allonlinenovel Chapter 207 Assault on the Mission
Chapter 207 Assault on the Mission
Song Chen drew his knife, and a stream of deep blue blood spurted from the giant whale's eye sockets, steaming on the ice surface.
Without pausing, he pushed off with his foot, and as the ice shattered, he appeared at the base of the second whale's fin.
The whale's pectoral fins were rising, and the skin at the base of the fins was much thinner than that on its back, so the Heavenly Blade cut in with almost no resistance.
The blade traced along the cartilage gap at the base of the fin all the way to his chest cavity. Before pulling out the blade, he casually sent a bolt of lightning into the cavity. The lightning exploded inside his chest cavity, burning his heart and other organs simultaneously.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 75442 kill points.]
Twenty human martial artists moved among the outer floating ice, their blades flashing and fists clashing.
The whales' guards were caught off guard. Their original defensive formation was designed to withstand a frontal attack, but the humans descended from the sky and jumped directly into the formation, effectively tearing their defenses apart from the inside out.
By the time they realized what was happening and tried to adjust their formation, three Tier 5 enemies had already been cut down by Song Chen.
Zhou Wangyue's palm strikes continued to roar in the center of the floating ice zone. Each time Matvey's warhammer fell, it was like a pile driver hitting a steel plate. The hammerhead smashed into the psionic barrier of the giant whale beast king, exploding into large patches of blue sparks.
The ice surface was shaken open, cracking into fissures tens of meters wide. Icy water surged up from the cracks, mixing with shattered ice fragments that flew through the air.
The assault ship hovered high in the sky, its hull cameras transmitting real-time battlefield footage back to the Starship, 100,000 kilometers away.
But on that ice floe, the battle had only just begun.
Song Chen surveyed the battlefield; the ice floes were in complete chaos.
The formation of the more than twenty fifth-tier giant whale guards was torn apart by the surprise attack, but once these behemoths, each starting at three hundred meters in length, recovered from the initial chaos, they immediately displayed the terrifying defensive power of fifth-tier sea beasts.
Their skin is several meters thick, with the outer layer being a mixture of keratinized whale blubber and barnacle-like calcified carapace. An ordinary A-grade combat knife can only leave a white mark when it cuts into them.
A fifth-order giant whale swung its tail fin, and the forty-meter-wide tail blade swept across, generating wind pressure that blew away all the ice shards on the floating ice.
Two fifth-level warriors from the Bear Kingdom were unable to dodge in time and were thrown over by the shockwave. One of them crashed into the ice, creating a deep crater, and got up while cursing in Russian.
Song Chen took a deep breath, and the Heavenly Thunder of the Nine Heavens poured into the Heavenly Blade. His figure had already disappeared from the spot.
The core of the S-level movement technique, "Soaring High," can be summed up in two words: flow and change.
Riding the wind, changing with the wind, one's body blends into the airflow.
He appeared eighty meters directly above the first giant whale.
The Heavenly Blade was raised above the head, and the golden-purple electric arcs on the blade suddenly expanded. The blade energy extended from the blade, drawing a hundred-meter-long arc of light in the air.
The warriors from both countries who were fighting on the ice looked up at the same time. The blade energy traversed half of the battlefield, like a bolt of lightning striking down from the sky.
The fifth strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
The hundred-meter-long blade slashed diagonally into the back of the giant whale's neck. Faced with an S-class weapon and a master-level combat skill, the whale's skin was like butter being sliced open by a hot knife.
The blade cut in from behind the neck, slicing along the spine to the base of the dorsal fin, creating a wound more than ten meters deep.
Deep blue blood gushed from the wound, evaporating into a blue mist in the frigid polar air.
The whale let out a low, mournful cry, its massive body tilting to the left, its tail fin slapping weakly against the ice.
After killing it with another slash, Song Chen used Fuyao's movement technique to adjust his posture amidst the shockwave of the falling whale. He touched the edge of a barnacle shell on the whale's back with his toes and turned his body with the wind to his next target.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 45442 kill points.]
Just as he regained his footing, Duan Yi stabbed a giant whale in the gills from thirty meters away, and when he pulled the knife out, he was sprayed with blue blood.
He wiped his face, about to swear, when he caught a glimpse of the wind trail Song Chen created when he leaped from the back of the giant whale and the dissipating hundred-meter-long blade aura.
The residual electric arcs from the blade's energy still crackled in the air, and the cleavage on the ice stretched from the whale's neck all the way to its dorsal fin, deep enough to expose the bone.
Duan Yi paused for a moment; he had killed at least eight thousand, if not ten thousand, alien beasts with his blade.
But he knew he couldn't unleash such a strike; a hundred-meter-long blade aura was not something a fifth-tier cultivator should possess.
"Is this kid really the one with the lowest blood and qi among us?" He turned to ask another Great Xia warrior next to him.
The man was pulling his knife out of the giant whale's eye socket. He followed Duan Yi's gaze to the figure diving in mid-air, then looked down at the knife in his hand, his lips twitching slightly: "Probably..."
In the Bear Kingdom, a bald, burly man at the peak of the fifth rank was swinging his battle axe at the tail fin of a giant whale, but he couldn't break through it even after three swings.
Just as he was getting anxious, he caught a glimpse of a gust of wind passing by him out of the corner of his eye, and then the giant whale froze.
Song Chen swept over the whale's head, and the Tianjun Blade made a horizontal cut in the instant it passed by, cutting into the whale's right eye and out through its left eye, traversing the entire skull cavity.
The speed was too fast; the giant whale didn't even have time to lift its tail fin before it died.
The bald, burly man stood frozen, axe in hand, and uttered an extremely rude remark in Russian, roughly translating to: "That thing I couldn't split with three swings, he pierced through with one stroke?"
On the other side, Ivanov, the captain of the Bear Kingdom, a peak fifth-tier warrior with a full beard, was locked in combat with a fifth-tier giant whale.
His weapon was an ice-blue spear, the tip of which had already pierced the belly of the giant whale, but the whale's skin was too thick, and he couldn't pull it out once it was in.
Just as he was gritting his teeth and exerting his strength, a gust of wind stopped beside him.
Song Chen held the knife upside down and glanced at him: "Need any help?"
Before Ivanov could even say no, Song Chen had already struck.
The Heavenly Blade sliced into the shaft of the spear, then slashed horizontally along the wound on the whale's abdomen. Blade energy exploded from inside the abdominal cavity, shredding all of the whale's internal organs.
The whale let out a short, mournful cry, and its body suddenly stiffened.
Song Chen sheathed his sword, and in a flash, he was already at the next location.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 81140 kill points.]
Ivanov drew his spear, watched the receding wind trail, and his beard twitched.
In less than fifteen minutes, more than twenty giant whale carcasses lay on the ice floe, their deep blue blood staining the entire ice floe an eerie indigo color.
Several dying whales were still twitching on the ice, their tail fins weakly slapping the water, the splashes growing smaller and smaller.
Both the Great Xia and the Xiong Kingdom suffered a few injuries, but no one was killed in action.
Song Chen landed on a relatively clean ice floe. The Tianjun Blade was sheathed, and the surface of the Beiming Battle Armor was covered with a layer of whale blood, which was being slowly decomposed by the cleansing array pattern on the armor.
The kill count on the system panel had jumped to a number that satisfied him.
One million two hundred thousand.
In just a short while, he had made a million, a speed that greatly pleased him.