Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train Chapter 1139 - 438: Giant Ghost Manta (Part 2)

At this moment, Vanessa’s power armor shot through the refracted beams using her dark energy fluctuations, her mechanical greatsword dragging a purple-black trail that distorted space. She launched an attack from the rear, uttering a sharp command as the greatsword sliced horizontally, sending out a wave of dark energy beam that precisely severed three incoming steel cable tail spikes!

Screeech!!

The giant ghost manta let out a sharp cry in the high sky, its massive wings frantically flapped, and it hurled all its tail spikes toward the two women. Meanwhile, its compound eyes surged with overwhelming laser energy, beginning to emit a scarlet glow.

Upon witnessing this, Erica immediately shouted,

"Vanessa, cut through the middle!"

"Good idea."

Facing this mountain-sized special-level creature, the two women showed no fear—one burst forth with a massive energy fluctuation using her superpower light shield to fly towards the laser beams head-on, while the other lifted her greatsword and leaped from behind to the giant ghost manta’s back, preparing to strike.

Buzz!

At that moment, all of the giant ghost manta’s laser eyes unleashed power, but this seemed to play right into Erica’s hands. Her ability was best suited for counteracting such energy-attacking Abnormal Bodies. She immediately pinpointed several weak beams amongst them, exerting her superpower light shield with full force and directly reflecting the laser beams as they swept past behind the giant ghost manta, instantly slicing out a gigantic cut over a hundred meters long. Blackened eye sockets and exploding biological tissues erupted like a volcanic eruption.

At this point, Vanessa seized the opportunity created by Erica breaking through the giant ghost manta’s biological force field, racing forward at high speed. With her mecha and superpower energy at their peak, she aimed her mechanical sword at that colossal incision and delivered a direct slash.

Swoosh!

In less than half a minute, the front part of the giant ghost manta hidden in the clouds was sliced open with a gap at least a third of its body length. Countless compound eyes exploded in a mist of blood, and energy black gas dispersed, causing it to start plummeting downward without even a missing cry.

"Erica, your superpower has improved significantly. You can completely reflect this scale of laser energy now," Vanessa said, floating in mid-air, her expression filled with satisfaction as she watched the falling giant ghost manta.

Erica remained cold and detached, her gaze briefly drifting towards Lin Xian’s direction, and she said softly, "I heard from Gedi that the Sword Holder’s team peaks at just 12,000 at most?"

"They haven’t awakened their crystal grids, but purely in terms of strength, they are already quite formidable," Vanessa replied.

Erica calmly responded, "Potential? I don’t care much about that. I’m just pondering that with such strength, it’s not easy to defend Dawn City, let alone save our Hawk Sea Group."

Upon hearing this, Vanessa looked towards Lin Xian with a complicated expression, staying silent.

...

In the distance, seeing the special-level entity swiftly dispatched, Ryan and his core team members operated with seamless teamwork, KIKI couldn’t help but exclaim from Lin Xian’s side,

"Wow, that was incredible, taking down a special-level entity in under a minute?"

Lin Xian watched as the Level 4 Dark Mark, which had just emitted a red glow, extinguished. His gaze tightened towards the battlefield ahead, saying, "Those ones probably all completed Crystal Grid Evolution. Each has at least a peak level of over 14,000, and in this situation, there’s no room for hesitation. Everyone must go all out for a one-hit kill, or else..."

But before he could finish speaking, Shi Zhi suddenly said, "Lin Xian, there’s more."

Buzz.

At this moment, the extinguished marker light suddenly flickered again, as the ghost manta’s remnants, shrouded in black smoke and a rain of bloody green, crashed into the sea. The vortex formed by the ghost manta’s sinking body hadn’t even settled when the deeper blue sea bed suddenly bulged. Out from the waves emerged an over fifty-meter-diameter circular maw, hundreds of bone-like tentacles spinning like a meat grinder, causing the sea surface to erupt in massive waves!

The group hadn’t even discerned what kind of monster emerged from the sea when a deep whale-like roar rumbled from the abyss. The central tube of the gigantic maw rapidly constricted, suddenly spewing a large quantity of white material. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered to be countless numbers of some pale sea worms, resembling skinned centipedes, each with a barbed tail, as big as a python. The worm mass covered the sky, instantly obscuring the figures of Lin Xian and Ryan’s squad!

"Erica, raise the shield. Iron Arm, break through for me, I’ll handle that thing!"

Ryan’s voice instantly echoed in the communication channel as the overwhelming insect tide surged, and Lin Xian immediately turned to KIKI.

"KIKI."

"Understood."

KIKI and Lin Xian operated in seamless coordination, needing only a few words to understand each other’s intent.

Just as Erica released the light shield and Iron Arm prepared to use the Black Sky Cannon, everyone suddenly noticed the flying trajectory of the insect swarm suddenly halted, as if frozen in the air. Erica and Azir turned to glance back and saw KIKI floating towards them, seemingly like a Heavenly God, lifting her hands and sharply parting them to the sides. The wave-like insect tide was instantly split apart.

At this moment, as Lin Xian prepared to make a move and saw the giant sea worm seemingly ready to dive back underwater, he immediately told KIKI, "Hold it down."

"I’ll help you!"

It was Ryan who spoke. He stepped forward, extending a hand as the boiling sea surface suddenly enveloped in cold air, visibly solidifying a large area, causing the retrogressive action of the abyss sea worm to stall for a moment, and the ice surface emitted an ear-piercing cracking sound!

Freezing superpower?

That’s new.

Lin Xian’s thoughts flashed, yet he didn’t hesitate anymore. With KIKI and Ryan’s cooperation, he immediately raised his hand to summon the Black Star Forge.

In an instant, a black mechanical gate thundered open in the sky, and from within emerged a mechanical giant arm wielding the Vermilion Bird Plasma Diffraction Sword. On the mechanical arm, hundreds of engines roared, and rocket engines at the elbow burst into a high-speed Mach Ring, propelling the heavy mechanical right arm to accelerate with explosive force. The right severed limb of the remodeled Xuanwu Mecha gripped the Red Divine Sword, rubbing against the air and glowing slightly red from the high-speed acceleration. It swung a mighty slash towards the abyss sea worm!

Whoosh!

Burning and exploding, the air trembled, and the Plasma Diffraction Sword’s destructive slash brooked no opposition. The abyss sea worm’s biological force field couldn’t withstand it and was directly severed by Lin Xian at the waist.

Lin Xian didn’t know if this sea monster was A-Level or Special Level, but he knew this slash, which even during the Dawn City Defensive Battle couldn’t be resisted by S-Class Wanderers and Earth Surges, could absolutely slay these sea monsters.

Witnessing this scene, Ryan, Vanessa, Erica, and even the mechanics from the Hawk Sea Group, including Azir, all showed a drastic change in expression. They were aware that Lin Xian was a Mechanical Superpower User and a Sword Holder in the Phoenix Society.

But none of them expected this Mechanical Superpower User could outright summon a Mechanical Giant Sword to slash through the sky, a sight that was simply explosive, leaving them utterly astonished.

The giant sea worm was split in half by the plasma giant sword, its foul-smelling black-green fluid gushing out like a waterfall, corroding the frozen sea surface into boiling pits. However, Lin Xian and Ryan noticed with shock that the dark marks on them not only hadn’t disappeared but had increased in concentration. The Soul Swinging Value Detector set off an ear-piercing alarm, and the red light marker on the screen flickered wildly; the concentration level surged like an out-of-control engine, seemingly on the verge of breaking through the critical Level 5 threshold!

"Damn."

Ryan realized something was amiss but it was already too late.

"Lin Xian, it seems the surrounding sea monsters have all been alarmed..." KIKI said gravely, crushing clusters of tiny sea worms en masse with her telekinesis field.

Lin Xian’s expression darkened as he surveyed the surroundings and said in a deep voice, "I see it."

Rumble!

The entire sea area around Chasan Island suddenly frothed, where Abyssal vortexes at the deep-sea ravines on the eastern seabed gushed out countless Abnormal Bodies large and small emerging onto the water’s surface. Above in the sky, another massive shadow drew closer above the cloud layer, while in the rocky area, the sound of collapsing rocks rang out, signaling something was tunneling from the seabed about to break the surface on the land’s edge...

Swish!

The boiling sea surface was suddenly covered by densely packed deep-sea maggots, rolling with the tide like waves. Following them emerged various indescribable Abnormal Bodies, breaking through from all directions towards Lin Xian and Ryan’s squad, whether swimming, crawling, or walking, they all moved in for the attack.

Who could have predicted that just a few minutes ago, this place was calm seas, and only after the appearance of the dark mark, it instantly became a chaotic scene for deep-sea monsters hunting!