Chapter 220: The battle had begun.
When Xu kai teleported himself outside the base with anticipation that he could not contain. But what he saw the next second made his heart stop.
The air was thick with heat and dust. The sky, which should’ve been a quiet shade of dusk, was now streaked with the glow of fires and the thick stench of blood and burning fur. The landscape ahead was nothing short of hell.
The entire base was under siege.
Xu Kai stood just beyond the outer perimeter of the wall, hidden behind a small outcropping of jagged stone. From his position, he had a full view of the chaos.
Thousands—no, tens of thousands—of mutated beasts were flooding the land like a living tide. Their roars split the sky, a deafening, guttural chorus of hunger and rage. Some of them were twice the size of a vehicle, with bone armor protruding from their backs, eyes glowing with eerie crimson light. Others were small and fast, moving like shadows between the legs of larger monsters, their fangs flashing as they launched themselves at the base walls.
He had seen mutated beasts before. Fought them. Killed them.
But never this many. Never like this.
The entire base was surrounded from all sides, the creatures hurling themselves at the high walls with unrelenting madness. Arrows flew down from above like rain. Defensive turrets blazed to life, launching bolts of flame, ice, and energy toward the oncoming horde.
His eyes swept upward, scanning the defenders. And there they were.
Liora stood at the center of the top wall.
She was a force of calm within chaos, her black coat flaring behind her as her hair whipped in the wind. Her voice rang out, clear and commanding, even over the thunder of war.