Chapter 2196: Starlight Eternal 33

5"How did that kid run so fast!"?

Like a large mouse flying close to the ground, Lei Meng desperately hid his tracks, his originally slow speed becoming even slower.

Not possessing Lin An's strength, knowing well how dangerous the vicinity of the Eternal Summit is after the purge, Lei Meng's heart filled with both resentment and unwillingness.

He resented Lin An for not following his ideas, and was unwilling to truly not catch up.

That monster is very strong; although arrogant to the point of likely dying on the road to the summit, at least in the early stage, following Lin An was correct.

Watching the distant Eternal Summit draw nearer, Lei Meng's tension grew heavier.

Ahead is a3; inside the arena, rankings aren't visible, so he also doesn't know Lin An's exact situation.

Especially, under his intense perception, he always felt that the entire layer in the direction of the Eternal Summit was eerily quiet.

"Could he not have come here? That shouldn't be..."

"Guessing by time, that kid should have already clashed with that goblin gang; I don't know if he really charged straight in... If he did charge straight in, the surrounding Radiation Energy Alliance would surely..."

"Huh?"

Constantly guessing Lin An's situation, Lei Meng's gaze sharpened, and he suddenly saw a faint firelight in the extreme distance.

Only within the limits of his vision could he barely see, after losing control, vast numbers of Mechanical Augmented Bodies exploding and falling down—like out-of-control warships, each fall triggering an explosion.

"Really... charged straight in?"

Lei Meng's heart jolted; after hesitating a moment, he gritted his teeth and accelerated.

Soon, three minutes later, he completely saw the mechanical army as if pierced by a single arrow, while the fortress exterior bore no battle traces; in an extremely short time, Lei Meng's expression shifted slightly, and he immediately simulated the scene in his mind.

That kid likely charged straight in! Then he directly space‑jumped into the fortress!

"No corpses, no life fluctuations."

"Could it be that the kid already wiped out this batch of goblins? Though, with his strength, dealing with these goblins isn't hard, but what about the others? Could it be that no one came to reinforce?"

Aside from the distant booming explosions, the entire a3 area seemed as silent as a graveyard.

Suppressing the strangeness in his heart, Lei Meng simply stopped hiding his tracks and exerted himself to sense the surrounding rule fluctuations.

A few seconds later, he abruptly turned his head to look at the nearby ground.

Looking closely, on that silver‑white mountainside there was conspicuously an inconspicuous fracture, and around the broken footprints was a patch showing traces of having been struck by high‑energy radiation.

"A battle took place here! In the high sky!"

"Such a strong smell of blood...!"

Raising his head, Lei Meng's eyes seemed to conjure the scene from then.

"Over twenty rule fluctuations launched an attack from high altitude! No, there were even more rule fluctuations appearing, but they didn't join the attack! Coming from this direction, it should have been a frontal battle; this group of Fifth Stage came around from behind to encircle! And those footprints must be the kid's!"

"Thinking this, that kid must have erred, causing those goblins to send out a message! Damn, I knew it!"

Lei Meng couldn't help but curse quietly.

After simulating that scene, he never imagined Lin An had committed a grave error, leading to being besieged by nearly a hundred Fifth Stage!

Moreover, judging by the rules the enemy used, it was likely they knew Lin An was a Body System specialist and targeted him specifically! Although he knew Lin An was strong, he also knew just how vile the Radiation Alliance's rules were; in a moment, Lei Meng also panicked, only hating that Lin An didn't listen to him!

If it were a sudden outbreak of battle, the besieging Fifth Stage wouldn't be so numerous, and he believed Lin An should be fine.

But now...

"Is he dead? Or was he chased elsewhere?"

Besides those twenty radiation rules, Lei Meng sensed no other rule remnants; thus, by normal logic, even if Lin An hadn't fled but chose to counter‑kill, the remaining Fifth Stage could not possibly show no reaction.

The sole answer...

"You're looking for me?"

Before Lei Meng's face could darken, he tried to search the lingering fluctuations for where Lin An might have fled.

The next second, a calm voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

Before he could turn, Lei Meng jolted, feeling a thick blood‑stink like a tsunami washing over him, nearly making him vomit.

Lin An!?

Lei Meng hurriedly turned his head, and upon clearly seeing the suddenly appearing Lin An behind him, he instantly stiffened like a statue.

His hairs stood on end!

An indescribable fear and shock, like the blood‑light before his eyes, surged straight to his crown!

The reason was none other than...

Only seen, Lin An emerged from the void‑walking state, his body now brimming with intense killing light—nearly a hundred meters of blood‑light, constantly condensing into white light symbolizing how many points he had.

Moreover, what truly shocked and even horrified Lei Meng was the multitude of corpses trailing behind Lin An.

Like a cloak, or more like a plume formed of corpses.

Behind Lin An, there were actually dense hundreds of Fifth Stage corpses, each attached by spirit‑energy fine threads, dragged behind him, slowly swaying.

Even though these Fifth Stage were dead, the lingering rules and resentment within them resembled a certain meme stance, forming a twisted, blurry image behind Lin An; just a glance gave him a nightmare‑like feeling, almost making him want to flee.

"Lin... Lin... An...!?"

"No... how many!? How many people did you kill!?"

Lei Meng's heart shuddered; he looked around in terror. Although he boasted of having seen big scenes, before this sight he felt like a pig or dog encountering a butcher—a fear welling from deep within his soul engulfed him.

He hadn't never seen so many Fifth Stage corpses, but he had never seen anyone treat them like Lin An did—dragging them behind as "decoration"! This wasn't mere cruelty; it was contempt for life, treating those Fifth Stage as ants, as raw material.

"About one hundred seventy or so."

"From a1 to a17, I swept them all."

Ignoring Lei Meng's shock, Lin An frowned slightly, then casually lifted and handed over the corpse‑plume stretching nearly a hundred meters to Lei Meng, indicating he should take it.

It wasn't that he deliberately dragged so many corpses behind him to frighten Lei Meng.

Rather, during the layer‑by‑layer slaughter, Lin An discovered that the fresh Fifth Stage corpses' internal residual rules were like sulfuric acid; if dumped straight into the Space Ring and stacked, they easily became contaminated.

Like those corpses in the underground space, if he doesn't want the materials to be scrapped, he has no choice but to carry them this way.

Of course, it could also be directly converted into Equipment, but given the time pressure, Lin An thought for a moment and still planned to first reach the top before speaking. After all, the higher you go, the higher the quality of the 'materials'.

After a long while, Lei Meng, who had just recovered from shock, stared at Lin An's back as he actually intended to go straight to the next level, and couldn't help but exclaim:

"Lord Lin!? You're just going to the second level like that!!"

"Otherwise?"

Lin An turned his head to look at Lei Meng, as if Lei Meng's question was truly somewhat stupid:

"The points on the first level are too few; I calculated that, rather than wasting time slaughtering the entire level, it's better to go up and kill people."

"The advantage of occupying level points is too great."

The acquisition of points is far less than imagined, and even after slaughtering seventeen teams, Lin An further discovered that these squads not appearing in Lei Meng's intelligence had pitifully few points on them.

After interrogating a few Fifth Stage, he finally learned that those Fifth Stage guarding the first level are essentially cannon fodder, to be discarded at any time.

Their original level points had long been transferred, via exchanging War Slaves, stacked onto the teams rushing the level.

It's like cheating.

Although he is a God Ascendant and has already killed over two hundred Fifth Stage, those allied teams from elsewhere also let Fourth Stage farm points, gaining a large number of level points thanks to their large numbers, which results that his current points are actually only slightly less than three times that of the most ordinary team on the second level.

2,790 points

This might allow him to break into the top hundred before the final stage begins.

But at this moment.

Ten thousand points is merely the threshold to enter the top ten!

And the first-place Flame Spear, moreover, exclusively occupies the sixth level, with total points breaking through twenty thousand!

Slaughtering one level..

Far from enough!