Chapter ?830 An Unavoidable Sacrifice


    The waters of the ocean were split as an Abyssal dashed above them at supersonic speed.


    His right arm was barely hanging to the shoulder socket while therge gash on his back continued to bleed profusely.


    "Who? Who interfered at the critical moment?" The Abyssal clenched his fists as he increased his speed.


    He already crossed half of the ocean and once he reached the shore, the military base would shield him from the monster chasing him.


    "Once I find you, I''ll give you a gruesome de—"


    The world suddenly shook and it started raining.


    Or at least, that''s how it appeared as the part of the ocean behind the Abyssal was blown away and started to return like a drizzle.


    Enigma''s figure shot through the rising waves and quickly reduced the distance between them.


    "I can''t escape." The Abyssal gritted his teeth and pointed his hand at the woman.


    An invisible force radiated out of him and turned into ten thousand small needles. At the tip of each needle was a glowing green liquid.


    This was a trump card the Nightmare Abyssal wanted to use against the Fairies after he returned to the Abyss Empire.


    But as the strongest andst surviving Nightmare, he was forced to use it just to survive!


    ''But no worries, under the rain of these ultra poison needles, even Enigma will be helpless. I just need to—arggh.''


    As expected, a psychic force attacked his mind and tried to prevent him fromunching the attack.


    But he already expected Enigma''s psychic attack and was also ready for the ''third party'' to attack him using telekic or mind powers.


    For some reason, the third party didn''t intervene.


    Still vignt, the Abyssal fired the poisonous needles at Enigma in a blink. They encircled her from every direction.


    If these needles formed a sphere, then Enigma would be at its center. No matter how she tried, she''d be hit!


    The Nightmare Abyssal smiled brightly as he prepared to witness the sight of Enigma undergoing critical injuries.


    But to his shock, the space around Enigma trembled at thest moment and she disappeared.


    "Oh damn!" He hurriedly pulled back the needles, but a presence appeared behind him right then.


    The air turned sharp for a second and the Abyssal felt a sting on his neck. The presence behind him disappeared without a word.


    "Huh? What the hell?" The Abyssal turned back to check.


    Everything appeared normal…wait!


    His body was still in ce, only his head moved!


    ''What a sharp swordsmanship!''


    The Abyssal''s body fell into the ocean powerlessly.


    — — —


    "Are we done?" Enigma asked as shey down for minor healing.


    Varian looked through the holograms and sighed.


    He and Enigma had already killed all the new level 9s that arrived on Mars. But the time they started this operation was quitete as already thirty of the sixtyoids fell to them.


    Moreover, the condition forced some level 9 humans to deal with two or more Abyssals with strengths equaling their own.


    As a result, these level 9 humans were either killed, seriously injured, or in the middle of a bitter battle.


    "With the Nightmare group dying, a lot of troubles are gone." Varian shrugged. "But a lot of our level 9s are facing pressure, they''ll need a hand or they''ll fall."


    Listening to his words, Enigma''s chest heaved up and down as a sense of fatigue rose in her heart.


    Now, she''d have to move fromoid tooid in a bid to prevent human level 9s from falling and help them suppress the level 9 Abyssals.


    Why not try and kill more low level 9?


    She could. But by the time she killed a couple of them, a high level 9 or a couple of mid level 9 humans might die.


    The bnce would tip in their favor and the consequences would be far more disastrous.


    So, what Enigma now had to do was assist mid and high level 9 humans.


    Moreover, half of the sixty Mars''oids have fallen! Of course, it didn''t mean the human armies on theseoids werepletely exterminated. But they were currently being crushed.


    Even on the ''Fallenoids'' where the human army performed their best, they were only at 80% of the Abyssal army numbers.


    Some of these fallenoids had human armies with numbers only 40% that of the Abyssal army!


    With such conditions, these Abyssal armies would soon decimate the human armies. Even if they didn''t finish off the humans, they could easily manage to send a couple of ten thousand Abyssals as reinforcements.


    These reinforcements would reach the remaining thirtyoids where Humans and Abyssals were about the same strength and break the bnce.


    ''How many reinforcements? How manyoids?'' Enigma rubbed her forehead.


    She''d also have to take up the job of either destroying or suppressing the Abyssal reinforcements.


    "…Too much," Enigma said in a depressed tone.


    "Yeah," Varian nodded with an equally depressed expression. "The Abyssals got us good. Even if we survive this war, the human army would have to go on a defensive for at least five years to regain the pre-war strength."


    "That long?"


    "Entireoids are wiped out, Enigma," Varian gave a wry smile. "We and they lost roughly the same amount of level 9s and level 8s. But for level 7s and below, the Human Army experienced terrible losses."


    Enigma pursed her lips and nodded.


    The casualties in this war were likely in tens of millions. She wouldn''t be surprised if it touched a hundred million.


    What''s worse? These were the casualties of the war only so far! And it''s barely a day since the war began!


    "Don''t think too much." Varian seemed to know what she was thinking and said in a consoling tone. "We can''t fight wars without casualties."


    Enigma paused at his words and observed Varian carefully. ''He''s too calm about this.''


    On second thought, Varian personally led a crusade against the Abyssals and was responsible for killing more than twenty million Abyssals.


    Unlike her, perhaps he already got used to death at scale.


    A saying from Old Earth shed in her mind.


    ''Death of a single man is a loss, of a dozen is a tragedy, of a hundred is a horror. But the death of a million is a statistic.''


    Enigma shook her head.


    Varian might''ve grown stable, but he wasn''t apathetic.


    When she woke up, she could see the turmoil of emotions in his eyes.


    Worry. Grief. Guilt. Fear.


    Only after Boo told her about Batran did she realize why he was in chaos.


    Enigma was unwilling to believe such a man could bepletely cold-blooded.


    Varian didn''t know what was going on in her mind. He focused on the hologram in front of him and highlighted a spot between sixoids.


    "Enigma, you go help out the level 9s. And I''ll take up the task of stopping the reinforcements. If I beat back the armies of tenoids, the remnants of our armies on theiroids can handle the rest."


    "What about them?" Enigma''s eyes shed with a tinge of coldness. "The Abyssals in red armor."


    "Four of them appeared. I killed one. Another disappeared for some reason. Two are left." Varian exined. "If I prioritize killing them, then there''s a risk of these reinforcements swallowing up Mars''oids. If we lose all theoids, Mars'' might be invaded."


    "…I see." Enigma nodded with aplicated expression.


    Those two Abyssals would kill millions and lead to the fall of a couple ofoids, no doubt. But Varian preferred it over a possible Mars invasion.


    A sacrifice he deemed unavoidable.