stonecrandall Chapter 52: The Golden Horn Reappears
Chapter 52: The Golden Horn Reappears
The image of Thor slaying the Thunder Dragon Emperor was transmitted to every corner of the world through the Dome of Light system.
At the front lines of the Southeast Military Region, the once endless and fearless beast tide, after losing the oppressive aura of its ruler, seemed to have its soul instantly ripped away, falling into a brief state of stagnation. Then, driven by the instinct of creatures to seek advantage and avoid harm, they began to frantically turn around and flee towards the depths of the ocean like a receding tide.
"roar--!"
"Awooo—!"
The monsters, who had been rushing to attack the defense line, were now trampling and biting each other as they fled for their lives, creating a scene that was even more chaotic than when they were attacking.
Watching the chaotic and disintegrating beast tide on the monitor screen, both the surviving soldiers on the front lines and the technicians who had been on edge for dozens of hours in the core control center, after a brief moment of astonishment, erupted into deafening cheers.
"We won! We won!"
"The beast tide has receded! They've retreated!"
On the front lines, the surviving soldiers looked at the fleeing tide of beasts, initially bewildered, then erupted in thunderous cheers.
"We've won! We held on!"
Many soldiers put down their scorching hot laser guns, collapsed to the ground, some crying, some laughing, enjoying the ecstasy of surviving a catastrophe.
Inside the control center, Luo Feng's tense body relaxed, and he let out a long sigh of relief, as if the intense pain in his sea of consciousness had lessened considerably.
Thor's voice came through the communication channel: "You guys clean up this mess. I'm going to support other war zones!"
Before the words were even finished, the dazzling purple dot representing Thor on the global map on the main screen transformed into a streak of light, rapidly crossing from the southeast corner of the map to the adjacent Indo-Vanguard war zone at a speed of nearly 40 meters per second.
The speed of a star is terrifying.
In the following period, Thor traversed at high speed between major war zones around the world. With his domineering lightning domain, he launched a series of exhilarating and precise hunts against the king-level monsters hidden deep within the beast tides.
With Thor's arrival, the pressure on the human defenses was greatly reduced, and morale soared to unprecedented heights. In China, Europe, America, and other major war zones around the world, even local counter-offensives were launched.
The dawn of victory seems to be just around the corner.
Luo Feng's tense nerves completely relaxed, and he prepared to enter meditation to recover his mental energy, but Babata's voice suddenly rang out in his sea of consciousness.
"Luo Feng, don't be too happy yet, we're in big trouble!"
Luo Feng's heart tightened, and he immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
Babata did not answer immediately, but quickly brought up several images and placed them side by side in front of Luo Feng.
Those images were three-dimensional topographic maps of several deep-sea areas, with annotations next to them showing various data recorded by satellite scans of these areas before the outbreak of the beast tide.
"Luo Feng, look, these are some high-energy reaction points we marked during our previous global metal detection operations. There are two ruins of ancient civilizations near the South American plate, and the wreckage of a space-class transport ship that sank on the Atlantic seabed..."
Babata compares the magnified real-time topographic map with the previous data.
"Look... now they're all gone."
Luo Feng's gaze fell on the comparison photos.
The area that should have had a huge metallic reaction and a clear outline on the topographic map is now empty, with only a few bottomless pits remaining, as if it had been devoured by some terrifying entity.
"The Golden Horned Beast!"
"That's right." Babata's tone was grave. "While all our attention was drawn to this global beast horde, it was secretly feeding!"
"The metallic energy contained in these ruins is far greater than we previously estimated; its current strength..."
Babata's analysis was not yet finished.
A sudden change has occurred!
Inside the core control center, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared on the split screen that was specifically used to monitor the ruins of the Third War Base of the Indian Empire.
All the cheers in the control center came to an abrupt halt.
Everyone instinctively looked at the screen.
It was a monster that wasn't the largest in size, but whose form was practically perfect.
Its entire body was covered in dark golden scales, each scale intricately covered with mysterious golden runes. Two symmetrical, sharp horns on its head gleamed with a chilling light!
Behind it, a pair of wings covered in golden runes were slowly flapping. With each flap, the surrounding space visibly distorted.
It was the Golden Horned Beast! It had actually shown itself!
The next moment, a scene that everyone in the control center would never forget unfolded.
The golden-horned behemoth opened its massive maw, aiming it at the Third War Base of the Indian Empire below. That war base, now a ruin infested with millions of monsters, along with its foundations and the land beneath it, began to violently twist, compress, and collapse under an invisible force!
"Crunch—crunch—"
The sickening metallic creaking sounds mingled with the mournful cries of countless monsters dying in the process.
The scene was as if an invisible giant hand had crumpled the massive war base, forged from a solid alloy, along with the countless monsters inside, into a black sphere less than a kilometer in diameter, like a ball of paper.
Then, the sphere was slowly dropped into the abyss-like maw of the golden-horned behemoth.
The entire process was completed in just a few seconds.
After devouring everything, the golden-horned behemoth seemed to let out a "burp".
Then, its enormous form flashed and vanished into thin air, turning into golden light.
Only now, due to signal delays and data processing lag, did the system alarm finally sound: "Alarm... Target detected..."
Inside the control center, you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone stared blankly at the surveillance footage that had returned to normal, as if everything that had just happened was just their collective hallucination.
Wang Yi, the chief technical officer, trembled, wanting to say something, but couldn't utter a single word.
"It...it ate...a war base?" A young technician's voice trembled with tears as his legs gave way and he collapsed to the ground.
Luo Feng's heart sank.
He was overwhelmed by a profound sense of powerlessness stemming from the vast difference in their power levels.
Is this a true cosmic-level predator?
I learned from Babata's intelligence that the Golden Horned Beast lived by devouring, but seeing such a scene in person was still awe-inspiring.
Just as Luo Feng was marveling at the power of the universe's top predator.
The global headquarters of the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy—Hong's secluded room.
Hong, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly had a black dot appear on his body. The black dot then rapidly expanded, slowly turning into a black sphere with a diameter of about 100 meters, which enveloped the entire secret room.