The shrill sound of claw force tearing through the air rose to the heavens like a hellish summoning chant. In seven or eight short seconds, Gu Xiechen's claws struck nearly a thousand times. The seven or eight white wolves surrounding him howled miserably as chunks of flesh were torn from their bodies. Blood sprayed through the air, and the Snow Soul Divine Claw shredded the seven or eight bull-strong white wolves to pieces.
Miserable screams came from nearby. The rapid gunfire had only just started before abruptly stopping. Gu Xiechen panted heavily and looked behind him. The sight made his eyes turn red.
At least two hundred mercenaries had been knocked to the ground by the remaining fifty-odd white wolves. Their bones were as fragile as tofu beneath the wolves' claws and fangs. Steaming blood splashed across the ground, and whenever the wolves swung their claws, mercenaries' bellies were torn open, their multicolored internal organs spilling onto the snow in clouds of steam.
The mercenaries howled as they fired madly at the white wolves right in front of them, but the bullets could not harm these biobeasts created by the Roman people. Ordinary bullets bounced harmlessly off their fur, while highly penetrating armor-piercing rounds could barely sink into their bodies. The tiny, insignificant flecks of blood looked especially glaring against those silver-white creatures.
Several rockets came screaming in from afar. Upon hearing that biobeasts had appeared, the Bearded Commander had personally led a battalion of soldiers out to reinforce them.
The white wolf hit by the rockets had a massive hole blasted through its body. Its organs and great quantities of bloody pulp kept gushing out, yet it still charged desperately into the soldiers. In the blink of an eye, the dying wolf bit off one mercenary's head and tore apart two others. It let out a venomous howl at the Bearded Commander rushing toward it before expelling its final breath of cold air and collapsing dead.
Gu Xiechen and the Bearded Commander shouted as they charged into the pack of white wolves. The other mercenaries steadied themselves and used rifle grenades and rockets to kill the wolves. White wolves were constantly slain by Gu Xiechen and the Bearded Commander; mercenaries were constantly shredded by the wind-swift wolves; and wolves were constantly blasted into minced flesh by the dense rain of bullets.
The scene was utter chaos. Blood, organs, and minced meat lay scattered everywhere, staining the snow a deep crimson.
The Roman soldiers who had just been blown away by missiles and rockets fired from the helicopters swiftly replaced the energy blocks in their Energy Armor. Bright blue shields flickered to life around them once more. Clutching their halberds, they strode forward with smiles of impending victory. Behind them, vast stretches of snow writhed as soldiers in white combat uniforms continuously emerged from beneath it.
These soldiers in white combat uniforms stood only between 1.6 and 1.7 meters tall, roughly the same height as ordinary Earthlings. They were breathtakingly beautiful. Though their faces carried intense killing intent, their features still possessed the exquisite beauty of artwork. Pale green skin, dark green eyes, violet-green hair, and an air brimming with the vibrant vitality of a forest at dawn—these warriors carrying high-energy laser rifles seemed less like killers marching onto a battlefield and more like elves from myth and legend.
"Spirit Race." These incomparably beautiful soldiers were warriors of the Spirit Race.
The Spirit Race was a servant race of the Roman people. Spirit Race members were innately capable of attuning themselves to all kinds of energy between heaven and earth, making them natural psychics. Every Roman family had Spirit Race servants, but only a very small number of powerful and noble Roman families could afford to keep large numbers of Spirit Race warriors.
"Fuck your mother!" Gu Xiechen and the Bearded Commander cursed at the same time.
There were at least three thousand Spirit Race warriors emerging from the snow! That alone exceeded the combined numbers of the Hell Angels Mercenary Group and the power station guards.
Deep roars rose from beneath the snow, and large expanses of snow began to tremble. Ten enormous beasts slowly crawled out from underground. They closely resembled mammoths, but these mammoth-like monsters stood over twenty meters tall. Instead of thick fur, their bodies were covered in basin-sized conical scales. Six razor-sharp tusks, each ten meters long, protruded from their mouths. When they opened their jaws to roar, layers of sharp teeth still threaded with scraps of flesh could be seen inside their gigantic bloody maws.
"Damn it, the Roman people's biobeasts have been upgraded again!" Gu Xiechen cursed under his breath. "Three years ago, these Guli Beasts only had four tusks in their mouths, and they definitely didn't have scales!"
Gu Xiechen's teeth itched with hatred. Three years ago, he had participated in a secret transaction between the Gu Group and the Roman people. The special cell source needed to cultivate the new generation of Guli Beasts had been smuggled to the Roman people by the Gu Group. Karma. Damn it, this is karma! Gu Xiechen silently swore. I'll never do business with the Roman people again. Damn it, karma!
Each of the ten Guli Beasts carried a small gun turret on its back. The thick, black gun barrels atop the turrets glimmered with a chilling light. Several nimble Spirit Race members worked atop each turret. At the arrogant commands of the Roman soldiers, the high-energy cannons on all ten turrets simultaneously fired thick blue beams of light.
The strange shriek of "Kreee!" sent a chill through Gu Xiechen's heart, and he instinctively dropped flat to the ground.
The foot-thick blue particle streams ionized vast amounts of air, and as they left the barrels, high-energy plasma clouds roughly two meters wide wrapped around them. The plasma clouds, hot enough to vaporize ordinary metal in an instant, skimmed past Gu Xiechen's and the Bearded Commander's backs before striking the formation of mercenaries behind them with pinpoint precision.
A violent explosion erupted. Blue light filled heaven and earth, and the remaining dozens of white wolves and several hundred mercenaries vanished within it. Ten enormous craters several meters deep appeared in the snow.
The Bearded Commander was so heartsick that white foam sprayed from the corners of his mouth. He roared into his communicator, "You bastards! If your reinforcements don't get here soon, I'll report to the military's disciplinary committee exactly how many bribes you've taken from me! Damn it! Get the reinforcements here now! Fuck your mother, the forces here are at least the equivalent of a regular Roman regiment!"
Bitterness filled Gu Xiechen's heart. A regular Roman regiment? It would take at least a reinforced division from an Earth Federation Army Class A corps to barely stand against that. And here they only had one understrength Imperial Guard Regiment from the Hell Angels Mercenary Group!
The piercing shriek came again. Gu Xiechen looked up, and the sight nearly scared the soul out of him.
The heavy cannons mounted on the Guli Beasts' backs had all aimed at him and the Bearded Commander. Ten thick high-energy particle streams were about to fire.
Snatching up the Bearded Commander, who was still spewing curses, Gu Xiechen's heartbeat soared to nine hundred beats per minute. A wild surge of energy burst from his Dao embryo. Ignoring whether his body could withstand the influx, Gu Xiechen gritted his teeth and unleashed all his strength through his feet.
With a dull boom, countless cracks burst across the skin of Gu Xiechen's feet. His feet reduced to a bloody mess, he seized the Bearded Commander and shot into the sky like a flea.
The ten high-energy particle streams exploded beneath their feet. Gu Xiechen only felt a violent wave of heat howl upward from below, and he and the Bearded Commander were hurled more than two hundred meters away, completely unable to control their bodies.
With a "Crack!" the Bearded Commander slammed heavily into the ground and was knocked unconscious. A steel bar thrown up by the blast wave pierced straight through his thigh, skewering both his legs together like a roasted frog.
Gu Xiechen had barely staggered to his feet when a cold, emotionless voice came from the thick wind and snow ahead.
"Evil Dragon? I really should thank you!"
A three-meter-tall Roman man, his entire body blazing with wild blue flames of light, smashed through the thick snowstorm and appeared before Gu Xiechen.
Golden Energy Armor, decorative patterns so exquisite they were astounding, a two-meter-long purple Light Sword that was equally breathtaking, a bizarre cloak made of special material billowing behind the armor, and intricate patterns outlined in gold across that cloak—everything proclaimed that this Roman man was far from ordinary.
The patterns on his cloak were especially familiar. During the Gu Group's secret transactions years ago, Gu Xiechen had seen similar emblems more than once.
"The Roman Elector Family?" Gu Xiechen gave a dry laugh.
"Borport Holsom, eldest legitimate son of the Holsom Family, the second Elector Family, greets Mr. Evil Dragon!"
The Roman man's golden eyes stared at Gu Xiechen with ruthless coldness.
"You bastard who deserves to go to hell, I'm going to slice you apart inch by inch!"
Raising his purple Light Sword high, Borport roared and brought it slashing down at Gu Xiechen.
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