Chapter 320: Assembling
Octavir added a magic shield to herself for safety, even if there was no radiation to block the attacks of possible abyssal monsters, but the girl flew all the way over and didn't touch anything, and the silence around her was as if humans and monsters had disappeared from the world.
It wasn't until the eldest princess saw the devastated city on the other side of the horizon that there was no expected radiation or attack, so the girl put away her shield to reduce her consumption and began to climb up away from the ground. Flying low and close to the ground can indeed see the situation below, but there are many tall buildings in the city, and if you fly too low, who can guarantee that monsters will not jump out of these buildings and attack Octavir?
The girl didn't want to cause any trouble, she was here to investigate, not to find fault.
The whole city seemed to have been burned by the flames of heat, all the buildings were dyed gray and white, with cobweb-like cracks on the surface, the windows and metal railings were badly deformed, and the glass was melted to the point that there was no slag left. The buildings were so fragile that they seemed to collapse at the slightest blow of the wind, and in fact Octavir did see a number of buildings that had collapsed, and the city was full of dead silence.
At least on the surface.
There were many objects scattered on the ground, and the eldest princess couldn't see what they were, thinking that most of them were man-made, torn apart like rag dolls in the explosion and scattered all over the ground, but none of the purple-red abyssal monster wreckage were found, and it was not known whether they had been recovered by their own kind, recovered, or recovered.
"Strange, I thought there would be a large number of monsters gathered in the city, and there would even be a huge strange building like a beehive that didn't even damage the missiles that hit it, so that it would have the atmosphere of the final battle in a monster movie. Octavier, who flew so high that he didn't have to travel much distance to envelop the entire city, was muttering to himself with a look of exclamation on his face, "It's disappointing to have nothing." β
However, the eldest princess also knew in her heart that there would be nothing left in the city that had been washed by nuclear weapons, and how could those abyss monsters who were frantically searching for all kinds of organic matter choose to build a nest here, and it would be more normal for them to have all left a long time ago.
It seems like a no-brainer, but at least it's enough to know that the city of Orbans has been destroyed. Octavir nodded secretly, and was about to return to the voyage when she suddenly remembered something else, and she couldn't help but feel strange.
Where did those monsters that absorbed the nuclear radiation go? They must be stronger than ordinary monsters, and in the previous battle, the eldest princess didn't think that she and the others encountered this kind of [enhanced] monsters, and the other party's performance was simply terrible - look at the destructive power of those creatures that have been subjected to nuclear radiation, they all blatantly tear down buildings and build nests and lay eggs in the city, okay, like the abyss, you can take down the real husband with a rifle casually?
Thinking of this, Octavir decided to go to the middle of the city to look for any traces of what these creatures might have left behind, as long as there were no creature killed on the spot near the huge pit, something would always be left behind.
There was also not the slightest radiation to be found around the pit, and it was obvious that the abyss had eaten the energy that filled the air cleanly, so that Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess did not need to make any protection at all. The girl landed lightly from mid-air to the ground, where she seemed to have noticed something unusual, and before she landed, she hurried towards the other party's location.
A building that God knows what it was, with only half of its broken walls remaining, stubbornly holding out in the midst of a nuclear explosion while protecting something hidden behind it. To be reasonable, Octavir didn't know what it was, it looked like a piece of snake or insect skin, almost scorched in the heat - if it weren't for the color of the girl and the color of the walls, even Her Highness the Eldest Princess wouldn't have noticed its presence.
"What is this?" Octavir frowned, stretched out her hand and ripped off a piece of the surface of the dead skin and sent it to her eyes to look at it carefully, because she had been on the battlefield for a long time, she didn't feel disgusted by this thing like ordinary girls, "Is the skin of the abyss monster, was it shed by it? Sure enough, there was some kind of change after absorbing nuclear radiation, but how could there be no trace of the monster leaving nearby, could it be that the girl used to fly?"
If a flying monster evolves, it will certainly not be good news for everyone, and looking at the thing in front of him that looks like the dead skin left behind after a caterpillar has turned into a butterfly, Octavier's mood is naturally not much better.
However, it turned out that the eldest princess still overestimated the abilities of the abyssal monsters after losing the most important crystal, and just as the girl was about to turn away, the pile of metal fragments that had belonged to a certain building behind her suddenly exploded, and a black shadow more than one person tall rushed straight towards the seemingly defenseless Octavier.
The way the enemy appeared was really beyond the eldest princess's expectations, but it would be a bit inappropriate to say that she was defenseless, although she put away the magic shield, but the growth buff was always maintained, after all, the girl is not the type with rough skin and thick flesh, as long as she is not hit, nothing is her combat philosophy.
Therefore, even if he was suddenly attacked by a monster, Octavir was able to quickly and calmly pull out the afterimage in the air, avoiding the opponent's swinging claws, and after closing the distance from the enemy, he hurriedly drew his sword and held it in his hand, and began to look at the other party by the way.
In general, it is a hideous and twisted insect-shaped monster with a hideous and twisted appearance, its body has mutated like a zombie in places similar to mammals, there is even a deformed human head near its chest, the huge red compound eyes are full of ferocity, and two scythes that resemble the forelimbs of a praying mantis can easily pierce through the metal wall, and tear it to pieces on the spot with a casual stroke.
"Well, it's really enough to shoot a movie directly on camera. Octavier gracefully raised his sword and pouted disdainfully, "But if you use real swords and real guns to fight, your strength is still a little worse!"
Before the words fell, the girl turned into the wind and went straight to the monster, and slashed through the scythe that the other party hastily raised, and in a burst of jerky and sour metal friction sound, the thin sword successfully stabbed a small hole in the surface of the scythe.
After all, the monster is not papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and the compound eyes of the insect can also allow it to see the eldest princess's fast and exaggerated movements, as for whether it has time to react, that is another matter. However, this time the other party was lucky to block the girl's attack, and it also became the beginning of the tragedy.
The sharp scythe was the hardest part of the monster's body, but it was easily pierced in front of Octavir's enchanted rappier, and seeing that the girl who had such a good opportunity could not let it go, she suddenly made a gorgeous horizontal cut, causing half of the monster's scythe to spill black blood on the spot and fly into the air.
The monster let out a painful and angry hiss, and tried to attack the eldest princess with the forelimb of another intact scythe, but unfortunately all the movements stopped halfway through, and the body quickly lost strength and fell to the ground, and the terrifying head with a completely broken neck rolled out of the way.
"It's still too weak. Octavir snorted from his nostrils as he swung his sword to shake off the black viscous liquid that adhered to the surface, "This level of enhancement is only gained after absorbing nuclear radiation? β
After all, there was no Charlot, no Nangong Rong, and no one else next to her, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess felt that it was not a big deal for her to occasionally behave like a middle two, but the girl forgot the lesson of her predecessors about the blood of pretending to be thirteen to be struck by lightning, so she quickly became unlucky.
One twisted monster after another quickly emerged from the ruins, from the sewers, from the inside of the broken buildings, and it didn't take long for the mountains to spread.
Nuclear radiation is absorbed by a large number of monsters, so the total amount of each one is naturally not very large, and after absorbing the radiation, these monsters hide on the spot in order to completely digest it, and then are unsurprisingly woken up by the girl.
"Uh, what's that. Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, who was sweating profusely and embarrassed in an instant, tried to pull the corners of her mouth and tried to make a smiling expression, but unfortunately the effect was not ideal, "But if it is against a hundred, I think it is better for me to run for my life quickly." β
Before the horde of strangely shaped mutated monsters roared and rushed over, Octavir screamed and hurried into the sky, looking at the many curious crawlers that kept jumping up and down, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.
Even if a guy who jumps very high almost touches the skirt of the eldest princess, these monsters will not be able to fly in the air after all, as long as they reach enough height, the girl will be completely safe.
At this moment, Octavir was also very glad that she had made the right choice, because as far as the eye could see, the whole city seemed to have awakened from its slumber and resumed its activities, and countless dense fuchsia creatures kept roaring on the ground, not knowing what exactly they were communicating, anyway, the girl had no intention of figuring it out.
This is no longer a one-to-one hundred, but a one-to-one ten thousand or even more, okay, even if the eldest princess is really sick in the second grade, she doesn't have the courage to be tough head-on, not to mention that she is not seriously ill.
"It's good to fly, if I stayed on the ground and fought them just now, I'm afraid I'll never have a chance to fly. Octavir exhaled as she relaxed her nerves and sighed, "I didn't expect these monsters to be hiding underground, and I'm really embarrassed to disturb their sleep." But that's it, their enhancement is at best enough to consume some more ammo from the troops, and these guys, who haven't even evolved their long-range attack capabilities, are no different from moving targets in combat. β
After the investigation, the eldest princess decided that there was no need for her to stay any longer, and the next thing to do was to return to the ship and report the situation in the city to the others. So after looking around the city in the air, the girl was ready to leave this ghost place, walking in style and without dragging his feet at all.
But before that, Octavir's gaze was drawn to a distant sight, and the whole person hovered in mid-air and did not move, as if he had seen something incredible.
The abysses in this world are not commanded by the big guys and guided by crystals, they are more like a swarm of chaotic locusts than the abyss, devouring all the organic matter around them, and attacking humans without the slightest cooperation with each other - although this has caused a lot of trouble for the locals, it is also the reason why they have been able to hold on until now.
Unable to evolve quickly to adapt to the battlefield without anyone to command, these monsters are no different from beasts, and humans can come up with many ways to destroy them, such as using rudimentary traps that even a blue-haired water goddess wouldn't fall for or something.
But what did Octavir see now? A large fuchsia tide was surging towards Orbans City from all directions, and the impression was that the chaotic and disorganized monsters had gathered here from somewhere else, and there was nothing to attract to the abyss except for a ruined city, not even the city itself.
They don't seem to be drawn to something at all, but more like they're gathered for a big battle: troops assemble at a designated location, then deploy in their own positions, and attack the enemy with friendly forces......
It wouldn't be strange to swap the group of curious crawlers below for the human soldier Octavier, but the problem is that they aren't, which is a bit of a surprise.
If it was not known how many days ago when the city of Orbans was still in the hands of humans, these monsters that suddenly appeared could still be said to be attracted by the living people in the city, and now this city that has completely turned over the ground is what can attract the abyss? Octavier racked his brains and couldn't think of what it was, and he didn't even have a clue, so he could only shake his head vigorously and give up thinking, planning to go back and report to the others.
Especially Nangong Rong, this guy must be called the Golden Retriever Cat and be ready to open the plane passage at any time to let everyone run away, even if all the monsters below are miscellaneous soldiers, it is not something that a small team can solve.
When she thought of her youth, the eldest princess suddenly felt that some very important idea related to the unusually large-scale assembly of the abyss suddenly flashed in her mind, but when she was about to think about it seriously, she found that she couldn't grasp the slightest clue at all.