Why Are You So Brittle?
After more than ten minutes of all-out destruction, the Third Order Heretic leader, using a highly corrosive and bizarre acid and a heavy bone chisel, had already melted and chiseled a deep pit emitting pungent white smoke through the thick lead-sealed main pipe. The entire pipe was only one thin layer of raw lead iron inner wall away from being completely chiseled through.
Just as the leader raised the bone chisel, which was wreathed in Black Qi, to smash through the last layer of pipe wall, the piercing roar of several steam carriages screeching to a stop suddenly came from outside the Waterworks gate.
The Third Order Heretic leader's face darkened abruptly. Clutching the secret letter that had just arrived from the inner city, his eyes swept coldly across the entrance bridge below. He gave a chilling order to his three subordinates beside him:
"Herbert, the head of the water conservancy department, has been captured by the Northern Territory Knight Academy. The City Hall has also issued a strict order prohibiting all boilers in the city from shutting down. The magistrates in the inner city have sent word that we must process the mature organisms as soon as possible, at all costs."
"I didn't expect the Knight Academy's nose to be so sharp. We'd only been taking the back roads and drilling the pipe for about ten minutes, and they'd already caught up with us by following the old water storage station!"
"Now we only need to break through the last layer of the lead-sealed pipe wall, and the high-pressure water from the water tower above is about to fill up. I'll stay here and continue smashing through the pipe to inject the spores. You three go and guard the Inscription on the covered bridge at the entrance. Hold them off for the last two minutes. Anyone who dares to rush in will be killed!"
"Don't worry about sacrificing your life. We have already earned the right to go to the Holy Sovereign's residence. If we give our lives again, we will gain everything we seek!!"
Upon hearing this, the three Heretic core members' eyes flashed with fanaticism. They immediately responded in unison, turned around, jumped off the pipe platform, and spread out behind the cover on both sides of the corridor bridge, activating the heavy alchemical crossbows and all the Eerie Inscription on the ground.
Almost simultaneously, Lin En jumped off the carriage outside the Waterworks, kicked open the heavy iron door of the pressurization tower hall, and led his five team members inside.
As Lin En and his five squad members rushed onto the iron bridge at the entrance to the hall, the Eerie Inscription gray-black inscriptions carved on the ground on both sides of the bridge suddenly lit up, transforming into a viscous swamp force field that wrapped around their legs. At the same time, the two Second Order Heretic behind the cover also pulled the trigger of their heavy alchemical crossbows, firing directly at the entrance to the bridge.
"Careful!"
Lin En, who was at the forefront, suddenly expanded, and in the next moment, Lin En originally thin body was covered by a layer of glass-like shell.
The Alchemical Crossbow Bolt, as thick as a finger, came whistling through the air, but Lin En blocked them with his bare body.
After a loud crash, the Alchemical Crossbow Bolt exploded. When the smoke cleared, Lin En was clearly in bad shape and had obviously suffered some injuries.
The Third Order Believer Transcendent Lin En and the others had actually blocked the first wave of attack. He let out a low, twisted roar, and his skin and flesh suddenly tore apart inch by inch with a splattering sound.
Numerous pale bone spurs, coated with viscous yellow blood and dark red flesh membranes, proliferated wildly from his body, spreading crisscrossing along his arms and chest, and in the blink of an eye, they hardened into a thick, ferocious layer of bone armor.
The Mutation Third Order Heretic, covered in hardened bone spurs, charged straight at them. Lin En and his two teammates swung their swords with all their might at the bone spurs on his arms, but only managed to create a string of blinding sparks. Instead, they were jolted back by the violent recoil, their hands going numb. The six of them were stuck at the front of the bridge, making the situation extremely difficult.
On the high platform at the end of the covered bridge, the Third Order Heretic leader completely ignored the firefight at the entrance. He raised his heavy bone chisel high and slammed it hard into the lead-sealed main pipe pit that was emitting white smoke. With a crisp crack, the last thin layer of cast iron inner wall cracked and a water-seeping gap appeared.
Lin En, who was being held back on the corridor bridge by the troublesome Third Order bone-spur Heretic and a barrage of crossbow bolts, saw this scene and, fearing to use his explosive weapons to bombard the platform lest they blow through the pipe walls, immediately roared anxiously at his teammates behind him, his eyes blazing with fury:
"Stop him! We can't let him damage the pipe, or the consequences will be dire!"
However, the strange muddy Inscription on the bridge floor were extremely sticky, and the Third Order alien blocking their way was clearly willing to risk his life to stop them. Lin En and his group were unable to break through his blockade for a while.
Just as Lin En was getting anxious, Lu Yuan, who had been following at the back of the group without drawing his weapon, glanced at the lead seal steward on the high platform who was about to be completely pierced, and calmly took a step forward.
Lu Yuan didn't draw upon the Sea of Knowledge within his mind; he simply uttered the command "Activate Time Bestower" in his heart, and a line of Gray-White Text immediately appeared in the lower left corner of his vision.
[Sanity: -1...149.5/200]
Under the localized time acceleration brought about by the Time Bestower synchronization, the venomous crossbow bolts whistling around him and the fiercely fighting crowd instantly became incredibly slow in Lu Yuan's eyes. Lu Yuan stomped his feet hard on the iron plate of the corridor bridge, and a terrifying physical power belonging to a Lesser Dragon Blood Shell suddenly erupted from his fists, which were wrapped in Stonefire Gauntlet.
With a loud bang, the entire iron bridge trembled violently under the impact. Lu Yuan's figure transformed into a blur that tore through the air, instantly passing over the shoulders of Lin En and the others and rushing into the middle of the bridge.
The two Second Order Heretic, who were preparing to reload their heavy alchemical crossbows, hadn't even seen the newcomer's movements when Lu Yuan rushed in front of them, reaching out with both hands simultaneously to grab their shirts by the chests and slam them against the iron bridge floor beneath their feet.
Two sickeningly loud crashes of bones shattering suddenly rang out, the heavy iron plates of the covered bridge were smashed and deeply dented. The two Second Order Heretic didn't even have time to utter a scream before they coughed up blood and fainted on the spot. The Eerie Inscription on the ground also shattered and went out.
The Third Order bone spike heretic who was Heretic blocking Lin En's way suddenly narrowed his eyes upon seeing this. The hardened, pale bone spikes on his body twisted and thickened inward again. He crossed his arms in front of him, trying to use the hardened bone spikes, which even a knight's longsword couldn't cut through, to withstand Lu Yuan's charge.
Without pausing for a moment, Lu Yuan clenched his right fist, delivering a sonic boom that ripped through eardrums, and slammed a simple, heavy punch directly into the hardened bone spurs that the Third Order Heretic was blocking.
With a loud crack, the hard bone spikes that had just left Lin En and the others helpless shattered on the spot. The violent and unparalleled pure physical force of the fist slammed through the broken bone fragments and struck his chest, directly sending this burly Third Order- level Heretic flying backward with his feet off the ground. He crashed heavily into the iron pillar of the water tower more than ten meters away and slid down, completely losing his ability to resist.
In just two breaths, Lu Yuan swept away the blockade line on the entire corridor bridge with the most savage close combat stance. Lu Yuan used the railing at the end of the corridor bridge to propel himself directly into the air and onto the high platform where the lead seal supervisor was located.