Infinite Gods Reign Supreme

Chapter 47 - PVE should be a little easier

Those things that looked like humans gathered in groups.

Their bodies were covered in black sacrificial runes, their limbs intertwined, their bodies pressed together, the joints formed by countless poisonous insects and a black mud mixture of their bodily fluids. Their total number was clearly at least a thousand.

Thousands of evil believers gathered together.

Thousands of humanoid structures were pieced together to form a gigantic, fleshy centipede.

Creations of evil spirits.

Its massive body displayed a strength and agility disproportionate to its fragile flesh. Even after its entire head was blasted to pieces by Siming's railgun, it still moved freely, and the wounds were quickly repaired by the swarming flying insects.

'AEEEEEE——！！' the giant insect screamed.

A thick layer of black mist then emerged from the shadows and enveloped the colossal creature. When the second railgun shot struck, the powerful projectile was no longer able to directly shatter the centipede's vital points as it had before.

"It's so disgusting."

Si Ming raised his finger.

The giant centipede lunged forward.

The protective ring formed by the talismans and holy water could only scorch a wisp of boiling white smoke from its body. And it was about to cross the second line of defense!
'Bam—! '

A giant fist slammed down.

The colossal rock statues that had been waiting behind the defensive line suddenly rose up, wielding their solid and massive steel and concrete, and smashed down on the rapidly approaching evil centipedes.

The punch was heavy and powerful. With just one blow, the giant centipede's head was crushed flat on the spot. However, this kind of evil creature did not have the fatal weaknesses of a normal biological structure. Even though thousands of kilograms of flesh and blood were turned into mud, the remaining torso and tail still shrieked and leaped up, spiraling upwards along the rock structure!

Swift in movement and immense in strength, the centipede tore apart the rock giant's massive body, sending clumps of rubble and sand crashing down. Yet the giant did not resist; instead, it propelled itself forward on its still-functioning legs, charging fiercely into the darkness shrouded in shadow in the distance.

One second, two seconds.

The dazzling flames then illuminated the entire sky.

The aura of death flowed back to Siming's side. The fact that the summoned creature was not undead did not prevent the Demonic Explosion spell from being cast again. The enormous evil centipede was blasted to pieces, and before it could struggle to regenerate, one, no, two colossal rock statues rose from the earth and strode forward under Siming's command.

Stable, heavy.

The centipede frantically repairing itself in the thick black fog let out a sharp hiss. The next moment, another, slightly smaller centipede crawled out of the darkness, emitting a loud, indistinct yet meaningful roar.

Misfortune and fortune are intertwined; life and death are determined by one's reputation!

The sound was unsettling to ordinary people, but it had no effect on Si Ming. Even so, the evil sound waves surged forward, only to be stopped by an invisible mental barrier before hitting the main hall of the temple.

"I knew this would happen."

Si Ming's gaze shifted, briefly meeting Yu Zhiwei's eyes in front of the main hall. Looking to the side, Valentina's side seemed relatively calm. As for the other side…

Song Tian remained silent, only continuing to swing his knife.

Well, that's his freedom.

Siming withdrew his gaze, wasting no more than a second. With a thought, the rock giant he had summoned strode forward. The current situation was a perfectly fair two-on-two. Therefore…

A rumble—the earth trembled slightly. Thick, cold steel, under Siming's will, drilled out of the ground.

The Steel Colossus is the pinnacle of summons at this stage. Standing over ten meters tall, it resembles a small, walking mountain.

Now, the situation has become more favorable for Siming.

The next moment, the colossal stone and iron statue collided with the centipede of blood and flesh.

..............................

Mountains collided, and the earth roared.

Boiling steam surged in all directions.

"...It's quite a spectacle." Valentina turned her head to glance at the grand battle raging not far away. The swarm of insects attacking from the outside was already running out of steam, while the three colossal iron giants were forcing the two human centipedes back step by step. The whole scene looked like a battle between giants and monsters from mythology. It was both grand and solemn.

Victory wasn't far from Simin, because he looked very relaxed—when Valentina looked over, he even had the leisure to turn his head and make eye contact with the ranger for a moment.

In the next instant, he raised his hand and fired two shots into the sky. The two giant humanoid insects, concealed by the black mist and able to hide in the night, were instantly struck by the heat spheres, burned, and turned into two burning fireballs that fell to the ground.

There's such a thing?

Valentina tilted her head, a faint glint of light flashing in her eyes. Several filters switched rapidly within her prosthetic eye, and during the motion structure detection, several large, heat-sensitive, and infrared-insensitive spots immediately came into her view. "Data corrected."

The Tarantula turrets abruptly turned, both maintaining their firepower to suppress the incoming swarm of insects. The one with the widest field of view abruptly shifted its gun barrel to the correct position. The automatic cannon, loaded with 40mm explosive rounds, immediately activated, and a twin jet of metal shot pierced the seemingly empty night sky.

Large sprays of blood erupted, instantly obliterating several humanoid silhouettes before they plummeted from the sky. Most of them were scorched to pieces in mid-air by the sacred aura emanating from the protective rings. However, a very few retained their basic humanoid forms and remained mobile even after hitting the ground.

That really doesn't look human.

It was a swarm of densely packed insects clinging to a body covered in cursed writing, their sheer numbers forming, along with the cursed black mist, wings that defied all ergonomics or aerodynamics. As Valentina looked at them, centipedes, longhorn beetles, and leeches surged in and out of what appeared to be a head-like spherical structure, emitting sharp, piercing cries from every dark, gaping opening.

"I haven't seen anything this disgusting in a long time."

She exhaled silently—she didn't intend to inhale it. The willow-leaf white jade she clutched in her hand then emitted a faint red glow. The fire-attribute dust crystal had been filled in, activated, and was about to take effect.

forward.

Gene lock, activated.

The 'Ranger' vanished in an instant; last time it was a phantom, this time it was a rapidly moving cloud of fire. She pounced on one of the malevolent parasites and incinerated it, then immediately pounced on another one in the next instant.

Slaying, annihilating, without ceasing. Unlike others, she doesn't possess the ability to wipe out groups, but when it comes to individual hostile targets, she has a unique ability to annihilate them.

Okay, maybe she's still a little less impressive than Miss Yu Zhiwei, who can kill anyone with a glare. Let me correct that: her strength lies in dealing with multiple elite individuals.

I'm a little frustrated.

But a sense of crisis still welled up in my heart.

The distant sky was illuminated by five-colored light. Valentina, who had instantly killed all the falling parasites, felt a stinging pain between her eyebrows.

—Turn the gun around.

—Unlocking the gene lock, the second stage.

—Synwellstein, full power.

The two Tarantula turrets, which had been maintaining anti-aircraft fire, suddenly turned, but this time they activated not their twin 40mm cannons, but the missile pods that had been permanently mounted on top. A total of sixteen small destructive missiles were then swiftly launched in the direction Valentina intended, and her own body tore through a series of sonic booms as she moved at extremely high speed!
The world seemed to slow down in her eyes.

Her high-powered mechanical eye operated rapidly, scrutinizing every detail of her surroundings. In a fraction of a second, her body suddenly shifted nearly fifty meters, and the next moment, a dark cloud of curses silently pierced through the outermost layer of holy water-talisman protective barrier, slamming into the area where she had been standing.

There was no explosion; the cloud of curses simply dispersed at an extremely fast speed.

The land, which had been crudely blessed and spanned a full forty meters in diameter, was corroded by the cursed cloud into a clump of writhing mud—countless maggots constantly emerged from the pitch-black mud and crawled rampantly. If anyone had been there before, they would have surely had a unique experience.

'Hoo—' is not exhaling.

Instead, it was the trembling sound of missiles bombing in the distance, the shockwaves rushing out and passing through a prolonged sense of time.

The area bombarded by the destroyed missiles revealed several bizarre entities that resembled scorpions, each two stories tall, and were pieced together from hundreds of malevolent cultists. Just moments before, these were the ones who had launched the cursed attack.

What a risk.

One of them had already been blown to pieces in the previous missile bombardment.

The total is three, with two remaining.

The next moment, Valentina pierced through the outer ring amidst the mournful howling wind. The Flame Dust Crystals filled in Willow Leaf White Garden switched their attributes to Holy and, in the same instant, pierced through the central node of the second scorpion-shaped aggregate!

Hundreds of malevolent cultists screamed in unison. Black mist billowed from the cursed runes on their bodies, yet pure white holy light surged forth from their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths. A silent explosion erupted within their shells. In an instant, they were incinerated by the power of the sacred dust crystal, reduced to a jumbled pile of skeletons. And half a second later, another scorpion-shaped aggregate met the same fate.

In one-on-one combat, Valentina is indeed far superior to bulky, large summons.

She then circled the area again, eliminating a string of insectoid cultists protecting the scorpion-like aggregates—presumably intending to engage in a combined arms operation. Her assigned positions were quickly cleared, and the two spider-like automatic turrets, whose cannons had been temporarily repositioned, returned to their original positions, once again securing the air defenses.

It was much easier than I expected.

Unfortunately, there has been no score announcement yet, which means this battle is being treated as a group side mission.

So……

—I doubt anyone can leisurely complete a group side quest from beginning to end.

Her gaze swept over the main ceremonial hall in the center of the temple.

(End of this chapter)