Chapter 5, Awakening I
As the pulsation behind the qiē is hidden, the course of the world is quietly accelerating, and only a very small number of people at the very top of the pyramid are able to experience this change. However, no one can predict what the change will bring, and all the existence can only act according to their own judgment.
As one of the most important forces in the Northern Continent, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Calamity Scorpion is still Diaste, and aside from some personal character flaws, Diaste's actions on the battlefield are indeed remarkable. Having been a high-level ability, Diaste has a special understanding of the tactics of ordinary people and low-level abilities to besiege and kill high-level talents. In the early days of his battle with the Dark Dragoon, he also relied on clever tactics to repeatedly inflict heavy damage on the Dark Dragoon. After a few defeats, the Dark Dragoon immediately made adjustments, investing more and more dragoons with extremely strong actual combat effectiveness, and gradually turned the tide of the battlefield with the tactics of fighting against the Calamity Scorpion with a qualitative advantage.
To this day, Diaste remembers the name Sue. Not only did he wreak havoc on the Calamity Scorpion with his own strength, but his subordinates and warriors were not easy to match. Diaste defeated Su's troops several times, but they were all at a heavy price of several times the casualties, and he couldn't even talk about a crushing victory. And at that time, Su could only be regarded as a mid-level officer at most in the Dark Dragoon! Diaste knew very well that if the Dark Dragoon was dispatched with all his might, he would be able to easily make it all the way to the Scorpion Nest. The main reason why this is not done may be for the purpose of training troops and cultivating more capable people in the war. In turbulent times, territory has lost its meaning, and those who have the ability are the only real strategic resource, not oil, not nuclear power, not food.
Fortunately, civil strife broke out in the bloody council suddenly, and it grew in scale, and the situation was out of control. Diaste had tried to take advantage of the fire and launch an attack on the council's territory. However, he immediately found that the enemy he was facing had changed, and it was no longer a mercenary-like rabble like the Dark Dragoons, lacking unified command, but a well-equipped, logistically adequate, and uniform army! The fatal thing is that there are many high-level abilities in this army who have been difficult to meet before! Soon, Diaste learns that he is facing the army of the Arthur family, one of the three giants of the Bloody Council.
After a few fights, Diaste knew that he had hit the iron plate. The opponent's defense line is thin and long, full of weaknesses. However, even if he gathered a large force of 1,000 people to attack, and equipped with sufficient commanders, he often could not capture a stronghold garrisoned by dozens of warriors led by a few high-level abilities. And a few days ago, a man and a woman who destroyed his entire army on their own strength alone have been confirmed to be the direct heirs of the Arthur family, the son of the current patriarch, Oberen. And another, even more terrifying woman is unknown. But no matter what her origin is, Diaste knows that with the existing power at hand, she will definitely not be able to shake the defense of the Bloody Council, and it doesn't matter if there is one more or less. The lack of high-level abilities is always a fatal wound for Diaste, and it cannot be repaired. Even if it is a Calamity Scorpion, the first-level commander cannot be mass-produced, and how much he can get can only depend on luck.
Diaste smoked incessantly, and the large command room was already smoky, with cigarette butts thrown on the floor. Smoking hundreds of cigarettes at a time can't cause much damage to Diaste, who has a few levels of strength left. In fact, he has been longing for enough harm, and will even do something out of the ordinary for this, such as raping his own daughter. Unfortunately, when Pandora appeared in front of him as a dark-haired girl, Dioste knew that his idea had finally come to naught. Even if Pandora didn't resist at all, just lying there with her legs on her legs, her defense power of up to the tenth order could prevent the invasion of a qiē on its own, even if Diaste restored her eighth-order ability.
With Pandora and the Apostles, it stands to reason that the Calamity Scorpions are not short of high-end power, but they have never appeared on the battlefield to compete with the Dark Dragoons. The Dark Dragoon can also be said to be for cultivating new abilities, but what is the Scorpion of Calamity for? There is no possibility of advancing at all in cultivating people!
"Are they afraid of the Bloody Council?" On more than one occasion, Diaste speculated from the most vicious angles, not knowing that on several occasions he had come close to the truth.
On the large map in front of Diaste, the battle situation is intricate, and the red numbers representing casualties jump from time to time. It is understandable that the situation in the East cannot be opened, and Diaste has to worry about a total rout in this direction. But the battle situation in the west has not made much progress, there are no high-level abilities there, and the known numbers show that there are at most a few sixth-order abilities in the large area, including the woman who constantly attacks the Scorpion of Calamity. Not long after she was promoted to the fifth order, she was detected in a recent battle with a sixth-order ability.
The microchip buried deep in the brain sends a remote command according to Diaste's idea. So the map began to show a continuous stream of photos taken from the battlefield. It was a strong, agile, leopard-like girl, with short balloon hair like a burning flame, and even in the midst of the frenzied killing, her face was still cold and beautiful, but her eyes shone with a wild fire that could not be extinguished. What's even more eye-catching is the thrillingly sharp long knife in her hand, whether it is a human body, a gun or a chariot, it will be split in two under the fierce and unparalleled slash! The girl had nothing but a long knife in her hand, but with just one long knife, she had slaughtered the entire sixteen Scorpion of Calamity! In addition to the more than seven hundred cultivator warriors who died at her hands, there were also three first-class commanders!
The battle report clearly showed that when she killed the first commander, she only had a fifth-order ability. A fifth-order slash commander with the protection of dozens of warriors and his own ability to reach the seventh order? If he had heard such a thing before, Diastor would have only taken it as a joke. But the joke really happened. Therefore, when she reached the sixth order, and used the fighting style of life to slash the first-level commander and his car with a single sword, Diaste was no longer surprised.
After countless slashes, the long knife is as sharp as ever.
Hundreds of photos of the battlefield were quickly played, and they began to be replayed from the beginning. Diaste's mind was full of the fiery girl's various figures. There was an indescribable power in that girl, and watching her rush towards the overwhelming enemy with an indomitable momentum, and then slash the strong enemy in the line of life and death, always made Diaste have an inexplicable impulse.
She should have died, but she was still alive.
Since the first-level commander is useless, then Diaste can't do anything about this crazy girl. Looking at her various postures full of power as she killed the enemy, the flame in Diaste's heart rose straight up. He let out a hoarse roar, and the two cultivator lieutenants walked in. They look almost identical, with beautiful looks and seductive figures, but their expressionless faces and dull eyes spoil a good feeling. Diaste tore their clothes straight away, stared at a frozen picture of a girl leaping up on the battle map, grabbed one of the women, and began a vigorous primitive sprint.
But his waist only swung a dozen times, not to mention the main play, even before the prologue was over, the automatic door of the war room had already opened, and a handsome and tall male adjutant of cultivation walked in, regardless of what was going on inside, and said loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Pandora has connected to the command room, asking you to go immediately and accept the order!" ”
"What?" Interrupted by someone just as his desire was just rising, Diaste was naturally furious.
Cultivating people does not understand what fear is at all, repeating it out loud. Diaste almost wanted to kill someone, but as a father, he knew very well where Pandora's bottom line was. After a moment's weighing, he strode to the command room.
In the air of the command room, a hologram of Pandora was projected. She looked at Diaste, who didn't even tie her pants, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she said coldly: "You should know very well why I connected here." I have to warn you that it's very stupid to take a detour to challenge my bottom line. ”
"So what? You would do that to your mother, and of course you wouldn't mind killing your own father. Diaste said with a sneer.
"Let me remind you once again that you are not really afraid of death, and you don't want to die right now."
Pandora's death threats finally made Diaste put away his slippery attitude, and he asked stupidly, "What is the mission?" ”
"Energy is needed! Within three days, the energy supply to all facilities was to be reduced to a minimum, and all military factories were to shut down. Turn over a qiē energy source, including backup energy to the authority. Within 10 days, you have to find a way to occupy a power station with a total volume of more than 5 million kilowatts, or obtain a considerable alternative energy source. Pandora's voice was as cold as ice.
"You're saying that I won't get any soldiers and chariots to replenish, and I'm going to have to find a way to occupy more than two large power stations with a few thousand wastes and less than five first-class commanders?! You might as well just kill me! "Diaste was furious.
"This is the highest command from the Great Apostle!" Pandora refused to let go, "If you can't complete the mission, then on the tenth day, you will be completely wiped out." There will be no exceptions. ”
"But it's simply not possible to finish! You're going to have to give me more and stronger commanders instead of the flashy guys you have now! They don't even count as useful as they seem! Can you imagine that three first-order commanders would die at the hands of a woman who was only a fifth-order? Ah, she's now at the sixth order, all thanks to those commanders. They're just a chance to give away evolution points! ”
Diest roared hysterically, and Pandora just watched quietly, his cold gaze gradually quieting him. Only then did he feel a chill that penetrated deep into his bone marrow.
"Why all of a sudden, so much energy?" Suddenly Diaste asked, "Is it ...... It's waking up?! ”
Pandora didn't answer, just looked at Diastre quietly. But he already understood. C