Chapter 409

409 The Monster

Selma Payne’s POV:

The other soldiers weren’t so lucky. Even though I managed to cover most of them with New Flow in time, the physical impact was still unavoidable. Some of them were knocked unconscious by the impact, and only a few awake were unharmed. The rest were more or less injured.

The only consolation was that I finished devouring all of the mutated werewolves in time. Now, the mountains of meat lying limply on the ground were no longer a threat.

Now, we only have one threat left.

How should he describe it?

The Cyclops in Greece mythology, or the terrifying sea demons that the Vikings spoke of. I’d never seen the actual appearance of those monsters, but any record of them revealed a fearsome and powerful aura between the lines. Words could not seal the permanent impact of those monsters on people’s hearts, so people still remembered their true faces even after thousands of years.

For example, the ‘monster’ in front of me was not exactly a monster because it was not as ugly or strange as the stories claimed. Instead, it could be considered ‘beautiful’.

It seemed to have no physical body. A bright halo, like a burning flame or an arctic glacier, refracted the sun from head to toe. It wasn’t huge, at most four meters tall. It was very tall, but compared to the huge light cocoon, it was like a deformed child.

However, it was obvious that Kafka wouldn’t produce a defective product to be nothing.

The newborn monster was still adapting to the environment and did not make aggressive moves for a while. Taking advantage of this time, I ordered the soldiers who could still move to drag their injured companions away.

Garland City’s mayor was also seriously injured. His entire right arm had been broken. He wanted to stay and continue to protect his home, but his dominant hand had been broken, so his combat power had been greatly reduced. Under my persuasion, he finally agreed to leave.

Before he left with his guards, he handed me a badge and said, “Take it with you. Good luck, child.”

I didn’t have time to look at the badge and put it in my pocket.

Now, the number of people on the battlefield was rapidly decreasing. After the mutant werewolves were freed from the evil power’s control, they became a pile of rotten meat. On the other hand, less than 10% of our soldiers were left to fight. Even my team members were seriously injured, and we had to withdraw many of them.

Master Hayley had stayed in the city with the garrison from the beginning. Now, only Eve and Klein were standing beside me.

However, the situation we were facing was not the worst.

Just a minute after we evacuated the injured, the monster moved. It trembled like a puppet that was wound up for the first time. Its body, made of light, kept fusing and changing shape, even beginning to expand and compress, and finally formed a small light cocoon.

“Be careful!” I pushed away Eve, who was on the left and jumped away myself. The place we were standing just now had become a big burnt pit caused by a hot magma-like light beam.

It seemed that the monster’s power was light.

Finally, the monster began to exert its strength as if it had completely adapted to the environment and the mission. It began to compress itself, and when it returned to its original position, it would release countless powerful and rapid beams of light. These beams of light were not as harmless as the surface. They were hot, sharp, and had an uncomfortable evil aura and strong corrosiveness. They could easily turn rocks and earth into ash.

We tried to attack the monster while dodging the light beams, but it was like a ball of light. No physical attack had any effect on it. I tried to use the river to swallow it, but the result was shocking. The river could not find its target, as if the glaring monster was just a shadow!

This was the first time I’d encountered something like this since I got hold of New Flow. No energy could escape New Flow’s mouth. The monster hatched from the light cocoon was only a form of energy manifestation. How could it escape from New Flow’s attack?

The situation was utterly one-sided. The monster attacked us without restraint, and we could do nothing but dodge.

The most dangerous part was that since New Flow could not devour the monster, it could not stop it either. This meant that the net that New Flow had woven could not stop the monster from advancing!

Even if the monster’s pace was very slow, there would come a time when it would complete the distance of a few hundred meters. If we didn’t think of a way to delay it, Garland City would be in danger!

Suddenly, Claire exclaimed, “Look over there! It’s on fire!”

I looked in the direction she was pointing at. The forest not far away had already started to burn. The fire was spreading very fiercely in the forest. It had already set a large area of plants on fire in a few breaths.

This was bad! How could I have forgotten about this?

The temperature of the light beams was extremely high, and they could easily set flowers and trees on fire. Even if we could avoid the monster’s attacks, the plants couldn’t!