Last Totem Novel - Chapter 329
Chapter 329 Red Skin
After observing for a while, Tie Zha stood up and decided to fly over to take a look. The Knights Templar who led the way saw him ignite the power furnace and hurriedly stood up to stop him. “Lord Tie Zha, if you wake it up, it will be dangerous.”
“It’s fine.” Tie Zha said casually. Under Eva’s repeated explanation, he had a certain degree of understanding of the Great Abyss Devil.
The Great Abyss Devils were generally divided into males, females, and androgynies. The former had a large number of Abyss Devils, while the latter had a small number of Abyss Devils. The male is called Bafonte and the female and androgynous are called Charm. The former is very different from the latter in body shape and habits. Baffont’s head was very similar to a goat’s, with a thick ring of hair below the neck. Their limbs were strong, their torso muscles sturdy, and their tails thick. They were similar to strong men in humans or Elda, but their palms and feet were more like lizards. On the other hand, Demons of Charm were relatively slender. Their limbs and trunk were relatively soft, and their tails were slender. They were similar to women in humans as a whole. However, they looked ferocious and terrifying. From a distance, they looked like a human-shaped lizard lying on a stone wall.
Judging from the shape of the cave entrance, the owner of the nest was a Bafonte. Compared to the charming demons, Bafonte’s personality was extremely irritable, but after entering hibernation, he was strangely stable. As long as he didn’t make too much noise, he wouldn’t wake it up. Some scholars even claimed that he could lie on Bafonte’s forehead while he was sleeping, leaning against his reflexed horns to savor the novel. Of course, scholars who were powerless would not normally come to the bottomless abyss, much less see the living Great Abyss Devils with their own eyes.
“Aggressive …”
With a long jet sound, Tie Zha leapt into the air and flew towards the Great Western Wall. In the blink of an eye, more than 800 meters away, Tie Zha closed the propeller in mid-air, borrowed the remaining strength to charge to the entrance of the cave, and landed steadily. Looking inside, a faint red light shone from the depths, turning the messy stone wall into a dark red.
Not far away, a breathing sound like a blower could be heard. Tie Zha narrowed his eyes and walked towards the source of the sound with light movements. More than ten meters after entering the cave, a big corner appeared. Just as the iron slag approached, he saw a huge palm, about the length of his arm. When he fixed his eyes, he saw that this large palm had six thick and short fingers, covered with tiny red scales. The tip of the finger’s nails were long and pointed, giving off a dark golden color. It looked extremely sharp.
After discovering the target, Tie Zha slowed his pace and moved over bit by bit. As he moved forward, a hill-like body gradually appeared in front of him. He couldn’t help but widen his eyes. Compared to the illustrations in the textbook, the object in front of him was even more shocking. Just that thick arm was the size of a container. Its muscles bulged, covered in dense veins, and contracted with the rhythm of its breathing. It was filled with an explosive sense of beauty. Looking up, there was a circle of light gray hair, followed by an incomparably thick reverse horn, and a mouth and nose that protruded forward like a goat. Standing below, he saw blazing steam spraying out of his nostrils.
“Roar …”
At this moment, Bafonte suddenly let out a dull roar. A burst of high-temperature and high-pressure gas sprayed out from the goat’s mouth, causing the surrounding environment to instantly become incomparably hot. Seeing the rapidly rising temperature on the glass cover, Tie Zha frowned and quickly retreated. In just an instant, the temperature in the cave had reached more than a hundred degrees.
The moment he retreated to the entrance of the cave, Tie Zha leapt into the air and activated his thruster while jumping down the abyss. With a “menacing” sound, Tie Zha transformed into a meteor and flew back to the plank path on the Great East Wall.
“How is it? Is it exciting?” Hillman asked excitedly.
“Not bad.” Tie Zha nodded, then grinned and suggested, “You can go take a look.”
‘”No, no, no” Hillman immediately raised his hands and waved them desperately.
A moment later, the three of them returned to the place where they had just rested. Iron Slag picked up the communicator and was about to contact the stronghold when he realized that there was no signal. So they had to follow the same path back. After walking on the trestle for more than two hours, there was finally a signal. Tie Zha immediately dialed Jerome’s voice and told him to inform the deputy captain of the Princess Guard, Oliver Bart, the deputy captain of the Kingfisher Corps, Kyle Larkin, and the captain of the Spartan Warriors, Hildebrand Sujia, to hurry over as soon as possible.
Seeing Tie Zha issue the order, the Knights Templar, who were waiting at the side, couldn’t help but ask, “Lord Tie Zha, are you going to drive it away or destroy it?”
“Is there a difference?” Tie Zha asked.
“Yes …” the Knight Templar said worriedly. “If the goal is to destroy it, we will most likely suffer casualties.”
“Friend,” said Tie Zha, disapprovingly, “there can be casualties in any battle.” His official reply made the Knight Templar lose all thoughts of advising. The reason why he did this was because he subconsciously wanted to understand the strength of this Great Abyss Devil, and also wanted to see through this Great Abyss Devil the strength of the First Army of the Dawn Expeditionary Force, the Kingfisher Army. Perhaps in his subconscious, he had already regarded the Dawn Expeditionary Army as a potential opponent.
A few hours later …
Oliver, Kyle, and Hildebrand rushed to the scene with hundreds of Dynamo Armor warriors, 200 combat retinues, and more than 100 logistics personnel. The narrow path was instantly filled with people. Looking around, the fighters stretched for hundreds of meters.
Afterwards, Tie Zha brought the three of them to their previous positions and pointed at the cave opposite him, saying, “While it is still sleeping, let’s set up a formation and catch it off guard.”
“Alright!” The three of them spoke in unison, appearing very straightforward. For this reason, Tie Zha couldn’t help but be slightly stunned. He didn’t expect the three commanders to have no objections at all.
Actually, the three of them felt that they should be chased away, not eliminated. However, as leaders, their vision was even farther away. After a brief consideration, they all agreed that supporting iron slag was the most profitable. After all, Tie Zha was the person in charge of the stronghold personally appointed by the Temple Princess. If even his first request was pushed and delayed, then the cooperation in the future would definitely stumble and there would be many problems. In order to avoid leaving a bad impression, and in addition, Big Red Skin wasn’t particularly difficult to deal with, they agreed in one fell swoop.
After returning to the platform, Kyle suggested that since he wanted to eliminate this Great Abyss Devil, he should arrange a “spoils collection team” to prevent the Great Abyss Devil’s corpse from falling into the abyss and obtaining nothing. This proposal was immediately supported by Tie Zha. If he was able to successfully capture this Great Abyss Devil, he could be considered to have benefited You Ge. However, as long as the casualties were within his control, he would lose money. Next, Oliver, the oldest and most experienced, made a detailed battle plan and used his tactical tablet to sketch out the defenses.
Two hours later, the simple defensive fortifications were built. The combat retinues were in pairs, scattered all over the cliff. The entire defensive line stretched for four to five hundred meters. On the eve of the battle, the logistical team retreated three kilometers and spread out on the boardwalk, waiting for orders. As for the more than a hundred power armor warriors, they stood in a row and looked at the cave on the Great Western Wall. They slowly exported their psionic energy to adjust the operation of the power armor to its optimal state and were ready to fight in the air at any time.
When everyone was in position, Tie Zha lit the power furnace and dragged the crimson tail flames into the cave.
At the corner, Tie Zha took off the Psionic Warrior Rifle behind him, took out a Psionic Armor Piercing Blank Bullet from his waist, and then pulled on the bolt, loaded it, and pushed it. He stored his Psionic Energy in one go!
In an instant, azure star sand slowly overflowed from the surface of the power armor, and like countless small streams, it gradually merged into the markings engraved on the spear body. At the same time, the surrounding air started to ripple, spreading out in circles. In the next moment, the liquid that emitted a blue glow flowed into the barrel of the gun along the texture of the gun, filling it with 12 cm long rifle bullets.
At this moment, the Great Abyss Devil, who had sensed something strange, suddenly opened his basketball-sized eyes. The moment he woke up, the temperature in the cave soared. It was as if several invisible flames were spraying out from his body, burning everything in front of him.
A blazing wave of air pounced on his face, but Tie Zha stood motionlessly on the spot, holding his spear and watching the Great Abyss Devil a few meters away, slowly accumulating star sand.
“Roar!”
The Great Abyss Devil let out a deafening roar when he sensed the threat of the little bug. He raised his enormous palm and swept towards Tie Zha!
“Boom!”
Seeing that his incomparably sharp nails were about to reach his body, at this critical moment, a translucent psionic shell appeared in the air, engulfing a large amount of blazing air currents and spinning at an extremely fast speed towards the sheep’s head of the Great Abyss Devil.
“Ao!”
In the blink of an eye, the Psionic Armor Piercing Bullet pierced through the Great Abyss Devil’s right eye and shot straight into his head. At the same time, Tie Zha rolled backwards. The tip of his shiny black fingernail sliced past a few centimeters in front of his waist. Then, it swept unabated on the side of the cave wall, leaving six deep grooves!
With a successful attack, Tie Zha immediately retreated, and in the blink of an eye, he flew out of the cave with his tail flames. Immediately after, an incomparably violent roar came from the cave, as if it was venting great pain and anger. In the next second, the Great Abyss Devil’s four limbs shot out and clung onto the rock wall, roaring at the cliff opposite him.
“Fire!” With Tie Zha’s command, hundreds of psionic energy bullets shot out from the Great Eastern Wall, scraping through the air and shooting towards the colossal creature on the Great Western Wall from different angles.
“Ao!”
In an instant, the dense Psionic Armor Piercing Bullets pierced through the Great Abyss Devil’s iron-like skin, spinning into its flesh and blood at a high speed, stirring up patches of blood while bringing it hell-like pain.