037. The Burning Streets

  Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—

  The heavy mae gun of a Grant soldier riddled a car with bullets, and the remaining kiiergy was still enough to rip open the bellies of two Bermudes warriors. The surviving rades, eyes red with fury, shifted positions while firing their rifles in an attempt to provide suppressive fire aheir panioreat.

  However, their bullets could only leave a few dents on the armor. Despite the reduced visibility caused by frost and snow and being caught off guard, the Grant military still had the equipment advahey turned on infrared lights and equipped night vision devices, giving them a crushing range advantage over the distant Bermudes soldiers.

  “These traitors of the mothernd still think they use the advantage of street fighting to engage us in guerril warfare—how ughable!”

  The gunner ighe heavy mae gun, crawled bato the vehicle, closed the hatch, and sneered.

  “Don’t get pt. Be wary of the alleys and windows around us. If they attack from above, our tank armor won’t hold.”

  That being said, as the automatic loader shoved a greo pd the turret’s main gun aimed at the cover, the ander only smirked coldly.

  It’s over.

  “Fire.”

  The primer ignited, and the heavy shell burst forth with a brilliant spark, spiraling forward, just about to leave the barrel.

  Boom!

  The eank was instantly enveloped by an invisible force field, crushed ft. Li Aozi’s figure dropped down, his feet nding oank, nearly crushed into scrap metal, before immediately springing up, causing the shell to explode ihe vehicle. After the dazzling explosion, he quickly leaped toward aank.

  Armored units were like clumsy turtles to a gravity maniputor. Not only could the mae guns not track his 60G acceleration, but with just a flick of his hand, Li Aozi could apply 20 times gravity to the 50-ton main battle tank, hurling it into the sky before smming it back down, sending up a cage-like plume of dust and debris.

  With 100.1 points in 【Charisma】, Li Aozi on a modern battlefield was no less effective than a mobile armor unit, clearing a 50-meter radius around him.

  “That’s... that looks like our Beta-Tier—it’s Mr. Li Aozi!”

  “Great, we’re saved!”

  “Li Aozi has broken through the enemy formation, rades, for the liberation of our mothernd, charge!”

  Li Aozi began deliberately l his flight altitude, casually using gravity to pull over two 54-ton ‘Tanuki’ tanks, sweeping them left and right.

  With a flick of Li Aozi’s hand, the tanks, moving at 50G acceleration, were smashed into the ground. The internal ammunitioonated, sending a fierce shockwave that tore apart the earth, throwing all the soldiers oreet, including several Alpha-Tier officers, into the air.

  “This advance is too sloon’t reach Sullute Pace at this rate.”

  The street was well-fortified, with snipers in every direaking it difficult for the advang troops to push through.

  Li Aozi muttered, then suddenly raised his hand, lifting an Alpha-Tier 【Assassin】 who had tried to ambush him. The assassin filed in mid-air, a look of horror and disbelief on his face.

  “What, what is this—”

  “Noisy.”

  Li Aozi thought to himself and ched his fist.

  Spt!

  Forty times gravity crushed the assassin’s body into a bloody pulp in an instant.

  Bullets fired at Li Aozi were immediately deflected by gravity, and Li Aozi opened his hand, flexing his fingers. The dirt, sand, soldier remains, tanks, steel, and crete on the ground were instantly stripped away and gathered into a 400-ton sphere in front of him, blog all bullets and abs them.

  “Still not enough.”

  trolling gravity with his left hand, Li Aozi grabbed a bag of military jelly with his right, tore it open, and took a few deep gulps to restore his Omega Energy. The golden rings in his eyes suddenly shoh brilliant light.

  “Hey, hey! What is that thing?”

  The Grant soldiers behind the defensive line saidly expandial sphere ahead of the firefight—an incredibly eerie sight.

  As it grew rger, more and more objects were drawn to it, tearing away the reinforced crete and gss from nearby shops and houses. The sounds of shattering were stant, and within seds, it had grown beyond the limits of visibility.

  Li Aozi still wasn’t satisfied, so he raised his right hand and pressed it against the massive sphere, now nearly 50 meters in diameter.

  A servative estimate… about 1500 to 1600 tons?

  【Natural Ignition】

  【Mode II ? sing the World】

  Hum—Boom!

  Molecur motion accelerated, heating the sphere. In just an instant, the entire sphere glowed a blinding red-hot, the air around it dist violently, and just looking at it caused searing pain in the eyes.

  Gulp...

  The Grant soldiers weren’t fools. The scale and material of this thing were beyoru, so they immediately turned and shouted:

  “Run!”

  Gravity Crush ? Tenfold!

  The thousand-ton sphere shot forward at 98 meters per sed, far exceeding human movement speed. The massive, red-hot sphere, with its immense heat, rocketed out and smmed into the ground. The deafening explosion echoed throughout the capital, the shockwave sweeping across the buildings. The ereet’s defense line was instantly destroyed, leaving a massive crater dozens of meters deep, filled with intense heat and bck smoke.

  The sphere lost its gravitational binding and could no longer maintain its cohesion. As it struck the ground, the kiiergy was dispersed by the sand-like structure inside, but the resulting fragmentation only sent the debris flying farther. A seanding two kilometers away was hit by a burning fragment, his head pierced, killing him instantly.

  Li Aozi asded step by step into the air, as if climbing an invisible staircase. He csped his hands together, rotating his palms. Under his will, gravity gathered the scattered debris, f a sea ments that fell into the crater, filling it a a ft road.

  People stared bnkly at this dispy. Omega Energy wasn’t unheard of, but in the minds of the Grant soldiers, it was just a fshy trick. In a real fight, it was still about shooting—owice, three times to see results.

  Mr. Li Aozi himself admitted that he was just an ordinary Omega Energy user, falsely accused by Frost-Pted Republid GTB. People admired him and sympathized with his plight.

  But now, Li Aozi was flying steadily in the air, casually droppieors and filling in craters—powers that could literally move mountains and drain seas. This was far beyond the perception of Omega Energy as just a means to light cigarettes, charge phones, or suddenly gain a burst of strength.

  “This is a true god…”

  Rather than calling it Omega Energy, calling it a miracle would be more ving.

  With Li Aozi violently paving the way, Bermudes' morale soared as they charged forward oill-sm road.

  “This is good. They should be ing for me now?”

  Li Aozi acted as a target in the sky, drawing the attention of drones and artillery, all of which came rushing toward him.

  But their numbers meant nothing to him.

  Grr—

  The energy pod on his arm extended from the fibers of his clothing, ing around his elbow aing excess heat.

  【Gene Grafting? Enhanced Ability Pod】 now allowed him to store up to 22 Omega Energies.

  But more importantly, he wasn’t just st them—he could bine and program these Omega Energies, iing them like spells to produique chemical reas.

  This was akin to a 【Mage】 bining different elemental spells to create new magic,

  and 【Mutants】 had simir operations.

  Li Aozi drew his pin long sword, a ghostly purple aura maing behind him as a fierce demon spirit. Fag the swarm of drones ing at him, Li Aozi tossed a piece of Yavanna’s pressed biscuit into his mouth, thehe sword in front of him. He quickly ran his left index and middle fingers along the bde.

  【Soul Engraved Sword Saint ? Battle Demon】—Stack

  The aura densed into a massive purple hand, c Li Aozi’s own as if a bloodthirsty demon was gripping the sword with him.

  【Natural Ignition】—Stack

  Li Aozi’s face briefly fshed with a woman’s features, his eyes glowing red as the bde ignited with a fierce fme.

  【Gravity ? tact】—Stack

  Gravity rippled across the bde, imbuing it with the perfect weight and terrifying acceleration.

  Purple, red, and gold—three colors rapidly shifted in his eyes before merging into a dominating red-bck.

  "I finally uand why so many people love being 【Warriors】."

  Li Aozi opened his mouth, the breath he exhaled turning into white mist as it mingled with the cold wind behind him. He raised his bde, aiming at the swarm of drones charging towards him, as well as the entire ground, and instantly sshed out a strike!

  Whoosh—

  The oxygen was instantly burned away, and the Battle Demon’s hand gripped the long sword, letting out a series of pierg screeches as it sshed through a full circle in the air before ing to a halt.

  The flickering crimson sword light deightly together, cutting through the sky ah in an instant. The buildings were molten cut, slowly sliding down along the smooth edges.

  Due to the momentum of the Battle Demon’s swing, Li Aozi didn’t have time to catch his breath. He directly turned around, his baow fag the dense swarm of drones in the sky, and was now fag the advang Bermudes soldiers.

  In the moment, the horizon behind him was engulfed in a sea of fire, lighting up the red-bck sky. Everyone instinctively raised their heads. pared to the entire night sky or the sea of fmes, a single human figure seemed so small, yet they immediately found him, clearly seeing him standing with his back to the thousands of drones exploding iru.

  After a brief iia-driven dive, the drone swarm burst into fmes in mid-air, erupting into dazzling fireworks in the sky. The intense heat burned so thhly that it had little impa the ground forces.

  It was only then that Li Aozi betedly noticed and g the Omega Energy bination he had just created:

  "Trinity—【Ghost-Sying Fme Ssh】."

  FAL