Boonie Bears: Another World Fantasy

Chapter 154: Blood Aurora

Thick smoke blocked my nostrils, and the fire, extinguished by rain and snow, still emitted a burnt smell.

Ahead, having formed an alliance, they have paved a path forward for themselves.

Wave after wave of enemies surged forward like a tide, but the eight "warriors" in their respective fields did not flinch. They worked together, shooting, smashing, and electrocuting, to fight against the entire Deer Clan army.

At this moment, they formed an unbreakable group—

Na Ling broke the silence first, his golden armor skimming low over the broken asphalt, his longsword slicing through a trail of sparks from the wreckage.

Explosive arrows pierced the chests of three soldiers and embedded themselves in the stone wall. Naya performed a backflip in mid-air, nimbly dodging the cavalry's encirclement on the ground. The blast wave ripped away half of the commercial street's archway. Amidst the flying debris, An Han used a broken pillar to leap into the air, her stun baton piercing the unprotected neck of the attacker. The current traveled through her skin, triggering a chain reaction that detonated the man's armor. A cold wind howled past her cheek, and a beam of light between Tuanzi's horns sliced ​​through the open space in front of her, ice snakes leaping and forming a net within the deer army.

During the brief lull, Abu, perched on Salta's shoulder, brandished a weapon twice his size, firing indiscriminately. Scrap metal bullets rained down, enveloping the two men completely in the smoke billowing from the gun.

The last rose window in the mall collapsed with a crash, scattering shards of glass all over the ground.

Okay, Sharp... you can do it.

This is probably the last time.

He took a deep breath, expelled the waste gas from his lungs, and began this brief sprint.

Under the watchful eyes of another, Sharp moved at his fastest speed ever, traversing the entire battlefield and heading straight for Serafina's location.

"As expected... it was unavoidable after all."

Short-haired Sharp leaned against the rickety stairs, below which lay an underground parking garage that had collapsed into a giant crater.

The formation of the wormhole has entered its final stage. The entire opening has begun to twist and deform, and particles are spinning and rubbing against each other in the air, leaving behind red trails.

"However, I respect your choice, Sharp. It's the same choice that countless people in countless worlds have made."

He stepped into the shadows and witnessed his former self making a final effort for this insignificant world.

……

"Stop!" Sharp's roar shattered the clash of weapons. The Queen's long, bright brown hair suddenly froze, the pale gold runes flowing through the strands suspended in mid-air.

There were no guards around her; it was as if she had been waiting for him there on purpose.

“Erafaya… Sharp tore open his blood-stained collar, revealing the antler marks spreading across his collarbone, Your people hope their king will be more rational.

"Hmph..." The Queen revealed a sinister smile.

Serafina's pupils contracted to vertical slits, and a blade of light burst from her fingertips: "The people? No, after the War of Heaven and Earth, there was no such thing as 'the people.' There was only a group of avengers seeking blood for blood."

A faint sound of wind chimes drifted through the air, like a lullaby by a baby's crib.

Sharp stepped forward to meet the blade of light, letting his cheek be cut and bleeding. "What if it comes at the cost of me?"

A sonic boom echoed from high above as the sacred artifact broke the sound barrier. Thousands of deer-like phantoms appeared behind the Queen, their translucent children huddled in the ashes left by the incendiary bombs, their fingertips still clawing upwards.

"Look at these eyes." Serafina's hand swept across the afterimage; the golden stag had reached its highest point, its descent from near-Earth orbit accelerating sharply. "Every pupil reflected human warships and aircraft. Do you know why freefall was chosen? Back then, high explosives fell vertically into every innocent family in this way."

"Rumble--"

The atmosphere hissed. The gloom overhead was dispelled by a golden vortex, and the golden antlers, just like when they first visited this planet tens of thousands of years ago, transformed into a blood-red aurora and a destructive meteor...

Sharp suddenly grabbed the light blade that had pierced his shoulder blade, disregarding the fact that his hand was a bloody mess, and desperately tried to get closer to her.

He should have known that Serafina could ruthlessly slaughter even her own family, let alone a place that the entire Deer Clan hated.

The antlers on the Queen's helmet began to crumble, and the falling fragments burned into ashen ash in the air. Sharp seized the opportunity to step onto the wreckage before her, the various bricks and tiles making a sharp noise under his feet.

&34；听见了吗？&34；他指着她身后的虚影。气浪到达地表的瞬间，这些亡魂的光点汇成银河，&34；这些孩子在哭喊的不是复仇，而是&39；别变成怪物&39；。&34；

As the crown melted, Serafina's bright brown hair was tinged with starlight. She raised her hand to touch Death, and the surface of the golden antlers revealed a dense network of cracks—it wasn't a weapon at all, but a tombstone forged from the antlers of all the fawns that had perished.

"Too late, outsider." Her voice softened, "When it rises to the critical height and then falls, any obstacle becomes meaningless."

&34; You should go and say goodbye to your companions…&34;

Sharp refused to accept defeat. He opened his arms wide to the heatwave, Mavia's nearly burned cloak pulled almost to a ninety-degree angle: "Thousands of witnesses are watching, Your Majesty—will you let them witness you become the murderer who wiped out another civilization, or will you witness the true rebirth of the Deer Clan?"

Serafina remained unmoved. Pale blue liquid seeped from the surface of the rapidly falling golden antlers, but this liquid, which should have been released upon impact, now splattered onto the earth like tears.

When the first "tear" hit Sharp's forehead, the metal weapons on the entire battlefield began to resonate, followed by a complete breakdown of gravity.

Salta's gun exploded, and as Abu rolled off his shoulder, he discovered that all the spent cartridges in his pockets had floated into the air.

"That guy actually..." Na Ling struggled to steady herself. Her golden armor peeled away piece by piece with a resonant sound. She plunged her longsword into the ground, the hilt bursting with an unprecedented icy-blue flame. An Han's feet left the ground, and she thrashed about in the air.

"We're...we're losing weight?!"

"No—" A spiral of light flashed in Naya's eyes, and she stood frozen in fear.

The moment the golden antler broke through the stratosphere, a strange stagnation appeared in the area below it.

"Get cover!!" Naling smashed through the concrete pillar, her sword flashing as she knocked away three deer-tribe cavalrymen who were lunging at Naya. Everyone saw the falling golden speck of light—it trailed the tail of a comet as it pierced through the clouds, leaving a painful afterimage on their retinas.

The final command was swallowed by holy light. When the golden antlers disintegrated three hundred meters above the ground, what erupted was not a beautiful aurora, but a nuclear fireball that crashed down on the deep city. Energy liquid wrapped in ice crystals seeped into the earth, and glowing staghorn ferns instantly bloomed in the cracks of the concrete.

The first shockwave overturned the entire Central Avenue. Naya's necklace spontaneously combusted into ash in mid-air, and Naling grabbed her collar and rolled into the subway tunnel. The protective shield that Tuanzi had formed in front of Zhao Lin and Su Luo crystallized and vaporized in a fraction of a second, the ice crystal fragments refracting the brilliance of the golden relic, reflecting a scene of hell on earth.

The cover in front of them was instantly pulverized.

Sharp was tumbled through the blast wave into the mall ruins. Through the collapsed dome, he saw the surface of the golden antlers begin to peel away. The ancient runes burned and surged toward the earth. The moment the core of the relic touched the ground, a rift was torn open around them—first silence, absolute silence, then a white light that devoured everything.

Abu curled up beneath Salta, the Lyleth suit fully unfurled into a sphere, enveloping them both, the molten red iron from the bullets gradually solidifying. It gripped his bulletproof jacket, and at the same moment, the same shock as before returned.

"Did you hear that? There's another wave!" Abu, covered in dust and dirt, lay motionless, closing his eyes in despair.

Three hundred meters away in the underground parking garage, An Han, with trembling hands, inserted a flashlight into the darkness. She saw Na Ling, clutching her broken right arm, struggling to carry Na Ya out of the sewer. The only one still standing on the surface, Tuanzi, had blood seeping from her forehead; ice crystals evaporated in the high temperature, condensing into tiny ice beads that floated in the air.

"Deep City..." Sharp struggled to emerge halfway from the steel rubble. A golden mushroom cloud rose over the city center. His memory suddenly flashed back to the illusion he had seen in the Golden Antlers: a barrage of artillery shells rained down on the ground, and the entire village of deer people was engulfed by fireballs before they could even escape.

Naya had told him that she hated the dark red sky—

As the second shockwave struck, Serafina's maniacal laughter mingled with the air raid sirens, creating an apocalyptic symphony. Sharp's last sight was the Queen's antlers dissipating into particles of light, and black sleet, coated in ice crystals, slowly descending from the clouds.

......

Shenzhen is located near the sea.

The overwhelming smoke wall toppled the fragile breakwater. Waves piled up, then formed towering, raging torrents that crashed down on the scattered fleet.

"All ships to defensive posture, close all water intakes! All personnel return to the ship immediately!"

The young rear admiral directed the entire ship through the observation window of the island superstructure, while the crest of a wave had already touched the bow of the destroyer.

"Major General Qi! Get out of the way!"

She was only distracted for a brief moment when a colossal wave crashed onto the top of the ship's island. Suzumiya Inori was pushed aside by the approaching figure, and a torrent of seawater slammed into the observation window. Although it didn't shatter, the cracks in the corner of the window and the constantly shaking island were enough to demonstrate its power.

The scent of rose petals wafted from the major general, and Li Yu, somewhat flustered, turned his head to the side before immediately standing up.

"What's wrong, Captain Li?" She straightened her uniform and picked up her navy cap from the ground.

Her coat couldn't conceal the medals plastered on Suzumiya's chest—honor earned during Operation Tombstorm, a glory belonging solely to the destroyer and to her. This was also why she remained so calm after the sinking of the Zhenyue.

"The command center is gone. The communication system hasn't been repaired yet, and the fire control radar is also out of service... However, we're not without options." Suzumiya's gaze fell on the cargo ship behind the fleet—that behemoth hadn't even set sail yet.

"But, Dr. Su Luo..."

“Do as I say, and it won’t be a problem.”

She dismissed Li Yu. She took off her navy gloves, rested her hands on the control panel, and stared at the source of the nuclear explosion.

The once towering skyscrapers of Shenzhen are now reduced to a large expanse of uneven "hills".

Genius Wei,

You and the things you've always promised me.

It's time to deliver.