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Chapter 1024 - 676: The Order Sealed for 30 Years

Chapter 1024: Chapter 676: The Order Sealed for 30 Years

"Enemy attack!" the armored warrior’s warning roar resounded.

Near the shore, the water surface suddenly exploded, and several huge figures burst forth.

Their bodies, which resembled that of dinosaurs, were covered with black shells, and their four strong arms armed with sharp claws made their attacks fierce, with a spear-like spiked horn on their python-like tails. Their heads extended backward, forming a large cranium, and they had flesh-colored faces similar to that of humans, but with a mouth full of sharp teeth.

These were the so-called water demons, each more than three meters tall, displaying a terrifying aspect even more alien than the aliens, and also greatly different from what Li Changhe had anticipated in his mind.

Even Li Changhe and Yun Ting had not detected these creatures in the first instance; it was only when Li Changhe accidentally heard something sliding underwater that he reacted.

They clearly possessed extremely high stealth abilities, allowing them to evade detection by energy, hiding in the water like assassins.

They also had no small amount of intelligence.

The vanguard encountered a water demon and eliminated it at great cost.

After discovering this, the water demons did not gnaw on their companion’s corpses and leave as wild beasts would, but instead tacitly hid nearby, forming a deadly encirclement, waiting for their prey to arrive.

Thus, in an instant, seven ferocious monsters suddenly appeared from the water. They brandished their sharp claws at their prey.

Luckily, the armored warriors reacted quickly. At the moment the monsters surged out of the water, they activated their chainsaw swords and Chainsaw Axes, meeting the closest water demon head-on.

And the soldiers of the Auxiliary Army, with Li Changhe’s early warning, raised their weapons.

The moment the first water demon leaped onto the ground, the Auxiliary Army soldiers who had taken crossbows out from waterproof cloths, fired a volley at it.

Although the arrows couldn’t completely pierce through the thick shell, they still turned the water demon into a porcupine. Especially on its unarmored face, it was hit by at least ten arrows.

The water demon had just leaped onto the ground when it was smashed back into the water, its life or death unknown.

But at this distance, the Auxiliary Army had no chance to reload their arrows.

In previous battlefields, armored warriors at the front were like an Iron Wall, and the Auxiliary Army would perform auxiliary shootings or engage the enemy with blades, similar to modern combined arms.

However, in this narrow terrain, three armored warriors couldn’t even stand side by side, and with the enemy attacking from the water’s flank, effective "combined arms" was impossible.

The narrow terrain made even supporting each other a luxury for the armored warriors.

Once cut off, it was more often every man for himself.

To then worry about crossbow bolts would only lead to a grim fate.

So, Guo Yi decisively ordered the soldiers on the perimeter to put down their emptied bows and crossbows, and to raise their long halberds in readiness to meet the enemy. Those in the inner circle continued to load arrows for shooting.

It was the right choice, for when the chainsaw halberds played their deadly tune,

the soldiers near the water’s edge swung their long halberds in unison. The swathes of sharp chainsaws they wielded threatened the water demons.

Two water demons swung their arms but were cut by more than a dozen long halberds, wounding their arms and bodies.

After being shot with several arrows, the two water demons jumped back into the water, hiding and waiting for an opportunity.

"Good!" Guo Yi let out a sigh of relief in his heart. If only the great ones could defeat the water demons, the situation would improve.

However, Guo Yi felt something odd about the military formation.

He saw one of the soldiers without a chainsaw halberd in hand, nor holding a crossbow, standing out conspicuously among the troops.

Is this... a lost weapon?

But within a second of Guo Yi finding the soldier strange, he saw a huge figure silently climbing down from the rock wall of the cavern.

This is... the eighth water demon! Who knows how many more might be hiding in the shadows?

"Beware!" Guo Yi bellowed a warning in a desperate fright, for he saw the water demon had landed right behind a few soldiers. It seemed to aim to annihilate the inner circle soldiers clutching crossbows.

Guo Yi raised his Chainsaw Sword and charged forward, but in his heart, he knew it was over.

The strength of these water demons was formidable, and their sharp claws could tear open the armor of the armored warriors. If they got too close, even armored warriors had to be on full alert.

If the Auxiliary Army got close to a water demon, they had to establish formation and fend it off with their chainsaw halberds.

They would then shoot with crossbow bolts, but even so, there could still be heavy losses. If the water demons, in great pain, charged the formation, they would inflict severe casualties on the soldiers.

At that moment, with the water demon launching a stealth attack from behind the soldiers, those in the inner circle would have no time to react.

In that instant, Guo Yi saw some of those soldiers, in terror, raising their crossbows and firing pointlessly at the water demon. The unaimed crossbow bolts struck the water demon’s shell, causing little damage.

Some were raising their not-yet-activated Chainsaw Axes, thrusting towards the water ghost’s chest, only to have one of the ghost’s arms grab the shaft of the axe. It flung the axe away and smashed several soldiers who were trying to provide support.

The water ghost’s other three arms then violently swung down at those three soldiers, as if intending to tear them into pieces.

"Ah!" Guo Yi roared in anger, his chainsaw sword spinning wildly as he leapt up and pounced on the water ghost. As a scion of a military family, his martial arts prowess was not low.

He knew he was too late, and he couldn’t save his subordinates. But he was determined to avenge them!

He was going to plunge that chainsaw sword into the water ghost’s chest!

However, he witnessed a bizarre scene. The officer with empty hands picked up the Chainsaw Axe and took a step forward towards the water ghost.

Incredibly, he walked into the range of those sharp claws, allowing them to shred through his armor.

Yet, the officer, undaunted, hoisted the polearm, pulled the chainsaw to life, and plunged it into the water ghost’s chest.

The sound of the chainsaw cutting through muscle and sawing bones was so delightful.

The water ghost struggled in pain, its claws scratching at the officer’s body, but only managed to shatter the armor without spilling a drop of blood.

And that officer, still ignoring all, gradually pulled the polearm down, slowly slicing open the body of the water ghost.

Until at last, the water ghost was utterly dead.

The officer stepped forward and crushed the misshapen skull of the water ghost with his foot.

"Brought over here by the protection of a Human Guardian, huh?" the officer murmured, "Good, it saves me the trouble of looking for you. I shall wipe you all out!"

Meanwhile, within the armor of each warrior, a long-dormant command was gradually awakening.

...

Elsewhere, the Centurion and the leader of the Thousand Cattle Guard at the front of the formation had already killed three water ghosts.

Both of them were veterans of a hundred battles and resembled two War Gods rather than other armored warriors.

With hardly any damage, they had eliminated three dangerous water ghosts.

However, just as they were about to turn back to reinforce the rear after killing the third water ghost.

A monstrous figure suddenly burst out of the water – it was an exceptionally large water ghost.

Even the towering armored warriors only reached its waist; the gigantic body possessed even more terrifying strength and speed.

The moment it emerged, it swatted the Centurion away with its tail. At the same time, its four thick arms turned towards the leader of the Thousand Cattle Guard.

The leader roared and swung his chainsaw sword, managing to wound one of the arms, but in the cramped terrain, he couldn’t maneuver quickly enough. He was caught by two other arms and harshly slammed to the ground.

The chainsaw sword of the Thousand Cattle Guard’s leader was also knocked away.

The difference in size was too great. Even a veteran like the leader of the Thousand Cattle Guard found it difficult to cope with such a monster.

However, just as the giant water ghost was about to tear the leader’s armor apart and feast on his flesh.

The Thousand Cattle Guard’s leader suddenly let out a crazed laugh. He had heard a command he had been awaiting for thirty whole years!

At the same time, the giant water ghost realized that new enemies had invaded its territory.

It sharply turned towards the caves and saw its kind dying in terror, some even killed underwater.

The wails of its kin made it even more wary. Surely not, humans were few in number. Aside from these tin cans, what other danger should be noted? How were they attacking its underwater kin?

And then, in the next second.

It abandoned the Thousand Cattle Guard’s leader and fled.

Because it saw countless armored warriors charging at it from above the water’s surface, within the caves, and from the depths below.

And for the armored warriors, a command that had been sealed for thirty years was issued once more.

"Second Sequence, General Li Ba commands!"

"All forces, charge!"

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