Chapter 317 - 224: Rapid Power Surge
Wacai’s legs were both broken, trampled under Su Mo’s foot as he screamed incessantly: "Ah! Guard! My General’s Guard! Come save me! Ah!!!"
"Ah, you edge of civilization!" Su Mo lifted his foot for a fierce kick, directly smashing Wacai’s nasal bone, "What kind of nonsense, calling yourself a General, you’re just a Songstress!"
Su Mo grabbed Wacai’s collar, lifting him up, cursing as he spoke: "I finally came to Saint Rivelan for a vacation, yet I have to work overtime dealing with trash like you. What a waste of time and life."
Wacai’s face turned pale from pain, continuously gasping: "S-s-s... That girl... What’s her relationship with you? I checked, she’s clearly just a civilian... with no background..."
Su Mo: "Indeed, she is a civilian, no background, and has nothing to do with me, just a passerby."
Wacai shrieked: "You came all the way to the Land of No Master to mess with me for a passerby?!"
Su Mo said righteously: "That’s how we are in New Moon City, warm and hospitable, prone to chivalry in our everyday lives."
"Do you have any last words? I need to get back to my vacation quickly."
Just as Wacai wanted to speak, Su Mo interrupted him: "Forget it, I’m too lazy to waste time listening. Goodbye."
The black mark on his chest began to stir, tentacles surged out, converging along his arm to his hand, forming a black sharp sword.
"Pssh!" The black sharp sword pierced into Wacai’s heart, continuously devouring his flesh and blood. His body shriveled gradually, and his screams became increasingly distorted and faint.
Ultimately, the Dragon Flame Blood Code was hunted by the Ancestral Blood Code, entering Su Mo’s body.
Wacai, the so-called "General" and head of the frontier militants, ended his life filled with wrongdoing.
Su Mo mobilized the newly acquired Dragon Flame Blood Code, with some flames starting to surge on his body. He felt a scorching power rising within, spreading upwards through his abdomen.
He didn’t resist this scorching power; instead, he opened his mouth and let it spew forth.
"Hoo—" Flames gushed out from his mouth, forming a more-than-a-meter-long tongue of fire, relentlessly incinerating Wacai’s corpse on the ground.
Wacai’s body slowly turned charred black, flames flickering incessantly on his skin, while the smell of roasted meat pervaded the air.
This Dragon Flame Blood Code was just hunted and only at the Initial Tier of Awakening. Its power couldn’t even match an ordinary engineer’s flamethrower.
But it doesn’t matter; the future had already redeveloped the Ancestral Blood Code, allowing it to devour similar blood codes as nutrients to enhance existing ones.
And now, the "experience pack" was nearby.
Wacai’s subordinates, 16 Blood Code Carriers, hadn’t had time to run far.
The ranks of these carriers were mostly at the Middle Tier of Awakening or High Tier, with a few reaching the Promoted Tier, containing "antique blood codes" like Mad Corpse and Crimson Rose.
Antique blood codes refer to those released earlier, with a history spanning decades.
Blood codes inherently have no difference in strength, only differences in their novelty.
Newer blood codes are more sought after because of their low usage and lack of dedicated research.
In combat, carriers of new blood codes can easily catch others off guard, enjoying a natural advantage, and their prices rise accordingly.
In contrast, antique blood codes are often well-researched.
For instance, everyone knows not to confront the Mad Corpse Blood Code head-on, not to engage in attrition with the Crimson Rose Blood Code, and to wear armor against the Python Poison Blood Code.
As blood codes have been around, many have learned how to counter their abilities, causing their prices to be somewhat lower.
Wacai’s Dragon Flame Blood Code was a new type of blood code released in recent years.
However, he was stingy with his subordinates, giving them antique blood codes to carry.
The 16 carriers’ blood codes matched those inside Su Mo’s body, perfectly serving his intent to use them as nourishment to elevate his existing blood codes.
With the dual boost of Blood Burn and Bullet Time, Su Mo’s speed was exceedingly fast. In a blink, he caught up with the fleeing Blood Code Carriers.
"Pssh! Pssh! Pssh!..."
The black sharp sword repeatedly pierced through the carriers’ hearts, hunting their blood codes.
Some tried to resist during this process, but in the face of Su Mo’s overwhelming power and speed, their resistance was futile.
The split Frenzied Corpse Rigid Bones were easily sliced open by the Moon Concealing Arm Blade, and the Crimson Rose Blood Code offered no recovery space against the Ancestral Blood Code’s forced devour.
The black sharp sword, like the Scythe of the Death God, continuously reaped those mature lives, killing 16 carriers in a very short time and devouring their blood codes.
Surging hot streams gathered into the black mark on his chest, spreading through his veins to his whole body. Su Mo felt a vast power explode from the depths of his genes, surging like waves.
Crimson Rose, Mad Corpse, Python Poison, and Dragon Flame, the four great blood codes, all ascended to "Promoted High Tier" during this power extraction, just a step away from the watershed-like "Threshold Level"!
Over half of the soldiers on the playground were slaughtered, and the first batch of reinforcements barely arrived on-site.
A tank crushed the iron fence, driving onto the battlefield.
This was discovered by Wacai in an underground military base of the old era, brought back and refurbished, usually used as a weapon against medium to large beasts.
The tank’s engine roared, spewing thick black smoke, the barrel turned, directly aiming at Su Mo.
"Boom!" The barrel flashed a burst of dazzling firelight, and the armor-piercing shell spun out, stirring up a burst of scorching turbulence in the air.
Su Mo plunged both hands into the ground, and in front of him rose a giant wall made of Frenzied Corpse Rigid Bones, presenting a thirty-degree slope.