Magic? My Iron Torrent will sweep it all away!

Chapter 521 The Demise of the Freedom Dungeon

The brutal retreat began.

Mars and a group of politicians and technicians, surrounded by a squad of elite special forces soldiers, raced toward the fifth tunnel at the very edge of the underground city.

When they ran out of bullets, the soldiers pulled out their knives and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

When their defenses were breached, they detonated their grenades, perishing together with the onrushing demons.

Even dust can hold sparks. Unfortunately, under the crushing power of absolute force, the sparks could not ignite a prairie fire and were instantly swallowed up by the black tide formed by the demons.

Mars didn't look back once; he knew that once he stopped, he would never be able to move forward again.

The group finally rushed into the entrance of the fifth tunnel.

"Blow up the entrance!" he roared as he jumped into the SUV.

Boom!

With a deafening roar, tons of explosives planted at the tunnel entrance detonated, and thousands of tons of rubble collapsed, completely blocking the tunnel entrance.

This created a partition wall that was fifty meters thick.

We're safe for now.

Mars slumped in the back seat, panting heavily, his entire body drenched in cold sweat.

The convoy sped wildly through the narrow, dark tunnel, the roar of their engines echoing between the rock walls.

"Construction team! How much further ahead?!" Mars picked up the vehicle's walkie-talkie.

A buzzing sound of electricity and the frantic roar of an excavator came through the walkie-talkie:

"Sir, sir! We're in trouble!"

"The last sixty meters were through a high-density granite layer; the tunnel boring machine's drill bit completely broke!"

"I don't care what method you use! If the drill bit breaks, use explosives to blast it open!"

"But sir, a forced blast could very likely cause a complete collapse, and we will..."

"Fuck! You're talking to me about a landslide?!" Mars' eyes were bloodshot.

"Do you know that hundreds of thousands of monsters are digging through rocks and chasing after us?"

"If we can't dig through it in half an hour, we'll all turn into a pile of excrement!"

"...Roger that! Demolition in progress!"

Ten minutes later, the car in front suddenly braked hard, its tires screeching loudly.

"What's going on?!"

"Sir... we can't get through..." the driver said, his voice trembling with tears.

Mars jumped out of the car and took a look; his heart sank instantly.

The tunnel ahead has suffered a severe partial collapse due to the violent directional blasting that just occurred.

Several massive boulders, each weighing over ten tons, were firmly stuck in the middle of the road, making it impossible for vehicles to pass.

"Abandon the car! Run on foot!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Mars led the remaining two hundred or so men and began to climb up the steep tunnel, using both hands and feet.

After an unknown amount of time, a chilling "rustling" sound came from behind the tunnel.

That was the sound of countless sharp claws scraping against the rock wall.

Then came the dull thud of the stone being turned over.

The demons dug through the fifty-meter-thick partition wall.

"Sir! They're catching up!" Several soldiers at the back turned around in alarm.

At the end of the flashlight beam, countless eyes, reflecting a blood-red light, were climbing upwards at an extremely fast speed!

"Fire!"

The few dozen remaining soldiers immediately turned around and began firing, using the rocks as cover.

The sound of gunfire echoed through the tunnel, but it lasted for less than two minutes before being completely drowned out by the sharp roars of the demons.

A series of piercing screams rang out, and red lights surged up like a tide.

The distance has been reduced to 300 meters... 200 meters!

Mars stopped in his tracks.

The construction team's voices came through the walkie-talkie in despair:

"Sir... the rock layer is too thick, we've run out of explosives... fifty meters left..."

Fifty meters, at this moment, became an insurmountable chasm of despair.

Can't run away.

Mars looked at the wounded soldiers around him, their eyes glazed over and their weapons down, and the trembling politicians.

He looked down at the detonator he was holding in his hand.

There are still four green lights on above; these are the last four nuclear bomb vehicles that followed the evacuation.

"Hehe... Hahaha..."

Mars suddenly burst into a bitter laugh, a laugh that was both desolate and absurd.

"I've schemed against Great Xia my whole life, guarding against Dongfeng Express's land-washing tactics and space-based weapon strikes..."

"In the end, without even seeing the enemy's face, he was about to die in the mouth of a group of monsters that crawled out from some unknown dimension."

The foremost demon had already pounced fifty meters away, its mouthparts dripping with strong acid, staring excitedly at the delicious two-legged creature.

Mars took a deep breath of the stale air.

It smelled awful, but it was the last bite.

His thumb pressed the detonation button again.

"See you in hell, everyone."

Click.

The four green lights went out instantly.

The nuclear explosion erupted within a narrow rock formation.

Extreme light and heat devoured everything in a fraction of a second.

Monsters, remnants of soldiers, granite, along with Mars's endless ambition and fear, all vaporized before the destructive power of dimensional reduction.

In the last moment before the light robbed him of his consciousness, Mars vaguely recalled the day the Liberty was completed.

Standing in the central square, pointing to the huge LED artificial blue sky overhead, he delivered a spirited speech:

"This is the new lighthouse!"

"This will be the new center of Earth!"

Unfortunately, the lighthouse didn't stay lit for long before it was blown away by the hellish winds, leaving not even ashes.

"BOOM!!!"

A massive explosion occurred inside the tunnel.

At this point, the tunnel was only a few dozen meters thick from the ground, and the explosion's fireball directly ripped away the frozen soil on the surface, shooting straight into the sky.

A mushroom cloud bloomed in mid-air, and a fierce shockwave swept across the surrounding plains.

On the thick ice surface all around, countless tiny cracks broke open amidst a dense crackling sound, spreading outwards into the distance.

A few seconds later, everything returned to calm.

Only the biting cold wind continues to howl relentlessly across this planet.

The mushroom cloud slowly dissipated in the cold wind, signifying the demise of the Eagle Nation's Freedom Underground City.

However, the warnings and disasters it brought to Earth have only just begun.

........

Deep within the ruins of the Liberty.

Kogas' massive body crashed through three layers of load-bearing concrete, his expression one of extreme impatience.

He hates the damn crypt!

Amidst the rumbling noise, he managed to stand up straight.

Yax flew over and hovered beside it, holding a tablet computer in its hand.

On the shattered screen was a map showing the distribution of underground cities across the entire planet Earth.

The map shows flashing dots, with the core area being the area with the strongest red light and the largest matrix.

It sits firmly on the other side of the blue planet, beneath the distant Arctic glaciers.

Yax couldn't understand the bolded warning characters next to it.

But this blinding red star symbol represents absolute authority and force in the context of any cosmic civilization.

That's where the true ruler of this planet is!

Ax grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth, and looked up at the mountain-like demon god.

"Demon God, we've found you."