bacchusnovels Chapter 286 The Earth-Splitting Bear King
Chapter 286 The Earth-Splitting Bear King
North America, east of the Rocky Mountains.
This area was originally the breadbasket of North America, with the vast Great Plains and the Mississippi River meandering through it.
Fifty years ago, this was the core agricultural area of the Eagle Kingdom. Now, most of the land has been occupied by alien beasts. The Eagle Kingdom's base cities are densely distributed along the Great Lakes and the east coast, while the inland areas are filled with the nests and territories of alien beasts.
The mythical creature system in North America differs from that in Eurasia.
The royal family here was originally a branch of the Sirius Clan. After the death of Sirius King Augsa, the Sirius Clan branches in North America lost their royal leadership and went their own way.
However, North America has a native Tier 6 beast king, the Earth-Splitting Bear King.
It possesses 450,000 units of energy and blood, and is 1,000 meters long. It resides in the geothermal area of the Yellowstone volcanic basin.
It is not royalty, yet its strength surpasses that of most royal families.
When Sirius was alive, Earth-Splitting Bear King nominally obeyed Sirius's orders.
After Sirius died, it became the de facto ruler of the North American landmass.
The Earth-Splitting Bear King lay beside his lava pool, the geothermal steam around him condensing into a thick mist at the top of the cave.
Its lair is located at the very center of the Yellowstone volcano, with a cave hundreds of meters high, a magma pool churning with dark red geothermal energy, and a pungent sulfur smell permeating the air.
Its massive body, a kilometer long, was covered in dark brown rock armor, and the muscles bulging on its back resembled a moving mountain.
Its eyes were half-closed, but its psychic perception was always present throughout the Yellowstone Basin.
It hadn't slept a wink all day.
Yesterday, a series of psychic messages from the Canary Islands struck its consciousness like thunderclaps.
Fifteen Tier 6 Beast Kings, all from the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters, were wiped out by a human in twenty minutes.
The message wasn't sent by a beast, as the mental communication between beasts has limited range. It was intelligence transmitted from a network of human traitors lurking within the European Union army.
The intelligence was very detailed, including precise calculations of the battle's duration and data on residual psionic energy.
The Earth-Splitting Bear King's first reaction was disbelief, but it repeatedly confirmed the reliability of the source of the message and the authenticity of the data, and then it fell silent.
After a long time, the Bear King made a decision: to shrink.
It used its mental power to issue a rallying order to all its high-ranking beasts.
They abandoned the outer territories and retreated entirely to the crater.
Four subordinates of the sixth rank arrived one after another before dawn: two direct blood relatives of the Earth-Splitting Bear Clan, one leader of the North American branch of the Sky Wolf Clan, and one Rocky Mountain Snow Leopard King.
Hundreds of fifth-tier beast kings crowded inside and outside the cave, while fourth-tier exotic beasts covered every inch of land around the crater.
The Earth-Splitting Bear King instructed his subordinates: "Gather all high-level combat forces together and form a defensive circle, with fourth-tier forces on the outside, fifth-tier forces in the middle, and sixth-tier forces on the inside."
"That human's attack method is to clear out the minions first and then kill the general. If we stay together, it will be impossible for him to break us up by spreading us out."
The Snow Leopard King asked, "Won't he go around to kill the other beast kings first?"
The Earth-Splitting Bear King glanced at it and said nonchalantly, "What do the other Beast Kings have to do with us? His killing of other Beast Kings gives us time to see his attack patterns."
"If he gets injured elsewhere, we can still retaliate."
That's a very clever plan.
However, it overlooked one thing: Song Chen didn't need to attack separately; focusing on a single target would actually be easier for him.
This is what Song Chen saw when he appeared above the crater.
The Eye of Truth projected the complete distribution of psionic energy across the Yellowstone Basin into consciousness. Fourth-order psionic energy points were densely scattered around the crater, fifth-order points were crowded inside and outside the caverns, and sixth-order points were concentrated beside the deepest lava pool.
All the strange beasts were in one place; they did not scatter or flee.
"good."
Yellowstone was the first destination Song Chen chose after arriving in North America, naturally because it was the most famous place.
The Star Core Thunder Prison exploded inside the crater. The silver lightning network within the enclosed space was even more deadly than on the sea surface. Silver arcs of electricity bounced repeatedly off the walls of the cavern, with each bounce increasing the density of psionic energy.
Dozens of lightning dragons coalesced from the lightning network, forming a cross-strangulation attack with no blind spots in the narrow space.
At an air force base in the Rocky Mountains, a Black Falcon spacecraft has just landed.
When Eileen jumped out of the cockpit, the base commander personally came to greet her.
"Colonel Eileen, the satellites in the Yellowstone direction have just transmitted images back, and Congressman Song has already begun his operation."
"Faster than I expected, send over the live feed." Eileen walked toward the base command room.
She walked into the command room and stopped in her tracks when she saw the images on the screen. She was completely overwhelmed with shock.
"What is this?"
In the center of the image is a volcano, and above the volcano hangs a silver orb of light.
Countless silver arcs of electricity stretched out from around the ball of light, like an inverted tree of lightning, its roots embedded inside the crater and its branches covering the entire sky.
Dozens of lightning dragons were breaking off from the trunk and swooping down from among the branches of the lightning tree.
The target of the dive was a dense swarm of alien beasts, so many that they could not be distinguished one by one on the screen; all that could be seen was a gray ocean of alien beasts churning and boiling around the crater.
"What is the psionic density?" Eileen asked.
The technical officer next to him quickly pulled up the data.
A row of numbers pops up in the upper right corner of the screen, and then the numbers start to jump in a geometric progression.
The technical officer looked at the readings and swallowed hard.
"This lightning field covers a diameter of about six kilometers, and the lightning intensity... sir, this data has exceeded our measurement limit."
Eileen watched as the thunder dragons on the screen weaved through the horde of beasts. One thunder dragon coiled around a fifth-tier Earth-Splitting Bear, and silver lightning poured in through the gaps in its carapace. Three seconds later, the Earth-Splitting Bear exploded from the inside, sending carapace fragments and bits of flesh flying hundreds of meters away.
Another thunder dragon plunged into the fourth-tier beast horde, bouncing around in the horde, each bounce taking the lives of more than a dozen beasts.
The psionic blast chain reaction spread like dominoes through the horde.
……
Directly above the crater, Song Chen's gaze swept across the battlefield, the system notification sounds so dense he couldn't even hear his own heartbeat.
Then his gaze locked onto the Earth-Splitting Bear King in the deepest part.
He disappeared into mid-air and appeared behind the Earth-Splitting Bear King.
The Earth-Splitting Bear King's reaction was considered fast for a sixth-tier bear. The moment Song Chen appeared, its forepaws slammed backward. The huge bear paws were wrapped in geothermal spiritual energy, and the force of the paws scraped a layer of rock fragments off the top of the cavern.
The force of that palm strike was enough to shatter a mountain, but it missed.
Song Chen was no longer in his original position when the bear paw swung down. Fuyao slid him half a meter along the edge of the bear paw before returning to the attack position.
The Heavenly Blade was drawn, and the Eye of Truth marked the cartilage gap between the first cervical vertebra and the skull of the Earth-Splitting Bear King.
The blade slices in, and the blade's energy pours into the skull cavity.
The roar of the Earth-Splitting Bear King abruptly stopped at its highest point, and the light in its enormous bear eyes went out within a few breaths.