bacchusnovels Chapter 276 Global Notification
Chapter 276 Global Notification
Song Chen appeared three kilometers above the rocky forest.
He spent five minutes using twenty-eight consecutive teleportations to travel from Shangjing to the east shore of Lihai, a straight-line distance with an error of less than fifty meters.
When he stepped out of the spatial folds, he was standing on a vast desert. The morning light had just dyed the sand dunes to the east red, and the air was dry and cold.
"The first one."
Song Chen descended from the sky.
He didn't deploy his lightning domain; there was no need.
The lightning field is overwhelming for low-level beasts, but it can also scare away the surrounding beast hordes.
He wanted to annihilate them all, leaving no one behind.
He adjusted his posture in mid-air, his Eye of Truth scanning the entire rocky forest.
The Sand Scorpion King's psionic energy pathway extends beneath its carapace, resembling a glowing net.
The carapace itself has no weaknesses, but there are seams between each carapace. The soft tissue at the seams is less than three centimeters thick, which is the most vulnerable point of the entire sand scorpion king.
Song Chen landed directly on top of the Sand Scorpion King's carapace.
The moment he landed, the fifth-tier sand scorpion swarm sensed the intruder. More than twenty of them emerged from the sand at the same time, their huge pincers snapping at him.
Void traversal, activated for the second time.
Song Chen disappeared from the carapace of the Sand Scorpion King and reappeared directly in front of its head.
The Heavenly Blade was drawn, and golden-purple lightning exploded on its blade.
The Eye of Insight marks the seam between the cephalothorax and the abdominal carapace, an arc-shaped gap directly below the Sand Scorpion King's compound eye.
Before attacking, the Sand Scorpion King will instinctively close its shell to protect the gap, but its reaction speed cannot keep up with the space jump.
The fifth strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes: Crimson-gold blade energy cuts through the gap, piercing the soft tissue and penetrating the Sand Scorpion King's central nervous system.
The Sand Scorpion King let out a sharp screech, its 900-meter-long body arched violently, and its six legs convulsed simultaneously, sweeping down a large section of the surrounding sandstone pillars.
The moment it arched up, Song Chen had already drawn his sword, and activated Void Shuttle for the third time, appearing between the second and third segments of the Sand Scorpion King's tail carapace.
The second strike. In the same spot, at the same gap, the blade's energy flowed along the seam of the carapace, severing the nerve bundle at the tail of the Sand Scorpion King.
The Sand Scorpion King's tail is its strongest weapon; the venom on its stinger can melt the armor of a sixth-tier warrior within ten seconds.
But now that the tail is paralyzed, the venom in the venom sac hasn't had a chance to be injected into the stinger before it gets stuck in the gland.
The Sand Scorpion King rolled wildly, its body carving deep furrows into the desert.
The Void Shuttle was activated again, and this time Song Chen landed on top of the Sand Scorpion King's head.
At the center of its cephalothorax, where the three plates meet.
This seam is the most complex part of the sand scorpion's carapace structure, with the edges of the three plates interlocking, theoretically without any gaps.
However, when the Sand Scorpion King rolls, its armor plates will slightly shift due to muscle contraction, revealing a gap of less than one centimeter at the moment of shift.
The Eye of Truth captured that moment.
The Heavenly Blade pierced through, and the blade's energy flowed along the inside of the carapace, filling the entire cranial cavity.
The Sand Scorpion King's body suddenly stiffened, and then all its legs simultaneously lost their strength. Its massive 900-meter-long body crashed onto the sand, sending sand and dust flying hundreds of meters into the air.
[Slayed a Tier 6 alien beast, gaining 254410 kill points]
Song Chen stood in the air, carefully recalling the battle that had just taken place.
With the ability to travel through the void, he can go anywhere at will. For him now, the Beast King is just able to withstand a few more blows than the Beast King; otherwise, there is no difference.
After the Sand Scorpion King died, the Sand Scorpion swarm did not flee.
The social structure of sand scorpions is one of absolute obedience; they will not retreat without the king's command.
Song Chen looked around and saw dozens of fifth-tier sand scorpions swarming in from all directions, their pincers gleaming coldly in the morning light.
He stretched his neck: "Good thing you came."
Start the killing!
The lightning field exploded in the desert.
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 38 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 165 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3400 kill points]
……
At the same time, on the other side of the earth.
Eagle Nation, Free City, Strategic Command Center.
The command center is located 300 meters underground in Liberty City; it is a fortress capable of withstanding a direct hit from a nuclear bomb.
The officers on duty sat in front of a circular control panel, with hundreds of holographic screens in front of them.
The large screen displayed the global activity of alien beasts, with red dots dotting the coastlines and inland areas of various continents.
Duty supervisor Mark Horton was holding a cup of coffee and looking at last night's situation briefing.
The briefing gave him a headache: the frequency of marine monster activity in the Atlantic direction had increased by 300% in the past week, and all twelve base cities on the coast of the Eagle Nation had entered Level 3 combat readiness.
He rubbed his temples, preparing to pour himself another cup of coffee.
"Sir, we have received an urgent notification from Great Xia," the communications officer suddenly reported.
Horton put down his cup. "Great Xia? Aren't they clearing out their own alien beasts? What's the report about?"
The communications officer's tone became somewhat strange, and he swallowed hard before reading the report aloud.
"The Great Xia Dynasty announces the start of a global counter-offensive, and will begin a purge of all sixth-tier beast kings worldwide starting today. All countries are requested to cooperate in the purge, recover lost territory, and rebuild defenses."
"Furthermore, Song Chen, a councilor from the Great Xia Dynasty, will be the sole executor of the extermination operation and will complete the task of eliminating all the sixth-tier beast kings on his own."
The command center was silent for a few seconds, then someone let out the first sneer.
Colonel Horton slammed his coffee cup down on the table. "Done alone? By yourself?"
"Has the Great Xia Dynasty lost its mind in the midst of war?"
The intelligence officer chimed in, "There are over three hundred Tier 6 Beast Kings globally. How many Tier 6 Beast Kings does Great Xia have? Twelve? Thirteen?"
"Thirteen," the colleague next to the intelligence officer chimed in.
"Even if they send out all their sixth-tier troops, one person has to deal with hundreds of beast kings, and that's a transoceanic operation on a global scale."
"This briefing is either mistranslated, or the Great Xia Council has gone completely mad."
Horton thought for a moment and then gave his answer.
"Reply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Xia, saying that the United States thanks Great Xia for the notification, and we will pay close attention."
That's all, no need to say anything else.
Just as the communications officer was about to type on the keyboard, a new scene suddenly appeared on another holographic screen.
A red label pops up on the screen: Real-time battlefield observation data, source: Central Asia orbit reconnaissance satellite.
In the center of the image is a desert, shrouded in sand and dust.
In the center of the sandstorm lay the corpse of a sixth-tier sand scorpion king, its 900-meter-long carapace body sprawled on the sand, with a through wound on its head caused by the blast of blade energy.
Around the Sand Scorpion King, the corpses of dozens of fifth-tier sand scorpions were scattered throughout the desert, while the corpses of fourth-tier and lower-tier scorpions covered tens of square kilometers of sand.
A figure was standing on the corpse of the Sand Scorpion King.
The man was wearing a suit of silver armor and holding a blood-dripping sword.
He stood there for a few seconds, then suddenly looked up, as if he sensed that a reconnaissance satellite in orbit was photographing him.
Then he disappeared from the satellite image without a flight path or acceleration; he simply vanished.
When the next scene cuts to him, he is already over the Caspian Sea, a hundred kilometers away, flying westward, and then his figure disappears in an instant.
Horton's hand froze in mid-air, pointing at the figure, and he asked, "What was that just now?"
No one answered him.
"What is that?" he asked again.
The intelligence officer's fingers flew across the keyboard, replaying, zooming in, and analyzing the satellite images frame by frame.
"The Sand Scorpion King, Rank 6, 900 meters long... is dead, and all 23 other Sand Scorpions around it are also dead."
"Battlefield psionic residual analysis shows that the entire battle lasted no more than... four minutes."
The intelligence officer's voice trembled.
That's not what I was asking.
"I'm asking about the last one. How did he disappear from the Sand Scorpion King's corpse?"