The situation now was that with Basha's magic at play, the ocean water was constantly surging, submerging the city. If no action was taken to stop it, the entire city would be swallowed by the sea.
With apprehensive hearts, everyone started up the Sky Carrier and moved towards Basha's direction.
Once all preparations were complete, Nick Fury swallowed hard and pressed the launch button on the control panel.
The next moment, a torrent of firepower erupted from the Sky Carrier, its target fixed directly on Basha.
Basha was different from the Holy Lord. Before she was sealed, humanity was still in an era of hand-to-hand combat. At most, they would smear excrement or fire oil on arrows to create simple chemical attacks. Even though she had heard about it from Di Kui in hell, she still had only a vague understanding of human thermal weapons.
Seeing the missiles raining down from the sky, Basha didn't react at first. By the time she realized what was happening and tried to resist, it was already too late.
"Success!"
Nick Fury could hardly believe his eyes.
Basha was consumed by the flames of the missile explosions, torn to shreds, and disappeared from everyone's sight. The torrential rain in the sky also ceased abruptly with Basha's disappearance, as if everything had ended.
So, was this truly the end of everything? Was Basha annihilated just like that?
The answer, of course, was no.
What a joke. A dignified Water Demon, one of the Eight Great Demons. Even after being ground down for centuries in hell, she was not an existence that humanity could eliminate with mere thermal weapons.
Unlike other demons, the Water Demon Basha did not possess an exceptionally strong physical body. This was why she was scattered after being hit by a wave of missiles. (Su Dun Novel Network)
But as the Water Demon, all liquids were her carriers. This meant that as long as water existed, Basha was immortal and indestructible.
Indeed, before the people of SHIELD could celebrate for long, the sea surface changed again. Columns of water shot up into the sky. As the water pillars dissipated, five figures of Basha, each standing a full five meters tall, were revealed. It was impossible to tell which was the true body and which were clones.
This was not the end. As the five Bashas chanted incantations simultaneously, more and more water pillars formed Basha's clones, and the storm began to rage again.
When the raindrops landed on the deck of the Sky Carrier, they didn't flow away. Instead, they condensed together, forming one Basha clone after another. In less than thirty seconds, over twenty Basha clones had formed on the deck of the Sky Carrier, and their numbers continued to increase as time went on.
These clones had a very clear objective: to cause destruction. Managed by Basha's unified consciousness, the number of clones, while constantly increasing, showed no sign of confusion. Instead, they were highly organized with clear division of labor: some stayed on deck to cause destruction, while others broke through the blast doors and infiltrated the carrier's interior to wreak havoc.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it."
Watching the surveillance screens, Nick Fury was almost driven mad. Why were these demons' abilities so unsolvable? Seeing the invasion continuously expanding despite the dispatch of security teams, Basha's clones were like locusts, constantly eroding and occupying every corner of the Sky Carrier.
Even though these clones had weak defenses, and conventional thermal weapons could scatter them, they would re-condense again not long after being dispersed. Furthermore, a steady stream of Basha clones was forming on the deck, endlessly regenerating and impossible to kill.
As expected, whether it was the Holy Lord or Basha, neither could be dealt with through conventional warfare. But if you thought that this was enough to win, then you were underestimating humanity.
Nick Fury was also determined. Since conventional weapons couldn't eliminate them, they would use magic. SHIELD had not slacked off in its research into magic for a single moment, and now they had achieved some success.
Under Nick Fury's authorization, a special squad of fifteen members, clad in full enchanted equipment, joined the battle. Although the weapons they held were all melee weapons and varied greatly, they were all genuine enchanted weapons. SHIELD had gone to great lengths, scoured the world, and dug up countless ancient tombs to gather them.
Their armor was also made from a powdered magical ore, and after its completion, specialized mages were invited to inscribe magic arrays on it for a second enchantment.
To match their hard-won equipment, the fifteen members of the squad were repeatedly selected from a pool of over ten thousand individuals, each an elite among elites. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were proficient in all eighteen skills.
Upon receiving orders from their superior, Commander Nick Fury, the magic squad immediately sprang into action. After quickly retrieving their weapons and equipment from the armory, their first mission was to clear out the Basha clones that had invaded the interior of the carrier.
The fifteen individuals were divided into three groups of five, advancing simultaneously along three different routes for sweeping and clearing.
With the concerted efforts of the fifteen, the Basha clones on the mothership decreased at a visible rate.
The scene shifted to a corridor on the carrier.
Bart, wielding a magic warhammer, swung it down fiercely, smashing it onto a Basha clone lunging at him.
*Boom!*
The moment the warhammer made contact with the clone's head, the fragile clone, as expected, was smashed into a pool of water. However, this was not the end.
The puddle of water on the ground began to condense. If left unattended, it would soon reform into a Basha clone.
Bart then placed his warhammer on the water stain. With the electrical discharge emanating from the warhammer, the water stain, which was about to condense, instantly became motionless.
These clones shared a connection with Basha. When dispersed, they didn't re-condense into the original individual but rather the water left behind by a previous clone that Basha controlled to explode, which would then re-condense into a new clone.
Now, with the magical electrical discharge from Bart's warhammer, the connection between the clone and Basha was severed. This way, even if there was water, Basha could no longer control it to create new clones.
Just as Bart finished dealing with one clone, two water arrows shot towards him. As they were about to hit him, a purple magic array appeared on the breastplate of Bart's medieval knight armor, blocking the two water arrows for him.
Looking in the direction from which the water arrows came, the attacker was none other than a Basha clone not far away.
The power of these water arrows was considerable. Without the protection of the magic array, these two arrows alone could have taken Bart's life. Although his life was saved, Bart's heart ached as he looked at the deactivated magic array on his chest.
While the magic array was effective, it was single-use. It had automatically activated and, after blocking the attack for Bart, had naturally become useless. This set of armor and the magic arrays on it were all company property.
Now that it was gone, if Bart survived afterward, SHIELD would replenish the consumed magic arrays for him. However, SHIELD would only cover seventy percent of the costs incurred, with the user having to cover the remaining thirty percent.