Necromancer, summoning 055? What the heck?

Chapter 298 The Purification of the City's Purgatory: The Annihilation of the Soul-Suppressing Tower

Undead creatures can also die.

Once the body is completely shattered, the soul fire has no support or protection and is easily annihilated by direct energy attacks, or it will be gradually worn away by time because it cannot be replenished for a long time.

"A-Fu" doesn't want to die.

Therefore, even with its body broken and its soul flame flickering, it still tried every means to escape, driven by instinct.

The underground world is not a safe haven; it's too easy to get blocked in such a conduit-like space.

"Afu" tried it out and found that it did not yet have the ability to drill directly through the entire concrete layer underground and return to the surface. Therefore, it had to choose a place near the exit to lie in wait.

In such places, search teams are very likely to visit.

Urged and pressured by the bald eagles, the pipe cleaners from the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent are lining up to enter the underground world with rudimentary probes and alarms to search for "Afu".

"Go find it, and sound the alarm when you see it. As long as the Imperial warriors capture it, you will receive a generous reward!"

"This monster doesn't kill! Don't be afraid! Go!"

"The glory of the sea serpents awaits you!"

As he watched another group of pipeline workers enter the underground, the Sea Serpent Deacon, who had just been waving his fist, immediately lowered his head slowly towards the camera, his lips slightly downturned, his brows furrowed, and he tried to force a sorrowful and mournful expression, with even a few tears welling up in the corners of his eyes.

"It killed many people!"

"It is a demon, a bloodthirsty demon, with extremely strong aggression and destructive desire! No one can escape from its clutches."

"We have determined that the rescue in the previous video was an accident; it was just a ploy to attack the car."

"In order to protect these poor people, the Bald Eagle Army had to use weapons, but they still could not save most of the poor people who were targeted by the monsters."

May their souls rest in peace!

The eagle's butler picked up the blue dress doll that the staff had just brought, pointed to the bloodstains on it, and was heartbroken, tears streaming down his face.

"Click——"

The director, wearing a white helmet, gave a satisfied gesture.

"Alright, that's a good take! Great result! Let's call it a day!"

The butler's sorrowful expression vanished instantly. He casually tossed the doll into the ruins, then took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped his fingers.

It seemed that this would wipe away some of the filth that darkened his heart.

The bald eagles maintained a tight blockade of the city, deploying a large number of troops and a wide variety of technological equipment to capture the agile and ghostly "Afu".

It's fair to say that if even "Afu" couldn't escape, then ordinary people wouldn't even consider crossing the blockade.

People in this region will embark on drastically different paths of fate.

Some powerful figures or high-ranking family members can summon helicopters, which will land at designated locations and, after undergoing rigorous checks, escape unscathed.

Most civilians had no choice but to leave through ground checkpoints. After undergoing humiliating body searches and having all their belongings, communication and recording equipment, and other "suspicious items" removed, they had to promise to keep all the secrets of the city before they could be allowed to temporarily leave the city and enter the concentration camps on the outskirts to wait for the dust to settle.

For the remaining people, it seems that only two paths lie ahead.

He was brutally "killed" by the "multi-clawed monster," which became evidence of "A-Fu's" crimes.

Or, for protecting the "multi-clawed monster," he was judged by the righteous bald eagle heavenly soldiers.

In fact, at this point, "Afu" can no longer be called a "multi-clawed monster"; it doesn't even have four limbs.

What's more troublesome is that "Afu" is currently in a bad state. The continuous high-intensity attacks and escapes have caused the negative energy that maintains its physical existence to be consumed rapidly. Furthermore, the bald eagle's strict blockade of the border and coastline of the four-clawed sea serpent has cut off its path back to the supply point or supply ship.

It looks like a phone that's already flashing a low battery warning, which is absolutely terrifying!

However, fate is full of irony. The indiscriminate killing launched by the bald eagle in its pursuit of it caused the instantaneous annihilation of a large number of lives.

Death is fertile ground for undead creatures. Although corpses cannot directly provide negative energy, fear, pain, despair, and other intense negative emotions erupt at the moment of death, merging with this land already filled with sorrow and resentment, creating a negative energy environment in the city that, although short-lived, is quite "fertile" for undead creatures.

God knows why this land is so eerily gloomy!
After quickly recharging, realizing that his body had become a burden, "Afu" decided to undergo a body shape adjustment.

"Afu" found a hidden spot underground, a blind spot in the view of a large sewage pipe, where it began to shed its outer shell.

Other organisms shed their shells because their bodies are growing rapidly, and the hard shell restricts their growth space.

The reason why "Afu" shed its shell is because the original hard shell was too big. Even though it was broken and tattered, the remaining shell still seriously affected "Afu's" agility.

It needs to shed its outer shell and get a smaller body.

Above ground, there was a brief burst of flames and clamor; below ground, there was a long period of cold and deathly silence.

Afu's body vibrated rapidly, and the cracks on its hard chitinous shell grew longer and denser, like a piece of black-glazed porcelain about to shatter.

It forcefully inserted its two remaining half-limbs into the gap in the building beneath it, gripping and locking them in place, while its torso began to undulate and contract violently.

A wisp of grayish-white energy emanated from the cracks in its shell. Then, a crisp "crack" sound rang out, and the widest piece of shell on its back cracked open first, with the edges curling upwards, like a new life struggling to emerge from its cocoon.

The cracks quickly spread throughout his body, and the old, scarred carapace seemed to be shattered from the inside, peeling off piece by piece to reveal a writhing, indistinct body composed of pure negative energy and tightly bound flesh.

New outlines are being drawn and stretched out, and the roots of the broken limbs begin to wriggle and swell, forming the prototype of limbs that are more slender but better adapted to running on land.

The torso is also continuously elongating and becoming more streamlined, as if the undead, though unaware of aerodynamics, can still unknowingly follow the choices of nature and choose a form that can reduce wind resistance.

Finally, when the last piece of the old shell fell off, a brand new "Afu" stood up. It was smaller than before, only the size of a teenager, but it was obviously more agile.

Before continuing his escape, "A-Fu" needed to take some cover.

In the instant it completed its physical transformation, following some ancient vengeful instinct, it drew upon a portion of the overly complex energy from the aura of death as a "seed," mixing it with the intense resentment of this place, and silently released it into the mud beneath its feet.

In the near future, a new kind of undead will emerge here—the Cemetery Guardians—who will provide "Afu" with cover to distract the enemy. Just as it was adapting to its new body, a trembling, dim beam of light from a flashlight suddenly shone from around the corner of the pipe, enveloping its nascent form.

Behind the beam of light was a wrinkled face etched with terror. An elderly man, who looked to be over seventy years old and dressed in a plumber's uniform, was pointing at it tremblingly, making strange, hoarse "gurgling" sounds from his throat, his voice hoarse with extreme fear.

After a brief eye contact, "Afu" did not hesitate at all. Its newly formed limbs pushed off the ground and instantly transformed into a blurry black shadow, shooting towards the darkness at the other end of the pipe!

Behind me, a piercing alarm blared, shaking the underground world to its core!
"Afu" had no choice but to embark on the escape route once again.

After changing its form, "Afu" became much more agile. It leaped back and forth through the city, while the attack swarm of bald eagles swept over the city again and again, dropping more fireworks of various kinds, trying to take down the fleeing "Afu" with flames and shockwaves.

Another scene of carnage, with corpses strewn everywhere.

Death is real. Humanity's technological creations treat every dead and every life fairly. "Afu" doesn't kill people, but bald eagles do. Thus, a new round of fearful escape begins.

Desperate, the crowd held up their cell phones, which had no signal, and cried out and wailed as they staggered out of the city.

"Afu" was also among them; it almost succeeded.

It hid under a car and followed the vehicle through several mobile unit searches before finally approaching the outer checkpoint set up by the bald eagle.

Then, it was revealed by a light-transmitting instrument through comparison with the shape of the vehicle body.

The piercing alarm suddenly blared through the sky.

"There it is, in that car!"

"Quickly, quickly, kill it!"

Before the people inside could even leave, light and heavy weapons simultaneously unleashed a barrage of fire on the small vehicle! The M2 heavy machine gun on a nearby armored vehicle roared in a dull thud, its large-caliber bullets easily piercing through the entire cargo box, riddling the vehicle and its occupants with holes!
"A-Fu" took a hit and was injured again.

Then it jumped under another car.

The scene turned into a game of hide-and-seek, with the machine gun's ammunition belts like the Grim Reaper's whip, relentlessly firing at Afu's figure across the entire area! Cars were blown apart, their fuel tanks exploding, flames and shrapnel sweeping around them!

Citizens who had no time to escape first died from excessive heavy metals, and then turned into charred remains in the sea of ​​fire, with limbs and car parts flying everywhere.

Chaos erupted at the scene! Vehicles waiting for inspection frantically tried to reverse and swerve, colliding and squeezing each other, causing even greater chaos.

Because the news was strictly censored, what exactly happened at the scene has become a mystery, just like those historical records that have been blackened, the truth has been buried forever in the silent, murky waters.

Only a very small number of high-ranking members of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpents vaguely knew that, under the wild and indiscriminate firing and bombing of the White Eagle, none of the tens of thousands of Four-Clawed Sea Serpent civilians crammed onto this escape route survived.

Or rather, they cannot be allowed to survive.

During this fierce battle, Afu discovered a phenomenon.

Objectively speaking, the more people there are, the denser the organisms, the more cover they can provide.

It's better to shoot those carbon-based life forms than to shoot yourself.

Thus, "Afu's" instinct drove it to flee in the direction where life was most concentrated and also most chaotic—towards the place where large numbers of people were fleeing.

The Ilyu Tower, also known as the Ilyu Soul-Suppressing Tower, stands in the center of a spacious garden on the outskirts of Xinya City.

The tower is built of gray-white boulders, giving it a somewhat austere appearance. Its spire is tall and casts a long, scar-like shadow on the ground when the sunlight shines through it.

The base of this tower is made of stones brought from all over the planet Earth, more than 60% of which were plundered from the Eastern Xia land. The tower itself is made of stones taken from the homeland of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent Emperor, symbolizing their understanding of hierarchy and social status.

The tower is carved with four ghostly figures, representing the so-called divine power and eternal life, but also the evil and filthy ambition of the four-clawed sea serpent.

They attempted to use this tower as a symbol, and with their so-called "imperial achievements," to forever suppress the nations and souls they regarded as enemies and objects of enslavement.

At this moment, the area around this tower, which is regarded as the sanctuary of the sea serpent people's spirit, is densely packed with people crying and praying, hoping that this building, which has been given special significance, can bring them the protection they need.

Without hesitation, Afu rushed into the crowd.

The bald eagles also carried out the "purification process" without hesitation.

Several heavy attack aircraft of the Bald Eagles swept past below the clouds, their bomb bays opening one after another, and giant aerial bombs weighing several thousand kilograms, codenamed "Bastion Crusher," fell from the sky, pointing towards the gray-white tower below.

The shadows loomed over the tower's spire, and also over every desperate soul beneath it.

The organisms in the core area were vaporized instantly, leaving not even a trace.

The ensuing violent secondary explosion even triggered a small-scale mushroom cloud, although it was far less spectacular than the two explosions decades ago. But this was, after all, just the beginning.

There are always people who wishfully believe that they live in a civilized world, but in reality, the world is still a very, very long way from being civilized!

However, the location of the attack was so conspicuous that some commercial satellite companies leaked photos of the scene. Even though history has been distorted and altered, there are still some things that cannot be explained.

For example, why did that tall tower turn into a deep pit?
We can't exactly say that "A-Fu" did this too!
The bald eagle's spokesperson once again stood in front of the microphone at the press conference, his face calm, even with a look of "compassion" written all over his face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are forced to announce with great sorrow that the people of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent are in grave danger. This dangerous, unknown creature is bringing a great catastrophe, and our Bald Eagle army must undertake an extremely difficult but necessary mission—to eliminate this uncertain factor that could pose a threat to all mankind."

"I reiterate, this evil creature has demonstrated an extremely high level of danger and aggression. In order to prevent the unpredictable harm it could cause to a wider range of civilians, we have to take some targeted and limited military measures."

"This was a rescue operation based on the highest humanitarian principles. All our measures were taken to save more innocent lives and prevent the situation from deteriorating further. We express our deepest condolences to the civilians who tragically lost their lives in the operation."

"But the responsibility lies entirely with that 'multi-clawed monster'."

Representatives from various countries who witnessed this scene all chose to remain silent, including the government of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent itself.

However, the chief media outlet of the long-established capitalist empire, the super troublemaker of Blue Star, and the United Kingdom of Two Lions, gave a short commentary that seemed objective but was actually full of dark humor and sharp satire.

"To prevent them from being killed by the monster, the bald eagle decisively killed them!"

This farce, which began with greed and unfolded through violence and lies, is far from over. Stay tuned for more exciting developments...

(End of this chapter)