I Aggressively Stack Steel of the Heart in the Knight Order

Chapter 202: Chapter 167: What Kind of Monster Is This?

When the true powerhouses in the area sensed the appearance of this Knightly Suppression, every one of them frowned. Even though the Wizard’s Secret Treasure at the tomb’s entrance had been breached, they all turned their heads to look at Reinhardt.

Their gazes were varied—some filled with shock, others with horror. But compared to their previous indifference, only now did they truly begin to see Reinhardt as an enemy.

The power that erupted from Reinhardt’s combat and mid-battle Military Rank promotion made them feel a tangible threat!

At the same time, the same question surfaced deep in their minds.

’A Military Rank promotion in the middle of a battle?’

’And an Imperial Knight with a Dual-Attribute Mighty Power, no less... What the hell kind of monster is he?!’

In the mid-tier Transcendent circles of the Ash Soil Star Zone, they had heard of powerful individuals who could enhance their Mighty Power without relying on external aids. But someone like Reinhardt, promoting on the spot? That wasn’t just rare—it was utterly unheard of!

The members of the Oreno Family, as well as another Vanguard Team under Lord Anatol, frowned deeply as they looked at Reinhardt.

In this fight for the Ancient Black Box, the fewer participants, the better. Ideally, everyone else would die, leaving only their faction to reap the rewards.

The strength Reinhardt and the Vengeance Angel Squad had shown by suppressing the Star Level Pirates with such overwhelming force was formidable, but in their eyes, it wasn’t enough to make them truly wary.

They were just a bunch of Interstellar Pirates, after all.

A disorganized rabble.

Any Vanguard Team from the Four Great Forces of the Ash Soil Star Zone could have done the same; it was just a question of whether it was worth the effort.

The bounties on these pirates and the crimes they’d committed were horrifying on paper, but compared to the Great Rebellion or the grand war between the Space Dragon Race and the Demons, their antics didn’t even qualify as a minor skirmish.

They didn’t think much of Reinhardt, but unlike those idiotic pirates, they wouldn’t underestimate his combat prowess. Being one of the Emperor’s Vengeful Angels, they wouldn’t look down on him just because he held a One-star Earth Military Rank.

Because even among the freemen of the Ash Soil Star Zone, true powerhouses disdained becoming Interstellar Pirates.

Many Imperial Knights, disillusioned with the Empire but still faithful to the Divine Emperor, chose to become local Rangers. They would form their own squads and, though independent, would continue to silently uphold the Knight’s Oath they had once sworn before the Radiant Holy Image.

To fight for the great cause of the Human World.

As for the powerful individuals who abandoned their faith and oaths, they, like Slaughterer Dane, chose to embrace the Void Realm and accept the power of Demons.

The battle between Robie and that man had leveled a large section of the tomb complex! The aftershocks alone had killed three Official Knights who lacked the strength to withstand them!

When Robie felt the Destructive Suppression—an aura of terrifying slaughter akin to a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood—descend upon him, he whipped his head around to stare at Reinhardt, a hundred meters away, before erupting into a demented cackle.

He seemed exceptionally pleased with Reinhardt’s power.

Slaughterer Dane also sensed the power of this suppression. His hands gripped his sword hilt, and he glared at Reinhardt with a look so hateful he seemed to want to flay him alive and tear him limb from limb.

But even that thought couldn’t quell his jealousy and fury!

Because within that Destructive Suppression, that aura of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he sensed a trace of the power of Avernus. It was the very power he had spent his entire life chasing, for which he had abandoned his dignity and glorious past, even prostrating himself at the feet of a Demon—the power he obsessed over, yet had ultimately failed to obtain!

He had fought for the Empire for three hundred years.

To please Avernus and its Venerable Great Demons, he had gone so far as to slaughter his own former subordinates!

He had sacrificed everything for it!

’Why should some snot-nosed rookie he’d never even heard of—one who still believed in the Divine Emperor, no less—be worthy of that Divine Spirit’s blessing?’

’He couldn’t accept it! He refused to accept it!’

And to Dane’s ears, Judge Robbie Hiling’s maniacal laughter twisted into a personal mockery, ridiculing him for sacrificing so much only to be ruthlessly abandoned by the Fear Knight Legion!

Rage flooded his mind, and blood rushed to his head!

Slaughterer Dane’s mutated face flushed crimson with fury!

"I’ll kill you! I’ll kill every single person here—!"

Though he was filled with rage and had already unleashed his full power, Robie was like an unkillable leech, clinging to him relentlessly! This only made Dane more and more furious!

’He wanted to eat the bastard alive!’

「Meanwhile.」

The members of the Vengeance Angel Squad were also shocked by Reinhardt’s sudden promotion to the Two-star Earth Military Rank.

A storm of shock raged in Agate’s heart at that moment!

A four-hundred-year veteran, he had served for many years and experienced over ten thousand battles, but he had only ever seen someone promote on the spot like this once before Reinhardt.

A Battle Group Tutor of the Steel Hand.

And before the Great Rebellion, that master had already grasped Legendary Power.

As for the surviving Star Level Pirates, who only had the strength of Official Knights and Tier One Mages, Reinhardt’s Destructive Suppression was like a monstrous tsunami, completely engulfing them!

Some of the weaker Official Knights didn’t even get the chance to be killed by Agate’s Thermite Beams. Their legs gave out as if they were carrying a mountain on their shoulders. They trembled uncontrollably, kneeling on the ground, unable to move.

As for the Wizards skilled in Spiritual Energy, the Destructive Suppression dragged their very minds into terrifying illusions.

It was as if they were trapped in an endless mountain of corpses and sea of blood!

A terrifying entity stared down at them from the peak of the corpse mountain!

Under the indiscriminate assault of the Destructive Suppression, the chaotic battlefield was transformed in an instant. The Interstellar Pirates fell one after another, losing all ability to resist. The few Mages among them either died horribly in the sweeping barrage of Agate’s Thermite Beams or were cut down by Manon as they tried to flee.

The handful of Void Governors were also completely annihilated by the other powerhouses.

Although the fight over the Ancient Black Box was fierce, there was an unspoken agreement among all the combatants: kill the Mages first.

The war between the Space Dragon Race and the Demon Legion was escalating. If these Void Governors were allowed to join the fray, the moment the Ancient Black Box appeared, these Demon lackeys, these Void Realm collaborators, would undoubtedly summon their Demon masters.

At that moment, lines of faint blue text appeared in Reinhardt’s vision.

[Giant Devouring Current Layer Number: 13,130]

[Physical Enhancement Coefficient: 13.130]

[Heart Steel Goliath Giant Current Permanent Physique Increase: 39%]

Five enemies at the Earth Military Rank level had provided him with 3,150 stacks of Steel of the Heart.

A fiery power flowed through his muscles and bones like lava. It was an explosive strength, like the kind honed through years of arduous training, and it now surged and roared through his veins!

And this power, born from his Physique, ultimately manifested as the Destruction Force Field’s Earth Ring—the Destructive Suppression!

Although Steel of the Heart could enhance his Physique, what truly allowed him to achieve a spontaneous promotion to a Two-star Military Rank were the years he had spent in quiet cultivation in the Iberian World.

Unlike the tangible improvement of one’s Physique, the strengthening of Spiritual Power was the ultimate test of a Knight’s will.

But at this moment, all his quiet cultivation in the Iberian World had been worth it.

Feeling the formidable Mighty Power that came with his promotion, Reinhardt tightened his grip on his War Axe and turned his head to look at the entrance of the tomb...