I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

On the watchtower.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan made a decisive decision.

He picked up the communication crystal and connected to Sivadin's channel:

"Captain Sivardin, have Alice retreat. I'm about to fire."

A deep voice came from the other end of the crystal:

"clear."

On the battlefield.

Upon receiving the order, Sivadin swung his giant blade, forcing the high priest to take a step back.

"Alice, retreat!"

Without hesitation, Alice braced herself against the ground with her warhammer and leaped backward several meters.

Sivadin followed closely behind, his golden figure instantly creating distance.

The high priest watched them retreat and let out a cold laugh.

"You want to leave now?"

"It's too late."

The outline of the colossal object behind him became increasingly clear, and it was about to take shape.

The blood swamp spread like a living thing, trying to catch up with Alice and Sivadin.

Just then.

The sound of cannons rang out.

Two black beams of light tore through the rain and hurtled straight toward the High Priest!

The high priest didn't even turn around.

With a casual flick of a tentacle, the liquid in the blood swamp instantly condensed into a blood-red shield wall.

boom!!

The two cannon shots struck the shield wall, and the explosions scattered the flames, but they failed to break through the barrier.

The high priest turned his head, his dead-fish eyes looking in the direction of the watchtower.

"Two shots?"

His tone was contemptuous.

"I've already said, even if they fire two more shots, it won't do anything..."

He didn't finish his sentence.

Because at the very same instant that the two artillery shells hit the shield wall.

On the watchtower.

Lu Yuan had already turned the hands of his pocket watch.

Click.

The world seemed to slow down in his eyes.

The two cannon shots collided with the firelight of the blood shield, like elongated threads that slowly unfurled.

The high priest turned his head as slowly as if he were swimming in water.

His lips moved, uttering each word, but it had nothing to do with Lu Yuan, because he couldn't hear it and didn't want to hear it.

In that extended moment, Lu Yuan's movements were as fast as lightning.

His fingers flew across the control panel, adjusting the angles of the remaining four cannon barrels.

The third door is locked.

The fourth door is locked.

The fifth door is locked.

The sixth gate is locked.

Four jet-black cannon muzzles were all aimed at the high priest.

Lu Yuan pressed his finger down on the rune.

Fire.

From the high priest's perspective.

He just blocked two shells.

The blood shield was still there, and the taunt was only halfway through.

then.

Four black beams of light arrived one after another.

There is no interval.

There was no panting.

Before the first shot could even be reacted to, the second shot had already arrived.

Before the second shot could be blocked, the third and fourth shots came at the same time.

fast.

too fast.

It happened so fast that he didn't even have time to reassemble his blood shield.

The high priest's pupils suddenly contracted.

"No!"

boom!!!

boom!!!

boom!!!

boom!!!

Four artillery shells hit their targets in succession.

Including the previous two shots, six black beams of destructive light exploded on the high priest.

The explosion engulfed everything in flames.

The Blood Swamp Formation collapsed in the shockwave, and dark red liquid scattered everywhere before quickly evaporating.

The colossal object that was forming vanished, like mist blown away by the wind.

The song of the deep sea came to an abrupt end.

The smoke of battle has cleared.

The high priest... is still standing.

But he was no longer human.

The dark blue robe was blown to pieces, revealing a body covered in scales underneath.

One of the tentacles was blown off, and blue blood kept gushing out.

There was a huge hole in his chest, through which you could see his wriggling internal organs.

He... he's still alive.

"Good...very good..."

The high priest let out a hoarse laugh, his voice filled with madness.

He raised his head, his dead fish-like eyes looking in the direction of the watchtower.

"Since you won't let me leave..."

His remaining tentacle pierced his own chest.

"Then let's go see Mother together!"

On the watchtower.

Lu Yuan saw the High Priest's actions.

He didn't know what the other person was going to do.

But he knew.

I now wield a powerful alchemical cannon, and the villain died from talking too much.

The finger pressed down on the rune again.

The cannon barrel hadn't finished cooling down yet, and the runes became abnormally hot depending on the barrel's temperature, burning his fingers until they turned red.

But Lu Yuan did not let up.

Fire.

Six more black beams of light shot out!

From the high priest's perspective.

His tentacles had just grasped the black heart.

That heart filled with eyes.

The strength given by a mother.

Once detonated, everything within a hundred meters will be dragged into the embrace of the deep sea.

Then he saw it.

Six black beams of light roared in once more.

Attack his body, attack the heart in his hand.

"No...no...!"

The high priest crushed the heart at the last moment.

But at the same time, Boom!!!

The artillery fire hit.

The black heart shattered in the explosion, its eyes spinning wildly for a moment before going completely dark.

The high priest let out a mournful wail.

That wasn't physical pain.

Rather... it's because we lost something extremely important.

Just then, a giant golden blade slashed down from the side!

Sivadin!

This is the moment he's been waiting for.

The giant blade, wreathed in golden light, aimed straight for the high priest's neck.

The high priest wriggled, trying to avoid it.

But his strength was rapidly depleted as his heart shattered, and his movements became incredibly sluggish.

puff.

The blade pierced the flesh.

The high priest's head flew off.

In his cloudy eyes, the last traces of resentment and fear remained.

He never understood it until his death.

Why didn't the person on that watchtower give him any chance to catch his breath?

Why didn't you wait until he finished speaking?

Why...do things differently?

The headless body swayed twice before collapsing to the ground with a thud.

The blue blood gushed out, but was quickly diluted by the rain.

Alice charged in from the other side, raising her warhammer high and slamming it down on the corpse.

a bit.

Two times.

Three times.

She didn't stop until the body had completely turned into a pile of rotten flesh.

"Death confirmed."

Alice was breathing heavily, her voice hoarse.

Sivadin sheathed his giant blade, and the golden light began to fade.

He looked in the direction of the watchtower and nodded slightly.

That was an acknowledgment of Lu Yuan.

On the watchtower.

Lu Yuan loosened his pocket watch, breathing slightly heavily.

My fingers were half-cooked from the runes connecting to the cannon barrel, and they burned with pain.

But he couldn't care less about any of that.

[Sanity: -3, 29/70]

The gray-white characters at the edge of his vision flickered, reminding Lu Yuan that his pitiful rationality had slipped a little further.

Lu Yuan looked down at the battlefield in the distance.

The high priest's body was completely still.

That black heart... was shattered into pieces.

Lu Yuan let out a long breath; thankfully, the cannon was powerful enough.

It's still raining.

But the battle was over.

The Night's Watch began to clear the battlefield and collect the corpses of the grey-robed men.

The soldiers of the Holy Armor Army were exhausted, and the golden light had completely dissipated, but their eyes still shone with an indomitable spirit.

Sivadin walked toward the box wrapped in black cloth, frowned upon touching it, and then picked it up.

"The decapitation is complete. Consider this an extra bonus; keep it at your base for safekeeping."

His voice was devoid of any emotion.

Alice dragged her warhammer to the remains of the high priest and looked down at them for a while.

She thought of her brothers who had died in the attacks a few days earlier.

"Brothers... I've avenged you."

Her voice was very soft, as if she were talking to herself.

As her emotions subsided, Alice raised her head, her gaze passing over the ruins of the warehouse and looking towards the inner city.

The sky over there was still flashing with an eerie light, and although the huge black shadow had become much more blurred, it had not completely disappeared.

"I wonder how things are going with old Morgan."