Chapter 21 Giant Python
Forty days have passed since Xing Sha led her team away from the Xi Guang tribe.
Over the course of forty days, they traversed mountains and rivers, enduring countless hardships, and finally gradually approached the location of the teleportation portal.
Along the way, they saw many horrific scenes left behind after the star beasts ravaged the land: villages razed to the ground, corpses devoured, and terrified survivors hiding in caves or dense forests.
These sights strengthened Hoshino and the others' resolve to make contact with the invaders from another world.
They hoped that these invaders could bring about some change to this desperate world, even if that change came with unknown risks.
On this day, Xing Sha's team arrived at an open plain. According to the star map, the teleportation portal was not far ahead.
"We're almost there," Xingsha said to her teammates. "Everyone, cheer up, we'll be able to see those people from another world soon."
Upon hearing this, the team members all showed expressions of both excitement and nervousness.
After all, they were about to face a group of powerful beings from an unknown world.
However, at that moment, a familiar yet terrifying aura suddenly descended.
"This is..." Xing Sha's expression changed drastically, "A star beast! It's the aura of a star beast! The world is about to change!"
Before she finished speaking, the sky darkened and was replaced by a dazzling starry sky.
A gigantic star, like a burning fireball, streaked across the night sky and plummeted toward the ground.
"Get out of the way!" Xing Sha shouted and quickly lunged to the side.
The others also realized what was happening and quickly took cover.
boom!!!
The stars fell not far from them, making a deafening noise.
The earth trembled violently, as if a magnitude 10 earthquake had occurred.
As the smoke cleared, a colossal python appeared before everyone's eyes.
This is a gigantic star beast, completely different from the crab-like star beasts encountered by the Holy Terra Empire before. It is over a thousand meters long and as thick as the previous crab-like star beasts. Its body is covered with hard scales, each scale shimmering with dazzling starlight, like a dream.
The python's head had two enormous eyes that gleamed with a blood-red light, exuding an aura of brutality and bloodlust. Its long tongue flicked out of its mouth, hissing softly, sending chills down one's spine.
"This is a medium-sized giant python star beast!" Xing Sha's heart sank to the bottom.
"What should we do?" a team member asked, trembling. "Are we... going to die?"
"No! We still have hope!" Xing Sha forced herself to calm down. "We must get to the portal as soon as possible! Those people from another world might be able to help us!"
However, at that moment, the giant python star beast had already discovered them.
It turned its head, its blood-red eyes fixed on Xing Sha and the others, filled with a bloodthirsty light.
"It's over..." Xingsha's heart was filled with despair. "We can't escape..."
Just as Xing Sha and the others were in despair, the giant python star beast suddenly changed direction and rushed in another direction.
"It...it didn't attack us?" one of the team members said in surprise.
"It's heading in the direction of those otherworldly beings!" Hoshino realized as well. "It's attracted to the humans over there!"
It turned out that although the giant python star beast had discovered Xing Sha and the others, its aggro mechanism, which targets densely packed enemies, made it more attracted to the even larger human aura in the distance.
"Quick, let's follow them and see how they handle it!"
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If the giant serpent star beast clashes with the army of the Holy Terra Empire, Xing Sha and the others can use this opportunity to see if the Holy Terra Empire has the strength to fight against the star beast.
With this in mind, Xing Sha led her team members, carefully following behind the giant python star beast, towards the Holy Terra Empire's position.
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"Reporting, General! A star beast is approaching us!"
On the battlefield of the Holy Terra Empire, a soldier on guard duty hurriedly reported to Commander Bard.
"They've finally arrived?" Bard's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately ordered, "All troops, prepare for battle!"
Following Bard's orders, the Holy Terran Empire's army sprang into action.
Soldiers entered the trenches, the war beasts roared, and priests on the magic towers began chanting incantations, shrouding the entire position in a grim atmosphere.
Soon, the giant python star beast came into view of the Holy Terra Empire's army.
"This star beast… is even more powerful than that crab from last time!" Bard stared at the enormous python in the distance, his expression growing even more grave.
He could sense that the aura emanating from this giant python star beast was more terrifying and dangerous than that of the previous crab star beast.
"All units, heed my command!" Bard's voice boomed across the entire position through the magical megaphone, "Free fire! Destroy it!"
With Bard's permission, the eager Holy Terran Empire army immediately launched an attack.
Catapults, giant crossbows, magic towers, war behemoths... all sorts of attacks rained down on the giant python star beast.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions rang out on the battlefield.
The colossal body of the giant python trembled incessantly under the barrage of artillery fire.
Its scales were blown apart, revealing the bloody flesh beneath.
"roar!!!"
The giant python star beast roared in pain.
It charged towards the Holy Terra Empire's position despite the fierce attack.
Wherever it went, trenches were leveled, fortresses were smashed to pieces, and soldiers were crushed into mincemeat by its massive body.
"Venom Dragon! Stop it!"
Upon seeing this, Bard immediately gave the order.
The swarm of Venomous Wyverns deployed behind the position took off, hovering above the giant python star beast's head and spewing out large amounts of venom.
Green venom rained down on the giant python, making a hissing, corrosive sound.
As the venom corroded the python's scales, numerous bubbles began to emerge, and the scales gradually became pitted and uneven.
"roar!!!"
The giant python roared in agony, twisting its massive body in an attempt to escape the venomous dragon's aerial attacks. However, lacking anti-air capabilities, it was nothing more than a sitting duck to the highly mobile venomous dragon, allowing spore mushrooms and parasitic seeds to bloom all over its body.
Xing Sha and the others watched the battle from afar, and were all stunned by what they saw.
"This...is this the power of those people from another world?" a team member murmured, his voice filled with shock.
This was the first time they had ever seen a creature capable of confronting a powerful star beast head-on and holding its own.
"This is...this is incredible..." Xing Sha was also shocked by the scene before her.
She originally thought that although those people from other worlds were powerful, they might not be able to defeat the star beasts.
But now it seems she underestimated the strength of these people from another world.
The battle continued. Although the giant python star beast was powerful, it gradually fell into a disadvantageous position under the siege of the Holy Terra Empire's army.
Its body was covered in wounds and dripping with blood.
Those glittering starlight particles kept drifting out of its wound and disappearing into the air, like a series of beautiful bubble dreams