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Chapter 130 The Principal Has Arrived!

Similar scenes were playing out from time to time on the defensive line.

These ten Dongfeng trainees, relying on the amplification of control and reaction by their insignia and the ingenious coordination between the suit components, acted like a fire brigade, precisely extinguishing one potential crisis after another on the defense line.

They are not only capable of fighting themselves, but also able to effectively command and coordinate with the local source energy users around them, maximizing the effect of their limited power.

The battle was extremely fierce; sweat soaked through everyone's combat uniforms, and their energy and stamina were being rapidly depleted.

The abyss beast crashed into the defensive line and turned into dust, but the subsequent waves seemed endless.

A second-term female cadet named Li Yue, whose grades were not outstanding in the military academy, had just used the control effect of her wristband to help her teammates kill an elite abyss beast that was trying to climb the fortification from the side. At this moment, her arm was trembling slightly and she was panting heavily.

The continuous high-intensity battles left her feeling extremely exhausted. Looking at the seemingly endless abyssal beasts, she gritted her teeth, grabbed the canteen at her waist, and gulped down a large mouthful.

Immediately, her eyes widened.

A streak of silvery-white light flew from afar at an extremely fast speed and soon arrived above the battlefield.

She had seen that flowing light form before at military school!

"It's the principal!"

Li Yue blurted out almost without thinking, her voice trembling with excitement, "The principal is here!"

Her exclamation wasn't loud, but it was like an electric current, instantly spreading to the nearby Source Energy users who were fighting.

Zhao Gang, Sun Miao, and the others also looked up and saw that reassuring silver light.

They immediately became as excited as if they had taken stimulants, shouting, "The principal is here!"

Although the local source energy users didn't immediately understand what they were shouting, they were deeply moved by the excitement of the usually composed Dongfeng students and roared as they fought against the abyss beasts.

Immediately afterwards, under the watchful eyes of countless people, the hatch of the silver-white spherical aircraft above the battlefield slid open silently.

Lin Yi took a step forward.

He did not fall, but rather seemed to float steadily in mid-air as if there were invisible steps beneath his feet.

Then, Lin Yi's indifferent gaze swept over the surging beast tide below, like a painter examining a canvas waiting to be painted. Afterward, he slightly raised his arms, and more than a dozen small steel balls quietly appeared, surrounding his body. As they flashed with black light, they emitted a faint hum that made one's heart tremble.

The next moment, the dance of death suddenly began.

"Shhhhhh!"

A dozen or so black bolts of lightning, like ferocious dragons breaking free of their restraints, plunged into the dense horde of beasts below.

They don't pierce blindly, but rather weave and intersect in a mysterious trajectory, instantly creating a black network of death covering a large area.

Beneath this net, the scene is eerie and terrifying.

Where the black light swept past, the abyss beast was not pierced or torn apart, but rather erased from reality as if by an eraser—its body instantly disintegrated and vaporized, leaving only a wisp of rapidly dissipating black smoke and a crystal that fell to the ground.

The beast tide was forcibly "dug out" rapidly expanding vacuum zones.

There was no deafening explosion, only a suffocating annihilation.

The gunfire on the defensive line gradually subsided.

The soldiers stared wide-eyed at this miraculous, or rather, magical, scene, almost forgetting to pull the trigger.

Just as Zhao Gang was parrying the claws of an abyss beast and preparing to retaliate, he caught a glimpse of a black light flashing past his flank out of the corner of his eye.

Within his sight, seven or eight charging abyssal beasts vanished instantly. Zhao Gang's arm stiffened for a moment, as an indescribable shock surged up his spine and shot straight to the top of his head.

He believed that after being tempered by Dongfeng, he was now able to skillfully use the power of the set to fight among the beasts, and was no longer the novice he had been.

But the principal's effortless annihilation of tens of thousands of abyssal beasts completely overturned his understanding of "power".

The black lightning contained rules and mysteries that he had not even been able to glimpse.

This made Zhao Gang's heart pound.

There was both awe and an unprecedented longing.

Just as Sun Miao had barely dodged an encirclement using the effect of her knee pads, and before she could catch her breath, she saw a black light, dozens of times faster and more agile than when she unleashed her full power, draw an arc not far in front of her. Wherever it passed, the beast horde melted away like snow under the sun.

She subconsciously stroked the [Raging Pulse Bracelet] on her wrist. This piece of equipment, which she had once thought was powerful, now felt somewhat pale.

The principal's effortless and precise control over the black lightning made her realize the vast gap between herself and true powerhouses.

Li Yue, on the other hand, was leaning against a ruined wall.

She had just barely managed to block an attack from an abyss beast with her armband, and was feeling her arm go numb and her energy flow becoming sluggish, when a shadow fell over her.

Li Yue looked up and saw that where the principal was suspended, black light crisscrossed and swept around. The beast tide that had been suffocating her disappeared in swathes as if it had been harvested by an invisible giant scythe.

The overwhelming pressure suddenly eased, and her tense nerves instantly relaxed. A sense of relief at surviving a disaster, mixed with boundless admiration for the figure in the air, almost brought her to tears.

She clutched the Dongfeng emblem on her chest tightly, as if drawing strength from it.

The web of death, interwoven with black lightning, was incredibly efficient.

In just a few minutes, Lin Yi wiped out nearly 60,000 abyssal beasts within his field of vision.

The once despairing black tide is now reduced to a mere 10,000 scattered abyssal beasts on its periphery.

Lin Yi sensed the remaining source energy in his body and found that he had about 500 points left.

He glanced at the scattered remnants of the enemy in the distance, then at the defensive line.

Although the defenders were exhausted, their eyes were filled with excitement and the thrill of surviving a disaster. The ten Dongfeng cadets were also staring intently at him, clearly indicating that there was no longer any risk of defeat.

As for the ordinary crystals that low-level abyssal beasts might release, they held no appeal for him.

He didn't linger; his figure flashed like a ghost, and he was back inside the little flying ball.

The hatch closed, and the silvery-white sphere instantly transformed into a thin line on the horizon and disappeared.

It came suddenly and left just as quickly.

All that remained was a desolate but now harmless battlefield below, and countless gazes fixed on the sky, unable to find peace for a long time.
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Longyuan Underground Command Center.

The heavy blast-proof door isolated the noise from the outside world, but the atmosphere inside the conference room was even more somber than the battlefield outside.

The oval conference table was filled with members of the highest decision-making body of the Xia Kingdom, each with a deep worry on their face.

Just over an hour after the outbreak of the abyss, the internal emergency communication channels of the Blue Star Crisis Response Consortium were flooded with requests for help.

On the enormous holographic projection screen, red dots representing distress signals covered almost the entire Eurasian continent, Africa, and the Americas, a truly shocking sight.

(End of this chapter)