My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 98: The Frenzied Shay

Ahead, inside the pit.

The ground was littered with the mangled carcasses of demonized beasts, some of which had vanished without a trace.

A few demonized beasts, severely injured, still displayed a tenacious will to live, struggling to lunge forward.

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This tenacity, this disregard for death, sent a chill down the spines of many patrol team members.

Fortunately, Director Tang was extremely powerful.

Looking at the surrounding arrow towers and the cannons to the rear, they instantly felt a sense of security.

They breathed a sigh of relief.

They were just about to go down and clean up the battlefield, collect materials from the demonized beasts, as well as excavate source crystals.

This was the standard operating procedure for the patrol team on every mission: eliminate the enemy first, then collect spoils... Tasks like this required handing over the spoils, but they had no complaints. Based on contributions, every member would reap rewards for each mission, not to mention they were aware that if it weren't for their good fortune in joining the patrol team, most of them would be in the same dire situation as those struggling awakeners.

Just as someone was about to leap down into the pit, they heard Luo Zhe's voice, "Wait, everyone stay alert and reload your weapons first."

Seeing that Captain Luo and other powerful individuals from the sanctuary had solemn expressions on their faces, the patrol team members realized something was wrong.

Could it be that the demonized beasts weren't all wiped out yet?

Suddenly, below in the pit, the ground started to rise in sections, as if something was burrowing beneath the surface.

"Drive that thing out."

Machine gun bullets raked the ground, kicking up dust, but to no effect.

Arrows from the arrow towers burrowed into the earth, also without any sign of activity.

Tang Yu manipulated the cannon, firing a scorching energy ball towards the swelling ground, but the creature beneath seemed to have eyes, quickly veering away and avoiding the cannon's attack.

"I'll do it!"

Shay roared, his muscles swelling, ripping his suit open to reveal the tight combat uniform beneath.

He grabbed a boulder the size of a sedan next to him and hurled it violently.

Mid-air, the boulder shattered into numerous smaller rocks, but they fell methodically to the ground, encircling the elevated area of the surface.

Boom, boom, boom!

It was as if a meteor shower had hit the ground, or as if a bomber had dropped bombs from the sky.

The ground was blasted open with craters, and mud mixed with shattered rocks was sent flying.

This was Shay's special ability, where anything he touched could be transformed into a bomb.

A veritable explosion maniac!

This time, for the mining operation, many of the territory's high-level fighters had been mobilized.

The three new followers had insisted on participating... Followers were human too, and now under Tang Yu's command, they naturally wanted to demonstrate their worth, so they all came along. With Luo Zhe as the captain of the patrol team being indispensable, Eileen was the only one left to hold down the territory.

Under Shay's furious assault, the creature from beneath was finally blasted out.

It was a worm-like monster with no visible eyes, its mouth opening and closing, while several tendrils on its sides shook with the motion of its mouth.

Though forced out by Shay, the worm-like monster didn't seem to be injured; its mouth closed and then opened, ejecting a thick pillar of fire.

"Careful, this thing has the strength of Sixth Layer Awakening!"

Luo Zhe drew his sword, which gathered a thick red light upon its blade.

He slashed with his sword, and the thick column of fire was split apart, scattering sparks onto the surrounding ground, burning black marks into it.

At this moment, the Arrow Tower by the pit also began its attack.

The arrows were extremely fast, a shadow flashed by, and penetrated the body of the worm.

The members of the Patrol Team barely had time to feel relieved when they saw that the worm, even with a small hole pierced through its body, acted as if nothing had happened, its mouth still opening and closing.

Tang Yu could tell that the worm's body structure was special, and unless its weak point was hit, the attacks from the arrows would hardly cause any harm to it.

He had also tried controlling the Arrow Tower to strike at the worm's mouth or tentacles, to no avail. He tried to use the Cannon, but its slow speed meant that the worm nimbly avoided it.

This demonized worm beast... Tang Yu felt it was much smarter than the average demonized beast. If it were just an average demonized beast, blindly charging in, even with the strength of the Sixth Layer, it would have been dealt with already.

Below, more demonized beasts continued to surge out from beneath the giant tree's roots.

"I'll do it!"

Shay volunteered boldly, stripping off the remnants of his cracked suit that still hung on him, and stepped forward.

He looked at the constantly moving worm, a gleam of excitement flashing in his eyes.

Upon arriving in this world, Shay, who had been stuck at the Fifth Tier for a long time, had finally succeeded in making a breakthrough and entered a new level.

This worm was just the right opponent for him to test his strength after the breakthrough.

Then, Shay drew out a metal rod about half a meter long from somewhere on his person.

The metal rod extended and transformed, and in no time, it became a huge multi-barreled rotary machine gun that he shouldered.

This machine gun, while somewhat resembling a Gatling, was much larger in size; Shay was already rather burly, but he seemed small compared to the immense weapon.

No wonder Shay was so strong; although not a warrior by trade, he hauled stones and weapons around, and after such extensive training, it would be surprising if he hadn't developed some muscle.

With a series of clicking sounds, Shay's weapon completed its expansion.

He aimed at the worm, and with a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat sound, the gun barrel rotated, and bullets poured out like a torrential flow.

To the naked eye, a veritable barrage of metal formed in mid-air.

The demonized worm sensed the threat and moved its body agilely, trying to burrow underground to evade the attack.

However, the next moment, as Shay's bullets hit their target, a series of booming blasts erupted.

This was Shay's unique style, the Fury Flow.

Ordinary musketeers used spiritual power attached to the bullets to enhance their potency and increase range. But the greater the power, the more spiritual energy required, and if one wanted to infuse so many bullets with spiritual power, it wasn't impossible, but it would make the bullet's power enhancement quite weak.

Shay's Fury Flow style, if wanting to maintain killing power, required the use of more precious rune bullets... it was an expensive endeavor. In Shay's world, musketeers were often termed a noble profession.

Different from mages, who are considered a noble profession due to their knowledge typically being held by great noble families, musketeers were more straightforward – if you didn't have the money, you couldn't play at being a musketeer.

Shay had once been a mere mercenary, not wealthy, and he became a musketeer not by choosing the wrong career but because his touch with explosions could extend through weapons to the bullets themselves.

He had the power without the need to burn money, a veritable mudslide in the world of musketeers.

Each of his bullets was equivalent to a grenade; though the power of a single bullet may not have been great, the rate of fire of tens of thousands of bullets per minute was like firing tens of thousands of cannons in one minute. In just a few seconds, the ground was riddled with holes.

The worm screamed, attempting to burrow into the ground, but it was futile; it was completely engulfed in the blasts of the bullets.

Even as it opened its mouth to spew flames, it was too late to muster the energy before bullets pierced through, and like a dead insect, it drooped limply to the ground. Shay still did not relent, propping up his machine gun and firing a barrage from the worm's head to tail before reluctantly stopping.

The rotating gun barrel gradually ceased, and Shay propped up the huge weapon, leaning against it as he fished out a pack of cigarettes from his person, took one out, lit it with his own ability, and placed it between his lips. He puffed out clouds of smoke, not even glancing at the dead worm.