Chapter 28 — Cornered Beast's Struggle

Rumble—!

An incredibly violent wave of high-dimensional gravity and electromagnetic aftershocks violently exploded from the center of the pulverized scrap iron pile like a volcanic eruption! The entire blind spot ruin was roaring and shaking violently!

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar, his hair disheveled, stood up step by step from the deep crater's mud in a wretched state. His originally brilliant silver holy armor was covered in dense, crumbling cracks. The half-meter-long, bone-deep knife wound on his chest was continuously gushing out steaming golden divine blood! The divine blood dripped into the mud, kicking up wisps of white smoke and ear-piercing sounds of evaporation. Gar clutched his chest tightly, but the rupture of his high-dimensional divine meridians caused his divine power to continuously escape and leak out.

Divine Envoy Gar's originally cold, noble silver eyes were now bloodshot and bulging like a vengeful ghost! As a dignified advanced divine envoy under the command of Aries in the Heavenly Realm, revered by ten thousand gods in the heavens, today he had actually been shattered of his shield, severed of his halberd, and made to bleed his first drop of noble divine blood by a mortal waste who hadn't even unlocked a genetic lock, right here in the low-dimensional garbage dump of the lower realm! To him, this was an eternal, indelible humiliation! This humiliation drove him mad with agony, worse than killing him!

"Despicable mud ants... inferior garbage creatures!"

Gar's roar was like rolling thunder, violently oscillating across the wasteland of the blind spot, punching a giant hole in the clouds:

"I am going to make you... beg for death!! I am going to make all the garbage on this entire planet be buried with my divine blood in despair! Unable to live, unable to die! I will stomp you all into bloody pulp!"

Hum—!

Gar violently spread his hands wide. The high-dimensional divine art energy flowing in his blood vessels went entirely berserk in a split second! The divine core in his body grew wildly, suppressing the physical constants of high-dimensional order to the extreme! High-energy gravity particles condensed in the air into visible thick white fog!

A giant gravity law net, hundreds of meters tall and interwoven in brilliant gold and blood-red, boomed outwards from him across the surrounding concave plaza!

[High-Dimensional Divine Art: Thousand-fold Gravity Descent]!

Crack-crack-crack-crack—!

Within a radius of several kilometers, the scrap iron covers, corrugated iron bunkers, and even the hard underground waste lead ore veins and carburized armor plates were instantly smashed and crushed flat as a pancake under this violently extreme thousand-fold holy gravity! All the explosion-proof lightbulbs ruptured; the shattered glass and micro-dust were directly crushed into pulverized powder by the extreme gravity, falling into the mud!

Pfft—!

"Ahhhhhh!"

The dozens of mortal warriors on the defense line who had been raising their guns for focused fire didn't even have a sliver of a chance to resist before they were instantly crushed flat into the mud by the thousand-fold gravity! Their fragile ribs collapsed and shattered in entire rows. Blood sprayed out like a fountain from their mouths, noses, and eyes! Hundreds of mortals across the plaza lay in the violently sunken mud, emitting the most agonizing, tragic groans, unable to even twitch a finger! Yet, even with all their bones cracking, not a single mortal opened their mouth to beg for mercy!

Even veteran Caleb's thick mechanical iron arm emitted despairing sounds of gears locking and shattering under the thousand-fold gravity. The mechanical bearings spewed blinding white smoke. Half of the veteran's body was sunken into the ground. Staring at the sky with bloodshot eyes, his mechanical prosthetic eye shooting out violent, fanatical death-light, he used every ounce of his strength to roar hoarsely: "Kid! Ignore us! Butcher this dog envoy!"

"Hahahaha! Kneel! All of you kneel in the mud like dogs and apologize to the divine!" Gar laughed wildly, his face hideous, covered in flowing divine blood.

However, in the center of this thousand-fold holy gravitational field—strong enough to crush fine steel into an iron pancake—

A mortal boy wearing a torn tactical cloak stood proudly!

Elias clenched his jaw dead tight, his lips bitten until blood flowed freely. His two battle boots beneath his feet plunged nearly half a meter deep into the soil with a boom under the thousand-fold gravity! The negative energy scars on his back writhed violently. The [Anomaly Frequency] formed a faint yet absolutely stubborn pitch-black aura around him, firmly resisting the thousand-fold gravitational oppression from above! The negative energy in the boy's body frantically slammed against the gravitational field, tearing open a physical breathing space for a mortal in the dead corner! The bloodline in the boy's body oscillated violently, but his resolute gaze didn't waver in the slightest.

The boy rigidly straightened his spine, the heavy industrial cutting knife held across his chest. His lake-green eyes stared calmly and dead-silently at the maddened divine envoy, without bending his knees in the slightest! A body full of proud bones, piercing straight towards the firmament!

A mortal's body, under a god's thousand-fold pressure, stood as a never-bowing peak of ice!

"Captain Gar! This kid has bizarre negative energy on him! Let us pluck his head and offer it to the Lord!"

The other three junior divine envoys beside him, seeing Gar wounded, were eager to establish their merit before their new Lord. Laughing wildly, they wielded three radiant holy gravity lances, stepped on the void stairs, and transformed into three gold-and-white lightning bolts. From three completely different dead corner angles, they violently thrust toward Elias standing in the mud!

The three divine lances drew three blinding high-dimensional white arcs in mid-air. The gravity polarization halos popped piercingly, pushing out layers of high-dimensional killing waves sufficient to mince any low-dimensional flesh into paste in a split second! Before the spear tips even arrived, the ground had already sunken into three massive, deep craters! The eyes of the three junior divine envoys were full of the excitement of cruel, sadistic killing. In their eyes, this immobilized mortal ant was certainly dead.

Behind the high platform, Lyra, pressed onto the explosion-proof armor plate by the gravity, saw this scene. Her eye sockets instantly burst with blood as she let out a tragic, heartbroken scream: "Elias! Dodge! Please dodge quickly!" The girl desperately tried to reach out, wanting to help the boy share the pressure, but couldn't move an inch.

"Trying to kill me... you're not qualified yet!"

A cold, extremely ruthless sneer of mockery flashed at the corners of Elias's mouth. Facing the violent encirclement of the three junior divine envoys, the boy not only didn't retreat, but stepped down with his foot. Borrowing the residual black pulse cavity and collapsed gravity deviation angle left underground by the [Prototype Shell], his figure bizarrely dashed forward three steps! The boy's physical body broke conventional physical inertia, completing an extreme-speed turn at a completely impossible angular velocity!

"[Anomaly Footwork: Orbit-breaking Glide]!"

The boy's figure blurred into a series of black afterimages in the extreme gravitational field! The scrap iron plates beneath his feet were stomped into deep craters!

He didn't try to forcibly block the combined strike of the three divine lances. Instead, relying on his ultimate familiarity with the scrap iron terrain of the entire concave plaza, he hugged the edge of the sunken lead plates and nimbly glided sideways into the attack blind spot of the two divine envoys on the left! He let the long spear of the divine envoy on the right perilously scrape past his tactical cloak and thrust deep into the mud!

"Not good! He glided into the attack blind spot!" The junior divine envoy on the left changed his expression drastically. He tried to pull his spear back and turn, but because of the deviation from Gar's berserk gravitational field overlapping with his companion's spear trajectory, he experienced a thousandth of a second of action stutter! The high-dimensional gravitational field conversely became a fatal shackle locking their movements!

But it was already too late!

A fatal cold gleam shot out from Elias's cruel eyes. In the thousandth of a second gap where the two divine envoys interfered with each other due to gravity, the boy's figure was like a venomous scorpion hunting in a dead corner. With a horizontal slash, he violently cleaved! In the split second the black-extreme negative energy sliced open their battle armor, it completely smashed and exploded the high-dimensional energy pathways inside the divine envoys' physical bodies!

"Break—!"

The black-extreme negative energy wrapped around the industrial cutting knife with its serrated edge, drawing a black gleam that pulverized causality!

Squeltch—!

Squeltch—!

Accompanied by two horrifying sounds of tearing flesh! That sound was exceptionally piercing and clear in the silent night sky!

The heads of the two junior divine envoys, along with the neck guards of their silver battle armor, were cleanly severed and sent flying by Elias's incomparably ruthless gliding horizontal slash! The defense of high-dimensional battle armor was as fragile as paper before the Anomaly negative energy! Divine blood sprayed like a fountain!

Two fountains of brilliant golden blood, several meters high, sprayed violently in mid-air! The golden divine blood splashed across Elias's profile, making the boy's face look like a cold-blooded god of war! The headless corpses of the two divine envoys collapsed into the mud from their weight, turning into specks of light that began to decay and melt away!

Borrowing the enemy's knife to kill! Instant-killing two gods!

The entire concave plaza fell into absolute dead silence in an instant! Even the sound of the wind seemed completely frozen at this moment!

The final surviving junior divine envoy was frightened out of his wits. The battle lance in his hand fell, and his figure retreated frantically backward in an incredibly wretched state! He could never have imagined that a lowly mortal ant could walk on flat ground in an extreme gravitational field, and even chop off the noble heads of two of his companions in the blink of an eye! His legs trembled, his eyes filled with the ultimate terror of death! His originally arrogant divinity was completely shattered at this moment!

"Bastard! Ahhhhhh!"

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar was thoroughly stimulated out of his mind by this bloody scene! Those scarlet eyes of his swept frantically across the plaza, ultimately locking dead onto the deep shadows of a scrap iron statue not far from the high platform!

There, "Vespera," dressed in a linen dress, stood quietly in the dark, the hem of her thin clothes swaying in the howling wind.

In Gar's violently disordered divine consciousness, that unarmed mortal woman with no energy fluctuations around her whatsoever was obviously the burdensome escort target Elias cared about the most! Gar even revealed an incomparably cruel, hideous smile. As long as he nailed this woman dead to the statue right then and there, this mortal boy's mind would definitely collapse in an instant!

"Dog bastard! I'll butcher the woman beside you first! I'll slice you to pieces, you scum! Let you taste the flavor of your true love dying before your eyes!"

Gar roared furiously. He pulled the severed half of the holy gravity halberd from the ground, poured all the residual slaughtering divine power in his body entirely into it, and violently, viciously hurled it at the back of "Vespera"'s heart in the dark!

The holy halberd transformed into a blinding gold-red pillar of light. Carrying the weight of ten thousand jun and a deadly momentum that tore the void apart, it shot boomingly toward that seemingly frail, harmless linen-dressed woman! The golden arc pierced the long sky. Wherever the gravitational wave passed, the scrap iron statues and ground along the way were instantly blasted into pulverized dust!

"No—!"

Behind the high platform cover, Lyra let out a despairing, sharp cry! The pupils of Elias's eyes also shrank abruptly to their absolute limit in that split second!

However, before that world-destroying gold-red spear gleam, "Vespera" didn't even blink an eyelid.

The high-and-mighty God of Darkness, Umbra, stood quietly amidst the gale and sky-filling dust, letting the howling gravitational air currents blow her hair into a mess. Deep within those high-dimensional eyes of hers, pitch-black as the night, flashed a deathly silence and mockery that was cold to the extreme. This Divine Court hound, injured by a mortal, was actually stupid enough to point its death-threat at the God of Darkness who governed the universe's judgment! Had she not needed to conceal her identity, with a mere thought, she could completely annihilate Gar into zero-dimensional waste!

The ultimate critical point of life and death exploded with a boom at this moment! The gold-red gravity spear tore through the air with a destructive shockwave, while the fate of all living beings in the plaza slid into an unpredictable high-dimensional abyss in this very instant! The blood battle between god and mortals completely lost its final suspense, striding toward a more tragically explosive slaughter!