Chapter 809 (1/2)

Chapter 809: The Moment of Crisis

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By the time that the soldiers realized what was happening, it was too late for them to adjust another machine gun in order to take aim, so they directly pulled out the revolving rifles tied on their backs to fire at the enemy.

The long sword shoved in the invisible monster’s body was now giving away its trail, making it an easy target for it to aim at. At such a short distance, Brian and all the other men fire all their bullets at once. The hail of bullets swept over Edith’s head and she could even hear the whoosh sounds as the bullets tore through the air.

She turned back and saw the distorted air had solidified as a monster emerged out of the void. It was bloodcurdling. The monster wore a taupe shell all over and was nearly two meters tall while standing. A height that would allow it to tower over most ordinary men. Apart from a pair of forelegs as sharp as sickles, it also had seven or eight pairs of supportive legs sticking out of its abdomen. Luckily, the bullets were fierce enough to pierce through its shell, and they finally cracked open the monster’s thin, long and locust-like head. It twitched a little and fell to the ground, bathed in blood.

“Get out of my way!” Suddenly, someone roared behind Edith.

A heavy sword proceeded the voice, piercing through the air with a strong power that caused the blade to buzz. It smashed right in the space before the first machine gun squad, blowing away the other two monsters and dispelling the invisible rippling air.

Hard on the heels of Ashes’ strike, several God’s Punishment Witches moved forward to slash the enemies, tearing their bodies into halves before they managed to get to their feet.

“The reinforcements finally arrived.” Edith let out a sigh of relief as she realized it.

The enemies had lost their advantage of invisibility, plus with their small numbers, it had not taken long before the Transcendent Warriors dismembered all of them.

Edith noted that as the monsters inched nearer to the God’s Punishment Witches, their form turned weird, half of their body invisible in the void while the other half was revealed in the light as if their hiding skills had been abated.

“Are you alright?” Margie pulled Edith to her feet. “We spotted these enemies on the cliff and moved as fast as we could, but we’re still a little too late.”

“You spotted them with the colorful Magic Stone?”

“Yes.” Another tall man came up to her. “Weapons of common people don’t work well in this kind of situation. You’d better inform the people above to bring more God’s Punishment Witches down here.”

Edith remembered her name was Betty. She asked, “You’re capable of destroying their camouflage?”

“It’s a trick that works the same way as the God’s Stone of Retaliation.” The man shrugged. “So far, it can only deactivate their invisibility skill for a short period of time.”

“But they also wear God’s Stone of Retaliation. How could they not see the enemy?” Brian asked with his teeth gnashed, as he looked at the three dead men on the ground.

“It’s not surprising,” Betty answered calmly. “For light, distance, and attention will all affect our sights. A general God’s Stone works only within the area of one or two paces. Since the enemies only exposed in our visions for less than a second, it was reasonable that they couldn’t see the targets, not to mention in such a dim place.”

Edith could not help sighing. Betty was right. They had not noticed the sickle monsters until they showed their half bodies during the fight. The beasts’ long forelegs and invisibility skills had given them a great advantage. It was undoubtedly too late for ordinary people to react, even though they had sensed something wrong. There would have been no way for the First Army to defeat them unless they had buried God’s Stones beforehand to give them a clearer view to see through the enemies’ disguises.

“Damn it!” Brian wielded his fist fiercely. “I should have sent down the wire netting first!”

“I think we should go back. I have a feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen in the hole,” Betty urged again. “The weird shriek almost startled the entire snow mountain.”

“Did you hear that too?” Edith asked in surprise.

“Losing most of our sense of touch has made our eyes and ears extraordinarily sharp…” Betty studied Edith for a little while before replying. “I didn’t expect that a common person would be capable of hearing the sound too.”