MMB Chapter 206 The Surprise Attack from Outside the Atmosphere
Chapter 206 The Surprise Attack from Outside the Atmosphere
The spacecraft began to vibrate, and the temperature reading outside the porthole jumped; they were entering the outermost layer of the atmosphere.
The Xiong Kingdom's assault ships were positioned parallel to each other on the left flank, maintaining a distance of less than 500 meters between the two ships.
This distance, with the thrust of the two psionic engines, is equivalent to flying right up to someone's face.
The Bering Strait unfolds beneath their feet, with Arctic ice floes like shattered white mirrors spread across the deep blue waters, flanked by the Chukchi Peninsula and the northernmost point of Bactria.
From this height, the land appears grayish-white, the sea a deep, almost blackish blue, and the ice floes a fragmented white mosaic.
The assault ship began to decelerate, the bow thrusters reversed, and the engine's high-pitched screams turned into a low hum.
The captain reported over the communications channel: "Arrived at target airspace, altitude 90,000 meters, entering the atmosphere."
The ship began to adjust its attitude to hover, the hatch opened, and the polar airflow of minus fifty degrees Celsius, carrying thin air, rushed into the cabin.
Everyone stood up, pulled up the hoods of their cloaks, and a dark gray light flowed across the surface of the cloaks.
Song Chen held the Tianjun Blade in his hand.
Zhou Wangyue glanced around.
"Jump!"
He was the first to jump.
Then came the eight members of Da Xia, and then Song Chen.
Ten figures from the Bear Kingdom fell simultaneously from the other side.
Twenty people fell from an altitude of 90,000 meters, like twenty silent meteorites. Their cloaks fluttered in the thin air currents at high altitude, but the psionic fluctuations were completely absorbed by the wave-absorbing material of the cloaks.
The Bering Strait was rapidly closing in beneath their feet.
Ice floes, reefs, and greyish-white coastlines emerge layer by layer in detail.
Then came the camp of the whale delegation.
They did not set up camp. Sea beasts of the fifth rank and above do not need tents and campfires. They stopped on a patch of floating ice at the narrowest point of the Bering Strait, and more than twenty giant whale-type sea beasts spread out in battle formation.
Each one is hundreds of meters tall, with its broad tail fin half-submerged in the icy water, and each breath it takes sends out a water column a hundred meters high onto the ice surface.
The supplies they carried were piled up in the middle of the ice floes, more than two hundred sealed containers stacked into a small mountain, gleaming faintly with psionic light in the gray sunlight.
The most eye-catching one is right in the center.
It is humanoid, a bald giant nearly three meters tall, with grayish-white skin as thick and smooth as whale blubber, and its chest and back covered with dense white barnacle-like scales.
It sat on a piece of floating ice next to the pile of supplies, its legs dangling in the icy water, its eyes closed, seemingly resting.
Humanoid form, a unique mark of a sixth-tier beast king.
After reaching the sixth rank, the alien beasts have the ability to transform. Although they retain some alien beast characteristics, their skeletal structure, muscle distribution, and psionic energy circulation are highly similar to those of humanoids.
Even the strongest fifth-tier beasts cannot achieve this; it represents a qualitative leap in the level of life.
The reason for taking human form is naturally because this form is most suitable for combat.
In its prototype state, the weapon is difficult to use.
……
The distance is one kilometer.
Song Chen adjusted his posture as he fell, gripping the hilt of the Tianjun Blade with his right hand.
His eyes, peering through the gap in the hood, locked onto the humanoid whale. He heard Matvey's voice on the communication channel, with the ruggedness and slightly dismissive tone characteristic of the Bear Nation:
"Kid, stay away. Leave the Beast King to me and Old Zhou. You just keep an eye on things from the sidelines, don't get in the way."
Song Chen hummed in agreement.
Three hundred meters away.
Zhou Wangyue's mental energy shield suddenly unfolded.
The sixth-tier Grandmaster-level spiritual power acted like an invisible wall, enveloping all twenty auras.
The air within the area instantly froze, the sound of the wind disappeared, the cracking sound of the ice breaking disappeared, and all sounds were isolated by the mental field.
The giant whales outside were still patrolling the ice, completely unaware that twenty people were crashing down on their heads.
Distance is zero.
Zhou Wangyue was the first to land. The ice shattered the moment his feet touched the floating ice, and cracks spread in all directions from his feet.
He didn't stop. He transformed into a gray shadow and rushed straight at the humanoid giant whale in the center. He withdrew his mental energy shield the moment he lunged out, as he wanted to concentrate all his mental energy on the attack.
Matvey attacked simultaneously from the other side, wielding a two-handed warhammer with a head larger than a human head. The hammer was forged from a high-density alloy and its surface was covered with densely packed reinforcing runes.
When he swung his warhammer at the giant whale beast king, the air was torn apart by the hammer's surface, producing a sharp, explosive sound.
Zhou Wangyue's palm strikes arrived first. He unleashed both palms simultaneously, a thin layer of pure golden light shining from his palms. The power of these two strikes was enough to shift a mountain.
The humanoid giant whale suddenly opened its eyes, but it was too late.
The twenty people appeared simultaneously the instant the mental barrier was removed, and sword flashes, fist strikes, and the charging light of psionic cannons exploded on the floating ice at the same time.
It only had time to raise its arms before a thick, ice-blue psionic barrier was formed, and Zhou Wangyue's palms were imprinted on it.
The ice-blue barrier was blasted into a huge dent, and cracks spread from the palm print to the entire barrier.
The floating ice beneath the humanoid giant whale's feet shattered, sending it slid backward for more than ten meters, its legs carving two deep furrows into the ice.
Matvey's warhammer followed closely behind, and as he jumped, he shattered a piece of floating ice, soaring dozens of meters into the air with the warhammer raised above his head.
This strike lacked any technique; it was pure power—the absolute strength honed by a mid-stage sixth-tier martial artist over a decade on the icy plains of the North.
The icy blue psionic barrier shattered, and the humanoid whale was forced to kneel on the ice by the impact of the warhammer, its arms crossed above its head to withstand the blow, a dull cracking sound coming from its arm bones.
It's not that it can't win, it's that it's too late.
The entire process, from the removal of the mental shield to the shattering of the psionic barrier, took less than a second.
The outer whale guards finally reacted. More than twenty fifth-tier whales roared in unison, their huge tail fins slapping the water's surface as they charged toward the center of the ice floes. The sound of their bodies shattering the ice floes was like a series of muffled thunderclaps.
The moment Song Chen jumped into the sea, the Beiming Armor automatically switched, and a thin layer of light blue spiritual energy membrane flowed out from the gaps in the armor plates, isolating the seawater from his body.
Then he drew his sword. The instant the Heavenly Blade was unsheathed, lightning from the Nine Heavens surged into his entire body, and golden-purple arcs of electricity exploded on the blade.
He didn't look at the sixth-tier beast king; his teacher and the polar bear were over there, and his presence would only cause trouble.
He charged directly toward the fifth-tier giant whales on the outer perimeter. The fifth-tier giant whale closest to him was swinging its tail fin at a Great Xia warrior, the tail fin bringing with it a force capable of shattering mountains.
Song Chen activated the Fuyao skill, transforming his body into a gentle breeze that passed through the gap between the tail fin and the ice surface, appearing directly above the giant whale's head.
The whale's eyes were as big as a truck, and his figure, holding the Heavenly Blade upside down, was reflected in his dark brown irises.
The third strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
After reaching the Grandmaster level, Song Chen no longer needed to charge up his attacks one by one; he could directly unleash his third strike.
The blade aura suddenly brightened from golden purple, and the master-level sword intent condensed on the blade, neither scattered nor disordered.
He wasn't aiming for the whale's head; the skull is the hardest part of its body, and a head-on collision wouldn't be worthwhile.
His knife tip pierced through the eye socket, angled upwards, penetrated the brain, and exited from the top of the skull.
The giant whale stiffened, its tail fin rising high before slamming heavily onto the ice, sending up a spray of ice shards.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 68550 kill points.]