Chapter 423: A 100,000 Bounty on the Head

Originally it was just a precision strike to behead the heretic leader, but after the Pure Blood Society President handed over a private computer containing the list of official Pure Blood Society members, the scope of this strike expanded directly.

All Pure Blood Society members who watched this scene through the Holy War Livestream were nearly driven mad.

Someone stared with bloodshot eyes, glaring resentfully at the Pure Blood Society President in the livestream screen.

If looks could kill through the internet cable, this dead fat man would surely have been killed long ago.

"Broly-sama, will your Scorpion Cult really kill all heretics?"

"The mission I accepted is exactly that."

"Good. You pieces of human scum and trash, I will wait for you in Hell."

The Pure Blood Society President left his last words to the camera, and Broly slapped him against the wall beside him, his flesh becoming a pattern that couldn't be scraped off.

"There are so many of us; he can't possibly find us one by one and kill us, right?"

Someone spoke, presumably an official member of the Pure Blood Society.

"You perverted human scum who torture young girls deserve to die."

After the other person spoke, angry people then cursed at them.

"Those are just Cursed Children."

This person retorted.

"Aren't Cursed Children human? The Scorpion Cult can already cure the Gastrea Virus."

A netizen from Tokyo said.

"I'm not the one torturing them; I just paid to join the Pure Blood Society and watched some videos."

"Without you people paying, how would those children suffer torture? Everyone who paid is guilty!"

Broly paid no attention to the public opinion in the livestream.

He returned to the basement of the Pure Blood Society building and broke the iron bars of the cells imprisoning Cursed Children.

Most of the girls were a little afraid of him; even though the cell bars were broken, they all huddled in the corner.

A small number of girls who had just been brought here and still had the will to resist thanked him.

"Don't go out yet; people have already arrived outside."

In Broly's perception, a large number of weak Qi Packets surrounded this building.

Ten minutes after the Pure Blood Society was attacked, the Osaka Region Army finally arrived on this side.

The army's commander was also watching the livestream, not daring to be slow in the face of a monster that killed like stepping on ants.

He deployed troops on the street thirty meters away from the building.

The muzzles of tanks and some heavy weapons were all aimed at this side of the Pure Blood Society building.

Passersby had never seen such a scene, but they were alert and hurried away from this side.

Broly stood at the main gate of the Pure Blood Society building, looking at the army on the street not far away; he raised his hand and condensed an Energy Bullet.

But after thinking about it, he took the Energy Bullet back, instead letting his aura spread over, using Absorption Touch.

"General, should we open fire now?"

The Deputy Officer asked.

"No, we need to talk to them first."

If it were a terrorist attack, without hostages, they would definitely suppress it with direct force.

But the problem was that the guy who attacked the Pure Blood Society was too terrifying; even though the army had now surrounded the building, the general commanding the army felt he couldn't handle the other side, so he didn't dare act rashly.

"We need to talk."

A soldier holding a megaphone approached the Pure Blood Society building, and the general's voice came from the megaphone.

"Talk about what?"

Broly asked in confusion, and the livestream transmitted his voice over.

"The accusations against the Pure Blood Society are pure slander. Our Osaka Region President, Saito Zongxuan-sama, absolutely did not hire them to attack the Scorpion Cult."

An explanatory voice came from outside again.

Broly frowned; he didn't know whether to believe these words.

"Broly, take out the Pure Blood Society President's private computer."

Tenkō Kisara's words came through the earpiece.

Broly said nothing and obediently took out the computer from his space.

Under Tenkō Kisara's command, he opened the computer and checked the Pure Blood Society's transaction records.

Soon, a glaring payment record from the Presidential Palace was dug out from the account book.

"How do you still want to explain this? Is it a donation from the Osaka Government to the Pure Blood Society for no reason?"

Broly spoke as a mouthpiece, asking in the livestream.

General: "……"

This damn money for hiring others to do dirty work actually went through the local government's administrative funds account?

"Prepare for battle; be sure to eliminate that terrifying monster from the Scorpion Cult inside the Pure Blood Society building here."

Saito Zongxuan contacted the commanding general and gave him the highest order.

"Yes."

The general also realized this battle had to be fought, so he didn't hesitate; just as he was about to order the bombardment of the Pure Blood Society building, he suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.

"General!"

The deputy officer's exclamation came from his ear, followed by a dizzying sensation.

With a thud, the highest commander of this Osaka Army fell straight to the ground.

"What's wrong with me?"

The old general lying on the ground widened his eyes; his thoughts were still fairly clear, yet he discovered he could no longer speak, and every part of his body transmitted a feeling of weakness and powerlessness.

In the final moment of his life, the old general saw his deputy officer also collapse, and the army around him fell one soldier after another like toppled dominoes, each abruptly dropping to the ground.

At the entrance of the Pure Blood Society building, after Broly confirmed the guys outside were merely trying to deceive him, he unceremoniously forcibly seized the last breath of Qi from those people.

The energy now floating above his small hand was the Qi he had forcibly seized; compared to him, the Qi of ordinary people in this world was like the light of a firefly versus the sun.

Therefore, facing his Qi-seizing technique, these people had no capacity to resist at all — they didn't even perceive what had happened before they all collapsed, losing their lives.

"What exactly happened?"

Someone in the livestream asked.

"Are the soldiers outside dead?"

The netizens watching the livestream began to feel a chill.

Direct killing methods are certainly terrifying, but what truly makes people feel fear is rather this kind of unknown slaughter method.

No one believed the army soldiers who died silently outside were unrelated to Broly; many, after reacting, couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.

【The Scorpion Cult's methods are actually this terrifying~】

Broly looked at the Qi sphere in his hand, somewhat troubled.

He didn't want to absorb this, because once he absorbed it, he wouldn't need to eat today.

After thinking a bit, Broly carried the Qi sphere back to the underground area and dispersed the seized Qi, striking it into the bodies of these girls he was meeting for the first time.

Although unable to heal the disabilities and injuries on these girls' bodies, it could let their spirits, withered from long torture, improve somewhat.

"Th... thank... you..."

One older girl seemed to know the change in her body was due to something the boy did, and she actively thanked Broly.

Only her tongue had been cut off a small section by someone with scissors, making her thanks pronunciation not very accurate.

"They're all pitiable children, but it doesn't matter — since the Scorpion Cult's glory has reached here, they can obtain salvation too!"

Aqua looked pityingly at the cursed children with various mutilated bodies in the livestream, and had Broly ask those girls if they were willing to join the Scorpion Cult.

"What is the Scorpion Cult?"

A girl with a bare wrist asked.

"It is a religion that protects you Cursed Children; as long as you are willing to offer your faith to the Scorpion God, your injuries will afterwards receive corresponding treatment."

Broly explained.

"Of course, if you don't believe in the Scorpion God that's fine too — Aqua Master said she cures everything."

He added another sentence.

The rescued Cursed Children didn't know what the Scorpion Cult was, but they knew the boy who saved them and used unknown means to lift their spirits was a good person, so they all nodded, expressing willingness to join the Scorpion Cult.

"Then you stay here and don't move; I'll go handle the president here, then come back."

After saying this, Broly left the Pure Blood Society building directly; he arrived at the Osaka region's Presidential Palace, but after he easily killed his way inside, Saito Zongxuan — who should have been here — had already fled early.

"That person seems to have escaped; can I blow up the city areas in his escape direction?"

Broly consulted the earpiece side's opinion and quickly received a negative reply.

"The person ran — we can catch him later; but if you blow up half of Osaka Safe Zone, we'll only get a ruin of a city afterwards."

Saito Zongxuan escaped with his life, but was not happy; the agreement was he would take the opportunity to seize control of Tokyo Safe Zone, yet now he, this Osaka president, fled in sorry state.

In the afternoon, when three Tokyo Safe Zone airplanes arrived at Osaka Airport, Osaka's ruling rights were officially announced to have changed hands.

Was there resistance?

Of course there was.

But facing Saiyans in a Holy War state.

Osaka region's resistance was merely dust not worth minding.

Broly merely waved his hand, letting this place add several hundred more casualties, and Osaka Safe Zone stabilized.

Welcoming the team sent by the Young Holy Emperor to take over local administration, prostrating to welcome the Scorpion Church Group's immortals, scattering the Scorpion God's glory on local futons.

Watching Aqua heal the disabled girls rescued from the Pure Blood Society building, no one on the internet doubted the reality of the Scorpion Cult's true divine protection anymore.

And the only problem left before Broly and the others was whether to let the Holy War stop here.

"Stop here — what international joke is this? We've only just begun; this Goddess already said, whoever dares offend the Scorpion Cult, things won't end this easily."

Aqua set the keynote of not ending it, but Tenkō Kisara raised a more practical question.

"I agree the Holy War should continue, but we must also face reality — over a hundred thousand people is too many; even if Broly is powerful, wanting to kill over a hundred thousand people without harming innocents, just how long would it take?"

"If over a hundred thousand people could stand in one place, one energy bullet from me could solve it."

Broly answered.

"But the people on the list are scattered across Japan's Five Great Safe Zones; we only know their names, photos, and the safe zone markers where they reside — killing isn't hard, the difficulty is how to find them."

"Holy Son of Heaven."

Petty-minded Aqua looked at the Young Holy Emperor.

"Aqua-sama, for Tokyo region and the newly grasped Osaka region, I can still mobilize the Self-Defense Force to hunt Pure Blood Society official members, but for Hokkaido, Hakata, Sendai these three safe zones, I have no way."

"Unless we can occupy those three safe zones too!"

Sima Wei Zhi added from the side.

"Why not?"

Aqua blurted out.

However, the leaders of Hokkaido, Hakata, Sendai these three safe zones seemed to have preemptively predicted the Goddess's simple thinking.

That very day they publicly announced they had no intention of confronting the Scorpion Cult or Tokyo Holy Son of Heaven, morally kidnapping the Scorpion Cult and Holy Son of Heaven.

【Look, we haven't done anything bad, haven't targeted you, but if you prepare to invade our safe zone interests for no reason.

You're strong, we can't do anything, but we'll announce to the outside world that invaders invaded, and internationally condemn your robber behavior!】

"Should good people be morally blackmailed by others and pointed at by the so-called guns of public opinion?!"

Aqua spoke out in anger, but that was indeed the fact.

As long as one is unwilling to call oneself a bad person, one is easily morally blackmailed and easily pointed at by the guns of public opinion.

One cannot do the great evils publicly recognized by the masses.

"Simply, in this world, let's just be a thorough bad guy!"

Aqua said somewhat sulkily, huffing and puffing.

"Calm down, Aqua-sama, doing so makes it easy to make the whole world your enemy."

"My disciple is this strong, so what if the whole world is our enemy?"

Aqua said this, then looked at the boy.

"Am I right, Broly!"

Broly nodded.

"But Broly won't stay in this world forever; if he really does this, after he leaves, this world will probably fall into great chaos."

The Holy Son of Heaven and others already knew that Broly would leave this world afterward.

"Unless all people who might cause great chaos are killed, but then there would be too many people to kill."

Tenkō Kisara said.

"Order established by absolute violence will eventually fall apart once absolute violence departs."

Sima Wei Zhi added.

The two made eye contact, and for the first time felt the other's line of thought matched their own.

"Broly, you don't want to do this, right?"

The Young Holy Emperor looked at Broly and asked.

"If necessary, I can do this."

Broly answered honestly.

This was nothing more than what his old father had told him—the proper job of a Saiyan.

Eliminate those not needed, and leave the world for those who are needed to live in.

"I think we should still be more cautious before making a decision."

Eris leaned conservative and did not hope this world would become a mess afterward.

Just as everyone was executing the Holy War, obstacles appeared, and they argued over what to do.

Hiruko Kagetane brought his little daughter to visit the Scorpion Cult.

After learning about the issue Aqua and the others were arguing over, this masked man was somewhat speechless.

"Why do you follow the framework others gave you? Just do what you want, isn't that fine?"

"Yo, sounds like you have some high opinions; let's hear them."

Aqua raised an eyebrow and asked Hiruko Kagetane.

"Broly boy, if without any outside help, you continue executing the Holy War quest to eliminate heretics, what would you do?"

Hiruko Kagetane asked the Saiyan boy directly.

"Uh, I would blow up the Safe Zones where Pure Blood Society Official Members reside."

Broly answered honestly; this was the simplest and most effective way.

There were indeed too many 100,000-plus people, and he did not have the ability to distinguish so many enemies.

"Then it's settled."

"Hey hey hey, you masked guy, don't lead my cute disciple to become a world-destroying Demon King!"

Aqua became somewhat dissatisfied; she had thought about suppressing the other three Major Safety Zones to let her first believer in this world, the Holy Son of Heaven, seize control of those regions, but she had not prepared to let her own disciple directly destroy all the Renwulei in those three Safe Zones.

"I didn't lead him to become a world-destroying Demon King; what I mean is, you can tell the people of those three Safe Zones what Broly will do."

As for whether those three Safe Zones are destroyed, the key lies not with him, but with whether the rulers of those three Safe Zones can make the right choice afterward.

Rather than wearing themselves out internally, they might as well kick the problem ball to others; as long as the rulers of those three Safe Zones have normal brains, they will definitely make the right choice."

Hiruko Kagetane's words had a bit of the meaning of startling one awake from a dream.

"But what if there really are people with bad brains?"

"Then let Broly boy truly in the name of the Holy War destroy the Safe Zone where that Safe Zone ruler with a bad brain resides."

Japan now has three remaining Safe Zones with autonomy; since they consider the Tokyo Holy Son of Heaven to be invading their territory and planning to take away their rights, as long as the Holy Son of Heaven's side puts on an act that they are just carrying out a religious Holy War, and if you bastards don't let us carry out the Holy War, we will destroy you all together, then who can say this is seizing power by the opportunity?

People, I killed.

Regions, destroyed.

Why seize power then, to rule over a piece of barren ruins?

It must be said, this problem-solving method is very crude and very unreasonable.

But it seems to work.

"By the way, I'm here to apply to join the Scorpion Cult; please approve it, Aqua-sama."

"Eh, join the cult, you?"

Aqua looked at Hiruko Kagetane in surprise.

"Yes, I'm preparing to join the Scorpion Cult; I feel the Scorpion Cult's Heretic Inquisition Court is very suitable for my personal re-employment."

"And me!"

Hiruko Kohina also raised her hand; chopping people was the most fun, her dad had already told her that as long as she joined the Scorpion Cult's Judgment Hall, there would be over a hundred thousand heads waiting for her to chop.

To put it in an inappropriate analogy, for Kohina who likes chopping people, it was like a dog seeing a pile of dung.

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