Secondary Biotic Engine / Rice Pilaf, Scrounged for Free

The more people who survive, the safer everyone will be!

Hela frowned slightly, then stomped her right foot, and a dark green mist spread out. Any Shoggoth that came into contact with this deathly aura withered and disintegrated.

However, after a while, the Goddess of Death was shocked to discover that these monsters were able to endure the deathly aura for longer and longer periods of time.

Moreover, even the rotting, fallen tentacles seemed to tremble and show signs of revival.

Even the Authority over Death, stripped of life, is becoming increasingly ineffective. What exactly are these things?!

Having promised to ensure everyone's safety, and given the current critical situation, Hela decided to no longer hide.

The weapon that the Goddess of Death wielded continuously knocked one monster after another that climbed the wall into the abyss, creating a blank fan-shaped area around them.

The Frostclaw Cavalry instinctively moved closer to Hela, hoping for a chance to catch their breath.

Hexi then grabbed a soldier's sword, her eyes flashing with silver light. Her left hand gently moved the five fingers over the blade, pressing a program of a Magic Array Diagram into the weapon.

Immediately, the solemn-faced Heavenly Foundation King swung his sword, the blade pinning a Shoggoth who had jumped onto the city wall to the rock face.

Instantly, a silvery-gray light rippled from the sword onto the Shoggoth. These almost infinitely regenerating monsters immediately swelled up in various parts of their bodies, and their pus-like eyes burst open.

Then, like a wax sculpture that has lost all its moisture, Shoggoth crumbled into countless tiny fragments at the slightest touch, falling into the soil.

It works!

Hexi tossed the "enchanted" longsword to the soldier, who then thrust it out again, killing a Shoggoth that lunged at him in the same manner. The crowd was thrilled.

"Everyone! Those changing gear, go first. Those whose weapons need enchanting, step back and change in batches!"

The Heavenly Foundation King threw Hela's other, fully modified Night Sky Sword, to the Goddess of Death was blocking more than 80% of the Shoggoth.

The Angel of Wind's voice was high-pitched, like a shot of adrenaline to the terrified humans.

The weapons programmed by Hexi inflicted devastating damage on the monsters.

The Frostclaw Cavalry, their morale restored, pressed forward, leaving monster after monster on the city walls.

Seeing that humans possessed weapons specifically designed to target them, and that many of their companions had died as a result, these Shoggoth actually retreated while shrieking.

Then a beam of colorful light shot out from the valley, and the Shoggoth, drawn by this, abandoned nearly a hundred corpses and jumped into the Howling Abyss.

"Squeak!"

Meanwhile, the battle in the square had also come to a conclusion. Kevin's modified silver-white longsword dismembered the four Giant Devouring Worm that emerged from the cracks in the ground as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

The man stood amidst melting limbs, his right arm swinging, causing the slime on the sword to immediately dissolve and slide off.

"Don't move, just bear with it..."

Kevin approached the wounded soldier whose shoulder blade had pierced through, held the sword hilt upside down with his left hand, and covered the wound with his right hand to straighten the bones.

Subsequently, the "Divine Healing" function derived from the 11th Holy Relic was activated, a milky white light rippled out, the soldier's bones quickly reconnected, and granulation tissue on both sides grew and healed rapidly.

But a strong sense of weakness and hunger also arose within the soldiers.

This is the 11th Holy Relic's ability to stimulate bodily regeneration, but it requires energy in exchange.

"Those ghostly things have all retreated, what do we do now?"

Sejuani lifted her cheek, flipped down from the tower, and listened attentively to Kevin's opinion with a more serious tone.

Despite the many mysteries surrounding the three of them, the Grand Duke of the North now has no doubt that they are the only saviors who can help the North resolve this crisis.

The strong deserve trust and respect, especially those who are willing to help them.

Sejuani glanced at the soldier who was excitedly moving his arm and nodded to herself.

"How about we go downstairs for the tea party?"

The man casually sheathed his silver-white greatsword on his back, then approached the hole from which the Giant Devouring Worm had emerged, his eyes narrowing slightly, his tone playful.

"Perhaps we'll soon see your Frostguard relatives..."

Hexi, Hela, and Sejuani stepped forward and looked down.

Inside, the ice layer had been chiseled open, revealing traces of tool cutting.

Moreover, the steps and the walls on both sides are covered with strange and twisted patterns and eerie eyes!

The cave was cold and eerie, and the feeling of being watched grew stronger.

P. S.: Something came up today, so I had to postpone it slightly. I'll continue from 6 PM to 8 PM tomorrow.

Chapter 981, Section 1025: Sub-biological Engine

"Tick-tock... tick-tock..."

The group followed and entered the carved cave, descending the narrow, winding staircase.

The milky-white trails left by the Giant Devouring Worm dripped with a disgusting slime.

As they went deeper and the opening narrowed, the group had to bend down and feel their way forward, eventually having to crawl through.

Worse still, some team members have begun to appear disoriented, muttering incoherently, and the whites of their eyes have rolled back, taking up most of their eye sockets.

Then, these out-of-control soldiers, as if possessed, stared at the eye patterns around them with a fanatical fascination, kneeling and crawling forward as if on a pilgrimage.

The teammates who were still relatively sober were about to reach out and pull these out-of-control people back.

With a cracking and twisting sound, these soldiers turned their necks, their bulging eyes radiating an indescribable ferocity and madness, while drool dripped from their mouths and they mumbled incomprehensible tones.

Even worse, one out-of-control soldier, in a fit of rage, drew his longsword and furiously slashed at his teammate's neck.

Kevin reached out and pulled back the unfortunate man who had almost had his throat slit, then swung his arm and cleaved through the thick ice around him.

Instantly, the surrounding eye-shaped symbols emitted invisible screams that caused excruciating pain, and the out-of-control soldiers collapsed to the ground as if their spines had been removed, screaming in Affliction while clutching their heads.

"Roll!"

Hexi, who was extremely sensitive to these strange phenomena, suddenly shouted and immediately opened his right hand, throwing the milky white ball of light that had gathered between his fingers and palm upwards.

Dozens of small orbs of light split off from it and flew into the people's armor and bodies, gradually forming a barely visible silver-white protective film.

Immediately, some of the soldiers who had fallen first shuddered, as if waking from a nightmare, and retreated, their faces pale.

This is definitely not a simple squire!

Sejuani leaned against the ice wall, panting heavily. Her expression gradually returned to calm as she came to the conclusion that Hexi was indeed her true identity.

Although her experience living in the North gave Sejuani an extraordinary will, those screams from before seeped into her mind like an all-pervasive fog.

Fortunately, the squire defended himself in time; otherwise, she feared she would eventually suffer a mental breakdown like the soldier who had just been controlled.

"Don't look at those eyes, destroy them, leave no one alive!"

"Also, maintain a calm mindset and try not to experience drastic emotional fluctuations! If anyone around you seems unwell, notify us immediately!"

"Also, stay close to me!"

Kevin bent down and pressed his hand on the neck of an out-of-control soldier with a dislocated cervical spine, tending to his injuries, his tone stern.

The guards, already tormented by all the bizarre circumstances and paranoid by fear and a sense of catharsis, wildly slashed with their swords, hacking the surrounding eye-shaped patterns to shreds.

Kevin and his two companions stood at the front, middle, and rear nodes, taking care of the beginning and end.

After the unexpected incident, everyone instinctively moved closer to Hexi, who was in the center.

Some of the listless and out-of-control soldiers gradually improved as the Heavenly Foundation King sang hymns like ballads.

Several intense gazes were cast from the eyes of the healers and focused on Hexi.

Sejuani in the group frowned slightly, but ultimately said nothing.

People living in the North don't believe in God; they only believe in their own fists!

But in this bizarre situation, those people are still in a very bad mental state. Having something to fill the void in their hearts is better than continuing to go mad.

After this unexpected incident, everyone instinctively sped up and tightened their formation.

The icy path sloping downwards was still quite deep. Kevin carefully made his way forward while silently asking Hexi in his mind.

"How do you have a solution for this?"

The Heavenly Foundation King glanced at the soldiers with eye-shaped markings along the way, his tone somber.

"I just tried it based on my guess, and I didn't expect that the Sub-biological Engine would actually work on these things!"

"The Sub-biological Engine is a project Keisha assigned to me, and it's also one of the top secrets of the Merlot Heavenly Court. Currently, the research results have only been applied to a very small number of people..."

"My apprentice, Zhixin, is the current Right Wing Guard, and there's also the Left-Wing Guardian, Yan, and both of them are only half-finished products..."

It's Shoggoth! That bastard's here again!

Kevin noticed the commotion ahead. He took the lead, slowly clearing away the tentacle monsters that were climbing out of the ice caves from all directions, while frowning and pondering.

"Sub-biological Engine, what is the relationship between this and the Void Engine that Liang Bing mentioned in the Apocalypse Database?"

Although he had already guessed the origin of these monsters, in order to make the information seem plausible and extract more secrets from Hexi, Kevin took the opportunity of shifting the blame to Liang Bing to continue questioning her.

"It's just a matter of Liang Bing and Morgana being different products with different names..."

"It seems Liang Bing has high expectations for you; she even told you this..."

Hexi drew an arc with her knight's sword, intercepting and killing the Shoggoth who pounced from the nearby ice cave in the most effortless way, vividly explaining the situation, and then gave Kevin a deep look.

"Actually, the Void Engine was Oldest One a theory and hypothesis proposed by Death God Karl at the Super God Academy, and it was put into practice in the Styx Galaxy..."

"Liang Bing, who was studying at the Super God Academy at the time, also became interested in Karl's topic, which ultimately led to the split of the Three Kings of the Merlot Heavenly Court."

"That tomboy Keisha, so proud and arrogant, wants to surpass the technology of the Known Universe on every level, so naturally she has to develop Void Engine..."

"However, Ultimate Fear and the theory of the void are taboo for her, so this tomboy wants to change her name to [Sub-biological Engine]..."

Kevin swung his arm and pierced through the two Shoggoth, a hazy white light emanating from the blade.

The monsters screamed as their body structures began to disintegrate, their shells, resembling broken paraffin wax, scattering one after another.

"Then what about those things I saw in the Solar System..."

Hexi breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the Old Ones roots that had been spreading nearby being chopped into dust by the Frostclaw Knight' chaotic sword strikes.

"The similarity is very high; it can be basically concluded that they belong to the same lineage..."

Immediately, the Heavenly Foundation King seemed to be angered for some reason, and his face darkened.

"If the Known Universe evolved from wild growth to a more orderly and structured state..."

"Then they are the other extreme, frenzied and chaotic, rejecting all known laws of the world!"

"This is an existence far more evil than Morgana's decadent and unrestrained mind!"

After venting briefly in her mind, Hexi's expression gradually became serious.

"Perhaps Karl's conjecture is correct..."

"In the higher dimensions of the universe, there exists a terror beyond our comprehension and description. If these extremely evil civilizations were to descend upon us on a large scale, the world would be doomed!"

At the same time, after hearing Hexi's concerns, Kevin couldn't help but have another doubt in his mind.

Misty Town Valley, Outer Solar System...

These two experiences suggest that Cthulhu Creatures activities are becoming increasingly frequent.

Perhaps the hidden dangers of Howling Abyss are related to the disaster that Yog-Sothoth attempted to unleash a few months ago when it tried to break the seal.

City of R'lyeh... Rune Lands... Freyja Continent... Queen Anixid...

Is everything going as you predicted, Super God Academy?

The man's eyes narrowed slightly, his face appearing and disappearing in the darkness of the torches and the ice cave.

Chapter 982, Section 1026: The Rice That Was Stolen for Free

Freyja, Kingdom of Freljord, in front of Queen Anixid's military tent.

High knight Salayan lifted the curtain and stepped inside, bowing with his right hand to Queen Anixid, who was reviewing documents behind the long table.

"Your Her Majesty the Queen, under your glorious rule, Freljord is invincible!"

Wearing light armor, Anixid put down her quill, brushed the stray black hair from her forehead behind her ear, her brow furrowed slightly, and her voice was somewhat cold.