Chapter 254: An Instant Burst! "Yes!" The two deputies thought this was overkill, but orders were orders. They answered in unison, then turned to leave the tent and relay the commands.
But just as they lifted the tent flap and stepped through the entrance, something changed.
A deadly sense of danger swept over them like a breached flood, so cold it seemed capable of freezing their souls. Every hair stood on end. Their scalps prickled, and their hearts seemed to stop.
They looked up instinctively. Their pupils shrank to pinpoints.
Two streaks of light tore through the night like meteors, hurtling straight toward the command tent with an air of utter destruction.
One was a spear radiance of deepest black. It seemed to swallow every trace of light, dimming even the space it passed through. It carried the stillness of death, as though all life would wither before it.
The other was a blazing crimson spear radiance. The air warped in its wake, and its savage heat seemed capable of burning the heavens, boiling the seas, and melting all things.
The two attacks came too fast, too suddenly, too quietly. They seemed to emerge straight from empty space, without warning or the slightest leak of energy. Only an instant before reaching the tent did their world-shaking power and killing intent erupt.
"Enemy attack!"
Tuoba Lie's pupils contracted. He roared in shock and fury and tried to intervene, but he was too far away. The spear radiances were moving too fast for him to react.
Boom!
A thunderous explosion split the night. The violent shockwave tore the entire command tent to shreds.
The two spear radiances, prepared in advance and charged with all of Lin Ming's and General Scarlet Flame's strength, struck the two deputies of the second layer of the