Chapter 1 A Brewing Storm

While the Beast Kings were already itching for action, conflicts between powerful human nations continued unabated. The early victories of the evolvers against the Beast King clans had lessened humanity's concern about them. They were once again convinced that their main enemies in the future would not be the Beast King clans, repeatedly defeated by evolver warriors, but the evolvers of other human nations.

Under this change in mindset, the rate of conflict between powerful nations, which had temporarily decreased due to the Beast King threat, rose again.

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Kastermeron, once the capital of Fitera, had become a deserted ruin city with the demise of the small nation.

Sea beasts had occupied it. Beast Kings nested in the city, and mutant beasts scurried everywhere in the streets and buildings, the stench filling the air.

Buzz!

The sound of propellers echoed in the sky. Several helicopters with the EU flag appeared over the city, slowly landing on the outskirts.

The helicopters hovered nearly three hundred meters above the ground, and began rappelling. Soldiers in special combat suits slid down the ropes, releasing the cables at a height of one hundred meters and falling freely.

The impact of a direct fall from a hundred meters could deform steel, but just before these soldiers landed, powerful gas jets suddenly erupted from their lower backs. The dust on the ground was instantly blasted away, and the huge thrust offset the impact of the fall. They landed without a sound, as light as feathers.

This was a group of evolver warriors from the EU!

There were fifty of them, wearing sophisticated equipment. After landing, they quickly formed ranks and looked ahead.

A commander stood at the front of the group, his face grim. He said in a deep voice, "Soldiers! This city is our training ground. My order remains the same! Kill all the monsters in this city and bring the Beast King's remains back to the EU!"

The evolver warriors raised their arms and shouted, "Victory will be ours!"

Buzz!

The helicopters flew away, their mission to deliver the evolvers to their destination complete.

"Five-man teams, begin the free hunt!" The commander glanced at the group, drew an alloy steel axe, turned, and strode into the city.

Currently, almost all countries' evolver equipment laboratories were shifting their research focus from thermal weapons to cold weapons. High-energy guns were indeed useful, but the consumption was too great, and the maintenance costs were high, carrying bullets was inconvenient, and most importantly, once the bullets of these energy guns were used up, they became useless scrap iron.

Cold weapons such as steel knives, on the other hand, could be used indefinitely as long as the user had the strength and could lift their arms. Maintenance and manufacturing were also cost-effective.

With the inevitable gradual disappearance of energy in the future, using cold weapons that could be stored for a long time and had no usage restrictions became the most helpless and best choice.

But at this moment, the whirring sound of helicopters echoed in the sky again.

The EU commander paused, looking up at the sky, thinking that the helicopter that had transported them had returned, but when he looked up, he realized that the helicopter that had arrived was marked with the Russian flag.

"..." The EU commander's face darkened instantly.

The helicopter stopped over the city and began rappelling like the EU soldiers had done before. Soon, more than forty Russian evolver soldiers had also landed. Clearly, their purpose here was the same as his.

At this time, the EU commander's position was only five hundred meters away from where the Russian soldiers had landed.

"Those damn Russians..." The EU commander muttered, then led his men straight towards the others.

"This place has already been occupied by us!"

The EU commander walked up to the Russian squad and asked in a deep voice, "Why don't you choose another training ground?"

The Russian evolver soldiers were tall. Facing the EU commander's question, the leader of the squad sneered and said casually, "This is a city without an owner, and no one can occupy it!"

The soldiers from both sides stared at each other, a thick smell of gunpowder permeating the air. Some soldiers even had their hands on their sword hilts.

Friction was imminent.

Snap!

The EU commander, his face gloomy, held down the soldier next to him who was about to draw his sword. Then, he pointed to the tallest iron tower in the city center and looked at the Russian captain, saying, "The east side of that tower is yours, and the west side is ours..."

"Don't cross the line!"

After saying this, the EU commander turned and left directly with his men.

Behind them came the sharp whistles and undisguised laughter of the Russian soldiers.

Recently, it had often happened that evolver squads from two countries simultaneously chose the same ruined city as a training ground. If the strength of the two sides was vastly different, then naturally the weaker side would withdraw. But if the strength was equal, as it was now, there might be a major conflict.

Since the establishment of the evolver squads in various countries, such conflicts and battles had been happening every day. According to incomplete statistics, between the EU and Russia alone, evolver squads from both sides had clashed for various reasons at least a hundred times, resulting in varying degrees of casualties for both sides, numbering in the hundreds...

The EU commander was clearly more rational. He knew his goal for this trip.

To train the team members.

To kill or capture some Beast Kings. The bones, flesh, and genes of these Beast Kings were extremely valuable resources, and various countries were now frantically snatching them.

Bang!

A dazzling flare exploded in the sky, and the entire city began to boil. A large number of mutant beasts swarmed towards the location where the flare had exploded.

The EU evolver soldiers rushed forward with their weapons and began a frenzied slaughter in the tide of beasts.

"Let's go!" The Russian captain glanced at the EU squad with contempt, turned, and walked towards the east.

Steel knives tore apart the bodies of the mutant beasts, and the EU squad slowly advanced from the edge of the city towards the center.

The Russians also stayed in the eastern part of the city and did not cross the line.

If things continued to develop in this way, the final result might be that one side would end the training and return safely.

But fate did not seem to want to arrange it that way. A killing spree was destined to take place here today.

The cause of it all was a Beast King lurking in the city. It was originally in the east, but after being discovered by the EU evolver squad, they began to hunt it down. However, this Beast King was very strong. It was a Divine Descent type Beast King. It constantly broke through the encirclement. After suffering heavy damage, it still stubbornly killed several EU soldiers and escaped from the encirclement, crossing the iron tower and entering the Russian squad's area.

Just as the EU squad was about to chase after it, the commander of the Russian squad cut off the head of the heavily wounded and dying Beast King with a single blow. The Beast King's corpse fell at his feet.

The EU squad chased after them, and the two sides began to disagree about the ownership of the Beast King's corpse.

"There is no doubt that this Beast King belongs to us!" The Russian captain said in a deep voice, "It fell in our area and was killed by me!"

"You killed it? We paid the price of several warriors' lives to hunt it down and severely wound it, otherwise you would have had your head bitten off..." The EU commander was extremely angry, pointing his finger at the Russian captain's nose and cursing, "Get out of the way, this corpse is ours!"

"This is our area, as you divided it before..."

"This Beast King escaped from our area to yours!"

"Whoever's territory it dies on, it belongs to whoever!"

"..."

The two groups of people argued madly, their faces red, pushing each other and cursing.

The EU commander had been holding his breath ever since the Russians had forcibly taken half of the training ground. Now, seeing that the other side was going to forcibly seize the results of their hunt, and thinking of his team members who had died because of hunting this Beast King, a raging fire burned in his heart.

Clang!

A clear sound of steel cutting rang out. The EU commander held a dripping steel knife, and a clear cutting line appeared in the center of the Russian captain's body. His combat suit was cut open with one blow, and his body was cut in half as well. The tall body was directly divided into two, falling to both sides!

"Fack! Fack!" The EU commander raised his steel knife, his eyes bloodshot, pointed at the Russian squad in front of him, and roared, "Kill them all!"