Chapter 2044 - 2037: Collapse of Faith
Everyone stared at the object in Zhang Menglong’s hand, a fatal sense of crisis climbing up their spines to the nape of their necks. They had never felt such fear from anything before.
"I think I’ve seen this thing before, but I can’t quite remember..."
"It’s the Ultimate Bomb!" The City Lord of Ice King City was sweating profusely on his forehead. "Many years ago, there was an incredibly powerful technological race born in this world. Each of them fused with powerful technology, even stronger than us Ice Demons! They created countless powerful weapons, and the Ultimate Bomb is one of them."
"I’ve heard of this thing too," another leader said. "The power of the Ultimate Bomb is enough to instantly kill a whole swathe of Dao Realm extremes! Back then, that race relied on mass-producing Ultimate Bombs to be virtually unbeatable here; no race dared to provoke them lightly. But that race has been destroyed for so long, no one understands how to make Ultimate Bombs anymore."
"He probably bought it from somewhere; I think although that race has vanished, quite a few Ultimate Bombs are still scattered outside. He’s so wealthy, obtaining one wouldn’t be that difficult!"
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As soon as Zhang Menglong took out the Ultimate Bomb, the Ice Demon Race instantly lost their earlier arrogant and aggressive spirit. Even the strongest among them, the City Lord, was somewhat helpless before the Ultimate Bomb.
This Ultimate Bomb might not be able to end their lives, but it could definitely severely injure them!
"I don’t believe you dare to detonate it here!" said the leader of the Sky Splitting Royal Family. "You’re in the explosion’s center too. I bet this Ultimate Bomb is old and malfunctioning, and can only be manually detonated, right?"
"You’re right; you guessed it," Zhang Menglong smiled. The Ultimate Bomb indeed had many failed and damaged functions. To detonate it, he had to manually trigger it, leading to the consequence that once it exploded, he, as the detonator, would be the first to bear the brunt!
"If you detonate it, the first one to die is you. If you’ve got the guts, then go ahead and detonate it!"
"Oh? Why do you think I wouldn’t dare?" Zhang Menglong replied expressionlessly, and directly activated the Ultimate Bomb’s detonation system.
"He’s a madman! Run quickly!"
Seeing Zhang Menglong acting so recklessly, the people from the City Lord’s Mansion and the Ice Demon strongmen of the Royal Tribe panicked. They weren’t afraid of ruthless people; they were afraid of those with nothing to lose, and Zhang Menglong belonged to the latter. He was simply a devil!
"Too late!" Zhang Menglong ruthlessly hurled the Ultimate Bomb. A second after its detonation, he could render everything within a hundred kilometers barren. When the Ice Demon Race reacted, half a second had already passed.
In this Ice King City that was already sealed off, they couldn’t use teleportation, and in a brief moment, they had no way to escape the explosion’s scope!
"Boom!" A brilliant light blossomed in the sky, enveloping everything within a hundred kilometers. A series of screams emanated from the explosion zone; the power of the Ultimate Bomb was enough to crush the bodies of any Dao Realm extreme practitioners! Even the Ice Demons were no exception!
During the explosion, to save their lives, they took out all their trump cards. As long as they could hold onto a breath, they had a way to extend it!
The explosion lasted only for an instant; corpses began to fall from the sky. Some bodies were relatively intact, just missing limbs, while incomplete bodies were already reduced to a pile of flesh, disintegrating into specks of light as they fell.
Of course, the items fallen from their bodies also formed a small layer on the ground.
People watching from afar stared, dumbfounded at the scene. In just an instant, so many had died. Among those who went to hunt Zhang Menglong, there were over 1500 Dao Realm extremes, and this single Ultimate Bomb had killed at least a thousand!
The City Lord of Ice King City was in tattered clothes; even the hastily donned Supreme Armor showed cracks. His mouth overflowed with blood, his body a bloody mess; without the Supreme Armor, even he would have perished!
The leaders of the Royal Tribe didn’t fare much better. While they still had a breath, their injuries were serious, gulping down red potions, the Ground Absolute Royal Family’s leader was nearly blown half to pieces.
An Ultimate Bomb had nearly crippled the Ice Demon Race’s peak combat strength!
"Why didn’t Zhang Menglong’s belongings fall out?"
Normally, every adventurer, unless dying at the hands of Warcraft or rule figures, would drop all their belongings upon death, even if by suicide.
In that fateful city defense battle, Zhang Menglong alone collected Supreme Crystals numbering in tens of billions; earlier they hoped that upon his death, those belongings would rain down like precipitation.
But obviously, things didn’t go as they wished — it indicated Zhang Menglong might not be dead!
"I already told you, there’s nothing I wouldn’t dare to do. Why did you try to provoke me? Well, now it’s done, isn’t it? You’re all dead now?" Zhang Menglong’s slightly mocking voice came from the sky, making everyone’s hearts skip a beat once more.
"This thing’s power is really immense; without the Absolute Shield, I might have been gone too!" A light blue protective explosion enveloped Zhang Menglong’s body, with giant wings on either side shielding him. This was something Zhang Menglong spent heavily to acquire, enough to withstand any force in this world for ten seconds!
"What a pity, this thing is one-time use, not consumable!" Zhang Menglong casually tossed aside a crystal already devoid of light in his hand. Once activated, it couldn’t be turned off, regardless of whether used for a second or ten seconds; otherwise, Zhang Menglong could use it to withstand several lethal blows.
"Alright, I’m off!"
The Ultimate Bomb had blown a huge hole in the Protective Shield of Ice King City; Zhang Menglong escaped through it.
"After him!" The Ice Demon Race couldn’t possibly let it rest; almost a thousand had died just now, but even more people had arrived: over 5000 Dao Realm extremes and tens of millions of other Ice Demon strongmen; at this moment, the entire Ice Demon Race united humbly.
"You’re not letting me leave, right? Then I’ll play with you some more!" Zhang Menglong shouted toward the distance, "Jin Kela! Get to work!"
"Boom boom boom!" The ground trembled; the Insect Army surged again!
"Insect Clan! The Insect Warcraft Army is coming again!" The Ice Demon people exclaimed after just experiencing the Insect Clan disaster.
"This swarm was summoned by him! We’ve all been deceived by him! He’s the mastermind behind the swarm!"
"No wonder only the southern wall didn’t collapse, and there were no casualties — turns out it was a show he orchestrated!"
"Damn it! We were all played by him! His initial goal was the Ice Demon Mother Flower!"
At this moment, realizing the truth, the Ice Demon’s lamented with tears, some even grateful for Zhang Menglong’s intervention to save many Ice Demons once became the faith of many, and now, their faith was completely shattered...