Disaster-Level Beast Tide, New York Falls!

Great Xia time, 9:00 a.m.

Inside Shelter No. 057, the sunlight was exceptionally bright, much like Lin Ye's cheerful mood.

"Neural Reaction Speed: peak High-tier War General!"

Lin Ye looked at the scarlet data on the test screen, a satisfied smile curling at the corner of his lips.

The result was more or less what he had expected.

This time, Lin Ye's greatest gain was advancing directly from Microscopic Level movement technique to Perfect Level movement technique.

Compared to the Microscopic Level, the Perfect Level movement technique produced far superior results.

It allowed him to make full use of any object in the surrounding environment and evade with the utmost precision.

This would bring indescribable benefits to Lin Ye's future battles.

Likewise, the advancement of his movement technique filled Lin Ye with confidence.

When challenging higher-level monsters in the future, he could rely on his advantages in movement and speed to earn massive amounts of Attribute Points, creating a positive cycle as his strength increased.

"I really want to head back to the wasteland and give it another proper run!"

Just thinking about his Perfect Level movement technique made Lin Ye unable to contain his excitement.

But for now, that was impossible.

He had something more important to do than killing monsters for Attribute Points—pass the assessment and sign a contract with the military.

Then, he would use the military's resources to cure his sister's illness and remove this burden from his heart!

An indescribable joy spread through Lin Ye's heart.

Meanwhile, in an international metropolis far away in another time zone.

This night was destined to be anything but peaceful.

The darkness surged like a tide.

As always, it dyed the coastal megacity of New York black.

Beneath the heavy veil of night, New York's skyscrapers stood in dense ranks.

Neon lights flickered, and the sea breeze drifted gently by, making it feel as though one had entered a world of interwoven light and shadow.

However, no one could have imagined it.

An unprecedented disaster descended in an instant.

"All residents! Warning! A Beast Tide is attacking! A Beast Tide is attacking..."

A broadcast at maximum volume echoed across the entire city.

The piercing air-raid sirens wailed without end, like the hand of Death God clutching fate in a death grip.

Military vehicles sped through every street, gathering Martial Artists and evacuating unrelated personnel.

"All students! Warning! A Beast Tide is attacking! A Beast Tide is attacking..."

At a suburban middle school, the elderly principal held a loudspeaker and shouted himself hoarse...

"All stockholders! Warning! A Beast Tide is attacking! A Beast Tide is attacking!!"

"Please take shelter in the nearest underground shelter!!"

"I repeat!! Please take shelter in the nearest underground shelter!!"

"..."

On the streets of Wall Street, a broadcast vehicle fitted with dozens of high-powered speakers blared at maximum volume.

Times Square, Chinatown, government buildings, commercial districts, major conglomerates, prominent families... countless people rushed out of buildings in panic, fleeing toward the nearest underground shelters to wait out the Beast Tide.

Inside a movie theater, every film being shown came to an abrupt stop.

In their place appeared lines of enormous, glaring scarlet text—

"The Beast Tide is attacking! All Martial Artists, assemble immediately! Unrelated personnel, take shelter in the nearest underground shelter!!"

"The Beast Tide is attacking! Martial Artists, assemble! Unrelated personnel, take shelter in the nearest underground shelter!!"

The same alarms appeared throughout every street and alley of New York.

The entire city of New York was engulfed by piercing sirens that tore through the sky.

Along the shores of New York Harbor, closest to the Pacific Ocean, massive war bases had been constructed to prevent sea monsters from entering the mainland.

Inside an observation post at one of the war bases, a male Martial Artist gazed out at the ocean, his eyes distant. "Another Beast Tide?"

"I wonder what scale this Beast Tide will be."

"Who cares what scale it is? We've got so many coastal-defense cannons, missiles, rockets, laser shells, incendiary bombs... no matter how many monsters come, they're done for."

The tall, thin man beside him watched the action video and answered absentmindedly.

Male Warrior: "..."

"Roarrr..."

"Rumble..."

Faint beast roars drifted from the horizon in the distance, where it blended into the night.

Vague, continuous shadows appeared beneath the curtain of night.

Male Warrior: "The Beast Tide... is here!!"

A seemingly endless sea of beasts advanced step by step from the ocean toward the Human Base...

"First bombardment, begin!"

Whoosh!!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!

"..."

At the same time, Countless missiles shot into the sky from artillery bases across America, wave after wave, without end.

Like falling comets, they plunged through the air with shrill howls and crashed into the distant sea of beasts.

Light... silently flared.

Even the moon in the sky dimmed in an instant.

Boom boom boom!!!

Boom boom boom!!!

Inside the underground shelters.

Most of the citizens lay prone on the ground. As they listened to the violent trembling of the earth, everyone felt an increasing tightness in their chests.

Some clasped their hands together and prayed that the Beast Tide would retreat soon, so they could see daylight again.

"Second bombardment, fire!!"

"..."

"..."

"Third bombardment, fire!"

"..."

"..."

"Twenty-fifth bombardment, fire!"

For a full hour and a half, explosions rang out without pause.

The accumulated reserves of an entire nation, built up over many years, were being rapidly depleted...

The night sky was already shrouded in layers of gray smoke.

It had not dispersed since the first wave of bombardment began.

Missiles, rocket projectiles, incendiary bombs, grenades... not a single one was absent as they were poured onto the Beast Tide as if they cost nothing.

Countless monster corpses floated across the blazing sea, densely packed together.

Amid the soaring red light, innumerable monsters had been annihilated in the recent bombardment.

Yet even more monsters had merely just arrived.

Between heaven and earth, the nearly endless horde of monsters continued to close in on the coastline...

Ten minutes later, a video began circulating on the Warrior Forum—

A president stood on a podium, his expression grim and ugly.

"Hong, Thunder God, leaders of every nation, all War Gods... a disaster-level Beast Tide has descended upon New York..."

Looking into the camera, his voice was low and mournful. "I... regret to tell everyone that New York... is gone."

"New York... is gone!"

As his arm dropped in a powerless wave, the footage immediately switched.

The video broadcast, in real time, the most authentic and brutal scenes facing New York City—

"Rumble~~~"

Amid artillery fire that seemed to shatter heaven and earth.

Dense, overwhelming masses of sea beasts either launched themselves out of New York Harbor or rapidly crawled ashore.

The artillery barrage from the steel fortresses was nothing more than a scratch against these astronomical numbers of sea beasts.

One batch was shot down, only for the next to surge forward.

Even wave after wave of missile bombardment failed to stop this terrifying Beast Tide numbering in the tens of billions.

BOOM!!

A giant beast with sharp horns jutting from its head smashed through a steel fortress, slaughtering the Martial Artists and soldiers inside.

At the same time, hundreds of such giant beasts appeared along the steel dragon, fearlessly ramming into the steel fortresses.

Behind them, dense swarms of sea beasts followed close behind, seemingly endless.

They leaped over the first defensive fortress and charged madly toward the several defensive lines set up within the city...

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