Four Split Personalities

Here’s a simple example: suppose a common player with full health and physical ability has a combat strength of 100, but with only 30% left, the combat strength falls to 40; Xia Lian, at full health and physical ability, would have a combat strength of 2000, but after struggling until now, only 150 remains; thus, when Cordova is at full health and energy, his combat strength is roughly 1200, but now with his energy nearly depleted, his combat strength is still 1200.

So, we can understand it this way: in the vast majority of cases, Cordova only has three statuses: one is his prime condition, another is zero combat capability with drained power OTZ, and the last one is being beaten down in the OTZ state, rarely anything else occurs.

Extremely extreme, extremely perverse, extremely... powerful.

Don’t forget that after Luwei upgraded him, he could use a battery; just by loading a new Revelation Crystal onto his wand, he’s back to full energy again like a vigorous man.

As for health points that can’t be restored by energy, not to say much, but the attacks from the mutants are really nothing to him, especially when the monsters can’t use their absolute numerical advantage due to terrain constraints; at times, Cordova’s healing rate is even faster than his bleeding rate...

So he has perfectly held out until now, with the cost being just one fully charged Revelation Crystal.

However, the word ’just’ isn’t really accurate because, in Luwei’s words, Revelation Crystals are extremely difficult to produce; the rune energy contained within could, at a minimum, power two regular Mage Towers at full capacity for half a month, whereas under normal circumstances, filling large magical energy reservoirs that maintain full operation of Mage Towers for less than three hours would cost tens of thousands of Gold Coins for Mana Crystals; thus, the total amount of Gold Coins burned by Cordova in these short dozen or so hours amounts to an astronomical three million.

And that’s just the most superficial way to calculate it; after all, three million Gold Coins can neither discern the so-called ’Apocalypse Shadow’ nor drive Cordova’s Rune Body, especially the latter, whose technological content simply cannot be measured by money.

What defines a wealthy tycoon?

This is what defines a wealthy tycoon!

To be honest, even by the standards of buying and selling slaves, more than three million Gold Coins could have easily covered all the survivors in the two cities behind Cordova; though it might seem inappropriate to say, in this era where human life isn’t that valuable, many see it as a bad deal...

But Cordova didn’t feel the loss, except for worrying that Luwei might later hang him up inside a behemoth’s shell for a beating, his mind was otherwise clear.

The only thought was to hold this bridge, to save this scarred land from disaster, allowing the trembling commoners behind him to sleep soundly tonight.

Boom!

The colossal Staff of the Punisher burst out with a red glow, like flames, completely incinerating the filthy blood and flesh on it, and the next second, it heavily struck down on the bridge with a deafening blast, actually smashing a shallow pit into the long bridge that had been blessed by many advanced clerics!

[Rune of Colossal Strength Overload*9——Colossal Strength Overload Mode]

One second, one strike!

From a distance, Little Wolf felt a pain in his ears, followed immediately by a visible shockwave that struck him hard in the chest, sending him flying back seven or eight meters before he was struck in the stomach by the similarly flung Auntie West Lion.

When he regained consciousness, the clusters of mutants that had crowded together were reduced by exactly fifteen square meters, not just in number but entirely; apart from a large spreading pattern of dark bloodstains, nothing was left.

For the first time, Little Wolf saw those mutants that hadn’t completely died just standing there dazed, though they weren’t startled or stunned but rather momentarily disoriented by the unstable state of their Soul Fire.

The tall figure standing at the bridgehead then stooped slowly after a brief silence, clutching the now dim blade Staff, clanging it down on the ground as he half-kneeled.

"Brother Cordova!"

Little Wolf exclaimed, immediately rushing toward the bridgehead.

And then...

"Huh?"

Cordova turned back to glance at him and quickly positioned the Staff of the Punisher in front of himself, removing the now-cracked crystal from it, and swiftly took a new one from his bag and slapped it on; he agilely stood firm, shaking his shoulders curiously as he looked at Little Wolf, frozen mid-rush: "What’s up?"

Little Wolf reacted after a long time, only to twitch the corners of his mouth, shake his head, and dazedly walk back the way he came, scratching his hair and feeling something was off.

Cordova didn’t mind; he just looked particularly satisfied watching his rune energy return to a hundred percent. Swinging the Staff of the Punisher, he smashed two mutants who had just reacted with a crack and bellowed, "Come ’on, grandsons, let’s fight hard!"

Just then...

"The final phase of Soul Requiem officially begins; the Kirov special attack team is about to enter, please prepare for impact in advance."

A message from Feather Song suddenly appeared in front of Cordova, followed by him seeing a giant steel object floating through the air, and hearing the sharp sound of its whistle.

The next second, a severely distorted, piercing shout echoed through the air—

"This is the Kirov special attack team, I repeat, this is the Kirov special attack team, we are about to... uh, forgot the rest, anyway, bombing begins!"

Cordova, engaged in a knife fight with the mutants, looked up in confusion, "What’s starting?"

Not until numerous tightly packed, cushion-filled wooden crates—some even coated with a layer of Ice Magic—slammed halfway down did he finally recall the plan Motan had sent him and without another word, immediately turned and ran, shouting as he went...

"Holy mother!"

The next second, the world lost ninety-nine percent of its sound, leaving only—

Boom!

Boom boom boom boom boom!!!

The scene before the Ebby City Long Bridge played out again, only this time the scale was at least tenfold, resembling hundreds of giant fireworks exploding from the ground; each roar evolving into a hundredfold explosion, then spreading outward, the dense incandescence instantly turned the night into day, a day of nothing but explosions, explosions, and more explosions.

If viewed from high above, this area would resemble a fireworks market that had accidentally caught fire; although the relentless blasts weren’t necessarily very powerful, the terrifying number still laid down many mutants in swathes.

The continuously bombing Kirov special attack team didn’t expect to kill them all; as long as each monster down below suffered from at least ten rounds of damage, they would consider their mission accomplished.

And this difficulty was genuinely not high at all...

Even just a rough estimate revealed that each wooden crate would cause at least three rounds of explosions. Beyond the first round, the remaining two rounds of non-directional spreading explosions had incomparable sustainability levels, covering an average area of thirty square meters, with a third of it possibly being ignited again by a subsequent air drop.

Even Cordova, who evaded immediately, had his Health Points blasted away by 32% within half a minute of the aftermath.

...

Game Time PM21:03

The final phase of the Soul Requiem plan officially begins

Legion level massive lethal vehicle "Kirov" enters, dropping eighty mixed bombs over the mutant groups above Ebby City Long Bridge.

Enemies annihilated: One thousand one hundred seventy-seven.

Battle loss: zero

Chapter 454: The End