A different world game? A different world game!

Chapter 1129 Squad

Above Fortress Anvil-13, the battle has entered its most brutal tug-of-war phase.

Calvin's twin legendary swords, "Buzz" and "Whisper," transformed into two intersecting streaks of light, slashing rapidly down the side of the City Eater's massive membrane wings.

Each strike is not merely a simple release of power.

His rule, "Shadow Rift," is being precisely injected through the tip of his sword, leaving layers upon layers of tearing marks at the energy cycle nodes of the void creatures.

The moment the seventeenth mark was completed, a glint flashed in Calvin's eyes. After the final sword strike, he used the momentum of the two swords clashing together to retreat thirty meters.

"burst."

The moment the words fell, seventeen tearing marks were simultaneously triggered in the area on the left flank of the City Devourer that had been repeatedly slashed.

"Sizzle—!!!"

The outer skin, composed of iridescent energy fluid, was forcibly torn open, leaving a gruesome wound fifteen meters long. The edges of the wound were writhing with energy matter that was constantly disintegrating and attempting to reform.

A large amount of thick, almost solid, dark purple void energy gushed out from the wound, and the drops of this energy immediately corroded the ground, creating a sizzling pit.

What's even more chilling is the sharp, agonizing wail that comes from deep within the wound, directly affecting the soul.

That wasn't a sound from a living being's throat, but a tremor produced when rules were violently torn apart, directly impacting the consciousness of every life on the battlefield through the medium of void energy.

This wailing is more of a cry for help.

Although the Apocalypse Creatures do not have the ability to command Void Creatures, these Void Creatures are interconnected to some extent.

"Interference is coming!" the half-elf arcanist Lina shouted.

Just as she had warned, the energy fluctuations caused by the City Devourer's injury were like a boulder thrown into stagnant water, instantly attracting the berserk instincts of all the surrounding void creatures.

Low-level void creatures, coming from the direction of the second void gate, from the moss-covered ground, and even from other battlefields, swarmed in like sharks smelling blood.

Although these void creatures have no tactics and only charge around recklessly, relying purely on numbers.

But this shouting and gathering is already an instinct, and it is the only order they have left.

The mutated bone cone crab abandoned its attempt to ram the fortress's main gate and instead turned to climb towards the five people in the air.

The purple floating crystals in the sky abandoned their random bombardment and gathered into a dense array to shoot out energy rays.

Those eerie, ethereal serpents emerged from the shadows of the ground, launching surprise attacks from unbelievable angles.

Clearly, even for the void itself, these enormous void creatures are a key focus.

It seems that at least the Void can't crush them with these behemoths.

"Anvil-13, clear the airspace!" Calvin calmly ordered over the communications channel.

The remaining defensive systems of the fortress responded immediately.

The two remaining heavy magic cannons abandoned their futile bombardment of the city devourer's main body, lowered their muzzles by fifteen degrees, and charged their inscription arrays to full power. Three seconds later, they fired out two torrents of azure energy, each half a meter in diameter.

These two beams did not attack in a straight line, but automatically split into hundreds of fine branches after being fired, each of which precisely locked onto the void floating crystals that were trying to approach the Soul Guardian team.

The explosions continued in succession, clearing a brief patch of clean airspace in the sky.

On the city wall, the alchemical explosive crossbows that were originally responsible for suppressing the enemy on the ground also adjusted their elevation angle, and the specially made "purification explosive arrows" manually loaded by the dwarven engineers were fired continuously.

These arrows split a second time as they approach the low-flying monster horde, scattering large amounts of metal fragments imbued with the power of order, pinning the swarms of void serpents to the ground.

However, the disruptions are far from over.

Although the city devourers were wounded and howled in pain, they had no instinct for fear or dread.

The energy vortex, which was over twenty meters in diameter, suddenly accelerated its rotation, ejecting hundreds of purple energy missiles from its edge.

After escaping the vortex, these missiles quickly solidified, transforming into angular, dark purple crystals. Each one left a long trail, and with sudden stops and changes of direction that completely defied the laws of physics, they launched a barrage of attacks on Calvin and his group of five.

"avoid!"

Paladin Leona raised her warhammer high, and a divine barrier instantly appeared.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!"

The force of the crystal missile exploding upon impact with the barrier far exceeded expectations.

Each explosion is not merely a physical impact, but also involves a void tremor that tears apart the rules of space.

Leona's barrier began to crack like a spiderweb when it was hit by the seventh bomb, and shattered completely when the eleventh hit.

The aftershocks of the explosion engulfed the five people. Even with the protection of their legendary armor, everyone felt as if their internal organs had been struck by a heavy hammer, and their movements inevitably became briefly sluggish.

In that brief delay of less than a second, a large amount of iridescent fluid gushed from the hideous wound on the left wing of the City Devourer, and the wound closed and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Three seconds later, apart from the outer skin being slightly lighter in color, it had returned to its original state.

In mid-air, Calvin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth caused by the shock to his internal organs, but his eyes remained even calmer.

That burst of attacks just now was not in vain.

Through the feedback from the rule "Shadow Rift," he had figured out the defense threshold of this void behemoth.

This was the purpose he needed to achieve in his first attack.

"Lina, how deep was the wound just now?" he asked quickly in the squad's internal channel.

"The scan shows that the seventeen-layer superposition tear broke through four layers of energy membranes and was blocked before reaching the fifth circulation node."

Lina's voice carried the precision characteristic of arcane analysis.

The arrows her teammates had fired earlier not only restrained the opponent but also conducted a detailed exploration of the opponent's body structure and sent the information back to her.

This allowed her to understand the other person's structure more clearly and identify their weaknesses.

"To inflict a fatal wound, it must penetrate at least seven layers of skin and damage a large area."

"Understood." Calvin took a deep breath, and the healing potion inside his armor automatically injected itself, relieving the pain in his internal organs.

"Attention all, execute the 'City Breaker' plan. Thran is in charge of continuously weakening the energy flow, Gronn is to construct a mobile barrier to resist interference, Lina is to prepare for spatial anchoring, Leona—give me the maximum Holy Light buff."

"understand!"

The four responded in unison.

A new offensive and defensive rhythm has begun.

Gron slammed the legendary giant shield "Immovable Mountain" into the air, unleashing the full power of the Rules Manifestation, Earth Pulse, and Shock Barrier.

A semi-transparent amber-colored energy shield unfolds centered on the giant shield.

The shield was not fixed, but moved in sync with the five people, repelling all attacks from the void creatures coming from the sides and below.

The elven archer Seran entered a mysterious state.

The bowstring of the legendary longbow "Whispers of the Forest" in her hand vibrated at a high frequency, but no arrow was shot.

Instead, there are fine, invisible threads of rules.

These threads precisely pierced the massive body of the City Devourer, attaching themselves to the seven main energy circulation pores, like slender silver needles implanted in blood vessels, continuously interfering with the efficiency of the iridescent energy flow.

The City Devourer's movements became noticeably sluggish, and the firing frequency of its energy missiles decreased by one-third.

The half-elf arcane mage Lina's eyes had completely transformed into a silvery-white color with flowing arcane runes.

With her hands outstretched, the three pre-set spatial anchor points were no longer merely teleportation coordinates, but began to connect with each other, weaving an invisible spatial confinement network around the city devourer. This network did not completely freeze the target, as that would consume too much energy, but instead created a continuous spatial viscosity effect, requiring the behemoth to pay an additional 30% energy cost for every movement it made.

It felt as if I was stuck in a swamp, and every step forward felt like an obstruction.

The most remarkable change occurred with Calvin.

"Sacred Praise, Heroic Heart, Unleash Full Power."

Leona slammed the warhammer "Dawnbringer" into the void, and the Saint Quartz at the top of the warhammer burst forth with a sun-like light.

The light did not scatter, but rather coalesced into a pillar of light, precisely pouring into Calvin's Order Watcher armor.

The silver-based gold patterns on the surface of the armor instantly came to life, pulsating like blood vessels. Holy light flowed along the amplification circuits engraved inside the armor, eventually converging on his sword-wielding arms.

Power doubles, rule resonance increases by 40%, and energy recovery speed skyrockets.

This is a terrifying boost that can qualitatively change the combat power of any legendary powerhouse.

"I feel great!"

Calvin's figure shot out.

This time, his attack no longer aimed for an instantaneous burst.

The twin swords, "Buzz" and "Whisper," transformed into a continuous pecking motion, each strike landing precisely on the same area of ​​the City Eater's membrane wings.

The middle section of the left wing is where the previous wound had healed.

The marks of the Shadow Rift accumulated layer by layer, one sword, five swords, ten swords...

The City Devourer clearly sensed the threat. The rotation speed of the energy vortex increased sharply, and the iridescent fluid on its body surface surged violently. Dozens of void tentacles as thick as giant pythons grew from the wounds that had healed.

The ends of these tentacles split into whip-like tendrils, lashing towards Calvin with a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air.

"Humph."

Calvin didn't even look back.

Gronn's mobile barrier expanded in time, and the amber shockwave kept all the tentacles out of range.

Thran's interference threads tightened suddenly, slowing the tentacles' movements by half a beat.

Lina went even further, opening micro-spatial rifts at the growth nodes of three of the main tentacles. The turbulent flow of order gushing out from the rifts instantly shredded the tentacles into dissipating purple mist.

Twenty-five layers of imprints.

The city devourer's massive body began to tremble, a reaction to a fatal attack.

Clearly, only powerful void creatures possess this ability.

Even if it is merely a puppet created by the rules of the void, when its very foundation is threatened, a certain underlying survival logic is triggered.

Its energy was activated, its attacks became increasingly ferocious, and the energy circuits in its body began to operate wildly.

The central vortex accelerated wildly, creating a tremendous baptism of energy in its surroundings.

The energy vortex frantically spewed out crystal missiles, attempting to repel the threat that was continuously "drilling" into it.

However, the coordination of the Soul Guardian team has reached a level of fluidity and ease.

Gronn's barrier precisely blocked every wave of bombardment, Leona continuously maintained the Holy Light buff, and Thran and Lina's weakening and control never stopped.

And Calvin—

Thirty-five marks.

His arm began to tremble slightly from the high-frequency sword swings, and the internal cooling system of his armor was running at full capacity, expelling a large amount of steam.

But his eyes remained as cold as iron.

Forty-five marks.

The iridescent fluid in the middle of the left wing of the City Devourer had become dim and thin. Through the translucent outer skin, one could even vaguely see that the closest of the seven main energy nodes inside was emitting a dangerous, unstable flicker.

"Lina, fixed coordinates, maximum power."

Calvin said in a deep voice over the channel.

"Anchor point locked, space gate solidified—now!"

Lina's silvery-white eyes flashed with a dazzling light.

The three spatial anchor points suddenly contracted, forcibly tearing open a stable spatial rift in the middle of the left flank of the City Devourer.

This rift is not used for teleportation, but rather acts like a clamp in surgery, firmly "nailing" the spatial structure of that area in place, preventing the city devourers from even struggling or twisting.

"Thran, maximum weakening."

"Whispers of the Forest - Seven Shackles - Liberation!"

Seran's bowstring vibrated, and the seven rule threads previously embedded in the energy pores detonated simultaneously, transforming into materialized silver vine chains that tightly bound the seven energy nodes from the inside.

The energy flow of the city devourer instantly came to a near standstill.

"Gron, clear the area."

"Earth Pulse - Vibration Barrier - Fully Open!"

With a roar, Gron slammed the giant shield into the void beneath his feet. The amber shockwave spread out in a spherical shape, shattering all the void creatures within a radius of three hundred meters that attempted to interfere, whether they were floating crystals, bone cone crabs, or serpents, into scattered purple-black ash.

Finally, it's Leona.

She raised the warhammer high above her head, and all the holy light power no longer dispersed, but was compressed and condensed into the holy crystal at the top of the hammer, transforming into an ultimate blessing that was only as thick as an arm but as solid as liquid light, which poured straight into Calvin's body.

"Holy Light, protect this blade—"

Calvin felt his power surge to an unprecedented peak.

He released his left hand, but the "Whisper" sword did not fall. Instead, it flew automatically to his right hand under the guidance of the rules and touched the spine of the "Buzz" sword.

The inscription arrays of the two legendary longswords lit up simultaneously, and the blades began to merge, extend, and recombine—in just half a second, a giant cross sword with a cross-shaped hilt and guard, a blade as wide as a palm, and flowing with gold and silver light was in Calvin's hands.

The Soul Keeper squad leader, Calvin Anvil's ultimate weapon—the legendary cross-shaped sword "Judgment of Good and Evil".

"ended."

Calvin's figure disappeared from the spot.

Instead of moving at high speed, it appeared directly in front of the fixed area on the left flank of the City Eater through a warp gate pre-set by Lina that connects to the spatial rift.

The tips of the cross-shaped swords held in both hands were precisely aimed at the point where the iridescent fluid was thinnest and the internal energy nodes were flashing most intensely.

All forty-five overlapping shadows and laceration marks resonated.

The sword that judges good and evil pierces in.

No sound.

Or rather, all voices were swallowed up by the tearing apart of the rules.

Onlookers could only see the blade of the cross sword completely disappear into the body of the city devourer.

Immediately following, centered on the point where the blade pierced the beast, gold and silver cracks spread like wild vines across its body, reaching every 100 meters in length. (End of Chapter)