Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 45 I Really Didn't Move a Step (Second Update, 5400, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)
The members of the Heavenly God Descendant Society actually held differing opinions. Reborn individuals always think aggressively, wanting to solve problems first. After all, they have almost countless chances to start over. In the numerous battles against the American Federation's Awakened, they always managed to win with their special immortal ability, which fostered a fearless personality.
However, the Arborists and Manipulators excelled at planning positions and designing traps. They believed that since the other party had already discovered them, they might as well stand ready and use the newly deployed 'Animated Wood Spirit Formation,' 'Chained Elemental Traps,' and numerous high-tech weapons for defense and counterattack.
The leaders of the Descendant Society in various regions would give each other a little respect because they were all descendants of Heavenly Gods, but they were ultimately arrogant and ruthless devils and freaks. Although they were quite calm and would never argue over minor differences of opinion, it was difficult to get them to cooperate without a powerful force to unite them.
The Silent One, Borneff, was such a character. Although he rarely spoke, every time he did, he could make a final decision.
But this time, he had been silent all along.
And if they didn't move, the other side would move relatively.
Just as the reborn individual had feared, Su Zhou shifted his gaze to the direction of the Heavenly God Descendant Society's leaders the moment they used their power.
Soon, others also noticed, through intelligence from drones and satellites, that the momentum of the beast tide advancing in that direction had been inexplicably hindered.
On the surface, it was just a peaceful and auspicious black forest at the foot of the mountain, but not to mention that there was no auspicious place in the Demon Beast Realm, if it was really peaceful, then why did the data show that the life signatures of thousands of demon beasts suddenly disappeared here?
"Do you have any missiles?"
Facing the enemy, Su Zhou never spoke much. He turned his head and said to Raphael and the Concordance Bureau supervisor, "You don't need too much yield, about 200,000 tons of TNT equivalent is enough. If we launch now, we should be able to wipe out most of the Descendant Society's manpower."
"Don't be stingy either. As the saying goes, equivalent exchange—to put it nicely, you must give to get, to put it bluntly, you can't catch wolves without letting go of the kids. It's rare for their core personnel to gather together, it would be a pity not to blow them up."
——Two hundred thousand tons of TNT equivalent, isn't that a nuclear bomb?
The supervisor opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't say anything—was Su Zhou wrong? Of course, a nuclear bomb could undoubtedly eliminate most of the Descendant Society's manpower, but if nuclear bombs could be launched so easily, the Earth would have become a radioactive wasteland long ago, and everyone would be picking up bottle caps together.
"We can indeed apply."
Raphael, on the other hand, spoke bluntly. He patted his wheelchair seat, "In fact, the Concordance Bureau doesn't mind using nuclear weapons—if one nuclear bomb can eliminate so many superhumans, that's a great deal."
The existence of high-level superhumans almost ignores nuclear radiation as long as they are not killed on the spot. They can avoid the core blast zone of the nuclear bomb, and at least survive in theory. To kill a peak superhuman or a leader, more than thirty nuclear bombs need to be launched in conjunction, directly turning an area into a glass land.
The old man knew this very well, so he was quite regretful, "It is indeed a rare opportunity, but our base in the Demon Beast Realm has been completely destroyed, it's just that pile of ruins behind you. Neither the calibration positioning system nor the launch pad are gone, and there's no time to temporarily call in thermonuclear weapons from other bases."
"I see." Su Zhou was quite regretful. It seemed that he couldn't use the supreme martial arts secret of 'All kinds of martial arts, this is a nuclear bomb!' this time.
He had always been unconstrained when it came to eliminating enemies. In a sense, he was a true mixed martial artist. If he could use a nuclear bomb, he would never use artillery, if he could use artillery, he would never use a long knife. If he could use weapons, he would never fight with his bare hands—no need to talk about morality with evil people!
But soon, he thought of another way.
"Your satellites and drones here can still be used, right?"
"They certainly can." The bald supervisor nodded slightly. He led Su Zhou to a simple temporary camp, "After the Two Realms Fortress was destroyed, we built a new data center as soon as possible. Here, you can observe the perspective of all satellites and drones."
"That's good, call up one for me."
"It's possible..."
Su Zhou was not polite at all, and the supervisor was slightly taken aback. He was not making things difficult. Now it was a multinational joint operation, and Su Zhou was at least five levels higher than him in terms of administrative rank. Not to mention a satellite, he could even take over the command of the base now.
The middle-aged man was mainly unclear about Su Zhou's purpose—if he wanted to run over to the Descendant Society to make trouble by himself, that would be absolutely impossible. Both the Zheng Nation Security Bureau and the Concordance Bureau had told him about this problem...
"Don't worry, I'll stay here and not go anywhere."
Su Zhou understood the other party's difficulties very well and explained patiently, "However, just because I don't go over there doesn't mean I can't attack them."
"Long-range attack, you understand? I need a satellite to calibrate my trajectory and detailed positioning—of course, I also need some shells."
A few minutes later, Su Zhou got everything he wanted.
"Seven hundred and forty kilometers away from the Two Realms Portal? It's only been a few days, and they've run so far and established a hidden base... Compared to these reckless fanatics, the Europa Alliance's exploration speed is too slow."
Standing in the air from afar, Su Zhou carried more than a dozen alloy electromagnetic cannon shells and stared at the information displayed on the terminal in his hand. Then, he flew higher and higher, even beyond the clouds, into the stratosphere of the Demon Beast Realm.
The Demon Beast Realm was different from the Beast God Realm. This place was a planet's terrain, and there was even a starry sky outside. Many Europa researchers believed that the Demon Beast Realm was even in the same universe as Earth. The Two Realms Portal was just a natural space-time channel.
But this was not within the scope of Su Zhou's current thinking. He had already built a topographical map of the surrounding area and the Descendant Society's camp in his mind.
Then, his whole body began to overflow with 'Storm Seeds' that flickered with active spiritual light.
The Storm Seeds after Su Zhou's modification had far more wind power than the original version. Its full-power ejection could even accelerate a huge true form of more than three thousand tons to supersonic speed. Even ordinary carrier rockets of the same size did not have this output.
Even if they were scattered, a few Storm Seeds could be combined into a Dragon Breath Cannon, launching a high-intensity breath sufficient to melt steel and break iron.
And now, more than five hundred Storm Seeds were falling off of Su Zhou like scattered scales. They formed a spiritual force skeleton composed of virtual lines along a spiritual light, and Su Zhou was still constantly filling his spiritual power into the interior, gradually converging into a huge 'cannon barrel.'
At this time, his altitude had exceeded 20,000 meters, and he was still rising continuously.
——Yes, he did promise the Concordance Bureau that he would not go anywhere, but they did not say that he could not fly a little higher.
Above the flowing clouds, the dark blue sky above his head had become thin. On the ground, it could be seen that Su Zhou's blue-purple spiritual light had turned into a shining star. Raphael, who was still on the ground, had understood Su Zhou's idea, "This guy Su Zhou... Could it be that he plans to attack from such a long distance?!"
"That's more than seven hundred kilometers!"
But in the end, more than seven hundred kilometers, this extremely long distance for ordinary people, was just a distance that could be reached in a few minutes for Su Zhou, who had risen to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and could easily accelerate any shell to ten times the speed of sound.
At this moment, lightning was flashing in front of Su Zhou. On a spiritual force track paved with Storm Seeds, an extremely dazzling magnetic arc was flashing. It extended in the atmosphere, forming a giant 'cannon barrel' nearly a hundred meters long.
With a casual wave, Su Zhou filled the shell into this electromagnetic cannon completely composed of spiritual force—he should thank the Zheng Nation government for allowing him to visit and personally try out various high-precision weapons, otherwise, he would need some time to design such a weapon structure by himself.
Immediately afterward, accompanied by a buzzing current sound, the spiritual force electromagnetic cannon began to operate.
The Storm Seeds began to emit a blue light, starting to charge one by one. The extremely dangerous thunder light was like a coiling dragon winding around a jade pillar, and the terrifying electromagnetic force was rapidly rotating and converging within it, starting to impart the accelerating force of 'forward.'
"Times have changed, you Descendant Society lunatics!" Laughing loudly, Su Zhou then 'pressed' the launch button.
Buzz—Buzz—Boom!
In the high air, a gust of wind rose due to the high heat. In the next instant, the alloy shell was naturally accelerated to a speed that human eyes could not observe at all through the dozens of layers of electromagnetic acceleration rings formed by hundreds of Storm Seeds.
Then, it surpassed the speed of sound, turning into a bright orange-red spot of light like the sun in the air, flashing past in the distant sky, leaving only a black mark on the retina.
Then, it was the second shot, the third shot, the fourth shot—
The orange-red stars were like shooting stars, constantly streaking across the sky. The sharp arrows that pierced through the sky were descending from the sky, hitting their targets.
"Is this... the power of a leader?"
Combining modern technology and the power of cultivation, the concretization of the Awakened as the 'strongest individual productivity' gave birth to a creation... that was the great power that could be comparable to an army with one's own strength!
Raphael suddenly understood a little. His previous thinking about his own path was still too limited to the ancient seal-bearer inheritance—yes, dividing himself into several parts, sealing the power of the spirit beast separately, and combining them into one at a critical time could indeed unleash extremely powerful power.
But no one said that it was necessary to seal those spirit beasts that did not have much cooperation like the ancients did!
He could design some powerful spiritual force mechanical parts specifically and integrate them with his body in the form of a seal. When multiple spiritual force mechanical parts were combined into one, they would form a complete giant war beast—wouldn't this kind of cooperation be better than sealing some powerful spirit beasts randomly before?
Not to mention Raphael, who had gained new insights again.
In the distance, the Descendant Society's camp was now welcoming the destruction from afar.
The orange-red steel stars were falling from the sky, and by the time the leaders of the Descendant Society noticed, it was too late to defend.
Boom!
The first electromagnetic cannon actually didn't hit the camp. It landed on a hill two kilometers to the left of the camp. Then, there was a flash like lightning and a roar that was loud enough to shatter eardrums!
Bang! A scorching storm suddenly rose, directly digging a huge pit in the hill. Like a bullet, black rock fragments flew in all directions, along with dust, causing vibrations like a small earthquake, causing many Descendant Society members in the camp to let out terrified wails and then all lie prostrate on the ground.
Most of the ordinary Descendant Society members came from street thugs. If they had not been desperate, they would have had to sell themselves to the Descendant Society, or they would have taken the initiative to explore, wanting to obtain the superior mysterious power.
The former will not be discussed for the time being. Will the latter decrease because of the Spiritual Energy Resurgence and the popularization of cultivation methods all over the world?
The answer is no—in fact, it has increased instead.
Not any national force can be like the forces in the three central regions, which can allow a group of masters to analyze the best, most universal, and most gentle cultivation methods for ordinary people to practice. For those peripheral countries, the popularization methods they give are far less attractive than the inheritance given by organizations like the Descendant Society.
What's more, compared to becoming a country's lackey, why not choose a free life and become a local emperor who can dominate one side?
And the members who were willing to follow the leaders of the Descendant Society to the other world were all loyalists among the loyalists, and most of them were suitable for the Heavenly God inheritance—they believed that in this other world without major forces, the organization could develop to its heart's content and become a truly great force that could be on par with major countries.
However, such fragile dreams were shattered by the orange-red stars that came from afar and fell one after another.
"Block these things!"
The Manipulator screamed at this time. She had noticed the incoming shells as early as when the first electromagnetic cannon shell fell, and then used her ability to shift the trajectory of the first two shells, allowing them to 'happen' to fall into the area next to the camp.
But that was her limit. Although her reaction speed allowed her to continue to detect the trajectories of other shells, her spiritual power could not keep up.
"What is this?! Is it an attack from the Concordance Bureau?"
Blocking an electromagnetic cannon shell was actually not a big deal for a superhuman at the peak stage. Soon, the Reborn also stepped forward. The gray-white wings behind him gradually turned red, emitting a golden-red glow—in the next instant, his whole person seemed to have turned into a burning firebird, directly turning into a flame and swallowing an electromagnetic cannon.
However, they were the only two who could react in the first instant, and the others were still a step slower.
The Arborist immediately summoned his strongest defense, rock-iron spirit trees with bark like iron stone, and protected some important areas in the camp—but even so, in the face of the electromagnetic cannon that came with great kinetic energy, the rock-iron spirit trees were just fragile things that could be destroyed in one blow.
The Summoner and the Exchanger joined forces, one using a law-enforcement shield, and the other using souls as the price to exchange for blessings, strengthening the Summoner's power, causing her shield to turn into more than a dozen layers of translucent shields, blocking six electromagnetic cannons before being penetrated.
But even so, a few electromagnetic cannons were not blocked or shifted, and still landed in the Descendant Society's camp.
Roars rang out.
In the violent explosion, most of the ordinary Descendant Society members lost consciousness. A scorching wind of hundreds of degrees swept through, enough to kill ordinary people whose strength had not reached the Awakened stage in an instant—the lucky ones died in an instant, and the unlucky ones had large-scale burns on their entire skin, but could not die immediately for a while.
Buildings collapsed. The permanent fortifications built with high-strength cement did not collapse, but the stratum appeared to be slightly fluctuating due to the continuous vibrations, causing these fortifications to become skewed.
The smell of grilled meat and melting metal floated in the air, and the screams of agony were like arriving on a war battlefield that had been saturated with bombing.
In the blink of an eye, the Descendant Society's camp, which had not suffered heavy damage even when attacked by thousands of demon beasts, was bombarded into a mess.
"Borneff, why are you just watching?! Have you betrayed us?!"
Looking at all this, the Reborn was really anxious and angry. Even they attached great importance to these core members of the Descendant Society—no matter what, they could cultivate the Heavenly Mystery Method. At the very least, these people could also serve as their resources for advancement, and dying so easily was equivalent to wasting their property.
And from beginning to end, the Silent One did not move.
If he, who had the strength of a leader, had taken action, he would have been able to block all the electromagnetic cannons—but he stopped in place, watching all this indifferently.
Faced with his companions' questioning, Borneff finally uttered his first sentence after a long silence.
"Isn't it all the same?"
The tone was not indifferent, but deep sorrow. The Silent One actually shed tears. This red-haired Slavic giant actually cried without any warning, "What's the difference between dying now and dying in a few hours?"
"In any case, it is such a painful end. Leaving this world sooner may be a relief for them."
Tears fell in large drops, but his expression did not change. Even the leaders of the Descendant Society, who were as crazy as they were, subconsciously closed their mouths at this bizarre scene.
"I am just sad, just in pain. Why is there someone in this painful world who has no pain... It's too dazzling, it hurts my eyes."
Saying so, the Silent One looked into the distance. Just like his sudden tears before, he suddenly returned to a normal expression, "We can't defend in place. He can exhaust us to death with remote attacks alone."
"Use all our strength to eliminate the other party. I have a hunch that as long as we kill that guy, then with the Concordance Bureau's strength alone, we will no longer be threatened."
"...Since you plan to take action, then we will listen to you."
The leaders of the Descendant Society looked at each other. Although the Silent One's actions were extremely strange, and he might have gone crazy in the process of listening to the Apocalypse, or he was originally crazy, after so many years, everyone knew that he would do what he said.
At least, after decades of working together, they were willing to believe the other party in terms of strength.
And the previous defeat of the Concordance Bureau's high-level combat power did give them considerable confidence—the electromagnetic cannon was just a sudden attack, taking advantage of them having just been attacked by demon beasts. As long as they faced each other head-on, they would never give the other party a chance to use this method!
Thus, ten minutes later.
The elite armed forces of the Descendant Society, fully armed and even equipped with exoskeleton armor, turned into phantoms and plunged into the dense forest.
And Su Zhou, who had returned to the earth again, smiled at the stunned supervisor beside him, "How is it?"
"I indeed haven't moved an inch, right?"
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