Chapter 367: Chapter 225: Facing Ruth, the Ultimate Weapon—The Final Battle of Whale Court
The exhausted Phoenix turned into a scattering of Embers and dispersed, from which a card flew out, returning to Cezar’s Anecdote Atlas.
The dark blue Shark darted like a rocket, soon returning to the island.
Turning to look, the remnants of the Titanic were slowly sinking into the ocean, just as it had a century ago when it struck an iceberg and plunged into the sea.
"Is it over?" Cezar whispered softly.
Weary, he turned his head and looked from the back of the Shark at the island shrouded in twilight, seeing that only wreckage remained of the other members of the Royal Court Team, with Laine devoured by the "undying disease" until not even bones remained.
But just then, a deafening sound suddenly echoed from above the sky.
Cezar paused, raised his head, and saw a giant shadow flying in from the horizon.
Perched on the sky steps, both the Royal Court Army and the expedition’s members looked up. They saw a cube forged from emerald crystal, slicing swiftly through the air. Each face of the cube shot out dazzling white beams in all directions.
In an instant, the rampant beams ravaged the entire island like a volcano. From the earth’s rupture seeped despairing scorched blackness, with a searing red glowing like magma inside.
On the sky steps, a large group of the Royal Court Army turned to ashes as they were swept by the cube’s beams, unable to even scream or howl before disintegrating.
The deafening roar reverberated throughout the world ceaselessly, like the war drums of apocalypse.
"What is that?" Bai Tanlang squinted, covered in blood, gazing at the Crystal Cube.
It spread its enormous bony wings, carrying the Bloodline and Andrew away from the battlefield on the sky steps.
"Who knows? But it doesn’t look friendly."
The Bloodline spoke while blood trickled from its fingertips, coalescing into a spear in midair.
"Whatever, let’s fire a shot first," Andrew said, pulling the trigger on the Crystal Cube.
With a "bang," a bullet shot out of the chamber, tearing through the air like a meteor, striking a corner of the Crystal Cube.
But in the next moment, the bullet was reflected by a transparent barrier, its power unchanged.
"What the hell?" Andrew raised an eyebrow, stunned.
"Looks like your gun’s useless..." The Bloodline raised its crimson eyes, throwing the blood-red spear in its hand to intercept the rebounding bullet mid-air.
"What should we do?" Andrew scratched his head, already considering whether to make a swift escape. The appearance of this Crystal Cube was clearly not part of the leader’s plan.
But soon, Andrew quickly thought of the "Embers Gun" in his possession—aptly named, it was a bullet created with the blood of France’s strongest superpower user, "Embers," with only three in total.
He made it overnight after the auction concluded, only revealing this trump card when confronting overwhelming, seemingly insurmountable enemies.
For instance... Zhou Jiuya.
"Never expected to use the first one meant for that antiquated bastard in this damn place!"
Andrew cursed, pulling out a finely crafted bullet from his pouch, the casing a dark red interwoven, shining brilliantly in the sunset.
Meanwhile, Ayase Origami’s Paper Dragon was flying between sea and sky with Jack the Ripper, Anluns, and Xia Pingzhou.
The six square faces of the Crystal Cube were continuously emitting world-destroying beams, and the Paper Dragon spread its wings, streaking through the gaps between the beams, like racing through the crevices of the world.
Xia Pingzhou looked down, watching as the land affected by the beams vanished in an instant, not even leaving a trace behind.
"What do we do about this?" Anluns smirked, "That thing doesn’t look like it can be dealt with."
At that moment, a hacker in the form of a data stream appeared on his phone. Without network signals in the Whale Terrarium, the hacker had to use this method to convey messages.
The hacker said, "The leader wants you to avoid combat and stay away from that Crystal Cube. It’s the trump card of the Whale Terrarium."
"Quite tricky..." Anluns chuckled, "Even though they’re a closed-off country, they still manage to come up with some bizarre things."
"He says to avoid combat, but it doesn’t seem like it’s letting us go," Xia Pingzhou murmured.
He glanced to the side, where the cube was rapidly pursuing the Paper Dragon, with astounding speed.
Ayase Origami used up the remaining sheets of paper in her sleeves, even resorting to her small notebook used for Go, barely constructing another Paper Dragon.
It roared forth, flying towards the Crystal Cube, drawing its attention away and granting them time to escape.
On the island.
"That’s... the Royal Court Hall." Cezar looked up at the colossal cube, murmuring, "Father told me about this. Yaguba, we can’t just let it be, or it’ll kill us all."
"But we don’t seem like its match," Yaguba said deeply.
"What if we had this thing?"
Suddenly, a playful female voice reached the ears of the man and Shark.
They turned to see a woman walking towards them from the front of the island, wearing a fox mask. In her right hand, she held a forest-white scepter, rimmed with gold by the setting sun.
Seeing the scepter, Cezar and Yaguba were stunned in place.