Supreme Electromagnetic Tyrant-Chapter 368 - 265: Orbital Bombardment_2

Sawtooth Mantis!

This insectoid monster is very common on Earth Abyss Star, much stronger than the spore bats.

In just a few seconds, the number of Sawtooth Mantises blocking the way surpassed one hundred.

Ji Xinghuo did not slow down his running speed. The moment he spotted the Sawtooth Mantises, he grasped the Crystal Light Gun in his hand and aimed it forward, firing.

Whiz, whiz, whiz...

Streaks of light that were visible to the naked eye flashed, like thin, ethereal blue lines disappearing in an instant.

The beams instantly burst several Sawtooth Mantises.

Meanwhile, the other Sawtooth Mantises swung their razor-sharp limbs and rushed forward in succession, but Ji Xinghuo, unfazed, kept firing with the Crystal Light Gun.

Overclocking Thought had been activated, and the world seemed to slow down in his eyes.

Flowing energy within the body of the crystal gun, the beams shot into the forest like splashed water. Each laser was capable of killing at least one Sawtooth Mantis. These insect-like monsters were as fragile as paper under the high-temperature beams, and after being pierced by the light, the beams continued to injure the Sawtooth Mantises behind them.

As he ran wildly, Sawtooth Mantises fell in heaps.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer.

Soon, Ji Xinghuo aimed the muzzle straight ahead and fired continuously for a few seconds, tearing a gap in the monster crowd before rushing through it.

He looked up to the north; the spore bat flock was less than a thousand meters away from him.

While firing and killing the encircling Sawtooth Mantises, he rushed to the base of a low hill. The Eternal Day Badge sent a signal, the hill’s soil slid away, revealing an entrance.

Without hesitation, Ji Xinghuo rushed in and found the identity verification panel on the cave wall.

"Block them."

He threw out Qing Hong, which landed at the entrance, expanding to block it, facing the incoming Sawtooth Mantises with its maw wide open.

Boom!

Qing Hong unleashed a Thunderbolt Hand, a vast lightning arc sweeping across a hundred meters, turning dozens of Sawtooth Mantises into ashes.

Having passed the verification, Ji Xinghuo’s Eternal Day Badge opened a pathway.

"Come back!"

Qing Hong quickly shrunk and jumped into his hand. He used Flash Step to enter the passage, and the heavy alloy gate fell, with the elevator’s cabin sinking rapidly afterwards.

Just seconds after the passage closed, swarms of spore bats flew into the cave, their bodies packing the entire cave so tightly that not a drop could leak through, then they detonated simultaneously like bursting beans, releasing countless green toxins that flooded every inch of the cave space.

Outside the cave, tens of thousands of spore bats circled above the hill, forming a line and charging into the cave to self-destruct.

Bang, bang, bang...

Inside the elevator, Ji Xinghuo heard the sounds from above, constant as raindrops, incessant.

"Terrifying..."

This was the attack method of the spore bats: flying toward their target and then self-destructing.

Even if such explosions couldn’t penetrate his Holy Scale Armor, being blasted thousands or even tens of thousands of times could potentially cost him half his life, even if it didn’t kill him.

"Good thing I ran fast enough."

"Is this really just a First Level area?" Ji Xinghuo had seen enough to wonder just how much more dangerous higher-ranked areas could be.

The elevator quickly descended to the bottom, then passed through a gate to enter a large hall of about two hundred square meters.

As he entered, the lights came on; inside, there was a rest room, a food storage room, a weapon room, and equipment to communicate with the Crystal Elite Clan.

Ji Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief and sat down.

This shelter was approximately three hundred meters below the surface. Coming down from the elevator shaft and passage, the entire underground space’s walls and floors were cast from alloy, more than ten meters thick, full of energy inside, like a completely sealed fortress that ordinary monsters couldn’t breach.

It wasn’t until then that Ji Xinghuo had the chance to open the interface of the Wanxiang Star Pupil.

[Spiritual Origin Ability: 323]

He watched as his Spiritual Origin Ability continued to rise. But with every jump of the numbers, it was just +1+1+1... These were the Spiritual Origin Ability points he got from the deaths of the spore bats post-detonation.

Some Sawtooth Mantises were also killed in the explosions caused by the spore bats, but they granted only 1 point of Spiritual Origin Ability as well.

"So little..."

"Strange."

Ji Xinghuo was somewhat puzzled, as the Sawtooth Mantis and the Spore Bat differed by one rank. Logically speaking, the amount of Spiritual Origin Ability they could acquire should be different, yet the result was the same.

Electromagnetic induction enveloped the shelter from above, and the swarm of Spore Bats was quickly dispersing.

Suddenly, several huge beams of light descended from the sky, bombarding the swarm of Spore Bats and flattening the forest around the hill.

The ground shook, and the shelter swayed.

This was a space-based weapon of the Crystal Elite Clan, a type of Turbo Laser Cannon fired into low Earth orbit.

"Such quick fire support!"

Ji Xinghuo exclaimed, guessing that his location crystal chip had triggered the Crystal Elite Clan’s alert system. As soon as he entered the shelter, the orbital cannons immediately opened fire and bombarded the enemy. Those Spore Bats also knew they would be bombed, so they dispersed in time.

Still, the orbital laser cannon caused quite a bit of damage.

The numbers for the Spiritual Origin Ability were jumping wildly.

Although it was still +1+1, increasing only by 1 point each time, the frequency of the increase was high enough that in the blink of an eye, it broke through to more than 5000 points of Spiritual Origin Ability.

Even more Spore Bats died outside the absorption range, and the Spiritual Origin Ability stopped at around 5500 points.

"Not bad, not bad at all!"

Ji Xinghuo was already quite satisfied.

On his first day on Earth Abyss Star, to be able to harvest over five thousand Spiritual Origin Ability was quite something.

He decided to save these Spiritual Origin Ability points for later, and activated the Eternal Day Badge to check his Merit Points. The Crystal Elite Clan had said that the location crystal chip would automatically detect enemies killed and record the Merit obtained, and although he did not know the principle behind it, he believed it to be reliable.

Ji Xinghuo quickly saw his Merit Points.

"Only 5 points."

He already knew from browsing forum posts that Eternal Day Merit was very hard to come by; the Crystal Elite Clan’s method of calculation was extremely stringent.

Each type of monster had a corresponding value.

Spore Bats and Sawtooth Mantises were the most common monsters, and the Merit Points that could be obtained were very little. It took killing 120 Spore Bats to earn 1 point of Eternal Day Merit, and 24 Sawtooth Mantises to get 1 point of Merit.

And it only counted if you killed them yourself.

The Spore Bats killed by the orbital cannon just now did not count towards Merit.

Others, such as needing to kill 12 Thorny Vine Balls, 18 Thorny Repeater Snakes, 24 Wolf Soul Woods, 24 Swamp Crawlers, 6 Ogre Flowers, etc., these common monsters on Earth Abyss Star, only counted as 1 point of Eternal Day Merit.

The Crystal Elite Clan used a base-6 system in their mathematics, so the number of each type of monster had to be a multiple of 6.

In comparison to the number of monsters, the level of danger was much higher than the gain.

"Truly merciless..."

Ji Xinghuo shook his head.

No wonder during the rare treasures auction, when everyone was bidding, the Eternal Day Merit offered was so little, and the value of 1 point of Eternal Day Merit could rival that of an Ether Crystal.

It was unclear how many Eternal Day Guardians had lost their lives in the pursuit of Merit.

Eternal Day Merit was non-tradeable.

The more Merit Points accumulated, the higher the rank a guard could attain, gaining certain privileges and benefits. For example, upgrading to a Blue Crystal Badge to reduce handling fees or purchasing treasures not sold in the rare treasure auctions.

The starting bid for the Heavenly Treasure Diamond he wanted was 55 Ether Crystals + 100 Eternal Day Merit, and the closing price was bound to be more than double that, requiring at least one or two months of combat on Earth Abyss Star. There were also Clone Twins of the Alien Species and other Weapon Equipment, which would entail even longer risks.

"Let’s take it slow."

Ji Xinghuo ate something and went to the rest room to sleep. freёwebnoѵel.com

A day on Earth Abyss Star was only about 15 hours long, and soon it was daylight again. Electromagnetic induction detected no monsters outside, and Ji Xinghuo took the elevator to the surface.

The floor and walls inside the cave were coated with a thick layer of toxin, a stench that was both foul and nauseating.

Fortunately, Ji Xinghuo no longer needed to breathe, and he flew out directly.

Outside, there were several holes tens of meters in diameter on the ground around the hill, but there were no corpses of Spore Bats or Sawtooth Mantises to be seen—just overnight, the vegetation in the distance had regrown, and green shoots and leaves were already sprouting in the craters created by the bombing.

"This vitality is too tenacious!"

Ji Xinghuo was inwardly shocked.

In two or three days, the scars left by the orbital bombardment would disappear, reverting back to a dense forest.

He opened the satellite map to identify the direction and set his itinerary for the day, and continued his journey. This time, he did not go far before he encountered monsters.