Chapter 149: The Beast of Prophecy, Part 2
The demonic army had been ordered to seize control of each city. So tens of thousands of warships landed on the ground, preparing to deploy ground troops.
Their main goal was to secure slaves—untouched, unharmed—but there was also the need to land and harvest energy.
Numerous warships descended upon southeastern China, where the population density was highest.
To secure energy, they’d need to drill all the way to the planet’s core and install a device that converted heat into power.
Warships carrying those devices landed, surrounded by escort ships.
From the escort ships emerged armored vehicles and large, tiger-like mechanized beasts. Tens of thousands of soldiers, each wielding a gun, advanced in formation.
"Preparations complete. The enemy’s civilians seem to have evacuated. Resistance is minimal. I estimate the city will be fully under our control within half a day."
"How’s the drilling coming?"
"Should be finished in about half a day, too."
The demon general, Jimimai, assigned to this unit, felt no anxiety about the ground assault. He was just doing his job—nothing more.
But moments after touching down, Jimimai would bitterly regret every second of it.
"Northwest! A pillar of light is rising!"
"A pillar of light?"
Jimimai didn’t understand what was happening—until the report from the ground troops reached him, and the gravity of it hit him.
"Something’s wrong! The ground… the ground is turning into magma!"
"Magma? What are you talking about?"
The voice on the line was his subordinate—but through the static, a scream pierced through. Something unimaginable was happening out there.
"What… what in the world… is this…?"
"Emergency! A giant… a giant is emerging from the light!!"
Jimmye checked the monitor—and there it was, an impossibly massive giant. Lava oozing from its body, each step shaking the earth.
"Impossible… is that the 'Divine Omen Beast'…?"
"I-it's heading this way! What do we do!?"
For a split second, Jimmye froze—but defying the Demon God King’s orders? No way. Retreat wasn’t an option. No matter what, this ground force had to hold.
"Broadcast to all ships! Full-scale assault on that giant!!"
The warships fired in unison, their shells hitting the 300-meter-tall giant. Over five hundred warships firing at once—explosions erupted, shrouding the giant in smoke.
"Did we get it…?"
Jimmye held his breath, waiting for the giant to fall—but the red giant stepped calmly out of the smoke, as if nothing had happened.
The giant plunged its hand into a magma pool on the ground and pulled out a colossal axe.
Red-hot magma dripped from the blade, steam rising from the intense heat. The giant stepped forward toward the cluster of warships and escort vessels landed on the surface.
"It's coming this way! Should we evacuate!?"
"Too late now! And fleeing, defying the Wang’s orders? Never. Stop that giant’s feet—no matter what!"
The warships and escort vessels unleashed every shell they had, raining fire on the giant. But the giant’s feet didn’t stop. As it got closer, it raised the axe high.
"Ah! No! Stop!!"
The giant swung the axe down—and the ground exploded.
The blast hurled molten rock skyward, reaching kilometers high. In one instant, tens of thousands of warships—both on the ground and in the air—were obliterated.
The surviving warships are thrown into chaos—completely immobilized.
The giant scooped up molten rock with its massive hand and flung it skyward, directly at the warships still hovering above. The lava shattered midair, fragments raining down and striking the warships like hail.
Even magical barriers were pierced with ease—hundreds of warships plummeted to the ground.
After repeating the throw several times, the giant seemed satisfied, then stepped forward, heading toward another enemy warship landing elsewhere.
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【Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar】
‘…Wait, seriously? This can’t be real…?’
God General Hepeistos was utterly exasperated by the monstrous aberration before him. No matter how many times he attacked, there was no resistance—the enemy’s number of swords kept multiplying.
Hepeistos’s army, ordered by the “Wang” to seize the nearest city, had suddenly been confronted by a black golem appearing out of nowhere.
It was a round, black metallic mass, summoning countless swords around itself.
It darted through the air, one after another, destroying fighter jets and warships. Hepeistos couldn’t take it anymore—he leapt from his warship to fight directly, but it was clearly hopeless.
The black golem summoned even more swords. Thirty blades now spun around it in a blur.
‘…You’ve gotta be kidding me.’
A massive sword, moving at lightning speed, attacked from multiple angles at once. Hepeistos blocked with his sword, over and over—but each strike was heavy, and he could barely keep up.
He barely found an opening and lunged forward, slashing at the golem—but his blade bounced off. The attack had no effect. Clearly.
Hepeistos stepped back, raising his sword into guard position.
The black golem summoned twenty more swords. Fifty blades hovering above surged toward Hepeistos without mercy.
‘Damn it… took on a shitty job, didn’t I…’
It didn’t take long for the countless blades to slice through the enemy.
After the intruder vanished, the black golem floated upward and summoned another fifty swords. A hundred blades now descended upon both the ground and the warships above.
That day, the demon army was powerless before an unstoppable force.
They, who had once held such dominance, were now cornered. Hepeistos’s fleet, consumed by fear and despair, collapsed without a fight.
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【South China Sea――】
‘What the hell is that pillar of light?’
The demon general Ubal, entrusted with a fleet of 100,000 ships for the invasion, was baffled by the sudden appearance of a massive pillar of light over the sea.
It shouldn’t have been possible. Not in their plans.
‘Any idea what’s going on?’
‘No clue. Sending a quick check—’
At that moment, their own ship rocked violently as it hit the water. Some crew members were thrown from their seats.
‘W-what’s happening!?!’
Glancing at the warship’s monitor, the light above the sea had vanished—replaced by a colossal black mountain rising from the waves. Massive waves crashed, ships collided, and flames erupted.
They didn’t know what that “mountain” was—but from the warships hovering above, its full form was visible.
It was a huge… insect.
Too massive to be of this world. Six legs plunged into the sea, but its body was fully above water.
Watching the footage streamed down from the sky, Ubal and his crew gasped.
‘The Beast of the Prophecy…’
The words spoken by a crew member, but Ubarr felt the same way.
A monster with power beyond imagination... legends say it's a messenger from the gods, or that it exists to maintain balance in the world.
Some say she exists to kill a demon god….
The sight of a legendary monster right in front of them sent the demon army into total panic. And then—
What the—? Something like smoke…?
Smoke was erupting from the monster’s body. At first, I couldn’t make sense of it—then, when the smoke touched the warship, something weird happened.
The warship's armor was melting away at an alarming rate—within seconds, smoke was pouring into the engine room and the helm. The moment the smoke touched my hand—
"Uwaaaaaah!!"
Ubal’s hand melted in an instant—bones exposed. The other crew members were wrapped in smoke, screaming in agony as one after another they died.
Smoke spreads across the entire area—over ten thousand ships sinking into the sea. The smoke reaches the land, dragging in anyone still trying to move on solid ground.
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The creature’s form would be seen by people all over the world—beyond the footage filmed by the Chinese military, even videos shot by ordinary civilians along the coast.
It was the monster, the "insect" that appeared in France and plunged the entire world into terror.
I didn’t understand why the “insect” monsters had shown up again… but what confused people even more was that they looked like they were attacking their own enemies.
The warship out at sea had been wiped out—more and more people began celebrating, cheering that this "monster" had turned on our side.
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Freyja registers the presence of insect-like creatures high above. Doesn’t even glance down at what’s beneath her feet.
Opens her mouth upward.
“———!!”
A subsonic roar beyond sound shatters every warship and fighter in its path—obliterating them all in explosions.
Over ten thousand vessels crash down one after another, slamming into land and sea.
The remaining warships finally sense Freyja’s threat and launch a full-scale assault—but she’s too massive. Their attacks barely register.
Freyja opens her mouth again, unleashing another wave of destruction. No magic barriers, no defense—thousands of warships explode in unison.
The monster that destroys everything takes a single step forward, shifting her massive frame. Just that one movement sends a colossal tsunami rolling across the ocean.
As Freyja’s lower abdomen pulses up and down, the eggs clinging to her back hatch—dozens of monstrous creatures bursting free.
Over ten thousand Killer Bees erupt into motion, streaking through the air at blinding speed, swarming warships and fighters alike.
“Wh-what the hell is this?! Something’s coming from outside!!”
A fighter pilot spots the Killer Bees slamming into the cockpit window.
In an instant, one latches on, jabbing its needle-tipped tail into the glass, injecting a corrosive fluid that melts everything it touches.
“Gyaaaaaah!!”
The pilot and the entire fighter body dissolve—crashing down in a fiery ruin.
Even large warships, overrun by dozens of Killer Bees, explode within minutes, collapsing into the earth.
Freyja shudders, her body trembling as she hatches another batch of eggs—producing the same number of Killer Bees again.
Countless hatches, endless hatching—tens of thousands of Killer Bees fill the sky.
The demonic army, witnessing that sight, could do nothing but despair.
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