Chapter 2712: Chapter 1835: Scheming in the Shadows
What’s it like to fight the angriest, most violent, roughest, and most formidable enemy in the entire Milky Way?
For Duanmu Huai, that feeling can be described in one word—awesome!
Duanmu Huai was quite frustrated with the previous battle against Brutal Wrath because, apart from the difficult situation with Obsessive Sin, he also had to deal with Cunning Deception’s constant nagging from behind and the dung balls thrown by Corrupted Foil. Under such circumstances, Duanmu Huai had no way to properly face Brutal Wrath in a head-on fight.
But now it’s different!
Face to face! Fist to fist! A pure battle! Killing and being killed, mutual destruction! A real fight!
To the point where Duanmu Huai couldn’t help but want to shout—
"WAAAAAAAAGH!"
Alright, being with those two guys inevitably caused Duanmu Huai to pick up some of the Green Skin’s habits.
"Boom!"
Duanmu Huai raised the War Hammer and slammed it heavily into Brutal Wrath’s chest, causing the latter’s body to jerk violently. With a roar, Brutal Wrath swung down the Chainsaw Axe towards Duanmu Huai’s head. But Duanmu Huai sidestepped at the last moment, allowing Brutal Wrath’s Chainsaw Axe to cut into his shoulder, while he took a step forward and headbutted Brutal Wrath’s head.
"Boom!"
Brutal Wrath’s helmet trembled and cracked open, revealing a pair of crimson eyes through the gap. It coldly stared at Duanmu Huai, its fury capable of physically burning anyone who dared to meet its gaze. It’s the accumulated anger of countless souls from thousands of years in Subspace, in wars and death, like a raging sea of fire. They compose everything that burns this world, capturing anyone who looks upon it with unparalleled fury, causing them to kneel and scream out their pain.
But unlike Brutal Wrath, Duanmu Huai’s pitch-black eyes were indifferent, calm, and lifeless—like destruction itself. Any enemy of mankind will be destroyed, and what is destroyed will not exist again. No matter how powerful, dazzling, or magnificent it once was. Destruction... complete destruction will equally erase all traces of its existence. Even remnants from Subspace, the anger left from wars spanning hundreds of thousands of years, will dissipate in the face of this cold, annihilating wind.
Duanmu Huai wouldn’t be so stupid as to confront Brutal Wrath in anger—Brutal Wrath, the name itself indicates, is its domain; Duanmu Huai doesn’t intend to win this anger contest, and he knows he can’t. Brutal Wrath represents the anger of billions of creatures from countless wars and conflicts over billions of years in the entire Milky Way, Duanmu Huai’s anger is insignificant in such quantities.
It’s like comparing the sun to a single candle.
For him, there’s only one thing to do now, and that’s to utterly annihilate Brutal Wrath!
Of course, Duanmu Huai already has a plan for how to accomplish that.
It’s well-known—or perhaps not so well-known, Chaos Evil Gods are not inherently evil gods; they are the condensations of all living emotions and souls in the Milky Way. If Star Gods are the embodiment of physical world rules, then Chaos Evil Gods are the embodiment of the rules of the spiritual world.
You can’t completely kill Brutal Wrath because that would remove the fighting and survival instincts from all beings in the Milky Way, they would stop battling, achieving world peace in a way.
But Duanmu Huai slightly altered this part.
He doesn’t need to kill the essence of Brutal Wrath, he only needs to destroy Brutal Wrath.
After all, the birth of Chaos Evil Gods was due to the call of Obsessive Sin, and before this, Subspace was just a large dumpster for the Milky Way, a dump for those rotten souls and emotional garbage. But after all that, accompanied by the Spirit race—the most filthy, despicable, shameless, ugly, vile, lowly, shameful, weak race in the Milky Way committed the most disgraceful acts, Slaanesh was born, which stimulated the other garbage heaps, giving them self-awareness.
So what Duanmu Huai had to do was destroy the shell that contains and coalesces emotional rules, returning them to their primitive state. A state where there are no gods or demons in Subspace, and everything is just a heap of garbage.
Therefore, he has only one task.
That is to destroy—Brutal Wrath’s personality itself!
Just like performing a prefrontal lobotomy, as long as one turns it into a Mecha Servant with no thinking or self-capability, it’s not a threat anymore.
Then Duanmu Huai can stuff this damned undead into any place he can think of, locking him away for hundreds of thousands of years or whatever.
"Boom!"
Duanmu Huai headbutted Brutal Wrath’s face again, the latter roared and pressed down hard with the Chainsaw Axe, the frantically spinning chainsaw gradually tearing into Duanmu Huai’s Power Armor, while Duanmu Huai directly tossed aside his Thunder Warhammer, clenched his fists tightly, and punched Brutal Wrath’s head!
"Ora!"
"Boom!"
"Ora!"
"Boom!"
"Oora—————!!"
Right after Duanmu Huai’s furious third punch hit Brutal Wrath’s face again, the latter finally wobbled its head, momentarily losing balance. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Duanmu Huai dashed forward again, lowering his head to shove his shoulder firmly against Brutal Wrath’s body, charging ahead!
"I’ll push you to hell!"
Brutal Wrath’s body leaned backward, simultaneously raising the Chainsaw Axe high again. Just as Duanmu Huai punched forcefully once more, bringing it down, both sides collided once again.
"Boom———————!!!"
At this moment, the surrounding earth completely collapsed, and the entire Hive City began to shake violently.
The dome collapsed.
Huge rocks fell from the sky, and the residents of the Hive City screamed and ran. They didn’t even know where to go, as there seemed to be no safe place in the city at this moment. Everyone was screaming aimlessly in the streets, running, like background crowds in a horror movie, shouting at the top of their lungs.
It was as if the end of the world was approaching.
But right now, Mary had no time to care about this. She was sprinting down the street with Mianmu Zuoniao, while listening to Lumiaire’s voice in her ear.
"Earlier, I conducted an investigation on all transportation interactions throughout the Hive City and discovered a problem."
Lumiaire’s voice was somewhat breathless, with the sounds of laser guns and screams audible in the background.
"After the technology priests of the Mechanical Religion made contact with that Space Undead Lord, they began excavations throughout the Space Undead Tomb."
This was not surprising; although most of it was buried, once it could be dug up, that Space Undead Lord could still awaken other soldiers. After all, the technology of the Space Undead had a quality guarantee.
"And the excavated earth was mostly handled as ore, but there was one data entry that had issues."
Lumiaire got to the point.
"A transport team transported materials under the guise of ’waste burial,’ but instead of going to the previous dumping sites, it was shipped to another material warehouse. And leading the team at the time was the very technology priest we saw..."
"The corpse we saw at the processing plant?"
"That’s right, and that material warehouse, by location, is right under the Titanium Clan’s embassy! I don’t know if that’s a problem, but so far, the only doubt lies there... but be careful, after all, that guy..."
"I know."
Mary understood Lumiaire’s meaning, perhaps this was another trap. As Lumiaire said, if all of this was orchestrated by that Cunning Deception, it would surely be a trap. Maybe when she opened the door, she would encounter something strange, or maybe there was nothing there, or perhaps by just opening the door, she would trigger something that shouldn’t be triggered... After all, Mr. Duanmu told her, that annoying birdman liked to have "everything under control."
However, Mary was not entirely without ways to solve this issue.
Her golden eye emitted a bright glow, revealing lines from the essence of the world. She guided Mianmu Zuoniao, dodging the falling rocks repeatedly, and following Lumiaire’s direction, arrived at a material warehouse located in the lower Hive.
At this moment, several Hive City residents were huddled together, embracing each other, crying incessantly. They looked so fragile, so sorrowful, so terrified. When Mary and Mianmu Zuoniao approached the warehouse door, these residents raised their heads, looking at them uneasily.
They looked harmless, with no hint of threat. Even as Mary and Mianmu Zuoniao approached, they scrambled aside, like little beasts driven off by a predator.
But this did not stop Mianmu Zuoniao’s actions.
"Aha."
The young girl chuckled, then rushed forward in a stride to one of the civilians, as the blade at her waist suddenly popped out, directly cutting through the civilian’s body. In the next moment, amidst a piercing scream, the civilian’s body began to distort, transforming into a blue, slime-like tentacle monster. It opened its mouth, emitting a sharp scream, and then the blade pierced it, completely stopping its shrieks and wails.
Meanwhile, the others around also stood up. Among them were men and women, old and young. At this moment, they all shed their original disguises and revealed their true forms!
"———————!!"
The Subspace Demons screamed, opening their claws and teeth, pouncing on the girl in front of them. However, they were met with the wrath of the stars falling from the sky and the shining light of swords clashing. These Subspace demons, capable of deceiving the eyes and even the minds of anyone, were completely meaningless in the face of Mary’s Golden Pupil. As for Mianmu Zuoniao — she didn’t even need to see; she could feel that the beings in front were not human.
After clearing out a wave of the obstructing demons, the two finally reached the warehouse door. At this moment, the door was tightly locked, looking perfectly normal. Mary widened her eyes, staring at the door—she originally thought there might be some mechanism or trap here, but in front of the Golden Pupil, there was nothing.
But this instead made Mary uneasy. If the opponent had set a trap or ambush here, she might feel more secure. But from a logical perspective, if the opponent didn’t even bother to set anything to hinder her, it meant they had great confidence in their plan, completely believing it wouldn’t be thwarted.
So what exactly was inside?
Mary hesitated for a moment, then tightened her grip on the Magic Wand.
"Hiss—————!"
The cold Moonlight Greatsword appeared out of thin air, directly cutting open the heavy warehouse door. Mary raised her Magic Wand, a light orb appeared, illuminating the dark warehouse.
Then, her eyes widened in astonishment.
Inside the warehouse, dozens of huge black stone pillars were arranged in a circle, and in the center of those pillars lay a tall object that resembled a coffin. It was firmly chained, hanging in the air, emitting a green glow from within.
This glow pulsed rhythmically, flickering like a breathing light.
Seeing this scene, Mary bit her lip and gripped the Magic Wand tightly.
She knew, now she was in big trouble.
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