ATPnovel Chapter 166 166 Listen to the echo of the sea, Lugia, slay the demon!
Chapter 166 166 Listen to the echo of the sea, Lugia, slay the demon!
Chapter 166 166. Listening to the Echoes of the Sea, Lugia, Exterminate Demons!
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Deep in the abyss.
Neptune, clad in golden armor, his long, slender mermaid tail whipping up heavy waves as he swam, held a deep blue spear-like weapon, a combination of spear and gun, and charged head-on like a spiral arrow.
He crashed headfirst into the mouth of a massive Leviathan, and in the next instant, the Leviathan's flesh exploded, and Neptune continued his charge like lightning.
Dodging and weaving, he killed dozens of Leviathans in a short time.
But this was far from enough to alleviate the situation on the current battlefield where the merfolk were.
Looking around, the once peaceful and tranquil merfolk territory was now littered with the corpses of Leviathans and merfolk.
Moreover, the number of Leviathans continued to increase with the passage of time and the deaths of the merfolk warriors.
From just over ten thousand when Neptune returned at the beginning, there were now at least seventy or eighty thousand Leviathans.
Using sea douqi to wipe away the sizzling, smoking black blood remaining on his body, Neptune gasped for breath.
Leviathans, while not matching the Mind Flayers in their catastrophic numbers, and not as polluting as the Sloth King's Shadows of Corruption after death, were definitely the most hated and troublesome enemies for all races during large-scale army warfare.
The source of jealousy lies in devouring, absorbing, assimilating, and splitting…
Leviathans are not only demonic siege weapons due to their massive size, but they also constantly devour and assimilate the corpses of enemies during war, evolving the enemy's special abilities.
They can even rapidly grow after constantly absorbing corpses, and like cell division, split into two when they reach a certain limit…
Even dead Leviathans will continue to absorb corpses, and then be reborn as new individuals in the piles of corpses.
This thing, like the undead, only multiplies the more you fight…
Although Leviathans can only absorb beings with extraordinary power, not reaching the exponential explosion of the undead legion's snowball effect.
But because of this, every Leviathan is powerful.
In short…
"At this rate, the merfolk will inevitably be annihilated!"
Neptune swept out with his spear, blasting apart three Leviathans.
Seizing the opportunity, he quickly swam to the area near the Lunar Sacred Ring where there were the most Leviathans.
The Leviathans here were even stronger, and some super-large Leviathans were something that even Neptune, a hero-knight, dared not face directly.
And this was also the core of this war.
Overcoming the Leviathan encirclement, Neptune finally met his father and the elders.
At this time, the merfolk patriarch was under the cover of the elders, constantly attacking the unknown great formation in front of him with the weak connection to the Lunar Sacred Ring.
Within the great formation, the merfolk rebel army led by Ohm had all fallen to the ground, and worm-like blood threads disintegrated from their flesh, connecting to Ohm's body.
Ohm stood blankly in the center of the Lunar Sacred Ring, with a gray-black mist condensing from his right arm, constantly infiltrating the Lunar Sacred Ring.
The entire outer ring of the current Lunar Sacred Ring had completely dimmed.
Neptune tightened the spear in his hand and said urgently:
"Father, I'm back!"
"Neptune."
The merfolk patriarch took the opportunity to catch his breath, raised his hand and smashed down, and countless Leviathans behind Neptune vanished into smoke under the impact of the sea.
"How are your mother and the others?"
"The clansmen without fighting ability have been transferred to the depths of the abyss! There are not many Leviathans there, Mother can handle it!"
"Good!"
The merfolk patriarch replied tiredly, and then gathered momentum again to rush towards the inexplicable magic formation of the Lunar Sacred Ring.
In one collision, the scales on his arm were actually shaken by the reaction force, causing a lot of blood to overflow.
The Leviathans here were even stronger, and Neptune had little chance to play, so he could only quickly approach the Lunar Sacred Ring area and shout.
"Ohm! Wake up! Look at what you've done! Stop it!"
"It's useless, Great Prince."
The merfolk Great Elder said urgently:
"This is the work of the King of Jealousy, Ohm has been completely bewitched by the King of Jealousy! He can't hear anything you say!"
Neptune clenched his fists, angrily saying:
"Why would Ohm do such a thing!"
"Now is not the time to dwell on this."
The merfolk Great Elder slapped three super-large Leviathans of the Holy Knight level to pieces with one palm, and hurriedly said:
"Great Prince, be prepared, you must escort the hope of the merfolk away from here! Go to the Church of the Dawn, and seek the protection of His Holiness the Pope!"
Neptune's heart tightened, he understood that his father and the others had already made the worst psychological preparations.
But…
Raising his spear, Neptune joined the other elders in attacking the Leviathans charging towards them.
"Father! Elders! Hold on a little longer! I have already sent someone to the Church of the Dawn for help! His Holiness the Pope will definitely come to save us!"
That's what he said, but Neptune also understood.
This place was far away from the Land of Origin, let alone Port Bruness, and it would probably take two or three days for Hestor to go back for help.
This time was enough for the merfolk to be destroyed several times over.
After all, not everyone can have the same extreme speed as the merfolk in the sea.
But Neptune didn't say these morale-damaging words, and neither did the merfolk patriarch or the others.
The merfolk patriarch repeatedly charged the great formation several times without success, his eyes hardened, and he said in a deep voice:
"Neptune, prepare to take the remaining clansmen away!"
Neptune was stunned for a moment, his pupils shrinking.
"Father!"
"Later, I will use the power of the sea granted by the Lunar Sacred Ring to detonate the Sea Abyss Turbulence!"
The merfolk patriarch's tone was firm.
"I will never allow the Lunar Sacred Ring to be contaminated by the demonic scum!"
Or… through his son Ohm's hands.
In that case, even if he died, he would have no face to meet the merfolk ancestors of all generations.
Neptune was speechless, but he was not a hesitant person after all.
Detonating the Sea Abyss Turbulence was a slim chance of survival, but he believed in his father, the strongest patriarch in the history of the merfolk, and with the cooperation of the Great Elder, they both had a chance to survive.
And what Neptune needed to do was not to talk nonsense and affect his father's determination, and to protect the clansmen without combat power to leave the sea abyss.
In this way, the raging turbulence would definitely be enough to tear apart the great formation, although Ohm would undoubtedly die, but it could delay enough time to slow down the demonic offensive and hold on until the Church of the Dawn came to aid.
Taking one last look at Ohm, Neptune suppressed the sadness in his heart and was about to leave with a flick of his tail.
But suddenly, a surging vitality descended on the Lunar Sacred Ring across space, and the phantom of the Tree of Life loomed in full view.
Above it, there was also a divine bird and a being whose face could not be seen standing tall.
"His Holiness the Pope!"
Neptune recognized that figure at first sight.
"Father! His Holiness the Pope has taken action! Quick!"
Without Neptune's reminder, the merfolk patriarch guessed the result at first time, and stabbed out with the most powerful blow.
The tremor of the great formation far exceeded the past, but in the end it still held on like Mount Tai.
"How could it be!"
The merman patriarch looked at the intact grand formation in astonishment.
That strike just now had been executed with his life on the line, coupled with the interference from His Holiness the Pope from afar, preventing the King of Jealousy from further corrupting the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon…
"Just how much power has Ohm accepted from the King of Jealousy!"
The merman patriarch looked at Ohm in the center of the grand formation with disappointment. Only then did he realize that Ohm's expression was no longer as lifeless as before.
Instead, a trace of painful struggle flashed across his face from time to time.
"Ohm!"
The merman patriarch's voice, infused with the battle aura of a Legendary Knight, entered the grand formation.
"Wake up! Look at what you've done! Do you want to annihilate the merman race!"
This time, the roar finally reached Ohm's ears.
Even though it was weakened by the grand formation to the point of being a faint mosquito's buzz, Ohm still heard it.
He opened his eyes with difficulty and looked around blankly. He immediately noticed the corpses of the merman warriors who had followed him into the sacred ground, scattered all over the place.
His pupils shrank, and then he saw the merman patriarch and elders covered in blood outside the grand formation in the distance.
Leviathans, like black tides, were constantly charging towards them, and his most envied brother, Neptune, was also fighting among them.
Ohm was shocked, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
"This… did I do this?"
The merman patriarch was still shouting something, but Ohm couldn't hear it at all.
Feeling the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon under his feet constantly wailing and raging, Ohm grabbed his hair in pain.
"This isn't how it's supposed to be… I'm clearly undergoing the trial of the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon. These are all illusions! It's not real!"
"Second Prince…"
A difficult gasp sounded beside him. Ohm turned his head and saw the old merman who had taken care of him since he was a child, and who had just been trying to dissuade him, lying on the ground, on his last breath.
"Grandpa Zekota!"
Ohm quickly rushed over to help him up, watching his scalding hot blood constantly spill out, and his shimmering scales gradually dimming.
Ohm finally realized that he had really done something terribly wrong.
Ohm, who had never shed a tear, cried bitterly.
"I didn't want this… I didn't want this! I just wanted to prove myself! I just wanted to take back the glory that belonged to me…"
"I understand…"
Zekota smiled with difficulty, raised his hand, and grabbed Ohm's wrist. His rough palm was full of coldness.
"I always knew… you were a hardworking… good child."
"You're very outstanding, so… you don't need to be jealous of anyone. Don't continue down the wrong path…"
"Don't let the devil… take the opportunity to seize your heart…"
Zekota did his best to give Ohm his only shining scale at the moment, stained with blood.
His last trace of life also dissipated in Ohm's arms, becoming a cold corpse like the other merman warriors.
Ohm finally woke up. His world was more peaceful than ever before, so peaceful that the stinging pain from the bracelet on his right wrist penetrated deep into his bones.
"You lied to me… You lied to me!!!"
Ohm completely went mad and unhesitatingly picked up the long knife beside him and slashed at his right arm.
But in the end, he couldn't bring himself to do it. The left arm that picked up the knife made a teeth-aching cracking sound. In the blink of an eye, it twisted into a braid on its own.
Ohm howled hoarsely. The blood of his compatriots stung his soul, and the distortion of his body stung his will.
He didn't know what hurt the most, he could only curl up on the ground and watch his left arm and fishtail twist into a horrifying arc.
The bracelet no longer concealed itself, and the ouroboros' eyes flickered with obscure light.
"Isn't this what you wanted? A… world where you should enjoy glory."
The right arm, as if it didn't belong to Ohm, pressed against the ground, dragging him towards the core area of the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon.
"Now, you've brought a good medicine to this morbid world, dear child, you are glorious."
"Just like I said at the beginning, the road of revolution is inevitable with blood and tears. The merman race can't understand you. To them, you are a sinner, but everything in the world has two sides."
The bracelet let out a wanton and eerie scream.
"To us, you are a hero…"
After a pause, the ouroboros' eyes of the bracelet no longer concealed themselves, greedily and wantonly looking at Ohm,
"In my belly, I will erect a monument of jealousy for you…"
Seeing the bracelet with its palpitating demonic energy about to be placed on the core of the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon, Ohm became even more deranged.
"Get out! Get out! Get out of here!!!"
If his left arm was broken, he would use his teeth to bite.
Ohm attacked his right arm frantically, biting down inch by inch, and in an instant, his bones were visible.
But Ohm was still like a madman, stubbornly enduring the pain of his neck being twisted, and stretched out his head to bite the bracelet, biting down hard, his teeth shattered, and blood flowed freely.
"It's really pathetic, child… you should have had a decent ending."
The bracelet laughed wantonly and rampantly, and then, the right arm, which Ohm himself had bitten to the point of near fracture, was pressed on the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon.
"Thank you for the help provided by your jealousy. Now, take a rest, child…"
"You're useless."
The bracelet shattered inch by inch, merging into the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon.
Ohm's eyes were bloodshot, and he banged his head on the ground incoherently.
"No! It can't be like this! Don't you want my jealousy! I'll give it to you! Leave the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon! Leave it!!!"
A gray-black beam of light shot into the sky, and the projection of the Tree of Life gradually turned into nothingness.
Outside the grand formation, looking at the monstrous demonic energy in the center of the Holy Ring of the Crescent Moon, the merman patriarch closed his eyes in despair.
"It's all over… I am a sinner of the merman race!"
"Not yet…"
A gentle voice entered everyone's ears in a melodious manner, attracting everyone to look up.
Beneath that demonic energy beam, the figures of the Tree of Life and Ian were still looming.
"The Dawn will redeem everything."
The phantom, as if suppressing the demon world alone, said so.
And as his voice fell, a white figure suddenly arrived from the horizon.
The pure and sacred figure gently hovered in the air for a moment, then spread its wings and crashed heavily on the indestructible formation.
Thus.
The grand formation that could not be broken even with the power of the entire merman race, the demonic energy beam that almost dyed the sea black.
All shattered like fragile glass.
"Woo…"
The pure white divine beast raised its neck and鳴叫ed.
Thus, the world-destroying waves that were about to be set off by the sea instantly calmed down, and the power of the ocean currents swept in all directions with it as the center, and the leviathans that were affected turned into ashes without any resistance.
In this most noisy and desperate moment, Neptune and the others heard the echo of the sea.