Chapter 461: None Was Left Alive
Three days later.
A reconstructed area located in what was originally the northwestern desert region in Z country, an area of about 30,000 square kilometers.
After hundreds of years of operation, the area was rich in resources and was developed in the area of science and technology. Its development index ranked amongst the top in the world.
It was also once known as the Earth-Life Extension Center. Most of the life-extension treatments were completed in hospitals in this area.
After the return of the Protoss, the humans’ gradually lost their sovereignty over the lands on Earth; the Chen family included. They were once labeled as the third superpower. They had also given up countless free cities and pulled back their forces. Finally, only this base of operations was left.
The Chen family spent several decades of transforming the base into a military fortress. Countless resources, manpower, and materials were invested in the transformation project, it was as if the Chens were suffering from persecutory delusions. The base gradually evolved into the well-known “hen Family’s Fortress.
It was also known as the place with the highest level of defense in the world.
The strongest fortress and so on.
It gave off a very strong and intense feel.
Most of the Chen family’s descendants lived in the fortress. They worked and lived in peace. They did not live like humans in other cities, who lived in fear that their property and life would be threatened at any time.
Then, there were members of the Protoss who l.u.s.ted after the riches of the Chen family and launched attacks on the fortress. But even if the Protoss lead their entire family to take the plunge, resulting in all of their deaths, they still did not succeed in breaching this fortress.
Many Protoss’s dreams of striking it rich were coldly dashed against the fortress, which was not to be trifled with.
The lessons learned from the many lives that were lost had created a deep impression that the Chen family should not be messed with. This impression was engraved in the minds of many Protoss.
Generally, if one’s forces were not strong enough, it was best not to get any ideas about targeting the Chen family.
However, around ten o’clock in the morning, a mult.i.tude of silhouettes flew across the sky above the fortress, like a cl.u.s.ter of dark clouds. The dark clouds bore down on the fortress with their momentum as they slowly approached it.
…
Thousands of kilometers in the air.
Two strong Protoss stepped on their magic weapon that enabled flight and marched side by side. They quickly arrived just above the fortress, hovering in the air.
They kept moving forward, preparing to go deep inside the fortress.
The air in front of them suddenly rippled, and a transparent wall seemed to be blocking their progress onwards.
As they looked, it turned out to be a semi-spherical saucepan lid that enveloped the entire fortress.
“A defensive formation?”
The leader, a Protoss man wearing a flaming red armor, swept his gaze downwards and smiled disdainfully, “The Chen family is indeed rich and overbearing. They have the resources to come up with such a large defense formation.”
This Protoss man was called Tonghuang Moshan. He was the leading commander sent by the Tonghuang clan. He possessed a high level of cultivation base and his leaders.h.i.+p ability was outstanding.
“Haha, I had a good relations.h.i.+p with a few of the Chen family’s descendants. I’ve asked them many times, if they have the money, why not use it to enjoy life? What’s the use of building such a huge fortress? It is purely useless. How could it withstand me and the other Protoss?”
The Protoss man beside him, who looked refined in his fluttering white robes, tipped the corners of his lips in a smile and said, “But my friends from the Chen family said that they have no choice but to build such a fortress because there are always rabble-rousers who want to overthrow them as the ruling family… In hindsight, it seems that their thoughts are somewhat reasonable; their actions are not wrong.”
This man was called Mugu Feng, he was the leading commander of the Mugu family, and was also a genius figure.
“Rabble-rousers?”
Tonghuang Moshan’s expression was unpleasant, “Humans like them who are not willing to be captured quietly and easily are the rabble-rousers! We are the emperors! They did not even obey our orders to hand over their interests and lives. Instead, they’ve built this huge fortress, which seems impossible to me! And they stubbornly resist. They’re simply courting their deaths!”
His tone was so self-righteous that one was at a loss of how to criticize him.
“Moshan, this Chen family fortress took nearly 50 years to complete. It is extraordinary. We must not lower our guard. To avoid unnecessary losses, it is better to try diplomacy before violence. We’ll pressure the Chen family to stop resisting, and prevent them from destroying their factories, which is the same as damaging our property. Let’s try our best to advise them to surrender.” Mugu Feng said.
“Advise them to surrender?”
Tonghuang Moshan pointed to the defense s.h.i.+eld below, “This att.i.tude of rejecting their esteemed guests; is there a need to persuade them to surrender? We can simply murder our way through, why should we bother to talk so much nonsense?”
“Diplomacy before violence. It’s better to say at least something to them first.”
Mugu Feng did not want to start the fight in such an immediate manner.
…
After a few minutes, Tonghuang Moshan was convinced by Mugu Feng and agreed to talk with the Chen’s representative.
They arrived at the city center.
Tonghuang Moshan applied his “sound amplification technique.” A majestic voice fell forth like rolling thunder.
“The Chen family! The games are almost over. Face up to your position now and immediately offer all your land, properties, and technologies to our two families to show your allegiance. Say that you will become our servants who meet with our standards and wholeheartedly serve the Protoss. If your performance is good, we will reward you with a good position.” He said this in a charitable tone.
After a while, in the city below, a high-pitched horn was sounded. With a high decibel, it rang out above the city, “We apologize, the Chen family does not make a habit of serving others.”
“So, that means that you, the Chens, choose to die?”
Murderous energy burst forth from the eyes of Tonghuang Moshan.
“No?”
The high-pitched voice from the horn replied, “We may necessarily die. But those attacking the fortress will certainly pay a heavy price, which could even lead to a serious decline in their clan ranking, they will no longer have the innate awe-inspiring authority of the top first and second family.”
“I will ask you now, is it worth it to pay such a price to devour the Chen family?”
In addition to the vague warning, the voice also possessed the power to restore one’s rationality.
But…Tonghuang Moshan was so mad he nearly exploded on the spot. He immediately delivered a punch that carried a strong burst of Qi energy against the defensive s.h.i.+eld below. “Who do you think you are? You’re just insignificant humans. How dare you talk like this? Die, all of you!”
It seemed like his powerful and energetic punch would smash the defensive s.h.i.+eld into pieces.
“Bam~”
However, his rather confident punch only caused the s.h.i.+eld to slightly sag. It quickly became calm again.
“There’s something to this defense formation, it can withstand the angry attack from a top master of the Jushen Order.”
Mugu Feng’s expression became concentrated. He felt that the Chen family was not bluffing. They had ample secret information not known to the world.
“Attack them!”
Tonghuang Moshan threw another punch.
“Attack!”
Negotiations would have no effects. The purpose of bringing so many master pract.i.tioners here today was to swallow up the Chen family by force…If it could be done without force, the Chen family would have been convinced long ago.
“Boom boom boom~”
“Bam bam bam~”
“This defense formation requires a huge amount of energy to keep it running. It needs a lot of spirit stones. It can’t be maintained for long.”
“d.a.m.n it, the Chen family is overlooking our kindness! The valuable spirit stones are being wasted for nothing! We must break through their formation to quickly reduce the loss of spirit stones!”
“Boom boom boom~”
In the air, large numbers of pract.i.tioners from the Tonghuang and Mugu clans released their attacks, tearing a hole in the s.h.i.+eld.
On the other side, the battle was also carried out on the ground.
A large number of pract.i.tioners with weaker cultivation were organized by the two clans and incorporated into two divisions as they could not maintain their flight. The troops were further divided into different lines and they would attack the wall of the Fortress from the surroundings.
There were tens of thousands of them.
It could be said that the two big clans had spent a lot of capital to take down the Chen family.
…
About two hours later.
“Bang bang bang bang~”
The sounds of the attacks on the large defense spell formation were still on-going.
However, there were still no obvious changes to the defense formation in front of them. However, the attackers had lost more than half of the spiritual energy in their bodies.
“Why hasn’t this spell formation broke?”
“Perhaps the Chen family have a small mountain’s worth of spirit stones, we’ve given everything we’ve got; we didn’t hold anything back.”
The Protoss pract.i.tioners flying in the air were amazed and hurting over the riches of the Chen family, the amount of money and spirit stones they possessed must be way more than what they had imagined.
On the ground, the pract.i.tioners with a medium to a low level of cultivation base who were divided into multiple lines ranted while they attacked the transparent defense formation in front of them.
“Chen family! You’re just a scared turtle hiding inside. What skills do you even have? Dissolve the formation if you’re a man.”
“Stop struggling. Just quietly wait to be killed by our likes!”
“The ending is the same no matter how much you resist. After today, there will no longer be a Chen family on Earth. Quickly release yourself from this agony and die like a man.”
“f.u.c.k, this d.a.m.n formation has got to break soon!”
“Boom boom boom~”
The defense formation did not exhibit any significant changes amidst a background of countless foul curses.
…
After another two hours, the spiritual energy inside the bodies of all the Protoss pract.i.tioners partic.i.p.ating in the attack had fallen to half or even less than half of what they were before the attack.
The defense formation still did not exhibit any significant changes.
“We should ask the ancestors to do something,” Tonghuang Moshan said helplessly.
Besides the pract.i.tioners from the Shenguang Order, ordinary pract.i.tioners could not do anything to the defense spell formation they were facing.
“My ancestors, the Chen family has got some backbone and skills. It’s really difficult to break this defense spell formation, please give us a helping hand!”
Mugu Feng went straight to their magical boat, which was above them. He found the six ancestors of the Shenguang Order who were observing the war and asked for their help.
“Hmph, how useless. It’s a mere human clan and they want to mobilize me and my likes.”
“Forget about it, don’t go down to look anymore, let us make our move.”
“This Chen family is a bit evil. If they are not destroyed today, they will only become more difficult to subdue in the future.”
“The greatest force of mankind on Earth is this Chen family. After the destruction of the Chen family, the remaining human beings will all be slaves and servants to the Protoss. Although they are weak, they have a few strengths.”
“The number of human beings living on the moon, Mars, and s.p.a.ce cities is as high as 20 billion, maybe more. I just don’t know why, but why don’t the Sages simply make a move against them to kill these insignificant beings? To be honest, I don’t want to see one more human being in front of me. They are too weak.”
“Boom~”
The master of the Shenguang Order made his attack. The defense spell formation, which was unusually strong, seemed to have received a heavy hit as a huge portion of it sagged.
It was as if the entire formation would shatter like gla.s.s if they added more force.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom…”
The six Protoss from the Shenguang Order continued with their attacks, one after another. An intense change in the huge defense formation occurred. It seemed like it was about to give out.
“Continue! Those ignorant humans who don’t understand that times have changed will die today!”
…
About half an hour later, “Boom~”
After taking the attacks that pushed its limits, the defensive formation was finally broken.
A wave of cheers rose across the Protoss.
“Get in!”
“Treasures and delicate beauties, we’re here!”
“From today onwards, whatever the Chen family has acc.u.mulated over the past 100 years belongs to us!”
“Together, let’s kill!”
“Whoosh~”
There were thousands of flight-enabled pract.i.tioners in the sky, and tens of thousands of pract.i.tioners on the ground who charged wildly into the fortress with faces full of excitement.
The demise of the Chen family seemed to be just around the corner.
But…
Very soon, those who were among the first to rush into the fortress experienced the harvest of Death.
“Thump thump thump~”
The gun turret let out an angry scream.
“Zap zap zap~”
High-energy lasers were cutting with reckless abandon.
“Ping~”
“Bang~”
m.u.f.fled sounds rang out. These were the two different sounds that the celestial sniper cannon made in the silenced and unsilenced mode, respectively.
Either way, the damage was done just the same.
The Protoss pract.i.tioners who were hit by the celestial sniper cannon were immediately turned into a b.l.o.o.d.y spray as they exploded on the spot and instantly died. They never realized what had happened.
Indeed, after adding spiritual energy to some of the celestial particles, their speed was a hundred times faster than the speed of light. It could be suddenly stimulated, as long as the aim was steady on the target, the pract.i.tioners from the Shenguang and Jushen Orders would be severely injured, or simply destroyed on the spot.
It was a powerful celestial weapon that could kill two or three levels the enemy and it was now officially introduced to the world. It would play an important role in the years to come, intimidating countless masters.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Naga mechas walked out from all corners and activated their free-hunting
mode.
The power of the naga bio-mecha was embodied in its bio-chip, which had extremely powerful computing abilities. This allowed each naga mecha to have the smartest and rational “brain.”
This brain could even clearly simulate the trajectories of their attacks and movements versus that of the enemy’s.
During the battle, it could independently select the most efficient battle plans after simulating hundreds of plans in just an instant.
The mechas were installed with a large number of sensors, giving them a strong sense of awareness and the ability to predict the enemy’s actions.
Their outer sh.e.l.ls and skeletons were made of special metals. Their ability to resist hits were not any weaker than some of the pract.i.tioners from the Jushen Order whose body had undergone metamorphosis several times.
In short, the performance of the naga bio-mecha left an impression on everyone that could be described in two words–killing machines.
Strong, fierce, terrifying, and efficient killing machines.
After 800 naga mechas appeared on the battlefield, and amidst the booming noises they made, of the thousands of powerful pract.i.tioners, their casualties exceeded 2,000 in just a short half-hour.
Even Tonghuang Moshan, who rushed in closer to the front of the armies was fatally hit three times in a row. But he avoided those three fatal blows as his magic doubled repeatedly from the magical tool in his body.
Bearing a great risk as his actual soul had departed from his body, he turned and ran. But the fourth round of spirit cannon sh.e.l.ls pierced his head from behind, and his head was blown into pieces.
Just like this, Tonghuang Moshan fell.
“Moshan!”
“The genius in my family has fallen so easily?”
“Kill! We must kill them!”
Suddenly, the eyes of the four pract.i.tioners of the Shenguang Order sent by the Tonghuang clan bulged as they became enraged. They stopped observing the war and rushed madly into it.
“Boom boom boom~”
These masters of the Shenguang Order only destroyed some naga mechas after some effort.
However, in the process of fighting, these masters of the Shenguang Order felt that the natural spiritual energy in the air was becoming increasingly deficient, and their consumption was gradually becoming more difficult to replenish.
Inadvertently, they raised their heads and looked upwards.
The defensive spell formation that was just broken had shockingly re-appeared in front of them.
“No, this is the Spiritual Energy Isolation Array, we’ve fallen for their trap!”
A Shenguang Order pract.i.tioner from the Mugu clan screamed.
But this discovery came too late.
…
About six and a half hours later.
Inside the Chen family’s fortress.
Everything had returned to its calm.
There were only tens of thousands of corpses. No one was left alive!