Chapter 130 : Chapter 130
“These bastards!”
The moment they heard the latest news from Wei Zheng, Wan Feipeng and the others started cursing on the spot.
They had originally thought that the Freedom Empire pulling its troops back to Saint Luo City and deliberately allowing the Fiends to devour city after city—forcing China to fight on multiple fronts—was already shameless enough.
They had never expected them to become even more disgusting!
Now they were directly sending troops to help the Fiends flatten Blue Star!
Just to suppress China and become the rulers of Blue Star—how the hell could they still call themselves human?
“Stop hesitating and get out of there now! Don’t let yourselves get surrounded by the enemy army!”
“I’ve already sent the North China Army and the West China Army toward Notting City. We have no choice now but to fight the Freedom Empire head-on!”
“Otherwise, the spread of the war and the Contaminated Lands will become impossible to contain!”
Wei Zheng said this to Ye Ze and the others at the very end.
At this point, only war could stop war!
If they waited for the Freedom Empire to lead the Fiends in occupying even more of Blue Star’s land, the situation with the Contaminated Lands would become even harder to control.
“Let’s leave first. Once the main force gets here, we’ll kill those Fiend lapdogs!”
Wan Feipeng looked at Ye Ze—only to find that Ye Ze had fallen into thought.
“Wait. Did you just say the Freedom Empire sent a Mech Corps?”
Ye Ze’s expression suddenly turned rather strange.
Wan Feipeng nodded. “That’s right. The Freedom Empire’s technological level isn’t low, so there are many Class Users who advance into Machinists.”
“And especially in the Freedom military, they built a main force specifically equipped with top-tier mechs!”
“Their strength definitely can’t be underestimated.”
Ye Ze’s lips could not help curling upward... It was all mechs!
If Zero took control of all of them, wouldn’t that mean they would instantly gain the strength of an entire regiment?
Ye Ze asked Zero whether he could do it.
“Mechs also rely on a core intelligent operating system, and I can invade anything!”
Zero answered with certainty, but then hesitated. “But Master, I need an energy supply...”
Ye Ze froze for a moment before remembering: before he had contracted Zero, he seemed to have seen a prompt saying it lacked energy...Although energy was not one of the actual attributes, for the Mechanical Race it was the same as stamina for humans.
Without stamina, how could they keep moving?
“That’s a small problem. This is Notting City, the place with the richest reserves in the Lionheart Kingdom. There must be no shortage of energy crystals in the treasury!” Ye Ze said with a smile.
Since they were already here, how could they not loot the place a little?
Ten minutes later, led by several Lionheart nobles who had come under the Magic Dragon’s Domination, the group swept through the treasury and obtained a huge number of energy crystals.
People who submitted to the Magic Dragon’s Domination were no different from ordinary people in daily life.
But the moment the Magic Dragon gave an order, or appeared before them, they would instinctively submit and obey his commands!
...
At that moment, not far from Notting City, countless refugees were fleeing in panic. Those who ran too slowly were crushed alive beneath the Freedom Empire army’s mechs!
At the head of the army stood one of the top Sixth-Rank Hunters, Knight King Arthur.
But now, scarlet light shone from his eyes, and evil demonic energy flowed around his body...
“Arthur! You’ve become a Fiend!?”
When Ye Ze and the others came face-to-face with the Freedom Empire army, Wan Feipeng exploded in fury at the sight of him.
For more than fifty years of the Transcendent Era, who did not know the harm the Fiends had brought to humanity? They had slaughtered people by the hundreds of millions!
And yet Arthur, one of the Freedom Empire’s foremost powerhouses, had willingly transformed into a Fiend!
He had placed himself in opposition to humanity!
“Hahaha!!” Arthur laughed wildly, contempt filling his eyes. “Afraid?”
“You should be! Pathetic humans have no real strength at all!”
“In the worlds beyond Blue Star, humanity is nothing more than a speck of dust...”
“Only the Abyss is the ruler of the Myriad Worlds! It is the true destination of the Freedom Empire!!!”
Now that Arthur had become a special Fiend, his scarlet eyes regarded Wan Feipeng and the others as though they were prey.
To the Abyss Fiends, the Human Race—and even all the myriad races of the heavens—were nothing but nourishment and slaves!
Once the Abyss fully descended, Blue Star would inevitably become one more enslaved world.
But at the very least, he, Arthur, and the Freedom Empire would still remain among the ruling class!
Hearing that, Wan Feipeng roared, “Afraid my ass!”
The moment the words left his mouth, his figure shot forward like a streaking green phantom!
Arthur’s expression twisted savagely, and he lunged forward without the slightest fear.
“The current you is no longer worthy of fighting me—” But before he could finish, one green and one black figure collided in an instant, and a thunderous explosion shook the air.
Bang!
In the very next moment, Arthur’s eyes filled with disbelief as his whole body was struck by a terrifying blow and sent flying like a kite with its string cut.
“This isn’t right! Why do you have power beyond the Sixth Rank!?”
Arthur was shaken to the core. He had believed that after becoming a special Fiend, he would become invincible among all Sixth-Rank Hunters!
And yet the other side had produced a Seventh-Rank Hunter?
That was right. Since Wan Feipeng had advanced to the Seventh Rank, tonight was his first time taking action on the International Battlefield, and it had clearly caught Arthur completely off guard.
Wan Feipeng sneered. “There’s a lot you still don’t know!”
Arthur’s eyes burned with rage, but his expression remained confident and sinister.
“Hah! And you dare run your mouths with only this handful of people!”
Looking at Ye Ze, Wan Feipeng, and the others, he waved a hand with utter disdain.
“Mech Corps, attack!”
The instant those words were spoken, Zero appeared.
Having absorbed nearly all the energy crystals in Notting City, he had fully recovered to his peak state!
[Electromagnetic Interference] [Data Intrusion]!
Through electromagnetic signals, Zero’s data-consciousness invaded the hundreds of mechs belonging to the Freedom Empire.
In the next moment, Zero’s image lit up on the internal operating systems of those mechs...
Arthur stood at the very front of his Mech Corps, a savage smile on his face, eagerly awaiting the moment when hundreds of mechs would charge forward together and surround Wan Feipeng and the others.
But in the very next instant, one Legendary mech behind him threw a punch straight into his own body!
“Fuck! Are you insane!?” Arthur was smashed back several meters, his face twisted with fury.
“What the hell are all of you doing!?”
And inside the mech, the operator was equally horrified. “I don’t know what I’m doing either!”
“The mech is no longer under my control!!”
At that moment, hundreds of mechs surged forward as one and unleashed their full offensive against Arthur!
Seeing that scene, Wan Feipeng, Tong Mo, and Shi Qing all drew sharp breaths.
Hundreds of mechs in the Mech Corps had been seized in an instant!?
What exactly was the upper limit of Ye Ze’s abilities?
Tonight, it seemed that every move Ye Ze made was shattering and rebuilding their understanding of the world!
At the same time, Wu Ming, the Chief Administrator of East China Region, had just arrived with several thousand Demon Suppression Army troops to reinforce them!
And when they saw this scene, every one of them was dumbstruck.
Hundreds of Epic- and Legendary-grade mechs were being controlled by Zero, beating Knight King Arthur into a miserable state, bruised and battered!
Apart from Arthur, the other three Sixth-Rank Hunters who had come with him from the Freedom Empire were also being mercilessly swarmed.
Some of those Sixth-Rank Hunters, driven furious, unleashed their class ultimates with terrifying power, blasting apart more than a dozen mechs!
But the problem was... those mechs belonged to the Freedom Empire in the first place.
Even if they were destroyed, Ye Ze did not feel the slightest bit of pain over it. If anything, his attacks only became even more ruthless.
The several thousand Demon Suppression Army soldiers, who had arrived fully prepared for battle, were completely stunned.
“Commander, do they actually need our support?”
“We’re really just here to clean up the battlefield, right...”
But in the next moment, a sudden change erupted.
Arthur, burning with hatred, now had eyes that glowed even redder. In his hand, he took out a fragment, stirring the demonic energy around him into violent upheaval!
“You damned Chinese!”
“You forced me into this!!!”
After roaring those words, he crushed the fragment. Instantly, endless demonic energy gathered around him and formed a Void Gate!
“Your Excellency! I beg for your intervention!”
“Your Excellency!!!”
The moment those words rang out, everyone’s expression changed dramatically. Ye Ze, in particular, frowned deeply.
Summoning a Fiend Sovereign? They could actually summon a Fiend Sovereign!
Wu Ming and Wan Feipeng were also instantly alarmed. “Your Excellency? Zhu Jiu?”
It had to be said that the pressure Fiend Sovereign Zhu Jiu had placed on Blue Star was simply too great.
Even Ye Ze could not be certain whether the other man had recovered yet after being burned by Samadhi True Fire...At that moment, everyone braced themselves, especially Ye Ze, who summoned Fox Immortal and Zero to stand beside him.
If anything unexpected happened...then Samadhi True Fire and the Purple-Flame Serpent-Spear Fire-Tipped Lance would have to go all out!
...
Abyss Plane, the Nine Nether Lands.
Fiend Sovereign Zhu Jiu, draped in a crimson cloak, still had glass-colored flames burning within the vertical pupils above his eyes.
But here, in the Nine Nether Lands of the Abyss, there was Extreme Yin Power to suppress the flames, effectively keeping the blaze of Samadhi True Fire under control.
As for how long it would take to extinguish Samadhi True Fire completely, even Zhu Jiu himself could not say.
And moreover, even here in the Nine Nether Lands, Samadhi True Fire continued to burn him. The pain could not be eased!
In the future, he might have to endure that burning for a very long time...
“Damn it! Damn it—!”
“On a mere little planet, I actually suffered such wounds! Damn it!!”
Zhu Jiu’s fury had nearly become tangible, and his terrifying demonic might echoed throughout the Nine Nether Lands.
At that moment, a magical fluctuation praying for Zhu Jiu’s intervention reached him... it was coming from Arthur.
“That little planet again!”
Zhu Jiu became even more enraged... He was already forced to stay in the Nine Nether Lands to suppress the flames because Samadhi True Fire was burning him.
And yet there were still people constantly begging him for help!
“Are all my subordinates a pack of useless trash?”
“Get lost!”
Zhu Jiu roared and swung his hand violently, sending his demonic might surging along the other party’s magical fluctuation...
...
Back on Blue Star’s battlefield, Ye Ze and the others stared warily at the Void Gate.
Arthur wore a savage grin, clearly savoring the pleasure of imminent revenge...In the next moment, a giant scarlet hand formed of demonic might shot out from the Void Gate and grabbed Arthur directly.
“Wait, Your Excellency, it’s me!”
“Why are you killing me!?”
As Arthur stared at the giant hand closing around him, the savage look in his eyes was replaced by terror and shock.
Then the giant hand clenched tight.
Arthur, who possessed the strength of a Sixth-Rank special Fiend, was instantly crushed into a spray of blood!
The giant hand vanished, and the Void Gate disappeared along with it.
Ye Ze and the others were left staring blankly.
“This Fiend Sovereign really doesn’t distinguish between friend and foe?”
Someone muttered that under their breath, which made Ye Ze sigh inwardly.
The first time he had seen Fiend Sovereign Zhu Jiu, the man had casually killed the two Demon Kings Ox-Head and Horse-Face with a single bolt of Yin Thunder.
From that alone, it was clear that when Zhu Jiu killed, he truly did not care who the target was!
“A perfect opportunity! Pursue them!”
“Not a single one of the Freedom Empire’s Fiend lapdogs is getting away!!!”
Wu Ming was the first to react. He immediately led several thousand Demon Suppression Army troops in a rapid encirclement and slaughter of the Freedom Empire’s remaining forces.
As for the people of the Freedom Empire, including their Sixth-Rank Hunters, they were all completely dumbfounded.
Their greatest trump card had been “summoning the Fiend Sovereign.”
And yet that very trump card had become the final straw that crushed them.
Where in the world were they supposed to argue their case now?
But having chosen to become lapdogs of the Fiends, naturally no one was going to argue their case for them.
On the battlefield, the Demon Suppression Army of China began encircling and slaughtering the enemy. Powerhouses like Wan Feipeng and Tong Mo also moved swiftly to hunt down the enemy Sixth-Rank Hunters!
The war seemed as though it had only just begun, and yet it was already on the verge of ending.
But the Fiends’ threat still remained.
Ever since the Freedom Empire became the Fiends’ lapdog, its territory had almost entirely fallen into Contaminated Lands, and the hidden dangers there were unimaginable.
But for the moment, those problems were still impossible to solve.
Ye Ze looked toward the battlefield and decisively prepared to join in... it was all experience and attribute points!
But just as he was about to move, an extraordinary surge of Spiritual Energy slowly began to gather before him.
Right in front of him, it condensed into a huge red gate, from which endless waves of Spiritual Energy pulsed outward.
Ye Ze was stunned. He knew this scene far too well...The second Myth-grade Secret Realm had appeared!