The Rule-Breaker of the Doomsday Game

Chapter 225: Chapter 225: A Mere Level 1 Sanctuary, Nothing but a Paper Tiger

BOOM!

A massive explosion ripped through the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary.

The Pure-blooded civilians saw clear cracks forming on the barrier.

Panic began to spread in an instant.

Everyone knew they were under attack.

In all their years, they had never seen anyone so audacious as to attack a Level 1 Sanctuary.

Balati, the Grand Elder of the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary, was furious. He suppressed his rage and began methodically calming the civilians.

But soon, the next blow shattered the Sanctuary’s barrier completely. An Armored Man charged in, brazen and unopposed.

Grand Elder Balati was dumbfounded when he saw this.

He had never imagined anyone could breach the defenses of a Level 1 Sanctuary.

A brutal massacre ensued. The intruder began a wanton slaughter, cutting down everyone in his path.

"Jack!!!" Balati could take no more. He donned the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Fire Armor and charged the intruder.

Of course, he recognized Jack, who was infamous in the North.

He just never expected the man to have such audacity.

When faced with a joint hunt by both the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary and the Immortal Emperor’s Sanctuary, not only had he not fled like a sewer rat, but he’d actually dared to attack them first.

The sheer arrogance was unbelievable.

"Awakening Skill: Stage Five - Judgment of the Holy Spirit Monarch!!!"

A brilliant radiance materialized into a set of scales. One pan was filled with gold and jewels, the other with countless skulls.

The pan laden with skulls began to sink, and Balati’s pupils contracted in horror.

This meant the judgment had been passed: his enemy was stronger.

The Judgment of the Holy Spirit Monarch was an Awakening Skill that demanded a heavy price in both wealth and life.

If the pan of treasures outweighed the skull, the enemy would die instantly.

But if the skull outweighed the treasures, the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Fire Armor would devour a year of his life every ten seconds until he was dead.

Therefore, he needed to pour vast amounts of wealth into the scales to increase the weight of the treasures.

The amount of wealth required was proportional to the power gap between them—the greater the disparity, the more riches were needed to bridge it.

The only way to cancel the Awakening Skill was to achieve a perfect balance between the treasures and the skull.

But at a time like this, Balati would rather bet his entire fortune than give up.

Theoretically, since he was wearing the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Fire Armor within the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary, he should have been far more powerful than his opponent.

How could his opponent possibly be stronger?

His plan had been to instantly kill the intruder.

After all, once the treasures outweighed the skull, the judgment would be over.

’Could it be... Jack has also been to the Triumphant Eden? Did he obtain a Fire Seed Source Fragment?!’ Balati’s expression turned grim.

He knew that the leader of the Steel Brotherhood had recently invaded the Frost Queen’s Sanctuary several times.

And because of that, he understood just how powerful a Fire Seed Source Fragment truly was.

’This is bad. I have to add more wealth, quickly.’ Snapping out of his shock, Balati felt his life force being drained away.

Without hesitation, he began pouring all manner of gold, silver, and jewels into the scales, trying to tip the balance in his favor.

But he discovered, to his despair, that once the pan of skulls had bottomed out, no amount of wealth he threw in could shift the balance even a fraction.

"Found you," an unfamiliar voice said, ringing in Balati’s ears.

Before he could even look, an immense force, accompanied by the roar of some savage beast, slammed into him.

He was sent flying, and cracks even appeared on his Fire Seed Armor from the impact.

He struggled to get up, only to find himself being hoisted into the air.

"You must be the Grand Elder of the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary."

"Heh. Weak. Far too weak," Qi Suian said with contempt, smashing a simple, unadorned fist into the head of the man’s armor.

Three punches later, the entire faceplate shattered.

It revealed the face of the old man underneath.

"Jack... You have a Fire Seed Source Fragment, don’t you," Balati said, dizzy from the three blows.

It was indeed just three punches, but each one activated numerous modules: True Martial Jade Vein Lotus, Profound Mysterious True Spirit Jade, the "Newbie Player Armor Break" effect, and a whole series of others.

Each punch was loaded with various passive effects and amplified by the energy from Qi Suian’s "Feast" ability. Even wearing Level 1 Fire Seed Armor and standing within his own Sanctuary, his opponent was utterly powerless to fight back against Qi Suian.

Qi Suian’s three Fire Seed modules had already reached Stage Four Awakening.

His raids on the previous Sanctuaries—Levels Two, Three, Four, and Five—had been extremely efficient. He had taken care of all of them within six hours.

The Northern Sanctuary had yet to even receive news of the four other sanctuaries’ destruction.

After upgrading, Qi Suian had headed straight for the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary to start his attack.

His three modules had now raised his Tai Sui God to the level of a Level 2 Fire Seed, but in terms of actual combat power, even a Level 1 Fire Seed was no match for it.

"That’s right, I do have a Fire Seed Source Fragment," Qi Suian replied casually.

’Once I get the Level 1 Fire Seed from the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary, I might not be completely invincible, but I’ll be a powerhouse who can dominate the Wasteland World.’

’The Sanctuary factions will have to give me a wide berth when they see me.’

"I want the Holy Spirit Monarch Fire Seed. Hand it over, and I might spare your life," Qi Suian said coldly.

It would be more efficient if the Sanctuary Grand Elder did it himself.

"Pah! In your dreams!"

"Everyone who comes out of that damned place, the Triumphant Eden—they’re all insane! Insane!" Balati roared.

Qi Suian’s eyes narrowed. He understood at once. As the Grand Elder of one of the six Level 1 Sanctuaries, the man must know what was really going on inside the Triumphant Eden.

His words implied that Eden, once a true sanctuary, had now become extremely dangerous.

’So... the leader of the Steel Brotherhood is already insane?’ Qi Suian thought.

"It doesn’t matter. I’m sure someone will be willing to cooperate," Qi Suian said, looking at the withering Balati and the brilliant scales that still hadn’t vanished.

He realized the Awakening Skill from the Fire Seed Armor was still devouring Balati’s life.

Although he didn’t know the exact function of the brilliant scales summoned by the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Fire Armor, he was certain they had been aimed at him.

It had simply failed, leaving Balati to suffer the backlash.

With a single punch, he shattered Balati’s skull.

With his death, the brilliant scales finally faded away.

Getting any intel out of him was impossible now. Even if Qi Suian hadn’t killed him, Balati wouldn’t have lived much longer.

So he just grabbed a random person in the Holy Spirit Monarch’s Sanctuary and had them revert the Sanctuary and the Fire Seed Armor back into its Level 1 Fire Seed form.

’I was planning to go south and take the Fire Seed Source from the leader of the Steel Brotherhood.’

’Looks like I’ll have to deal with the Immortal Emperor’s Sanctuary before I leave.’

’Once I have the key, I can investigate the Triumphant Eden.’

’Maybe the secrets it holds will be enough to destroy this entire planet.’

Qi Suian checked the number of survivors. There were still 1,235 left alive.

The number had slowed to a crawl, only ticking down by one or two every so often.

For Qi Suian to find and kill all 1,235 of them on this vast wasteland planet was simply an impossible task.

The wasteland planet wasn’t particularly large, but it was still a planet. How could one man like Qi Suian possibly compete with an entire world?

So, it was better to just get it over with and blow up the entire planet. The rest would be easy to solve then.

Whether or not that was possible depended on the Triumphant Eden.

Even if he couldn’t blow up the planet, dealing a fatal blow to its surface ecosystem and wiping out all life would also work.

After all, Qi Suian’s goal was the complete annihilation of the survivors.

Letting them survive the Cold Winter World had been his mistake; he couldn’t possibly let them live through the Wasteland World as well.

"I haven’t even started hunting you, yet instead of running, you dare to turn and attack me?" Qi Suian had received an alert from his AI as he looked at the data from his reconnaissance network.

Large numbers of Pure-blooded Warriors were converging on his position. Even with their Grand Elder dead, they intended to fight Qi Suian to the death.

"If you weren’t so worthless, I’d throw every last one of you into the communal bunks of the Melting Furnace," Qi Suian said coldly. Then, all his Floating Cannons opened fire.

Caught in the Ghost Energy Storm, the assembled Pure-blooded Warriors were obliterated, not even whole corpses remained.

’I really don’t know who comes up with the names for these Fire Seeds. They’re so arrogant.’

’Aren’t they afraid of inviting disaster?’ Qi Suian grumbled to himself. ’First a Holy Spirit Monarch, now an Immortal Emperor...’

To this day, Qi Suian himself didn’t dare reveal the name of his Tai Sui God, let alone allow it to spread.

With the Tai Sui God’s current armor value, having a name with the prefix "Tai Sui" and the suffix "God" was just asking to be laughed at.

Its power was certainly impressive among the survivors of this doomsday game, but in other worlds, it was nothing special.

After all, Qi Suian possessed the memories of a regressor. He knew of the true powerhouses from the Doomsday Worlds of his past life—beings who could fly through the heavens, tunnel through the earth, burn mountains, and boil seas.

Until he became truly powerful, Qi Suian would keep the name Tai Sui God buried.

He didn’t want its arrogant name to attract unwanted trouble.

"Not bad. You’re lucky. Now get lost." Qi Suian grabbed the Level 1 Fire Seed, the Holy Spirit Monarch, and fed it directly to his Tai Sui God.

With this new addition, his Martial Arts Will: Evil Tiger began to swell, quickly reaching its upper limit.

The AI then mobilized the energy from the Supernova Strong Nuclear Reactor and began to continuously pour it into the "Majesty of the Kindling Flame" module.

The Tai Sui God instantly reached the level of a Level 1 Fire Seed Armor.

It was less of an upgrade and more of an unsealing, since this level of power had been latent within the module since its installation.

Because it was incomplete, it required an external object to help unseal it.

’It will actually take five days to reach the final Fire Seed Awakening.’

’But that makes sense. After this upgrade, the pseudo-Fire Seed Source has become a true Fire Seed Source. Five days is already incredibly fast, thanks to the accelerated growth effect.’

’Without this enhancement effect, it might have taken five years.’