Chapter 281

"How do you know it's down there?" King Sworthy asked.

"Now's not the time to worry about that. Not only do I know it's down there, but I also know that there are five royal Metal Devourers hiding around us. Be careful, they're coming!"

After the Seventh Apostle spat out a crimson energy pillar to block the Stronghold Destruction Cannon, it lowered its head and disappeared into the ground again. As soon as Adam finished speaking, the ground around them cracked open and four large bugs rushed out. Thousands of red lines shot out from their eyes all over their bodies, interweaving and shooting towards King Sworthy, wanting to pierce through his heart.

"Looks like it's too late to gather the Titans." Adam jumped off King Sworthy's shoulder and turned into his electronic true body. "I'll try my best to block them for you. I'll leave the Seventh Apostle to you."

Mana surged, and the summoning space opened. Sophia, in her battle form, appeared below Adam. She opened her mouth and spat out a water curtain, temporarily blocking the red line that shot towards Adam. At the same time, a new set of magical runes appeared. They were embedded on the real Adam's body and completed the assembly. They connected with Sophia's runes, and a discontinuous magic armor covered the whole body.

The red lines intersected and passed through Adam's body, but they were intercepted by the mages. Adam raised his left hand to form an electric potential difference, and lightning burst forth endlessly from the void. No matter how the Super Dimensional Gold Devourers tried to dodge, they were unable to dodge.

These lightning bolts that were casually released had very limited destructive power against them, but they were enough to annoy the four large insects to no end. They continuously shot out red threads that interweaved into a net in the sky, pressing down on Adam. They wanted to trap or kill Adam before besieging King Sworthy.

The space fluctuated violently, and teleportation spells could not be used.

Sophia spat out dragon breath, forming hundreds of high-pressure water blades. The energy drove the water flow at high speed. As a thought flashed through her mind, she slashed towards the top of the head with a whistling wind.

The intersection of water and fire formed a large fog. Adam hid in it and controlled the magnetic force. A large number of metal particles flew up from the ground and gathered into a hundred-meter-long giant sword. Electricity coiled around it to form a coil, and after a short period of charging, it shot out.

A large hole was opened in the red net.

Sophia flapped her wings and rushed upward. At this moment, countless tentacles rushed out from the bottom of her feet. Low growls could be heard as the fifth Hyperdimensional Metal Devourer appeared.

Sophia's entire body lit up with pure white energy flames. Her speed suddenly increased by several levels, leaving behind several afterimages in her path. When she arrived at the gap, Adam raised his hands above his head and pulled to both sides, forcefully tearing apart the red lines and arriving outside the net.

Sworthy King's reinforcements arrived. He heavily blasted a large bug into the ground. "The Seventh Apostle is gone," he said doubtfully.

Swashi King could not find it, but in Adam's perception, it had always been there, circling deep underground.

"Protect me!" Adam exhorted as he left Sophia's back and came to the surface. He pressed both of his hands on the ground and raised them up fiercely, causing waves to appear on the ground. A large amount of impurities were expelled, the free electrons were rearranged, and the metal density rapidly increased.

Since you like to travel underground, I'll let you hit a metal plate. If you still don't come out, you'll die underground.

This move was very effective. The Seventh Apostle could not help but move upward. Adam floated up and hid behind Swashi King. He placed his hand on his shoulder and said, "Fire at it."

The cannon barrel appeared again. This time, Adam used his own ability to help it gather energy. Under the magnetic field, the Longsong Cannon's energy loss was greatly reduced. It even showed signs of crystallization.

"Three, two, one, fire!"

The Seventh Apostle saw the cannon as soon as it appeared. Thousands of eyes were filled with shock. It opened its mouth, and saliva dripped everywhere, corroding deep holes in the ground. Then, its whole body wriggled as if it was about to vomit.

Then, it really vomited out a descendant.

The Seventh Apostle raised its own child as a shield and inserted its tentacles into it. When the Longsong Cannon was about to hit it, it suddenly exploded and used the energy to escape, rushing toward Swashi King.

The Seventh Apostle was about half the size of Swashi King. It was like a meteor, burning with blazing plasma. It looked like it wanted to die together with Swashi King.

Adam gave himself a reaction force to leave the king's body and rode on Sophia again. He wanted to lure the five large bugs away from the battlefield and toward the trap set by the floating fortress a thousand kilometers away.

Faced with the menacing Seventh Apostle, Lord Sworthy instinctively chose to dodge.

However, he did not expect the Seventh Apostle to have no intention of stopping.

Swashi King was shocked and shouted, "Adam, its target is you!"

He turned in the air and raised his two hands, which transformed into a particle sword, and slashed at the Seventh Apostle.

Adam's heart sank and his vision turned black. The five large bugs used their bodies as walls and connected their tentacles into a net, sealing off Adam's path. They opened their mouths and spat out liquid that filled his vision.

"Sending one apostle and five Hyperdimensional Metal Devourers just to kill me? Are these bugs crazy? What's the point of killing me? " Adam's mind raced. He could not understand why the Metal Devourers were doing this. "Or do they want to capture me alive?"

At this moment, the Seventh Apostle let out a soundless roar. The sound waves materialized and carried an unimaginably high temperature as they spiraled towards Adam. If his physical body was hit, Adam didn't think that his body would be intact at all. Being turned into minced meat would be the best outcome.

"They really want to kill me?!"

Adam activated a [Chaos Shelter Scroll] and spread out his ten fingers. Magnetic lines and gravity lines wrapped around his fingertips. His fingers flicked at high speed, creating circles of spatial ripples around his body. Dense folds appeared, weakening and refracting the incoming attacks. Then, he crossed his ten fingers and activated [Magnetic Cut], cutting the space into hundreds of pieces.

He then stepped into the void turbulence with the Chaos Protection Scroll.

The Seventh Apostle let out a low roar and chased after Adam at an extremely fast speed. A small part of its body had already rushed into the void. The fire seed in the tumor on its back burned fiercely. Endless heavenly fire appeared out of nowhere and descended from the sky. Every cluster of heavenly fire burned with a metal core.

"Stop right there!"

The Sworth King slashed down with his blade. The particle blade's vibrations produced a terrifying cutting force, cutting off a piece of the Seventh Apostle's body. The Sworth King let go of his blade arm and grabbed the Seventh Apostle's bloody limb with both hands, roaring loudly as he pulled it back.

Adam was in the void. He used the scroll's power to use Blink continuously and easily avoided all the heavenly fire. He rushed out of the place thirty kilometers away before the Chaos Protection Scroll disappeared and flew into the distance without looking back.