Erii: A Journey Through the Heavens Begins with Frilian

Their eyes met, Erii blinked, and made a few sucking sounds.

Then, one ugly head after another emerged from below the valley, like vultures that had smelled carrion, and rushed to climb upwards.

After seeing the monsters' full appearance, Erii immediately took two steps back in disgust, muttering, "So ugly."

It has a snake's head and a dog's body, standing about two meters tall, with a length of about three to four meters from head to tail.

Its neck can stretch and contract like a spring, with black, braid-like tentacles hanging down on both sides. Its back is high and its spine is prominent, and its whole body is covered with a dark, rubbery carapace.

What disgusted her most was that the six legs of these monsters did not end with claws, but with six hands that looked like human hands!

The way the five fingers bend when climbing is exactly the same as a human's.

Their eyes darted around, emitting a sinister yet eerie light; they weren't entirely bloodthirsty and savage, but clearly possessed a certain degree of intelligence.

Perhaps stunned by the immense life essence contained within Erii, the monsters did not rush out in a hurry, but instead dispersed in a coordinated manner, forming a constantly shrinking semicircle.

sieve!

One of the monsters couldn't contain itself and suddenly accelerated forward.

Erii raised her foot and kicked out. With a loud "bang," the monster flew backward. The brute force shattered its eyeballs, and after hitting the ground, its head drooped and it remained motionless.

Like a domino effect, more than a dozen monsters swarmed forward.

Since she was still carrying a full travel bag, she stopped using her fists and feet and muttered a phrase in dragon language.

"die."

hum-

The blade of judgment swept across and cut, and after a series of clanging sounds, the ugly creatures disintegrated.

Erii was about to find a way to leave when she heard a faint noise behind her.

The monster that she had kicked away and killed at the beginning actually stood up again, its chapped face gradually healing, and clusters of eerie blue light spots were dissipating in the soil beneath its feet.

"It's resurrected?" Erii muttered in surprise.

But the other monsters she had crushed were already dead, so in order to find out what was going on, she compressed the area of ​​her domain to just cover it.

An invisible blade is formed.

One slash, two slashes... seven slashes later, the monster's limbs and tail were severed, leaving only its wildly stretching neck and roaring head.

The tentacles on both sides floated up and gradually lit up with blue light, but Erii cut them off completely in the next second.

Its hope of contacting its companions was shattered, and the lewd expression on its face suddenly turned into horror, finally revealing the fear of a wild beast.

Erii begins to slice.

Under the continuous and rapid slashing, the monster's screams of pain turned into whimpers.

Until a crisp sound, as if something hard inside had been split in two, it suddenly went limp and drooped down, lifeless.

Erii walked over and discovered that a cracked, hollowed-out bead had been hit.

After observing for a while, not only did they not revive, but their flesh and blood dissolved into a pool of black matter that disappeared into the soil. The other corpses were the same, leaving behind skeletons.

She had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

The monster's core weakness lies in this bead.

"This world is so... strange," Erii murmured. The ground beneath her feet gave her an uneasy feeling, as if a monster was sleeping there.

Suddenly, she turned her head quickly, her sharp gaze locking onto the distant rocks.

Hidden among the rocks was a monster with a snake's head and a dog's body, but unlike the others, its eyes emitted a dull blue light as it stared intently at Erii.

Buzz! Puff!

The moment the domain expanded, the spying monster was pulverized and killed.

On a very high and steep mountain peak, several figures were either sitting or standing.

"Ugh~!"

Xia Dou's petite body twitched suddenly, and as blood flowed from her nose, she leaned back and fell into Sui Xing's arms.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yuekui, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes.

"She's passed out. It must be because the snake-dog she was controlling was killed, and in a very swift way. Otherwise, given Bean's reaction speed, she wouldn't have been unable to break the connection in time," Shattered Star said.

"Yes, she'll wake up after a rest." Bai Yuekui nodded slightly.

"Boss Bai, what's the deal with the red-haired girl Xia Dou mentioned?" Xu Tong, who was squatting in a position as if taking a dump, scratched his head and asked.

Bai Yuekui shook his head. "Only Xia Dou knows. I don't know either."

Bang bang bang!

Suddenly, intense gunfire erupted from the valley. The group stopped talking and took up a prime vantage point to look down.

……

Erii turned around, and the sound of gunfire also caught her attention.

Without a word, she leaped into the valley with its jagged stone pillars and sped through the narrow canyon following the sound. Soon she saw figures moving about and gunfire erupting.

Armored vehicles, jeeps, cargo trucks, rifles, and the mecha that most excites her, all indicate that this is a technological world set in the modern or future.

Deep in the canyon stands a dilapidated metal building, half of which is buried in sand. The faded lettering at the entrance reads "Supply Reserve Warehouse No. 37".

At this moment, men and women dressed as workers were hurriedly carrying large boxes, loading the valuable looted supplies onto trucks.

A group of well-equipped soldiers, some even wearing mechs over two meters tall, were firing at the surging monsters.

However, the bullets they fired did not have much effect. The small-caliber bullets did little to hurt the monsters, at most slowing them down.

"Captain Mark, there are more and more snake dogs. We'll come back for the rest of the supplies next time!" a soldier shouted.

As he said, countless snake-dogs kept pouring out from a canyon on the side, their excited howls turning everyone's faces pale.

Erii, who had been observing from the sidelines, blinked. So these ugly things were called snake dogs—what a fitting name.

"Mark, we really should retreat. These beasts are too tough to kill," Mo Cheng said while firing.

Mark, piloting the MU-2 Heavy Dawn, hesitated for a moment, then glanced back at the various supplies enough to sustain the Lighthouse for a month. His eyes hardened. "Erica, Flying Snow, provide fire support. We'll buy time. Mo Cheng, Ran Bing, this batch of supplies must be taken back. You two go first!"

After saying that, he drew the greatsword from his back and charged bravely into the pack of snakes and dogs.

"it is good."

"Um."

Erica and Feixue agreed one after the other.

The former piloted the heavy machine gun forward, its stabilizing spikes plunging into the ground, and then raised its massive Gatling gun.

Bang bang bang!

The terrifying barrage of bullets poured down like a waterfall, blasting the snakes and dogs to utter defeat.

Feixue also piloted a heavy-duty vehicle, but she held a sniper rifle in both hands, aiming at the snake dogs that were trying to ambush Mark, and shooting them in the head with every shot.

"If you don't want to die, you'd better hurry up and get it over with!" Mo Cheng roared, his brows furrowed.

"There are snakes and dogs in the west too." Feixue's indifferent voice rang in everyone's earpieces.

Ran Bing stood on the armored vehicle, maintaining a half-crouching posture to snipe. As her scope filled with sharp, beastly shadows, she couldn't help but feel a pang of anxiety. "Mark, the situation is not optimistic."

As the lieutenant of the hunter squad, she must constantly provide Captain Mark with rational advice and action plans.

"Withdraw! We'll cover their retreat." Mark didn't hesitate and immediately gave the order.

In an instant, all the workers abandoned the supplies that had not yet been loaded onto the truck and scrambled onto the truck bed.

After the soldiers got into the armored vehicles and jeeps, the drivers, who had already put their feet on the accelerator, stepped on it all the way down.

The convoy sped away from the canyon passage they had come from, but the three heavy-duty vehicles, equipped with high-speed rollers, did not rush to follow.

"Watch out!" Mo Cheng's exclamation rang out.