Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 665: Chapter 312 Lament

“This isn’t just the influence of some Taboo Items—at least not only” the Heavy Knight’s pretty face shifted as she requested reinforcements at top speed. And she ordered everyone to increase their distance, moving away from the underground workshop.

Cloaked in a special operations combat uniform and sporting a ponytail, her petite figure stood out among the towering special forces soldiers, like a girl who had accidentally wandered into the battlefield.

But as she gave the command, everyone quickly fell back.

More than three months ago, the Heavy Knight took over the Ranger’s standard from Ben Lei and was the sole team member at the time.

Naturally, she also became the new team leader of the Rangers.

In the past three months, she had reorganized the team and invited Starfire, who had advanced to the Third Awakening, to join. This allowed the Ranger group to rejoin the battle roster of Giant City.

She had proven her strength and reliability through successive successful operations.

And an hour ago, when the Ranger group learned of the bizarre phenomena in the factory, they immediately gathered to handle it.

After suppressing the workers who had lost control on the outskirts, she suspected that these strange phenomena might be the effect of some Taboo Items going out of control. So she took her team deeper to investigate, planning to suppress the Taboo Items and rescue the workers in the underground workshop.

However, when they arrived at the underground workshop, they felt something even more terrifying.

Deep within the underground workshop, some corrupted workers were still crying out in pain.

Their skin cracked like porcelain, revealing the rapidly swelling crimson flesh within, their eyes flickering with madness.

And in the depths, people whispered in unison, “Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God!”

“Ember Church!” The Heavy Knight’s expression became grave. Although she had not had much contact with the Ember Church, she had participated in encirclement operations and had clashed with the Blood God Faction of the Church.

These were not enemies that the Ranger group and these special forces soldiers could confront.

To enter rashly now, let alone rescue hostages, meant they might face complete annihilation.

They must wait for reinforcements, and it would be best to attempt entry after the Iron Guard Army arrived.

However, the moment the Heavy Knight issued her command, countless wails turned into roars. Rows of blood-red eyes lit up in the dim underground workshop!

A series of heavy charging sounds surged from the darkness!

“Go! Move quickly!”

“Retreat in an orderly manner, three groups take turns blocking!”

“Rangers, prepare to cover the rear!” Sensing the incoming assault, the Heavy Knight’s face darkened as she lifted two Heavy Hammers and moved to the back of the group.

The other Ranger members also coordinated with the team’s retreat.

As Spiritual Ability Users, they had stronger combat power and could better cover the officers’ evacuation.

The team quickly withdrew from the underground passage, but at the same time, the sounds of pursuit from behind grew louder.

“How many workers are in the underground workshop?” Starfire yelled, holding his Greatsword.

“Eighteen!” replied a team member.

“This doesn’t sound like the work of just eighteen people!” Starfire gritted his teeth, twisting the sword hilt violently, and flames suddenly engulfed his Greatsword.

Starfire’s Longsword thrust forward, a scorching line of fire shot out from the Flame Greatsword, illuminating the swiftly moving figures in the underground workshop.

Their bodies were twisted and deformed, with swollen muscles ripping through the skin, and blood-red eyes glaring like demons pouring out of the workshop passages!

There were many of them—probably hundreds!

“Fire!” Officers pushed down their Fear and aimed their guns at the passage.

In an instant, a torrent of flames poured down but was blocked by a Spiritual Barrier before they could reach the creatures.

A barrage of gunfire only managed to kill three monsters.

The red creatures, holding the corpses of their companions, charged towards the exit under a hail of bullets.

Because they had misjudged the Danger Level, the officers’ equipment wasn’t heavy weaponry, and without Hot Melt Guns and Plasma Cannons, it was difficult to inflict significant damage on these Spiritual Barrier-protected creatures in a short time. The concentrated fire also failed to Block the enemy.

Seeing several creatures burst through the exit, Starfire swung his Greatsword, and flames leaped from the sword, transforming into a Fire Snake that directly lunged toward the entrance.

Then, it exploded with a boom!

As a Spiritual Ability User of the Path of Zero, his Spiritual Power Strength was among the highest at his level.

At this moment, with his Third Awakening, Starfire unleashed his most potent ability, Flame Burst!

Fire Element under his control transformed into a Spiritual Bomb and detonated with a loud boom.

The explosion collapsed the entrance to the underground workshop, shaking the buildings of the surface factory.

It buried the creatures that were about to rush out and also blocked more monsters from inside the underground workshop.

This provided some relief to everyone.

The plan succeeded, at least buying time until reinforcements arrived, preventing those dangerous creatures from threatening nearby residents.

However, that eerie voice echoed again around them.

“Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God, skulls for the throne!”

Almost simultaneously, screams and gunshots rang out nearby.

In the factory buildings, pair after pair of bloodthirsty, blood-red eyes opened, staring fixedly at the people as if looking at Prey.

“This factory has more than one workshop!” Someone laughed cruelly, and a tall figure emerged from a workshop, his whole body covered in red skin with growing tusks, one hand carrying a Wolf Fang Club, the other clutching a bloody head.

Behind him, similarly large figures appeared.

“Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God, skulls for the throne!” They bellowed.

While the creatures here distracted everyone’s attention, monsters hidden in other workshops burst out, attacking the officers and workers inside the factory.