Chapter 719

A patting sound, perhaps from falling severed limbs, jolted him awake.

Still petrified, his skull had just been coated with a layer of elemental stone.

The Huaxia Military Region Awakened One whom Lin An had just saved stared blankly at the giant arm on the ground.

The wanton sword breath shattered most of the monsters, leaving only the earliest to land, still enduring Xiong Hanzi's slaughter.

Lin An, high above beneath the scarlet sky, is unforgettable.

Bang!

The giant axe falling from the sky scraped the nose bridge as it dropped.

Zhang Yong stood with his mouth open, his mind blank.

Is this... over?

Maybe it felt a little silly to still be maintaining a defensive pose.

He stood straight in silence, brushing off bits of flesh from his face.

His calf still ached faintly.

A few seconds earlier, he—or rather, they—were still full of a death wish, hoping to kill as many as possible before dying.

Their only hope was to gamble on triggering the gene lock in a desperate situation, perhaps still having a chance.

But now.

emm... (No)

The leftover monsters seemed insufficient for that bald strongman to slay.

Damn, that's terrifying.

Not far off.

Thud!! Bang!!

Zhang Tie, wielding an Adjudicator's Greataxe in each hand, turned into a silver giant bear, spinning like a windmill, crushing the ground's monsters into mush.

Whirlwind Slash!

Crows riding airplanes!!

As if he were hamming it up.

When the slaughter heated up, Xiong Hanzi bellowed angrily, and the seismic waves from his feet shook the monsters like they were dancing.

He fought with hands and feet, barely enduring the monsters' blows.

His attacks were savage.

At a glance, it was impossible to tell who was the monster.

A few seconds later.

Boom!!

Lin An fell straight down from midair beneath the awestruck gazes of the crowd.

It felt unlike the relief Zhang Yong and the others felt after surviving a disaster, even like winning the lottery.

Lin An was clearly impatient.

(He hadn't found what he wanted.)

Seeing Lin An walk over with a blank face, the earlier complaining Awakened Ones reflexively took a few steps back.

Zhang Yong couldn't stop hearing those words in his head.

(Lin An is far more terrifying than he lets on...)

The old chief truly hadn't deceived him.

He opened his mouth.

Lin... I... this...

He didn't know what to say, feeling there was nothing left for them.

By a stroke of luck, Zhang Yong realized he had bet correctly.

If they had stuck with Lin An from before entering the Secret Realm, could the whole Huaxia theater have brought everyone home safely?

If you don't listen to the elders, will you suffer a loss right away?

He couldn't help but feel regret, his liver aching.

Fiona stood aside, her milky-white spiritual energy retracted, eyes wide as she watched Lin An approach her and the others.

She couldn't help but ask:

You... how did you even do that!!

This makes no sense!

She stared at Lin An, not with hostility, but as someone who usually loved analysis, she suddenly found it hard to accept.

What monster could they never defeat in life-or-death fights, yet now, under his hand, it's as weak as paper?

It felt like being in a battle royale, chipping away at monsters with each hammer strike.

Suddenly a giant mecha surged forward, its single blast obliterating the whole battlefield.

Even cheating isn't done this way.

That horizontal sweep through the air earlier had absolutely no skill effect.

It was pure power, combined with a massive outpouring of spiritual energy.

Just how high has this man's strength stat gone!?

Seeing Lin An not answer her question, she fired another, relentless.

Are you a Third Rank!!

Are you Third Rank?!

Or are you saying, you're not a player at all!?

Almost simultaneously, everyone looked over.

Exactly, they wanted to ask the same thing.

Not far off, Xiong Hanzi, who had sat down hard on the "nurse", twitched his ears and heard the sound from over here.

He couldn't help but sigh.

Indeed, anyone who saw Lin Dui make a move would ask that.

Lin Dui, stop pretending—I already figured out you're not human!

Under the anxious gazes of everyone, Lin An glanced at Fiona in surprise:

"Second Level."

"If I weren't human, you'd all be dead by now."

Having said that, he turned his gaze to the phantom before the church, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

As for the doubts of the Awakened Ones present, he felt nothing much.

His strength was indeed a bit stronger than that of the current Awakened Ones.

That's actually quite normal.

After the Apocalypse erupted, he went through so much in a short span, and he's also a reborn.

Putting other things aside, as someone from the Long'an Project, he essentially belongs to the strongest batch of humans.

He also has the Savior System assisting him.

Having gone through so many high-difficulty missions, gaining this strength is completely normal.

Where there is effort, there is reward.

Strictly speaking, he has actually died over a hundred times.

The entire Savior team, in fact, has half its members who have "died" (Mo Ling, Zhang Tie).

The difficulty and despair he faces absolutely surpass what most Survivors can imagine.

Fiona listened to Lin An's usual brief reply, and her expression involuntarily froze.

She wanted to ask more, but feared provoking him.

The pressure Lin An puts on them is even greater than that of the monsters.

But subconsciously, she gave Zhang Yong a puzzled glance.

Her gaze seemed to be asking.

With such a powerful Awakened One, why does your war zone still act like it's isolating him?

If he were in their war zone, they'd really have to venerate him.

Zhang Yong understood the meaning in Fiona's gaze, and couldn't help but wryly smile.

They never expected that in just two or three months, Lin An's strength would surge to this extent.

To be honest, they really hadn't underestimated Lin An's strength.

The entire staff department tried to overestimate as much as possible, even using exponential calculations to gauge the strength Lin An might be hiding.

But...

A hint of gloom flashed through his heart.

Nie Ping had subtly hinted at Lin An's matter to me; it must be the news passed along by that utterly mysterious Chu An.

Even though the neutral faction clearly knew Lin An's strength had surged, they still chose to stay low-key.

That can only mean...

The situation in the Huaxia war zone is just too complicated...

After suppressing these chaotic thoughts, he subconsciously glanced at Lin An's back:

"Um."

"Lord Lin An."

"Is it that only that evil god remains..."

"Have we actually completed this mission?"

His tone was relaxed.

For some reason, he felt that standing beside Lin An really gave him a sense of safety...

"No..."

With his back to the crowd.

Lin An felt no slackening at all; instead, he stared fixedly at a shabby phantom.

It was a newly formed, dirty storage room.

A girl's back was crouched on the ground, lonely and desperate, turned away from him.

The perfect-level trial is absolutely not just this.

He, who knows the system's difficulty well, has never let his guard down.

These monsters are merely appetizers.

"Church Area Announcement:"

"The first stage is about to end, and the second stage will open in 4 hours."

"Evil God Descent Countdown: 19 hours 59 minutes!"