Chapter 954: The Abyssal Gaze
Loblan Cassan is the third son of Bronk Cassan, the Vice-President of the Sergeant Council, and is a member of the family of the Superiors, whose history can even be traced back to the Starry Sky Period, and is one of the most noble families in Lanxi.
Originally, according to Loblan Kasan's identity and status, he could be a manager in the management of the Sergeant Guild, and no matter how poor he was, he could also be an officer in the mecha sergeant team in the city, just like his two half-brothers.
But he didn't do that, he unexpectedly chose to undergo the highest specification of thirteen transformations and become a dreadnought mecha sergeant.
When Loblan Cassan made such a decision, and despite all opposition to the completion of the transformation, everyone who knew him thought he was crazy, even his family, and at the moment he completed the transformation, he was deprived of all inheritance rights according to the procedure.
But for Loblan Cassan himself, this decision was the most correct decision he had ever made in his life, because the moment he completed the transformation, he felt a peace that he had never felt before, the fear, despair and other negative emotions that had accumulated in his heart in the past were all gone, and he did not wake up from a nightmare for the first time that day.
Almost everyone thought that Lobran Cassan had suddenly gone crazy and made the decision to become a dreadnought sergeant, although the dreadnought sergeant had a very high status in Lanxi City, and was not even worse than some councillors of the Sergeant Guild, but everyone knew very well that the dreadnought mech sergeant was already inhuman in one aspect, and as long as it was not a last resort, no normal person would want to become a dreadnought mech sergeant.
The source of the dreadnought sergeant is mainly composed of three parts.
The first part is the physical fitness of ordinary people in the outer city, who usually make a member of their family a dreadnought sergeant and thus qualified to live in the inner city.
The second part is the people at the bottom of the inner city, where many families are in debt, and they usually let some or a certain child in their family become fearless mecha sergeants, and then get a large reward to pay off debts and so on.
As for the third part, it is the main source of dreadnought mecha sergeants, nearly eighty percent of the dreadnought mecha sergeants are from here, they are those mecha sergeants who have suffered fatal physical injuries in battle, this kind of mecha sergeants are usually serious injuries to their internal organs and body limbs, whether they can be saved or not is still an unknown, even if they are saved, they will only become a cripple who is not even as good as ordinary people, so in order to make the most of these mecha sergeants with rich combat experience, the upper echelons of Lanxi City will take the initiative to transform these mecha sergeants into dreadnought mecha sergeants。
If the composition of the dreadnought mecha sergeant is still like this, then their reputation in Lanxi City is naturally not much better, and the children of an ancient family like Loblain Cassan took the initiative to become dreadnought mecha sergeant, which can be said to be the first case after the city was founded, so this incident was also a sensation in Lanxi City at that time, and everyone was watching the jokes of the Cassey family.
It's just that these people who laugh at Loblancassan for going crazy don't know that if Loblaan Cassan doesn't become a dreadnought mecha sergeant, then it won't be long before he sees Loblancassan again and maybe it's a corpse.
The vast majority of people don't start remembering until they are six or seven years old, and most of the memories during this time are very vague, and most of them will forget when they grow up, and even if they do, they are only fragmented memories.
But Loblam Cassan was different, he never told anyone that he was able to remember things when he was very young, as an infant, and that he knew he could still remember them vividly.
Therefore, he knew very well that his mother's death was not at all due to an accident as rumored by the outside world, and his mother's death was due to the erosion of the power of the abyss.
He was still an infant at the time, and he watched with his own eyes how his mother turned into an abyssal monster little by little, he also watched the mother who loved him plan to eat him after turning into an abyssal monster, and even watched his father feel in time that the clergy who led several Filthy Mothers would dispel the mother who had turned into a monster.
All these memories were etched in his mind, and they repeated over and over again every night, making him feel that he was always on the verge of death.
Loblan Cassan had thought that his fate would eventually indulge in such painful memories and eventually reach the limit of his mental capacity and end his life, but when he accidentally learned about the transformation process of the Dreadnought Sergeant, he realized that this would be his only chance to escape this pain.
Although he lost a lot by making this decision, both family and personal, and even became this inhuman existence, he gained the peace he had always dreamed of, and the nightmarish memories of the past no longer affected him, and he could sleep peacefully until the moment he woke up.
It's just that he knows that this is not enough, because even if the nightmare no longer affects him, he still needs to face one thing, that is, the abyss, which is the source of all his nightmares.
Originally, according to his identity, even if he had become an independent dreadnought mecha sergeant, he could still choose to be stationed in the rear battery defense area with the influence of his family, where the danger was much safer than the first front near the entrance, but he did not do that, but on the first day he was dispatched, he asked to be stationed in the Abyss Observatory and be responsible for observing the movement of the Abyss.
During this time, Lobran Cassan spent longer than others staring at the abyss, watching the changes in the black oil mist in the abyss, from the initial fear to the current habituality, he felt that he had gradually adapted to the abyss, not only adapted to the abyss, but even had a sense of closeness to the abyss.
I don't know if it's an illusion, during the time when the tide of the abyss was about to erupt recently, he always felt that something in the abyss seemed to be watching him, and this gaze did not disgust him.
As the upper family of Lanxi, he knew some things that the people at the bottom did not know, for example, he knew that the Belmont family, which had a special status in Lanxi, was actually not an ancient family from Lanxi, but a human family from the abyss.
He didn't know why there were still humans in the abyss, but he knew that because of their origin, the Belmont family was able to master some magical abyssal powers, and they also had strong immunity to the erosion of abyssal powers.
Therefore, there were many ancient families in Lanxi City who hoped to integrate this abyssal bloodline into their own family by marrying with the Belmont family.
However, it turned out to be a failure, and whoever married these families was, as long as their descendants were not called Belmont, they could not have the abyssal bloodline of the Belmont family, as if that abyssal bloodline did not come from blood, but from the name Belmont.
To make matters worse, those who marry not only do not have access to the abyssal bloodline of the Belmont family, but are also particularly vulnerable to the abyssal power, and a little abyssal power can cause these people to metamorphose and become abyssal monsters, as exemplified by Lobran Cassan's mother.
Lobran Cassan's maternal grandmother was the Belmont family, and his maternal grandfather was another member of the ancient Lanxi family, and their marriage was also because of this bloodline inheritance experiment, which naturally ended in failure, and Lobran Cassan's mother later married Bronk Cassan, who was a widower, leaving Loblan, and finally because of an accident, he was contaminated with the power of the abyss and mutated into a monster.
Lobran Cassan also had some twists and turns due to the bloodline when he signed up to become a dreadnought mech sergeant, but because there was no precedent to prove that the Abyssal Bloodline of the next generation still retains the trait of being easily infected by the power of the Abyss, his application was quickly approved.
It's just that now, Loblan Cassan has a new idea about the inheritance of the abyss bloodline, because he feels that when he pays attention to the abyss, he has that wonderful feeling of closeness, which should be related to the blood in his body, and this bloodline does not seem to be a burden, making him an abyssal monster, which also makes him feel that he will also have some immunity to the power of the abyss like the Belmont family, as well as obtain some magical abyss abilities.
He didn't know why he was like this, he could only guess that it might have something to do with the transformation that his body had received, and he didn't report it to his superiors, but secretly looked forward to the arrival of the Abyss Tide, because he felt that when the Abyss Tide arrived, it was the time for his bloodline to transform.
As the black oil mist gushing out of the entrance of the abyss rose rapidly, the howls of abyssal monsters that were fatal to ordinary people came from the depths of the entrance, and all the people in the defensive positions knew that a new round of abyssal tides began to appear, and the gods and clans from different god realms in the rear fort defense area began to chant loudly the holy names of the gods to which they belonged.
As they chanted, the armor of all the dreadnought mechs shone with true light, and the serrated swords at their waists revealed all kinds of divine powers.
"Loblan Cassan, you lead your squad to Sector 43 to defend!" the commander of a regiment of dreadnought mechs began the final arrangements, and after giving orders to their respective defense areas, he shouted at Loblan Cassan.
"District 43?" Loblan Cassan was stunned when he heard his defensive area, opened his mask, and said, "Sir, I hope to be able to go to District 9......"
The corps commander didn't give the other party a chance to speak, so he said: "Shut up! You are just a newcomer who has just entered the battlefield, you have not even experienced a battle, you have no merits, what right do you have to question my orders, either you will go to your defense guard, or I will solve you now, lest you drag the others down later." ”
With that, he ignored Loblan Cassan and continued to assign tasks to the others.
Disappointed that he couldn't get the zone he wanted, Loblan Cassan looked at the entrance to the abyss in the distance, where black oil mist was constantly pouring upwards, closed his mask again, and made a gesture to the dreadnought mech sergeants assigned to him, and then led them towards the forty-third zone assigned to him.
The reason why Loblan Cassan is dissatisfied with his defense zone is because according to the defense area sequence, the 43rd defense zone is also a battery position, which means that he and his squad have been excluded from the sequence of the first-line combat team.
Loblan Cassan was very angry at first, but after looking at his team members, he felt that there was nothing wrong with this arrangement, because the vast majority of his team were newly reformed mech sergeants, and only two were recreated by old mech sergeants who had been seriously injured in other cities.
Although the old mech sergeant has a lot of combat experience, that experience is only useful in other cities, and in an environment like Abyssal Tides, that experience is about the same as no experience.
Such a group of recruits, no matter how bold the commander of the position corps is, will never arrange them to the front line.
After thinking about this, the anger in Loblan Cassan's heart also subsided a lot, and he began to reach his defense zone in the shortest possible time under the instructions he heard in his head, and then arrange his men in the defense zone according to the practice of training.
However, when Lobran Cassan arrived at his defense area, he found that the situation here was very different from what he expected, first of all, they were not the only ones who had deployed men in this defense area, the Holy Cult Army and the Holy Families of the Church of the Afflicted had sent a large number of people to be placed here, or more accurately, around a fort surrounded by the power of the Abyss.
In fact, when he was at the observatory, Lobran Cassan had already noticed this, after all, the sky was so obvious that it was difficult not to pay attention to it.
When the black oil mist gushing out of the entrance of the abyss continued to strengthen, the strength of this fort to pull these abyssal forces not only did not weaken, but strengthened a lot, and if you looked at it from a distance, you would find that the concentration of abyssal power around that fort was about the same as that of the abyss entrance.
When the anomaly was first discovered, many people thought it was an abyssal monster infiltrating in advance, but it was soon revealed that Pope Alice Belmont of the Church of the Victims said that it was the reaction of one of her clansmen after awakening, and that there would be no problems, so the matter was calmed down.
It's just that more and more abyssal forces gathered in that fort have been condensed into substantiated black oil, and even the Holy Cult Army of the Church of the Victims has been infected by the power of the abyss because of its proximity there, and it has mutated, but fortunately, it was discovered in time and there were no casualties.
Although Pope Alice repeatedly assured that there would be no trouble here, it still could not calm everyone's fears, so almost every force stationed in the war zone sent a team of men and horses to garrison here, and there were even a few maggots from the Church of the Filthy Mother with the Holy Emblem guarding here.