Chapter 1698 - True strength

Chapter 1698: True strength

Lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI:

[You’ve killed the Gladiator King]

[Your opponent was an entity who had comprehended Realm Force, so you’ve obtained a certain amount of Realm Force]

[Remaining Realm Force is being calculated]

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask: “Why are you saying ‘a certain amount’?”

[The System is currently changing the payout algorithm, so an exact number hasn’t been determined] the War God UI answered.

Gu Qing Shan was simply speechless.

——you won’t learn anything reasonable but you’re immediately learning from the Book of the Sea?

But there’s nothing I can do about this at all, let’s just let it do what it wants.

The visions around him turned back into black fog and receded back into his black armor.

This [Wicked Tyrant] armor had proven its worth during the battle just now.

Worthy of its legendary name, it was a set of armor comparable to the [Embrace of the Saint].

Black City.

The Colosseum.

Gu Qing Shan stood in the middle of the field with absolutely no one around him.

The battle was over.

A dark grey trumpet had appeared in the middle of the field.

With a wave of Gu Qing Shan’s hand, the trumpet had flown towards him.

[An essence relic of the Grand Evil world]

[Please collect all three world essence relics in order to complete the Key of the Wind’s forging process]

Finally, I managed to obtain one of them.

Only two left.

“This is a good start, isn’t it, Laura?” Gu Qing Shan smiled and said.

“Yeah, you’ve fulfilled the ‘strongest’ requirement, so only ‘most wicked, and ‘most feared’ remain—— do you have any ideas?” Laura asked.

“Let’s brainstorm a little bit”

While Gu Qing Shan pondered this, his eyebrows suddenly twitched.

From the void of space, a skeleton descended and landed in front of him.

The skeleton opened its mouth and began to spoke in a hoarse female voice:

「 Gu Qing Shan, there’s a bad news 」

Gu Qing Shan was startled and quickly asked: “Esteemed lady, what happened?”

「 The situation had changed too rapidly in the outside world, so you don’t have much time remaining 」the hoarse female voice explained: 「 The Apocalypse Sequences have followed the River of Time in search of the traces of my existence, they’re going to discover the Dusty World very soon 」

Gu Qing Shan’s heart began to beat faster and asked: “Do I still have time?”

The hoarse female voice answered: 「 You only have one hour left at most. After one hour, the entire Dusty World must move away from this void without question 」

Gu Qing Shan was stunned.

One hour?

I only have one hour left?

I still have two world essence relics to collect, what now?

The hoarse female voice continued: 「 There’s really no time at all, so it’s now the time for you to do everything in your power 」

She thought briefly before continuing: 「 Gu Qing Shan, I can see that your capabilities far surpasses that of normal Combatants, but you’ve been collecting various types of intel to better understand the living beings of the infinite worlds 」

「 This is the time for you to stop thinking too much and exert your true strength in order to fight 」

「 Otherwise, everything you’ve ever cared about will be destroyed 」

After finishing what she had to say, the skeleton flew back into the sky and disappeared without a trace.

Laura took out an hourglass and turned it over.

“One hour is not a lot of time, what exactly do we do now?” she was a bit anxious.

Gu Qing Shan fell silent.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, each tactic and method available to him continuously appeared in his mind, weaved, formulated, then rejected.

After a while.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and said: “A solution… it’s not that there isn’t one. Laura, have you ever seen a war?”

Laura nodded: “While my father reigned over the Bramble Bird Kingdom, we had once fought against several other kingdoms. At the time, I sat on father’s laps and saw the entire war with my own eyes”

“What was your impression?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“It was cruel” Laura answered.

“…Yeah, since there aren’t any other solutions, I’ll have to use everything I have without any restraints. Perhaps a lot of people will have to die for this, will you be able to accept this?” Gu Qing Shan asked again.

Laura giggled and casually told him: “Don’t look down on this empress. This Age of Apocalypse isn’t that gentle, and if it wasn’t because of you, I would have already lost my life as well”

“This world is full of nothing but villains, so if you can’t bring yourself to kill them, Gu Qing Shan, this empress will help you”

“…You’ve matured, Laura” Gu Qing Shan was glad.

“Seize your time, Gu Qing Shan” Laura told him.

“—-Then I’ll begin now” Gu Qing Shan replied.

“What are you going to do?” Laura curiously asked.

“In the past, Zhang Ying Hao once told me about his work as a Hitman, this gave me a hint. Right now, I intend to push things further and cause terror to spread even more”

“—–Black City Manager, come out” Gu Qing Shan said.

A flash of light turned into a data-filled screen that appeared in front of him.

[Venerable young master Gu, how may I be of service?] the electronic voice asked.

“Make my assassination mission public, then increase the payment by 10,000 times” Gu Qing Shan said.

[By 10,000 times? Do you want to issue an open bounty of 10 trillion Evil coins on your own head?] the electronic voice asked.

“That’s right, I’ll pay upfront, now do it” Gu Qing Shan took off the ring on his middle finger and said.

[…You truly are an unimaginable character, your grace] the electronic voice said.

“Inform them all that I’m currently in the Colosseum” Gu Qing Shan said.

…

The mission was swiftly issued.

In just a few minutes, the entire Black City began to fill with discussions regarding this matter.

10 trillion Evil coins.

This amount of money was equivalent to the entirety of Black City’s wealth.

And all they needed to do to earn it was kill a single person!

That person is currently in the Colosseum!!!

The entire Black City felt like it had uttered a resounding roar at the same time.

“Kill that person!”

“Kill him!”

“Hunt him down!”

“Hurry, let’s hurry up, don’t let anyone else take the initiative!!”

All the Professionists went into a frenzy and started rushing towards the Colosseum.

…

At the same time.

Gu Qing Shan silently stood in the middle of the Colosseum and reached his hand forward.

Oong———-

He lightly flicked his finger in the void of space and struck the blade of the Earth sword, which gave off a ferocious ringing noise.

“Go” Gu Qing Shan declared.

The Earth sword flew away like a streak of light following his order and entered the sky far above.

It paused for a split second at the top of sky before abruptly changing its course, plunging straight towards the ground at maximum speed.

[Sanctuary] had taken effect!

The weight the entire Black City times 1001, that is the Earth sword’s current weight!

The sword was so fast and so ferocious that it had plunged into the ground in just an instant.

Trembling.

The world itself trembled.

Suddenly, a Professionist flew into the sky and shouted: “WHO IS IT!? WHO’S TRYING TO DESTROY BLACK CITY!?”

Gu Qing Shan turned to that person.

The presence he gave off was almost equivalent to the Gladiator King.

“Black City Manager, who is it?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

[The City Lord] Black City Manager answered.

Gu Qing Shan narrowed his eyes and carefully observed that individual.

At this point, Professionists all over the city had surrounded the Colosseum.

“He’s over there!”

Someone shouted.

Everything rapidly approached Gu Qing Shan.

10 trillion Evil coins.

10 trillion!

Everyone’s hearts were beating rapidly as they prepared to attack.

The City Lord of Black City had also noticed what was happening here.

He looked at the slowly collapsing Black City, then at Gu Qing Shan.

Fine——–

Let’s earn that 10 trillion first before I save the city!

Having decided this, the city lord instantly moved through the void of space and appeared in the Colosseum.

Seeing the City Lord here, all the Professionists became hesitant.

Who would dare offend the City Lord?

How would I even escape from the City Lord’s hands after earning that 10 trillion?

The City Lord stared straight at Gu Qing Shan and said: “Are you the one destroying Black City?”

“Are you the City lord?” Gu Qing Shan asked in return.

——Azure Dragon Origin Hex – Binding!

The City Lord chuckled and said: “That’s right, so you’re the maniac huh? Good, I’m going——-”

A mass of black fog abruptly erupted from Gu Qing Shan’s body and pulled the City Lord into his Phase Realm like a storm.

——-Bully world, [Yesterday Recollection]!

As soon as the City Lord saw the black fog, he immediately realized that it was trouble and wanted to avoid it, only to find that he was unable to move an inch from his current position.

In an instant, both he and Gu Qing Shan had vanished from the Colosseum.

Everyone exchanged glances.

“So it was a lord who had awoken Realm Force, how are we supposed to kill him now?” someone muttered.

“The City Lord will kill him, all of us here can just forget about it and watch things play out” someone sighed.

“Yeah, we aren’t even qualified to observe his level of battle, let alone kill anyone”

“Let’s just wait to see the results”

The Professionists discussed this among themselves.

A few moments later.

The black fog scattered.

A dead body was thrown to the ground.

All the sounds of discussions immediately ceased, the Colosseum becoming deathly silence.

It was the City Lord.

The City Lord was dead.

Gu Qing Shan appeared after him, standing next to the corpse with his presence as profound as the ocean.

“He died a painful death” Laura commented.

“Indeed, because I had used a kind of bloodline ability to absorb all of his power” Gu Qing Shan replied.

—–Demon Dragon Bloodline!

This was absolutely the toughest ability to resolve within the entirety of the Space Vortex, created by the Bygone Era humans. Even Reneedol felt wary of it after learning about its existence.

She had ordered her subordinates to silently enter the Demon Dragon’s body and turn into the Demon Dragon’s soul in order to wield this power.

Up until——

Demon Dragon was saved by Gu Qing Shan and sent into reincarnation.

Under normal circumstances, Gu Qing Shan preferred not to abuse this power due to how cruel and unreasonable it was.

But today——–

Fwoom!!!

Boundless black smoke began to spread in every direction from his body, gradually filling the entire Colosseum.

The Professionists fell down one after another in extreme pain, all of which were undergoing mutations.

They’ve been influenced by the power of the Demon Dragon’s bloodline and were about to undergo a racial sublimation that greatly improved all of their strengths!

Gu Qing Shan stood completely still and silently watched this happen.

“You won’t take this chance to kill them?” Laura asked.

“Killing by itself is a very pure act. In a world filled with villains like this one, killing isn’t considered evil, and wouldn’t cause any true fear or terror” Gu Qing Shan casually answered.

“Then how do you intend to do this?” Laura asked.

“Everyone who had come to kill me had been corroded by the Demon Dragon Bloodline. If I don’t show up, they will naturally kill one another in an attempt to become the strongest and the only one”

“Everyone will be thinking about how to kill the others while also being wary of being killed themselves, and the world is also collapsing—— these circumstances are the necessary catalysts for true fear to be born” Gu Qing Shan explained.

The ground began to shake.

The Colosseum had completely collapsed and began to fall underground.

The world’s destruction had begun.

The Professionists stood up one by one.

They had all become stronger than before and were all closely observing one another.

Some of the weaker Professionists immediately flew away from the Colosseum to flee as far as they could.

Some of the stronger Professionists immediately gave chase.

——-they were originally villains, so killing people was nothing but part of a day’s work for them.

Not to mention how they can easily grow stronger by killing someone else with the same bloodline powers!

Suddenly, the very first desperate scream resounded.

This seemed almost like a kind of declaration, silently spreading a suffocating atmosphere around the city.

The city-wide massacre and destruction had begun.

Gu Qing Shan muttered: “Destroy, infect, desperation, and mutual murder between victims. These are the truths of the Apocalypse, I suppose this should be both wicked and fearful enough”

As the two of them conversed, a jet-black statue descended from the void of space in front of Gu Qing Shan.

——the second world essence relic.

Gu Qing Shan received it in his hand as well.

“What’s the matter?” Laura asked.

“This Apocalyptic scene had caused fear to reach a certain peak——- but wickedness… seems to be a bit lacking” Gu Qing Shan commented.

“The most wicked… how exactly can this be achieved…?” Laura fell into thought.

“——It’s coming, put up your umbrella, Laura!” Gu Qing Shan suddenly said.

Laura immediately snapped out of her trance and shifted her flower umbrella over Gu Qing Shan’s head.

The two of them looked up at the sky together.

The blood moon had appeared above the sky to observe everything occurring in the world below.

Sure enough.

The destruction of the world had drawn the attention of the Judicial Lord—– the blood moon.

Gu Qing Shan looked up at the blood moon and muttered: “It should be the most wicked entity here, as long as I kill it—–”

“You would be the wickedness that presides above it” Laura followed up.

Rumble rumble rumble——–

The world completely collapsed.