northernbook Chapter 254 Battle Against the Beast King
Chapter 254 Battle Against the Beast King
The nuclear warhead tumbled and fell toward the surface of Tokyo Bay. As it fell, the green light on the warhead turned red and emitted a short beep.
At the same time, Song Chen activated Fuyao with all his might, transforming into a whirlwind and disappearing from the spot.
When he reached a distance of 5,000 meters, the fusion device inside the missile completed a chain reaction.
The water's surface was replaced by a newly born sun.
The light at the center of the explosion was pure white, so bright that it pierced through everything—the seawater, the ruins, and even the scales and bones of the strange beast.
The shockwave spread outward from the point of explosion, creating a hemispherical depression a kilometer in diameter on the water surface, which then rebounded into a tsunami wall hundreds of meters high that pushed outward in all directions.
The ruins of old-era skyscrapers shattered like building blocks in the shockwave, the steel beams of the viaduct were twisted into pretzel shapes, and the giant cargo ship that had been capsized for decades was completely lifted up, flipped twice in the air, and then crashed back into the water.
The dozens of Tier 5 alien beasts closest to the explosion's epicenter on the platform didn't even have time to react.
An ancient crocodile from Southeast Asia was less than 200 meters from the epicenter. Its scales vaporized directly in the high temperature of the nuclear explosion, followed by its muscles, bones, and crystal core. Its entire body was burned to ashes from the inside out in a fraction of a second.
The three giant snow wolf was hit head-on by the shockwave. Its body felt as if it had been crushed by an invisible giant hand, and the sound of its bones breaking was drowned out by the roar of the explosion.
Several members of the Abyss Python Clan were too large to shrink in time, and the shockwave struck their outstretched bodies, tearing off their scales piece by piece, leaving them mangled and smashed into the ruins.
Then came the system notification sound.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 86550 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 7866 kill points]
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 91005 kill points]
……
The system notifications in Song Chen's mind were so frequent that he could no longer hear them individually.
The numbers on the kill count panel scrolled wildly, instantly reaching tens of millions, twenty million, thirty million, and then forty million...
As the shockwave spread outward, it swept up even more low-level alien beasts. Those low-level sea beasts that had been lurking beneath the surface were brought to the surface in droves by the shockwave and high temperature of the nuclear explosion.
Whale-like creature reacted the instant the nuclear bomb fell.
Its 1,500-meter-long body sank at a terrifying speed disproportionate to its size, while simultaneously opening its enormous mouth to spew out a wall of water tens of meters thick in front of it.
The water wall vaporized in just one second in the face of the shockwave, but that time difference was enough for it to sink to a sufficiently deep water layer.
As the shockwave swept over its head, it felt a burning, stinging pain in its back; the heat from the nuclear explosion had penetrated its skin.
The Golden-Winged Roc King spread its wings the instant the nuclear bomb fell, its dark blue feathers edged with brilliant golden light, and pulled away at a terrifying speed that exceeded the speed of sound.
The Abyss Python plunged into the ground, its entire body tumbling and rolling through the soil to a depth of a hundred meters.
The Nine-Tailed Fox King retreated in a bizarre manner, its nine tails unfurling simultaneously, each tail tip releasing a pale blue mental energy shield that stacked into nine layers of semi-transparent barriers in front of it.
After shattering six layers of barriers, the shockwave finally slowed down, pushing the Nine-Tailed Fox King backward for ten thousand meters.
The other sixth-tier beasts also reacted, but the fifth-tier beasts were not so lucky.
These alien beasts never dreamed that Song Chen could conjure a nuclear bomb out of thin air. Lacking vigilance, they were hit by the blast.
As the light gradually dimmed and the aftershocks of the shockwave finally swept across every inch of the ruins in Tokyo Bay, the platform was completely unrecognizable.
The once intact platform was blasted open, leaving a large hole, and the psionic structures at the edges shattered into tiny specks of light that drifted into the air.
The corpses of dozens of fifth-tier alien beasts lay scattered across the platform ruins and the water surface. Some were burned to a crisp, some were torn to pieces by the shockwave, and some had half their bodies submerged underwater and half floating on the water.
The corpses of low-level beasts were too numerous to count, and the water surface was stained a murky gray-black.
Dark red flames were still churning at the base of the mushroom cloud, and the aftershocks of the shockwave had swept over every inch of the ruins.
The water surface at the epicenter of the nuclear explosion was blasted into a massive crater several kilometers in diameter, with seawater rushing in and creating a roaring waterfall-like effect.
Countless people died or were injured, but none of the sixth-tier soldiers died.
The Abyss Python King emerged from underground. Several scales on its 1,200-meter-long body were blown off by the shockwave, revealing the dark red muscle tissue beneath.
The Golden-Winged Roc King steadied itself in the air, shook its charred tail feathers, and the murderous intent in its amber-colored eagle eyes was almost tangible.
The Nine-Tailed Fox King's nine-layered mental energy shield was shattered in six layers, but its main body was completely unharmed, with not a speck of dust on its silvery-white fur.
Several ocean beast kings lurking underwater also surfaced: Whale Steed, a sixth-tier sea dragon, and a deep-sea behemoth whose name Song Chen couldn't recall.
They were covered in wounds.
These beasts survived only because Song Chen gave himself time to escape; otherwise, with a sudden burst of energy, none of them would have survived.
Whale emerged from the water, a large patch of skin on its back scorched by the intense heat of the nuclear explosion. Its dark blue skin had turned charred black, with tiny wisps of steam still rising from the edges.
It slowly raised its head, its gaze piercing through the embers of the nuclear explosion, locking onto the figure holding a knife in mid-air.
"Humans!"
The hatred in its eyes was almost tangible.
"Kill him."
Above the ruins, Song Chen glanced at the system panel in his mind.
The kill count was still fluctuating, at 52 million, and it was still rising, presumably because the severely injured beasts were dying one after another.
The Golden-Winged Roc King was the first to make a move. It was the fastest of all the mythical beasts. With a flap of its wings, its dark blue figure left a straight afterimage in the night sky. Its beak opened, and blue wind blades with a diameter of tens of meters shot out from the tip of its beak.
The destructive power of the wind blades is enough to cut a mountain in half, and it doesn't even need to get close to deal with a human who is less than two meters tall.
Before the wind blades even arrived, the Golden-Winged Roc King had already retracted its beak, preparing for the next attack. In its experience, humans locked onto by its wind blades at this distance simply couldn't dodge.
Song Chen didn't dodge; he charged forward into the wind blades, the blue wind trail he created drawing an arc in the night sky.
The Heavenly Blade slashed into the wind blade's psionic structure from the side. The Eye of Truth had already marked the core node of the wind blade, and the blade precisely cut into that node. The entire wind blade silently disintegrated into scattered psionic fragments behind him.