138: Chapter 136 Is that the Dragon King?

Core City.

Alliance Supreme Command Center.

The piercing, highest-level red alert had been sounding for a full ten minutes.

Monitoring instruments throughout the hall flashed frantically, and energy readings were all off the charts.

Shen Yuntang and Qin Lan stood before a giant holographic projection screen, their palms drenched in cold sweat.

The holographic screen captured apocalyptic scenes at the end of the horizon.

The earth was split asunder!

Mountain ranges crumbled incessantly!

Seawater surged backward for tens of thousands of meters!

Wherever those three figures passed, it was as if a doomsday natural disaster had been unleashed.

"What... kind of monster is that?!"

An intelligence officer's voice trembled as he pointed at a black mountain of flesh covered in eyes and tentacles on the screen.

Just a single glance made one feel mentally polluted; even through the screen, it felt suffocating.

"The focus isn't that monster."

Qin Lan stared intently at the left side of the screen, where a white streamer of light kept flashing.

"That person in white is using extremely high-level Space Law. Their energy level far exceeds the peak of the Fifth Class Advancement, approaching... that legendary existence."

Shen Yuntang's heart skipped a beat as she uttered a name: "The Dragon King?"

No sooner had she spoken.

The holographic image suddenly zoomed in as the satellite finally captured the clearest view of the battle.

That once-unbeatable white streamer was being chased by the flesh-mountain monster behind it, fleeing like a cornered rat. The left half of its body was nearly gnawed away, with countless tentacles writhing frantically in the wounds.

And behind the monster, a golden light followed closely.

The footage slowed down ten thousand times.

Everyone clearly saw the person within the golden light.

Lin Mo.

With one hand in his pocket, he suddenly delivered a fierce kick!

In the footage.

Just as the White Dragon King ahead was about to tear open the void, a golden footprint appeared out of nowhere and kicked him squarely in the face.

He let out a furious curse and was sent flying backward, smashing through eight massive mountains!

The entire command center fell silent.

Everyone was shocked by Lin Mo's god-like figure!

...

The Alliance's five major cities.

The sky was torn into a dark red by an invisible giant hand.

The waters of the East Sea surged toward the sky, and the hundred thousand mountains of the Southern Wilderness were sliced into fragments by an invisible blade.

Violent earthquake waves followed one after another.

Panic spread like a plague.

The streets of the major cities were crowded with civilians and low-level professionals trying to flee.

Traffic was completely paralyzed, and screams and cries blended into one.

Air raid sirens shrieked piercingly, echoing over every city.

Alliance Supreme Command Center.

An intelligence officer rushed toward the main control console.

"Deputy Alliance Leader! Order in all major cities has collapsed entirely!"

The officer spoke rapidly.

"The people saw the mountains collapsing and the void cracks with their own eyes; they're convinced doomsday has arrived."

"Serious stampedes have occurred in all twelve shelters, and the local garrison can barely hold them back!"

Shen Yuntang stared at the battle on the holographic screen, her hands pressed against the console.

"Release the news. It can't be hidden anymore." Shen Yuntang turned to look at Qin Lan.

Qin Lan nodded heavily.

With celestial anomalies of this level, no one would believe an excuse about a meteor strike.

"Immediately issue an SSS-level city-wide announcement."

Shen Yuntang issued the command.

"Disclose the truth to everyone: the Dragon King has been resurrected."

The officer froze.

"Send it!" Shen Yuntang barked.

A minute later, the giant light screens over the five major cities were all forcibly lit up.

A bright red Alliance highest-level notice popped up.

"Warning: The sovereign of the old era, the Dragon King, has been resurrected today."

"The celestial anomalies are caused by the battle between the Dragon King and an Alliance powerhouse."

"All citizens please proceed to underground shelters in an orderly manner. The Alliance will protect human civilization at all costs."

As soon as the announcement was made, the entire world went silent for three seconds.

Then, a wave of panic ten times stronger than before erupted.

"The Dragon King?! The Dragon King who nearly slaughtered half of humanity three hundred years ago?"

"It's over... it's all over! Back then was the golden age of professionals, and it took everything they had to win a pyrrhic victory. What do we have to stop him now?"

"Didn't you see those anomalies? Even the void was shattered. Even if the Alliance's Fifth Class Advancement powerhouses go, they'll just be seeking death!"

Despair did not vanish; instead, it intensified.

Pessimistic comments flooded the regional channels.

Some people even began smashing, looting, and burning on the spot, completely giving up hope.

Inside the command center.

"Deputy Alliance Leader, the announcement had the opposite effect."

The officer's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

"The panic index is still rising!"

Shen Yuntang looked at the White Dragon King on the big screen, who was being chased like a dog, and took a deep breath.

"Notify the technical department to take over all outdoor light screens, personal communication terminals, and tactical panels in the five major cities."

Shen Yuntang pointed to the center of the screen.

"Synchronize a high-definition satellite live stream of the first-person perspective across the entire network without any blind spots."

"Summon the Alliance's chief commentator to go online."

Shen Yuntang thought for a moment.

"Forget it. Chen Rui, you do the commentary."

Chen Rui, standing to the side, twitched his lip. He braced himself, stepped forward, and put on the tactical headset.

Glimmer City Central Plaza.

Tens of thousands of crowded civilians were falling into desperate wailing.

The giant two-hundred-meter-tall advertising light screen overhead suddenly flickered.

The footage cut in.

The first thing that came into view was the iconic red wasteland of the Southern Wilderness.

But the wasteland was currently plowed with an abyss rift tens of kilometers wide.

Chen Rui cleared his throat, and his voice spread through the loudspeakers across the five major cities.

"Good afternoon, citizens."

"I am Chen Rui, Adjutant of the Alliance Inspection Bureau."

"Now broadcasting live for you is the interception battle against the resurrected Dragon King."

The civilians in the plaza quieted down, staring intently at the screen.

They had expected to see a tragic scene.

Like Alliance powerhouses forming a wall of flesh and blood, being ruthlessly slaughtered by the Dragon King, writing a tragic epic.

The camera zoomed in sharply.

"Boom!"

A blinding white streamer crashed into the frame.

The man in white had disheveled hair, his left leg was severed at the root, and half his body was covered in foul-smelling black slime.

He was frantically tearing through space to flee at speeds beyond the limit of the naked eye.

As this person fled, he let out extremely undignified, voice-cracking curses.

"Lin Mo! You despicable villain! You only know how to use underhanded schemes!"

All of humanity was stunned.

Who is this?

Who is that beggar-like person scurrying around in the sky?

Chen Rui provided the introduction at the right time.

"The man in white you are seeing now is the core source of this crisis—the sovereign of the old era from three hundred years ago, the Dragon King."

The entire world went silent at this moment.

In the plazas of the major cities, one could hear a pin drop.

This is the Dragon King?

This is the invincible tyrant who only existed in myths and had terrified all of humanity for three hundred years?

Why does he look like a chicken thief being chased five blocks by a vicious village dog?

Before the people could react.

On the screen, a sky-blotting black mountain of flesh and Lin Mo's figure squeezed into the frame.

Hundreds of barbed tentacles waved frantically, biting hard onto the White Dragon King's heels.

"Following the Dragon King is the Alliance's powerhouse... and his summon."

Chen Rui said, bracing himself.

In truth, he didn't know what the Boundary Sea Demon Servant was either.

The people gaped.

Just as the White Dragon King was about to use Space Law to jump and escape.

A faint golden light flashed on the screen.

Lin Mo's figure appeared out of thin air directly in front of the White Dragon King's escape route.

"Slap."

A loud slap.

The crisp sound could be heard even through the screen.

The White Dragon King's body, which was just about to enter a spatial rift, was slapped right back.

He tumbled in the air a dozen times, smashing through a mountain peak several thousand meters high below.

"Lin Mo!! You go too far!!!"

The White Dragon King crawled out of the rubble, his face covered in blood and his features completely distorted.

The Boundary Sea Demon Servant took the opportunity to pounce, tearing off another large chunk of flesh from his back.

The White Dragon King screamed and tore open the void again to flee for his life.

Lin Mo, with one hand in his pocket, turned into golden light and followed unhurriedly.

Occasionally pausing, he would deliver another kick.

Everyone in the five major cities watched the screen in a daze.