Chapter 3135

Firelight soared into the sky from the giant crater ahead; through the flames, Su Xiao could vaguely see a building located at the bottom of the crater—it was the Imperial Palace, a miracle of architecture that hadn't been destroyed despite such bombing.

Su Xiao speculated that this was highly likely due to the power of the Abyss; otherwise, this palace would have long been blasted into powder.

Although the Imperial Palace wasn't shattered, as the layers of the underground palace were blasted through, the scene beneath the Royal Capital was gradually revealed to Su Xiao: it was a network of intersecting tunnels.

These tunnels were pitch black, and even the solar flames of the Apollo could not illuminate the scene inside.

Click, click, click~

A dense sound of bone friction appeared, and a withered, fleshless claw reached out from the tunnel; it was a Parasite Warrior, its eyes degenerated, and its entire body covered in horny patterns.

This monster leaped from the tunnel into the giant crater, its facial pores exhaling cold air, and the tentacles on its head twitching, capturing the surrounding life aura.

"Hiss!"

The Parasite Warrior let out a hiss, and following this hiss, highly mutated Parasite Warriors charged out from the tunnels like a swarming ant colony.

Bang.

A bullet hit the head of a highly mutated Parasite Warrior; its head tilted back, the exposed gray-white flesh squirmed, and the fist-sized hole in its head healed.

The Parasite Warriors seen before looked very similar to humans, but these highly mutated Parasite Warriors were more like underground creatures that had lived in lightless environments for years.

With a swoosh, this highly mutated Parasite Warrior vanished from the spot; it dodged the dense incoming bullets with ghostly movements, and it could even turn parts of its body flesh into semi-fluids to evade attacks.

Puchi!

Sharp claws tore across the neck of an Alliance soldier; the soldier clutched his throat with both hands, blood spraying from his fingertips as he knelt to the ground.

Dense firepower barely suppressed the highly mutated Parasite Warriors charging out from the underground; they ran back into the tunnels on all fours, and in the darkness, low, threatening growls issued from their mouths.

The reason Su Xiao didn't let Baha and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang consume too many Apollos was that he was waiting for these things to appear.

In this matter, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang deserved the top credit; it had infiltrated the Royal City yesterday by blending into the environment and discovered the underground palace.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang explored downward layer by layer, avoiding a large number of ordinary Parasite Warriors, and reached the darkness deep underground; after Xiang Bubu saw the situation in the darkness with its night vision, it was so scared it almost peed itself—the tunnel walls as far as the eye could see were covered with highly mutated Parasite Warriors.

There was one point Su Xiao didn't understand: why didn't Emperor Taiyatu send these highly mutated Parasite Warriors out earlier?

Not only that, but in previous battles, the Parasite Warriors had always relied on numbers to clash head-on with friendly forces, as if no one was commanding them; their charging out seemed more like a homicidal instinct.

Thinking about these things now didn't have much meaning; dealing with the highly mutated Parasite Warriors underground was the key.

Su Xiao told Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha that they didn't need to save Apollos anymore and to throw them into all the tunnels.

Receiving Su Xiao's message, Baha lowered its flight altitude, letting Xiang Bubu throw reduced-version Apollos into the tunnels; a moment later.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground beneath Su Xiao's feet was vibrating, and pillars of fire erupted from the tunnels ahead; the scene was extremely spectacular.

Within the solar flames in the tunnels, hisses were endless; a highly mutated Parasite Warrior charged out from a tunnel filled with solar flames, but before it could run far, it turned into a skeleton and scattered on the ground, immediately being burned to ashes by the solar flames.

A total of 239 reduced-version Apollos were used; after a round of frantic bombing, only 26 remained, yet roars and hisses still came from deep within the tunnels.

The reduced-version Apollos were not as good as ordinary Apollos; while they were effective against these highly mutated Parasite Warriors with tenacious vitality, because there were too many of them, all the reduced-version Apollos were thrown into the depths of the tunnels, yet they still hadn't completely wiped out the highly mutated Parasite Warriors.

This made Su Xiao feel it was incredible—not because the enemies weren't dead, but because he was puzzled as to why Emperor Taiyatu didn't use this power.

If this power had been used, the previous battle situation would have been a different scene; with the basic quality of the Alliance soldiers, even with the War Lord bonus, who would win and who would lose was really not certain.

"Damn it, they're not all blown up yet."

Baha lowered its flight altitude, the alloy exoskeleton on its back detached, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang leaped down.

"Boss, use that move?"

"Not yet."

"Then..."

Baha cast an inquiring look, and Su Xiao nodded; seeing this, Baha flew up with a mischievous grin.

Su Xiao ordered the entire army to retreat in turns, but the shelling could not stop.

The main friendly force retreated to the perimeter, while the artillery units retreated in turns, maintaining fire suppression on the giant crater to prevent those highly mutated Parasite Warriors from breaking through the underground solar flames and charging out of the crater.

When the entire army had retreated, Baha, flying high in the sky, released its eagle claws, and an Apollo fell; this was 【Wrath of the Sun · Apollo】, and with two left, Su Xiao prepared to use one.

Su Xiao was not prepared to use the ancient war beasts that the War Lord could summon yet; the war had reached this point, and it was permeated with a sense of eeriness everywhere.

Wrath of the Sun · Apollo fell; during its descent, the Apollo's size expanded, turning into a scorching golden fireball that fell into a tunnel below—the sun had fallen.

The artillery fire ceased, and the soldiers received orders to find cover.

Everything went quiet, but this quiet lasted less than 1 second.

Boom!!!

A golden fireball with a diameter of 3 kilometers appeared; the soil it affected was like snow exposed to the scorching sun, "melting" at a speed visible to the naked eye, scorched into a gaseous state by the high temperature.

In the blinding solar flames, the Imperial Palace turned charred black, and the outer wall skin even showed signs of melting; due to the fierce impact of the explosion, this hundred-meter-tall palace flew up and slowly flipped in mid-air.

Baha looked at the Imperial Palace, inexplicably wanting to laugh, because Emperor Taiyatu was still inside.

Compared to the flying Imperial Palace, the soldiers' gazes were all focused on the golden fireball with a diameter of 3 kilometers, four-fifths of which was located below the surface; the soldiers' expressions were somewhat dazed.

Major Gewei was also looking at that golden fireball, the muscles on his face twitching; he associated it with one thing: this thing exploded in enemy territory, and he felt nothing, only watching coldly, but if this thing exploded in Gaman City or York City, what would... happen?

One had to know that Su Xiao's relationship with the Alliance high command was not good, and the exaggerated number of Alliance soldier casualties had brought both sides to the brink of a breakup.

Major Gewei walked toward Su Xiao; he was a man of action and immediately asked:

"Mr. Bai Ye, if... you and the Alliance high command were hostile, would you detonate this kind of 'bomb' in Gaman City?"

When Major Gewei asked this, the iron-blooded man actually felt a trace of expectation in his heart, expecting Su Xiao to give him a definite answer.

"Perhaps, not?"

Su Xiao tilted his head to look at Major Gewei, smiling kindly.

Major Gewei didn't speak again, just pressed his right fist hard against his chest; he respected Su Xiao as a commander from the bottom of his heart, but he had been an Alliance soldier, was now an Alliance Major, had sworn a blood oath under the Alliance banner, lived for the Southern Alliance, and was willing to die for the Southern Alliance—this was his faith, his will.

When the solar flames in the giant crater dissipated, no more roars came from underground; the sun had baptized the darkness.

Su Xiao looked at the Imperial Palace in the distance and stepped toward the palace; arriving in front of the palace that was half-buried in the mud, Su Xiao walked through the half-melted main entrance, with veteran soldiers acting as guards, surrounding him in the center.

Passing through the charred outer hall, Su Xiao stopped in front of two open metal doors; he made a gesture, and the veteran soldiers beside him stepped forward to push the doors.

Creak~

The somewhat twisted and deformed metal doors were pushed open, and a stream of black smoke surged out.

Su Xiao observed the situation in the inner hall; on the throne at the very back, he saw a burly figure—that was Emperor Taiyatu.

"Kill him."

As Su Xiao spoke, he lit a cigarette; veteran soldiers rushed past him from both sides, and after entering the inner hall, their rifles were aimed at Emperor Taiyatu on the throne.

1-on-1 with Emperor Taiyatu? How could that be possible? If Emperor Taiyatu could touch Su Xiao once, it would be considered the other side's victory.