Chapter 1 Anxious

Li Zhi’s heart skipped a beat. Although he had been psychologically prepared for the Apostles to personally participate in this war, he still felt extremely nervous and uneasy when the moment actually arrived.

Apostles… the most powerful civilization leaders and the most powerful creatures ever born on Blue Star.

Either of these titles was enough to cast a heavy psychological shadow on anyone.

Not everyone has the courage to fight against such beings.

Although Li Tianran had killed the Sky Apostle, it was because he had taken a clever approach. In a head-on war, it was too difficult to fight against an Apostle.

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Li Zhi felt his heart rate accelerating.

In the huge command room, only the hum of electronic instruments could be heard. All the generals held their breath, their rapid heartbeats clearly audible.

Obviously, no one could remain calm in the face of an Apostle, not even these battle-hardened generals!

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Heavier and heavier breathing echoed in the command room. Li Zhi's eyes fell on the satellite monitoring screen. In the picture, the huge Ocean Apostle twisted its serpentine body as it swam down from the Ark, gradually approaching the defense line.

Its three heads swayed, revealing an extremely human-like smile.

Suddenly, its three heads lifted, its gaze directly towards the satellite.

The Ocean Apostle… is looking at us?

In the command room, many generals were stunned, and then made eye contact with the other party through the satellite.

At the moment of eye contact, everyone felt their bodies stiffen, as if the speed of blood flow had slowed to the extreme, as if their bodies were frozen, and their skin had a pain similar to being cut by a knife!

A chill ran straight from the soles of their feet to their brains.

Including Li Zhi, a terrifying scene emerged in their minds. It seemed that at this moment, they had come to the barbaric era belonging to the Ocean Apostle. They saw a ferocious three-headed giant snake entrenched on the throne of a high mountain, and under this throne, was a boundless mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

"Awoo!"

Suddenly, the giant snake pounced and instantly crushed their bodies into powder.

"Ah!"

A shrill scream echoed through the command hall.

Several staff members fainted on the spot.

At the same time, several intelligent-brain type evolutionaries responsible for the security of the command hall, seeing that something was wrong, immediately released a soft brainwave to interfere with the generals' brain consciousness.

"I… damn it!"

Finally, an angry curse rang out, pulling the generals out of the terrifying illusion. Their bodies were already soaked with cold sweat, and their faces were extremely pale, as if they had just experienced a great battle!

"What happened... I just saw the Ocean Apostle appear in front of me!"

"No, it's not that the Ocean Apostle appeared in front of us, but that we appeared in front of the Ocean Apostle! It pulled us to its side!"

"I'm not dead yet…"

"This is a terrifying illusion!"

After the generals came back to their senses, they realized that they had not been in close contact with the Ocean Apostle, nor had they been abused by it. They quickly realized what had happened to them.

"One of the Ocean Apostle's divine descent abilities… Kingship."

"It can transmit mental pressure to creatures through any medium. The intensity of the mental pressure generated varies depending on the distance and the medium…"

The Ocean Apostle's abilities had already been announced to humans by Li Tianran.

It is a God-Descent Type Second Evolution, with three God-Descent abilities: "Crushing, Roaring, Kingship".

"Crushing: The Ocean Apostle can transmit destructive power to the target through any medium to achieve the purpose of crushing the target. It can be covered and indiscriminately attacked!"

"Roaring: The Ocean Apostle roars. After this effect is activated, it will gradually increase its attack power and cause serious injury to creatures within three kilometers! The serious injury effect will depend on the life force intensity of the affected creatures."

"Kingship: Mental pressure can be transmitted to the target through any medium, and can be covered and indiscriminately attacked!"

The Ocean Apostle's three divine descent abilities are all designed for war.

Its first and second divine descent abilities are very powerful. On the battlefield, it can use air, water, and earth to wantonly transmit attack power. It only needs to pat the earth in place to kill targets several kilometers away through the transmission of air.

And "Roaring" is a clearing skill. While gradually increasing its attack power, it can also severely damage surrounding units.

For example, when the Ocean Apostle is besieged, it can release this skill to easily inflict heavy damage on the besiegers.

With the Ocean Apostle's level of life, the "Roaring" effect it releases is enough to instantly kill ordinary creatures within a three-kilometer radius, severely injure first evolutions, and even second evolution creatures must avoid its edge!

But its most bizarre ability is the third divine descent.

"Kingship," which can transmit mental pressure through any medium!

This any medium includes intangible air, tangible water, soil, and even electronic equipment, mobile phones, computers, and satellites!

Many people may think that this mental pressure is not too strong. After all, it can only be regarded as a rib skill. In addition to causing people to be briefly mentally trance, it does not cause any substantial harm.

But this understanding is wrong.

Most people's understanding of fear and mental pressure only comes from ghosts in some horror movies, and soldiers have seen the bloody rain on the battlefield, and their willpower is more firm.

But… even veterans who have crawled out of the battlefield will feel unusually terrified when facing Apostles, these super-modern creatures!

This fear comes from genes and life levels, and has nothing to do with willpower!

And what does fear cause?

When a person is afraid, the brain will cause the adrenal glands to secrete a large amount of catecholamines, which are neurotransmitters that will cause the heart to beat extremely fast, blood pressure to rise, and myocardial metabolism to consume a large amount of oxygen. The rapidly circulating blood will impact fragile cardiovascular vessels like a flood, eventually leading to tearing of myocardial fibers, bleeding from the heart, and ultimately leading to sudden cardiac arrest and death.

That is, commonly known as… being scared to death.

In countless wars between ancient civilizations and many races, countless creatures died under the Ocean Apostle's "Kingship". Even Li Zhi and the federal generals just now, if they were not far away from the Ocean Apostle and forcibly interfered by the intelligent brain-type evolutionaries, I am afraid their hearts would have been broken by now.

Before a war enters a feverish stage, if one's own commander is directly scared to death in the command post, once this situation occurs, it will cause a devastating blow to the morale of the entire army. The war does not need to be fought, it has already been lost.

"This beast…" Li Zhi gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice, but he never dared to look directly at the Ocean Apostle on the satellite screen again.