164: Chapter 164 Twelve Tier 4? That's like takeout delivered to your door.

Three blood-red vortices, each over five hundred meters in diameter, hung on the skyline at the edge of the map, and dark red energy tides uprooted the floating giant trees nearby.

"Not the main body."

Shen Wanbing's fingers swiped rapidly across the panel. "The All-Seeing Eye has finished parsing—this is a long-range troop deployment channel. The Tier 5 main body is eight hundred kilometers away; its energy level cannot pass the attenuation threshold of the spatial barrier, but it can send subordinates over."

Chen Chen leaned back in the city lord's chair, crossing his legs.

"How many were sent?"

"Twelve."

Shen Wanbing's voice tightened. "All Tier 4 Beginners, and they are walking out of the vortex. Direction—straight for the Floating City."

The communication channel exploded.

Jiang Jiuyou's voice was the first to rush in: "City-wide alert! Shield charging to maximum! Fleet firepower net pre-heating!"

Iron Wall followed right after, howling: "All armored vehicles enter anti-aircraft positions! All heavy firepower loaded!"

The two thousand three hundred people in the city instantly fell into a panic.

Last time, it took Chen Chen eleven seconds to chop down that Tier 4 Commander.

Now, twelve came at once?

Chen Chen didn't move.

He stared at the twelve red dots on the holographic panel.

Next to each red dot, high-energy reaction data was marked—the energy fluctuations of top-quality blood origin crystals.

"Shen Wanbing."

"Here."

"What is the grade of the crystals those twelve are carrying?"

Shen Wanbing paused for a beat, then immediately understood something. Her fingers swiped across the panel to enlarge the scan data:

"Each person is carrying at least three to five Tier 4 blood origin crystals. The total amount—"

"That's enough."

Chen Chen stood up and took the golden ship-slaying saber off the rack.

In the communicator, Jiang Jiuyou was still coordinating: "Dark Department, everyone take your battle positions! Qin Hongye, lock onto the lead target—"

"Don't move."

Jiang Jiuyou's command stuck in her throat.

"Don't waste shells."

Chen Chen shouldered the ship-slaying saber and walked toward the city wall in his military boots. "That is takeout delivered to our doorstep."

The channel was dead silent for two seconds.

Iron Wall's adjutant muttered softly: "Take... takeout?"

On the city wall.

Chen Chen stood at the edge of the dome shield, looking down.

Above the acid marsh five hundred meters below, twelve blood-red figures were approaching at high speed.

Each one was clad in dark red blood origin heavy armor, with eerie blood-colored patterns flowing on the surface of the armor, holding various blood crystal weapons.

The leader was the largest, standing three meters tall, with four arms each holding a curved blade. Murderous light burned in its blood-red vertical pupils.

Two kilometers from the Floating City.

One kilometer.

Five hundred meters.

On the city wall, the hands of Iron Wall's soldiers holding their guns were shaking.

The terrifying combat power of that Tier 4 Commander last time was still fresh in their minds, and now twelve of the same level had come—

Chen Chen jumped off the city wall.

Five hundred meters of freefall.

Wind poured into his ears, and beneath his military boots was the churning acid marsh.

Chen Chen held the saber in one hand, the other hand tucked in his pocket, his posture excessively relaxed.

On the city wall, Jiang Jiuyou rushed to the edge to look down, her silver-white hair lifted by the airflow.

"This lunatic..."

Chen Chen landed.

The 25x Gravity Domain exploded under his feet for cushioning, his military boots landing on a floating rock platform, sending gravel flying.

The twelve Royal Court vanguard troops stopped three hundred meters away.

The four-armed commander leading them tilted its head to examine Chen Chen, its blood-red vertical pupils full of contempt.

It spoke in stiff Common Tongue:

"Just one?"

The eleven vanguard troops behind it let out low sneers, their blood origin heavy armor clashing with crisp metallic sounds.

"The Blood Origin Royal Court sent us, thinking we would meet an opponent worth fighting."

The four-armed commander raised its four curved blades, blood light surging on the blades. "Didn't expect only one to come—"

Chen Chen raised his hand.

176 points of Mental Power, materialized silver tentacles exploded from his body.

25x Absolute Control: Gravity Field—fully activated.

With Chen Chen as the center, the space within a fifty-meter radius distorted violently.

The air was compressed until it emitted a sharp whistle, and the rock platform on the ground cracked, collapsed, and shattered under the terrifying gravity.

The bodies of the twelve Tier 4 vanguard troops plummeted simultaneously.

The four-armed commander's four legs bent instantly, its knees smashing into the rock surface.

It widened its blood-red vertical pupils, its four curved blades slipping from its hands and falling to the ground, creating four deep pits.

"Wha—"

Crack.

The blood origin heavy armor began to shatter from the shoulder plates.

Dark red armor plates flew off piece by piece, revealing the muscle tissue beneath, deformed by the gravity.

Mental shock triggered simultaneously.

Under the crushing weight of 176 points of Mental Power, the Spirit attributes of the twelve Tier 4 aliens were all less than forty percent of Chen Chen's—forced paralysis for one second.

One second.

For Chen Chen, that was enough.

The golden ship-slaying saber was unsheathed.

The dark red energy patterns on the saber blade intertwined with the golden gravity pulses, and space visibly collapsed along the trajectory of the blade's edge.

One slash.

Horizontal slash.

[Gravity Collapse] triggered.

In the center of the bodies of the twelve Tier 4 vanguard troops, twelve fist-sized black spheres appeared simultaneously.

The gravitational field of the micro-black holes pulled their blood origin heavy armor, muscles, and bones toward the center point.

The golden blade aura followed, piercing through all targets.

Twelve bodies were severed at the waist.

The upper and lower halves flew in opposite directions, the cross-sections twisted into a spiral shape by the black hole force field, and the blood was evaporated before it could even spurt out.

The head of the four-armed commander rolled to the ground, the light in its blood-red vertical pupils frozen in that final expression—

Pure, unbelievable fear.

From the moment Chen Chen landed to the end of the battle.

Four seconds.

On the city wall.

Two thousand three hundred people collectively lost their voices.

Iron Wall's binoculars slipped from his hand, hitting the city wall and bouncing twice.

He opened his mouth, a vague airy sound coming from his throat, unable to squeeze out a complete word for a long time.

Jiang Jiuyou rested her hands on the edge of the city wall, her knuckles turning white.

Silver-white hair hung by her face, covering most of her expression.

Four seconds.

Twelve Tier 4s.

Four seconds.

Qin Hongye lowered the scope of her gauss rifle on the fifth-floor dome.

Some kind of more primitive shuddering surged from the depths of her spine.

In the first-floor carriage, Jiang Yanxue's saber-wiping motion stopped for a full five seconds.

Complex emotions churned in her dark red pupils, finally turning into a very light, smiling breath.

Su Xiaoqi stuffed half a piece of roasted meat in her mouth, puffed out her cheeks and glanced out the window, commenting vaguely: "Brother is so fast."

Blood Rose leaned in the booth, her wine-red curly hair scattered, and licked her lips: "Four seconds... much faster than in bed."

Shen Wanbing: "Confirm kills. All twelve Tier 4 heat sources have disappeared."

The entire channel was silent for three beats.

Then—

The sound wave erupting inside the city almost blew the dome off.

"Long live the boss!!!"

"God!!! He is a God!!!"

The fanatical shouts of two thousand three hundred people converged into a tsunami, spreading outward from the dome of the Floating City, reaching ten kilometers around.

Chen Chen stood on the rock platform and sheathed his saber.

He lowered his head to glance at the loot scattered on the ground—around the twelve corpses, a large amount of dark red crystals and equipment fragments were scattered everywhere, the energy fluctuations blindingly strong.

He pressed the communicator.

"Shen Wanxing, come down and get to work."

A vague "Oh" came from the communicator.

Three minutes later, Shen Wanxing, wrapped in a silver evening dress shawl, stepped barefoot onto the rock platform.

Jiang Yanxue followed behind her as a bodyguard, her dark red pupils scanning the surroundings vigilantly.

"Loot." Chen Chen pointed at the pile of corpses on the ground.

Shen Wanxing squatted down, her fair fingers touching the first corpse.

Hum—

5x critical hit.

A pile of Tier 4 blood origin crystals poured out, piling up into a small hill.

The second one.

10x.

The number of crystals doubled, and a few pieces of extremely high-quality blood origin essence were mixed in the middle.

Shen Wanxing's fingers moved to the remains of the four-armed commander.

She hesitated for a moment and looked at Chen Chen.

"Loot."

The moment her fingertips touched it—

The whole sky lit up.

The diameter of the gold-purple pillar of light surged to over eight meters, the brightness causing the dome of the Floating City five hundred meters above to reflect the light.

Everyone in the city looked up again, unable to open their eyes, illuminated by this pillar of light shooting into the sky.

The system prompt sounds stacked into a harsh roar.

[Triggered God-level talent · Lucky Critical! 100x multiplier activated!]

[Advanced probability triggered! Item quality forcibly upgraded!]

[SS-grade building blueprint: Cross-regional Teleportation Array — Quality forcibly upgraded to SSS-grade!]

[Obtained: SSS-grade building blueprint · Cross-regional Teleportation Array (Ultimate Edition)!]

Chen Chen took the blueprint that radiated three-colored intertwined light.

Golden, purple, and dark silver energy patterns flowed on the surface of the blueprint, the complexity far exceeding any architectural blueprint he had ever seen.

The system description floated in mid-air:

[SSS-grade · Cross-regional Teleportation Array (Ultimate Edition)]

[Effect: Can establish a fixed teleportation portal between any two points, with no upper limit on teleportation distance, and can cross map boundaries.]

[Consumption: Each activation consumes advanced vehicle core × 50.]

[Additional effect (SSS-grade exclusive): The teleportation array can open three channels simultaneously, supporting large-scale troop deployment.]

Shen Wanxing squatted on the ground, her light amber pupils wide, looking at the description on the blueprint.

"Cross... cross-map?"

Chen Chen put the blueprint into his silver-grade storage ring.

Cross-map teleportation.

This meant he could go to other Tier 2 maps to see—what the situation was like for the survivors of the same batch in other countries.

The communicator rang.

Shen Wanbing's voice pressed down with some kind of extremely restrained excitement: "Chen Chen, the manufacturing of the SSS-grade blueprint requires a large number of Tier 4 blood origin crystals as spatial anchor materials. The amount Shen Wanxing just looted—"

"Is it enough?"

"More than enough, estimated manufacturing time is twelve hours."

Chen Chen stood up on the rock platform and glanced at the three blood-red vortices slowly dissipating on the distant skyline.

The delivery channel was closing.

The Tier 5 Blood Origin Royal Court King, eight hundred kilometers away, had just lost twelve Tier 4 elites, and not even a splash had been made.

What would it think?

Chen Chen curled the corner of his mouth.

It didn't matter.

He pressed the communicator and switched to the city-wide broadcast channel.

"Shen Wanbing, twelve hours later, the teleportation array will be built."

"The first target—"

He paused.

"The map next door. I want to go and see how the survivors in other countries are doing."

The entire channel was silent for a beat.

Jiang Jiuyou's voice came from the fourth floor, with some kind of suppressed excitement: "You want to go on a cross-regional expedition?"

"It's not called an expedition." Chen Chen shouldered the ship-slaying saber and walked back in his military boots.

"It's called visiting."