Alligator's Ark of Tomorrow

"...Calculation error, extraordinary individual, accident..."

boom!

Gard slammed the centaur to the ground, and, not one to back down, stared at the wound on the centaur's chest, about to smash the axe down.

Just then, something seemed to be glowing on the centaur knight's chest.

Metal?

Bones?

A tremendous spiritual force, carrying unparalleled power, rushed into Gard's mind, causing his body to stiffen for a moment.

In that instant, Gard felt as if he had entered a magnificent palace and seen a figure sitting high on a throne.

"Adakles, why do you not kneel before me?"

Boom!

He broke free from the dream in less than half a second, if not for his desire to use the power of the Consciousness Empire to subdue him.

Dream on!

The knight's lance was caught by Gard less than a centimeter from his chest.

Grabbing his lance and dragging the centaur rider, Gard threw him away violently.

The three-meter-tall figure rolled several times on the sand before finally getting up.

The hot winds scorched Gard's skin, causing it to crack. Coupled with the fierce battle, blood began to flow from beneath the cracked skin, making him look like a crocodile-man porcelain piece that was shattering.

However, this level of fighting alone was not enough to defeat Gard.

He walked forward step by step until he reached the centaur rider.

The axe in his hand came crashing down without mercy, first severing the knight's waist and freeing him from the lower half of the horse's body, then severing his two arms to render him unable to resist, and finally Gard stripped off his armor and plunged his hand into his chest.

"really!"

Inside the centaur's body, Gard touched bones that should have belonged to humans, and not just one.

That lost ancient empire pieced together the corpses of the Nightmare Knights, and then, based on their skeletons, created mechanical bodies.

The skeletons of the nightmares became the energy source for the machines, but how many nightmare riders died in the scorching hot land?

If every mechanical rider forged from the bones of a Nightmare Knight were as powerful as the one he was now encountering.

That Terra is finished.

After a thousand years, the Nightmare Knights will once again embark on their expedition!

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Chapter 83 "Lv4!"

Rumble rumble rumble!

The sound of the wind howling was like the roar of countless airplane engines on the ground, a deafening sound that could be clearly heard even in underground tunnels more than ten meters deep.

Thousands of lizardmen gathered here, banding together to vent their anger against the wrath of the enemy. In this harsh and cold land, survival was already a difficult task.

The hot winds that appear every now and then can easily destroy all the possessions they have painstakingly accumulated over a long period of time.

"elder brother."

In the underground passage, the lizard girl Laya looked at the densely packed lizard people around her and said in a panic, "Brother, I don't see Brother Gard. Didn't he come in?"

And Gard's brother's companions, who were originally following behind them, turned around and found that they had all disappeared because of the large number of lizardmen who suddenly flooded into the market.

"It's alright, Raya. Uncle Gard is so strong, how could anything happen to him?"

Mukaka protected his sister and wife, making the caravan's guards form a circle, partly to secure their space for survival and partly to demonstrate their strength and avoid conflict.

“The market has more than just this one underpass; many people who live here also have underpasses built in their homes.”

Mukaka patted his younger sister's head.

"They'll be fine."

Despite saying this, Mukaka, the lizardman brother, had a hint of worry in his eyes as he looked at the densely packed lizardmen around him, appearing preoccupied.

Too many people are rushing into the underground passage. Mukaka heard that each market's underground passage can only accommodate a large tribe at most. If the number of people exceeds that of a large tribe, it won't be long before the people in the passage get sick or even die.

At least two or three large tribes have gathered here.

Mukaka felt he was still young and could live until his child was born and grew to be as big as him.

His sister is also young and doesn't have children of her own yet.

'Uncle Gard, if you were here, what would you do?'

Having witnessed Gald's power, Mukaka has always regarded Gald as his role model, believing that he will one day catch up with Uncle Gald.

But now, when he encounters difficulties, he still can't help but miss Gard, the person who could bring him endless security just by standing there.

The temperature inside the underground passage began to rise, causing even the lizard people, who were used to the harsh environment of the hot land, to become restless.

Boom!

On the ground, the sound of houses collapsing echoed. The strong winds could even blow down sturdy houses, and the lizardmen with some goods on the ground roared angrily.

Their only hope is that the hot winds will blow away the lizardmen; otherwise, it's conceivable that even if the hot winds disappear, many lizardmen will die because they can't find food.

......

Boom!

On the ground, Surtr drove her dune buggy and knocked down a house. She passed the entrance to an underpass, glanced at it briefly, and then continued driving forward.

Gard had already shifted the sand bike to first gear, which was only for slow driving, but Surtr thought first gear was too slow, so he shifted the sand bike to fourth gear.

She actually knows how to shift gears!

As a result, the houses in the market were immediately damaged. The lizardmen's roads were not wide to begin with, and although Surtr knew how to shift gears, he didn't know how to steer at all.

Most importantly, she doesn't wear a seatbelt and keeps looking back while driving.

'I wonder how that crocodile man is doing?'

Such thoughts flashed through her mind. After all, she was Gard's slave, and Gard was her foreign language teacher. They had known each other for a week, so she should still have some concern for him.

After driving around the market for quite some time, we finally found the marker that Rhine Life's group had set up before entering the underground passage—a crocodile statue made entirely of calcium sat right there in the passage.

It must be said that he truly deserves to be called a researcher who could fix toy cars on his own when he was a child. In addition to his outstanding combat skills, his hands-on ability is also beyond imagination.

Surtr drove to the side, got out against the wind, and touched the statue of Gard, which could only be described as lifelike.

Yes, a life-size statue, not too big or too small.

If Gard were here, he would definitely say that when Seria used Originium Arts to make armor for him, she indeed touched his entire body.

When Surtr touched the statue, he noticed that the ground around it suddenly became soft.

The next second, she and the dune buggy plunged into the ground.

With precise manipulation of the gravel, Surtur and the sand vehicle were transported to the underground passage, shielded from the hot air. Kanerian leaned against the corner of the wall, arms crossed, his face expressionless.

She had been like this ever since she entered the passage, exuding an aura that kept strangers at bay. She would only move her fingers when needed.

However, when Kanerian saw that only Surtr and the sand car had come down, but not Gard, his eyes still flickered.

Gently biting her red lips, Kanerian turned her head away.

Anyway, that crocodile-man is tough and thick-skinned, so he probably won't get into any trouble easily.

Besides, she wasn't familiar with that crocodile man; he was just teaching her a foreign language. And that scoundrel crocodile man wasn't the only one in the world who could speak foreign languages.

Why should she care about that jerk?

If anyone should care, it should be that Waifan woman...

"Miss Surtr, where is Gard?"

As if declaring sovereignty, Serea asked immediately upon seeing that only Surtr had come down.

After learning Colombian from Gard for a few days, Surtr could barely understand Seria's words. She patted the dune buggy next to her and said, "He went to fight with someone, but I brought back everything you wanted."

None of the oxygen cylinders in the dune buggy were damaged, and Surtr felt it was definitely thanks to her own skill; if she hadn't been a good driver, the cylinders would surely have been broken.

However, Serea's attention was not on the oxygen tank; she was worried about Gard's safety.

......

"Pooh!"

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Gard dragged the mechanical nightmare rider, which he had chopped into a human stick, and looked up at the sky.

He still had some questions and needed to ask the Nightmare descendant who had been assimilated by the Lizardmen about how the Nightmare's remains provided energy for the machine's body. He believed that professional researchers like Serea would be able to give him the answers.

But more importantly, have the Nightmares truly been overthrown by an ancient civilization? And if the Nightmares were to resurrect and invade Terra, what could they possibly do?

No, at least not now.

Gard still has some memories of the future of this world in his mind: no Nightmare Knights will invade Terra for the next ten years or so.

On the contrary, in the not-too-distant future, Terra may perish because of the Sealings.

However, regardless of the circumstances, he needs to go deep into the hot earth to continue training himself, and Serea and the others also need to find a medicine to suppress the mineral disease from deep within the hot earth.

The situation has changed; he needs to rely on the strength of those lizardmen. The lizardmen's weapons and equipment are outdated, but their bodies are very strong, far stronger than ordinary Terrans.

Within the team, only Seria's physique might surpass that of the lizardmen. Stronger lizardmen like Mukaka are even stronger than Seria.

Thousands of lizardmen—that's a terrifying force.

However, the appearance of a natural disaster brought these lizardmen to the brink of annihilation.

The underground passages of the market only provided these lizardmen with the means to survive; if the hot winds continued for too long, the lizardmen were always in danger of suffocating to death.

The prerequisite for borrowing the power of these lizardmen is to find a way to keep them alive.

Stop the natural disaster!

Powerful gods and giant beasts possess the power to change natural disasters and even protect a region.

Elsewhere, Gard couldn't guarantee.

But in the desert, in this place that is just like his home.

Gard thought he could give it a try.

Use the Ascension Village to analyze the rules and use the power of Ascension to change the wind direction of natural disasters.

Most importantly, just now, the power of ascension within Gard's body has increased significantly.

After defeating the Mechanical Nightmare Knight, Gard's attribute panel showed...

"Current hero template: Desert Butcher (Rekton) lv4!"

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Chapter Eighty-Four: The Wind Has Stopped!

The hero template provides a huge boost to Gard.

Without a hero template, Gard would just be a slightly stronger crocodile.

However, with the hero template, Gard can fight against Goredia, a deep-sea hunter from Argoll, even without using his Ascension power.

The only drawback is that the hero template upgrades too slowly. So many years have passed since he obtained the hero template, and he has only reached level 4.

When will I be able to unleash my ultimate skill at level 6?!

Gard looked at his attribute panel. The changes weren't too significant, but the areas where he was weak were gradually being compensated for.

Character: Gard

Code name: None

Gender: Male

Combat experience: ?

Birthday: May 2

Race: Adakris

Height: 208cm