Tiger-headed Monster Flood Dragon (Please Bookmark, Please Recommend)

"Commander, more and more Monsters are gathering. Should we launch the attack early?"

Someone in the command headquarters asked. Dong Nanbiao, who was also present, answered, "Our goal is to buy time and let the base relocate as much as possible, not to wipe out the Monsters."

At any other time, they would have launched an attack long ago. How could they possibly stand by and watch the Monsters gather?

"Besides, there's no harm in having them clustered together. One missile can send them all to their graves."

The commander-in-chief spoke with a smile. At a time like this, he could not show weakness. On the contrary, he had to appear optimistic.

As time slowly passed, the shadow of war gradually descended over everyone.

At the same time, an unexpected disturbance seemed to have occurred among the relocating base personnel.

"This is bad! Lu Yunhe seems to have gone missing!"

Dong Nanbiao's four personal guards had been ordered to protect Lu Yunhe's safety even at the cost of their lives. Yet at this critical moment, he had suddenly vanished.

The four were frantic, terrified that something might have happened to Lu Yunhe. But finding one person in such a vast crowd was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and under the current special circumstances, they could not conduct a large-scale search at all.

"He couldn't have run back, could he?"

That was right. After everyone had left the base, Lu Yunhe had slipped back alone.

"How quiet."

Lu Yunhe casually found a spot and sat down cross-legged, merging his soul consciousness into the Ultraman Avatar within his body.

The Ultraman Avatar was about to undergo a crucial leap in its level of life. Since Lu Yunhe and the avatar shared the same consciousness, he would naturally advance along with it.

Life and soul were tangible things and could not be shared, but consciousness, that intangible and ethereal thing, could be shared just like knowledge and comprehension.

In other words, if one avatar cultivated to the Immortal God realm, then Lu Yunhe's main body, as well as all his other avatars, would possess Immortal-level consciousness—even if the other avatars might only have Apprentice-level strength.

Yet because of the Illustrated Compendium, every avatar remained an independent individual under the original laws.

"Come to think of it, if I cultivate one avatar to the Universe Venerable level while keeping my main body at the World Lord level, could I easily bind the Star Tower?"

As Lu Yunhe pondered, he completely immersed his consciousness in the Ultraman Avatar, enjoying this hard-won evolution.

Roar~

Just as Lu Yunhe's consciousness was undergoing its transformation, a furious roar that sounded both like a tiger and a dragon rang out beneath the sea.

"It's begun!"

As the roar sounded, the already restless sea Monsters instantly began bellowing as they charged toward the shore.

As a coastal base, they had long constructed numerous barriers of cement, granite, and other materials along the shore. They served as fences to block the Monsters and as the first line of defense against their assault, buying time for humanity's attacks.

Rumble...

Thunderous sounds as if heaven and earth were collapsing erupted, and countless artillery shells rained down wildly upon the Monster horde.

In an instant, the Monsters' location was turned into a scorching sea of flames, swallowing countless Monster lives.

At the same time, snipers who had long been prepared raised their anti-materiel rifles and aimed at the Elite-level Monsters one by one.

Yet even after being baptized by the sea of fire, quite a few Beast General-level Monsters still burst through the barrage.

Because of the Monsters' size and strength, ordinary anti-materiel rifles could only deal with Beginner Beast Generals. Large-caliber shells could barely handle Intermediate Beast Generals. As for advanced Beast Generals, ordinary weapons could only kill them through luck.

Watching Monster after Monster charge out of the flames, Dong Nanbiao, stationed in the center, could not help picking up his weapon. However, the commander-in-chief beside him stopped him.

"These are just appetizers."

The commander shook his head and began issuing orders below: show no mercy.

Having received the command from above, specially made missiles were launched into the Monster horde one after another.

Solid fuel incendiary bombs, thermobaric bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and more...

Large numbers of missiles with intense incendiary properties were thrown into the heart of the Monsters.

If nuclear weapons did not cause Monsters to mutate and become even stronger, the commander would have used nukes long ago.

Under the effects of the massive number of high-temperature bombs, even the shore and waters before the base were covered in a sea of fire stretching over a thousand meters.

Under the Destructive Power of such weapons, no Beast General-level or lower Monster could withstand it.

But against Lord Level Monsters, especially ocean Monsters known for their massive size, they were difficult to hit unless the enemy foolishly stood still and let themselves be bombed. They could only be considered weapons for clearing the field.

"The ocean Monster lord behind this should be showing itself now, shouldn't it?"

In the war between humanity and ocean Monsters, humans were not the only ones familiar with the attack patterns of ocean Monsters. Those ocean lords, whose intelligence was no less than humanity's, were equally familiar with human attacks.

Driving vast numbers of ocean Monsters forward to deplete humanity's missiles was an almost unsolvable open scheme that left humanity deeply frustrated.

At humanity's technological level, there were indeed many missiles and similar weapons, but that was relative to all of humanity, not to a single country, much less an ordinary base.

The base where Lu Yunhe was located did not possess many high-explosive bombs of various kinds. Yet the ocean Monsters that the ocean lords could command were not only immense in number, but also formidable in quality.

The ocean, which occupied seventy percent of Earth's surface, had nurtured nearly endless life. Under the stimulation of Cosmic Primal Energy, these diverse life forms had all undergone entirely new evolutions.

There were jellyfish that could use mental attacks, crustaceans skilled in defense, and even Monsters capable of regenerating severed limbs, spraying venom, discharging electricity, and more.

Relying on their enormous numerical advantage and varied abilities, the first wave of attacks by ocean Monsters had directly wiped out an island nation in the East.

Just as the number of high-temperature bombs began to visibly dwindle, a familiar roar rang out across the battlefield.

The next moment, the previously calm water became turbulent. Massive waves began piling upon one another, surging endlessly toward the coastal base.

"This is bad. It's actually a Tiger-headed Monster Flood Dragon."

Seeing this near wave-controlling ability, Dong Nanbiao's expression changed drastically.

Among the many ocean Monsters, one type possessed particularly outstanding abilities. Their threat to humanity even surpassed that of some Monsters beyond the Lord Level: Monsters capable of controlling water currents.

Ocean Monsters were weakened on land, but these types of ocean Monsters could manipulate water currents to raise waves and turn land into marshes, greatly facilitating the ocean Monsters' assault. Not to mention the impact of the waves they controlled against the coastal defense base.

Yet most importantly, humanity had very few ways to deal with such waves, which were practically attacks of nature itself.

Under the leadership of such Monsters, it was like applying a debuff to humanity while giving the Monster side a positive buff.

The rising waves gradually devoured the burning sea of fire. Atop those waves, an ocean lord with a tiger's head, a fish's body, and a Serpent Tail rode the surging waters toward them.

Tiger-headed Monster Flood Dragon!

Although the results so far have been miserable, the author still really likes Swallowed Star fanfiction. Well, I'll at least finish writing the Swallowed Star storyline, or perhaps add Xue Ying later. But when reading Xue Ying, compared with Swallowed Star, it always feels like the early and middle parts were written by a different author, as though someone else ghostwrote them. I wonder if any of you feel the same way.