allonlinenovel Chapter 208 Calling for Reinforcements
Chapter 208 Calling for Reinforcements
Zhou Wangyue's voice came through the communication channel: "Take inventory of the supplies. Take what you can carry, and burn what you can't."
Song Chen walked toward the pile of sealed containers in the center of the ice floe.
More than two hundred marine artifacts of various kinds were piled up into a small mountain, each emitting a faint glow of spiritual energy.
He reached out and opened a container, inside which was a deep-sea marrow fluid, emerald green in color, viscous as glue, with a psionic concentration so high that it made his fingertips tingle.
Good stuff, but too much of it.
The assault ship's cargo hold couldn't hold two hundred containers, and most importantly, they needed to continue deeper into the Arctic, so carrying too much cargo would affect their maneuverability.
Although he has a system space, the nature of the system space is difficult to explain.
Duan Yi had already carried over two fuel canisters, unscrewed the caps, and poured them onto the pile of supplies.
Song Chen quietly collected more than fifty spiritual items in the system space, and more than half of the remaining items were soaked in fuel.
Duan Yi took out a lighter and lit it with a click.
The orange-red flames jumped on the pile of supplies, then exploded with a bang, shooting up more than ten meters high. The emerald green marrow evaporated in the high temperature, emitting a strange sweet and fishy smell.
Black smoke rose up, particularly conspicuous in the gray-white sunlight of the polar day.
Ivanov stood to the side watching the flames and made the sign of the cross on his chest.
He wasn't distressed about the supplies; it was just a habit of his—he would draw pictures every time he survived a tough battle.
A dull thud came from afar.
Song Chen turned his head and saw that deep in the ice floe area, Zhou Wangyue and Matvey were forcing the giant whale beast king into a desperate situation.
The true form of the Giant Whale King is a colossal beast over 1,200 meters long, and even at its widest point on the ice floes, only half of its body can be barely accommodated.
Its back is covered with a thick layer of blubber, as thick as a small mountain. Its broad tail fin spans three hundred meters, and each slap can shatter the floating ice within a hundred meters radius into fragments, stirring the icy water into a white whirlpool.
Its enormous head accounts for a quarter of its body length, and its mouth extends from the front of its head all the way to below its eyes, revealing two rows of whiskers taller than a human.
But at this moment, there wasn't a single patch of intact skin left on its body.
Zhou Wangyue's palm strike created seven huge dents on its back, each with a diameter of over thirty meters.
The whale blubber exploded after being compressed to its limit by the force of the palm, revealing the dark red muscle layer underneath. Blue blood gushed from the wound, flowing down its side into the icy water, staining the entire sea blue.
Matvey's warhammer struck a deeper wound on the lower left side of its head, and cracks could be faintly seen on the skull.
"Humans, are you going to wage a full-scale war against the sea creatures!" The voice of the giant whale beast king came from underwater. It didn't speak, but projected its thoughts directly into the consciousness of everyone present using its mental power.
"The two royal families will not let you go, the Sirius King will not let you go. When you land insects are crushed by the combined forces of the three royal families..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Wangyue struck it with a palm strike from a distance, the force penetrating through the weakest point of its skull and into its head.
At that very moment, the Giant Whale Beast King let out a deep and excited roar, and its mental energy suddenly exploded outwards, radiating in all directions.
It was calling for reinforcements. The mental energy waves of the sixth-order giant whale spread across the Bering Strait, and sea creatures within a radius of hundreds of kilometers simultaneously received the signal.
The ice surface began to tremble, and countless sea creatures were surging up from the seabed.
Song Chen saw the seawater at the edge of the floating ice begin to surge, and countless large and small black shadows gathered underwater, from palm-sized ice fish to mutated sea monsters tens of meters long, densely packed and layered, like a rising black tide.
A beast tide, a beast tide in the sea.
He gripped the hilt of the Heavenly Blade and smiled; it was another kill count.
"Teacher," he called out over the communication channel.
Zhou Wangyue was pressing the giant whale beast king's head into the icy water with a palm strike, his voice coming through the splashing water: "Speak."
"Reinforcements from the sea have arrived. I'll go clear the outer perimeter."
"Go."
Song Chen jumped into the sea.
The Northern Darkness Armor automatically switches upon entering the water, with a thin layer of pale blue psionic energy surging from the gaps in the armor plates to keep the seawater out.
He pushed off with his feet and charged towards the sea monster horde like a torpedo.
The thunder from the heavens exploded in the water. The golden-purple lightning was more ferocious in the seawater, a conductor, than in the air. The electric arc spread along the water molecules in a chain-like manner, forming a spherical lightning field with a diameter of about a hundred meters around him.
The first wave of sea beasts to arrive consisted of first and second-tier creatures: ice fish, mutated jellyfish, and sea snakes with bone armor, all densely packed together.
They were instantly carbonized the moment they hit the edge of the lightning field, without even a chance to struggle.
The system's notification sounds rang incessantly in my mind.
[A Tier 1 alien beast has been killed, gaining 8 kill points:]
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 38 kill points]
[A Tier 1 alien beast has been killed, gaining 9 kill points]
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 44 kill points]
……
The notification sounds were continuous.
Song Chen traversed the seawater, leaving countless charred corpses in his wake. These low-level beast corpses, under the combined effects of buoyancy and electric current, slowly sank or floated, like a layer of black sesame seeds scattered on the seabed.
Third-tier beasts began to appear.
A mutated walrus, forty meters long with tusks eight meters long, charged forward, spewing psionic energy from its mouth.
Its fangs pierced the lightning field, enduring the current for half a second before its muscles went out of control and its body began to convulse.
Song Chen swept past it, and with a swift stroke of the Tianjun Blade, the blade's energy sliced through its neck, severing its head.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 520 kill points]
More third-order units surged up.
Mutant killer whales, sea snakes with bone spurs, and strangely shaped deep-sea anglerfish are no longer being sent to their deaths; they are being systematically surrounded from all sides.
Song Chen didn't give them time to surround him.
The Soaring Movement Technique was equally effective in the water. Wind-based spiritual energy was transformed into control over the water flow, and the water around his body automatically formed a high-speed rotating vortex, propelling him through the beast horde.
He fought his way through the third-tier beast horde, each flash of his blade taking down a beast.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 620 kill points.]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 322 kill points.]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 441 kill points.]
Fourth-tier beasts began to appear.
Two fourth-order mutated giant squids rose from the reef area on the seabed, their tentacles reaching hundreds of meters in length, and the edges of their suckers covered with serrated horny teeth.
Their tentacles simultaneously wrapped around Song Chen, blocking his escape route from eight directions.
Song Chen did not retreat. Heavenly lightning condensed on the blade, unleashing the first strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
The blade cleaved through the water in a golden-purple arc, severing the three thickest tentacles with a single strike, and the deep blue blood exploded into a thick mist in the water.
The muscles at the severed point were still twitching. He had already passed through the fog and appeared above the head of one of the giant squids, piercing its skull with a single cut.
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3655 kill points.]
The other giant squid tried to escape, squirting out a glob of ink and rapidly retreating.
Song Chen activated the Fuyao skill, and the water current propelled his body to catch up with the retreating giant squid. He slashed through its eye with a blade, the blade's energy piercing through its entire head.
The giant squid's eight tentacles convulsed simultaneously and then drooped.
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 4122 kill points.]