Chapter 1573: War God Hain

"Praise the War God Hain!"

"Praise the true god!"

Sea Beast Disaster instance.

The sky was dull gray, mixed with an indescribable deep green.

Just like a rotten apple, the air everywhere gave off a strong smell of ozone and charcoal.

The grayish-white buildings made up the main hue of the human world.

The whole world, with large expanses of lustrous green, constituted the world's main color.

Dawn.

Warrior Training Camp.

On the vast drill field of tens of thousands, inside the campus where everyone wore uniform training clothes, all faces bore reverence, habitually saluting the statues on the field.

The half-body statue was tall, its head of golden hair carved with gilding, shining brightly, exuding an inexplicable sacred aura.

His features resembled those of a middle-aged Northern European.

On the podium.

A middle-aged man wearing a half-face filter mask dressed in combat attire and leather boots.

His gaunt, unusually aged face was full of solemnity.

All I saw was him solemnly sweeping his gaze over the students below; his muffled voice, transmitted through the air filtration device, immediately echoed throughout the venue.

"Attention, trainees! In one month, the selection for the Eighth Divine War Regiment will take place!"

"Want to survive in this cruel world! Want to give your family a better life! The wilderness assessment in one month is your chance to change your fate!"

"This divine war selection is an even rarer once-in-a-decade grand election! Outstanding candidates can even enter under the War God's command, becoming true Divine Warriors, God‑born!"

As his words fell, the training field filled with boys and girls, all excitedly clenching their fists, desperately suppressing the cheers in their throats.

In this world filled with radiation and monsters, becoming a Divine Warrior is the only chance to change one's fate.

Of course, becoming a subordinate soldier is also quite good.

As for the God‑born, they are an existence of unimaginable nobility.

"God‑born! Only one batch every ten years—I wish I could be selected!"

Stop dreaming—passing the Eighth Regiment's assessment is already the best outcome; I think this time, not even one in a hundred might be selected.

Yeah, the God‑born… they're even nobler than Divine Warriors. I heard that across the whole continent, only eighty slots open every ten years. If the previous batch doesn't step down, the later ones simply won't be chosen…

Among the crowd, the young men and women's eyes burned with fervor, and some whispered anxiously.

Regardless of gender, although they spoke, they didn't feel worthy of even imagining the highest‑ranking God‑born.

But in everyone's eyes lay a deep longing.

It was merely different from the excitement of this group of seventeen‑year‑olds.

In the neat ranks' corner, a youth dressed in polyester training uniform like everyone else was now curiously looking at the statue.

"War God? Sea Beast Disaster world? Natural disaster plus mutant beast instance?"

His nostrils twitched slightly.

With a sense of smell a million times stronger than a human's, Lin An instantly discerned the air composition of this world.

Strong radiation.

Moreover, it differed from the radiation produced by fission or fusion.

This world is everywhere contaminated with nuclear pollution, as well as the "smell" of heavy‑industry sulfuric acid and coal.

Without a doubt, this place has been bombarded with massive amounts of nuclear weapons—or rather...

Dirty bombs.

That doesn't make sense.

Lin An casually glanced at his information after entering the instance, and immediately many possibilities came to mind.

"【Sea Beast Disaster】"

Instance main quest: slay ten B‑rank sea beasts.

Optional side quests:

1: Purify the sea area and slay any Ocean Overlord‑rank creature within any region.

2: Sea Beast Source—explore the origin of the sea beasts.

Main quest reward: draw one Blue Equipment, attribute points +1.

Side quest reward 1: draw a B+‑rank skill, one Special Blue‑rank Prop.

The instance was something Lin An found out by asking the giant tree.

After using a simple instance‑trigger prop, he easily mixed in.

Here, as an important high‑level hiding spot for fugitives, although it doesn't have as many instances as the three major ones, it is still considered a relatively high‑level existence.

He didn't know why this instance was so easy to enter; obviously it hadn't been forcibly shut down.

But Lin An didn't care; he only needed to slay "gods".

After all, according to the big tree's meaning, if fugitives forcibly close an instance, they would instead have to bear the instance's "pressure" themselves; over time, it's also easy for the system to detect a forcible reopening.

Reopening it is extremely troublesome, the cost unusually painful—almost enough to cost half one's life.

So, among the fugitives, some are reluctant to close it, thinking Lin An wouldn't dare to storm in—and that's normal.

Close it, and you die halfway.

Don't close it, and bet that Lin An won't come—then everyone's happy.

"The instance assigned me the identity of a trainee—that is, an ordinary human."

"The mission doesn't matter; the key is…"

Lin An turned off the panel and casually swept his gaze across the entire sky.

This instance, as expected, has been occupied and remodeled by the fugitives...

Sea beasts.. nuclear bombs.. radiation..

There is still no information about the God Warriors in the mission.

Without a doubt, the true situation of this instance has undergone a complete 180-degree reversal.

The mission carries no real punishment; after entering by triggering the Props, Lin An also has no intention of concerning himself with this world's true mission.

Here, it's far too low-level for him.

If it were his weaker period, upon realizing this instance had undergone such a huge change, he would certainly be cautious, gather information, and deduce what exactly had happened in this instance.

He might even first pass the assessment to probe the secrets of the so-called God Warriors and God-born.

But now...

"Zhang Huang! How dare you keep staring at the statue!?"

"Quickly lower your head! If the instructor sees you, it won't be good! This is disrespect!"

Beside Lin An, a well-developed girl nervously tugged at his hand, head down, anxious, her eyes full of panic.

Her and Lin An's assumed identities are quite compatible.

Both of their family backgrounds are poor; their parents are workers at a sulfuric acid plant, and they've basically grown up together since childhood.

"Fang Yan! Why are you advising him? This kid is surely daydreaming again about becoming a God Warrior!"

"Clueless about his limits, dreaming all day!"

The speaking boy seems to have a poor relationship with "Zhang Huang".

In his gaze toward "Zhang Huang", there is always hostility, as if he resents the girl's relationship with Zhang Huang.

In the same training camp, their status gap hasn't widened too much yet.

His father is a factory manager, with a status far higher than Zhang Huang and the others.

But Fang Yan is simple-minded, not realizing that he is actually the truly "valuable" person, so he naturally feels resentful.

However, contrary to the boy's imagination, Zhang Huang would become angry and indignant, just as before; at this moment, Lin An merely glanced at him casually.

What a cliché plot.

The system's tasteless humor.

After entering the instance, there will be a main storyline enactment; if nothing unexpected happens, this line should be the one provided by the triggered Props.

Following the normal route, the Zhang Huang he plays should astonish everyone in the test, then harshly slap this boy in the face.

Afterward, triggering a new NPC would provide world-related information, gradually completing the main storyline.

Faced with Lin An's gaze that used no power at all, the boy instantly felt as if his whole body were frozen, even his soul trembling.

An instinctive scream drew the attention of those around.

The strength gap has become so huge it cannot be calculated by numbers.

Those eyes, like the depths of the universe, shocked him into immobility, nearly scaring him mad!

However, before the surrounding people could turn their attention here,

the next second.

Boom!

Only saw Lin An slightly exert a bit of force, and the entire training field trembled as if an earthquake, violently shaking.

In the blink of an eye, his whole body crossed a hundred-meter distance, instantly appearing at the huge statue's intellect.

"Bang!"

In the instant of an explosive, earth-shaking roar, he kicked the statue apart with one foot and then directly lifted it into the void with his hand.

Such a startling change, a horrifying scene, instantly stunned everyone.

"What person!?"

"How dare you desecrate the gods!!"

On the podium, the middle-aged man previously in charge of the speech changed color greatly, barely dodging the flying shrapnel, then instinctively let out a shocked angry roar.

"Flying through the air!?"

"This speed!? This power!? It's practically more terrifying than a God Warrior!"

"But looking at his appearance, he's clearly a student here!"

Looking at the panicked crowd, Lin An glanced briefly at the people below who were both afraid and eager to rush up, hesitated slightly, then shook his head, not intending to pay attention.

He could tell that his act of destroying the statue had angered everyone, and even driven the surrounding fighters to extreme shock.

But.

Too weak.

The strongest existence in the whole venue is no more than Second Level.

At this level, they probably don't know anything.

Desecrating the gods is effective enough.

He doesn't intend to waste any time here.

To find this world's fugitives, the simplest method is not to search.

But rather..

Blow up this world.

"Boom!!"

In an instant, Lin An unrestrainedly burst forth with his speed, his whole body suddenly like a rending black light, charging straight toward the city core.

He noticed that in the city center, there is an even larger statue.