Chapter 1888

The injuries were extremely severe, and the cost of the summoning seemed enormous.

Andre wiped the blood from his mouth again and couldn't resist giving Lin An one final piece of advice.

It wasn't that he couldn't bear to kill Lin An; this War Star Individual was the biggest reward he'd gained from the instance, and the energy was only enough to awaken it once—he really didn't want to waste it on Lin An.

A Fifth-Stage War Star Individual is his biggest confidence for tackling the Fifth-Stage mission.

Hearing that Andre still had the thought to persuade him to surrender, Lin An raised his brows and instantly realized Andre was no different from the other Fourth-Stage individuals there—he had no clue what the Fifth Stage even meant.

Without paying attention to the War Star Individual rushing at him, Lin An instantly saw through the so-called War Star Individual—it was nothing more than a corpse that had been resurrected to War Star level.

In terms of actual combat power, it's likely the weakest among Fifth-Stage beings. The seemingly fearsome residual power of the rules is just uncontrolled energy.

With such disordered power, it can probably only push around Fourth-Stage beings.

Compared to this corpse, Lin An was more worried about Andre's strange behavior.

For some reason, he felt that the Andre before him was different from his memory. The former Andre was one of the few elites he could look up to among global Awakened Ones, extremely intelligent, like a downsized Chu An.

But this time, Andre seemed overly emotional, too...

Stupid?

"Where did things go wrong? I feel like I forgot something."

"Thud thud! Thud! Thud!"

The giant claw was raised high, and in an extremely short time, the War Star Individual's corpse, charging like a demon god, had already rushed to Lin An's front. The black rule attached to the rotting giant claw was like a mountain locking onto space, smashing straight down at Lin An.

Though the rule power couldn't be condensed, it appeared even stronger to everyone.

As the giant claw came down, the area where Lin An stood was instantly engulfed in a kilometer of darkness.

In the broadcast, Lin An appeared unable to dodge, about to suffer this earth-shattering strike.

Around the world, even fighters like Gao Tian battling far away in the various districts were all nervously watching the sky projection, worried about his safety.

However, contrary to everyone's expectations, Lin An rose to resist, trying to block the blow.

Hovering in mid-air, after collecting his thoughts, Lin An casually lifted his head to gaze at the sky-supporting giant claw reaching for him.

"Some kind of mass-effect-like rule?"

After instantly figuring out the War Star Individual's rule effect, Lin An couldn't be bothered to waste more time, simply calmly looking at Andre.

"Any more trump cards?"

"If you don't, you might never get another chance in your lifetime."

As his words fell, before the crowd could even react, no one could understand where Lin An got the confidence to say such a thing at that moment.

The next second, Lin An instantly broke free from the giant claw's lock.

Like a ghost, 0.01 seconds later, when everyone saw him again, Lin An had already appeared atop the monster's head.

In the worldwide broadcast, Lin An's calm voice rang out:

"You really know nothing about power..."

"Know nothing."

"Bang!!!!"

He stepped down with one foot!

It was like stepping on an ant.

0.01 seconds later.

It was as if one foot triggered a nuclear explosion! With a massive amount of spiritual power combined with electromagnetic rule impact, the War Star Individual that Lin An stepped on instantly exploded—like a water balloon bursting under pressure, it didn't even have time to scream before being completely melted.

Before the melting corpse could turn into pure energy and burst outward, in an instant Lin An again mobilized his own repulsion rule, forcibly pouring this destructive force into the earth.

"Boom!!!!"

The continent trembled, wails rose.

If someone could see all this from within the crust, they would clearly see an energy pillar a hundred meters thick piercing the crust and continuing straight down to the core in one breath.

Not wanting the surface of this area destroyed by the explosion, under Lin An's control pushed to the extreme, he simply let the entire Egyptian plate bear the final force.

However, even if the explosion's aftershocks were layered and dispersed.

A few seconds later.

The violent seismic waves still spread across the globe like a tsunami!

One strike to defend the star! Global earthquake!

As he stepped on and killed this Fifth Stage War Star Individual, the world seemed to fall completely silent at this moment.

Everything seemed to have ceased to exist; the War Star Individual in whom everyone had placed their hopes seemed never to have appeared, not even a corpse remained.

There was no great battle as imagined, nor any fierce fighting as fantasized.

In the stunned silence of the crowd, with dazed gazes, all that could be seen was the demon Lin An standing under the scorching sun.

In midair, Andre, still facing off against Lin An, now seemed to have lost his soul, staring blankly with his mouth open. His lightless eyes seemed to have completely lost the ability to think, unable to accept the fact.

He blankly stared at the deep pit beneath Lin An's feet, at the faint shred of flesh still lingering at the edge of the pit.

If it weren't for the constant heart-piercing pain reminding him, he would even now feel that this was merely an illusion.

Dead?

Just like that, dead?

Andre dazed, as if he could barely stand.

He had given everything, acquiring the War Star Individual in the dungeon at the cost of his own 'life', only to have it trampled to death by Lin An with a single foot.

That was a Fifth Stage, a Fifth Stage he considered nearly invincible!

"No.. this is impossible...!!!"

"How could it end like this! How could a Fifth Stage lose!"

"Impossible for him to be this strong! There must be some problem, there must be a mistake!!"

Retreat, self-denial.

Andre trembled all over as he looked at his own hands, then at the nightmare-like figure in the distance.

If even the War Star Individual he relied on most is nothing but an ant before Lin An, what does that make him? A worm!? A mouse!?

"What am I!? What am I!? My efforts! What is everything I've sacrificed for!?"

An unwilling, bitter smile.

No one knows what kind of pain he endured in the six-month dungeon, nor how he struggled to survive.

He had thought that the gap between him and Lin An would be completely erased the moment he emerged, that he was just one step away from toying with Lin An in the palm of his hand as a 'God Creator'.

He would be humanity's leader, the Overlord of this planet, humanity's strongest!

However, in less than a few short minutes, everything was shattered.

His ideals, his ambitions, his aspirations, his pride—all were trampled by Lin An with a single kick! He wasn't even worthy of letting Lin An truly fight him!

How ridiculous, so ridiculous that he was utterly defeated in front of everyone, before the global Survivors!