Chapter 610
This monster had countless tentacles, each long and thick. Many citizens living in Summerbank had never seen a mutant before, so they were in a panic at this moment.
This mutant was huge. It floated in the sky like a giant dark cloud, blocking out all the sunlight. The mutant breaking into Summerbank at this time boded ill for the queen. The people all started to panic.
The army had already activated the aura shield to protect the people present. After that, the mechas around Shirley began to attack the mutant. Attacks kept hitting the mutant, but its defense seemed strong. It had so many eyes, making people’s scalps tingle just looking.
It swung its tentacles wildly. The mechas that couldn’t dodge the tentacle attacks were knocked hundreds of meters away. This mutant’s attack power was pretty fierce, too.
Mutants were graded as low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, super-tier, epic-tier, and supreme-tier. The mutant in front was clearly between the last two tiers.
Every time a mutant of this grade appeared, it was bound to cause tens of thousands of casualties.
Shirley had been through such invasions. She watched her soldiers fall one by one beside her. They used their deaths to hold back these mutants’ invasion, keeping them from breaking through the borders.
Now, the appearance of this mutant pushed the disgust and killing intent in her heart to the peak. “Soldiers, listen up,” Shirley gave the order coldly.
The soldiers shouted, “At your command, Your Highness.”
“Pick up your weapons and send our enemy to hell,” Shirley said. Her mecha glowed with a faint golden light. She held a golden spear, extremely sharp. Just a moment ago, she had used it to pierce right through one of the mutant’s tentacles.
“Yes, Your Highness. We will stand with you,” the soldiers said. They were ready to fight to the death for their people and peace, holding nothing back.
Generals from all the major units and the soldiers behind them took up their weapons. When golden, beautiful wings lit up behind Shirley’s golden mecha, they charged forward with her.
Henry saw this scene on TV and found it incredible. The countless soldiers following closely behind the golden mecha created a sight so beautiful that Henry wanted to pick up his paintbrush and capture it.
Still, he was a bit worried whether Shirley and these soldiers could take down that mutant. After all, that mutant was at least epic-tier.
After Henry came to this world, he found that the only flaw in this almost perfect world was these monsters that kept popping out of somewhere. What’s more, from his analysis, these mutants were getting stronger and stronger, and that rift still couldn’t be fixed.
He looked at Shirley, who was fighting fiercely on the screen, wondering if he should go help. He knew Shirley and Shermaine were partners and also friends.
The artillery fire became more and more intense. Yet, soldiers kept falling one after another. The mutant’s attack power was too strong. They couldn’t find its weakness for a while, making it hard to kill.
But the sacrifices couldn’t stop the soldiers from moving forward. If this mutant didn’t die, the whole of Summerbank would suffer. They needed to protect their empire and people, and also protect Shirley, who was at the forefront. She was their faith, their god.
The cigarette in Henry’s hand had burned down, but he didn’t notice. After a moment, he threw the butt into the ashtray and contacted the Summerbank branch of the Eagle Assassins organization using Orthish. He had only one order – go help Shirley.
Right after that, Henry changed his clothes and then jumped down from the 30-story building. A purple light flashed across the sky, caught him, and then he vanished.
Henry had learned to operate mechas since coming to the Kingdom of Xyperia. It wasn’t that hard. As someone who loved art, he didn’t like fighting, but he wouldn’t back down when it was time to fight.
Shirley had figured out that the monster’s weakness was its eyes. It had many eyes, but only one was its fatal spot.
At this moment, her spear stabbed into one eye. The mutant felt the pain and let out a harsh, painful sound. Then it attacked Shirley with several tentacles at once.
Shirley maneuvered her mecha to dodge. But more and more tentacles came at her, quickly forming a cage to trap her inside.
The next second, the mutant spewed black liquid from its mouth. This liquid was corrosive, so Shirley immediately activated the protective barrier.
The corrosive energy gradually wore down the protective barrier. But at this point, a large amount of black liquid blocked all her vision. If she hadn’t taken down the protective barrier, she wouldn’t have been able to see what was happening.
“Your Highness, be careful,” everyone shouted.
Shirley removed all three layers of the protective barrier to restore her vision.
Once her vision returned to normal, a huge tentacle came swinging over. She couldn’t dodge it and got knocked flying.
Luckily, her defense system had been activated. Her mecha wasn’t damaged at all.
After being knocked far away, Shirley activated the slow-down function. She suddenly felt a bright purple light flash over and catch her. It was a purple mecha she had never seen before. The design of this mecha sort of looked like Shermaine’s style.
“Are you okay?” a voice came from the purple mecha. It was a polite inquiry without any personal feelings.
Shirley recognized the voice. It was Henry, Shermaine’s friend from her world. Shirley said, “I’m fine, thank you.”
“I owe you, so I’ll help you take it down,” Henry said.
Shirley didn’t refuse. She had seen many Eagle Assassins operatives piloting mechas in groups toward the monster. At the same time, many fighter jets flew in densely from afar, all firing at that mutant.
Shirley took a deep breath and said, “Follow me. The mutant’s weakness is its eyes. If we can find its most fatal eye, we can kill it.”
Henry said, “No problem.”
It was their first time fighting together, but they cooperated quite well.
With a loud bang, the mutant was hit in one eye by two powerful auras. It crashed down to the ground, crushing many buildings.
The empire’s people were cheering their soldiers on.
At that time, among a group of city lords not participating in the battle, Martin looked unhappy. He thought, ‘It’s the Eagle Assassins again. How did they get here so fast?’
The Eagle Assassins had always been working with Shirley. But if Shirley died, this partnership would end.
However, his goal of disrupting the anniversary celebration had been achieved.
The Kingdom of Xyperia had been ruled by women for far too long, and he couldn’t stand it anymore. He couldn’t accept men groveling to a woman.
Over an hour later, Shirley’s spear stabbed into one of the monster’s eyes. The mutant let out screams and wails. The next second, a purple laser cannon blew its body apart. Blood gushed out of its broken body like a river, with a terrible smell.
The people of Summerbank were excited, feeling safe from this mutant. But then a black vortex suddenly appeared, making them panic again. Everyone was wondering why the black vortex had suddenly appeared in the city.
Shirley got out of her mecha and saw the man she had fought alongside sitting on the mecha’s shoulder, smoking in a very leisurely manner.
When Henry saw her looking over, he jumped down from the mecha. He squinted, looking like a fox. “Want a smoke?”
Shirley shook her head. “I don’t smoke,” she said calmly. “Thank you for your help.”
“The Eagle Assassins have always been partners with you. I live in Summerbank, and there are my compatriots here. So it’s only right for me to help. No need to thank me,” Henry said.
Shirley nodded, then suddenly felt dizzy and started to fall forward.
Henry was about to catch her when someone got there first and took her hand. It was a man in a white uniform, Shirley’s personal doctor, who looked clean and refined. Edison asked, “Your Highness, are you all right?”
“Edison, give me aura water,” Shirley said.
Edison said, “Here you are, Your Highness.”
After drinking the aura water, Shirley’s dizziness subsided, but she was still confused about what had happened. She thought, ‘Is it because I haven’t been in a battle for too long, so my physical strength is not as good as before?’
“Your Highness, let me help you back,” Edison said gently.
Shirley declined his help. “I can walk on my own.” Then she gestured to Henry that she had things to do and turned to leave.
Edison glanced at Henry, his gentle eyes turning cold in an instant. Then he said nothing and followed her.
Seeing this, Henry let out a laugh. He thought, ‘This doctor likes Shirley.’ But he hadn’t done anything. Henry didn’t understand why Edison was so hostile to him.
Henry squinted. This was the first person he had taken a dislike to since coming to this world. If Edison looked at him like that again next time, he wouldn’t be so indifferent as he was just now.