Chapter 604 Ghost Gate Reopens
The battlefield instantly entered a white-hot stage, with the entire Hades City-State transforming into rows of complex, precision-engineered killing machines.
The skeleton guards on the city walls uniformly drew their bone bows, unleashing a rain of arrows that wove a net of death across the sky.
The ground battlefield was a scene of brutal carnage.
Countless ghouls surged from beneath the earth, their claws tearing at the leg bones of the White Bone Giants, their bodies blocking the giants’ advance. Every time a ghoul was crushed, new companions would emerge from the pits to fill the gap.
The flocks of Corpse Crows in the sky let out ear-piercing screeches. They formed death squads and dive-bombed, attacking the soul fire within the giants’ eyes with their assembled heads and sharp claws. Although most Corpse Crows were reduced to ashes by the eerie green flames before they could get close, their relentless assault successfully obstructed the giants’ vision.
From the top of the Spiderweb Tower, the giant spider’s mouthparts stretched wildly, spitting out dark green corrosive venom.
This venom landed on the White Bone Giants, hissing in protest. While it couldn’t inflict fatal damage, it could effectively slow down the regeneration rate of their bone armor.
Kazumi stood on the city wall, her black cape fluttering. Her hands were a blur as she continuously formed hand seals, sending out zombies and skeleton soldiers into the fray.
Though unremarkable individually, their sheer numbers were immense. They surged towards the White Bone Giants like a tide, clearing a path for Satō Shin’ichi to attack with their bodies.
The entire battlefield descended into madness.
Undead creatures battled undead creatures. Under such a concentrated assault, even the White Bone Giants were forced to slow down. They roared in anger, each swing clearing a vast area, only for it to be quickly filled by new undead. Now, Kazumi could no longer afford to worry about her undead troops being consumed by [White Bone], potentially replenishing the enemy with Death Energy. She had deployed every unit at her disposal, needing to use every means to suppress [White Bone]’s actions and create an opportunity for [Takeru Kamikami] to reach its core.
“Annoying insects!”
Upon seeing the irritating blond figure appear on the battlefield, [White Bone] realized they must be up to something new. It stopped relying on killing these insect-like low-level undead to replenish its internal Death Energy. An enraged roar echoed through the space.
The eerie green flames in the White Bone Giant’s eye sockets suddenly contracted to the size of pinpricks before erupting like a new star, firing two death beams as thick as water barrels. These beams contained pure annihilation energy; where they passed, dense black cracks appeared in space. The dozens of ghouls at the forefront were annihilated by the beams before they could even scream, turning into nothingness. The ground was gouged into two blackened ravines several meters deep. The soil at the edges of the ravines instantly vitrified, flickering with eerie green light.
Wherever the beams passed, ghouls, skeleton soldiers, and zombies alike turned to ash in an instant.
Even the venom spat by the Spiderweb Tower was directly vaporized in mid-air, leaving behind a scorched trajectory.
“Ahhhhh—”
However, [White Bone]’s target was not just the surrounding undead.
Its massive skull head suddenly lifted, and a dark beam of light shot directly towards Kazumi, who was standing atop the city gate.
“BOOM—”
The moment the beam tore through the air towards Kazumi, the phantom image of the Ghost Gate solidified beneath her feet. Dark energy surged like boiling tides, transforming into a screen etched with ancient inscriptions. The death beam struck it fiercely, unleashing a piercing shriek, as if ten thousand vengeful ghosts were roaring simultaneously. The Ghost Gate’s barrier swallowed the entire impact of the death beam like an abyss. Kazumi remained unmoved, not even the hem of her clothes disturbed by the aftershocks.
“ROAR—”
Seeing its death beam easily blocked by the Ghost Gate, [White Bone] let out an enraged roar that shook the entire battlefield.
Its massive body suddenly turned, its eye sockets’ eerie green flames locking onto Satō Shin’ichi, who was rapidly advancing through the tide.
“Since I can’t kill you, I’ll crush this ant first!”
The White Bone Giant’s claws plunged into the ground, and the earth instantly cracked. Countless sharp bone spikes erupted from the fissures like a tidal wave, spreading madly towards Satō Shin’ichi!
Each bone spike glinted with a chilling cold light, its tip entwined with corrosive Death Energy. Where they passed, even the air was torn, creating fine black cracks.
“Zzzz—”
The bone spikes rained down like a storm. Several ghouls blocking Satō Shin’ichi’s path were instantly impaled, their bodies rapidly decaying and scattering into ashes.
Satō Shin’ichi’s pupils constricted. A powerful blast of energy erupted around him, and he seemed to transform into a bolt of lightning, weaving rapidly through the gaps between the bone spikes.
However, [White Bone]’s attack was far from over!
Its giant skull head suddenly opened its jaw, and a mass of dark energy coalesced in its mouth, accompanied by the wails of countless souls.
The next second—
“BOOM—”
A death torrent, even more terrifying than before, spewed forth. Where it passed, the ground cracked, space twisted, and it pursued Satō Shin’ichi directly!
Green light flashed again, and Satō Shin’ichi’s figure appeared on the distant battlefield, enveloped in dense green Death Energy, which was rapidly being absorbed by Little Black within him.
But it was clear that the damage effect of the [Ghost Gate] on non-undead creatures still had some impact on his body.
“No, these low-level undead can’t provide good cover. [White Bone]’s primary target will still be [Takeru Kamikami]. We need to deploy units of comparable strength to contain it!”
This was indeed the situation Kazumi had anticipated. She knew that even if blinded by rage, [White Bone] still maintained a certain degree of reason. It knew what posed the greatest threat to it at this stage. After realizing it couldn’t quickly inflict damage on Kazumi, it decisively shifted its target to [Takeru Kamikami].
The problem now was that Kazumi didn’t have many cards left to play.
The [Soul Spider Demon] was already dead. The Ice Giant Crystal that had assisted [Takeru Kamikami] in absorbing Death Energy before had also been consumed by Kazumi. Beings like the Skeleton Whale were no different from the ghouls on the battlefield.
If anything could stand up to it, it was Lily’s transformed [Mother Nest Spider]. However, Kazumi couldn’t bear to sacrifice her mage hero unit like that as a meat shield.
Thinking this, Kazumi looked down at the giant portal bound by chains at her feet. A quyết tâm flashed in her dark eyes.
“Then, I can only rely on this to add fuel to the fire!”
Her pale arms extended from her chest and clasped together heavily.
“CRACKLE—”
A bone-chilling metallic grinding sound suddenly rang out. The bronze chains on the Ghost Gate began to tremble violently. The iron chains entwined around the doorframe twisted and slithered like a dying giant python, eventually snapping one by one, falling to the ground with dull thuds.
As the chains broke, the ancient runes embedded in them lit up with a crimson glow before extinguishing, as if some seal had been forcibly torn apart.
“CRACK—”
With the last chain sliding off, the green energy of the Ghost Gate suddenly expanded. A black mist as thick as blood seeped from the gap of the Ghost Gate.
The mist churned, transforming into countless emaciated ghost hands that grabbed the doorframe, slowly pushing open the two heavy bronze giant doors, which revealed a slight gap—
“Ghost Gate, open!”
