When the "Silver Moon" broke through the ice fog in the Arctic Circle, the entire sky seemed to have been splashed with paint by someone. The interlaced purple and green aurora slowly flows through the clouds, as if streaks of light are hanging down from the sky, gently brushing against the sea surface and stirring up fine ice crystals. Breathtakingly beautiful. But beneath this splendor lies an extreme cold that can crack even steel - the titanium alloy hull of the ship is covered with a thin layer of frost, and the temperature reading on the detector is terrifyingly cold, minus fifty degrees. More bone-chilling than the cold wind was the faint smell of blood in the air, along with an indelible, decaying and dark aura that would never dissipate.
The outpost is just three kilometers ahead on the ice field. Elena's fingers were trembling slightly on the console, red from the cold. On the thermal imaging screen, the red dots symbolizing life signals were scattered sparsely, so weak that they were almost swallowed up by the background. "The signals from the sand teeth were very unstable. The last message they sent back was only one sentence - 'They emerged from under the ice.'"
Before the words could be spoken, the bottom of the "Silver Moon" suddenly shook, as if it had been hit hard by some huge object. The entire ship tossed violently on the sea surface, and the ice on the deck instantly shattered, with fragments flying everywhere.
"It's the Energy-consuming Demon Bug!" They are catching up along the path of our spiritual energy!
Lin Yuan's Wolf ears were the first to detect the abnormal movement beneath the ice layer. He grabbed the crystal box and rushed out of the bridge. As soon as his feet stepped onto the deck, the scene before his eyes sent shiver down his spine - several black insect shadows as thick as arms suddenly shot out from beneath the sea surface. They have no eyes, nor mouths or noses. Their bodies are covered with wriggling black runes. The mouthparts at the top are open, revealing a circle of fine metallic sharp teeth, which are gnawing at the landing gear of the "Silver Moon" with all their might.
"Is this thing a monster that devours spiritual energy?" "
The Green Feather reacted extremely quickly. Its vines emerged from the cracks in the deck, tightly entangling one of the magic worms like steel cables. But as soon as the vines clung to the other person's body surface, the spiritual energy was directly sucked away by the runes, and in the blink of an eye, they became withered, yellow and shriveled. The magic worm suddenly turned around, and with a "click" of its mouthparts, it bit through the vine and pounced straight at Green Feather. Frightened, she took several steps back and almost slipped and fell.
"Don't touch them directly with your psychic powers!" "
Sylvia almost charged forward. Her silver-blue psychic energy quickly condensed into a shield in her palm, blocking the attack of the demonic worms. "The runes on their bodies will directly devour their psychic energy. Holy silver has no effect on them - physical attacks are the right solution!"
Hardly had she finished speaking when her psychic shield began to crack. The sharp teeth of the demonic worm brushed past her arm, opening a gpulp. The spiritual energy in the wound was frantically sucked away by runes, and her skin instantly lost its color.
"Here - I'll do it!"
Lin Yuan let out a low growl, and the Wolf's fur stood up one by one in the extreme cold. The golden power of the Wolf god burst out along the limbs and rushed into the Wolf's claws. He leaped up, his claw tips tearing through the cold wind, and with a piercing sound, he fiercely slashed towards the densest rune area on the surface of the demon bug.
"Hiss --"
The golden light exploded and the runes shattered. The demon bug let out a shrill scream, its body rapidly shriveled as if it had lost its breath, and finally turned into a pool of black liquid, freezing onto the ice with a snap.
"Core runes are their Achilles' heel!"
When Lin Yuan landed, he glanced at the wreckage. Beneath the shattered runes, a black crystal the size of a pea was revealed. He immediately gave the order: "Sylvia, disrupt the rune operation!" Elena, activate the electromagnetic network to restrict their movement! "Green Feather, build a defense line with lifeless dead wood vines. Don't let them get close to the ship!" "
Almost at the same time, all three of them moved.
Sylvia's silver-blue spiritual energy transformed into a dense array of light needles, precisely piercing the gaps between the demonic bug runes. The runes, which had been wriggling ceaselessly, suddenly froze, and the demonic bug's movements became clumsy and sluggish.
Elena controlled the shipborne electromagnetic net to shoot out from both sides of the deck. The blue electric grid spread out in the air, catching the approaching magic worm in one go. The current exploded countless sparks on their body surface. Although the damage was limited, it was enough to hold them back.
Green Feather, on the other hand, swiftly took out the prepared dead wood seeds from his backpack and scattered them along the edge of the deck. She only used her weakest spiritual energy to give birth - just enough to grow and not to be devoured. In the blink of an eye, a thick and tough wooden wall rose up from the ground, firmly keeping the escaped demonic insects out.
The "Silver Moon" finally docked and landed in a temporary harbor on the ice field.
Under the glow of the aurora, the outline of the outpost gradually became clear - a defense base composed of dozens of igloos and metal fortresses. But at this moment, most of the igloos had been overturned, the metal walls were riddled with holes, and the ground was scattered with the weapons and blood-stained furs of the Wolf warriors. Shaya was leading several survivors, gritting their teeth with the help of Wolf claws and explosives, struggling to withstand the second wave of the mog's attack.
"Lin Yuan!" You're finally here!"
The moment Sha Ya saw the "Silver Moon", her eyes almost glistened. His left arm was wrapped in a bandage that was still bleeding, and his Wolf claws were covered with the black SAP of magic worms. "These things simply can't be killed off!" Just as a batch was cleared, another one emerged from beneath the ice! Their true target is the "Aurora Altar" deep in the ice field - that is the spiritual energy node we, the Wolf race, guard!"
Lin Yuan looked in the direction he was pointing.
The aurora was exceptionally intense deep in the ice field, as if it had transformed into a beam of light shooting straight into the sky. Below the light column, an altar made of ice crystals was faintly visible. Just then, the tidal star in the crystal box suddenly heated up. Blue light pierced through the box wall and projected a straight light track on the ground. At the end of the light track, there was a purple rune facing the rift in the spirit world.
"They weren't fighting randomly at all. They were aimed at the altar..." I want to use the spiritual energy node to directly tear open the rift in the spiritual world.
Before the words could be finished, the ice field suddenly shook.
From the direction of the altar, a crack several meters wide suddenly tore open, and dozens of giant magic worms as thick as buckets emerged from the crack. The runes on their bodies were obviously denser than before. When their mouthparts opened, black energy rays gushed out directly, instantly piercing through the ice walls hastily piled up by the warriors.
"Mother worm!" "
Shaya's voice was out of tune, trembling noticeably, "The leader is here!" I have seen it with my own eyes... It swallowed all the spiritual energy of a high-level warrior in one gulp!"
The mother worm's huge body slowly wriggled on the ice surface, like a giant earthworm magnified countless times. Runes glowed faintly on its body surface.
In the next moment, it raised its front end, aimed at the direction of the "Silver Moon", and suddenly shot out a thick black ray.
Lin Yuan almost instinctively stepped in the front, protecting Sylvia and Green Feather behind her. The power of the Wolf God and the blue light of the Tidal Star burst out simultaneously, interweaving into a golden-blue shield in front of him.
"Boom!" "
The rays crashed fiercely into the shield, and ice crystals scattered and splashed everywhere. Lin Yuan's feet were pushed backward on the ice, with two deep grooves trailing behind him. His arms were numb from the tremor, and even his bones were buzzing.
"Tidal Star..." Absorbing its dark energy!"
Lin Yuan suddenly realized something was amiss. The blue light in the crystal box grew brighter and brighter. A part of the female worm's rays was actually drawn over, purified and directly poured into his body.
"Elena!" Use the Holy Silver Alloy Piercing Bullet - strike the core rune on its head!"
Elena turned and rushed towards the weapon bay. The mechanical arm was still operating at high speed in the extreme cold, pushing the specially made Holy Silver bullet into the barrel of the psychic cannon.
At the same time, Sylvia seized the gap after the mother worm's attack. The silver-blue spirit energy stretched into a long sword in her hand. She had leaped onto the mother worm's back, and the tip of the sword pierced directly into the area with the densest runes.
"Sizzle..."
The spirit energy was devoured by madness, and the long sword dimmed instantly, but it still caused the mother worm's movements to be delayed for a moment.
Green Feather immediately took action, manipulating the wooden wall to transform into countless vines, which clung tightly to the mother worm's body like chains. The vine dried up quickly under the erosion of the black runes, but it was also successfully nailed in place.
"Now!"
Lin Yuan let out a low growl, completely fusing the power of the Wolf God within his body with the spiritual energy of the Tidal Star, and pouring all of it into the spiritual energy cannon of the "Silver Moon".
The gun barrel burst out a dazzling golden-blue beam of light, which intersected with the holy silver bullet simultaneously fired by Elena, transforming into a huge light arrow that tore through the cold wind and pierced straight into the core of the mother worm's head!
The female insect let out a deafening hissing and twisted wildly, but was tightly locked by the vines.
The light arrow precisely hit the core rune.
The holy silver bullet burst on the spot, the runes shattered, and the golden blue beam of light rushed into the body through the wound, beginning to thoroughly purify the dark energy of the mother worm. Its body convulsed violently, and one by one, the runes went out. Eventually, in a shrill scream to the extreme, it turned into a pool of black liquid, slowly seeping down through the cracks in the ice field.
Without the control of the mother bug, the small demonic bugs instantly fell into chaos and were soon cleared away one by one by the Wolf warriors and the others.
The battle was over and the ice field was in a complete mess.
The surviving soldiers slumped on the ice, gasping for breath, not even having the strength to stand up. Lin Yuan walked up to the Aurora Altar. The blue light of the Tidal Star began to resonate with the spirit energy of the altar, and ancient Wolf runes emerged on the surface of the ice crystals - those were the protective contracts made between the ancestors and the spirit world.
"Part of the spiritual energy nodes of the altar have been damaged." "
Sylvia's fingertips touched the crack, and the silver-blue spirit energy seeped through the gap. "I can temporarily repair it, but at most for three days." Three days later, if the fissure cannot be completely closed, dark creatures will continue to pour out in an endless stream.
Lin Yuan placed the Tidal Star in the center of the altar. The blue light spread along the runes, repairing the damaged nodes. Just then, a strange and ancient memory suddenly flooded into his mind - the scene of the ancestor of the Wolf race burning out his spiritual energy to seal the fissure. Before the scene dissipated, only one sentence remained:
To seal the rift in the spirit world, one needs the protection of the Wolf race, the purity of the ocean, the vitality of the rainforest, and the precision of machinery. Only when the four forces are united can stability be achieved.
"Exactly. It's the four of us." "
Lin Yuan turned his head to look at Sylvia, Elena and Green Feather. The alliance badges of the four people lit up simultaneously. The four lights of gold, blue, silver and green converged at the center of the altar, merging with the tidal star and transforming into a towering beam of light that pierced deep into the aurora. The cracks in the altar slowly healed, and the purple runes in the spiritual realm's fissures dimmed accordingly.
Just as the light was fading, Lin Yuan's communicator suddenly rang.
The urgent message from the Alliance headquarters was only one sentence: "Lin Yuan's team has received a weak signal from the spirit world, mentioning - 'The Dark Lord has awakened'. Please immediately heighten your vigilance!"
Lin Yuan subconsciously clenched the Tidal Star. A complete map of the cracks in the spirit world emerged on the surface of the crystal. At the deepest part, a blurry black shadow seemed to be slowly opening its eyes.
The aurora quietly swirled in the night sky, stretching the shadows of the four people very, very long.
Lin Yuan was well aware that the restoration of the altar was merely a temporary respite. The true enemy - the being known as the "Dark Lord" - has awakened deep within the Spirit realm.
But this time, he was no longer confused.
The companions by his side, the warriors of the Wolf race, and the Allies of various ethnic groups are all his most solid backing.
He raised his head and gazed into the depths of the aurora, with a determined light reflected in his wolf-like eyes.
A deep and long howl of a Wolf tore through the night sky, resonating with the aurora.
That is a declaration of guardianship
It is also the clarion call for the next war