dtnovels Chapter 321 - 314: Lighthouse VS Great Black Heaven Dragon
Chapter 321 - 314: Lighthouse VS Great Black Heaven Dragon
「Three minutes ago.」
The Lighthouse’s four S-level Awakened quickly recovered from the sudden, massive explosion.
Angel, Abyss, Artist, and Sinner.
The Holy Hall Research Institute was blown to smithereens. The blended cells inside four transparent containers were utterly annihilated. The institute’s current director and two assistants were also knocked unconscious in the blast, their fates unknown.
These researchers did not possess S-level Defense Power.
Then came another powerful jolt.
"Angel, what’s going on!"
"..."
Angel frowned.
’She knew this incident wasn’t of her own doing.’
Before she could process what had happened, a piercing alarm blared throughout the entire King-level Wandering Ship.
"This is bad! We’re under attack!"
As the Lighthouse’s top combatants, they knew exactly what that signal meant and what they had to do.
Kill the enemy!
With the help of Angel’s skill, [Demon’s Descent], the four of them arrived at the Lighthouse’s Sam Square in the blink of an eye. A newly forged Statue of Liberty stood there. The original statue still stood on a floating island in the Old Sea, known as the "Light of the Goddess"—one of the Ten Great Wonders of the Endless Ocean and a spiritual harbor for countless wandering ships.
The usual tranquility of the Fujing Mountain Sea Region was gone.
The acrid smell of gunpowder and sulfur filled the air.
They saw molten rock, flowing fire, and a colossal Nine-headed Giant Dragon awakening from the deep sea.
The once-invincible Renhuang turned to ash in the furious flames!
Apocalypse! Catastrophe!
The corner of Sinner’s eye twitched. He instinctively took a half-step back, positioning himself to protect the others.
Six wings sprouted from Angel’s back. She was about to charge forward and see for herself just how powerful this so-called Holy Hall-level Sea Beast truly was. However, before she could act, the Lighthouse’s Celestial Laser Cannon fired first. It unleashed a maximum-frequency attack, striking the Nine-headed Giant Dragon at the speed of light.
Yet, it seemed to inflict no significant damage!
Instead, it only enraged the beast!
One of the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s heads roared, and an asteroid descended from the sky! It slammed into the emergency defensive energy shield the Lighthouse had raised. BANG! The shield, formed from two thousand Pure Dome Crystals, disintegrated on impact!
’That looked like just a ranged basic attack!’
The six wings Angel had sprouted retracted stiffly.
ROAR!
The night sky turned scarlet and the sea began to tremble. Flames burned upon the water’s surface as nine terrifying dragon heads unleashed a barrage of skills with abandon, closing the distance in the blink of an eye!
RUMBLE!
The Lighthouse activated its "King Trait"!
[Land of Freedom]!
Within the hundred-nautical-mile area covered by the Land of Freedom, the speed, agility, cognition, and combat power of all targets—excluding the Lighthouse and any creatures with immunity—are reduced by 30%. In contrast, the defense and speed of the King-level Wandering Ship, the Lighthouse, are increased by 30%!
The Land of Freedom had always been overwhelmingly effective, even against S-level sea beasts.
The shift in power was terrifyingly potent.
But the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s movements only faltered for a moment; the effect on it was less than 10%!
The massive King-level Wandering Ship took this opportunity to quickly change course and head northwest. A "disposable" shield worth 2,000 Pure Dome Crystals was raised again, and their last-resort wonder, the 8th-ranked "Star Dome Curtain," was also brought out!
The form of this giant steel city, over ten kilometers long, began to fade into the night.
A King-level Wandering Ship still had a few tricks up its sleeve!
It could barely manage to hold off a Holy Hall-level Sea Beast for a while.
...
「The Lighthouse’s Control Center.」
Beads of sweat dotted Trellin’s forehead. He and his great ship were walking the razor’s edge of Hell. A single misstep would make him the man who doomed them all. The eleven council members had also gathered, sitting in the lower seats to pool their wisdom and navigate the crisis.
But the whole scene looked like a circus.
Clowns dressed in politicians’ coats.
Utterly farcical.
It seemed anyone, man or mutt, could join the performance on this stage.
"Didn’t they say the probability of it awakening was no more than 0.000001%? It hasn’t woken up for thousands of years, so why now of all times?"
"Trellin, what in the world did you do!"
"Holy Hall! Holy Hall-level!"
"I warned you long ago! Holy Hall-level power is a double-edged sword! One careless move and it’ll turn on you! The Doctor is already dead, why did you insist on continuing the research?!"
The room was a chaotic mess of voices, yet not a single person could offer a useful suggestion.
This only made the Lighthouse’s helmsman all the more agitated.
"Things are far from the worst-case scenario. The Star Dome Curtain can hold for at least an hour! I’ve already sent a distress call to the nearest ship, Da Yu. At the same time, the Lighthouse will proceed at full speed towards the Sea of Soaring Dragons! The combined power of two King-level Wandering Ships will be enough to stop this beast!"
"Right! That’s what I was thinking! Da Yu has just as many S-level Awakened as we do!"
"They can’t stay out of this either."
"Should we... contact 001?"
A Governor asked.
The response he got was Trellin’s icy glare.
"We’re not that desperate yet."
"What we need to do now is calm the populace and do everything we can to get help."
The King Ship shuddered again.
The 8th-ranked wonder, the Star Dome Curtain, had temporarily concealed the King-level Wandering Ship and provided a degree of protection. But the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s senses for its prey were extraordinary. The seawater burned more intensely, like oil, and countless Energy Meteorites fell like a meteor shower. With every streak across the sky, the hearts of the people on board leaped into their throats.
It was gathering power!
The moment its prey let its guard down and revealed an opening...
The Nine-Headed Sanctuary would descend, and the wrath of the destructive sovereign will, just like before, tear this blasphemous ship to shreds!
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"Energy fluctuations exceeding the threshold detected in the Fujing Mountain Sea Region!"
"Abnormality detected in the Thousand-Mile River and Mountain Map."
"..."
「Jiuzhou Platform.」
Elder Zhou and a group of people stood before the wonder, the "Thousand-Mile River and Mountain Map," with solemn expressions.
Due to a communication lag, they had not yet received the Lighthouse’s distress call, but the wonder, the "Thousand-Mile River and Mountain Map," still revealed some information. This wonder was originally a mess of chaotic ink and unusable. After Da Yu restored it using the Purifying Marrow obtained from the Bodhi Tree of Suffering, they had gradually figured out how to use it.
It was a bit like a "Seismograph."
It could provide warnings and alerts for certain disasters.
Currently, on the far right of the Thousand-Mile River and Mountain Map, a large patch of ink dots had appeared in a certain sea region.
The ink dots were still spreading.
Extremely quickly.
That coordinate, that location, was highly sensitive.
It was self-evident what this meant.
’The Lighthouse really is the biggest troublemaker on the Endless Ocean. And now all of humanity has to face the disaster they’ve stirred up.’
"Go to high alert."
"All S-level Awakened, assemble at Kunwu and proceed to the edge of the Sea of Soaring Dragons. If the Great Black Heaven Dragon has truly awakened..."
"Defend the border to the death!"
"We cannot let it enter the Sea of Soaring Dragons!"
Nearly a thousand wandering ships were gathered in the Sea of Soaring Dragons. After thirty years of struggle and trailblazing, it had become the only Sea of Peace on the Endless Ocean.
In the Wandering Era, there were no borders in the strict sense of the word.
But this place had become new branches and leaves sprouting from humanity’s root.
Having dealt with the Lighthouse their whole lives, the people of Da Yu understood very well what kind of people they were. In the current situation, if the Great Black Heaven Dragon had truly awakened, its next target after defeating the Lighthouse would be the Sea of Soaring Dragons.
When the nest is overturned, no egg stays intact.
Even if there were scores to settle, they had to survive this crisis first.
"Elder Zhou, should we invite Shi Ming? His skills are very similar to Rong Bing’s. He should also be able to withstand attacks that surpass S-level."
Zhou Huaijin was silent for a few seconds.
"No need."
"His feud with the Lighthouse runs too deep; it’s a matter of life and death. He won’t help them."
"I will go with you on this journey."
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The Da Yun was already approaching the edge of the Sea of Soaring Dragons.
When Ah Jian killed the Doctor, it left a sub-bug clone on the Lagrange. Later, when the Lagrange returned to port, it avoided the search and infiltrated the Lighthouse’s perimeter.
It had become another pair of eyes for Shi Ming.
Shi Ming stood at the bow.
’This Great Black Heaven Dragon... it certainly picked a good time to wake up.’
’How did it know I’ve been itching for a fight?’
Deep within his eyes, a majestic Holy Hall had already risen.
If one looked closely, they would discover that it was hanging upside down...