Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8 - Chapter 160 - 119: Taohuang, a Tier Five Exotic Beast

Chapter 160: Chapter 119: Taohuang, a Tier Five Exotic Beast

Within the Dark Energy that swept across the land, stampeding monsters shrieked and roared.

Even from a great distance, everyone on the walls of Cangxuan City could smell the foul, rotting stench emanating from them.

The larger monsters among them were a full five meters long, while the smaller ones were around three meters.

They moved on all fours, their bodies bloated, looking like running blobs of filth from a distance.

In the Main World, this type of Exotic Beast was called a ’Dark Walker’.

Dark Walkers are the most common Exotic Beasts seen during an Exotic Beast Tide, and also the most hated by the Reincarnators of the Main World—bar none.

From a distance, Dark Walkers use four legs to run with extreme speed and agility. It’s difficult to inflict significant damage on them with ordinary weapons that lack a wide area of effect.

However, once they got close to the city, they could use all their limbs to scale the smooth city walls.

When facing humans on the walls, they can stand and run on two legs, while the other two transform into flesh-devouring tentacles.

A Dark Walker’s body is about as tough as a Tier One Martial Artist’s, and they have an extremely tenacious Life Force.

Even if well-trained soldiers were to fire upon them relentlessly with large-caliber firearms, it would still take a minute or two to kill one completely.

Of course, this was not the most threatening aspect of the Dark Walkers.

The most threatening thing about Dark Walkers was the foul stench emanating from them, which was tainted with Dark Energy. If an ordinary person inhaled too much of it, they would be assimilated by the Dark Energy.

There had been cases in the Main World where, after a town fell, the entire city was overrun by Dark Walkers.

Hundreds of thousands to millions of ordinary people were assimilated by the Dark Walkers. Most were devoured, while a small portion became one with the darkness.

From then on, they could neither live nor die.

Therefore, it was imperative to attack Dark Walkers from a distance.

Otherwise, once the Dark Walkers got close to the walls, the city’s atmospheric filtration systems would be unable to eliminate their rotting stench.

The consequences would be dire.

Even if the soldiers killed the Dark Walkers near the walls, the foul stench from their bodies would still affect people’s minds. In severe cases, it could even cause them to succumb to the darkness.

For this very reason, Li Chang’an did not hesitate. He directly ordered the engineers behind him to activate the city’s defensive weaponry and attack the distant Dark Walkers.

After receiving the order, although the engineers had their doubts, they could only grit their teeth and aim the Energy Particle Beam Cannon at the monsters below the wall, which were still trying to draw closer.

The barrel of Particle Beam Cannon Number Three was over twenty meters long.

As it aimed, the barrel rotated. From a distance, it looked like a colossal, muscular monster awakening from a deep slumber.

After aiming the barrel at the closest and most concentrated group of Dark Walkers, the engineers pressed the firing button.

“WHIRRRRRR…”

The muzzle of the Cluster Cannon began to tremble slightly as a scorching white light bloomed, briefly tearing through the pitch-black sky.

As they watched the light within the barrel grow hotter and more blinding, all the engineers involuntarily held their breath.

At this moment, the temperature and energy inside the muzzle of the Energy Particle Beam Cannon were unimaginably high.

The entire body of the cannon was under immense strain.

’If there was a problem with this thing their City Lord had cobbled together, then this was, without a doubt, the most likely moment for an accident to occur.’

’If the chamber were to explode, blowing the barbican to bits would be one thing. But if they accidentally hit the city wall with the Energy Particle Beam Cannon, it would be no laughing matter.’

Seconds ticked by, and the muzzle of the Energy Particle Beam Cannon gradually stabilized.

A brilliant white light, like a Sword of Damocles, erupted from the muzzle, shooting toward the tide of monsters outside the walls at a speed the naked eye could barely follow.

“BOOM!”

A surprisingly soft explosion echoed back. The engineers, who had just let out a collective sigh of relief at the successful launch, suddenly tensed up again. They scrambled for their observation equipment to check the impact zone of the cluster shell.

A kilometer away, on land once covered in lush greenery, there was now a massive crater nearly one hundred meters in diameter.

The formation of hundreds, even thousands, of Dark Walkers and other assorted Exotic Beasts that had been charging toward Cangxuan City just moments before had been utterly obliterated by the blast that created the crater.

The Exotic Beasts at the very center of the Cluster Cannon’s attack had vanished completely, their bodies incinerated to ash by the immense power.

Only the mangled remains of several dozen Exotic Beasts at the very edge of the blast radius were left, their severed limbs scattered across the ground.

Upon seeing this scene, all of Cangxuan City fell into a brief, stunned silence.

After a long moment of silence, the citizens and soldiers snapped back to their senses and erupted in a wave of thunderous cheers.

The Energy Particle Beam Cannon had two modes.

One mode was for firing the Penetration Cannon, a specialized attack used against powerful, special Exotic Beasts.

This projectile was faster and its energy more focused, capable of inflicting heavy damage on special monsters of Tier Four or even Tier Five.

The other mode was for firing area-of-effect shells, designed to kill ordinary Exotic Beasts.

In this mode, the Energy Particle Beam Cannon’s rate of fire was relatively slow, and it required a longer charge time.

Once the shell was fired, the clustered energy would spray out in all directions like shrapnel, capable of delivering a devastating blow to ordinary Tier One and Tier Two Exotic Beasts within an area roughly fifty meters in diameter.