting its anger.
It lifted the clueless mortal soldier high, intending to torment him to vent its frustrations!
However, at that moment…
“Buzz…”
A golden ball of light slowly floated above the heads of the despair demon and the Hellish Abomination.
“Buzz—!”
Suddenly, it exploded with brilliant light like a small sun!
“Ugh…”
“Roar—!”
Both the despair demon and the Hellish Abomination screamed in agony.
This detestable light burned their skin and interfered with their magic circuits, preventing them from using their full power.
The demons even felt nauseous.
“Damn it!”
“Even though we are weakened, killing you, mortal, is still…”
“Bang—!”
A gunshot rang out.
The forehead of the despair demon exploded like a watermelon.
“Thud…”
The mortal soldier fell to the ground.
But instead of celebrating his narrow escape, he smoothly executed a tactical roll and took cover to the side; he swiftly tossed a “magic dissolving bomb” at the feet of the Abominations.
“Boom—!”
“Roar—!”
After the violent explosion, the Abyssal Abominations clawed at their bodies, shrieking in pain.
Their massive forms slowly melted away under the corrosive magic.
But this was not the end of the demons’ misfortune.
Then…
“Thud… Thud… Thud…”
The heavy footsteps of iron boots sounded!
Warriors clad in gray-black sturdy armor and wearing full-face helmets charged silently!
That silence, like a gray-black ocean crashing down, made the Hellish Abominations, who had felt no fear before, take a slight step back.
The golden light illuminated the black-armored warriors.
The ferocious demons halted, their cruel Double Eyes mixed with a hint of panic; reflected in their eyes was the emblem on the black shoulder armor—a skeletal figure with breathing mechanisms!
The Death Brigade war organization’s Chosen Ones warriors arrived!
"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"
The Earth shook once more.
This time, the colossal bipedal mechs charged forward!
Originally, they were engineering mechs and mining mechs, typically used to extract the "divine grace mounds" left by the Giant God.
Once war broke out, the modular engineering systems were replaced with terrifying weapons like magic-guided logging cannons, magic artillery, and chainsaws!
"Boom—!"
"Zing—!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The efforts of the mortal soldiers were not in vain; the unstoppable iron tide collided with the demon legion.
In the sky, the golden light specks multiplied and illuminated the entire battlefield!
Under the light’s radiance, they cut through the demons’ formation like a knife slicing through cheese and pushed them back to the roots of the Fantasy Tree of Subspace.
"Whew…"
Miss Valaharl took a moment to catch her breath.
She gazed toward the heart of the Bubble World.
There, vast "Giant God’s Towers," resembling giant mushrooms, seemed constrained by the invasion of demons. They opened their enormous "caps" and unfolded layer upon layer of folds.
Countless light specks slowly emerged from within and covered the whole Valaharl.
They also flew out from the gaps in the Crystal Walls and through the "Exhaust Fans" that Trilobite had sent to Valaharl, spreading around.
These "light specks" significantly interfered with all chaotic Magic Power, blocked the magic circuits of demons and even chaos deities, and applied one DEBUFF after another.
"So, this is the method you left for me?"
"What a thoughtful person."
Valaharl thought sweetly.
But at that moment…
"Boom boom boom—!"
The Crystal Walls trembled violently once again.
"Ugh…"
Valaharl was surprised to discover that after being interfered with, the demon gods changed their strategy; instead of full fire coverage, they hurled forbidden spells at a single point on the Crystal Walls!
Soon, the oversaturation of attacks made the Crystal Walls shake and cracks formed.
"Not good!"
"Reinforce!"
As Miss Valaharl fought with all her strength, she overlooked the changes happening to the "Giant Pillars."
At the base of some "Giant Pillars"…
"Zing…"
A brand new "mushroom" was rapidly sprouting from the ground!