bacchusnovels Chapter 278 Poisonous Flood Dragon King
Chapter 278 Poisonous Flood Dragon King
Song Chen glanced at the panel and then turned it off.
He stood in the twilight above the Iranian plateau, the setting sun painting the mountains below him in a golden-red hue.
From setting off at six in the morning until now, traversing Central Asia, three battles, and a journey of over five thousand kilometers.
There were no spaceships, no escorts, only void travel and soaring speed, fighting one place and moving on to the next.
"Let's take a break."
He sat down atop an abandoned watchtower on the plateau.
He unscrewed the kettle, took a sip of water, and then opened the properties panel.
Qi and Blood: 180000. Spiritual Strength: 63000.
Kill count: 8160 million.
Upgrading to Eternal Body and Void Travel requires at least 300 million, which I haven't saved up yet.
However, the automatic attribute point allocation of 5,000 points for 1 attribute point can be used at any time.
Eighty-one million, if you add all the points to your mental strength, you can get more than sixteen thousand points.
He reflected on the battle of the day.
None of the three battles were particularly tough. The three-headed beast king's health was all below 250,000. With the Void Shuttle's surprise attack and the Eye of Truth's weakness marking, each battle was resolved within a few minutes.
However, there is a problem: although his mental perception range has expanded considerably after the Starshine Infusion, it is still not enough on the sea surface.
Next, we'll enter the ocean, where there are over 250 beast kings, many of whom live in the deep-sea trenches.
The high pressure and darkness of the deep sea further compress the range of mental perception.
He needs a more acute spatial awareness and needs to push his mental energy further upward.
Higher mental strength means faster locking speed of void traversal, more accurate weakness marking of the Eye of Truth, and a greater advantage in reaction when facing high-health beast kings in the deep sea.
"Let's put all of these kill points into our mental power."
"System, consume 80 million kill points to enhance mental strength."
[Kill Points Conversion: 5000 points / 1 Spirit Power]
[Consume 8000 million kill points to increase mental strength by 16000 points?]
"Sure."
A powerful force surged into my mind.
Song Chen closed her eyes.
The feeling of increased mental strength is different from that of improved blood and qi; it is the expansion of the boundaries of consciousness.
Even with his eyes closed, he could sense the spiritual energy fluctuations within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. Every strange beast and every human martial artist was clearly represented in his perception.
He opened his eyes, accessed the control panel, and found his mental strength had reached 79,000. It was still a little short of the sixth-level mental strength standard, but not by much.
Song Chen stood up and looked into the distance. In the distance was a vast expanse of darkness, which was the direction of the ocean.
To the west of the Caspian Sea is the Black Sea, to the west of the Black Sea is the Mediterranean Sea, and to the west of the Mediterranean Sea is the Atlantic Ocean.
The western side of the entire European continent is all coastline, and countless sea monsters roam along each coastline.
He looked away and took out his phone to send a short message to Han Duo.
"The three emperors of Central Asia have been defeated. Tomorrow we will continue westward and notify the countries along the Mediterranean coast to prepare."
……
The next morning.
Song Chen stood on a pass at the southern foot of the Caucasus Mountains.
Beneath his feet lay the Black Sea, and ahead lay the Mediterranean Sea. His Eye of Truth pierced through the morning mist, projecting the distribution of the alien beasts' spiritual energy along the entire Mediterranean coast into his consciousness.
The four sixth-tier beast kings are respectively located in the Euphrates River Valley, the Levant coast, the Apennine Peninsula, and the Strait of Gibraltar.
There are more than sixty fifth-tier beast kings, and fourth-tier and lower beasts cover an area of hundreds of kilometers from the coastline to the inland.
The Mediterranean coast is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Thirty-three base cities are densely distributed along the coastline in southern Europe, the North African coast, and the Middle Eastern valleys, with a total population of over 200 million.
For fifty years, these cities have withstood the beast tides with high walls and psionic barriers, and each city is surrounded by vast abandoned farmlands and no-man's-land.
The alien beasts have made the Mediterranean Sea their own inland lake, and residents of the coastal base city can see the backs of fifth-tier sea beasts floating on the sea surface as soon as they open their windows.
Song Chen flexed his wrists.
Yesterday we killed three, today we'll kill four more, and the sixth tier along the Mediterranean coast will be cleared out.
He activated his Void Travel ability and vanished from the Caucasus Pass in the next instant.
After several trips, he appeared in the valley area of the upper Euphrates River.
The first Beast King resides here. It is a sixth-order poisonous dragon, nine hundred meters long, with its body covered in dark green scales.
Its nest is built in the ruins of an ancient dam deep in the valley.
Fifty years ago, this dam was the largest water conservancy project in the Middle East. Now, the dam has been riddled with holes by the spiritual energy of strange beasts, and the reservoir has become a breeding ground for venomous dragons.
Hundreds of fourth and fifth-tier venomous dragons swam on the murky water, and a pungent stench filled the air.
Less than 100 kilometers downstream from the reservoir is Baghdad, a city with a population of seven million.
Every spring, the Poisonous Dragon King would drive its lower-ranking poisonous dragons downstream to attack Baghdad's eastern defenses.
Every spring, the Baghdad garrison had to leave thousands of corpses along the Tigris River to drive back the swarms of venomous dragons.
This cycle lasted for thirty years.
Song Chen crashed directly into the center of the reservoir from the air. Before the water even splashed, the lightning field had already exploded in the water.
The golden-purple electric arc propagates in water far more efficiently than in air, turning the entire reservoir into a boiling electric pot in a fraction of a second.
The fourth-tier venomous dragon's nerves were pierced by the electric arc, causing it to turn white on the spot. The fifth-tier venomous dragon convulsed as it floated to the surface from the bottom of the water, belly up, with sparks still emerging from the gaps in its scales.
The Poisonous Dragon King burst out of the cave at the bottom of the dam, its 900-meter-long body creating a whirlpool underwater.
It opened its mouth, and dark green venom condensed in its throat, but it didn't have time to spit it out.
Song Chen's Eye of Truth had already marked the location of the upper jawbone seam of the Poisonous Flood Dragon King. The Heavenly Blade pierced into the seam the moment the Poisonous Flood Dragon King closed its mouth, and the blade's energy poured into the cranial cavity from the top of its mouth.
The Poisonous Dragon King spat out half of its venom, which got stuck in its throat. Its 900-meter-long body suddenly stiffened, and then slowly sank into the silt at the bottom of the reservoir.
The water surface returned to calm; from entry to exit, it took forty-seven seconds.
On the observation screen of the Baghdad base city defense command, the red marker representing the Poisonous Dragon King changed from dark red to gray in forty-seven seconds.
General Alwan, the city's defense commander, stood in front of the observation screen, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He fought a defensive war in Baghdad for twenty-two years, battling hordes of poisonous dragons every spring.
He lost 3,400 soldiers in the spring offensive last year, and his own nephew died on the Tigris River defense line.
"The Poison Dragon King's psionic signal has disappeared." The observer's voice trembled.
Alvan's eyes were fixed on the screen.
"Zoom in on the image."
As the satellite image zoomed in, the surface of the reservoir was covered with the corpses of venomous dragons, and a figure in silver armor was stepping out of the water.
Alvan watched as the figure vanished into thin air, and finally uttered the sentence that had been lingering in his mouth for so long.
"Announce to the entire city that the swarm of venomous dragons in the Tigris River is gone."