Chapter 203: A Heartfelt Confession
On the battlements, the chieftains of the Seven Great Tribes led their Beastman Warriors, stationing them at various points along the wall.
Old Wolf stood at the forefront, leaning on his Bone Spear.
Manda had already nocked a Poison Arrow to her bowstring.
Xiong Guo brandished a Stone Hammer the size of a millstone.
"What’s the situation?"
Su An’an gritted her teeth against the pain in her abdomen, her eyes fixed on the dark, oppressive swarm of the Mutated Beast Group below.
"Don’t worry, the Mutant Beasts can’t get in!"
Jin Zhu’s fingers dug into the Gang Vine tendrils, a faint, almost imperceptible spark of blue electricity flashing deep within her pupils.
Countless giant, python-like vines erupted from the city wall, twisting the first wave of Mutant Beasts into mangled chunks of flesh.
"Stay here!"
Seville left a golden mark on Su An’an’s wrist.
He spread his black and white Wings and flew into the air. A torrent of Light Blades rained down, precisely piercing the Mutant Beasts that were corroding the vines.
Manda’s Poison Arrows, Xiong Guo’s Stone Hammer, and the Beastman Warriors’ Bone Spears fell in unison, scattering the Mutated Beast Tide and cutting them down.
In the shadows of the forest, the Liger Beast leader’s slitted pupils contracted sharply. His claws dug deep into a tree trunk.
"Damn it! They actually forged the Gang Vines into defensive fortifications?!"
The Snake Beastman flicked his forked tongue, his fangs glinting coldly in the curtain of rain.
"The Mutant Beasts’ claws can’t even tear through the Vine Armor, and their acid is just being absorbed by the root system!"
The Bat Beastman hanging upside down from a branch flapped its wings and let out a low growl.
"The Gang Vine’s sap is neutralizing the acid rain, and our toxins have no effect on it!"
’Ineffective?’
The Liger Beast leader suddenly erupted in maniacal laughter. He whipped out a golden potion from his hip and viciously plunged it into his neck.
"Then let them see the power of a god!"
His pupils turned completely blood-red, and his mouth stretched into a grotesque grin that reached his ears.
Veins bulged as his muscles swelled. Purple-black scales formed into armor, and foot-long Bone Spikes erupted from his joints.
Each step he took left claw marks deep enough to expose bone, and the acid rain sizzled off his Scale Armor, turning into a toxic fog.
"Everyone, inject the Divine Medicine!"
The Liger Beast’s roar tore through the curtain of rain. Five hundred S Level members of the Divine Army plunged the potions into their arteries in unison.
A golden mist exploded from them like a volcanic eruption.
In the golden mist, the bodies of the Divine Army twisted and swelled, the blood vessels beneath their skin bulging and glowing like molten rock.
As Scale Armor rippled across their bodies, Bone Spikes burst from their shoulder blades, elbows, and wrists with the piercing screech of grinding metal.
"Snake Clan, burrow! Bat Clan, attack from the air! Crush them!"
The Liger Beast leader was the first to charge, slamming into the wall and tearing away a massive chunk of the Gang Vine tendrils with his claws.
Three hundred frenzied members of the Divine Army surged forward like a black tide.
Their hands had mutated into scythe-like Bone Blades. With every slash, the vine wall oozed a dark green sap.
The Snake Beastman led his forces underground. The grating sound of their scales scraping against the dirt was enough to set one’s teeth on edge.
Wherever their venomous Snake Teeth passed, the Gang Vine’s roots withered instantly, and spiderweb cracks spread across the wall’s surface.
The Bat Beastman led the Bird Clan in a dive, swooping down like black meteorites.
Their claws aimed for the eyes of the defending beastmen, while a piercing sonic wave made the Beastman Warriors’ eardrums bleed.
The formation of five thousand Beastman Warriors crumbled under the sonic assault, and the Gang Vine wall began to teeter on the brink of collapse.
A drop of the dark green sap splattered onto Su An’an’s pale face.
"You want to get past? Over my dead body!"
Old Wolf threw his body into the breach, blocking the underground tunnel.
His wolf-like claws clamped around the Snake Beastman’s throat, but one of the Bone Spikes on the enemy’s waist pierced through his abdomen.
He let out a muffled grunt but refused to let go, even in death.
Jin Zhu’s vines had just ensnared three members of the Divine Army when their erupting Bone Blades sliced off both her arms.
Dark red blood sprayed like rain. She staggered back, gritting her teeth. "Something’s wrong with their power!"
"Die!"
Manda’s Bone Hammer shattered the Bat Beastman’s wing bones, but she couldn’t dodge the Bone Spear that struck her from behind.
The Bone Spear pierced through her chest, but she just spat out a mouthful of bloody foam and grinned savagely. "You bastard. I’d say it was worth it."
"Look! The Divine Female is hiding up there!"
Someone’s roar cut across the battlefield.
Dozens of bloodthirsty gazes instantly locked onto Su An’an.
The Liger Beast leader’s fangs dripped with venom, his Bone Spikes glinting coldly in the curtain of rain.
"Capture her! I want her alive!"
Seville landed in front of her like a broken-winged angel.
The venom had eaten honeycomb-like holes into his black and white Wings, and the tattered feathers fell away in the acid rain.
The Light Blade he swung shattered against the Liger Beast’s Bone Spikes with the crisp sound of breaking glass.
It was a sign that his Energy was depleted.
Su An’an’s fingernails dug into her palms. The pink Divine Light at her lower back flickered weakly.
The dragging pain in her lower abdomen, combined with the dizzying exhaustion from her previous battle, twisted together. The darkness before her eyes grew thicker.
"The Divine Female? Hah! She’s nothing but a leaky, broken ragdoll!"
The Liger Beast leader watched Su An’an with a sinister gaze, his purple tongue licking his deathly-white fangs.
"Surrender now, and I’ll let you suffer a little less."
Seville suddenly grabbed Su An’an’s wrist. His palm was shockingly hot.
His amber eyes burned in the darkness, reflecting her pale face.
"Su An’an, do you trust me?"
Su An’an suddenly smiled. The corners of her lips were stained with blood, but her eyes were clearer than ever.
"I should be the one asking you that."
She paused, her fingertips tracing the scorched edges of his Wings.
"You want to use Soul Resonance?"
He nodded, his voice raspy like gravel.
"If the Soul Resonance fails, we’ll both die!"
"I trust that you’ll save me."
She rose to her tiptoes and wrapped her arms around his neck, the tip of her nose brushing against his blood-stained jaw. "Let’s do it!"
Seville’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and a flicker of emotion crossed his amber eyes.
He lowered his head, pressing his forehead against hers. Their breaths mingled in the rain, becoming a single, searing thread.
"I trust you too, Su An’an!" ’I love you!’
His unspoken confession was sealed by Su An’an’s lips as she suddenly kissed him.
The pink Divine Light at her lower back erupted like a living entity, transforming into countless ribbons of light that coiled around Seville.
What began as a tentative tremor instantly flared into a tight, blazing fusion.
The Hexagram totem on Su An’an’s lower back blazed to life with a roar!
The five great Beast Gods manifested.
The White Tiger’s claws tore through the curtain of rain. The Poison Dragon’s scales pierced through molten rock. The mermaid’s tail fin churned the waves. The fox’s Spiritual Fire incinerated all filth. The Swan’s Wings radiated a Divine Light.
Below the ruined city wall, the Liger Beast leader’s maniacal laughter froze on his face.
He stared at the phantoms of the five great Beast Gods, and for the first time, the muscles beneath his purple-black scales trembled with fear.
Seville’s black and white Wings flaked away like dead leaves, replaced by nascent Golden Wings that unfurled like the rising sun.
He raised his hand, summoning a massive golden longbow. A rain of golden light arrows pelted the front ranks of the frenzied Divine Army, riddling their Bone Armor with holes.
"In the name of the Swan Clan, be purified!"
Seville parted his lips, and an ethereal battle hymn poured forth like glacial meltwater.
Each note materialized as a golden rune that wrapped around the bulging veins of the Divine Army soldiers.
In the sacred light, their malformed Bone Spikes melted like wax, and their roars turned into whimpers of despair.
Su An’an touched the golden pattern of Swan Wings that had appeared on her lower abdomen. Nourished by the Divine Pattern, her period had completely stopped.
She gently raised her hand, and her pink Divine Light caressed every injured Warrior.
The hole the Bone Spike had torn in Old Wolf’s abdomen healed at a visible rate.
In the Divine Light, the gaping wound in Manda’s chest closed.
Jin Zhu’s severed arms grew back, but an even more astonishing change was taking place.
"ROAR!"
She suddenly beat her chest and let out a heaven-shaking roar. Her body exploded in size to eight meters tall, and black fur hardened into armor across her form.
The muscles on her newly grown arms were as gnarled as ancient tree roots. A single punch from her created a sonic boom.
"BOOM!"
The force of the punch alone caused the Snake Beastman’s head to explode into a mist of blood.
As she stood on the corpses of the Divine Army and roared, the terrifying sonic wave shook the entire battlefield.
The frenzied soldiers of the Divine Army fell in droves, like wheat before a scythe.
"No, impossible!"
The Liger Beast trembled all over. He violently tore apart two Beastman Warriors who stood in his way and turned to flee, lunging for a secret path deep in the swamp.