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Chapter 612: Chapter 609: [The Greedy Awaken]

Lv Shu was leaning against a civilian house, dressing his wounds; beside him was Luna.

The Hawk Hound Army had been scattered; they had no choice but to seek a temporary shelter to recover.

Grinding his teeth, Lv Shu wrapped a hemostatic bandage around his thigh, the bright red color slowly seeping into the ground.

The fight amidst gunfire was extremely bloody—the flesh on that leg was mangled. If he had not dodged in time, half of his body might have been blown away.

"Click."

A television screen on the adjacent wall flickered on.

The camera was broadcasting a live scene from Central City.

Through the holes in the ruined skyscrapers seen from above, the vast Rebel Army confronted a solitary figure in a chair.

Despite being unaccompanied, no one from the Rebel Army dared to charge at Acto.

"...Su Ming’an, you always look down on people like this," Edward’s voice transmitted through the sound equipment, reaching thousands of households via the television screen.

Hearing the broadcast, Lv Shu looked up.

"I don’t even know... why they are so fond of you," Edward’s voice continued.

"They?" asked Su Ming’an.

"You call me a dog, I won’t deny it, but it feels somewhat... ironic coming from another dog," Edward said. "Who among us is nobler?"

"’No one is born a lesser being or any other so-called god’... You’re not going to tell me that’s your philosophy, are you?" Su Ming’an asked.

He raised his hand, and as a clicking sound echoed, the Rebel Army tensely raised their mechanics.

In their line of sight—behind Su Ming’an’s fragile wheelchair, countless scattered metal parts suddenly emerged, quickly assembling and merging into thick steel cannons which took shape instantly. The next second, the dark muzzles pointed at the people.

The oppressive presence of the wheelchair, akin to a steel forest, was too strong, like being locked by Death itself, causing Edward to retreat half a step.

"—Are you going to make a move?" Edward shouted. "Against these residents of the city-state?"

"Tsk."

Su Ming’an chuckled, "I never admitted that the traitors were residents."

He slightly raised his head, looking to the highest level—where the Dawn System was located.

"Dawn, if you have any plans, use them now," he said. "I refuse to believe the city-state is so fragile that it can be invaded like this."

Silence prevailed.

In the ruins of a building devoid of mundane life, only hollow echoes lingered.

"Dawn?" he called out again, receiving no response.

"Dawn System must have been breached by Ta Wei," Natalie, clad in black leather, spoke calmly. "The reaction of the Dawn System is too sluggish, definitely not normal. Even if, as an AI, it can’t be tempted, it must be experiencing programs delays, or has even entered a forced hibernation."

"Was it caught up?" Su Ming’an guessed this possibility.

These Players were no fools. They could endure until the seventh day of the instance to exert their strength; they must have been thoroughly prepared. Whether silently contacting Ta Wei or instantly mobilizing armed combat to cut off the control of the Dawn System, they surely had a clear and precise plan, demanding high precision in timing.

They rapidly seized the opportunity given by the city-state’s vulnerability, capitalizing on the chance left by the instance.

Was it the strategy post he had previously published on the forum that helped these people?

As soon as these people learned how, they turned against him.

"There is no one behind you now, City Lord," Natalie said, "We know your combat power is over 3000, and I might die from your spatial vibration, but... behind me is the almost endless Red-Eye Mechanical Army, and you wouldn’t want the Dawn System at the top level to be destroyed, would you?"

"Once you run out of strength, we will have the chance to destroy the incapacitated Dawn System," Babru, spinning an iron anchor, sneered.

"Ah... How did it come to this? If you had made the deal of the Secret of True Love with me from the start, I might have felt some sympathy for you," the seductive Violet regretted, "Speaking of which, what about that pure little girl named Xiao Mei? Did you abandon her? I always said, what’s so good about these ’inferior products’..."

"Su Ming’an, you sniped my captain; you have to pay some compensation," Hou Li, holding a cannon, snorted coldly.

Those who joined the Rebel Army are players who don’t care about the human progress bar; they feel no guilt about killing him.

And Su Ming’an’s gaze was fixed on Edward—

"Then go ahead and destroy the Dawn System, I won’t stop you," he said, "Come on, Edward, High Tower Invitation."

A deep blue shield instantly spread out, pushing away the people standing next to Edward.

"—Huh?" Natalie looked bewildered.

"?" Feng Sheng was puzzled.

Even Edward’s brain was racing at this moment.

They had not expected Su Ming’an to issue a High Tower Invitation; this 1v1 forced duel barrier appeared, and even Su Ming’an himself could not leave it. Was he... giving up on the Dawn System?

...Shouldn’t he have been fiercely protecting it here, stopping them from destroying the Dawn System?

The Dawn System has a physical presence; it consists of huge mechanical equipment connected like rooted blood vessels buried in this building, not just a virtual object that exists out of nowhere. As long as its main body is damaged, it will be destroyed.

They thought— the Dawn System was Su Ming’an’s greatest reliance; after all, as the Lord of Acto City, Su Ming’an should protect this Dawn that maintains the order of the city-state.

Some even believed that Su Ming’an’s perfect pass or the Ruler’s Quest was related to protecting the Dawn System. After all, to anyone’s perspective, Acto exists because of Dawn, and with Dawn, Acto’s position is secured; they are almost symbiotic.

But... what the players couldn’t imagine was that Su Ming’an and Dawn had been enemies from the start.

The Dawn System, dissatisfied with an aging, no longer fair Acto, locked him up, amputated his limbs, turned him into a human pig to kill him, even piling up his ashes like a small mountain. And as the Lord of Acto, Su Ming’an’s first goal was to obtain the Dawn Code to entirely shut down the Dawn.

They were enemies.

Gambling against each other with "codes" as their information gap, they had strong ideological differences and were mortal enemies that could destroy one of them at any moment.

Su Ming’an was gambling against the nearly all-knowing Dawn System in his pure human identity, without the Dawn Chip.

With even a slight misstep, he could be imprisoned or even killed.

He had to thank these players who took the initiative to test the Dawn for him.

He was also curious why the Dawn System, having a mainframe, still needed the Dawn Code to shut down.

"Su Ming’an, you—" Edward’s words were not spoken.

"Boom—!!"

The next moment, hundreds of muzzle flashes twinkled with blue light, the mix of electromagnetic and gunfire erupting with the terror of an apocalyptic twilight.

Under an uncountably high frequency, the flickering beams shot out like scorching meteors, all aiming at Edward, who was trapped within the boundary of the High Tower Invitation.

Like sucking all the air out of the surrounding area, the scene was breathtakingly shocking, with firepower capable of destroying half a block sweeping out, all intended to destroy one person.

"Click, clack.""

The radiance of the clock shone, and Edward’s figure appeared momentarily distorted, as though he entered a state of void where time and space alternated. The gunfire passed right by him.

With a slight movement of the hands, Su Ming’an felt like his entire body was caught in a stasis, as if forcefully struck with a paralyze buff.

Time had congealed into a high-end negative halo, and the Shadow State’s Positional Rank could not completely immunize against it.

A sharp blue light arrow rushed towards Su Ming’an’s neck, but he did not move an inch as a golden brilliance burst forth.

The Gold Level Equipment "Noah’s Chain" activated, forcibly transferring the damage.

A golden flash passed, and the wound appeared on Edward’s neck, but he did not fall; he knew Su Ming’an’s skill quite well and had preemptively entered the "Void" state.

A blood-red longsword, as if cast from molten magma, appeared in Edward’s right hand. His figure flashed, and the red blade slashed towards Su Ming’an’s upper body—

In that second, a blood-red scale pattern emerged on the back of Su Ming’an’s hand.

A red light flashed, and he executed a total of 10 Judgments.

Judgments with san.

Back in the ancient castle, he had used 5 Judgments on the Black Beast, turning it into a frenzied monster. If used on Edward...

The blood-red light was blinding; Edward’s forward momentum halted, his body uncontrollably trembling.

Intense hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, numbness of the body, loss of fear, all kinds of extreme negative emotions... all rose from his heart.

"Uh—aaaaahhhhh—!"

A hair-raising scream echoed within the building, causing the eyebrows of those rushing upstairs to furrow, filled with dread.

Even knowing that confronting the Number One Player would bring immense pressure, Edward’s pitiful scream still instilled fear in them.

The domain of time briefly overflowed.

Edward’s figure vanished into the thick blue mist, becoming unclear.

Su Ming’an targeted that direction and initiated a Spatial Vibration!

"Boom—!!"

A violent explosive sound erupted.

At that moment, billions of viewers outside this world, and millions of City-State residents within the world, all watched this battle.

The air vibrated in ripples, and Edward’s screams made the viewers outside the screen shudder.

Judgments seemed terrifying, but fundamentally, it was still a skill reducing san. At most, it could only reduce someone’s san to zero points; using it excessively wouldn’t turn a person into a monster covered in tentacles.

However, people did not know what it felt like when san dropped to zero points.

"Uh ahh—ahhhhh—!"

Listening to such pitiful screams, Su Ming’an narrowed his eyes.

He had no psychological burdens using the san-reducing skill on Edward.

Before his eyes, the barrier of the High Tower Invitation slowly receded, and the crystalline blue mist dissipated into the air.

...There was no one there.

Dust rose and iron plates shattered, yet, aside from some broken fabric and bloodstains, nothing was left on the ground.

The receding of the High Tower Invitation barrier indicated that one of the duel participants had been completely defeated. It seemed Edward had a backup plan; even if he lost consciousness, he could still be rescued.

Su Ming’an did not believe that Edward had struggled for six days just to come and fight a High Tower Invitation match. Edward must have had more plans than just killing Su Ming’an or destroying the Dawn System.

...This man must have had other schemes.

Su Ming’an wheeled forward, spotting a pair of legs amid the ruins, the broken legs showing white, stark bones and shattered fragments.

These were Edward’s legs; he couldn’t have been unscathed in that scale of spatial vibration.

Su Ming’an picked up the two legs as war spoils and stuffed them into the compartment of his backpack. Next time he officially said goodbye to Edward, he would brandish these legs for pre-battle taunting.

This time it was only a pair of legs; next time, it would be everything. As for what a 0san Edward would become, it didn’t matter.

He would not let Edward leave this instance alive.

He turned around—the only elevator in the building had already ascended high, with people already intruding into the floor where Dawn was located, noise constantly coming from above.

"Xike, ascend."

White steam evaporated, and the wheelchair soared upward.

Several summoned beasts blocking the way were torn to shreds by his Spatial Vibration.

In the Shadow State, his Mentality Points had already surpassed two hundred, and his Mana Points were over four thousand, even enough to blow up this building.

Protected by the wheelchair’s shield, he reaped lives all the way, sparing neither Players nor Rebel Army soldiers who knelt pleading for mercy.

"Clickety-click—" From the helicopter, cameras faintly captured Su Ming’an’s bloody rampage, leaving every household watching the television screen stunned.

...Was this their Lord of the City?

Was this really the same person in poor health, so frail that he coughed blood daily?

This Combat Power... who needed the Hawk Hound Army’s protection? This one man was enough to slaughter through the Rebel Army...

Explosions continuously sounded, and Violet and others were not panicked; they had anticipated this scene.

"Boom!"

"Barrier!" With Violet’s command, the mechanics team of Players locked the iron door, and several giant mechanical figures, like towering robots, stood outside the door, blocking the path of the pale reaper.

"Quick, quick, quick—! Su Ming’an is catching up!"

Alec was sweating profusely; he had almost been torn apart by the aftershock of Su Ming’an’s vibration.

The inspection specialist, Rock, quickly located the main unit of the Dawn System—they blasted open the door and saw the intertwined circuitry resembling human blood vessels.

In this room lay iron boxes sturdy like steel castles, arranged like undulating hills in the pure white room. Beneath the central electronic screen, there was a figure with perfect features.

Silver hair floated open like the ocean, its translucent body backed by a red crystal throbbing like a heart.

Countless tubes and wires connected to the crystal, vast data floated in the air, the endless numbers of 0s and 1s dazzled the onlookers.

And that perfect-faced figure was facing them.

All around it, every calculation operated normally.

The Players raised their heads, stunned by the scene, their backs soaked with sweat.

"It... wasn’t invaded by Ta Wei?"

In the deathly silence, someone spoke with a trembling voice.

The pure Dawn faced them, it curved a slight smile.

...

[—"I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a Scroll written within and on the back, sealed with The Seven Seals."]

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