Chapter 225: Leviathan's Resurgence

Chapter 225: Leviathan's Resurgence

A primordial scream followed. Screeching, it sounded like metal plates grinding against each other, then amplified by an order of magnitude.

It happened so fast that Astrid didn’t have time to prepare.

The scream sent a shockwave resounding throughout the town. It fell buildings, crashing them to the floor in a plume of dust. It uprooted trees from the earth and threw them straight toward the camp. When the shockwave struck her, Astrid braced.

Astrid’s ears were bleeding. All she could hear was a sharp ringing in her eardrums. Connecting to her sense of hearing, she cut it off. Silence remained, yet she could feel a deep presence wash over the entire city. No, the entire world.

Instinctively she knew. Her heart sank.

The smoke in the distance was like an enormous flower blooming high into the sky. It almost looked like the stem of the flower had spouted huge thick branches. Then a pair of eyes emerged from the middle of the smoke.

Endless. Terrifying. They signalled the end times. The cloud settled, revealing a monster that was so familiar, Astrid swore she had seen it in her nightmares. And she had. It was the Leviathan.

Scaled feathers were as dark as a night sky without stars. They were so dark that they looked to be dipped into purgatory itself.

A large horn stuck out of its forehead like a powerful lance. Astrid couldn’t see anything else, but something was dropping off the monster's back. They fell in the hundreds, or thousands. Astrid squinted her eyes as more of the dark grey dust settled.

She bit her lip. From Leviathan’s back, Spawn fell. They weren’t weak either. Most of them stood far taller than Astrid as they flailed in mid air. If Astrid wasn’t deaf, she’d be able to hear them crashing onto the ancient concrete roads of Apocrypha.

“Is that?” Rachelle said as she stared at the monster in horror. Her shoulders trembled, unable to move.

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“It’s the Leviathan.” Daniel locked his gaze on the monster. His hands clenched into fists

Before they could move, lightning crackled against the bubbled walls of Apocrypha. A lightning rod slammed into the body of the Leviathan, moving it ever so slightly. But it would take a whole more to damage the mythical beast.

High in the sky, Lord Sinwen appeared. His face was twisted in fury. And covered in blood. He sent another attack to the Leviathan. He blotted the sky with his formidable magic. Wherever his lightning travelled, it ripped the air as if it was paper.

Then it struck the Leviathan. It screamed once more, but this time Astrid was ready. So was everyone else as they used whatever defensive Skills they had at their disposal. For those who didn’t have them, others were there to help them.

Astrid had created a Mind Barrier around her group, making sure that the sound couldn’t penetrate her shield.

She didn’t know what to do. Astrid didn’t have to wait long to receive an answer. Her mother arrived. Her long brunette hair flowed as if it was weightless. As if mana had imbued each and every strang. She was now covered in a slender armour that was thicker with plated metal in her most vital areas. Her legs had vanished. Not because they were gone, but because they were covered in blazing white flames.

The temperature sharply increased when she arrived.

Her face was covered with worry. But once she spotted Astrid, she sighed in relief. She shot over, grasping Astrid in a mighty bear-hug. She was incredibly strong. Astrid groaned. Her mother stepped back and cupped her dirt ridden hands around Astrid’s face.

Some of them even had tiered equipment. Most likely obtained from other adventurers up on the vast seas. Each one of them was experienced. Astrid could tell because of their eyes. Each one of them had killed before.

There was one in particular that stood out amongst the rest. It didn’t look strong. In fact, it was half the height of any spawn around it. But there was one distinction. All the other spawn refused to stand close to it.

It was a slender humanoid wearing nothing but a loincloth adorned with ears. Human ears. It looked more human than monster. If it wasn’t for the squished nose, webbed hands and feet, fins for hair, and reptilian, fish-like eyes. She would have confused it for a human. But it wasn’t. It reeked of spawn just like the rest of them.

Level ??? - Enhanced Leviathan Offspring.

Astrid sucked in a cold breath. It was Leviathan’s own child.

Astrid attacked.

Starting with the weaker monsters, Astrid flexed her new engine. Her mana gurgled through the powerful Slayer Engine, and it was already funnelled into her container. The energy was so powerful that it acted like static electricity. Her hair floated, and so did her body.

She connected to the matter surrounding them, and simply Crashed it. In an enormous blanketed explosion, the weaker of the spawn were transformed into a red mist. Stray eyeballs floated, while any limbs that managed to survive simply thudded to the floor like chopped up vegetables.

Havel mounted the assault on the offspring. His attacks were fearsome and brutal. He didn’t fear receiving injury as long as he dealt a blow in turn. For any ordinary being, Havel’s combat method would be a nightmare to face.

But the Leviathan’s offspring was no normal opponent.

It dodged each blazing attack with ease. With simple head movements and impeccable footwork, it stepped out of the way of each attack.

The ranged attackers followed. Because of their incredible accuracy, it didn’t matter if Havel was there or not. They could hit their target while avoiding the berserker.

However, the same scene occurred. The monster dodged everything, ranged attacks and all. Then in a split second, it lashed out its leg, striking Havel directly in the chest.

The mighty berserker was flung backward like a cannonball shot from a cannon. He wasn’t able to control his body as he smashed against the hardened bubble. Blood spewed from his mouth.

Astrid grit her teeth. She readied herself to face the offspring along with her brother when the temperature turned hot. The heat was blistering as Astrd took a step back. Even the flames of Avemoth couldn’t hold a candle to the current temperature that engulfed everyone, and thing, in the surrounding area.

White flames spouted from the earth. Whatever they touched corrupted it into ash until the greenery of the area turned into a land of death.

Astrid turned.

Her mother was engulfed in white flames. It wasn’t just her legs that had vanished, but also the lower halves of her arms. Her eyes had turned into the same hazy white. She moved. No. She teleported in front of the offspring.

By the time she had arrived, her leg was already in the air.

And Leviathan’s offspring no longer had a head. Only a seared mass of flesh remained. Then it fell to the floor.

A shiver ran up Astrid’s spine. She was being watched. Lifting her gaze to the distance, Leviathan faced her.