Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

Chapter 447: Chapter 57: Nightmare of the Last Life (Extra updates on Bai’s Birthday!)”_2

As he laughed, tears uncontrollably spilled from Qin Min’s eyes. He recalled the grandiose proclamations made when the Ultimate Force Team was first established, their seeming invincibility when they stormed the Yanjing Assembly Site, and the teammates who had died one after another during the past twenty years of the apocalypse...

Now, the Ultimate Force Team—once the symbol of the most powerful force on Earth, the team that every powerful expert once desperately sought to join—had finally reached its end...

Finally, it had come to this day, a day when even the protagonist, chosen by the will of the Earth and the Dominator, could no longer withstand the pressure!

...

”Actually, I sort of miss Ziping. Even though that old woman always scolded me, I must admit, it felt pretty nice to have someone who cared...”

Tang Haofei, with a single punch, blasted the Level 10 Ancient Demon in front of him to pieces. The tremendous force exploded from the Ancient Demon’s body, obliterating it!

Then, two more Ancient Demons rushed toward Tang Haofei...

”I kind of miss Duo Duo too. That little girl always pestered me for lollipops. I don’t know how a ten-year-old girl knew so much!”

The two Level 10 Ancient Demons had their heads smashed in, and Tang Haofei, in the process, sustained a wound...

After all, those were Level 10 Ancient Demons... battling a Level 8 Tang Haofei!

”And Bighead, who always wanted to drink with me but could never hold his liquor...”

Tang Haofei continued to ramble, but his hands didn’t slow. In a short time, his devastating punches had killed nearly ten Ancient Demons!

Meanwhile, Qin Min was nowhere to be seen!

A Level 8 fighting Level 10s...

Not everyone possessed Tang Haofei’s strength!

...

When a wound-covered Tang Haofei reached the foot of Mount Fuji, his journey finally came to an end.

Being the protagonist didn’t mean invincibility, nor did it mean immortality!

When an exhausted Tang Haofei was captured by a Level 10 Ancient Demon spawn, he closed his eyes.

Dimly, Tang Haofei heard the demons around him murmuring.

”This is a divine beast, and it still contains the Origin Energy of the Earth. Just throw it directly into the Earth’s nucleus to melt. It could provide us with a bit more Origin Energy...”

Then, he was crudely transported like a pig...

When Tang Haofei opened his eyes again, it was a beautiful sunny day outside, a month before the apocalypse began...

...

Looking at Tang Haofei, whose eyes shimmered with unshed tears, Wen Yu sat in his chair, lost for words.

After a moment, Wen Yu asked in a husky voice,

”So, in the previous life, we only lasted a little over twenty years?”

Tang Haofei took a deep breath and slowly shook his head. ”It was over twenty years! By my estimate, after the origin of the Earth’s nucleus was completely drained, humans could have persevered for a while longer... But they would inevitably die. The atmosphere was sealed, the Earth slowly cooled, the land became barren, lacking the necessary conditions for life to reproduce. Escape was impossible. There was naturally only one outcome.”

Wen Yu fell silent once again. After a long pause, he asked, ”Why did we only last for such a short time?”

Tang Haofei slowly returned to his seat, snapped his fingers for the young secretary, and ordered a glass of juice. Only then did he begin to speak slowly.

”The Demon Tribe... they were far, far too strong, and their numbers were too great! They had too many powerful experts! Of course, these weren’t the most critical factors in our defeat...”

”The most critical thing was that Origin Extraction Device!”

”In the beginning, we didn’t realize the importance of that device. We were still guarding our own little patches of land, squabbling amongst ourselves—the Human Race internally, or humans against mutant beasts, vying for power and profit.”

”Then, a vast amount of the origin of the Earth’s nucleus was extracted...”

”Do you know what the greatest effect of the origin of the Earth’s nucleus was for us?”

Wen Yu shook his head.

”The Level Lock!”

”The Dominator and the will of the Earth jointly created the Level Lock. However, most of the energy for the Level Lock came from the origin of the Earth’s nucleus!”

”When the Origin Extraction Device appeared over Japan, no humans or mutant beasts paid it any mind! And the will of the Earth didn’t know what it was either, so it didn’t issue a warning!”

”Three months later, when the Origin Extraction Device began drilling towards the Earth’s nucleus, the will of the Earth finally sensed the threat and issued a warning to all divine beasts. But by then, it was too late!”

”During those three months, the Demon Tribe had already mobilized a large number of troops to guard the area around the Origin Extraction Device. Our first probing attack had no effect! Seven powerful experts and thirteen divine beasts died in that attack!”

”Then, another round of bickering began—after all, too many powerful experts had died. Some people, or some beast races, felt their side had suffered too great a loss and wanted compensation, or wanted to reshuffle the existing power distribution on Earth... Anyway, you know how messy these things are!”

Wen Yu said faintly, ”Selfishness at play.”

Tang Haofei nodded, ”Right. And at that time, the upper limit of the Level Lock was Peak Level 6!”

...

”The Demon Tribe had two ways to break the Level Lock.”

”One was to annihilate the existing creatures on Earth, thereby weakening the power of the will of the Earth.”

”The other was to extract the origin of the Earth’s nucleus—and this was the fastest way!”

”Previously, we only knew about the first method. When the Level Lock was broken, we didn’t react immediately. After all, a year had passed since the last time it was broken, so breaking it again now seemed like a normal phenomenon.”

”But when the Level Lock was broken again a week later, we knew we were in trouble...”

”As the Human Race’s strongest expert, my strength at the time was mid-Stage Level 7, while the demon fiends pouring from the Demon Realm’s Gate were as high as Peak Level 8! Can you imagine? That was the beginning of the utter collapse!”

”Then, a month later, the Level Lock was broken again. Three months after that, the Level Lock completely shattered, and Level 10 demon fiends ran rampant! At that time, I was only Early Stage Level 8...”

Tang Haofei raised his head, staring intently into Wen Yu’s eyes, and said gravely,

”After that, it was an apocalypse with absolutely no hope!!!”

...

”The Demon Tribe’s units were very organized. Not even I, or divine beasts stronger than me, could possibly defeat a Peak Level 10 demon spawn!”

”Moreover, the Demon Tribe had many, many Peak Level 10 demon spawn... Every one of their teams had at least one Peak Level 10 Ancient Demon or demon spawn. This was an absolute disaster for the Human Race—no, for all living beings on Earth!”

”And trying to hunt down lone demon fiends to level up? Wishful thinking! The Demon Tribe’s armies were more disciplined than any national army I’d ever seen! It was incredibly hard to find any stragglers.”

”We couldn’t fight back, couldn’t escape, only be hunted like pigs. All the forces on Earth were wiped out in a short period. The laughable part is, just a few months prior, factions within the Human Race were still squabbling over which piece of land was their inherent territory...”

At this, Tang Haofei was drenched in sweat, panting heavily.

...

”Then you were reborn?”

Tang Haofei nodded.

Wen Yu sighed and shook his head, clearly envious of Tang Haofei’s circumstances. ”Reborn a month before it all began, and you even understood the world’s trajectory... Tsk, tsk... That’s truly protagonist-level treatment!”

Tang Haofei also chuckled, his earlier somber and pained expression vanishing. He clearly realized that here, in this new life, he had the power to change the world’s trajectory. No, more accurately, he was already doing so—the Earth Community hadn’t existed in the previous life!

Moreover, the current Tang Haofei was even stronger than his past self! And under his influence, along with Wen Yu’s Rebirth, the powerful experts in this life far surpassed those from the same period in the previous life!

Taking a sip of juice to calm himself, Tang Haofei looked at the pensive Wen Yu and asked with a smile, ”When were you revived in your previous life? I don’t recall hearing about you...”

Wen Yu’s lips twitched. ”A year into the apocalypse. In my previous life, I was just cannon fodder...”

”Hahaha, you really were unlucky.”

”No, being able to be reborn is already a great fortune!”

Tang Haofei nodded affirmatively. ”Indeed. In fact, I thought I was the only reborner. It wasn’t until I met you in Las Vegas that I realized you were one too. I was wondering what rock Wen Yu had crawled out from under...”

Wen Yu chuckled and shook his head. Then, as if recalling something, he asked Tang Haofei directly, ”What about the Dominator? Didn’t the Dominator issue a warning when the Origin Extraction Device appeared?”

Hearing the Dominator mentioned, Tang Haofei’s expression immediately turned solemn, and he slowly shook his head.

”No.”