A Core Ship From The Start
Chapter 585 - Chapter 585 Chapter 429 Death Space_1

Chapter 585: Chapter 429: Death Space_1 Chapter 585: Chapter 429: Death Space_1 Under the cold light, the steel elevator descended rapidly, Duanmu Huai held the war hammer, staring straight ahead, not uttering a single word.

“Ugh… this suit is really uncomfortable…”

Ann, who was wearing space armor, was also complaining without words. Due to her upcoming trip to space, she obviously couldn’t wear her normal clothes, and she didn’t fancy wearing power armor, so Duanmu Huai found her a Star Union N7 Armor to wear… Of course, to our Princess, this armor doesn’t quite hit the comfort mark either.

“Stop complaining, at least you have something to wear, and is Ogis not wearing it too?”

“Ugh…”

After glancing at Ogis who was dressed in the same armor, Ann had nothing more to add, so she switched the topic reluctantly.

“But sir Knight, is the blasphemous artifact really that terrifying?”

“You can think of it as a product of a deity’s resentment before death, then you’ll understand how frightening it is.”

“God…”

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s answer, Ann’s expression became somewhat complex.

“I never thought a dead god could still pose such a threat.”

“It might be even tougher than you imagine… Are you ready?”

“Of course, I’m not one to give up easily!”

Just then, the elevator reached the bottom level.

“Boom!”

Accompanied by a loud noise, the heavy iron door slowly opened, revealing a dark corridor in front of the three. Seeing this, Duanmu Huai was unfazed. He waved his hand forward, and a battalion of puppets emerged from thin air, brandishing their weapons and charging forward.

“Every time I see it, I find sir Knight’s summoning to be truly magical.”

Spectating this spectacle, Ann couldn’t help but marvel. As princess of Manaria, what she is best at is summoning magic. In fact, if it was her, she could also summon clay dolls out of thin air using Manaria’s magic. However, unlike Duanmu Huai’s puppet army, her dolls cannot be simply controlled nor can be that many in number.

“In the face of unknown circumstances, using human sea tactics is the most convenient.”

Duanmu Huai stared ahead, speaking in a muted tone. This was a strategy often used by Soul Walker players in the game. After all, when exploring the Hive City or spaceship wreck, situations often arise where your party is overwhelmed by a swarm of sneaky enemies. In such situations, Mechanical Priests and Soul Walkers are better equipped to withstand the attack, where as the Star warriors only have two possible outcomes–either they manage to annihilate all enemies, or they get overwhelmed themselves.

There’s no third possibility.

On the other hand, Mechanical Priests and Soul Walkers can fabricate or summon an army beforehand to conduct carpet-style searches in all directions before exploring the map. Even if they get wiped out, they can at least find out what they’re up against. Unlike the Star Warriors who bravely wade into battle and then leave their fate to chance.

Of course, the fighting ability of a Star Warrior is commendable…

“Oh, it’s starting.”

As expected, without surprise, Duanmu Huai soon saw the puppet cards he summoned were rapidly moving to the graveyard, an obvious sign of them engaging the enemy.

However…

“What the hell?”

Duanmu Huai frowned at the blank information bar in front of him.

Theoretically, after the puppets are attacked, there should at least be a prompt like [XXX inflicted X points of damage to the puppet]. At least this information would allow Duanmu Huai to figure out who his enemy is.

But now… the puppets in his hand are madly rushing to the graveyard, but there is no information about the enemy at all.

Are his puppets lining up to commit suicide?

“Ann!”

Having this thought, Duanmu Huai hesitated no longer, holding the war hammer tightly.

“Let’s go big!”

“Huh? Here?”

“Exactly, bomb this place!”

With the enemy situation unknown, it’s incredibly dangerous to rush in blindly, but he was not willing to be a rat in a hole. The only solution was to dig out the rat hole completely!

“Alright then, I just learnt a good trick from Miss Zhi Jingxiang…

While speaking, Ann held up her sorcerer’s book, after which Duanmu Huai saw the book hovering in the air. Several magic arrays were emerging around the sorcerer’s book, then Ann inhaled deeply, made a fist with her right hand, and smashed it towards the front!

“White Destruction Beam!!”

“————–!!!”

The dazzling white beam suddenly erupted, blasting forward like the main cannon of a warship, tearing everything in its path into shreds with formidable strength. Not even thick layers of rock and steel hallways could withstand Ann’s violent strike. When Duanmu Huai looked forward once again, the originally dark and narrow corridor and ceiling had completely vanished, replaced by a wide fan-shaped space.

The inside of the entire mining base had been utterly destroyed by this strike, and Duanmu Huai could clearly see a semi-circular gap extending all the way to the end……

Speaking of which……

“Wasn’t this an ability from the world of the Magic Mirror?”

Duanmu Huai remembered Zhi Jingxiang telling him their world’s most powerful magic was the White Destruction Beam, followed by the Black Destruction Beam. But this ability could only be used with a combined attack.

“Yes, I discussed it with Miss Zhi Jingxiang out of curiosity, thought it was quite interesting, so I recreated it by combining her description and my own ideas. It seems to work quite well.”

See? This is what genius looks like.

Duanmu Jian even remembered that Zhi Jingxiang herself had not yet mastered this skill.

“————–!!!”

At that moment, a beastly roar echoed suddenly. Hearing this, Duanmu Huai immediately gripped the War Hammer, and Ogis, sitting on his shoulder, also raised her hand.

Then, hundreds of dark figures emerged from all directions, rushing towards them through the gap caused by Ann’s explosion!

“What are those things?!!”

Even Ann screamed when she saw the enemies in the light. What appeared in front of the trio were naked humanoid creatures. Their hands were elongated like blades, twisted into a horrid shape. Now, these mutants were charging towards Duanmu Huai and the others with beast-like roars.

“Great, I want to see what you’ve got! Ogis, let’s go, Ann, be careful behind!”

Looking at the mutants before him, Duanmu Huai also shouted, gripping his War Hammer and charged into the crowd of mutants like an uncontrollable bulldozer!

“Die!!”

With a roar, Duanmu Huai swung his hammer, directly smashing the mutants before him. The explosive outburst of wind blew the mutants around away like waves, causing them to fly out and crash into the walls. Those mutants who were directly hit by Duanmu Huai were turned into charcoal by the lightning-wrapped Thunder Warhammer.

At the same time, Ogis also took action. She raised her right hand and extended her fingers. Then, almost invisible threads formed a barrier in front of Ogis and Ann, like a spider web. As Ogis swung her right hand forward, the mutants rushing towards them were cut into pieces by the sharp threads.

But then, a surprising scene took place.

“Huh? What’s going on?”

Duanmu Huai hammered down and cleared the area of mutants. However, when he looked up, he was shocked – those mutants that had been hammered away and had their bodies torn apart were standing up again. Some of them had lost their heads, some had their abdomens smashed into a hollow, and some were even broken into two halves.

Despite this, these creatures didn’t show any signs of stopping. They seemed completely oblivious to pain and fear, they continued to charge towards Duanmu Huai like machines!

What the hell are these things?

It must be said, this scene took Duanmu Huai by surprise. However, he didn’t have much time to think.

No matter what these things are, if they can’t be killed… then I will eradicate them with Predetermined Death!

“Charge———-!”

At this thought, Duanmu Huai gripped his War Hammer tightly and raised it high. Soon, the dark fire of death emerged from it. He roared, raised his War Hammer, and swung it hard at the ground. The next moment, the War Hammer slammed into the ground, and the black flames erupted, engulfing the entire space, and the mutants in the flames were completely burnt.

“Huh, this small trick… huh??”

Looking at the mutants utterly decimated by his strike, Duanmu Huai raised his Warhammer and snorted coldly. However, his facial expression quickly changed.

Because Duanmu Huai realized… he didn’t absorb any souls!

This was not possible!

As the God of Destruction, every soul of the beings that Duanmu Huai killed would enter his Obliteration Domain and be burnt into divine power. However, he had just killed hundreds of mutants, but had not received a single soul.

What did this mean?

Could it be that… these mutants have been dead for a long time?

It must be said, Duanmu Huai was completely dumbfounded. He couldn’t understand what was going on at all.

What kind of power does the hidden blasphemous artifact possess? It was clear that the power this blasphemous artifact had was even more bizarre than he had imagined. How could something like this exist?

Seems like he has to go in and study it carefully!

With this thought, Duanmu Huai’s face darkened.

“Let’s keep moving!”