Chapter 666: Chapter 354: Are These Humans?

Restricted Area, Frost Shelter.

The fully mountain-built fortress city, reinforced over a century, with energy barriers covering the entire mountain, and internal multi-layered energy barriers, even if the outermost energy barrier is breached, the others can still defend, awaiting the outermost barrier’s recovery, is called an impregnable fortress by many shelters.

At this moment, the multi-layered barriers of Frost Shelter are surrounded by the massive Insect Race army, clouding the sky like locusts, numbering over two hundred thousand, crazily attacking the energy barrier, while inside the shelter, counter-attacks with artillery fire are launched through the barriers.

However, everyone inside Frost Shelter has their eyes not on this army of over two hundred thousand, but almost all focused on the ten-kilometer-long cosmic battleship hovering above the shelter, specifically, the person standing on this cosmic battleship.

That person, over six meters tall, though appearing like a member of the Half-Beast Race, his entire body is covered with eyes, presenting an extremely ominous and terrifying sight.

With the appearance of this man, everyone inside Frost Shelter, be it common citizens or Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, couldn’t help but tense up, especially at the energy tower where three individuals, two men and a woman, sat, their expressions extremely solemn.

"Vanessa, how much Energy Blood Essence do we have left?" asked the white-haired, blue-eyed elder in deep blue battle armor, directing his question to the red-haired woman beside him, who appeared around twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

With the elder’s question, dozens of grandmasters present couldn’t help but turn their gazes towards the red-haired woman, their eyes filled with longing and reverence.

Because the red-haired woman was not only a graceful, otherworldly beauty, but also Frost Shelter’s greatest genius in a century, not yet forty-five years old and already a great grandmaster, her combat level just a step away from the Realm of All Things, she was already slated to be the next City Lord.

"Currently, we have a little over ten thousand." Vanessa replied, her expression slightly troubled.

"Only a little over ten thousand left?" The white-haired, blue-eyed elder couldn’t help but ask, "How soon is the next batch from the refinery due?"

Before the battle began, Frost Shelter had a stockpile of more than a million Energy Blood Essence, and in just over two days, only a little more than ten thousand remained; the intensity of the battle greatly exceeded his expectations.

If the supply of Energy Blood Essence can’t keep up, Frost Shelter will be breached in under an hour, and the consequences then would be unthinkable.

"The latest batch has just arrived." Vanessa said helplessly, "This batch includes the ten thousand plus; to replenish again would likely take another day..."

Even with the most advanced equipment, refining Energy Blood Essence takes a day to produce just one piece, and though Frost Shelter has multiple refining facilities, manpower is scarce; even if they had the entire city’s population refining, they could only produce about two thousand a day, and that’s assuming an ample supply of Energy Ore.

"Brother Tang, it seems we’ll have no choice but to fight shortly." The white-haired, blue-eyed elder said to Tang Yilong beside him, with a bitter smile, "Otherwise, if we let that legion commander use joint martial arts again, the shelter might not last even ten minutes."

"Don’t worry, I’ve recovered mostly, and this time I should hold out quite a bit." Tang Yilong nodded, looking solemnly at the terrifying man on the cosmic battleship.

Originally, he came to support Frost Shelter, thinking he could greatly alleviate its pressure. After all, he and Frost Shelter’s City Lord, Hank, were both great grandmasters in the Realm of All Things, and together in the Restricted Area, they shouldn’t have trouble suppressing an Insect Race legion commander.

But the truth revealed itself in battle against this Insect Race legion commander, making them realize his terror.

This Insect Race legion commander, for reasons unknown, had a true strength that, while not surpassing the blonde unicorn legion commander Tang Yilong had faced before, was almost unaffected in the Restricted Area, capable of utilizing ninety percent of his full strength. The physical strength and speed were not something these human great grandmasters could compare to.

According to his estimate, his actual strength absolutely surpassed ten thousand tons, something the human grandmasters with practical strength of over seven thousand tons couldn’t rival.

If it weren’t for this Insect Race legion commander’s joint martial arts being not powerful enough to shatter Frost Shelter’s energy barriers, and requiring a rest period after each use, Frost Shelter would have been long gone.

"Brother Tang, I’m afraid we’ll have a hard time defending Frost Shelter." Hank shook his head, "This time, I’ll do my utmost to hold off the legion commander while you take Vanessa and the others and break out aboard a spaceship, or we’ll all be doomed if we keep holding out."

With only a little over ten thousand Energy Blood Essence, even if both grandmasters in the Realm of All Things could timely prevent the joint martial arts from breaching the energy barriers, they could only hold out for just over an hour at most.

Once time runs out, without the city’s energy barriers and Qi and Blood suppression fields, breaking out would be even more difficult.

"Brother Hank, it’s still too early to give up now; support from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall should be arriving soon, by my estimation." Tang Yilong advised, seeing Hank planning a last-ditch effort.

"Support from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?" Hank looked at the confident Tang Yilong, momentarily at a loss for words.

He had never even heard of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s name, despite his many years in the Restricted Area.