Apocalypse Forecast

Chapter 709: Chapter 582: You Killed Him_1

「Wood Cottage.」

Under the pressure, Little Nineteen’s face turned pale. He smiled weakly at Huai Shi, trying to say something, but the sword blade was pressed so tightly against him that he couldn’t speak.

”Otherwise, he’s going to die,” August announced indifferently.

”You should have said so earlier...” Huai Shi sighed and then raised his voice, ”Then go ahead and kill him.”

In an instant, August was taken aback.

Stepping forward, Huai Shi told August to his face, ”I stopped liking this student a long time ago, so if you’re going to kill him, just do it. Besides, I have an even cuter one. Logically speaking, shouldn’t soft and fragrant girls be a bit better?”

Step by step, he calmly continued, ”What’s the use of men? Isn’t it nice to take all those pretty girls as students and rely on this face of mine to develop several beautiful, forbidden student-teacher relationships?”

As he spoke, Huai Shi’s smile grew more joyful. ”I won’t lie to you; I’m super good at deceiving little girls.”

It was in that very moment of astonishment that Huai Shi’s figure vanished from the spot. He swiftly appeared and disappeared in mid-air, using Shadow Burial Shuttle, and rushed straight towards the Wood Cottage behind the array.

”Boring trick!” August snorted coldly. The Frost Axe in his hand chopped down, and an ice wall instantly rose from the ground, blocking Huai Shi.

Immediately after, August swelled rapidly, transforming into a giant over two meters tall, bringing his Axe Blade down toward Huai Shi.

The battle began!

However, this wasn’t the only place the battle began... At that very instant, behind Huai Shi, a streak of lightning suddenly shot up.

A low rumble, like a dragon’s roar bursting from a tiger’s howl, erupted. Mountain Monarch’s Cleave.

In the blink of an eye, it cleaved through the ice wall ahead as if it were bamboo.

The teenage girl in gray armor emerged from the myriad of flying ice chips, breaking through the blood rain. As if trampling the air itself, she burst through the fiercely poisonous atmosphere.

Descending from the sky!

Behind her, the dazzling lightning slowly dissipated, finally revealing the illusory outline of the Stigma.

It was a contour resembling the Sky Horse, its pure white figure flashing through the blood rain like a streak of light. It had the face of a fox and horns growing from its back, its white body and flowing hair!

The Dragon Blood Stigma passed down through the Sky Horse Line of the Yuan family!

—Riding Yellow!

But in the moment of its appearance, the Mountain Monarch’s Heavy Sword chopped down. It sliced through the shield and armor ahead like a hot knife through wax, sending out a terrifying impact with a shoulder strike from Yuan Yuan.

The burly figure in armor, weighing half a ton, was sent flying backward like a cannonball.

And once more, the Mountain Monarch’s Heavy Sword let out a metallic scream. The bloodthirsty White Tiger revealed its true form from the void, its icy blade sweeping out and raising a gory spray of blood.

Above the ephemeral image of Riding Yellow, ancient armor slowly appeared. The pitch-black armor was so fierce it made the imposing and stern Riding Yellow even more majestic—Mourning Armor!

In an instant, she charged straight in!

Yet Yuan Yuan ignored the Wood Cottage within arm’s reach and headed straight for the core of the array, at a moment when the others were caught off guard and had not even anticipated it.

When Sky Horse Riding Yellow charged with terrifying speed, coupled with the dreadful killing power of the Mountain Monarch’s Heavy Sword, it unleashed a threat so swift and grand that it was beyond what Huai Shi could match.

The general had been renowned for thirty years, and now the true Riding Yellow was seen again in the human world!

Around Yuan Yuan, countless shadows suddenly flew past, entwining around the enemies, causing their movements to stiffen for an instant. In that moment, life and death were decided.

Behind the array of the Eye of Nightmare, a heavy Axe Halberd swung out, blocking Yuan Yuan and halting Riding Yellow’s charge for an instant, causing her to lose speed.

”Kill those two Little Brags!” the battle-hardened Gain roared, launching an all-out offensive on Yuan Yuan. Even if the enemy was a young girl, he wouldn’t slacken or be careless in the slightest.

The slightly disrupted array regained order once more, closing in on Yuan Yuan.

And on Lin Nineteen’s flanks, the samurai of the Eye of Nightmare had already raised their sword blades, ready to chop down.

But faster than the sword blades was the sound of bones breaking...

As if invisible hands had seized their necks and viciously twisted them.

Around the Wood Cottage, a series of crisp snapping sounds echoed, as one body after another fell to the ground, struggling in the rain of blood, but unable to rise.

In the Wood Cottage, Lin Nineteen knelt in the blood-soaked mud, the panic and fear on his face having vanished, replaced by a mocking smile.

In his hands, a fully articulated wooden doll from the supermarket, worth eight yuan, was manipulated by his fingers, rapidly twisting its head round and round.

With each turn, another person’s neck was broken by the cursed power.

”I thought I could deceive a few more... So in the end, was only Teacher fooled?” he sighed, somewhat troubled. Behind him, the illusory figure of a Giant Serpent slowly emerged, coiling around him. Atop the serpent’s head sat a scholar-like headscarf, presenting a scene not at all fierce or frightening, but instead full of calm and benevolence. Only occasionally, when its eyes moved, did they betray hints of hidden malice and coldness.

Ascend to a high ranking.

One of the Third Stage Stigmas from the Path of Karma—Ascend to a high ranking!

Reliant on his master’s cultivation, the relentless infusion from the Dream Cage, and the bountifully thick grudges unique to this hell... Lin Nineteen, without a sound, covertly, and unbeknownst to everyone, had made a breakthrough.

This Take a Little Junior Brother is clearly super strong yet overly cautious... I originally thought I could ambush a few of them, but I didn’t expect my teacher to completely miss my hints. Although hearing him say that stinky men are inferior to fragrant, soft girls made me a bit sad, he still rushed to save me despite his words... Could my teacher be a tsundere?

Amidst the perilous battlefield, Lin Nineteen found himself absentmindedly distracted.

However, his hands did not pause for an instant but became even more deft!

As he moved, pitch-black shadows spread from beneath his feet, forming a vicious mire.

Beheading Curse, Shadow Bind, Grudge Entanglement...

Clutching Huai Shi’s blood sample in one hand, Lin Nineteen’s smile grew even more pleasant.

”Ah, almost forgot the poison...”

Today, I’ll let you fools witness why the Lin family’s Curse Masters are renowned throughout the Abyss!

Apart from defending himself, he even had surplus energy to support Yuan Yuan as she penetrated deep into the enemy ranks, briefly creating an opportunity for her...

”Holy!” he exclaimed unconsciously, reaching out and pouring Huai Shi’s blood into the wind.

Accompanied by the swallowing and spitting of the Snake-core Stigma and the silent chanting of curse spells, tiny dark green figures emerged one by one from the mire. They burrowed into the crowd, climbing everywhere through the mud, making their way up Gain’s leg armor.

Wherever they passed, iron rusted. Amidst the patchy rust, numerous mushrooms and thorns rapidly grew, entangling around him.

And it was at that moment that Yuan Yuan raised the sword blade in her hand.

Stigmata Relic - Howl of the Mountain Monarch.

Its roar was like thunder, instantly creating a rolling wave of sound that spread in all directions.

The phantoms of Riding Yellow and Mountain Monarch vanished in an instant, replaced by the ferocious outlines that evolved from their overlapping Stigmas.

The overlapping roars of innumerable beasts transformed into a distant Dragon Roar, resounding through the blood rain.

The wind followed the tiger; the cloud followed the dragon.

Amidst the blood rain and Burning Wind, the Stigma of Sky Horse·Riding Yellow, inherited from Dragon Blood, connected with that of Mountain Monarch, merging into one.

They formed a fleeting, ferocious phantom.

The collision between Stigmas briefly reversed the deficiency of ”no dragons in the world.” Using this false trace of Dragon Blood as the source, what manifested was the Disaster Miracle from the Dongxia Source, combining the powers of Sky Monarch and Mountain Monarch.

—Tiger Jiao!

The legendary monstrous beast reappeared.

Yuan Yuan took a step, advancing fourteen meters with Yu Step Forward. As the sword blade hummed, it left a beautiful vibrato in the air, unique to a violin.

It was like a lark’s fluttering wings and cheerful chirping.

The sword blade sliced through the air with incredible agility, a flash of metallic light fleeting.

Then, a gushing fountain of blood shot into the sky, merging with the blood rain, indistinguishable from it.

The battle-hardened Gain, frozen in place, staggered back a step and fell to his knees. From his shoulder, his head slowly slid off.

It fell into the mire, his face still showing the dullness and horror of that final instant.

—Beheading!

The Tiger Jiao’s Stigma existed only for an instant before rapidly disintegrating.

Mountain Monarch returned to its place within the Stigmata Relic, and Riding Yellow reappeared.

After the successful strike, Yuan Yuan didn’t attempt to create more achievements but seized the opportunity to quickly withdraw, dragging Lin Nineteen by the collar along with her.

When the Eye of Nightmare sensed Gain’s death and tried to give chase in a rage, deep rumbles rose from the curtain of rain behind them.

One, two, three... Countless shadows emerged from the bloodstained rainwater.

It was the charge of a rapidly approaching formation.

The pitch-black Snake-man Legion!

”For The Eternal Ring!” The Snake-man’s Elder, wearing a gas mask, drew his Curved Knife and shouted in anger, ”The moment of war is upon us! The enemy lies ahead!”

Countless Curved Knives were drawn from their sheaths, striking against the outermost Minotaur Warriors.

Then came the Gargoyles.

Those huge, ferocious figures swooped down from within the rain, sending a spray of blood into the air as they threw their spears. Then, without concern for anything else, they quickly picked up the incapacitated members of the Exploration Team and Scholars from the ground, rushing them to the rear.

”See how timely the reinforcements arrived?” Huai Shi taunted, cleaving and forcing back August. But August didn’t respond, still expressionless. Instead, he lifted his head, looking toward the northern sky.

With a loud bang, a hurricane swept in from afar.

The blood rain vibrated, forming a crimson Tornado that surged skyward from the ground.

Upon the Sky Dome, amidst the struggle between the Dome Giant and Abnormal Hell, power from the sub-control core was now being exerted over the entire land of the Town of Dusk.

A rumble like collapsing mountains resounded.

At that moment, intense electrical flashes shot from the Central Tower, rising and flying in all directions.

As everyone looked back in astonishment, they saw that the towering structure had been uprooted from its foundation, as if an invisible force had forcefully plucked it from the earth, raising it above the sky.

The earth shook violently. From all over the Town of Dusk, countless huge machines and fragments rose into the air, pulled by an invisible force, converging toward the center.

With the levitated tower as its core, these pieces rapidly closed in, pieced together, and sprouted, developing into a structure as intricate and vast as a celestial palace.

Light and heat brewed within it, forcefully holding back the myriad Curses that formed the natural disasters, carving out a tranquil and peaceful area around the high tower.

This scene seemed familiar... Huai Shi instinctively held his breath. He felt countless inexplicable fragments flashing through his consciousness, and with them, mournful phantom sounds—

The records from millions of years past echoed once more in Huai Shi’s mind, bringing unspeakable fear and unease.

That was the Eternal Frozen Heart.

After eons of silence, the all-powerful Perpetual Motion Machines were awakening!