Chapter 827: Summoning

Peng!

The barrel fires.

A Purple-Black Light Dot energy projectile roared out of the rotating barrel, its body dragging a glittering purple light tail underwater!

The projectile's speed was so great it vaporized the seawater it passed, leaving a long string of boiling bubbles behind; as the bubbles rose they were stained by lingering purple‑black energy into countless dark‑purple light dots.

The beast reacted faster than Heimu had expected; when the energy projectile was still about two hundred meters away, it suddenly flicked its tail, its ice‑blue body folding sideways at an utterly impossible angle, the projectile skimming past the transparent membrane on its surface.

Missed!

But Heimu hadn't counted on hitting it with the first shot.

That energy projectile merely forced it to change position, driving it toward the direction she had preset.

Her fingers tapped the panel rapidly a few times.

The Creation Engine's left‑arm barrel had already anticipated the beast's evasive path as it turned; the second energy projectile surged out, following the first's trail, its firing angle locking precisely at the instant the beast had just completed its dodge and had not yet adjusted its posture.

Boom!

That shot struck the beast's tail solidly!

The purple‑black energy detonated at the point of contact; the underwater explosion produced no flame, only an extremely violent shockwave radiating in all directions, turning the seawater within several hundred meters into fine white foam!

A gash opened in the beast's tail, ice‑blue bodily fluid gushing from the wound, spreading in the clear seawater as an eerie blue mist.

It emitted a long, drawn‑out hiss.

The hiss propagated underwater in a strange way, not through the water but via something akin to energy resonance.

Heimu could feel that hiss pierce straight from the edge of her perception, striking a sudden bang in her mind, and the sound‑wave pattern on the panel spiked to its peak at the same instant!

What is it summoning?

Heimu didn't have to wait long before seeing the answer.

Between the white structures that pierced the seabed, countless blue light dots suddenly surged forth.

Each dot was a small ice‑blue creature, fish‑shaped, but with a pure blue light sphere for a head; its body was a transparent membrane, trailing a slender blue light filament as it swam.

They poured out from the cracks in the structures, from ruins whose submersion time was unknown, so numerous that the sound‑wave display was smudged into a single expanding blue blotch!

The school of fish surged toward the Creation Engine!

Heimu raised an eyebrow.

Summoning minions?

She knows that trick too!

Her fingers tapped the panel quickly three times.

The Creation Engine's rear armor flipped back, ejecting dozens of tiny Purple-Black Light Dot from its armor layers.

The Purple-Black Light Dot, once shed from its back, expanded rapidly, each unfolding into a small drone, disc‑shaped, about the size of a manhole cover, its rim set with a rotating purple‑black energy ring, and a continuously flickering dark‑purple core at the center.

Hundreds of drones formed a circular defensive array around the Creation Engine, the purple‑black energy rings simultaneously beginning to charge.

The fish school and the drone swarm collided with a thunderous splash underwater.

The blue light spheres and purple beams exploded into a dazzling mixed‑color light curtain at the moment of contact; struck fish turned into blue mist and vanished, while drones that latched onto the fish burst in overload, unleashing a purple shockwave that shattered several nearby fish simultaneously.

The underwater battlefield was filled with exploding blue and purple light, the beams interweaving and illuminating the once dim sea like daylight.

The Creation Engine continued its descent under the drones' cover.

The gash in the beast's tail, opened by the energy projectile, kept leaking blue fluid, the spreading mist actually making its position stand out more clearly on the sound‑wave display.

It retreated deeper; the depth of this sea far exceeded Heimu's estimate. The white structure she had seen piercing the seabed was only a middle layer on the sound‑wave display, with larger structures faintly visible farther down.

The beast swam to a point directly beneath the Creation Engine, then suddenly surged upward.

A horizontal fissure across its head split open from the middle, revealing layer upon layer of blue luminous tissue!

An energy beam blasted from its mouth, an ice‑blue Light Pillar at least dozens of meters wide shooting upward through the entire water column; the pillar's core temperature vaporized the seawater instantly, while the surrounding water evaporated into massive sheets of white steam, the rising steam then pushed by residual heat into a ring‑shaped water mist.

The Light Pillar surged straight toward the Creation Engine!

【5】 Heimu's fingers tapped the panel in a rapid succession she herself hadn't even noticed.

Heimu's fingers clicked continuously on the panel at a speed she herself didn't even notice.

The Creation Engine's waist armor disassembled and reassembled instantly, whole plates sliding outward at breakneck speed, stitching together in front of it into a massive shield wall.

The shield wall was an inward‑curved arc, its convex side outward, its surface densely etched with purple‑black energy patterns.

The Light Pillar slammed into the shield wall!

At that instant of impact, Heimu's entire control interface shuddered!

The impact instantly forced the shield wall's purple‑black patterns to glow at their limit, dark‑purple light spilling from the lines, tinting the surrounding seawater violet!

The Creation Engine's Thruster fin plates beneath it reversed thrust, holding the Light Pillar's impact firmly.

The beast kept spewing the Light Pillar, while the Creation Engine continuously braced with the shield wall; the two energy streams formed a distinct line of confrontation underwater, one side ice‑blue, the other dark‑purple, the seawater being violently forced to surge outward on both sides.

Heimu tapped the main panel a few more times.

The Creation Engine's leg armor began to shift, the knee plates flipping outward, revealing two sets of extremely heavy Thrusters extending from within.

The Thrusters ignited, spewing two extremely long, bright, scorching purple tail flames; the flames boiled the surrounding seawater into rolling white foam, and the Mecha's thrust surged more than double in an instant.

The Creation Engine pressed down on the Light Pillar.

Under the Light Pillar's continual impact, fine cracks began to appear on the shield wall's surface, spreading along the direction of the purple‑black patterns; dark‑purple energy seeped out from the fissures, forming an intensely bright purple light mist on the wall's outer side.

The Creation Engine forced itself hard atop the beast.

The right‑arm barrel recharged, this time for at least three times longer than before; the purple‑black light particles inside the rotating barrel swirled into an intensely bright purple‑black vortex, and the surrounding armor plates began to tremble faintly from the excess charge!

The barrel pressed against the beast's crown.

Fire!

Peng!

The shockwave from the exploding energy projectile pushed the Creation Engine itself backward by hundreds of meters.

The beast was slammed by that blast, sinking deeper; ice‑blue fluid gushed from the rupture on its head's side, spreading underwater into an extremely dense blue cloud.

Its body slammed straight into a white building spanning east‑west below; the huge white structure split in the middle, and the white material at the crack shattered into countless tiny fragments that drifted outward.

The giant beast, trapped in the ruins, struggled a few times; its Tail swept across the other side of the building, crushing another segment of the white structure as well.

But Heimu hadn't had time to fire another blast when the giant beast made a move that caused her to squint slightly.

It opened its mouth, not aiming at the Creation Engine, but at the fragments of the surrounding white buildings.

At the instant it opened its mouth, the white material was drawn from all directions by an invisible force and all was sucked into its mouth.

Then it swallowed it!

Swallowed it!