Rampaging Energy Beams surged wildly within the World Beast’s body, tearing apart its comparatively fragile internal structures.
The World Beast’s tentacles lashed against the surface of the Golden Mad King before constricting tightly, but they only managed to leave behind minor scratches, failing to inflict any real damage.
Shen Feng controlled the cannons on the Golden Mad King’s head, unleashing a frenzied barrage that focused on bombarding the World Beast’s nervous system.
From his past experience of killing a World Beast with a nuclear bomb and bombarding another from within using an Energy Concentration Cannon, he knew that the weakest part of this tough, thick-skinned beast was, in fact, its internal structure.
Destroying it directly from the inside was far more effective.
The Golden Mad King’s four arms pried open the World Beast’s body. As its head turret spun wildly, spraying Energy Beams, the entire Super Giant War Armor drilled straight inside.
Each of these turrets was a fully developed Energy Concentration Cannon. As a Super Giant War Armor deployed late in the war, the Golden Mad King’s weaponry was comparatively more advanced.
On Cordillera Main Island, before the eyes of over one hundred thousand people, the Golden Mad King, which had been planted headfirst in the sea, began to sink bit by bit. It then vanished completely from the surface, leaving no trace behind.
All that could be seen were flashes of light emanating from the seabed.
This scene made everyone’s hearts leap into their throats once more as they worried for the Savior.
After all, while the Super Giant War Armor was powerful, the terror of the World Beast was just as deeply ingrained in their minds. In human history, it was the World Beasts, not the Super Giant War Armors, that had been victorious.
The water before them had already turned green. More dark green fluid was surging up from the seabed where the battle raged, gushing like a fountain and stirring up jade-colored waves.
Swarms of marine creatures, drawn by the blood, converged on the area. As far as the eye could see, the surface of the water was teeming with shark fins.
The entire island was deathly silent. Everyone was waiting for the Savior’s victory.
Just then, another massive wave swelled. The sea where the battle had occurred began to churn, and the waters parted. A colossal body, like an island reef, emerged and rose slowly, surrounded by a mess of tentacles and limbs.
It was the World Beast.
Seeing this, everyone present gasped in shock.
’Did the World Beast win?’
Before sorrow could grip their hearts, they saw the World Beast abruptly lift entirely out of the sea. It looked like a floating island, its dense mass of tentacles and limbs making it resemble a Demon God from humanity’s worst nightmares.
However, its tentacles and limbs all hung limply, swaying back and forth without any sign of life.
And beneath the World Beast was the Golden Mad King, the Super Giant War Armor embedded chest-deep into the creature’s underbelly.
The World Beast’s green blood cascaded down like a waterfall, washing over the Golden Mad King’s surface armor and making its golden plating glitter even more brilliantly.
Then, the Golden Mad King’s four arms strained in unison, heaving the World Beast into the air. Its head, armed with dozens of Energy Cannons, pulled free from the creature’s body.
With a violent shake of its head, it flung torrents of green blood in all directions, the droplets glittering in the sunlight.
At that moment, everyone present finally understood. The Savior had won!
The Golden Mad King had defeated the World Beast, utterly annihilating the terrifying monster!
"Praise the Savior! Long live humanity! We won!"
"The Savior won! He’s the star of humanity, the hope of our civilization!
"We won! We won! Humans really can beat those monsters!"
"Long live! Long live! Long live the Savior!"
"Humanity will prevail—"
Over one hundred thousand people erupted into cheers at once, creating a wave of sound that radiated out in all directions.
Everyone there was ecstatic—shouting, jumping, hugging one another, and pumping their fists in the air. Many were so overcome with emotion that tears streamed down their faces, unable to contain their joy.
As a generation born during the Water World Apocalypse, all they had ever known was the decline and decay of human civilization. They had only heard legends of a once-glorious and brilliant past.
And while the descriptions in those epics and legends were vivid and deeply moving, legends were not the same as reality. No one had ever witnessed that glorious era with their own eyes.
Over time, even their faith in the Holy Armor had begun to waver.
’Could these giant metal statues, which haven’t moved an inch since the day we were born, really defeat the World Beasts like the legends say?’
’Or has humanity always been this weak? Was all that past glory just a figment of our imagination?’
But today, all those doubts and rumors had vanished. The Savior himself had arrived, and in the Golden Mad King, he had annihilated a terrifying World Beast in a flash!
The glorious past of human civilization... it was all real!
Inside the cockpit of the Super Giant War Armor, the Golden Mad King, Shen Feng watched the island’s celebration through its observation systems, feeling a surge of emotion.
He could understand their feelings. After all, it had been far too long since humanity had tasted a victory like this.
Hoisting the World Beast’s corpse onto its shoulder, Shen Feng had the Golden Mad King stride toward Cordillera Main Island.
Upon reaching the island’s edge, the Golden Mad King deposited the World Beast’s corpse on an adjacent islet. The cockpit then opened, and Shen Feng emerged, riding the War Armor’s hand down to the main island’s central square.
The Savior’s return was met with another wave of thunderous cheers.
The crowd’s mood was different from the first time they saw the Savior. This time, he had personally snatched them from the jaws of death.
By now, the Minstrels of the Western Council were utterly convinced, and they approached Shen Feng to beg for his forgiveness.
After all, their actions had nearly destroyed the entire Western Council and condemned the more than one hundred thousand people on Cordillera Main Island to death.
Shen Feng couldn’t be bothered with such trivialities. He immediately appointed Witch Tower as the new council leader and issued his first order: restore the island’s long-wave radio station as quickly as possible and broadcast the news of the Savior’s return to the entire world.
Jubilation swept across Cordillera Main Island. Fleets of sampans and sailboats set off for the other islands in the Cordillera Islands to spread the news of the Savior’s return.
After all, in this day and age, many people were unable to receive radio signals.
And to hear the news of the Savior’s return with their own ears would surely make many people ecstatic, giving them a renewed will to live.
Seeing the Super Giant War Armor standing sentinel on the shore, everyone was filled with an overwhelming sense of security.
Just then, the island’s warning horn suddenly blared. A guard’s voice rang out, laced with panic:
"By the Savior! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Shen Feng’s gaze snapped to the sea, his brow instantly furrowing.
In the distance, three mountains of water, even larger than the one before, were rushing toward Cordillera Main Island!