"Hmm!"
Mo Ran nodded obediently, and the black clothes made of spider silk on her body began to shed rapidly, revealing her tender and fair body.
She nestled into Zhang Chen's arms like a little bird, her face flushed.
"Hey, you need to change your clothes quickly, we're fighting!"
Zhang Chen said anxiously.
It wasn't that he was afraid the monsters would hurt himself or Mo Ran.
A mere mutated Class VIII creature was still very difficult to pose a threat to him and Mo Ran.
Zhang Chen was worried about the heatwave from the magma beetle. If it flew over recklessly, and Zhang Chen's cloak got burnt, wouldn't Mo Ran be exposed?
It was fine if the surrounding people were all girls, but there was a group of perverts in the stands. They had meticulously designed this segment with the magma beetle, likely wanting to see this very scene!
"Dad, I... Ah~ I'm so sleepy!"
Mo Ran said, rubbing her eyes, and energy began to overflow from her body.
After leaving her body, these energies immediately transformed into thin lines resembling spider silk, sticking to Zhang Chen's cloak.
"No way, you're not going to undergo metamorphosis right now, are you!"
"This is just too bad timing!"
Zhang Chen quickly turned around and carried Mo Ran on his back.
This way, the cloak could completely cover her delicate body, and it wouldn't significantly affect his combat.
"Mo Ran wants to sleep, she'll sleep for a while... Sleeping on Daddy's back is so comfortable..."
Mo Ran said, and her head drooped, resting on Zhang Chen's shoulder.
Soon, the energy transformed into bundles of tough silk threads, tightly binding her between Zhang Chen's clothes and cloak.
"This guy is too unreliable, I should have brought Xiaobai along!"
Zhang Chen thought to himself.
He wouldn't dare to say this aloud. If Mo Ran could hear it, he would probably have to coax her for quite some time to make her happy.
Two women, one couldn't be favored over the other.
Boom!
At another end of the battlefield, an explosion sound erupted.
Angelina had successfully blasted off a magma beetle with her energy arrows and then glanced towards Zhang Chen.
Upon seeing the magma beetle standing "obediently" in front of Zhang Chen and remaining still, she immediately turned around to support her sisters in the Blacktail Swallow Legion.
After a while longer of fighting.
The survivors with ice elemental talents began to experience exhaustion.
Meanwhile, the heat from within the magma beetles continued to be released without end.
Freezing was ineffective, and cold deceleration was greatly reduced.
Attacks like ice cones and ice blades would dissipate into mist before they could even touch the magma beetle's shell.
Through the efforts of these ice-element survivors, the magma beetles successfully transformed into steam beetles.
A considerable portion of the battlefield, including the ground, was enveloped in billowing steam.
High-temperature steam was far more lethal than pure heat!
A gust of wind dispersed the white steam, revealing the corpses of survivors on the ground, their bodies swollen and ulcerated from the heat.
"Damn it, these are all my civilians!"
Zhang Chen coldly looked at the magma beetle that had cornered a group of ice-element survivors.
If he didn't intervene now, it was likely that over a hundred survivors in that area would all perish!
Just then, the leading girl wearing a veil unleashed her ultimate move.
A massive ice cone slowly formed in the sky.
The other survivors also jointly released ice shields to block the magma beetle's advance, while also diverting some of their energy to re-solidify the dispersed water mist into ice crystals, merging them into the giant ice cone.
It was equivalent to a final blow, a strike from all the ice-element survivors combined!
It was a fight to the bitter end!
The ice cone slowly condensed into a giant iceberg in mid-air. The ice spikes at the bottom gleamed with cold light, instantly freezing the surrounding billowing water vapor into snowflakes that drifted down.
Boom!
The colossal iceberg began to descend from top to bottom, crashing down towards the magma beetle's head.
"Hmm... Now's the time!"
Zhang Chen nodded, his left hand opening his five fingers and slowly pointing at the magma beetle.
The moment the iceberg descended, he clenched his five fingers tightly!
"Explode!"
*Puchi!*
The enormous magma beetle was immediately crushed into a pulp by the powerful force field.
The high-temperature blood sprayed outwards like lava.
However, before it could fly too far, it was struck by the overwhelming force of the descending iceberg!
*Ch!*~~
Stronger bursts of steam erupted.
Even the jointly formed ice shields began to rapidly melt and vaporize.
After a few minutes, the mist gradually dissipated.
When everyone looked closely, they found that the iceberg had long since melted. Strangely, the magma beetle had also disappeared.
Steam was indeed a good cover.
The magma beetle, killed by Zhang Chen and vaporized, disappeared along with the steam, making it difficult to attract attention.
Moreover... while the iceberg looked imposing, it was still impossible to defeat the magma beetle.
If Zhang Chen hadn't intervened, the women cornered against the wall would have been thoroughly cooked by now.
After the mist cleared, several survivors lowered their heads to search at the location of the magma beetle, seemingly wondering why the monster had no corpse after its death.
Not even a trace was left behind.
However, the strongest ice-element girl, the veiled one, cast a slightly puzzled glance at Zhang Chen.
Only she had noticed a subtle movement of Zhang Chen's left hand the moment his skill was unleashed.
"Hey, it's your turn, you've worked hard!"
Angelina leaped to Zhang Chen's side, drew her longbow, and aimed at the magma beetle.
Charge - Shoot - Explode!
Boom!
The magma beetle exploded on the spot.
A total of four magma beetles; Angelina eliminated three by herself, and Zhang Chen eliminated one.
"Well done!"
"But... is your friend injured?"
"I've brought the best doctor from our legion; perhaps she can help you!"
Angelina said, waving towards the direction of the legion and calling out, "Jemima, come here, you're needed here!"
Following that, a busty blonde girl with golden hair shakily leaped to Zhang Chen's side.
"Do I need to treat him? Where is he injured?"
Jemima asked.
"I'm fine, and my friend is also fine. She just needs some rest. Thank you!"
Zhang Chen replied gratefully.
Angelina in front of him was much more straightforward and enthusiastic than Yan Gang, the deputy commander of the Third Legion, whom he had met before.
This made Zhang Chen develop a good impression of her.
"It's good that you're fine. Let us know if you need any help; we're comrades in the same trench now!"
Angelina said cheerfully.
"That magma beetle just now was stationed not far in front of me. Aren't you curious why it didn't attack me?"
Zhang Chen asked curiously.
"I am curious, but I believe if you wanted to tell me, you would have told me. If you didn't want to, you wouldn't answer even if I asked!"
"Besides... a powerful warrior like you, who can scare away the Supreme beings, should indeed have some special abilities, right? Am I correct?"
Angelina said, smiling and winking at Zhang Chen, with a hint of playfulness in her tone.