Chapter 490 - 310: King Arthur’s Cry for Help

Activating his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi immediately observed the situation near the Prosthetic Clinic.

’The Tier Four responsible for protecting Lin Xin is gone.’

’Gone? Where would he have gone?’

’He must have gone to support Baili Xueyuan!’

This meant a major incident had occurred during Baili Xueyuan’s operation, so severe that this Tier Four Peak Extraordinary needed support.

Lin Qi’s gaze pierced through layers of buildings, looking toward the United Pharmaceutical Building.

A portion of the shockwave from the recent explosion had originated from there.

That must have been the company’s doing. They had used S-Class Weapons to carry out a "destruction" operation at Baili Xueyuan’s request, not the aftershock from a battle between Tier Four Extraordinaries.

The true sign of a clash between Tier Four Extraordinaries—and of the sole Bearer’s emergence—was the change in the Spiritual Particles.

Edge 12 District was merely in the affected area, yet the concentration of Spiritual Particles had already doubled, and Lin Qi could clearly feel them flowing in a vortex.

’The Tier Four battle back in Alliance City caused nothing like this. Is this the change brought on by the sole Bearer?’

Lin Qi’s brow furrowed. Before this, he never would have imagined the sole Bearer would appear in Red Fruit City.

’There are so many Bearers, so many S-Artemis Neural Drive Storage Mediums... Ning Hao from Red Fruit City didn’t seem special at all. Why, of all people, did he become the sole Bearer?’

’Why would such a low-probability event happen in Red Fruit City?’

Lin Qi grew uneasy, worried the battle would spill over to the Prosthetic Clinic.

Just as Lin Qi was pondering this, two long streaks suddenly cut across the night sky.

They were orbital drop pods, trailing fiery red flames!

’Master Ma and King Arthur!’

Following Guang Ling’s plan, the two of them had successfully landed in Red Fruit City, posing as reinforcements from the Eastern Alliance.

However, the two drop pods came down one after the other, their landing positions slightly off.

The first one landed not far from United Pharmaceutical, practically on top of the battlefield.

The second one had deviated significantly and was about to land in the outskirts, less than two kilometers in a straight line from the Prosthetic Clinic.

Text appeared in the Highest-Level Mercenary Corps’ temporary chat window.

Master Ma: "@King Arthur, something unexpected came up. You go ahead and pose as the support. I’ll provide backup. I’ve met that old woman involved in the Red Fruit City operation before. She’ll recognize me."

King Arthur: "Fuck! Master, you’re screwing me over!"

King Arthur obviously hadn’t considered this possibility. It meant she would have to face the pressure of two Tier Four Extraordinaries from the Eastern Alliance alone.

Even if they were only low-stage Tier Fours, King Arthur herself had only just entered Tier Four.

’If something goes wrong with Guang Ling’s identification codes, won’t I be totally screwed?’

Master Ma: "Don’t worry. I’ll help you pin down that old woman when it’s critical. But I can only handle one of them. That old woman is a Tier Four Peak. Even Grand Knight Commander MacLeod of the Round Table Conference was defeated by her."

King Arthur: "???"

It was too late for question marks now. King Arthur had already landed.

Through the door of the orbital drop pod, King Arthur could sense three extremely powerful waves of Tier Four Extraordinary Power.

The color drained from her face. A preliminary assessment told her...

’They’re all stronger than me!’

’Am I here as support, or am I just serving myself up on a platter?’

Before exiting the pod, King Arthur sent a message in the temporary chat.

King Arthur: "Guang Ling, the intensity of this battlefield is off the charts. You need to prepare a backup plan."

Guang Ling: "All factions underestimated the power of the sole Bearer. Fortunately, the target appeared in Red Fruit City. The two Tier Fours responsible for Red Fruit City are far stronger than those in other cities."

Guang Ling: "You don’t need to be the main attacker. Just do your best to assist them. If they ultimately complete their mission, you will then take custody of the target under the identity of the Yellow Bear Expedition Team."

Fuck!

King Arthur cursed again inside the drop pod.

’Fortunately?’

’You call this fortunate?’

’This is the worst luck imaginable!’

’And that goddamn Master Ma, just throwing me into the middle of the battlefield by myself! What the hell is his relationship with that old woman?’

’How come I never heard that this so-called "old woman" was a Tier Four Peak before?’

King Arthur’s heart was heavy, but there was no time for more thinking. She could only follow the established procedure and open the orbital drop pod.

At this moment, besides her Prosthetic Body, King Arthur was also wearing a suit of Exoskeleton Equipment.

Guang Ling had prepared it in the orbital pod beforehand. It was standard issue for the Eastern Alliance’s Yellow Bear Expedition Team and one of the key tools for their impersonation.

When the two Tier Four Powerhouses, Baili Xueyuan and Wu Yong, saw King Arthur, they were immediately suspicious. "Why is there only one?"

According to the Yellow Bear Expedition Team’s typical operating procedure, reinforcements were usually deployed in two- or four-person squads. A single person would never be sent alone.

King Arthur braced herself and replied, "My partner’s drop pod malfunctioned. It’s a few kilometers off course, but he’s on his way now."

As she answered, King Arthur’s gaze was drawn to the "behemoth" behind the two of them.

Behind them lay the ruins of the H4 Skyscraper.

Theoretically, the S-Class Weapons prepared by the Liu Clan should have been enough to destroy the entire building and annihilate all life within it in an instant.

But now, a little less than half of the H4 Skyscraper still remained.

Atop the ruins was a colossal monster.

The monster had a single, gigantic crimson eye, over ten meters in diameter. Below the eye was a mass of soft tissue coated in copious amounts of slime, with countless fleshy tendrils growing rapidly from it.

The monster was entrenched in the ruins of the H4 Skyscraper, its slime and fleshy tendrils covering almost the entire area.