Chapter 290: 120 Million Tons of TNT Equivalent

The blood-colored lines presented on the large display screen were skyrocketing at a suffocating speed.

At the same time, the secret departments of various countries and all the top power-holders in every region gathered in their respective operation headquarters, looking at the energy level display screen showing real-time data that was still rising, all of them pale-faced and terrified.

"The predicted destructive power of the continuously expanding energy has reached the megaton level... no, twenty million!"

"It's actually at the level of the Tunguska explosion?!"

With a "bang," following Feng Mingyi's astonished shout, the dragon-model combat power detector monocle recently developed by the Second Division exploded, and fragments flew in all directions.

"No... it's still rising..."

There was a trace of obvious trembling in Ogawa Shinji's voice.

"Final magnitude, 120 million!!"

The location where that high-energy reaction occurred was—Lundun.

The capital of England, with a population of nine million.

An alchemy array with a diameter of several hundred meters unfolded at the speed of light behind him. Even without looking back, Jia Ji could glimpse who the person attacking him was from the term "Golden Transmutation."

—Adam the Progenitor.

Adam Weishaupt.

The Control Bureau Chief who reigned at the pinnacle of the Bavarian Illuminati.

His true form was a doll manufactured during the prehistoric civilization period and then abandoned—the prototype of humanity.

The reason the gods abandoned him was that as an individual, he was "already complete to perfection."

The functions and performance required by the creator, the Anunnaki, were all present, but conversely, he possessed nothing else and had no developmental potential, so he was discarded.

Harboring this resentment, in order to become the primate of this planet again, and to obtain the "power" to be equal to and fight against the Anunnaki who were predicted to resurrect, Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Illuminati, harboring the ambition to seize the "power of God" and rule the world.

Usually, he was a noble figure who paid great attention to maintaining his demeanor and elegance, but at this moment, Adam had no temperament at all.

He was completely naked, without a stitch of clothing, his blue hair hanging down in a mess, his muscles tensed, his blood-red eyes staring fixedly at the "monster" in front of him. Bloodshot veins had already filled his eye sockets, and massive energy gathered in his hands into a fireball, ready to be unleashed.

Monster.

This was his only evaluation of the "thing" in front of him that looked like a human.

It was not an evaluation of its ability, strength, or any prominent aspect, but merely a determination of its very existence.

—That was not a human.

As the prototype of the first humans, Adam could guarantee that no matter how much he looked like a human, no matter how much he acted like a human, he was absolutely not a human.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, perhaps it was fate, but when Jia Ji moved from Paris to Lundun, his figure was captured by Adam, who was hiding in Europe. From the first moment he saw him, a chill deep into his marrow struck Adam's consciousness.

Immediately following that was a panicked roar that almost escaped his lips.

What a joke!

What a joke, hey!

What a joke!

What... is this!

On this planet, there was a "human" who did not belong to the creations of the Anunnaki, did not belong to the gods, yet wore a human skin, moving around swaggeringly!

Moreover, besides him, Adam, there was no other existence capable of realizing how terrifying this was.

Imagine if a creature that jumped out of the evolutionary chain suddenly appeared on Earth, but "it" inexplicably possessed the same appearance, habits, and language as humans, and at the same time, you were the only one who realized this. What kind of reaction should you have?

In this world of creationism, Adam seeing Jia Ji, who came from Beidou, was equivalent to a carbon-based organism seeing a silicon-based organism wearing human skin. No one could understand how terrified Adam was.

Simply put, Adam was the highest-level "Progenitor," while others were "humans" one level lower than him, and this guy from another world was a "pseudo-human."

Adam could no longer care about what this "person" was disguised as, what "purpose" it had, or whether it was "good" or "bad." His brain was completely occupied by one thought.

—"Must annihilate him! Immediately! Right now!"

"Only he must be destroyed!"

So he had been lurking near where Jia Ji disappeared. Once he appeared, he immediately released the largest-power alchemy spell he mastered—"Golden Transmutation"!

Gold in the natural world originated from extreme celestial events such as supernova explosions or neutron star collisions. Gold on Earth was a remnant of such processes.

But for alchemists, their initial goal and pursuit were not the Philosopher's Stone or a perfect body, but merely gold.

Converting valueless matter into gold.

And what could achieve their goal was the spell named "Golden Transmutation," using alchemy to perform nuclear fusion at room temperature.

That's right, this spell, intended to transmute matter into gold, possessed a terrifying magnitude far exceeding normal nuclear weapons.

"Go to hell!"

Adam roared sternly. The next moment, a fireball capable of killing all life in an instant shot out from his hands, and the huge light even filled the entire sky.

Even if it caused the death of nine million low-class humans in Lundun, it didn't matter. He, Adam, had to completely kill this monster here for the sake of the whole world!

Bringing you the terrifying alchemy truth again today.

While the massive energy was attacking Jia Ji, it began to release outward. High-temperature and high-pressure gases expanded violently, creating a hurricane that blew toward the city on the ground at a speed of several hundred meters per second.

That terrifying momentum simply reminded Jia Ji of the world-destroying weapon in his own world, "Heavenly Emperor's Thunder?!"

Although the "nuclear explosion" produced by alchemy had no nuclear radiation, the power of the explosion alone was close to ten Tunguska explosions superimposed together, equivalent to tens of thousands of ordinary nuclear bombs exploding simultaneously, enough to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki a thousand times over.

"Didn't expect to enjoy the feeling of being bombed by nuclear weapons in advance... but with this magnitude, am I playing some kind of shitty work with numerical inflation?!"

Should he dodge?

Although it was a full-screen, large-damage attack, he only needed to activate the Kaleidoscope to dodge it, but the shockwave generated by the explosion could completely destroy the underground city in an instant.

The next moment, all buildings in Lundun, whether steel, cement, or other materials, would all become as fragile as glass. They would all be instantly swallowed by the incoming terrifying high temperature and shockwave, turning into a huge fireball rising into the sky. Not one of the nine million people would be spared.

Run away?

With an old model like Adam?

"What a joke!!!"

Violent flames ignited on Jia Ji's body.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 291 =====