Chapter 30 — Ambush in the Ruins and Beheading

On the concave plaza, gunsmoke billowed. Golden divine blood and black wasteland mud violently mixed, evaporating into bursts of pungent, high-dimensional energy white mist.

The crippled advanced divine envoy, Gar, twitched in agony on the ground. The excruciating pain of his evaporated right arm made him completely lose the composure a deity ought to have. In his eyes, this wasteland blind spot that he had originally thought could be casually flattened had now transformed into a death trap that swallowed gods!

"Captain! Quick, retreat to the ship! Activate the main cannons for a ground sweep!"

The last surviving escort junior divine envoy, filled with extreme terror, used his remaining left hand to haul up Gar, who was covered in golden blood. Violent gravitational air currents erupted from his feet as he dragged Gar along the beam stairs lowered by the patrol boat, fleeing wretchedly toward the hatch of the [Golden Saint] hovering in mid-air!

"Trying to leave?! Did you ask the battle knife in my hand!"

On the ground, Elias stood proudly deep amidst the blizzard and billowing gunsmoke. The boy's blond hair howled and spiraled in the wind. The heavy industrial cutting knife in his hand was thickly adhered with high-dimensional divine blood.

Although forcibly erupting Anomaly negative energy to block the spear just now caused the boy's meridians to twitch violently, and the wound on his back was bleeding profusely, as he watched Gar and the escort divine envoy frantically fleeing toward the patrol boat high above, all distracting thoughts in the boy's mind were shredded by cold killing intent in a split second!

He had to take this opportunity to tear them out by the roots! He absolutely could not let this divine envoy patrol boat escape back to the Heavenly Realm and transmit their coordinates. Otherwise, the over two hundred mortal compatriots in the Embers Camp would face the ultimate disaster of a ground-sweeping bombardment from the Divine Court's fleet at any moment!

"Stay... the fuck right here!"

Elias let out a roar. The [Anomaly Frequency] surging in his blood vessels was instantly switched to full power! The scars on the boy's body violently twisted and engorged with blood. The black-extreme negative energy pierced all the way down his spine and through his legs, exploding into rings of pitch-black, ink-like void ripples beneath his feet! The boy's aura rose from the ground like a giant dragon in the extreme gravitational field! The black-extreme negative energy forcibly blew apart the gravitational field within several meters of him!

Boom—!

Elias stomped heavily on the waste lead high platform! The armor plate, several meters thick, was instantly stomped into a half-meter-deep crater! The boy's figure was like a black-extreme artillery shell soaring into the sky. Carrying an incomparably resolute, god-slaying dominance, he tore through the gravitational oppression and shot straight a thousand meters into the sky! His tactical cloak let out a tearing howl in the fierce wind! The boy's figure drew a resolute, dead-corner black gleam amidst the pale golden light!

High-dimensional gravity frantically squeezed Elias's bones and flesh from all sides, but before the Anomaly negative energy surging violently in his blood vessels, these gravitational rules were completely torn open in reverse! The boy's eyes were bloodshot. Gritting his teeth against the storm and severe pain, he shot straight into the clouds!

"What?! That mortal kid actually charged straight up!"

The escort junior divine envoy dragging Gar in retreat heard the whistling sound tearing through the air below. Looking back in terror, he saw a pitch-black gleam rapidly enlarging in his pupils! Panicked and lost, he pushed Gar away, swung the gravity long spear in his hand, and tried to thrust a gravity barrier downward. But before the extreme-speed charging Elias, it was as pale as paper!

"You are the first!"

Elias stepped on the high-frequency void cavity formed by the black-extreme negative energy. His figure strangely flickered in the air for an instant, dodging the thrusting gravity spear gleam. Taking advantage of the momentum, the heavy industrial cutting knife in his hand executed a violent horizontal slash! The black-extreme negative energy wrapped around the serrated blade, transforming into a conceptual black gleam that severed everything!

Squeltch—!

The escort junior divine envoy responsible for blocking didn't even have time to let out a scream before his body, along with the golden gravity long spear, was violently sliced open and split in two at the waist by Elias's unmatched, berserk slash! High-dimensional divine blood poured down like raindrops in mid-air! The severed corpse of the escort divine envoy plummeted heavily toward the wasteland from a thousand meters high! The golden chunks of flesh smashed into the mud, erupting into a cloud of evaporating white steam!

"Gar! It's your dog life's turn!"

After slaying the blocking escort divine envoy, Elias's body borrowed force a second time in mid-air. Stepping heavily on the severed stairs of the patrol boat, he instantly crossed the final dozen meters of physical distance and landed with a boom in front of the explosion-proof hatch of the [Golden Saint] patrol boat!

The boy's tactical cloak whipped piercingly in the ten-thousand-fathom gale. Those eyes filled with pitch-black killing intent locked dead onto Gar's face, who was collapsed at the hatch, crawling like a stray dog! The heavy cutting knife in the boy's hand dripped with the previous escort divine envoy's golden blood under the illumination of the pale golden light!

"No—! I am an advanced divine envoy under the command of the Aries Lord! You low-dimensional mud ant... how dare you—!"

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar, missing his right arm, let out a despairing, hoarse howl of terror. His left hand desperately clawed toward the gravity control console inside the hatch! In his terrified perception, the patrol boat's gravity explosion-proof self-locking protocol was on the verge of activation. As long as he could press the master control button, the entire airship's high-dimensional barrier could instantly pulverize this damned mortal kid!

However, Elias didn't give him any chance to struggle at all!

A thousandth of a second before Gar's left finger touched the master control screen, Elias coldly stomped and snapped his left wrist! The crisp sound of bone fracturing, accompanied by Gar's tragic howl, shook the hatch!

"What kind of bullshit god are you! Die—!"

Elias stood proudly before the hatch. Both hands tightly gripped the handle of the heavy industrial cutting knife. He poured all the Anomaly negative energy in his entire body and his monstrous blood feud against the Divine Court entirely into the blade! Pitch-black lightning that destroyed causality coiled around the blade, and the scars on the boy's body violently twisted!

The black knife gleam surged several meters long. Aimed at the neck of the collapsed Gar, he slashed down ruthlessly without the slightest mercy! That slash struck out the roars of tens of thousands of wronged souls on the wasteland, severing the high-and-mighty, high-dimensional shackles of the Divine Court!

"Sever—!"

Squeltch—! Rumble—!

The black knife gleam tore the void! Divine Envoy Gar's noble advanced holy armor neck guard was pulverized in an instant. That bloodshot, despairing divine head was beheaded on the spot and sent flying by Elias right in front of the hatch!

A fountain of golden holy divine blood, spraying dozens of meters high, poured down like a brilliant golden waterfall from the high-altitude hatch toward the wasteland below with a boom!

The ultimate terror and indescribable shock were still frozen in the eye sockets of Gar's severed head! Meanwhile, the [Golden Saint] patrol boat hovering high in the sky, having lost the divine core identification and control authority of its chief officer Gar, had its charging ground-based gravity main cannons instantly erupt with a sharp self-locking alarm. The massive hull began to undergo a violent gravitational tilt and chaotic descent! The anti-pollution holy light on the hull's surface also began to dim and lose its color!

Under everyone's shocked, numb gazes, Advanced Divine Envoy Gar's headless body and severed head plummeted heavily from a thousand fathoms high. With a bang, they smashed the scrap iron high platform in the center of the Embers Camp to pieces! Divine blood sprayed across the sky! Dyeing the black wasteland with a blinding gold-red hue!

The entire plaza fell into a deathly silence.

Behind the defense line, dozens of gun-wielding mortal warriors stared blankly at Gar's severed head and divine body that had crashed down from the sky. The air was filled with the rich aroma of high-dimensional divine blood and the pungent, scorched smell of metal. In their cognition, gods were high-and-mighty, invincible conceptual existences, cold-blooded masters capable of destroying a mining main continent with a flick of a finger.

And now, the insufferably arrogant advanced patrol officer Gar under the command of the Aries Lord... that noble divine head had actually been severed by a mortal boy using the most primitive industrial cutting knife!

"We won... we actually really killed the divine envoys?!" A young mortal warrior trembling dropped the armor-piercing rifle in his hand. He rubbed his eyes, looking in disbelief at the golden divine blood flowing in the mud.

"Did you see that?! Gods bleed too! Gods can die too!"

Veteran Caleb roared wildly at the sky. That mechanical electronic prosthetic eye radiated unmatched, ferocious battle intent! The veteran punched heavily into the mud, his bloodshot eyes roaring wildly: "Mortal Vanguard, charge up there! Seize the golden warship! Strip off their holy armor and forge it into guns and ammo!"

"Charge! Seize the warship! Slay the divine dogs!"

The bloodlust suppressed for years thoroughly exploded at this moment! Dozens of mortal warriors roared and charged toward the paralyzed, descending patrol boat, using crude industrial tools to dismantle the holy armor and carry out the energy crystal cores from the warship.

Veteran Caleb led a dozen warriors climbing up the dead-locked patrol boat hatch. Using cutting machines, they frantically sawed through the holy alloy pipes, moving dozens of crates of gravity ammunition and high-dimensional explosion-proof armor plates stored in the cabin off the ship. This small golden patrol boat instantly became the absolute best armory for the Mortal Vanguard to arm itself!

And on the high platform, the girl Lyra had tears in her eyes. She excitedly clenched her hands tight, tears sliding down her delicate, flushed cheeks. The girl looked at the boy slowly descending from the hatch, her lips trembling as she shouted: "Elias! You did it! You really cut off the head of a high-and-mighty divine envoy!"

Elias landed, dragging the heavy battle knife, his body swaying slightly. The boy's tactical cloak was already soaked with divine blood and sweat. The overloaded Anomaly negative energy in his meridians made his face as pale as paper.

"Lyra... Uncle Caleb... quickly smash and melt all the high-dimensional locators on the patrol boat!" Elias's voice was hoarse but calm. "We absolutely cannot let the Divine Court detect the positioning signal of this ship! The divine blood must also be washed clean with strong acid!"

Veteran Caleb nodded solemnly, waving a tactical hammer to viciously smash the patrol boat's communication black box. "Rest assured, kid! I know the rules! We absolutely won't leave a single trace for the divine dogs!"

The girl Lyra quickly ran down from the high platform, supporting the teetering Elias. Using clean cotton cloth, she carefully wiped the golden blood from the boy's face, her eyes full of heartache and adoration. In Lyra's heart, this blond boy was the never-falling sword of salvation for the mortal faction. And Elias, looking at the girl thoughtfully handing him the medicated cloth, felt only a deep guilt for his dead sister Aira and the protective responsibility of an elder brother surging in his heart. He gently patted Lyra's shoulder, just like how he used to pat his sister's head in the mines back then, and said in a deep voice: "It's fine... don't be afraid."

Elias took a deep breath, wiping the bloodstains from the corners of his lips. His gaze swept across the cheering mortal warriors and finally landed on "Vespera," who was silently watching all of this from the shadows of the explosion-proof wall.

"Vespera" still had her eyes lowered, her small body huddled in the dark, still looking like that fragile, pitiful amnesiac woman. But after the suspicion of the microscopic pulse just now, as Elias looked at her, an indelible, cold vigilance had already been planted in his heart.

Although this battle was a tragic victory, and they had slain Gar and all the descending divine envoys, Elias felt no relief in his heart. He understood the cruelty and tyranny of the Divine Court too well—killing a squad of patrol divine envoys meant that the Mortal Vanguard had completely bared its fangs of rebellion to the Aries Lord. The enraged Aries Divine Court would never let this go! A higher-dimensional storm of life and death had only just pulled open its prelude!

And in the center of the camp ruins, the Akashic Black Box he carried on him, the instant it swallowed Gar's divine blood, abruptly rippled with an extremely faint, bizarre wave inside the boy's pocket, as if responding in the microscopic dimension to this grand beginning of mortals slaying gods.

Elias reached into his pocket and pressed on the black box. His dark, bright eyes gazed at the gloomy firmament, the unextinguishable flames of hatred burning deep within.

"Aries Lord... Gods of the Divine Court..." the boy swore lowly in his heart, "This is only the first... The rebellion of mortals has just begun!"