Netherworld Retrograde-Chapter 559 - 263: Flesh Core

As the Fleet Soldiers were being suppressed by the artillery fire of flesh battleships,

a miraculous scene unfolded: the unmanned Yan Yun Destroyer rose from its tomb of waste ships, bursting onto the battlefield with an unstoppable force, smashing through all the ship debris in its way.

It had clearly exhausted all its fuel, and its control systems had been destroyed by Chaos believers; it should have been a steel tomb.

Yet now, it sounded its steam whistle and roared with fire, like an elder defending its kin, as it launched all missiles on deck at the ships that bullied its own.

Seven ultrasonic anti-ship missiles were launched instantaneously, carrying terrifying sonic booms, and pierced through the iron curtain to hit their targets!

These were the Eagle Strike-21 missiles, humanity’s strongest anti-ship missiles before the Calamity.

With an average flight speed of six times the speed of sound, six Mach, and up to ten Mach during terminal attack phase!

Under that terrifying bombardment, the three flesh battleships that blocked Li Yelai and the Spiritual Ability Users from the Fleet were directly shattered!

This brought immense joy to the Fleet Soldiers.

"Good job! Yan Yun Fleet, return to combat sequence!" shouted the soldiers, their morale surging!

A fleet without its ships is incomplete, now with the Yan Yun Fleet back in the combat sequence, that is the true Border Fleet!

What, bully us for not having ships? Eat my Eagle Strike missiles!

As for why the Yan Yun Fleet had suddenly started up on its own, and whether there would be danger, that was no longer in the soldiers’ minds.

They wouldn’t doubt a warship fighting alongside them, even if the influence of the Void Realm had bestowed upon it a Mechanical Soul-like existence. It was a Mechanical Soul on the human side, not one of those demon engines!

"So the warships truly have a consciousness," Jing Lin was somewhat shocked.

"What a miracle," remarked Li Yelai, feeling emotional: "Perhaps, even the Yan Yun Fleet wants to reclaim the glory of the fleet."

"Then let’s fulfill that wish! This is so thrilling! Ever since I advanced to Fifth Sense, I’ve never felt so exhilarated!" exclaimed Jing Lin, his Heavenly Eye at his brow sweeping out a swath of Spiritual Flames, charring approaching flesh mutations.

As a Spiritual Ability User from the Jing Family, his Heavenly Eye was unaffected by the invisible curse, allowing him to continuously unleash his combat power.

This made him the one with the highest kill count of mutated creatures in the team! Everywhere his gaze landed, the mutated bodies ignited!

Many Fleet Spiritual Ability Users laughed and praised Jing Lin’s prowess.

Li Yelai, however, couldn’t go all out, as his Face, akin to a seal, prevented him from unleashing his peak combat power.

Under the barrage of fire from the Yan Yun Fleet, the flesh battleships before Li Yelai and the others were swiftly destroyed. The three flesh battleships fell silent.

The team advanced once again, with Li Yelai wielding his Black Gold Dragon Pattern Halberd, rapidly slaughtering the approaching flesh mutations.

The number of these monsters continued to increase, as did their resistance.

Clearly, the core creature felt the pressure and was continuously sending flesh mutations to stop the human forces from approaching.

Also, some flesh-engulfed ships began to ’resurrect’, either using antiaircraft guns or shipborne main guns to bomb and suppress the Spiritual Ability Users.

While the number of flesh mutations was vast, their individual strength was lacking.

If it were only Li Yelai and Jing Lin, they might have been ground to death.

But now, with the Spiritual Ability Users of the Fleet fighting alongside them, they were like a steel knife, harshly carving into the enemy formation.

While effectively eliminating mutated creatures, they could also rotate to restore Spiritual Energy.

These Spiritual Ability Users were the Fleet’s landing force, with an average strength of Third Awakening or above, and there were quite a few Ye Boshou.

When coordinated correctly, they nearly obliterated the multitude of mutated creatures in a crushing manner.

And those ’resurrected’ flesh mutations were utterly silenced under the bombardment from the Yan Yun Fleet.

"We’re close! We’re so close! Comrades, let’s vanquish the enemy of humanity!"

Amidst the barrage of gunfire, Zhao Gang shouted excitedly.

In the bloody melee, his metal limb was torn off, and he bore some horrific scars on his body, but he seemed to feel no pain.

Perhaps it was because the living corpse truly had no sense of pain, or perhaps he was enveloped by such immense satisfaction that he ignored such sensations.

For thirty years, he intrepidly stood guard in this godforsaken place, inhabiting the body of a living corpse.

Today, he had seen comrades from Giant City, fallen comrades, and also witnessed the Yan Yun Warship roaring once more for humanity.

It was like a beautiful dream, too wonderful for him to dare to wake.

’If this is truly a dream, then let me die in this dream as well!’ Zhao Gang cried inwardly.

But this was no dream!

As the Fleet Soldiers made their charge, the last line of the monster’s defense was breached.

Thousands of creatures fell beneath the iron hooves of Human Warriors, who stepped across the silent decks of aircraft carriers to see the monster from afar. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

It was a massive aggregate of flesh that had grown over all the surrounding ships.

It pulsed like a heartbeat, emitting blinding red light from within the tumor.

It seemed to sense danger, as the ships with growing flesh all started to riot, expending every effort to prevent the human forces from closing in.

Simultaneously, it emitted a strong Spiritual Energy Fluctuation, spreading rapidly within the Void Realm as if seeking help from some entity.

All Spiritual Ability Users could feel it, from a far-off direction, a terrible existence was responding.