The Creators: From Night City

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The three local hunters had been swimming in the cesspool of Yharnam for a long time and could be considered true local veterans. They couldn't interfere with the overall strategy, but they were still good at filling in the gaps.

The 'Apostles' were overwhelmingly superior in both manpower and weaponry to deal with this village, which was still in the Victorian era of weaponry. The only thing they needed to be wary of was the intervention of the 'Ancient God'.

Fortunately, the forces in power also exist on our side.

After discussion, the battle plan was quickly finalized.

The battle in the dream quickly began.

Yahage is located on the northeastern edge of the city of Yarnam, nestled in a naturally formed, steep rift valley.

Initially, this was just a village. Later, the entrance to an ancient underground palace of the Sumerian civilization was discovered here. As the Healing Church expanded its influence, the development of the Sumerian underground palace became increasingly popular. The large-scale settlement of people and the construction of numerous buildings transformed this place into a bustling small town.

Later, the Mensis school selected this area, which was closely connected to the underground labyrinth, and transformed it into a secret stronghold for performing forbidden rituals.

Of course, this is mainly because their target—the body of 'Mago ​​the Unborn'—is buried here.

Because the Mensis school was extremely secretive, Ahab was gradually "erased" from the map under their intervention, and many passages leading to the place were blocked. It could only be reached through hidden passages or special teleportation methods, hence the name "The Village of the Unseen".

The ghost train roared in and stopped outside the village.

This time, it is filled with 'destruction'.

Chapter 835 Heavy Firepower Doesn't Believe in Beast Transformation Disease

As the carriage doors opened, dozens of fully armed 'Apostles' quickly disembarked, dispersed, and formed a defensive formation, guarding against any potential enemy attacks.

But they clearly overestimated the military skills of these fanatical cultists.

There was no reconnaissance, no ambush, no sentry posts; the entire village was quiet, and no one reacted to these uninvited guests.

Raven did not act as the vanguard. On the contrary, as one of only three 'natives' in the entire team, her task was crucial. She needed to safeguard the core of the entire spirit squad, the feathered serpent lantern.

The entire 'Yarn' is a giant dream. People in the real world who want to enter this place either choose to enter the dream or have to use other means to sneak in.

Matter cannot exist in this world; only the spirit, or the soul, can enter.

The Chaos Witches would normally find it difficult to come up with a corresponding 'smuggling' plan in a short time, but fortunately, the Anti-Entropy faction is always full of talented people.

Jiang Bing pulled Klara aside and held a brief technical meeting with Rasmar, who was busy training the 'Witcher'. Under the earnest guidance of this expert in manipulating souls, the relevant difficulties were quickly resolved.

But 'Yanan' is not 'Rumi' after all. For an unclaimed spirit to exist in someone else's dream for a long time, it must have a source of power to sustain its existence.

The 'Yanan' that has been corrupted by the ancient gods will obviously not provide support for these 'stinking outsiders', so Boss Jiang has to foot the bill.

Fortunately, he has a large and powerful family, but his power has not yet been projected into 'Yarnan'. To maintain the spiritual existence of the 'Apostles', he can only use a 'portable power bank' to increase their endurance.

The feathered serpent lantern in the crow's hand is the node through which Jiang Bing projects his power, and it is also the most important core of the entire combat team.

The three veteran hunters' main objective on this trip was to fulfill their roles as 'lamp bearers' and 'lamp protectors'.

Logically speaking, when a group of golden warriors, each over two meters tall and clad in power armor, escorted two tanks that resembled steel houses as they charged toward the enemy, they should have received some feedback.

It could be a gasp, a scream, an alarm bell, or even a retaliatory barrage of bullets or spells.

But none of this happened; the entire city of Ahaj was like a ghost town, its outskirts deserted and devoid of any living creature.

But the surrounding environment alone is enough to terrify ordinary people.

Upon entering Ahag, the first thing visitors notice is a suffocating mix of red and gray, two hues that blanket the entire village.

The moon above everyone's heads had turned a deep crimson, as if it were smeared with blood. This was exactly what Master William had said: after Jiang Bing erased 'Stupid Spider Rom', the phases of the moon that He had locked onto began to shift again, and the blood moon rose high.

This also means that the time for the ancient gods to 'procreate' has finally arrived.

Under the glow of the blood moon, everything was bathed in an ominous, dark red light, like congealed blood. The thick fog that filled the village was twisted into a huge, blood-red vortex, drifting aimlessly and without a fixed form.

The crow held up its lantern, and the tiny candlelight, unusually, resembled a miniature sun, illuminating the space within a radius of nearly a hundred meters with crystal clarity. The ethereal, swirling mist, upon encountering this dazzling light, was instantly evaporated like snow under the blazing sun.

Lighting a torch in the dark forest is tantamount to exposing oneself to the enemy's blade, a foolish act, so hunters often hunt in the dark.

But the current situation is different; everyone is hoping that someone will blindly stumble upon them.

As they walked towards the crowd, the dazzling lights illuminated the surrounding buildings as if it were daytime, revealing the true nature of Ahak to them.

This village has become a hell.

The walls on both sides of the road are not made of brick or stone, but are haphazardly piled up with pale bones and dark brown congealed blood clots. The surface is covered with vein-like patterns that are still slightly wriggling, and they gleam with a deathly gray color under the light.

Metal prison vans used to abduct people from the outside world can be seen everywhere on the wide streets. These vans are soaked in old bloodstains and smell of rust.

Torn corpses were scattered throughout the streets, randomly pieced together to form blasphemous totems, or haphazardly piled together to create small mounds of corpses.

Meanwhile, a large number of wild dogs with wild, tangled fur like weeds were crawling among the corpses, gnawing away, their bodies and mouths covered in blood.

From a distance, they could smell the foreign scent that didn't belong to Ahab, and immediately turned and began barking wildly at the group.

The barking of dogs finally awakened the town, and a large number of villagers wearing top hats and carrying long-barreled muskets emerged from the streets, alleys, and houses on both sides.

The commando team finally found Ahagiri alive.

Of course, if they can still be called human beings.

Extensive wild animal fur covered their bare cheeks and palms, and their eyes had long since turned blood red, like the color of the blood moon hanging high in the sky.

Without any warning, the villagers raised their muskets and opened fire on the crowd.

The slow-moving mercury bullets struck the power armor of the 'Apostles' and shattered into dust in vain, leaving not even a mark of impact.

The armor forged by 'craftsmen' in the spiritual realm is even more powerful than that in the material realm.

The battle commenced with a thunderous roar.

A crazed, beast-like patient, brandishing a machete, burst out from the nearest alley, but before he could even get close to the apostles in front of him, he was blasted into a pile of bloody fragments by a bomb fired by the 'Witcher,' which splattered all over the walls and the ground.

A frenzied appearance, twisted limbs, beastly strength, bloodthirsty fighting style, insane will, tenacious vitality—all these combined with the corruption from those in power make them truly deadly to ordinary people.

But these dangers are nothing compared to the formidable armor and cannons.

Even inhuman bodies are still made of flesh and blood, and flesh and blood creatures will ultimately succumb to the power of modern explosives.

All carbon-based life forms are under the jurisdiction of the holy Gatling Bodhisattva.

Ahag was so bustling that it didn't seem like a village, but rather like a small town.

The buildings on both sides of the road are so tall that they are comparable to those in the Yharnam Center.

However, these exquisite Victorian-style buildings were completely destroyed by a barrage of bombs.

To be honest, the villagers of Yahag were just like those of Yharnam; their concept of war was still stuck in the era of flintlock muskets. The most powerful weapons they had were incendiary bombs made of liquor and blood. They had never seen the sophisticated war weapons of later generations.

After firing their guns, they habitually cowered behind the carved stone railings to reload, mistakenly believing that the sturdy railings in front of them could protect them from enemy musket fire.

The railings can indeed block the flintlock rifles commonly used by hunters, but they certainly cannot stop the 'Apostles' heavy explosive rounds with a minimum caliber of 40mm.

The railings and the enemy were pulverized in the explosion, and bodies and cover went to their deaths together.

The enemies hiding behind the wall were in for a treat; the 145mm main gun of the [Heavenly Punishment] tank gave them their first taste of what it meant to fly.

Indiscriminate bombardment!

Heavy firepower doesn't believe in 'beast disease', and the 'craftsman's' handcrafted high-energy mixed explosives also don't believe in corruption.

Chapter 836 Progress

The group was solely focused on leveling Ahab, so they had no intention of engaging in street fighting or close-quarters combat indoors.

The moment you see an enemy hiding in a house, the next second a tank's main gun will be there to take them down, and the house will collapse.

Compared to the villagers who were shooting from the shadows, the ones that had the greatest impact on everyone were the several rabid dogs covered in blood.

At least under the cover of their swift movements and small size, two wild dogs successfully approached the 'Apostles' battle formation, only to leave a few teeth marks on the 'Dragon Scale' armor plates in vain, before being crushed into dog pancakes by 50-yard-long feet.

A large number of specially designed drones were launched by the 'Heavenly Punishment' tanks and began to scout deep into the village. However, as soon as these drones left the range of the light and entered the fog, the signals they transmitted were greatly weakened, as if the blood fog could shield electromagnetic signals.

Fortunately, the drones conducting high-altitude reconnaissance within the range of the firelight had already provided them with a wealth of intelligence about the village.

They discovered a building that appeared to be a research hall or a college building.

This is also the most luxurious building in Ahago.

Needless to say, that place is most likely the stronghold of the Mensis school.

The team began to advance towards their goal.

Beside a wide street, a heavy iron gate divides Ahark into two worlds.

Inside the gate, a large number of villagers, who had been severely 'beast-like', were kneeling and praying to the blood moon in the sky.

Outside the door was the commando team that had already penetrated deep into the town.

Facing the metal gate, the 'Heavenly Punishment' tank opened fire, blasting the stone door framed with iron into countless fragments.

The large iron gate collapsed with a crash.

The battle finally reached its climax.

A 145mm fragmentation shell was fired from the cannon of the "Heavenly Punishment" tank, landing in the crowd and creating a bloody flower.

The explosion blasted a two-meter-wide crater into the stone pavement, and metal fragments riddled all enemies within a twenty-meter radius with holes.

But apart from the dozen or so villagers who were closest to the scene, the other villagers who had lost limbs, had their bellies ripped open by shrapnel, and had incredibly strange ideas were still able to get up from the ground.

A mere fatal wound is nothing to 'Old Yanan's' grandfather.

The 'Beastification Disease' robbed them of their normal reason, replacing their normal thinking with a murderous and bloodthirsty impulse, and also endowed them with inhuman vitality.

The sharp, ringing bell that came from an unknown place covered their bodies with a thin layer of blood-red mist, further enhancing their physical abilities.

The bell's sharp sound carried a sinister undertone; it not only reinforced the enemy but also had a negative impact on the assault team members who heard it.

The invisible sound waves seemed to have a tangible impact on the area illuminated by the flames, causing a blurry, water-like effect to appear at the boundary between light and darkness.

At the same time, the penetrating sound of a bell is also the best warning.

Eagle wielded a large chainsaw sword, slicing a 'beast-like patient' in half diagonally, before crushing the man's skull with his heavy boots.

He looked at the enemies pouring in from all directions from the streets and alleys of the village and made a decisive decision.

“Find the bell ringers and deal with them.”

The targeted decapitation mission was assigned to the 'Witcher' team.

These warriors, who originated from the dark world, had long since developed similar abilities for pinpoint assassination and elimination through their constant battles against demons.

Compared to the 'Apostles', they are undoubtedly more adept at mobile warfare.

The 12 'witchers' scattered and disappeared into the darkness.

Gunshots began to ring out in waves.

With the aid of their armor, altitude was no obstacle. Following the sound of the bell, the 'witchers' quickly found the bell ringers who were casting spells in various corners.

Like all traditional mages, a single bomb is enough to turn these cloaked, gloomy women into a shower of minced meat.

Although the monsters awakened by the bell in the streets and alleys appear ferocious, their numbers are not large enough to overwhelm the crowd.

Although their crimson coats could multiply their physical strength, allowing them to temporarily withstand explosive bombs with their flesh and blood, the amplification was always limited. At most, it was the difference between being blown to pieces by a single bomb and having half of their body blown to pieces by a single bomb.

The fierce firepower was enough to cover these increases.

The enemy was quickly wiped out and pushed back into the depths of the village by the assault team.

The depths of Ahakam were a unique kind of flesh-and-blood hell.

The fanatical Mensis sect, in its desire to resurrect the ancient gods, would inevitably need to prepare a physical body for their gods to bear consciousness.

The bodies of those in power are not so easy to manufacture, so they devised a method that was utterly inhumane.

The residents of 'Yaran' have all undergone blood therapy, and their bodies contain 'ancient god blood' to varying degrees.

If the quality is insufficient, they plan to see if quantitative change can lead to qualitative change.

Thus, the Mensis school carried out a brutal and inhumane experiment.

They wanted to use a massive number of human bodies to create a suitable body for a 'superior'.

The assault team pushed their way through, eventually inevitably breaking into their testing ground.

Blood, so much blood that it could flood the entire street.

The corpses were piled up in layers, carelessly discarded like garbage.

Only a powerful physique can be chosen as the 'foundation' for becoming a god.