96: Sleepy Capybara
"Captain, where... where did this little brat come from?"
"Could he be an accomplice of this Capybara?"
"Hahaha! A Capybara and an Infant? What kind of bizarre combination is this?"
The Black Armored Captain did not laugh.
He had survived on this peril-filled Barbaric Star until today by relying on caution.
The timing of this Infant's appearance was too strange.
He scanned Su Jue with his tactical eyepiece.
[Target: Unknown carbon-based lifeform (human cub form)]
[Vital Signs: Normal]
[Energy Reaction: None]
[Threat Level: Zero]
Seeing the scan results, the Black Armored Captain breathed a sigh of relief.
So it was just an ordinary child.
Probably brought here by some blind adventurer.
The parents were really something, not even being able to look after a child.
"Hmph, some bastard child popping out of nowhere."
He snorted coldly, killing intent surging in his eyes once more.
"Since you've seen our secret, don't think you're leaving alive!"
"Slaughter this brat along with it!"
"Yes!"
A Black Armored Warrior grinned cruelly and turned his gun, aiming it at Su Jue.
However, at the very moment he was about to pull the trigger,
Su Jue's figure suddenly vanished from before his eyes.
"Eh?"
The Black Armored Warrior froze for a moment.
Where was the person?
Before he could react,
a small hand lightly pressed onto his helmet.
"Too slow."
Su Jue's voice echoed faintly in his ear.
The Black Armored Warrior's entire body stiffened as an extreme terror instantly submerged him!
He wanted to call for help, but found he couldn't even move a single finger!
Crack—!
A crisp sound rang out.
That helmet, forged from Super-polymerized K-gold and strong enough to withstand cannon fire, was easily crushed like a walnut by Su Jue along with the head inside!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
Everyone stared blankly at this scene.
Watching the headless corpse of the Black Armored Warrior crash to the ground.
Watching that Infant expressionlessly flick away the bloodstains on his hand.
Gulp.
Someone, it was unclear who, swallowed hard.
"Monster..."
The Black Armored Captain's voice became hoarse with fear.
"Run! Run!"
Without a second thought, he turned to flee!
However... "Jie jie jie jie..."
Su Jue's strange laughter, like the whisper of a Death god, echoed in the ears of every Black Armored Warrior.
He slowly raised his head, and those eyes that were originally innocent had turned into golden abysses at some point.
[Divine Ability: Decay Aura!]
Buzz... A circle of grey ripples suddenly expanded with him as the center!
First, six battle-hardened Black Armored Warriors, the lowest being Domain Transformation Realm First Level, were swept by the grey ripples, and then... they turned to ash!
They didn't even have time to let out a scream.
Not a single trace of resistance was left behind.
It was as if they had never existed.
What kind of ghostly ability was this?!
A Law?!
It was the legendary power of Laws! And a high-tier negative Law at that!
The Black Armored Captain's head was buzzing, his mind a complete blank.
It wasn't that he hadn't seen powerhouses who mastered Laws; which of those old monsters in the Federation didn't play with Laws to perfection?
But damn it, even a Divine Ability Realm, or even a King Realm, absolutely couldn't do it with such nonchalance!
This was no longer a battle.
This was erasure!
It was conceptually wiping a Life form completely from this universe!
And the one who did all this... was actually just a harmless-looking, even somewhat cute... Infant?!
"Run! Run even if you can't escape!!"
The Black Armored Captain's brain was completely occupied by fear; mission, secrets, honor—everything was tossed to the back of his mind.
His only thought now was to escape!
The further away from this devil in animal pajamas, the better!
The thrusters on his back instantly went into overload, and his whole body turned into a streak of light, rushing toward the sky without looking back!
The other surviving warrior also reacted, similarly activating the emergency escape program of his exoskeleton armor.
However.
Su Jue just stood quietly in place, not even bothering to lift his head.
"Want to leave?"
He spat out three words in a childish voice.
The next second.
Thud.
Thud.
Those two Black Armored Warriors who had just rushed a hundred meters into the air were like two birds with broken wings, falling straight down from the sky and crashing heavily into the swamp, splashing two large clouds of mud.
Their exoskeleton armor was intact.
Their bodies had no injuries.
But their Life force had completely vanished the moment they fell.
[Decay Aura].
With Su Jue's current peak fifth level True Essence Realm strength and his deepening understanding of the [Decay Law], the power of this divine ability was no longer what it used to be.
As long as it was within his domain, he was the monarch who presided over decay and Death.
Unless the opponent's strength was too great, if he wanted someone to die, they must die.
He didn't even need to do it himself.
A single thought was enough.
The entire battlefield fell into silence once more.
Only the thick smell of blood and the burnt scent of metal permeated the air.
Niu Tuo and Mao Xiaomeng, hiding behind the rocks, were completely dumbfounded.
Dullness was written all over Niu Tuo's massive bovine face.
His mouth was agape, and he didn't even notice the drool trickling down the corner of his mouth.
He felt like his brain wasn't enough to process this.
Just now, any one of those seven or eight Black Armored Warriors was no weaker than him, especially that captain with a seventh-level Domain Transformation Realm cultivation; he would be considered a significant figure even in their adventurer circles.
And the high-tech equipment on them clearly had a major background.
And the result?
In front of his young master, they were like paper.
With a wave of a hand, a group died.
With a single look, two more fell.
Is this... even human?
Mao Xiaomeng was even more terrified, her whole body trembling, her cat ears drooping, and her tail tightly tucked between her legs, wishing she could shrink into a ball.
She was now incredibly grateful that she had knelt fast enough and called him "Daddy" loudly enough back then.
Otherwise, her end would likely be a portion of that pile of ash on the ground.
Too terrifying.
This Little Ancestor was simply a cosmic beast in an Infant's skin!
Su Jue ignored the shock of his two servants.
He slowly turned around and cast his gaze toward the center of the battlefield.
Toward that... Capybara, which had maintained a Zen-like posture from beginning to end.
That Capybara was also tilting its head, using its half-closed small eyes to curiously observe Su Jue.
In its eyes, there was no fear, no shock, only inquiry and laziness.
It was as if that one-sided massacre just now was, in its view, like watching a boring silent play.
A bit interesting.
Su Jue grinned, revealing a smile that looked kind to himself but incredibly creepy to others.
He stepped out with his short legs, walking toward the Capybara step by step.
With every step he took, Niu Tuo and Mao Xiaomeng's hearts skipped a beat.
They had no doubt that in the next second, this little demon king would reach out his small hand and turn this Capybara into a pile of mush as well.
However, just as Su Jue was less than three meters from the Capybara,
that Capybara actually... let out another yawn.