Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest - Chapter 1705: Their Arrival
Chapter 1705: Their Arrival
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Queen Khione and the rest of her troops were left flabbergasted as they saw a devastatingly powerful being, a humanoid Spirit Beast similar to Ice Trolls, well known for being fearful barbarians that only lived in the most desolate, faraway ice wastes of Avalon.
They were feared as “mountain shapers” because they were capable of shaping mountains with their fists. Monstrously strong and yet very few in number, it was said in the past that Oberon fought their almighty king and won after fighting for three days and three nights, gaining governance over the ice wastes of Avalon and the rest of the Realm.
Since then, it is said that the children of their king have harbored an endless resentment against fairies, and that if they were to ever cross paths, a cyclops would not stop until it stomped and destroyed them all.
And now, one of them had suddenly and somehow arrived here!
To make matters worse, its body was corrupted by the same crystals that had been shared among the other guilds, which Elayne and her group had encountered on several other occasions.
Therefore, it wasn’t just a Cyclops, but a much stronger, monstrous version of one, powered up by three destructive energies mixed together, creating Corruption Energy, mutated to a monstrous degree!
“RAAAAARRRRHHHH!”
But that wasn’t all, as a second giant suddenly emerged from the other side of the mountain, aiming for the castle and the city from behind. It was not a cyclops, however, but an aberrant thing, a mix of various Ice Trolls, Ice Goblins, and Ice Orcs merged together with fleshy, black-and-red-colored tendrils and covered in an armor of black and red ice, using a Melancholia Crystal as its core!
“No!”
“What is this aberration?!”
“This cannot be!”
“How…?”
“What can we do?!”
“Those are too big!”
The soldiers, knights, and magicians all reacted in shock, glancing at both the Corrupted Cyclops and the Monstrous Aberration created by whoever was behind this.
Now, what that voice had said resonated within Khione, as she started to slowly fall into despair.
This was simply beyond everything she had ever expected. This peaceful Realm had not been attacked to this extent in perhaps thousands of years!
“We’ll have to call my brother or my father!” she said. “We must retreat. It’s hopeless. I don’t want any of you to risk your lives anymore!”
“But Your Majesty!”
“We can’t escape. What about our homes?”
“But…”
“No buts! The buildings don’t make this country but its people. As long as we can survive, we can rebuild something new. We simply have to prioritize the—”
“It’s endearing how much you think I’ll let you escape. Don’t be foolish, Fairy Princess. Your father will not come to your aid.”
“Wha…?”
Khione’s eyes widened as she heard the voice again, followed by a rumbling sound as the sky split apart, and a gigantic hand rushed toward her, the Cyclops.
It struck the barrier around the city, beginning to punch it, while the other monster began doing the same to the area behind the castle.
The barrier that Khione had erected was an incredibly strong barrier, further boosted by Elayne’s Spirit Clone to a Celestial Level of endurance.
However, with each blow from these giants, Corrupted Energy spread through the barrier, weakening it.
This weakening energy stacked on itself over and over with each blow the barrier received, causing the barrier to tremble.
And…
Crack, crack…!
Cracks began to appear throughout it!
“Fuck, things are getting a little out of proportion…” Rita said.
“Still, is this worse than when we fought that Demon monster made out of hands?” Lily wondered.
“I don’t think there was anything worse than that!” Jenny said. “But back then we had Elayne with us! Her Spirit Clone seems fully dedicated to keeping up the barrier. It’s not as strong as she is, after all.”
“Alright, we have to just—”
CRAAASH!
But before Rita could think of a plan, the barrier gained a small hole, as the aberration’s tentacles, made of countless Ice Barbarian corpses merged together, pierced through it, rushing toward the castle, aiming to destroy it.
“The castle! No!”
Khione rushed forward, flying as quickly as she could, as her Glacial Polar Bear King’s powers surged, materializing in front of her. It swung its giant claws, clashing against the tentacle and pushing it up while freezing it.
“There are still people inside! Chloe, tell everyone to evacuate to the underground escape portal!” Khione said.
“Yes, Master…!” Chloe nodded, about to rush down before the tentacle slammed the polar bear and pushed it back, rushing down once more.
“Ah!” Khione’s eyes widened, managing to dodge, only for the tentacle to pierce the ground, slowly moving toward the castle while destroying anything in its path.
“Chloe!” Khione panicked, seeing that Chloe was right in the tentacle’s path.
She rushed toward her, her only real friend, the ice golem she had created when she was just a lonely child, which she had upgraded each year, always by her side.
Someone she considered a mother figure after her real mother died of old age when she was still a child…
Chloe tried to run away, but before she could, giant boulders and icicle spears emerged from the ground, blocking her path and…
BOOOM!
Khione closed her eyes for a moment. She didn’t want to see what happened, but then she opened them a second later.
Only to see something completely unexpected.
“Eh?”
“Your Majesty! Are you okay?”
Chloe rushed to her side, asking if she was fine.
“Chloe?! You’re not dead? What… What happened?”
“They arrived! Barely in time!”
“Ah!”
Khione’s eyes widened as she saw a giant golden dragon standing on the ground next to the castle, the entire tentacle burning and crumbling into dust as lightning spread through it.
And jumping off that mysterious dragon, Elayne and everyone else had finally arrived.
“Elayne!”
“We got here as quickly as we could…! But it looks like things only got worse… Don’t worry, Khione, we’ll dispatch these things quickly!”
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