Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 318 Disappearance (Two chapters in one)

The speed of the flying sword accelerated to 3000 knots in a very short time.

If it were in the starry sky, it could fly even faster, but there was ether wind here, and ether wind would create buoyancy for objects flying at high speeds. Buoyancy could certainly make the flying sword fly more easily, thus saving the magic power needed to drive it, but it could also easily destroy the sword's flying posture, or even make it completely out of control.

Therefore, 3000 knots is the limit that Tang Li can reach. The life furnace is so hot that it seems as if a piece of scorching iron is placed in the stomach. The heat surges up, driving the sword intent to operate at a speed beyond the limit. The huge sword body will complete dozens of posture fine-tunings every second, like walking on a tightrope, maintaining a balance that only exists in a very narrow range.

The jellyfish was still 500 nautical miles away and the target was hit in about 10 minutes.

The flying sword passed the location of the "Moby Dick". As the ether wind at the tip of the sword exceeded the critical limit during compression, the explosion continued to occur with a pulse period of 500 milliseconds. The explosion circle expanded while swimming backward along the sword body, forming a beautiful red cone in the sky.

The roar of the explosion swept across the sea of ​​clouds, causing the crew on the deck to look up, pointing at the explosion that streaked across the sky and exclaiming. Tang Li also heard the roar and exclamation, but her vision was on Nana's big eyes, which were almost at the same height as the flying sword. Therefore, in her eyes, the flying sword was an oncoming fireball, and in the center of the fireball was the narrow diamond-shaped cross-section of the sword body, like the vertical pupil in the center of the pupil.

The jellyfish was still 300 nautical miles away and the target was hit in about 6 minutes.

Tang Li suddenly felt a line of sight - it didn't fall directly on her, but first looked at the sword pupil floating high in the sky, and then traced back to her through the sword pupil. She moved her sight away from the flying sword and looked back in the direction of the sight. Not surprisingly, she saw the huge jellyfish hanging upside down in the sky. The two "looked at each other" for a moment, and the ugly crack on the jellyfish's body suddenly became larger, and more black juice flowed out of its body.

The black liquid disappeared halfway through its fall. The space dozens of kilometers away suddenly distorted, and hundreds of small moth beasts with arms like blades appeared out of thin air. Without any pause, they pounced straight towards Jiantong.

Nana, who was responsible for releasing the eyeball, had already left. The black pupil with a diameter of three meters floated alone in the sky, like a fruit within easy reach. But when the sharp blade of the moth beast passed through it, the pupil immediately burst like a bubble, and almost at the same time, two almost identical pupils appeared out of thin air hundreds of meters away.

The moth beast pounced again and pierced them, but the next second, four identical eyeballs appeared again. When the four eyeballs were also destroyed, they became eight, followed by sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four... Not only did the eyeballs not decrease, but they increased in number, and the dense pupils floating in the air exceeded the number of moth beasts.

This illusion is also one of the techniques recorded in the sword intent, and it seems to be based on the principles of quantum state and collapsed state in "Quantum Yixue" - Tang Li actually didn't understand it, but it didn't prevent her from using it.

The flying sword was still 200 nautical miles away from the jellyfish and hit the target about 4 minutes later.

The moth beast gave up attacking the pupil and began to hover aimlessly nearby. One of the tentacles of the jellyfish attached to the dome suddenly withered and turned into ashes in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the two whale-shaped moth beasts suddenly disappeared, and when they reappeared, they were only 20 nautical miles in front of the flying sword.

For a flying sword with a speed of up to 3000 knots, it only takes less than 20 seconds to cross nautical miles. This also means that the flying sword will collide with the moth beast head-on in a moment. Even if it can kill the moth beast, its flying posture is likely to be destroyed in the collision, and it will no longer be able to hit the target it really needs to hit.

And this is obviously the enemy's plan.

The two moth beasts opened their head cavities and gushed out a torrent of ether towards the flying sword, but Tang Li did not control the flying sword to dodge. The giant sword forged from unknown materials flew straight forward against the terrifying energy flow. Not only did it not suffer any damage, but even its speed did not decrease - the only price was the rapid consumption of magic power in Tang Li's body.

After a moment, the ether torrent stopped, and the distance between the flying sword and the moth beasts had shortened to less than 5 nautical miles. One of the moth beasts flapped its bony wings and occupied a front position. The next moment, the huge sword blade cut into the moth beast's head.

"Well……"

Tang Li could not help but groan. The resistance encountered by the sword blade was much greater than she had imagined. It was definitely not the feeling of cutting flesh, nor was it metal or anything else. It stuck to the giant sword like a puddle of mud, and it took a lot of effort to get rid of it. The discomfort of the magic power being rapidly drained followed - this was a mode that had long been set in the sword intent. When the flying sword encountered an obstacle, the speed of the sword would be prioritized, and as a price, the required energy would be forcibly drawn out of the life furnace.

But in Tang Li's case, it was replaced by magic power.

Fortunately, thanks to the dividends from the last voyage, Tang Li is not short of magic power now, and the speed of the flying sword is indeed fast enough. In just a blink of an eye, it passed through the tail of the moth beast. The body of the moth beast split along the center line in the ether wind, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a stone-like texture, rolling and falling, and the flying sword had already chopped into the body of the next moth beast.

The suction of magic power appeared again. Compared with the last time, Tang Li felt that he had adapted a lot. But before the flying sword could be pulled out of the moth beast's body, the huge monster suddenly exploded.

If Tang Li had not seen it with her own eyes through her sword pupil, she would never have believed that the moth beast would self-destruct. But the fact did happen in the sky hundreds of miles away. The huge body fell apart in the black flames. For a moment, she almost lost the sense of the sword. Then, she saw a flying sword that was 40 meters long and weighed dozens of tons rolling and being thrown out.

But the connection with the sword was also restored at this moment. The sword intent in his chest was still running at full speed, doing its best to recover the flying sword from the irregular spiral fall. The suction of magic power also reached its limit at this moment, but it was still not enough. In order to prevent the magic power in the cup from being drained out before he could react, which would lead to death, Tang Li had already limited the speed of extracting magic power in the terms of the contract between him and the flying sword. If the speed of extracting magic power reached the upper limit but he still could not maintain control of the flying sword, he would make up for it through the life furnace.

Tang Li finally experienced the feeling of energy being drawn out of the life furnace. It was completely different from the feeling of magic power flowing out of the cup, or in other words - it was a hundred times stronger than the latter.

"!!!!!!"

She couldn't help but open her mouth, but couldn't make any sound, only tears couldn't help but fall from her eyes. Deep in her abdomen was cramping, she knew that for Yumin's sword practice, enduring this strange feeling was a compulsory course for everyone, but she never thought it would be so unbearable.

For a moment, she could hardly stand, and had to hold the mast with both hands to avoid kneeling on the ground. But no matter what, the sword spirit was still stable and almost coldly maintained, and it continuously sent the magic power and life furnace energy it extracted to the flying sword thousands of miles away. Finally, after falling nearly a thousand meters, the flying sword finally recovered its posture and speed and flew towards the jellyfish hanging on the dome again.

There were still 100 nautical miles to the jellyfish, and the target was hit in about 2 minutes.

The extraction of the Life Furnace finally stopped, and Tang Li's tense body suddenly relaxed. She was about to take a breath, but she saw a tentacle under the sky suddenly wither. Then, two more whale-shaped moth beasts were teleported in front of the flying sword.

The distance was also 20 nautical miles, and the two collided about 30 seconds later.

Get out of the way——

This was Tang Li's first thought. After all, she didn't want to repeat what happened just now. However, dodging would also consume extra magic power and even life furnace energy, and would inevitably lose speed... Before she could make a decision, she saw several crimson lights lit up in the sky. Their speed was much faster than that of the flying swords. In just a blink of an eye, the straight trajectory crossed the sea of ​​clouds and accurately hit the two moth beasts, blowing them in half.

Those are the lightning spears of the Strike Witches! Tang Li suddenly reacted. Guided by Xia Ye's mark, they were projected from 50 nautical miles away and hit the target accurately.

The flying sword whizzed past the falling body and flew straight towards the target.

Distance left: 50 nautical miles, hit in 1 minute.

There was no more obstacle ahead, and only three jellyfish were left attached to the dome. Their huge bodies swayed back and forth in the ether wind, as if they would fall at any time.

Distance left: 25 nautical miles, hit in 30 seconds.

The heads of the whale-shaped moth beasts swimming under the jellyfish suddenly opened, and nearly twenty streams of ether gushed out at the same time, but they were not directed towards the flying swords, nor at the assault witch formation that was continuously shooting lightning spears. They shot out from all directions and concentrated on a certain point inside the whale group.

The enemy used their last chance to counterattack on Xia Ye.

However, it had no effect. When the light of the ether torrent gradually dimmed, a more dazzling white light suddenly lit up in the center of the energy flow, and the girl's figure emerged in the light. The big cat she had ridden before had disappeared, and the gorgeous armor had all collapsed, all turning into streaks of lightning that merged into Xia Ye's body.

According to the terms of the Thunder Knight contract, when the armor is completely broken, the contractor will be in the strongest state. Even if it is not an exaggeration, Xia Ye's speed is now as fast as lightning. She carried a lance that was nearly twice as long as her height, used the moth beast as a springboard, and after several jumps, she suddenly spread her crimson mine wings and rushed towards the giant jellyfish above her head.

But Tang Li's flying sword hit it earlier, and the jellyfish's only three remaining tentacles broke instantly, and one third of its body was also wiped out.

The remaining part fell from the dome without any resistance. Xia Ye arrived just in time. At this time, her whole body was wrapped in lightning. She was like a giant spear condensed from lightning, and she accurately pierced into the side of the jellyfish's body.

The huge impact force stopped the jellyfish's huge body from falling, and it even floated up a little. Xia Ye did not penetrate from the other side. A second later, a white light faintly shone from the black jellyfish's body.

The light suddenly became brighter, and irregular bright white cracks appeared on the surface of the jellyfish, spreading in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

The flying sword circled in the air, no longer trying to attack, and flew towards Tang Li; below, the Strike Witches also began to return with Saniya, who had lost her thrusters; everyone knew - it was time to evacuate, the jellyfish would soon be completely blown up by Lord Xia Ye's power, and what they had to do was to try their best to avoid being affected by the explosion.

The jellyfish swelled up as expected, like a balloon that would burst at any time. Its original diameter was only about 2 kilometers, but in the blink of an eye, the diameter increased to several times the original size, and the volume exceeded a hundred times the original size... It turned into an extremely huge black sphere, suspended between the sea of ​​clouds and the dome.

The Strike Witches turned on their afterburners and distanced themselves from the jellyfish at a faster speed. Further away, the rapid-fire gunboat, the Brunhill, also made an emergency turn under Colin's command.

A crack several kilometers long had occupied the entire surface of the sphere, and blinding white-hot light shone through the crack, as if it would tear it apart at any moment. At this moment, the jellyfish that had swelled into a ball grew larger again, and its size increased several times in an instant, and it seemed that it would explode in the next moment.

But suddenly, without any warning, it began to collapse.

The speed of collapse was much faster than the previous expansion speed. The jellyfish that stretched between the sky and the sea shrank into a "small ball" with a diameter of only a few hundred meters in just a few seconds.

Lightning was still flashing on its surface, as if it was still trying to tear it apart, but with a loud bang, the jellyfish, the lightning, and the summer night wrapped in it suddenly disappeared together.

The incident happened too suddenly. The Strike Witches flew for a long time without moving. Finally, someone noticed something was wrong and looked back.

But all they saw was an empty sea of ​​clouds.

……

……

Dark, cold, suffocating...

She stretched out her hands and waved them vigorously in the sticky colloid, repeating it several times before finally tearing them apart. Light and air rushed in together.

Regardless of the severe pain in her body, she struggled to support herself and stood up shakily. All she could see were the ruins of buildings, the wreckage of machinery, and the bodies of her comrades.

Although this was expected, it still caused a dull pain in her chest.

No one survived, Zelul thought, and it was all because of this...

She raised her head subconsciously with murderous intent in her mind - but she did not see the expected enemy. The dome was as clear and clean as amber, with nothing in it. The huge jellyfish that had appeared three days ago and was still there before she lost consciousness, hanging upside down on the dome, had now disappeared without a trace.

(End of this chapter)