Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 763 - 635: The Corpse Takes Shape

Chapter 763: Chapter 635: The Corpse Takes Shape

Pan Ruiyi heavily fell to the ground, with her blood flowing slower and slower.

The coldness made her feel heartbroken and exhausted, as if she were carrying tens of thousands of tons on her back, the coldness bending the rules of matter piercing through her armor, inflicting harsh torture upon her.

She lay in the snow, her once proud Iron Wings unable to flutter, even breathing was extremely difficult.

"Pan Ruiyi! How are you?" Aledy’s voice rang inside the armor, "Chika Island is ready for an air strike!"

"I—," Pan Ruiyi was just about to respond when she saw hundreds of warning symbols pop up on the inner virtual panel. Although unclear about their individual meanings, she guessed that it meant the various functions of her armor were going offline.

And Aledy’s voice no longer sounded.

Pan Ruiyi was left alone in the midst of the snowstorm, where the wind was unending and the frost bone-chilling.

Was something damaged when landing? Or did the strong magnetic field affect the instruments? Pan Ruiyi couldn’t tell. Everything related to the giant Corpse Dragon was unpredictable.

She struggled to persevere, switching the helmet’s face mask from closed mode to transparent so that she could see the outside world through the bulletproof glass.

The hair on the back of her neck stood up as Pan Ruiyi saw a giant shadow approaching. She desperately looked up and shakily grabbed the spear in her hand.

The Corpse Dragon was upon her.

Inferior dragons were no different from wild beasts, pure-blooded young dragons of the Dragon Clan were as brave and good at fighting as Wei Shiyue, but what was this in front of her?

It was almost ridiculously large, verging on a spectacle. Pan Ruiyi struggled to rise, taking deep breaths. Its ghastly wings covered her entire field of vision, endless at a glance, with a hollow body full of frosty ribs, its size comparable to a skyscraper, capable of destroying cities with earthquakes just by moving.

It was too big...

Pan Ruiyi could feel a dual fear, one from the dragon’s oppressive presence, the other from the endless frost she felt.

Dragons needed two to three thousand years to grow to this size, and to persist for countless centuries after death, then to be driven by the mysterious Frost Core, and finally to appear before Pan Ruiyi wrapped in a chill of ice.

Beside the Corpse Dragon, there were countless Frost Giants pressing on angrily and fearlessly, imposing and savage, ready to smash Yibei City into pieces. More terrifying shadows lurked behind them, even larger than their kin.

The giant Corpse Dragon had to be killed... it had descended to the ground. Pan Ruiyi thought quietly to herself.

If the most powerful among these creatures could be taken down, the rest would be of little concern.

Pan Ruiyi clenched her teeth, trekking forward through the snowdrifts solely by force of will.

Within the depth of the Corpse Dragon’s breastbone shone an interweaving blue-gray Frost Core, sustaining the vast frozen domain around it.

It lacked the responses of a living thing, it did not breathe, it made no superfluous movements, all the more stiff and eerie.

Just as Pan Ruiyi lifted her spear in an attempt to throw it, the dragon suddenly moved, a cold light shining from its porous throat. It sprayed a cloud of frost from between its ugly bone teeth, sweeping straight toward Pan Ruiyi.

The area was so vast that it completely covered Pan Ruiyi and all the land around her; she found no escape.

"Hiss—" Pan Ruiyi gritted her teeth, her eyes wide open, her body still in the posture of trying to throw the spear, completely frozen in place.

She drove her magic power, struggling to resist the chill, to prevent it from taking away her will completely.

Don’t fall asleep, don’t faint, don’t die... she kept reminding herself.

The Corpse Dragon advanced, sweeping its mighty claws. Pan Ruiyi activated her magic, whirling her spear in an attempt to block.

Bang!

She caught it! Amidst the impact of the giant claw, Pan Ruiyi’s spear hummed, its magic blade on the tip flickering instantly, leaving a scratch on the Corpse Dragon’s paw. Her body also withstood the strike’s might, retreating several steps to the side, not to be crushed in an instant.

Then the Corpse Dragon leaned forward, with the momentum of its charge, it lifted another claw and smashed it down at Pan Ruiyi.

With her body stiff, Pan Ruiyi mustered all her strength to counter with her spear. With an explosion, the Corpse Dragon’s ferocious blow collided with Pan Ruiyi’s strike once more, and she forcefully pried open the dragon’s claw.

Pan Ruiyi’s Close Combat Victory magic allowed her to remain undefeated in close combat; it was this power that kept her standing before the Corpse Dragon—that otherwise, just those two strikes would have crushed her into pieces.

That was close, Pan Ruiyi mumbled to herself.

This is... a dragon that has lived for thousands of years! With a mythic stature, Wei Shiyue compared to it seemed like a dragon whelp just learning to speak.

Pan Ruiyi looked up at the giant dragon skeleton, feeling disheartened for the first time.

If it were ordinary mortals and war machines, they would have frozen to death in the approach to the Corpse Dragon. If it were a High-Ranking Witch like 102, she would have been crushed in one blow by the dragon.

As a Dominator Witch, Pan Ruiyi could remain standing, but defeat was only a matter of time.

It was fortunate that 102 was focused on breaking through to become a Dominator Witch and did not participate in this battle; otherwise, with her nature of charging into the front, she would have been ripped to pieces by the Corpse Dragon.

But Pan Ruiyi was also at the end of her tether.

Lady Farosa—she lifted her head; night had fallen, and the sky was dotted with stars, which made her hallucinate about Lady Farosa’s Star River Domain.

Could it be that Lady Farosa has just given up on her, just like that?

Fear, like a spider, climbed up Pan Ruiyi’s back. Her heart rate was gradually slowing under the effect of the cold, her magic power reserves were down to less than half, and once the magic power was exhausted, she would not even have the right to stand before the Corpse Dragon.

The Corpse Dragon did not let out any roars, it simply fought under the manipulation of the Frost Core.

Pan Ruiyi gazed at the faint ice fog in the chest cavity of the Corpse Dragon, aware that behind it there must be a controller, a more powerful figure orchestrating from the shadows, not only manipulating this mythic corpse that held thousands of years of power into a frost walk corpse but also creating so many Frost Giants eager to destroy human lives.

Once again, the Corpse Dragon slammed down its claws.

Pan Ruiyi was not in a good state. The wider the gap in combat power with her opponent, the more magic power it took to maintain the principle of "Close Combat Victory."

At this moment, she raised her spear again, aiming for a perfect counter against the Corpse Dragon’s claws, deflecting its attack, but at the same time, she expended a great deal of her magic power.

It hesitated now, observing Pan Ruiyi, as if the master of the Frost Core had also noticed something peculiar about her.

Even though Pan Ruiyi was clearly in a losing position under the reduction of countless conditions, she managed to repeatedly block or destroy the Corpse Dragon’s attacks.

Only Pan Ruiyi herself knew that she was running out of magic power.

If Pan Ruiyi were a Supreme Witch, she would have enough magic power reserves to defeat such a powerful enemy.

Now, with just the power of a Dominator, at most she could gain a few advantages in combat, unable to accumulate them into an overwhelming victory.

The Corpse Dragon still had plenty of strength left and sensing that Pan Ruiyi was running low on magic power, it charged forward again, its gaping maw snapping at Pan Ruiyi.

Bang!

Ultimately, she had crossed beyond Pan Ruiyi’s limits.

She felt the sharp teeth pierce through her armor, her internal organs cracking under the pressure of the dragon’s teeth.

Pan Ruiyi vomited blood from her mouth, watching the blood she coughed onto the visor inside her helmet quickly darken, then freeze.

Even herself—was there such a moment?

Immediately after, she felt herself flung into the air and rolled onto the snowy ground.

She felt her blood slowly fill her shattered armor, her eyes rolling back, dragging her spear with a few deformed fingers.

Pan Ruiyi heard the thunderous footsteps approaching her, the Frost Giants were coming towards her.

Extreme fear surged in her heart.

Oh, Lady Farosa... Lady Farosa... Pan Ruiyi raised her hand to look at the night sky descending, the stars rising.

Blood mixed with tears flooded her cheeks.

She would never make a mistake again.

Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me, please, come save me.

...

Elsewhere, on the defensive lines outside the city, Nestor Corporation’s soldiers were on high alert, using giant engineering machines to dig trenches in the deep snow of the open fields to trap the Frost Giants—even those of their size would fall into the pits.

"Look!"

"The Frost Giants have appeared!"

"On the horizon—riding the snowstorm over here!"

The soldiers of Nestor Corporation remained at their combat positions, ready for battle.

Each unit had 40% Synthetic Humans and combat robots, with various types of ammunition transported to the front line by drones from the rear.

At least a thousand Frost Giants were on the northern defensive line.

The exhilarating roar of fighter jets sounded from behind, as approximately 48 aircraft formed a bombing formation flew over from high altitude, unleashing numerous powerful ground missiles towards the cluster of Frost Giants, loaded with incendiary agents, explosives, and special attack ammunition.

Boom boom—

The soldiers witnessed the thrilling bombardment and explosions in the distance. Under the assault of large-scale modern weapons from the air, the Frost Giants were being blasted and destroyed in droves.

Thanks to perfect support from the battlefield network connections, all weapons and air-strike directives were optimally scheduled, with an efficiency of 100%, none of the ammunition went off course, and none was wasted.

Especially the use of custom thermobaric bombs, when the fighter jets dropped these ultimate weapons, an overwhelming blast effect instantly ripped a massive gap in the formation of Frost Giants.

As if a wave of heat exploded from the center, a glowing ball of fire rose from the ground to the sky, engulfing all the Frost Giants within reach in flames, burning them to ashes within seconds! The destruction was highly effective! Even the resulting shockwave pushed nearby Frost Giants away.

A large number of heavy tanks and military shuttle machines pushed forward from the rear to the front line, arming the defense to the teeth.

Boom boom! Boom boom!

Countless firepower was unleashed, with Nestor Corporation’s prided Iron Arms coming into play at this moment, at least 650 cannons of various sizes thundered simultaneously, countless shells were relentlessly launched overhead to the Frost Giants, turning the snow on their paths of attack into ash, leaving behind vast scorched earth!

The soldiers looked out into the distance, clenched their teeth with the hope of victory.

After the smoke had cleared, several larger Frost Giants emerged, far stronger than the previous smaller ones.