“Ka! Ma!”
Hearing the rustling sounds in their ears but seeing no enemies before them, Ratahn and the Falcon guards immediately went on high alert.
“Use the planned countermeasure!” Ratahn bellowed, pulling a palm-sized sphere from his waist and quickly throwing it onto the ground in front of him.
Clank, clank. With the sound of interlocking gears and mechanical transmission, the palm-sized sphere instantly opened from within.
A hissing sound emanated from the sphere as a layer of pale green smoke rapidly rose from it, interspersed with clusters of dazzling white particles.
The smoke and particles formed a long, strip-shaped barrier above the sphere.
The moment the originally invisible and transparent scythe-type melee Kama passed through this barrier, they were coated by the green smoke and light particles, revealing their true forms.
Hearing Ratahn's command, the other Falcon warriors also quickly pulled out spheres from their waists and threw them nearby, forming an interconnected circular barrier.
Learning from their mistakes after being left utterly helpless during their last encounter with these invisible monsters, Ratahn and his men had stayed up all night discussing and devising a countermeasure.
This alchemical creation, capable of emitting green smoke and light particles, was the very solution they had prepared to deal with the Kama.
However, within Leon's perception field, he discovered that the Kama monsters ambushing them this time were not limited to the invisible melee Kama and the Turret Kama in the distance.
There was another group of Kama whose bodies were extremely slender. They held long weapons made of flesh and blood, and a special mana flowed within them.
When these slender Kama noticed the countermeasure Ratahn and his men used against the scythe Kama, they halted their advance and raised their long weapons.
As mana circulated within their bodies, their light-refracting invisibility was temporarily deactivated due to a mana conflict, but this deactivation only heralded a much more powerful attack.
As their figures revealed themselves, mana rapidly gathered at the tips of their long weapons, and a scorching fireball materialized, ready to be unleashed.
Although Leon perceived that the power of these fireballs only barely reached the threshold of a Bronze rank mage...
Leon looked at the dozens, if not hundreds, of slender Kama behind them—which should now be called Mage Kama—and couldn't help but click his tongue.
“They can turn invisible and shoot fireballs from a distance? That is so goddamn cheap!”
This swarm of Kama was vastly stronger than when he had first encountered them!
However, Leon was not the same as before either!
He quickly cast all the buffs on his panel onto himself, pulled out the Red Fairy Tale, and cast a group-wide protective Divine Art.
Then, Leon shifted his gaze, completely ignoring the Mage Kama whose attacks only possessed Bronze rank power, and instead looked toward the Turret Kama charging up their shots in the distance.
Between a light machine gun and a heavy artillery cannon, which posed a greater threat?
The heavy artillery, of course!
The first targets Leon needed to eliminate were naturally those Turret Kama.
It seemed these Turret Kama had learned their lesson from the previous battle, as they all positioned themselves on high ground far away from Leon, with no intention of drawing near.
But to Leon, he was now fully proficient in both long-range and close-quarters combat!
A brilliant light erupted from his Radiance Longbow, and with a thunderous boom, an invisible, imperceptible Hammer of Sacred Light tore through the air and shot forward!
Atop a nearby hill, before one of the charging Turret Kama could even react, a dull, heavy explosion rang out.
Amidst the sound of cracking, the turret collapsed instantly under the terrifying impact, its shell bursting like a spiderweb as foul-smelling, dark green blood splattered in all directions!
Its massive, armored body was pierced through by the invisible attack in an instant, blasted into complete mush from its cannon mouth to its base!
“Ka? Ma?”
High up in the sky, far beyond Leon's perception field, a bizarre Kama was looking down at the battle below.
It resembled a giant eyeball, and its size even surpassed that of the Turret Kama, looking like a floating airship.
When it sensed the signal of one of the Turret Kama under its control suddenly disconnect, it abruptly shifted its gaze toward the Turret Kama's position, only to find that one of them had already been reduced to a puddle of mangled flesh.
“Kama? Kama?”
The Eye Kama stared at the dead Turret Kama, its massive, cold eye filled with confusion—how on earth did this Turret Kama die?
Just as it was wondering, another Turret Kama's signal suddenly vanished from its control.
The massive Eye Kama looked over once more, but it still could not figure out how the second Turret Kama had died.
However... the Eye Kama noticed one thing. It saw a massive, deep blue arm manifest where the two Turret Kama had died, and it was currently attacking the neighboring Turret Kama.
“Kama!”
Seeing this, the Eye Kama swiftly ordered a portion of the Mage Kama and scythe Kama to retreat and guard the Turret Kama, which served as elite units.
At the same time, the Eye Kama also ordered another type of Kama to stand around the Turret Kama to protect them together.
This other type of Kama was about two meters in length and width, square in shape, with circular, wheeled short legs at its base, and its front covered by a thick layer of rock.
This was the Shield Kama, created by the mother hive by referencing the combat methods of captured transcendents.
By binding together the hard rocks found at the bottom of the Dusk Sea, these Shield Kama could largely withstand pure physical attacks.
With these Shield Kama protecting them, the Turret Kama would be able to—
Bang!
The moment the Eye Kama's command was issued, an invisible attack blasted right through a Shield Kama, its momentum undiminished as it slammed heavily into the Turret Kama behind it.
Sizzle!
A massive hole was blown into the Turret Kama behind it, and its once-sturdy cannon barrel suddenly bent, as if it had lost all its strength.
And in the Eye Kama's perception, this Turret Kama's signal vanished abruptly.
“Ka?! Ma?!”
The Eye Kama let out an incredulous cry. Just as that Turret Kama was attacked, it finally discovered the culprit behind the assault—
The silver longbow hanging beside the priest with the sweet-smelling flesh!
With a flash of radiance from that silver longbow, another elite Turret Kama would lose its life!
At the same time, a giant hand of thunder would rise, wreaking havoc throughout the Turret Kama's formation.
“Kama! Kama!”
The Eye Kama's gaze shifted abruptly, its massive pupil locking onto the silver longbow.
Under the coverage of mana, it finally saw a semi-translucent hammer, constructed from sacred light, condensing around the bow.
The moment the giant hammer formed, the massive thunder arm behind the bow suddenly drew back the bowstring!
The light hammer shot forth instantly, its speed so immense that even the Eye Kama could not track its trajectory!
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, the signal of yet another Turret Kama under its control was completely extinguished in its perception.
“Kama!!!”
The Eye Kama was absolutely furious. In Kama culture, invisibility was a talent exclusive to the Kama!
For this priest to dare lay hands on this exclusive power was undoubtedly the ultimate desecration of the entire Kama species!
No matter how enticingly sweet his flesh smelled, once he violated the Kama's taboos, there was only death!
Just as the Eye Kama prepared to summon another massive army of Kama from the depths of the sea to completely surround and slaughter this arrogant priest...
Beside the priest, a pink-haired guard suddenly looked up.
Those emerald green eyes stared directly and unerringly at the Eye Kama hiding high up in the sky!
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