Redemption of a Born Demon

Chapter 468: Chapter 312: The Slumbering One Appears, Past Myth Becomes Reality (Part 1)

However, the fleet commander’s expression was resolute. He had no intention of leaving.

"Relay my orders. First, all other warships in the fleet are to distance themselves from the flagship at maximum speed and prepare for the blast."

"Second, all Warriors on the flagship are to evacuate immediately. Save as many as you can."

"Third, immediately dispatch someone into the Foggy Area. Find a way to notify everyone on those ruins and tell them to prepare for what’s coming."

The commander’s voice was grave as he continued to issue orders methodically. His gaze swept over everyone present. "You can evacuate with the others, or you can stay with me. I am not leaving. I go down with my ship. If the warship is gone, I’ll have no face to go on living as its commander."

"We still have one more option. I will execute the final protocol!"

The faces of everyone present changed slightly.

Indeed, they did have a final protocol: the self-destruct sequence.

Their most powerful weapon had yet to be deployed due to the lack of a safe detonation distance. When all other options were exhausted, they could activate it, destroying the entire armory and triggering a terrifying explosion that would engulf the whole warship.

This was the last resort, designed to deal with a terrifying individual being who managed to board the ship.

"Execute the orders!"

After a brief silence, the vice-commander roared. At that moment, surprisingly, no one in the command room left.

The fleet commander said nothing, not even glancing behind him. With a grave expression, he strode quickly to the control console in front of him. After entering a long string of command codes, a blood-red button slowly rose from the panel.

His hand was already resting on it.

The moment he pressed it, an explosion several times more powerful than the last would detonate instantly, destroying and vaporizing everything before it.

Even a monster like that probably couldn’t emerge unscathed from humanity’s most terrifying weapon.

FLASH!!

From the command room, everyone saw a flash of light on the warship’s deck. A figure had appeared, gazing toward them from afar.

Although the fleet commander possessed no great power himself, his gaze didn’t waver in the slightest as he met that pair of terrifying eyes through the glass.

The hidden being was as powerful as a god, but a man of high station had his own presence and pride.

Perhaps in the next moment, he would fall unconscious under the influence of that gaze.

But it didn’t matter. He maintained a posture leaning forward; any slight disturbance would cause his hand to press the button.

’Interesting.’

A smile touched the corners of the East King’s lips. His spiritual intuition sensed a feeling of crisis.

Even if this crisis were to fully erupt, it couldn’t truly harm him. However, it would inevitably cause some deep, unnecessary losses and would likely affect his condition for his subsequent trip to the Mediterranean Region.

Besides, it wasn’t so easy to instantly affect the commander’s consciousness. The command room was protected by an extremely powerful anti-interference Array. Furthermore, the man was a high-ranking official of a nation, naturally sheltered by the providence of the Human Dao River. What’s more, his current actions were in perfect harmony with the very character of Donghua’s destiny, making him even more difficult to sway spiritually.

This was why, even though the leaders of the Mortal World’s regimes were mere mortals, they were so difficult for those hidden beings to control.

Only at the end of a dynasty, when its leaders become corrupt and act contrary to the nation’s destiny, do they lose the protection of the Human Dao River. That is when demonic influences arise and chaos engulfs the government.

But now, the East King had already achieved his objective.

On one hand, he wanted to make a show of force to reduce any interference from the Mortal World during his future operations in the Mediterranean. On the other, he wanted to probe the threat level of the powerful weapons the Mortal World now possessed.

Now, he had a clear understanding.

As for destroying the warship and killing a high-ranking official of the Mortal World, those were not things he felt he had to do.

After all, even a fleet commander was nothing more than a short-lived ant in his eyes.

A person’s attitude toward an ant is usually to crush it if convenient. But if that ant might bite back, there’s no need to go out of one’s way to provoke it.

And so.

SWISH!!

With a flicker, the East King’s figure vanished from the deck once more, reappearing on the surface of the sea.

His speed was immense, breaking the sound barrier as he escaped the fleet’s encirclement. Then, he plunged headfirst into the Foggy Area.

Seeing the East King leave, the fleet commander’s back was instantly drenched in sweat, and his entire body felt weak.

It was the instinctual reaction of a normal person who had just faced death.

The others in the command room couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief as well.

After all, if you could live, who would really want to die?

However, before the feeling of having survived a catastrophe could even settle in, the commander’s expression changed abruptly. He stared at the Foggy Area where the East King had vanished.

"This is bad! That man entered the Foggy Area! His target is most likely the ruins! We must notify everyone there as soon as possible so they can prepare!"

The commander said gravely.

However, the people behind him remained silent.

Notify them? How?

The magnetic field within the Foggy Area was chaotic. Communication signals couldn’t penetrate it at all, cutting off all long-range transmission.

And as for physically delivering the message...

The man’s speed had already surpassed the sound barrier. The most advanced fighter jets might be able to outpace him, but entering the terrifying storm within the Foggy Area would be a suicide mission.

They had no way of notifying the people currently on Penglai Immortal Mountain.

For a moment, the fleet commander was filled with regret. ’If only I had pressed the button just now.’

The people on the Immortal Mountain were far more important than his entire fleet.

At the same time, news of the East King’s appearance was swiftly transmitted back to the country.

The intelligence reports, arriving one after another, shook the top brass to their core.

"The firepower of an entire fleet was blocked head-on, and he’s completely unscathed?!"

"His movements were completely unstoppable, and the fleet’s flagship was threatened?!"

"In the end, it was only the threat of self-destruction that made him abandon his boarding attempt, allowing the fleet to be saved?!"

"..."

This level of individual combat power had completely surpassed that of a modern army. Nothing could restrain or stop him.

"A Sleeper! It must be one of the Sleepers mentioned in the intelligence reports, now awakened in the world!"

The moment Zhao Ping received the news, he felt a cold sweat break out across his back.

According to the intelligence passed on from Yi Beidou and the others, an anomaly had occurred in the Mediterranean Region. The Spiritual Talisman had changed again, and this time, it had truly awakened the beings sleeping in the hidden depths.

And these beings, having only just appeared, were already displaying an unprecedented level of threat.

Sleepers were fundamentally different from Ancient Ones.

The Ancient Ones still had to worry about the weakness of reincarnation, but the Sleepers had, to a certain extent, overcome this vulnerability.

In this world, they could do as they pleased!

But what worried Zhao Ping even more was the situation on Penglai Immortal Mountain.

Many in the Saint Realm had gathered on Penglai Immortal Mountain, but he feared none of them were a match for this person.

Once that man set foot on the Immortal Mountain...

Zhao Ping felt a sense of suffocation. He didn’t dare to imagine the consequences or picture the scene.

Meanwhile, because the commotion at sea had been so great, this intelligence quickly spread among the major world powers, causing a massive stir.

It seemed an individual power that completely transcended the forces of the Mortal World had appeared.

「Elsewhere.」

The East King ran through the Foggy Area.

Wherever he passed, the fog automatically parted to form a path, and the wind and rain calmed. It was as if he were the true master of this place, with all its restrictive arrays actively submitting and giving way.

Before long, he had already entered the inner region. The main body of the Immortal Mountain, radiating an auspicious seven-colored light, appeared before his eyes.

"I haven’t returned in a hundred years..."

The East King muttered to himself, then took a sudden step and charged toward the Immortal Mountain.

And at that very moment, the numerous Donghua Martial Artists and researchers on the Immortal Mountain were completely oblivious.

Terror was about to descend.