143: Chapter 143 Three Thousand People Kneel Before Me

In the communicator, Chen Chen said only two words.

The armored door popped open again.

Jiang Yanxue's dark red pupils flashed at an altitude of five hundred meters.

The Shadow Instant-Kill Blade unsheathed.

She jumped decisively from the hatch, completing three mid-air maneuvers during freefall with her 47 points of agility.

She landed silently.

The next second, a dark red afterimage cut into the crowd of believers.

Blood splattered.

Jiang Yanxue's blade was so fast that only red lines could be seen.

With the Shadow Instant-Kill Blade combined with the pink mutated desire-toxin applied by Blood Rose, every slash caused the believers' mutated muscles to go limp, losing all resistance.

One slash, one kill.

Su Xiaoqi had been thrown down by Jiang Yanxue.

The 1.6-meter tall doll-faced loli flipped several times in the air, her twin tails spinning like a propeller.

Upon landing, her feet smashed into the rock face, and the flying debris stunned three nearby believers.

She grabbed a two-meter-tall mutated believer—

One punch.

The person flew forty meters away, collapsing half of the rock wall.

"Fun!"

Su Xiaoqi shook the blood off her fist and charged at the next target.

Five hundred meters above, at the Sky Fortress, Qin Hongye lay on the shooting platform of the fifth-floor dome, her Gauss sniper rifle equipped with automatic ballistic correction, firing every three seconds and targeting only the leaders with the highest energy fluctuations among the believers.

Fatal Lock—a 45% weakness marking rate.

Mark one, kill one.

The communication channel was filled with Qin Hongye's cold reporting voice: "Target three neutralized. Target four neutralized. Target five—"

After receiving the order, Iron Wall's first military echelon unleashed a hail of bullets from the medium-caliber machine guns of twenty-seven armored vehicles from the edge of the canyon, blocking the believers who were trying to escape.

Jiang Jiuyou's Dark Division, with six modified off-road vehicles equipped with rapid-fire cannons, precisely cut through the remaining believer war vehicles from the flank.

The landlady's voice emerged from the fortress's first-level broadcast: "Dear guests—Melee damage boost potions on special! Five primary cores per bottle! The more you buy, the better the deal!"

Blood Rose almost choked with laughter upon hearing this, and pink toxic mist spread from around her, enveloping the entire middle section of the canyon.

The believers lost their coordination in the toxic mist and were cleared out one by one by the Dark Division members following behind.

From the start to the finish—eleven minutes.

Three thousand two hundred and seventeen fanatical believers of the Bishop of Ashes.

Completely annihilated.

The public channel was silent for a full five seconds.

Then—

"Three—three thousand people? In eleven minutes?"

"One thousand wiped out by S-rank weapons, and the remaining two thousand cleared by ground troops?"

"Is this even something humans can do???"

Chen Chen had already stepped over the remains of believers covering the ground and walked to the dead end of the rock wall deep in the canyon.

Yi Chang leaned against the rock wall.

The light in her icy blue slit pupils was extremely faint. Her silver-gray snake tail lay limp on the ground, with more than half of the scales fallen off, revealing the tender pinkish-white flesh underneath.

Her light armor was shattered into three pieces hanging on her body, her upper body covered in large patches of silver-gray scale patterns was exposed to the air, and a deep, bone-visible laceration on her chest was still oozing blood.

Hearing footsteps, she struggled to raise her broken energy spear.

Then she saw who it was.

"...You?"

Her slit pupils dilated.

Chen Chen crouched down.

Yi Chang's spear slipped from her hand.

Her attention was no longer on her wounds.

She looked at the man in front of her—how long had it been since the apocalypse?

When they last met in the ruined city, he was already strong enough.

But now—

She looked up.

Five hundred meters above, the dark golden fortress obscured the sky.

She looked down again.

Under her feet, the remains of three thousand believers covered the entire canyon.

"How... how did you..."

The last of the twenty-plus believers surrounding her was trying to sneak an attack from behind—a mutated tentacle shot toward the back of her head.

A flash of purple light.

The tentacle, along with the believer's entire arm, was severed at the root.

Chen Chen's void-rending ship-slaying blade returned to its sheath, and his other hand had already caught Yi Chang's waist as she was falling to the side.

The touch surprised him for half a second.

Her waist was extremely slender.

The upper part was warm, soft skin close to that of a human female, transitioning downward to cool, smooth, fine scales.

The dividing line between the two completely different textures was right around the dimple of her waist.

Yi Chang's slit pupils constricted sharply.

"Let..."

"Shut up."

Chen Chen scooped her up.

With 147 points of constitution, holding a half-human, half-snake alien female with one hand was as light as holding a pillow.

Yi Chang's snake tail instinctively wrapped around Chen Chen's calf—cold-blooded creatures instinctively seek heat sources after blood loss.

And Chen Chen's body temperature was close to forty degrees after the previous Physical Overlimit boost, making him a walking heater for the Snake Scale Tribe.

"Wrap tight." Chen Chen's voice came from above.

Yi Chang's face turned from silver-gray to an indescribable light pink.

She gritted her teeth and said nothing.

But the snake tail did indeed wrap tighter.

The communicator rang.

"Chen Chen, battlefield cleanup complete."

Shen Wanbing's voice came from above.

"Tell Wanxing to come down."

Three minutes later.

Shen Wanxing, wearing pink high heels, wobbled as she walked down the suspension ladder, protected by Jiang Yanxue.

She glanced at the mess on the ground, but was quickly distracted by the half-naked snake girl in Chen Chen's arms.

"A-another one?"

Chen Chen ignored her.

"Get to work."

Shen Wanxing pouted and crouched down in front of the shattered remains of the Bishop of Ashes's clone.

Shattered black seed crystals were scattered everywhere, along with a pile of various items dropped by the believer leaders.

Her fair fingers touched the first drop.

Hum—

Golden light.

Triple Critical.

A pile of high-grade materials tripled.

The second item.

Quintuple.

A golden-purple pillar of light shot up two meters high.

The third item—the remaining core fragment of the Bishop of Ashes's clone.

Shen Wanxing's fingertips just touched the surface.

The entire canyon lit up.

The sky-piercing golden-purple pillar of light expanded to over five meters in diameter, illuminating the bottom of the Sky Fortress five hundred meters above.

The system notification sound went crazy—

[God-level Talent: Lucky Critical triggered!]

[Hundred-fold multiplier activated!]

[Bishop of Ashes clone core fragment quality forced evolution!]

[Obtained item: S-rank Spirit-type building blueprint: Faith Deprivation Tower × 1!]

[Obtained item: Tier 3 Spirit Core × 100!]

[Obtained item: High-grade Ashen Faith Fragment × 500!]

The golden-purple light lasted for nearly fifteen seconds.

Shen Wanxing was crouched on the ground, enveloped by the pillar of light, completely dazed.

Chen Chen stood by, holding Yi Chang.

68 points of luck.

Hundred-fold multiplier.

He looked down and glanced at Yi Chang in his arms.

Yi Chang's slit pupils were completely dilated—as an alien, her perception of energy fluctuations was ten times sharper than a human's.

The energy level represented by this golden-purple pillar of light was already beyond the upper limit of her cognition.

"What... exactly... are you..."

He adjusted Yi Chang's position with one hand, letting her head rest in the crook of his shoulder.

"Don't move, I'm taking you up to treat your wounds."

The Ghost Fortress above lowered a suspension ladder.

Chen Chen held Yi Chang, Shen Wanxing followed behind with an armful of loot, surrounded by the remains of believers scattered throughout the canyon, with the sky-blocking fortress overhead.

In the communication channel, Iron Wall's voice had completely changed tone:

"I'll be damned... I've finally... backed the right person in this lifetime..."