Chapter 787: Bloodbath, The Uprising That Ended Before It Began
Hekiryu descended from a height of two meters with an unchanged expression. Because she unconsciously flew into the air while casting magic, she managed to avoid the terrifying shockwave just now.
She clearly saw the crimson prompts on her interface. Just from the aftershock of that descending strike smashing into the ground, two unlucky members of their assembly who happened to be on the ground were killed by the tremor.
Both were Second Step Reincarnators, already considered transcendents to ordinary people. But in front of Mercenary Tao, they were no different from insects. Mercenary Tao himself probably didn't even notice their existence...
Hekiryu put away the Book of the Dead and moved behind Baldur. The others also basically gathered at this time.
Riding undead warhorses, they were not affected by the impact due to the special nature of the Nazgûl steeds. Their condition was still decent at this moment.
"Lord Mercenary Tao, you actually... Why did you strike to kill immediately? We can talk!"
Baldur forced down his anger, his tone stiffly changing. He originally wanted to lash out, but looking at the special crown on Mercenary Tao's head and recalling this guy's past actions, fear inexplicably arose in his heart.
But at the same time, Baldur felt even more baffled. With so many assemblies causing trouble, why was his the one found by Mercenary Tao?
Zzt~
Imperceptible blue-white electric sparks flashed in the air. Baldur felt as if his cerebral cortex had been pierced by something.
Kaito Shirogane slowly rose from the crater. He had a smile on his face, his hands behind his back. Because the Stairway of Binary Antinomy of Good and Evil had been perfected, his hair color no longer maintained that half-black, half-white appearance, but would instead change according to his good or evil alignment.
[Antinomy of Absolute Good and Evil - The power of absolute antinomy that absorbed the Zoroastrian dualistic concept of good and evil]
[Trait: Absolute Good (Mythic): Represents the Authority of Absolute Good. Any attack from entities belonging to the righteous, good, or similar factions and concepts will be resisted by up to 85%. You will also generate an additional affinity suppression of up to 200% against entities belonging to the evil, chaotic, or similar factions. You can pass all checks related to "Good".]
[Trait: Absolute Evil (Mythic): Represents the necessity of Absolute Evil. At least 1% of any attack caused by darkness, evil, negative energy, abilities, or Authorities will be converted into regeneration and immortality. You cannot be killed by the power of evil; the stronger the power of evil, the stronger the regenerative power you obtain. Effects containing the power of evil cannot pass checks against you.]
[Ability: Antinomy of Good and Evil (Special): You can actively reverse the good/evil state of a target and yourself.] (Current: Absolute Evil)
Kaito Shirogane looked around and didn't spot a single Sovereign Monarch. In other words, this group of guys who dared to ignore his warning and initiate operations "without a license" were truly complete idiots from head to toe.
He lost interest in this group and judged them all to be lacking in value.
If Reincarnators could be cultivated just by relying on some Singularity Points and Dimensional Points, the Infinite Dimensional Space could have as many as it wanted.
Those who could truly generate "value" must be guys with more talent.
"There is no need to converse with you lot."
The resonance between his magnetic field and Mantra Network easily read the thoughts of these Reincarnators. Every single one of them was hopelessly stupid.
Kaito Shirogane looked around and confirmed that the target furthest from him was no more than a few hundred meters away. He took a light breath.
Huu~
A thick white mist appeared like a mirage. The terrifying inhalation directly caused atomization in the surroundings. The Demon Dragon Heart Furnace within Kaito Shirogane's body pumped madly.
Thump, thump, thump...
At this moment, Hekiryu realized Mercenary Tao was about to attack without needing Baldur's reminder.
Before the chill from her tailbone could flow through her body, she had already reacted. As she fell backward, her body rapidly twisted and transformed into a giant snake, shooting off into the distance almost like an arrow.
The higher-ups riding the Nazgûl steeds were all high-tier Reincarnators, their reactions far quicker than Hekiryu's. They were already prepared almost as soon as Mercenary Tao remained silent.
At this moment, various abilities were executed simultaneously.
[Finger of Death]!
[Disintegration Ray]!
[Avada Kedavra]!
[Banshee's Wail]
Various abilities smashed into the white mist simultaneously, accurately hitting Mercenary Tao. These abilities were highly lethal spells, causing astonishing damage to flesh and blood.
Baldur raised his hands high, and a golden phantom appeared behind him.
The [Will of the Ancestors] began to descend, combining with his divine power. He could briefly transform into a state approaching a divine body; this was the foundation that allowed him to rank among top-tier Reincarnators.
The transformation effect briefly granting half-step 7th-Tier Authority was enough to give him an overwhelming advantage in some small-scale battles.
Baldur's body expanded, enveloped in a golden divine body, but he stared unblinking at the ball of white mist being sucked into Mercenary Tao's body like a waterspout.
Rays of various colors, enveloping energy that could easily kill high-tier Reincarnators, struck Mercenary Tao's body, but only rippled out concentric rings of flaming light.
A sudden chill ran through Baldur's heart. He once again felt the terror he experienced that day when he saw Sousuke kill their two leaders with a single punch from thousands of meters away. No, this time it was even more terrifying.
Mercenary Tao's malice was far beyond Sousuke's level of only punishing the chief culprits. Mercenary Tao didn't even ask a single question.
He wanted to kill everyone...
"Hah!"
Kaito Shirogane stretched as if taking the most comfortable stretch of his life. After inhaling enough air, he exhaled loudly.
After a moment of stagnation, the surrounding air abruptly tightened towards Kaito Shirogane as if collapsing, and then exploded thunderously.
Terrifying light and heat, accompanied by blazing thunder.
Upon seeing the prompts [Your attack was resisted by the target] on their interfaces, these high-tier Reincarnators had long realized things were bad and executed their abilities to flee at top speed.
Riding Nazgûl was considered slow; some flew thousands of meters away on brooms.
But the terrifying explosion swept across thousands of meters in an instant with an even more exaggerated speed and scale. Amidst the surging lightning, it continuously shot towards the surroundings.
Hekiryu, catapulting through the air, only felt a devastating high heat striking from behind. She wanted to cast magic, but a bolt of lightning pierced directly through her head. The purple-black giant snake turned into ashes in mid-air.
[You have killed Reincarnator GH33749812]
[You have killed Reincarnator NH69541177]
[You have killed...]
A row of prompts refreshed before Kaito Shirogane's eyes. Under the perception of the Mantra Network, there were no longer any breathing creatures around.
This group of Reincarnators, along with their unpresentable summons, were all震killed by an earth-shattering [World-Shaking Thunder Roar] driven by 500,000 Volts of Magnetic Field Rotation.
The enhancement brought by the Martial God's Ultimate Intent was comprehensive. Any of Kaito Shirogane's abilities now could reach a realm previously untouchable.
Even techniques like Magnetic Field Rotation would become even more terrifying due to the enhancement of the Ultimate Intent.
Even without activating the Kaio-Ken, Kaito Shirogane's current base state could easily unleash destructive power in the upper-middle levels of the [Fierce] tier.
In fact, if he went all out, Kaito Shirogane already possessed the level of a natural-disaster-class magnetic field user.
It was just that these guys in front of him weren't worthy of witnessing that kind of power.
Kaito Shirogane crouched down, looking at the bloodied and mangled man whose fake divine body had shattered. That chimera had already turned into a charred husk.
"You should know very well, Baldur. You survived not because you're stronger than them, but because I let you live."
Baldur's consciousness was blurry, a burning pain radiating from everywhere on his body. He wanted to speak, but coughed up a mouthful of charred blood instead.
It's no good, my internal organs were also pierced by the lightning. Without returning to the Space, mid-level regenerative power simply cannot heal this...
Baldur was still thinking about how he could survive.
"Baldur, go and issue your dying words within your assembly."
Zzzt~
Electric light pierced the space between his eyebrows, directly shocking his cerebral cortex. Baldur's consciousness rapidly began to twist, his will quickly dissipating, unconsciously obeying the command in his ear.
On a certain South Asian island nation, a group of Reincarnators activated a [Human Transmutation Circle]. They recklessly used the lives of ordinary humans as a price, carrying out forbidden alchemy.
They had done this kind of thing countless times in task worlds, but doing it in the real world felt different after all.
The leader, codenamed [Mauritius], used an avatar that looked like a South Asian, but he was actually from Eastland; his real name was Li Qiusi. He looked at the murdered police officers and the ordinary people now kneeling one by one, begging him to at least spare their families.
The fear and twistedness in his heart, born from being thrown into the Infinite Dimensional Space and constantly facing life-and-death trials, were greatly alleviated.
He raised his hands high, and the light of the transmutation circle shone. But the next moment, a golden ray shot down from the sky.
Zing~ Pfft!
Mauritius collapsed to the ground with a thud. A clear hole was left in his face, the flesh inside charred black and still emitting smoke.
"This is—"
Zing~ Pfft!
Another ray, and another Reincarnator was similarly shot dead. This group of Third Step Reincarnators finally reacted, but there was no room to dodge at all. Golden rays rained down from the sky like a downpour.
Every strike accurately sniped one person. In just a dozen seconds, everyone was picked off one by one, leaving only one person shivering in place.
Looking at the black-haired man slowly descending from the sky.
"Lord... Mercenary Tao..."
He fell to his knees with a thud. Watching Crimson Drop Cards condense and appear one after another, he almost fainted.
Unlucky, too unlucky. Why did Mercenary Tao choose our side? Our group of Third Step Reincarnators shouldn't even be worth Mercenary Tao making a move...
Little did he know, Kaito Shirogane never intended to spare anyone.
"Issue your dying words to the assembly~"
[MI0] transformed into a supersonic fighter jet and soared freely in the sky, having long since broken through the sonic boom cloud. As someone who had completely abandoned her human body to join the mechanical revolution...
[MI0] had never felt as free as she did now.
She even wanted to unleash a barrage on the island below, but thinking of Mercenary Tao's warning and the cautions from everyone in [Machina God]...
MI0, whose physical age was still only 15, suppressed her impulses and quickly arrived in Myanmar.
The country's air defenses were practically non-existent to begin with, and with the emergence of [Paradise], they had completely abandoned any semblance of defense.
Many Reincarnators guessed that the leaders of Myanmar had already reached an agreement with Mercenary Tao, or rather, had already become his puppets.
This also deterred other Reincarnators from pulling any boring power-grabbing stunts in this country.
She quickly spotted the massive city continuously flashing with the light of various Reincarnators' abilities. With the constant influx of Reincarnators, it was expanding almost every day.
The ordinary people around had long been relocated. Reincarnators had ample ability and geographical conditions to expand outwards.
MI0 transformed mid-air, landing as a silver-gray robot about three meters tall.
Her appearance immediately elicited a chorus of exclamations.
Those residing in Paradise year-round were primarily low-to-mid-tier Reincarnators; there weren't many high-tier Reincarnators to begin with, let alone such rare pure tech-side high-tier Reincarnators.
MI0 was quite satisfied with her entrance. She strode into Paradise. The streets here had been widened, so even she could walk comfortably.
However, she also saw many Reincarnators using abilities to fly in the air, and some were even using teleportation abilities.
This indicated that the number of high-tier Reincarnators within Paradise was rapidly increasing.
Moreover... this place absolutely did not forbid the use of abilities!
"Hey, the big iron frame over there, what's your business? Come register!"
Koujin, sporting long red hair, carrying the Xueyin Saber on his back, and exuding a profound aura, leaned against a shop near the entrance of Paradise.
With a cigar from some task world in his mouth, he waved his hand, signaling the Transformer to come over and register.
After his initial shock and disappointment, Koujin had grown accustomed to this job as "Paradise Gatekeeper."
He had seen Reincarnators with all sorts of enhancements here. At first, people occasionally caused trouble, requiring him to intervene. But now, due to Mercenary Tao's increasingly terrifying reputation...
Few dared to cause trouble openly. As for what happened in private, that wasn't his concern.
MI0 also recognized the somewhat famous [Koujin] of the East District. It was said that he was now the owner of a unique title, a high-tier Reincarnator of the martial arts system with strength approaching that of a top-tier Reincarnator.
To think he was only a gatekeeper in Paradise.
MI0's inflated ego reigned itself in slightly. She dutifully walked over to Koujin and explained her purpose.
Koujin raised an eyebrow, then pointed to the shop-like building next to him and said, "Then you'll have to find a way to shrink down a bit. The registration is inside. There's quite a line right now, you—"
MI0's mechanical eyes instantly calculated that there were over twenty people in line, and further away, many more Reincarnators were walking towards them. Judging by their movements, they were all here to register?!
She immediately accessed the database. Intelligence sharing within [Machina God] was incredibly fast; by simply sharing the database, one person's intel was shared with everyone.
The next moment, MI0's mechanical eyes opened and closed a few times.
[Mercenary Tao ruthlessly bloodwashes 13 assemblies, slaying over a hundred Reincarnators. The East District uprising has ended.]
[Top-tier Reincarnator Baldur issues dying words: I shouldn't have made an enemy of Lord Mercenary Tao. The Golden Dynasty is henceforth disbanded.]
[Massive clearance sale of Crimson Drop Cards at Mercenary Tao's shantytown stall.]