Chapter 38

Once the cannon was complete, a red light began to gather in its muzzle.

The Awakened present could all sense an enormous energy collecting in the muzzle, and they could tell that if this energy exploded while they were close, they probably wouldn’t even leave behind a corpse.

The red light was blinding as it erupted from the muzzle, arced through the sky, and then descended like a comet into the demon flood.

The demon flood was already midway up the mountain, about one to two thousand meters from the shelter. As the red light made impact, there was a deafening explosion, and an orange-red flame bloomed in the demon flood, like a flower in lava.

It was beautiful, and lethal.

The demonized beast in the very center was instantly turned to ash, not even leaving behind a corpse… Tang Yu winced. Materials from demonized beasts were worth money.

The high temperature, the shockwave, the flames, and that explosive energy instantly created a large hole in the dense demon flood.

The cannon didn’t fire very quickly, but after a few shots, the demon flood was like a tattered cloth. In this state, the survivors who had been so afraid that they could barely breathe no longer found the demon flood as frightening.

Of course, the survivors knew that this was a misperception, or perhaps it was because Chief Tang’s ability was too frightening. With a wave of his hand, he could create a cannon that could deal so much damage to the demon flood.

Among them…

Survivors who had been through a demon flood, like Chen Haiping, understood a little more.

Most shelters couldn’t even deal this much damage to the demon flood from the time of the demon flood’s arrival to the moment that the shelter was completely wiped out.

The crisis wasn’t over. The demonized beasts had already jumped onto the small square and were only a few hundred meters from Tang Yu, and their numbers were still frightening.

A human-shaped demonized beast with horns and red, membranous wings broke out from the pack. It moved incredibly quickly, a single flap of its wings carrying it ten or twenty meters.

Ordinary survivors didn’t understand, but the Awakened on the walls had grave expressions. They could sense an extremely domineering energy from this winged demonized beast.

This was a demonized beast capable of wiping out an entire team.

If a team made up entirely of Awakened encountered a demonized beast of this level, it would be entirely wiped out without a single survivor.

All the Awakened, both those that had and had not joined the patrol team, understood that all of them working together would be no match for this demonized beast. And while the cannon possessed immense power, its shots moved very slowly. Given this demonized beast’s speed, it was basically impossible for the cannon to hit.

Whoosh!

There was a piercing whistle, and the Awakened stared in a daze as a bloody ball of mist appeared in the plaza.

Bloody mist?

Where had the team-wiping demonized beast gone?

What in the world had happened? How had that demonized beast disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only a clump of dissipating bloody mist?

Their minds were somewhat broken. At this time, there was a sound, and a sharp-eyed Awakened spotted a black silhouette flying through the air.

The black silhouette left a white trail in the air, and at the terminus of this white trail, a rather powerful demonized beast that was charging at the front of the pack exploded into red mist.

The black silhouette moved so quickly that even Awakened found it hard to tell what it was.

By staring hard at those demonized beasts at the front, some people finally managed to realize what was going on.

As an arrow pierced through the head of a demonized beast, the powerful piercing force and extruding force caused the demonized beast to deform momentarily before the extruding force caused it to explode into a cloud of bloody mist.

It felt like the demonized beasts were balloons, bursting apart with a single jab!

The ordinary survivors were speechless, their mouths wide open. Air flowed through their open mouths and made them cough, but they continued to stare. Never had they imagined that demonized beasts could be so easily dealt with!

In front of the wall…

Tang Yu’s heart winced in pain again and again. Could they not hold back a little? Could he have a few spoils left to pick up?

…

The most terrifying thing about the demon flood was its numbers.

The killing power of the arrow towers and the cannon was terrifying, but the demon flood was still creeping up to the walls.

Tang Yu retreated to the side of the walls and then chose to build an arrow tower right beneath his feet.

As the arrow tower rose, Tang Yu was lifted upward, and with a hop, he jumped onto the wall.

Roger jumped onto the wall with his own strength, leaving behind those few Awakened and those basic automatons.

The faces of these people had turned ghastly pale.

Boom!

The demonized beasts flooded over the small square and quickly crashed against the walls.

The survivors quivered in fear, worried that the walls wouldn’t hold.

Someone snuck a glance from beneath the hands covering their eyes. “It’s fine, it’s fine. These walls are thick and sturdy.”

Hold on!” someone with good eyes shouted, causing his companion to jump in fear.

This man pointed down below. “The wall isn’t just fine, the demonized beasts are breaking their claws on it!”

There were so many demonized beasts that they had been worried that the walls couldn’t hold. After all, demonized beasts had sharp claws and strong bodies. They were so powerful that they could topple buildings. These tall and thick walls were not necessarily safe.

But to everyone’s surprise, when these demonized beasts crashed into the walls, not only were the walls entirely unharmed, the demonized beasts were injured. Some of them were dazed by the collision and were swiftly stomped by the other demonized beasts.

This could probably… be considered a stampede accident.

Tang Yu’s heart thumped in fear. It was fortunate that he had come up. Hadn’t he wanted to stay at the front to absorb a little more Soul Energy?

As an Overlord, whenever his defensive buildings killed demonized beasts, he could absorb the Soul Energy, though only ten or twenty percent of what could normally be absorbed. Still, this was pretty good.

On the walls, Chen Haiping led the patrol team in a counterattack.

The guns had been distributed, and while these people were awful shooters, there was no need to aim in this situation.

Dadada!

Tongues of flame spat out from the muzzles as bullets sprayed down, blood splashing out as the bullets made impact.

Lu Xiaopeng was flabbergasted. “I didn’t know these demonized beasts had such thick hides.”

When he saw the arrow towers exploding the demonized beasts into bloody mist with a single arrow, he had believed that these were weaker demonized beasts, but it turned out that this wasn’t the case at all.

When facing a Tier 1 demonized beast, a bullet had to hit a lethal point to be effective. Otherwise, demonized beasts were so tenacious that one could waste an entire magazine on them and still not manage to kill them.

As for Tier 2 or Tier 3 demonized beasts, they were even more frightening. Only bullets from a sniper rifle had a high chance of killing them.

Lu Xiaopeng glanced to his side and saw that Chen Haiping had a sniper rifle. A bullet shot out, creating a large wound in a stronger demonized beast, but as it was not a fatal wound, this demonized beast struggled on, still persisting.

He looked to the other side and saw that the arrow towers were still firing. Each arrow would take down a demonized beast, and while there was the occasional demonized beast that survived, another arrow would take it down.

Not only were these arrow towers powerful, they were also accurately aiming at weak points… Lu Xiaopeng didn’t know how to describe it. Were all ability users this abnormal, not giving enemies a single chance?

There were also powerful demonized beasts in this demon flood that quickly jumped onto the walls and were on the verge of causing damage. Fortunately, Roger and the two automaton guards stood guard on individual sections of the walls. Whenever a powerful demonized beast jumped onto the wall, it would be quickly targeted and slain.

With the defenses of the walls and the firing of the arrow towers and cannon, the shelter-destroying demon flood was gradually cleaned up.

The survivors sat with their legs splayed out on the ground, feeling blessed that they had managed to survive.

The patrol team members felt their hands and legs go soft. They leaned against the battlements and looked down at the demonized beast corpses covering the ground, still somewhat in disbelief.

Just like that, the demon flood had been taken care of.