Global Composite Master: Compositing an Undead Army from the Start

Chapter 374: Chapter 217: The Calamity of Disaster! (Five in One)_6

Next, the moment of massive casualties began.

The first to die were the close-combat personnel.

In such a terrifying battlefield, teeming with tens of thousands, an individual’s toughness was nearly negligible.

The front rank consisted of a large contingent of close-combat professionals, some launching area-of-effect attacks, while others focused on single-target takedowns.

The back ranks, meanwhile, unleashed a dazzling barrage of long-range damage, continuously carpet-bombing the area.

Support-type professionals did their best to provide damage reduction, recovery, and shields. Even so, rapid deaths among the front lines were unavoidable.

In a short while, thousands of frontline fighters had fallen.

In their final moments, many of them yearned for what ordinary people desired: to take cover in the safety zones and escape this Disaster.

But there was no other way.

In the face of danger, responsibility was the only option!

Should everyone choose to evade, then ultimately, no one would escape!

For their lovers, children, parents, siblings, and friends, they had no choice but to stand firm, even if they felt they couldn’t.

“The alliance will make every effort to resurrect all the fallen. If resurrection is not possible, we will provide compensation for your families, enough for them to live comfortably for a lifetime!”

Any other grandiose pronouncements would be empty; this statement was the most practical.

Inspired by these words, everyone fought with exceptional ferocity, surpassing their usual limits.

For a moment, both sides fought fiercely, with no clear advantage.

The two fifth-transition individuals were directly engaged in battle.

Fifth-transition powerhouses differed from ordinary professionals. Their abilities were no longer mere data-based Skills but had become an intrinsic part of their very being.

The most significant difference lay in their methods of application.

For instance, ordinary professionals could only use their offensive Skills to deal damage. However, fifth-transition powerhouses could use their own offensive Skills to nullify an opponent’s incoming offensive Skills.

If the powers were comparable, they would cancel each other out. If one’s power was greater, it could even overwhelm the opponent’s Skill and inflict damage.

On the side of the Calamity Legion, the leader was a fifth-transition monster that resembled a Minotaur, clad in dark red armor and wielding a Blood-Colored War Hammer.

The human powerhouse, on the other side, was a female fifth-transition powerhouse in armor, wielding a Long Spear, and exuding an aura of awe-inspiring heroism.

The clash of the Long Spear and War Hammer, with a CLANG!, created shockwaves powerful enough to send many nearby combatants flying. As the two exchanged blows—BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—a series of spatial explosions ripped through the air, and the terrifying force of their contest caused the surrounding space itself to constantly ripple and distort.

Waves of Energy rippled outward; many weaker individuals caught in these ensuing energy waves were instantly pulverized into a bloody pulp.

Yet, this was with the human powerhouse already trying her utmost to control the Energy dispersal.

Otherwise, vast numbers on both sides below would have long since been obliterated by the fallout.

This was a clear case of “when gods fight, mortals suffer”!

The two powerhouses kept each other engaged in a raging battle, while the troops below consciously avoided their combat zone, which minimized collateral damage.

However, in just a short period of fierce engagement, the casualty rate for both armies had already reached thirty to forty percent.

This was an incredibly high proportion of losses.

On one side were ferocious, utterly fearless monsters; on the other, human professionals who could not afford to retreat even half a step.

There would be no mid-battle retreat in this fight; only a grim determination to battle until not a single enemy soldier remained!

This reckless, all-out fighting style naturally resulted in a startlingly high death rate.

The monsters of the Calamity Legion were entirely different from ordinary beasts; they were all utterly fearless, with nothing but slaughter in their eyes.

Ordinary monsters might sometimes attempt to flee if outmatched, though they rarely succeeded.

As for these strange Heavenly Disaster Monsters from the Calamity Legion, humanity still had no idea where they originated.

Nor did anyone understand the root cause of the Disaster itself.

What was certain, however, was that the Yongming Star System must have accumulated considerable experience in dealing with Disasters.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have orchestrated such a troublesome Disaster scenario for the Solar System this time.

While the fifth-transition woman with the Long Spear led her forces in a fierce battle against the Calamity Legion’s Minotaur-like commander, the situation was similar in other areas.

Casualties were mounting everywhere, army formations clashed, and legion shields were breached after only a short time.

Without the protection of legion shields, the two armies plunged into a deadly melee. The heart of the battlefield became a bloody charnel house, where no one could escape alive!

When Chen Mo used Flash Appearance to return to the front lines, he constantly checked the official announcements.

He quickly discovered that several sectors had already fallen.

Monsters were flooding towards the safe zones.

This was somewhat inevitable; fifth-transition powerhouses had their own strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes, Earth’s fifth-transition powerhouses were suppressed. If their subordinates couldn’t defeat the enemy, the opposing forces could easily break through obstacles and invade the safe zones.

Following the official announcements, Chen Mo immediately rushed to the front lines.

Soon, he arrived at a peripheral area in southern China.

Monsters had already pushed hundreds of meters into this sector. Everywhere, houses lay in ruins; their passage left nothing but a desolate expanse of rubble.

It was unclear why they reveled in such destruction, but aside from slaughter, their greatest pleasure was annihilation.

They destroyed everything visible.

When there was nothing left to demolish, they would even gouge out the earth itself. Against such deranged entities, complete annihilation was the only recourse.

In the distance, high in the air, a human fifth-transition powerhouse had been thoroughly suppressed by a fifth-transition monster.

This monster had a bizarre appearance, composed of two distinct parts. The lower part was an evil dog, its skin like blue stone, covered in golden armor. Extending from the evil dog’s back was a humanoid torso, seemingly also made of blue stone.

This humanoid torso was completely fused with the evil dog, meaning the creature possessed two brains: one in the evil dog below, and one in the demonic humanoid form above.

Furthermore, this humanoid form possessed two brawny arms, bulging with muscle and thicker than an adult man’s thigh, each looking capable of pulverizing a frail human into paste with a single punch.

On his forearms, his metallic palms were constantly wreathed in two orbs of scorching Flame, looking as if they could incinerate anything at any moment.

From his back sprouted two enormous, curved, metallic devil horns, which pulsed with faint Dark Energy—clearly another of his offensive capabilities.

At first glance, it was difficult to categorize what kind of monster it was.

But his combat power was extremely strong. The devil horns on his back constantly emitted dark lasers, and the Flames in his hands continuously unleashed strikes, all coordinated with the Hellhound’s terrible biting.

The human powerhouse, under immense pressure, was steadily forced back, barely managing to stay alive.

Yet, this human powerhouse could not retreat. If he did, it would be tantamount to unleashing a terrifying fifth-transition monster into the city, which would truly result in a living hell and widespread devastation!

Seeing the human powerhouse fighting so desperately to protect others, Chen Mo felt a surge of hot-blooded determination.

Upon arriving, Chen Mo, now level 30, immediately summoned the 3,000,000 Skeleton Monsters he had been frantically spawning en route and launched an assault on the tens of thousands of Heavenly Disaster Monsters gathered here.

Most of the Heavenly Disaster Monsters in this area were third-transition, with less than one percent being fourth-transition. There were also some second-transition monsters.

The strength of Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters was now extremely high.

Their Basic Attack Power alone could reach over 960,000.

This attack power was already comparable to that of a human fourth-transition expert.

In other words, Chen Mo was now effectively leading an army of three million human fourth-transition experts.

And under Chen Mo’s numerous buffs and enhancements, they were even more formidable than three million actual human fourth-transition experts.

Empowered by Undying Worship, the God-Grade Critical Strike Aura, and Chen Mo sharing his Critical Damage bonuses, each of their basic attacks could trigger a staggering 2,500,000,000 Critical Damage.

This was primarily because these monsters lacked Critical Damage stats and thus could not negate Chen Mo’s Critical Damage. As previously mentioned, Critical Damage could be mutually nullified.

If the opponents were fourth-transition professionals, Chen Mo’s current Critical Damage would likely just be canceled out. Neither side would be able to inflict critical hit damage, preventing such astonishing damage figures. However, when facing monsters without any Critical Damage to counter his, Chen Mo could truly unleash his power!