Chapter 176: Chapter 161: Shadow of the Ancient Demon
In the command hall of the military base.
The general sat down, looked around at the officers, and then said.
"Can anyone tell me what that white skull was just now?"
"And, what are those fissures in the sky."
"What the hell came out of those fissures!"
The events of this day completely overturned the general's understanding of the world.
If the series of battles that just happened, the general could barely accept.
Superhumans, genetic mutations, geological weapons, etc.
Were still within his cognition.
Then now, the giant human skull, spatial fissures, the terrifying figure that emerged from the fissures.
Had completely exceeded his cognition.
These things should have appeared in fantasy novels, in fantasy movies.
Not in reality!
"Perhaps it's a secret weapon from another country?" An officer proposed an idea he himself didn't believe.
But this sparked inspiration in others, and they began to throw out jaw-dropping ideas.
"That might be some kind of holographic projection, you know, our labs can do that too."
"What's the point of projecting a holographic image, to scare us?"
"No, perhaps we should consider that it's something real, existing in a non-physical form."
"Are you talking about ghosts? That's ridiculous, if ghosts really exist, does that mean God also exists. If God exists, where is he, why hasn't he protected us?"
"Superficial, non-physical things must be ghosts? Couldn't they be energy life forms?"
"Energy life forms? I think you've been watching too much TV."
"That's why people like you can't become scientists, your imagination is too poor."
Seeing the officers about to argue, the general stood up and shouted: "Quiet."
"We must consider every possibility, since even life forms like humanoid nuclear bombs can exist."
"I think energy life forms might not be impossible."
"But more than that, I'm more concerned about what's happening in that deep pit now."
"What is the technical department doing, are the technicians in our country just collecting salaries without working?"
"Otherwise, why can't I see the images from underground now!"
Under the general's urging, finally, a military satellite was urgently deployed.
The high-powered telescope on the satellite continuously magnified everything on the ground on the screen.
Soon the images showed the underground.
Seeing three figures below.
In the underground pit, Azul saw through the eyes of his clone that Martin, who had been killed, stood up again.
Then he restored his body that had been pierced.
Now Martin's body was enveloped by a pale terrifying figure.
The figure could barely be recognized as a humanoid, but upon closer inspection, one would find it was a non-physical entity composed of countless illusory 'facets'.
Each 'facet' contained endless energy and information, even if Azul used 'quantum split-brain', just analyzing one 'facet' made his 'quantum split-brain' tend to crash.
This shows that the figure summoned by the 'Homelander' opposite was not something simple.
"What have you done?" Azul asked through the mouth of his clone.
Martin was in a good mood, and, perhaps because he thought he had the upper hand.
He was not in a hurry to act.
He explained to Azul.
"This is the result of a magic I used from the 'Darkhold'."
"This magic can summon the shadow of an ancient demon, temporarily attaching it to my body."
"Thus allowing me to briefly borrow its power."
"This magic also has a special effect."
"If the caster dies before the ancient demon's shadow attaches, then after the ancient demon descends, it will cast 'Resurrection of the Dead' on the user, bringing the caster back to life."
Martin said here, somewhat resentfully: "Unfortunately, the 'Resurrection of the Dead' magic can only be used once in a lifetime."
"I didn't expect to use this opportunity here."
"I have to commend you."
"As a rookie who triggered the 'Invasion' world for the first time, you actually killed me once."
"Not bad."
"But that's it."
"Now you have no chance."
"Because I have the biggest trump card!"
As he spoke, Doomsday had already charged over, Martin looked at Doomsday, opened his mouth wide.
With a whoosh.
A swarm of locusts flew out of his mouth.
The number of locusts was dense, perhaps tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
A large number of locusts whistled as they flew towards Doomsday, each with a small white human head.
Once they landed on Doomsday's body, they quickly began to gnaw at Doomsday's skin.
Once they bit through, they burrowed inside.
Doomsday roared in anger, shooting beams of light from his eyes, sweeping back and forth.
Countless locusts turned to ashes in the dazzling and scorching light, but Doomsday's body was already covered with locusts.
Those things gnawed at Doomsday, devouring his flesh, and this actually made the locusts that had devoured the flesh stronger.
These locusts' bodies swelled, growing a second, even more skulls.
This accelerated the locusts' devouring efficiency.
Martin laughed heartily: "This is the necromantic magic 'Hell Locusts', they are devils from the Gluttony Hell."
"They will never be satisfied, they will gnaw their opponents down to the bone."
"And they are unkillable!"
"Such magic, if exchanged in a store, would be extremely expensive."
"But now, with the ancient demon attached to me, I can easily use it."
"It's so exhilarating!"
Doomsday shot another beam of light, at this moment, the locusts that had died in the light before.
They crawled out of the ashes on the ground, then flapped their wings, their skulls squeaking, and pounced on Doomsday.
Instantly, Doomsday was wrapped in layer after layer of hell locusts.
His figure was no longer visible.
But Azul believed that Doomsday wouldn't be eaten so easily, so he shot golden flames at Martin.
The golden flames with ultra-high temperatures tore through the air, blasting towards Martin.
Martin's face suddenly turned pale, then his body lost its texture, and emitted a cold glow.
Azul's 'heat vision' passed right through his body, hitting the rocks behind, causing a violent explosion.
"Necromantic magic."
"Specter Form!"
"Allows me to become a non-physical entity, capable of doing things that folk legends say ghosts can do."
"Like this."
His body suddenly disappeared, then appeared behind Azul's clone, then pressed against it.
But upon contact with the clone, Martin's pale ghost-like body bounced away.
He made a sound of surprise: "You actually have 'Magic Resistance', your abilities are quite comprehensive?"
"Although mostly focused on survival and defense."
"Tsk, but my possession failed."
"I was going to put on a good show of ghost possession and suicide for you."
"Now there's no chance."
"But."
Martin's figure flickered again, then merged into Doomsday, who was wrapped in hell locusts.
The next moment, the hell locusts disappeared, and Doomsday, whose body was riddled with holes, walked out.
Doomsday's body quickly repaired itself, and the light in his eyes was no longer electric, but pale flames.
Martin's voice came from Doomsday's mouth: "That's right, Doomsday doesn't have 'Magic Resistance', in fact, this thing is a soulless creation."
"A shell that only knows destruction and devastation, possessing it is too easy."
"How about it, brother."
"Didn't expect that, did you."
"The weapon you intended to use against me has now become mine."
After speaking, Doomsday, under Martin's control, shot dazzling flames from his eyes.
Azul's clone did not dodge, directly confronting the blast.
And from the start, he adjusted the temperature of the 'heat vision' to ten thousand degrees!
Instantly, the underground air ignited.
Two streams of energy collided, after a moment of stalemate, Azul increased the solar radiation output again.
Instantly the torrent surged, overwhelming Doomsday's flames, washing over Doomsday's body.
Doomsday was blown away.
The clone's energy torrent blasted Doomsday into the rock, and when the clone stopped emitting 'heat vision', a tunnel-like passage had been carved out at the end of the pit.
At the bottom of the passage, Doomsday's whole body flickered with light, turning into electricity, crackling and popping.
Doomsday's chest had a burning light, so hot it seemed about to explode.
This monster continued to evolve, having been easily devoured by the hell locusts before, now its evolved flesh had become incredibly tough.
The clone's ten-thousand-degree heat had evolved it to withstand a hundred-thousand-degree temperature, and its energy had also been further enhanced.
Martin felt Doomsday's changes and laughed heartily: "Brother, you're just feeding Doomsday a feast."
"Then I'll gratefully accept it."
Then Doomsday shot out from the passage, instantly arriving in front of the clone, then punched out.
This punch reached several times the speed of sound, the air crackled and popped, but when it hit the clone, it passed right through the clone's body.
This time, Doomsday couldn't stop its momentum, passing right through the clone's body, whooshing away, crashing into the rocks on the other side of the pit.
Causing a large section of the mountain to collapse and slide, rumbling like a rain of stones.
Then Martin controlled Doomsday to burst out of the rubble, landing on the ground, looking at the clone.
The next moment, Martin emerged from Doomsday's body.
"So you can also become non-physical."
"So you were indeed feeding Doomsday."
"Helping it evolve to be stronger."
"But."
Martin reached out and grabbed at the air, then pulled out a dark-styled, bone-decorated dressing mirror.
This mirror shook in Martin's hand, quickly enlarging, finally becoming a huge mirror nearly five meters tall.
It landed in front of Doomsday.
Thus, the mirror reflected Doomsday itself.
At this moment, Doomsday in the mirror roared, and walked out of the mirror.
Appearing in real space.
The two Doomsdays faced each other, then roared at each other.
"Dark magic, True Mirror Space."
Martin smiled slightly: "Can turn the things reflected in the mirror into entities, projected in real space."
"The mirror entity has the same abilities and strength as the original."
"See, even if I don't possess Doomsday."
"I have a way to deal with your toy."
"Now, it's our turn."
He looked at Azul's clone.
At this moment.
On the ground.
Gwen jumped down from Old Osborn's hoverboard.
The first thing she saw was the giant human skull.
No way, it was too conspicuous.
On the entire ground, it was the only thing rising above the surface.
It was hard to ignore it intentionally.
At this moment, Azul's voice rang in Gwen's mind.
"Destroy that human skull."
Gwen immediately looked up at Old Osborn: "Mr. John wants us to destroy that human skull."
Norman Osborn nodded: "I heard it too."
"Let's go."
Immediately, Old Osborn controlled the hoverboard to fly over.
Gwen had nothing to use here, so she had to run over honestly.
Upon reaching near the human skull, she realized how enormous it was.
It was about forty to fifty meters tall, and the widest part was nearly three hundred meters.
Without a doubt.
This was a behemoth!
Perhaps because the shadow of the ancient demon had already been summoned, now this human skull no longer had special energy protection.
The skull's eye sockets were pitch black, and the ubiquitous cracks made it look very fragile.
Old Osborn lowered the flight altitude, then used the mini-missiles on the hoverboard to attack.
One after another, missiles shot out from below the hoverboard, drilling into the eye sockets of the human skull.
Moments later, orange fireballs exploded inside.
Scorching flames spewed out from the eye sockets, from the cracks.
The human skull altar buzzed and trembled, large and small fragments began to fall off.
A boulder-sized fragment landed not far from Gwen.
The girl immediately shot a web at this huge bone, attached it, then swung the web.
Her superhuman strength allowed her to easily swing the bone around, and after two circles, Gwen made it crash like a cannonball into the broken human skull.
The bone did not disappoint Gwen, it crashed into the broken skull, destroying most of the structure.
Causing the already precarious human bone altar to completely shatter.
At this moment.
The earth shook.
Then from the direction of the underground pit came a huge roar.
Gwen stood on the broken altar, looking into the distance, and saw two black shadows shooting out from the distant sinkhole.
They shot into the sky, and after a while, landed on the ground.
They were two identical humanoid monsters.
Doomsday!
Facing his mirror image, Doomsday roared, then charged forward.
The mirror image Doomsday did the same.
The two Doomsdays soon met in the middle, both throwing punches at each other.
A dull sonic boom immediately sounded.
The fists of both sides collided with each other's bodies, creating a blurry ripple.
The two ripples spread out, forming shockwaves, stirring up a fierce wind.
Howling past Gwen, making it hard for her to breathe, and causing Old Osborn's hoverboard to shake uncontrollably.
Next, the two Doomsdays frantically beat each other.
Every punch either created ripples or caused the ground to collapse into shallow pits.
They also shot energy beams at each other, when the two scorching and dazzling light streams collided, a huge energy storm erupted.
The ultra-high-temperature scorching storm swept around, even though it didn't reach Gwen and the others, the burning wind from that direction still made their hearts tremble with fear.
"What are those two monsters?" Norman Osborn had already lowered the altitude of the hoverboard.
Of course, he didn't expect Gwen to answer this question.
But Osborn vaguely had an answer.
Those two monsters should be related to Mr. John.
At the same time.
In the command hall of the military base, people gasped.
Some covered their mouths, some held their heads, watching the duel between the two Doomsdays on the screen.
The general had already pulled his hair more than once: "Can anyone tell me what that monster is."
"Wasn't there only one before?"
"How did another one appear?"
"And, why can't we see the images from the bottom of the pit clearly."
"Can't the technical department think of something!"
A technician responded: "General, a large amount of radiation was detected in the pit, probably caused by the energy impact earlier."
"It's affecting our satellite, and now it's still being interfered with."
The general shook his head, sat down, watching the two Doomsdays fighting each other on the screen.
Then said in a deep voice.
"Get me the president."
Soon.
The call was connected.
The president was online.
The general picked up the receiver, said in a deep voice: "Dear sir, although I don't want to say this, but next, we might have to use nuclear weapons."
"Now I will transmit the images we captured to your office."
"You should be able to see them."
A moment later.
The president's gasp came through the phone.
"Oh my god."
"General, what is this?"
The general said in a deep voice: "What exactly it is, is still unclear."
"I can only say, it's a kind of humanoid weapon."
"The destructive power they possess is comparable to nuclear bombs."
"Now these two monsters are attacking each other, and in that underground pit, there are other creatures with extraordinary powers fighting."
"Regarding these creatures."
"I believe our military does not have enough firepower to confront them."
"So now, I think perhaps we should use nuclear bombs to level this area."
The president paused, then said: "General, do you know what this means?"
"I am well aware, sir."
The general said in a deep voice: "But now, one of these superhuman creatures can easily destroy New York."
"If the battlefield of these superhuman creatures expands further, it might cause our country to disappear from the earth."
"Compared to the criticism from using nuclear bombs, I think the urgent matter now is to use nuclear bombs to eliminate them as soon as possible."
The president paused for a moment, then said: "Alright, I authorize it."
"But, general."
"Are you sure nuclear bombs can definitely eliminate them?"
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