Chapter 860 - 859: The Proper Way to Deal with Dangerous Buildings

Chapter 860: Chapter 859: The Proper Way to Deal with Dangerous Buildings

In the following period, the professional technical team led by Yu Sheng began the rumbling construction process—according to Erin, this was called the necessary preparation work before dealing with the area boss.

Red had been in this recurring dream realm for so many years and never imagined that one day such a thunderous group would invade this place, let alone that someone would handle this moonlight-polluted living church according to demolition standards. She was left utterly stunned on the sidelines.

At this time, Luna had already started directing her brothers and sisters from the Valhalla Corps to fill the church’s load-bearing walls with detonators and explosives.

Dorothy also began commanding her tank team and demolition engineers to set up the positions—seven or eight heavy tanks formed a semi-enclosed formation on the other side of the square, with dark cannon muzzles aiming directly at the church’s main entrance. Meanwhile, the demolition team started placing remote-controlled bombs in the base of every building near the church and in the church itself. Halfway through, she felt a bit uneasy, so she summoned two 1,000-pound aerial bombs and buried them directly at the church entrance...

Yu Sheng, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to brief Luna’s Saintesses and Knights on the upcoming tactics: "In a while, the church won’t activate immediately. First, a group of earth monsters will gather from around the square. You guys are responsible for watching those two intersections up front. Then, in about 20 minutes, the church will activate. When it stands up, then pull the detonators..."

Dozens of figures stood attentively in front of Yu Sheng. They all appeared to be teenagers, each wearing different armor and holding a variety of weapons. The only thing they had in common was the eager expression on their faces, and the happy, trusting look in their eyes as they watched Yu Sheng.

In this world of souls and dreams, Artificial Saintesses and Brass Knights had shed their cold mechanical shells, appearing here in their original human forms, as remembered in their soul memories—this appearance was forever frozen at the moment of their last day as humans.

Without their steel bodies from the real world, they naturally couldn’t use many of their unique powers as Artificial Saintesses and Brass Knights here. But this didn’t mean their combat strength weakened. On the contrary, the Soul World was their true home ground.

Having survived the harsh selection and brutal assessments of the Hidden Monastery and endured the near-death transformation process, these Artificial Saintesses and Brass Knights possessed soul and willpower far beyond ordinary imagination. Plus, with Luna leading everyone in Valhalla in honing various combat skills daily, they could fight even better in the Soul World than in the real world—Yu Sheng had witnessed this more than once.

It’s the kind of situation where you barely manage to take down a shell in the real world after enduring life-threatening challenges, only to have them pull your soul out and obliterate it the moment you look away. They might even summon ancestors from eighteen generations back to give them a thorough thrashing.

"So, why don’t we just blow up the church right now?" asked a young man carrying a heavy warhammer with curiosity. He was the Guard Knight Captain of the Brynhild Team, "Do we have to wait until it stands up?"

The red-haired Shilude promptly nodded in agreement: "Yeah, boss, I wanted to ask that too."

"Because I’m not dealing with the church; I’m dealing with the ’little moon’ that will appear inside afterward," Yu Sheng patiently explained, "This church is just a vessel. Blowing it up prematurely might miss out on capturing the future Parasitic Moon."

Then the group collectively nodded: "Oh..."

Nearby, Erin poked Red’s arm: "Hey, hey, what do you think? Professional? Reliable?"

"I..." Red opened her mouth, her vocabulary swirling in her mind for quite a while before finally forming a sentence, "Never thought of this approach before."

"Of course, you wouldn’t think of it. You used to be here all alone, where would you find a demolition team," Luna, in her golden-haired girl form, also joined the conversation, looking elated, "Let me tell you, a house that stands up is still a house, a house that shakes is dangerous, a dangerous house needs demolition, and for demolition, you need a reliable manager. The master is the most reliable—of course, the professional skills of the construction team are also crucial. We had a big project in the Soul Wilderness, and the establishment of Valhalla only took seven days, including a weekend off..."

"You have the nerve to mention that big project of yours," Erin said with arms akimbo, glaring at the C-type buckle which no longer had the C-type buckle, "Every time I go over, I see your people squabbling over a pile of crooked building debris. If they even had a doodle as a construction diagram, they’d be a gold-rated team..."

Luna responded with a self-assured tone: "Where do you think our rich demolition experience comes from?"

Erin: "...?"

Red listened to the chattering by her side, hearing the rumbling of large-scale construction activities on the square. For a moment, she didn’t speak. Instead, a sense of... unreality welled up within her.

She had never thought that this "nightmare" which had troubled her for so many long years would have such a scene, never had she imagined that things would turn out like this one day. The current situation seemed a bit bizarre, a bit absurd, even somewhat comical, but somehow... not entirely bad?

She raised her head, looking at the moon that had already grown more than a ring larger in her view.

The time was almost upon them. Soon, the entire town would be submerged in magnificent moonlight, and then those things sleeping in the earth would awaken, the church would awaken, just as it had repeated countless times before.

For a long time, she never understood what meaning lay behind all this, didn’t know what secrets those murmuring monsters and the howling church ultimately wished to reveal to her.

In the long years past, she had tried actions before the church awakened, wasn’t that she hadn’t tried her best to destroy that revived building. In fact, she even succeeded once—through some ingenious arrangements, she had also made that church collapse. However, all those efforts would eventually end in the scorching of that moonlight.

She couldn’t resist the Blood Moon, whether it was that real moon in the sky or the little moon parasitizing inside the church gate.

The ground beneath her feet trembled slightly, the moonlight overhead grew ever brighter, and a faint scraping sound emerged in the darkness surrounding the square, like earth traveling within earth, rocks growing within rocks.

The small town was awakening, and the things hidden within the earth were gradually coming to life.

A Guard Knight standing on a nearby rooftop shouted a warning: "Attention! Something is coming from the intersections by the church’s wings!"

"Living beings are appearing on both sides of the main road!"

"An active target detected at the crossroads!"

Dorothy waved her command knife.

Three flares shot high into the sky, momentarily lighting up half of the town like daylight.

Countless wobbling grotesque constructs appeared at various intersections.

Then they stepped onto the anti-personnel mines laid around the square.

"Boom boom boom!"

The continuous roar broke the "routine cycle" repeated countless times in this Dream Realm. The first wave of mud monsters surging towards the church area was blown into the sky by the anti-personnel mines before they could set foot on the square.

Next came the ear-piercing howl of the coaxial machine gun.

A few "Lion" heavy tanks, pre-arranged on one side of the square, activated their secondary weapons. In the gradually descending flare light, the heavy machine guns roared, raining a barrage on all mud monsters that dared to cross the minefield. The metal sappers of the demolition squad also joined the fight, using the tanks as cover, they began sweeping the battlefield with their submachine guns.

On the other side of the square, Luna was already leading the Knight Order towards the other two intersections.

The Saintess and Knights moved like the wind, their swords and spears glistening with cold light under the moonlight. Though the mud monsters weren’t slow, they were as easy to deal with as fixed targets in front of them.

Monsters surged from the ruins of nearby buildings, often only managing to show their heads before being sliced into pieces by a sword or axe cutting down at them.

Erin swung her rapier and rushed in to join the fray, using her "Adult Chimpanzee Sword Technique" to weave through the Valhalla Corps warriors.

Frankly speaking, the Puppet Lady has some strength and agility on general battlefields, but she falls behind in the rhythm among Valhalla Corps members who hone their combat skills day and night, especially in their Soul Wilderness. If those Artificial Saintess and Knights exerted even a bit of their usual prowess, she would surely miss out on scoring any kills.

Yet, she still slashed with mud splattering about—because there were always people deliberately letting her.

Yu Sheng did not join the battle.

Not just him, Hu Li beside him also remained inactive.

They were staring intently at the dilapidated church still quietly standing in the square, awaiting the awakening of the giant beast.

Then, the blood-red moon hanging between the clouds and mist enlarged again.

Glorious red moonlight illuminated the earth, the gigantic moon domineeringly filled the sky. A low buzzing sound echoed, seemingly carrying a power that shook the Mind.

Hu Li raised his head, watching the giant moon above the church, the moonlight reflecting in his golden-red eyes.

"It’s so beautiful, Savior~"

"Stop admiring its beauty, the church is stirring!"

Just as Yu Sheng said, the church mutation suddenly occurred.

Accompanied by a dull rumble, the broken church began to shake in the night, cracks appeared on its outer walls, and as moonlight seeped into them, the walls peeled, twisted into limb-like forms.

Dorothy tightened her grip on the command knife, waiting for Yu Sheng’s command.

The church started to rise, the mutated door moved across its wall. Explosives fell out from the building with the wall’s deformation, but more explosive devices were instead integrated into the fabric of the church as it awoke.

The blood color descended like a veil from the sky, gently draping over the church, as if crowned by the moonlight. This terrifying monster emitted a deep rumble, its top peered downward, the door serving as its face slowly opened sideways, a small bright red moon floated inside the pitch-black doorway, the moonlight pulsating and writhing.

Then seven main cannons fired right at its "head."

With a gesture from Yu Sheng, the "Lion" heavy tanks at the square’s edge roared with artillery fire, accompanied by a series of deafening explosions!

The thunderous sounds shook the entire town, countless explosive devices activated remotely, detonating from the church’s outer walls to its transformed supporting structure, and from its base to the depths of its architectural structure — countless explosions, countless flashes!