Monsters Die When Killed

If Rafael and his men hadn’t already retreated, they too would have been shocked. During their assault on the Harmony Bureau’s fortress, the Spirit Summoning Association hadn’t even deployed this trump-card weaponry: over twenty professional Exoskeleton Armors!

His hearing, powerful beyond human imagination, had long since picked up the Reborn’s astonished voice. In response, Su Zhou couldn’t help but shake his head and chuckle.

"Why am I here? What a foolish question."

Su Zhou’s voice wasn’t loud, but it resonated with the Spiritual Qi, allowing even the distant members of the Spirit Summoning Association to hear him clearly. "Some of you may have heard this before, but I’ll ask again."

"Have you ever heard the story of the ’Knight’s Journey’?"

Of course they hadn’t heard it, but before anyone from the Spirit Summoning Association could reply, Su Zhou, who was making it all up on the spot, continued on his own. "In ancient times, an ordinary knight was passing through a bustling city when he heard a butcher on the street bullying a neighboring widow and her child. Seeing an injustice, he drew his blade to help and lopped off the butcher’s head with a single strike."

"The moral of the story is actually quite profound, but to put it simply: the European Union Harmony Bureau is the widow and her child, you are the street-side butchers, and I’m just an ordinary, passing knight."

Rafael, who was monitoring the situation in real-time through Su Zhou’s terminal and was ready to provide support at any moment: ?

’Seriously, how can this guy be so infuriating? What the hell does he mean, calling the European Union Harmony Bureau a widow and her child?’

But clearly, very few people in the Spirit Summoning Association understood Chinese. Communicating via their souls was one thing, but the moment he spoke, it was all Greek to them.

It was a pity. Su Zhou’s trash talk had been like casting pearls before swine; they were incapable of understanding the profound meaning of the Knight’s Journey.

So, after a moment of silence, the Spirit Summoning Association’s Exoskeleton Armor units simultaneously ejected rocket pods and cannon barrels from their backs.

CLICK-CLACK—The sounds of steel mechanisms deploying rang out almost simultaneously, followed by the explosive roar of igniting flames!

In the next instant, a hundred rockets trailing blinding flames, alongside armor-piercing shells flying at over two thousand meters per second, unleashed a furious barrage at Su Zhou!

In that moment, his entire field of vision was filled with nothing but brilliant explosions and speeding steel.

In response, Su Zhou just let out a long sigh.

"Still using saturation bombing tactics?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and the Blade of Annihilation appeared in his tight grip. A scorching heat that made the air tremble and warp began to glow on the blade as it turned a brilliant golden-red. A sun-like radiance erupted from the Divine Blade, its body now heated to several thousand degrees.

Ash in the air began to spontaneously combust. Arcs of lightning crackled. The distinct smell of ozone from ionized air drifted through the area. Under the warping effect of his immense Spiritual Power, all these physical phenomena appeared almost simultaneously. Then, they all coalesced into a raging Gale, which was drawn into the long blade in the young man’s hand.

WHOOM.

Along with the sound of surging Flame, black Karmic Fire abruptly ignited along the blade’s edge. Su Zhou pointed the tip of his blade forward and then, with intense focus, swung it in a clean, horizontal arc.

Immediately after, a golden-red trail was seared across everyone’s vision.

Then came the explosion.

Superheated, explosive air, mixed with Spiritual Power so condensed it was almost tangible, formed a resplendent arc of light that met all the rockets and shells head-on.

BOOOOOOM!!!

The rockets detonated prematurely. The metal shells were sliced clean in two. The ground was torn asunder by the aftershocks, and the air erupted into a violent Gale. Even the surrounding Spiritual Qi Circulation was bisected, thrown into temporary disarray. The Spirit Summoning Association elites who had launched the barrage stared at the distant figure who had so casually obliterated all their rockets and shells with a single strike, their jaws hanging slack.

"The times have changed, you fools."

Su Zhou gave the Blade of Annihilation a flick, steadying the tangible black Karmic Fire that flowed across it. He smiled and began walking step-by-step toward the distant members of the Spirit Summoning Association, dragging the Divine Blade beside him. It cut a molten, golden-red scar into the stony ground. "This is the era of Spiritual Energy Revival."

The very man who had just used an Electromagnetic Cannon to obliterate the Spirit Summoning Association’s camp now asked with a straight face, "Are you really still expecting guns and cannons to be of any use?"