Chapter 522: The Appearance of Scorpio

"Alright, the battle to come is not something you can participate in right now, and with Satomi Rentaro, a wounded man, by your side, you had better take him to a safe place first!" Lingyun said to Enju Aihara.

"The battle to come? Hasn't Hiruko Kagetane already been defeated by Rentaro?" Enju Aihara asked, frowning.

"That's right, the battle with Hiruko Kagetane is over, but this big guy appearing next is a truly world-ending level disaster!" Lingyun said.

"Cough, cough, Lingyun, I..." Satomi Rentaro, supported by Enju Aihara, spoke with some difficulty.

"Don't tell me any nonsense about still being able to fight!" Lingyun waved his hand at him. "Whether it was the battle with Hiruko Kagetane or resisting the erosion of the Gastrea Virus just now, your current state has been weakened to an extremely low level." Lingyun waved his hand and said. "In your current condition, let alone a Stage Two, even a Stage One could cost you your life. If you stay here, you will only be a burden. Now is not the time for you to act tough alone!"

Hearing Lingyun's words, Satomi Rentaro could not help but lower his head.

"Alright, Enju, you take Rentaro and leave first."

"Brother, can I really not participate in the battle to come?" Enju Aihara asked.

"If you can reach the Domain, then you will have the qualifications to participate in this battle!" Lingyun said.

"Reach the Domain? Could it be that Sister Xiaona has already stepped into the Domain?" Enju Aihara looked at Xiaona with a stunned expression.

Lingyun nodded at Enju Aihara, indicating that she was correct.

The Domain is a phenomenon where Cursed Children break through their own growth limits; those who reach the Domain possess immense strength, and those who have not reached it can absolutely never defeat those who have. However, powerful strength is also accompanied by powerful risks; after stepping into the Domain, the erosion rate of the Gastrea Virus will also rise significantly. But Lingyun Town possesses special medicine developed by Lingyun, so stepping into the Domain is not a dangerous thing.

"I understand." Enju Aihara nodded at Lingyun, then directly hoisted Satomi Rentaro onto her shoulder and charged toward the safe area.

"Brother, Brother." After Enju Aihara left with Satomi Rentaro, Xiaona appeared before him with Senju Kayo.

"Mr. Lingyun, may I join Lingyun Town?" Senju Kayo said softly to Lingyun, her tone still carrying a very obvious sense of confusion.

"What's wrong with you?" Lingyun squatted down to look at Senju Kayo at eye level.

"Kayo's Promoter, that Ikuma Shougen, has sacrificed himself at the hands of Hiruko Kagetane. Without a Promoter, she will soon be reclaimed by the International Initiator Supervising Organization and then assigned to another Promoter," Xiaona said. "But no one knows what Senju Kayo's next Promoter will be like. I thought it would be better to just let her join Lingyun Town, but she kept saying she needed your approval first."

"Is that so?" Lingyun asked Senju Kayo.

"Yes." Senju Kayo nodded. "Rather than hoping for that vague and unknown future, it is better to grasp the hope that I can grasp now. Besides, for a support-type Initiator like me, I'm afraid few people would want me other than Mr. Shougen!"

"Lingyun Town has always held a welcoming attitude toward Cursed Children!" Lingyun said with a smile.

"Then, Brother Lingyun, please take care of me!" Senju Kayo extended her right hand toward Lingyun.

"Welcome to the team, Kayo." Lingyun reached out and grasped Senju Kayo's small hand.

"Brother, what about Hiruko Kagetane?" Xiaona asked, looking around.

"Hiruko Kagetane, huh? It seems he was knocked into the sea by Rentaro," Lingyun said with a shrug.

"Are we going back to Lingyun Town now?" Xiaona asked.

"Back to Lingyun Town?" Lingyun shook his head. "No, the real battle is only just beginning!"

"The real battle?" Xiaona and Senju Kayo exchanged a glance, their eyes full of surprise.

As if to answer the two girls' doubts, the wind brought a strange, roaring sound.

"What is this sound?" Senju Kayo's brow furrowed instantly.

"A Stage Five Gastrea, Scorpio!" Lingyun said slowly.

"Scorpio? One of the great terrors that stands at the pinnacle of Gastrea and nearly destroyed humanity?" Senju Kayo could not help but gasp.

The surface of Tokyo Bay suddenly swelled, and huge waves surged into the sky accompanied by a massive shriek. Within the waves, one could faintly see a colossal sea beast emerging from the water.

"This guy really is a terrifying existence!" Looking at the images transmitted from the special aircraft, Xiaona could not help but frown.

Displayed on the screen was a massive, distorted Giant walking on two legs. If one were to go by scale, this guy's height was likely approaching four hundred meters.

Its dark brown, cracked skin was covered in bumps as if it were suffering from smallpox, and on the bumps grew protruding, unmatched objects. A total of eight barbed, scythe-like alien objects broke through the skin from its neck, head, right eye, and other places, appearing extremely bizarre. The creature's head appeared abnormally bloated, a bird-beak-like curved object suddenly emerged from the corner of its mouth, and its remaining left eye was pitifully small.

It was hard for anyone to imagine how many biological genetic factors were mixed within such a massive body.

"This guy, could it be a descendant of some evil god from the Cthulhu Mythos?" Watching the roaring Scorpio, even Lingyun could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

In the Tokyo Area's combat command room, everyone looked at the footage transmitted from the front lines with pale faces. The massive body alone dealt them a huge shock.

"Is the Tokyo Area finished?" Looking at the massive Scorpio, Seitenshi could not help but murmur.

At the same time, all the officials in the conference room fell into a panic; facing this behemoth, no one had any way to deal with it. This was not them scaring themselves, but intelligence fed back from the front lines.

The moment Scorpio emerged, the Army stationed on the front lines conducted an all-out firepower strike against it, but the results were unsatisfactory.

Missiles and torpedoes only caused it slight damage, but such damage was simply not worth mentioning for a four-hundred-meter-tall giant beast. Under the unique regenerative power of Gastrea, these wounds disappeared in the blink of an eye. Poison gas bombs caused Scorpio some trouble, but this trouble soon vanished because Scorpio developed antibodies to deal with this poison gas.

As for the Varanium armor-piercing shells, which had high hopes placed on them, they also achieved nothing in front of Scorpio. Capable of supporting this massive four-hundred-meter-tall body to move normally, the hardness of Scorpio's outer shell had exceeded anyone's imagination; when Varanium armor-piercing shells bombarded it, the only outcome was being deflected.

Facing this nearly unsolvable monster, it was simply impossible to kill it with the weapons currently available to humanity.

When all kinds of means had lost their effect, Scorpio's massive body had already approached the beach by the sea, and the shadow of destruction was about to shroud the entire Tokyo Area.