Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 628: Bryant: Almost Wiped Out
The King of Winter has not acted often since ascending to Legendary status, only intervening once in the Emerald Forest. However, at that time, the Players were focused on farming the Undead, and the King of Winter and the progenitor vampire Cain were flying too high. They could vaguely see a ball of light and a ball of darkness colliding frantically, with the specific details unclear.
This was unlike the current situation. The King of Winter was not flying very high and was clearly charging up, his King of Conquest Long Sword almost turning into a pillar of light piercing the sky! From Xi Wei’s perspective, tens of thousands of red dots appeared within the city; these were all spider monsters that had not rushed out of the city earlier. Alleyways were the least favorable terrain for Players and Old Ones’ Retainers to fight in. With this strike, he didn’t expect to kill all the retrainers, only to create a relatively fair battlefield for the Players.
“Buzz—”
Qi converged from all over his body towards his hands, transforming into the power of Sacred Fire that poured into the King of Conquest Long Sword. The Holy Light even permeated Xi Wei’s blood vessels, causing golden, web-like patterns to spread across his body, resembling electronic circuits.
“Hah!”
The roar was like thunder. The windows of the surrounding buildings shattered with a “bang.” His momentum gradually rose, and the angelic halo behind Xi Wei expanded by a full circle. The Players could no longer see the sun, as Xi Wei was now more dazzling than the sun. The clouds, burned golden by the Sacred Fire, swirled in a spiral around the golden pillar of light. The entire sky seemed to be rotating, like water being siphoned upwards into the unknown, rising higher and higher, until there was no trace of clouds left in the surrounding sky, and the horizon turned pitch black.
Finally, Xi Wei’s energy transmission was complete. He raised the King of Conquest Long Sword high, the blade gradually extinguishing, and the golden patterns on his body receded like a tide. At the same time, the last trace of Sacred Fire was “sucked” into the sky by the golden tornado cloud on the horizon.
“Boom—!!!”
The entire world trembled at that moment.
The Players looked up at the sky in astonishment, only to see a golden divine pattern halo spreading from the tornado cloud, finally disappearing beyond the distant horizon. Immediately after, a gate of heaven appeared within the clouds.
“Creak—”
It was as if a hand pushed open a gap from the inside, and light was once again released upon the land, but this time the release was rough, fierce, and devastating. It was a golden Holy Sword, and the pattern of the King of Conquest Greatsword could still be faintly seen. The gate of heaven seemed to transform into a scabbard. The sword was slowly drawn.
The wind howled, and fallen leaves spun wildly in the city. Stones, fragments of glass, and the corpses of spider monsters trembled uneasily. Finally, the sword was drawn from the gate of heaven. It seemed slow, yet it happened in a mere instant. It was just that the surrounding time seemed to be compressed into a pool of solidified mud by the immense oppressive aura, freezing even the thoughts of living beings.
The Holy Sword fell from the sky. The tip pointed downwards, aiming at Tantinger City. At the hilt, a large hand formed of Sacred Fire appeared, gripping it tightly and pulling downwards with accelerated speed, as swift as lightning. The sharp whistling sound even caused dizziness and nausea.
Some sharp-eyed Players had already noticed. The King of Winter, suspended in the sky, was also performing the action of gripping and thrusting the sword downwards with both hands. What was happening in the sky was identical to his movements.
“Clang—”
The blade rubbed against the atmosphere, igniting a scorching fire. The cry of steel seemed to echo in everyone’s hearts. The tip of the sword, composed of light, smashed into Tantinger City, utterly unstoppable. The Players only felt a flash of light and darkness. The houses at the edge of their vision collapsed in the shockwave, like toppled tarot cards. They were as if hit in the waist by the punch of an invisible giant, and then a colossal foot descended from the sky, fiercely crushing them into powder. The roar followed immediately!
“Boom—!”
Then came the violent wind pressure, like an invisible rhinoceros galloping at extreme speed. Nobody Does Human Things (M) even had to plant his sword on the ground to barely stabilize himself. But a greater crisis was approaching. Almost in that instant, the shockwave, mixed with house fragments, garbage, body parts, broken weapons, blood, and a corner of a statue… in short, everything in Tantinger City, formed a skyscraper-high ruin tsunami that surged towards the Players.
There was no need to think; no one present could withstand this attack. Fortunately, the King of Winter still remembered them. A Radiant Bastion aura lit up before all the Players, and the terrifying wind pressure instantly vanished. In the next moment, the Players watched the torrent of ruins sweep past them, and the slain spider monsters gradually disintegrated in the collision.
After the tsunami subsided, the Players found that the dense red dots on the map had disappeared. Tantinger City no longer existed. There were only ruins, ring after ring of ruins, and a colossal pit spanning tens of thousands of meters at the center of Tantinger City. In the center of the pit, a badly broken Blue Dragon was barely clinging to life.
“Oops…” Xi Wei awkwardly touched his nose, “Used too much force, killed them all… only Bryant is left…”
In fact, it was a miracle that Bryant survived. Five minutes earlier, Bryant was at the center of Tantinger City, preparing to sacrifice the entire city to summon a high-level retainer of Atrakh. Through an altar, he had already contacted one of the Old Ones, the God of Spiders. The God of Spiders had told him that they could not descend at the moment because the Crystal Wall System of the Cain Continent, or the world barrier, had not been broken through yet. Therefore, only some high-level retainers could descend in advance. This would also accelerate the destruction of the world barrier. The power of the world barrier was provided by all living beings on the Cain Continent and guarded by the Creator Dragon and the Cain Will. The more contaminated the living beings of the Cain World, the greater the weakening of the Crystal Wall System, allowing them to “resurrect” from this world faster.
Bryant didn’t understand many terms. But he knew one thing: he had to help Truth create more contaminated retainers, then build a mysterious altar and summon the so-called “Son” of Truth. The Son of Truth would then lead them in their pursuit of Truth. Bryant was almost successful. Even a spider leg more than ten meters long had already extended from the altar, and its terrifying pressure and power made Bryant tremble. However, in the next second, an even more terrifying pressure descended. He watched helplessly as the sky above him shattered, and a golden “city wall” crashed down, smashing the Son of Truth’s leg and the newly opened altar gate into pieces…
