Outcast Omega Pampered by the Alpha General novel Chapter 373

Chapter 373 The Scale Powder

The scale powder touched insectoid bodies first.

Wounds sealed at frightening speed.

Shells hardened.

Defense rose.

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When it drifted onto human spirit forms, the effect reversed. Healing slowed. Torn wounds worsened. The damage kept spreading.

Weak-willed soldiers suffered psychic shocks.

Those filled with anger saw phantoms.

Those trapped in hatred or unwillingness fell straight into illusions.

It did not affect only Alphas.

Even Betas using neural interfaces to expand mental control and pilot unmanned starships were disturbed by the powder.

Beautiful.

Silent.

Almost dreamlike.

And cruel to the bone.

In that single moment, the swarm received a brutal enhancement, while the countless human spirit forms that had briefly seized the upper hand were sharply suppressed.

“Fall back now! Do not hesitate, and do not worry about us!”

Adrian Whitmore opened his tactical channel at once and gave the assault regiment under him a death- order.

But that regiment specialized in frontal warfare.

They had always stood at humanity’s very front, guarding the 3S and 2S spirit forms.

“Leon, take your people and go!”

Gavin Reed, the deputy commander, saw the endless swarm surging in and several S-rank giants pressing toward them. He immediately shouted at Leon Rowe beside him.

Leon clenched his teeth. His husky spirit form stayed rooted in place as well.

“Old Gavin, if we leave, what happens to you and Ray?”

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Chapter 373 The Scale Powder

Gavin did not waver.

“If everyone stays, no one leaves.”

Leon went silent.

In the end, he turned his back on his teammates and led his people in a rapid retreat.

The commander was absent.

Then the deputy commander had to hold the front.

Flushed

Just as humanity’s 3S-ranks always stood at the edge of humanity, taking the harshest wind and rain for every soldier beneath them.

Sacrifice could not be avoided.

The living had to carry the weight and keep going.

“Drag out everyone trapped in illusions! Hurry!”

Major General Mercer sent his white crane soaring through the void. The veterans under his command moved at top speed across the battlefield, fishing out soldiers who had fallen into illusions and hauling them back.

Compared with fighters who had never been dragged into illusionary realms, veterans had stronger resistance to the scale powder.

They were also better suited to this dangerous rescue work.

Long ago, their seniors and comrades had pulled them out and protected them.

Now they had become the ones protecting comrades and juniors.

“Load every super-energy weapon immediately. Send more Omega healers to Sanctuary Peak!”

Old Mr. Landry shouted while running.

The man was over two hundred, but he moved faster than an ordinary Alpha.

The front line was under sudden pressure.

That meant logistics and medical support had to rise with it.

Compared with the Siren, Gaia, and Ursus, Ninefold’s Sanctuary Peak had the most complete medical system. It was essentially the battlefield-hospital version of Moonfall.

Now, it had become humanity’s front-line treatment center.

Countless Beta doctors and Omega healers rushed through it, fighting death for every life they could seize.

But the insectoids had only begun applying pressure.

Its gaze clung to Ruin like a parasite burrowing into bone.

Ruin’s cracked foreleg had barely healed under Serena Rhodes’s treatment. Its back arched, and its emerald wolf eyes were equally sharp.

It was not that Ruin had never considered attacking first.

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But just as the scorpion could not kill it quickly, Ruin could not do much to the scorpion in a short time either.

A deadlock.

A deadlock with no opening.

Only endless stalling.

But Orion knew clearly that this kind of stalemate did not benefit humanity, which was being pushed back step by step.

At last, the Infernal Prison Bee moved.

Until now, it had been exchanging long-range fire with Dragonlord. Most of its magma had been neutralized by thunder, so the exchange had achieved little.

Mist churned around its skull-like ghost face.

Three dark-red giant shells condensed.

Magma rolled inside them.

Their cores were black.

The shells broke away from the mother body, tore through the void at terrifying speed, and screamed across the battlefield with twisted heat trails behind them, curving in unnatural arcs toward humanity’s 3S-

ranks.

A dragon’s roar shook deep space.

The dark-violet young dragon immediately released dragonfire, trying to bring the three magma tracker shells down with thunder.

Then the strange thing happened.

The instant thunder and shells were about to collide, the compound eyes beneath the Infernal Prison Bee’s ghost face turned scarlet.

The three shells whipped their tails through the void and brushed past the incoming lightning.

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