This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 189 The End
The massive body of the cordon suddenly shuddered, and a muffled thud came from inside!
The infiltrators successfully damaged an internal structure and embedded explosives near the power source.

Almost simultaneously, the scarlet spotlight at the head of the cordon, already riddled with cracks, was also completely shattered by the external attack, revealing a machine behind it.

The machine was about half a person's height, with an extremely high degree of integration. It looked like a neat, semi-transparent, four-part cube, standing strangely on a flat surface at one corner. Each of the eight sides had a radar dish-like structure sealed inside the cube, and the top was covered with several spire-like components, with an antenna protruding out, emitting a strange blue-purple light.

In the very center of them, a peculiar crystal shimmered intensely, constantly emanating a deep blue-purple energy.

【Netherworld Signal Transceiver】.

Also, the Netherworld Crystal.

The transceiver of the Netherworld was exposed, and something else appeared next to the power source, with 60% damage. This triggered some kind of self-protection mechanism on the warning line. It emitted a sharp, ear-piercing alarm sound, a higher-frequency, more unsettling noise.

The massive body no longer focused on attacking Nie Weiyang, but instead suddenly stood upright, and then, using all four legs, began to accelerate towards the side and rear!
Its movements were unsteady due to joint damage, but its charge of hundreds of tons was still unstoppable, and the earth roared and trembled beneath its feet.

Even more terrifying was that the tail, which resembled a giant electric whip, was lashing and swinging wildly from side to side, no longer a precise attack, but more like some kind of marking.

As the whip's tail swept through the air, the high-voltage arc at its tip was no longer azure blue, but transformed into a chilling light effect interwoven with bright yellow and pitch black. This effect didn't disappear instantly, but rather, like a scorching branding iron, left a clear and lasting [area seal] mark in the air and on the ground!

"Avoid! Stay away from its designated area! Do not touch the area's sealing barriers!"

Nie Weiyang shouted a warning, then mounted Lucky Draw and gave chase.

The yellow warning rays, like venomous snakes, spread and intertwined rapidly across the ground, forming a huge linear area that connected Nie Weiyang and the others with the main body of the warning line.

A piercing, alarm-like [siren warning] emanated from within the warning line.

An invisible force field was instantly generated, and huge energy fluctuations appeared around the area seal. A tough energy barrier suddenly popped up!

[Restricted Area]!

Om-! ! !
The yellow and black light effects that filled the area suddenly lit up, delivering an indiscriminate energy shock to all units within the area!
Nie Weiyang threw his teammates out of the impact radiation zone, but faced it head-on. His holy light shield flickered violently, and the enormous force pushed him back several meters.

This is not over yet!

The running trajectory of the warning line began to draw a huge arc, the whip tail lashed out again, and a new [area seal] was quickly generated, covering a larger area.

A second siren warning!
Second Restricted Zone Energy Impact!

Nie Weiyang felt as if his internal organs had been struck again by an invisible giant hammer, and a metallic taste rose in his throat. He swallowed hard, as if it were nothing new, and forced down the blood that surged up, his gaze fixed on the mechanical behemoth that was still trying to escape and had laid out a death zone.

But at that moment, the eerie background noise mixed in with the rousing battle song in his headphones suddenly intensified!
The rustling sounds grew more urgent, and the indistinct broadcast signal struggled to break through the music. The intermittent native language seemed a little clearer, but its specific meaning was still difficult to discern; all that could be felt was an extreme anxiety and a sense of warning, frantically assaulting his senses.

“Attention…[zzzz-]…Note…[zzzz-]…”

The warning line completed its third marking. The whip tail, almost in a suicidal manner, slammed heavily onto the ground in front of it, drawing a huge circle that completely surrounded nearly a hundred people.

Each person used their own abilities to break out of the area, and yellow and black light shot into the sky, forming a closed hemispherical force field! A long, mournful howl, like a lament, was heard, and an indistinct hymn in the language of the Primals began to play—[Broadcast Obituary]—Activate!
[Forbidden Zone]!
Within the force field, the air instantly became as viscous as a mountain, gravity seemed to increase several times, and the omnipresent energy turbulence was like billions of fine needles, indiscriminately attacking everything within its range!
The armor on Nie Weiyang groaned under the strain, his movements instantly becoming extremely sluggish. Each breath was accompanied by a stinging pain in his lungs and a burning sensation from the energy. But without hesitation, he tossed his teammate aside and twisted the motorcycle handlebars!
Terrain destruction, activate!
The blue glow vanished in an instant. Amidst the flying debris, the lucky sign traced an arc through the black and yellow seal. Just as the forbidden zone took shape, he had a teammate tucked under his arm and drifted to a stop outside the forbidden zone!
The columnar force field formed by the yellow and black light completely closed, completely isolating the team members who had failed to escape in time from the outside world.

Within the force field, the air instantly became as thick and heavy as glue, and a terrifying gravity suddenly exerted itself on everyone, as if an invisible giant mountain was pressing down on them!

The team members groaned, their movements incredibly sluggish. Every time they raised their hands or took a step, it required immense effort, and their bones groaned as if they were about to collapse under the strain.

Their breathing became extremely difficult; instead of air, they inhaled a suffocating, scalding sensation with a metallic, corrosive smell, their lungs burning with pain as if they were in a furnace.

The interplay of bright yellow and pitch black light effects within the force field was not static, but rather created a dull, oppressive atmosphere.

Wherever that light passed, it brought omnipresent annihilation—not from high temperatures or impacts, but from a more fundamental 'cancellation'.

The shield energy and life energy were being continuously and slowly eroded by this light. The equipment on the team members became dim at a visible speed, and even fine cracks appeared. The exposed skin felt an icy cold and burning pain at the same time, as if it were being worn away bit by bit by an invisible file.

The edge of the force field is a distorted, impassable energy barrier; attempting to touch it will only result in a violent backlash.

The interior and exterior were completely isolated. The anxious attacks and healing spells of others struck the barrier, but only created weak ripples that could not penetrate it at all.

The mournful broadcast of obituaries in the language of the Primals was not background noise; it was part of the attack itself. Each rise in pitch corresponded to a peak burst of energy erosion within the force field, like a countdown to death, ruthlessly reaping the vitality of the trapped.

The last thing the trapped people did was turn their heads with contorted faces and lunge outwards with all their might—or rather, simply reach out their hands.

"Click."

The human form was torn apart and dissipated into black mist.

They are dead.

The explosion occurred inside the chest cavity of the cordon; the person who had crawled inside did not emerge. Nie Weiyang instinctively threw his spear, the gold piercing the Netherworld signal transceiver. The cube's transparent outer shell shattered, its contents spilling out like broken potted plants.

The Netherworld Crystal exposed to the air was visibly evaporating and dissipating, like ice crystals under the sunlight.

In the last instant before the crystal completely dissipated—the music and noise in his headphones suddenly vanished for a split second.

Only a cold, anxious voice, seemingly pieced together from countless fragments of film, drama, and song, pierced through everything with unparalleled clarity and entered his mind:

"Your side is in danger..."

“Go backwards…don’t…[sizzle—]…”

The sound stopped suddenly.

As if it had exhausted its last bit of strength, the Netherworld Crystal dissipated, the signal transceiver collapsed, and the warning line fell to the ground, turning into nothingness.

(End of this chapter)