The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

The remaining 700,000 zombies received the little zombie’s command and charged in unison. They tanked the bullets with their bodies, trampling over the fallen zombies’ corpses to breach the defense line and pour into the camp.

The survivors panicked and scattered in all directions.

Han Wu stood on a rooftop and shook his head in disappointment. They had enough guns to take on a horde of ten million zombies, yet they were failing against barely a million. The problem was not their weapons; it was their softness. They weren’t battle-hardened warriors. The zombie vanguard had rattled them, and instead of holding their ground, many escaped while the enemy was still far away. Victory was impossible for those too fragile in mind to fight.

He ignored the survivors and chose to face the remaining zombies alone. He ordered his locusts to appear all at once. Ten thousand Unique locusts and three hundred Heroic locusts appeared from the shadows. Their combined power far surpassed that of the camp’s survivors.

“Kill them all!” Han Wu shouted.

The locusts turned into murder machines. Empowered by the Sacred Object: Sixfold Artifact, the locusts could summon one of its six weapons.

Under the Frost Locust Dragon’s command, the locusts materialized bows and arrows and unleashed a storm of projectiles. Each volley sent over 10,000 special, razor-sharp arrows slicing through the air.

Due to their elevated position, the arrows gained terrifying momentum, and their velocity magnified their piercing power. Each shaft felled a zombie cleanly, so 10,000 arrows brought down 10,000 zombies. Within two minutes, Han Wu wiped out 700,000 ordinary zombies.

The display of overwhelming firepower horrified the tiny zombie observing from afar. It was too unthinkable! How could any of its zombies survive such an onslaught?

The tiny zombie decided to run. Only an idiot would stay and fight. Many of the mutated zombies supported its decision and followed its lead, fleeing in the camp’s opposite direction.

Unbeknownst to them, Han Wu rode atop a massive Primal Locust, watching their retreat with keen interest. Many of the fleeing zombies were unusually strong.

The powerful mutated zombies had an elevated sixth sense and sensed that someone was following them. When they turned, they saw a mere human astride a giant insect.

Han Wu chuckled and called out, “Go on, keep running. I’m just watching.”

The zombies growled and leapt upward, trying to drag him from the air. Although the mutated zombies were somewhat smarter than ordinary zombies, they still lacked the intelligence of a five-year-old child.

Watching its subordinates flounder helplessly, the tiny zombie grew anxious. It wanted to help them but knew how weak it was. If it showed itself, it would likely be killed on sight or captured for experimentation. Trembling in fear, it hid in the shadows.

As it was waiting for the mutated zombies to be slain, a voice echoed from above. “How long are you going to hide there?”

The little zombie froze in horror and looked up to see Han Wu gazing down with a smirk. Realizing escape was impossible, it wanted to end its own life on the spot. Despair filled its dead heart, but it refused to die cowering. Hence, it summoned the last of its strength and lunged forward for one final stand. A huge blade then descended from above and ended its undead existence.

Upon seeing Han Wu land from above, the other mutated zombies attacked him simultaneously. Han Wu didn’t flinch. Wielding his 1-Star God Steel Blade, he cut them down one after another. In less than three minutes, he was the only one left standing.

Victory came swiftly and without any complication. He summoned his Heroic locusts to devour the mutated zombies’ corpses in hopes they would evolve. Then he collected the crystals from the zombie skulls to nurture more powerful locusts.

Back in the camp, many humans had survived thanks to the locusts’ help. The zombie horde had been annihilated, and they had lived through the onslaught. Now they needed to stabilize the situation in the aftermath of the invasion.

This time, the zombies had been the aggressors, and they paid dearly for it. More than 1 million zombies had been wiped out. The humans had also suffered losses; a third of them were infected and had to be executed to stop the spread. Only Han Wu’s locusts remained unscathed.

As the survivors cleared the battlefield, they recovered numerous crystals for Han Wu. He absorbed them all, amassing 3.4 million Energy Points. With such reserves, he checked the list and discovered several newly unlocked items. Scanning through them, he noticed that many of his Divine Powers carried price tags in the millions. He first spent 1 million to acquire Replicate, then another 2 million to summon the Origin of Mutation to his side.

The Origin of Mutation thrived in the Zombie Civilization like a fish in water. It greeted Han Wu, then darted off into the wilderness to pursue its own goals.

Han Wu was already used to this. As a researcher, the Origin of Mutation possessed an insatiable curiosity and a natural drive to explore new knowledge. He hoped that its discoveries would eventually yield something useful for him.

That night, the Origin of Mutation returned with some results. It had brought back a towering mutated zombie. It was an underling it had recruited during its exploration.

It planned to conduct a series of experiments on the mutated zombie to uncover the origin of the crystal within its skull, the power source that sustained most mutated zombies. To do so, it asked Han Wu for several of the crystals he had obtained. Each crystal carried a distinct mark of power, and their nature was cloaked in mystery.