Chapter 604: One Word, Slaughter

Emperor…

OriginalBody…

Prime Universe…

Astate…

Human Empire???

The self‑styled envoy of the Extreme Warrior Legion, a "female elf" named Yi Fei Lei Ni, finished her report, stating that the alien species that have long ravaged Earth‑109 were cleared out by "them" within a few hours.

That sounds so fantastical, theoretically impossible.

However, the two OriginalBodies, together with the group of Astate Honor Guard standing outside the conference hall, had the "evidence" right before their eyes, and moreover Gao Tian Kuo's "testimony" left no room for the assembled senior officials to question anything.

At most they might doubt the scale of the Human Empire, but not its strength.

"So…"

At this moment, the Xia Guo delegate seated at the center of the hall, with neat short hair and white sideburns, looking very refined, looked toward Yi Fei Lei Ni opposite and asked for confirmation:

"Do you wish us to provide all information regarding Mars and the silicon‑based civilization behind the alien species?"

"Yes." Yi Fei Lei Ni replied without denial, and added, "Major General Gao Tian Kuo has shared many pieces of information from your nation with us, including some details of the 'Jade and Stone Incineration' operation."

When she finished speaking, aside from the representatives of the North American superpower and the other three major nations, as well as the island nation delegate who was being stared at by An Na Jin until his hair stood on end, the remaining delegates all turned toward the Xia Guo delegate almost simultaneously.

Even without words, their expressions said, "Fine, you really still have something hidden!"

"—" Upon hearing that, the Xia Guo delegate did not immediately respond.

Meanwhile, Gao Tian Kuo, seated at the rear, showed no sign of being back‑stabbed; he seemed to have known Yi Fei Lei Ni would say that, perhaps having already communicated with Xia Guo senior officials.

The representative of the North American superpower took the floor and retorted, "After you obtain all the data, what will be the outcome for our Human Union?"

Yi Fei Lei Ni leaned back in her seat, her left leg lightly resting on her right, and smiled casually, "Naturally it will be incorporated into the Empire's rule; that is one of the necessary procedures."

As she spoke, Yi Fei Lei Ni, without waiting for the hall to become noisy, immediately released a Spiritual Energy pulse, forcibly stabilizing the emotions of all the delegates.

At the same time, she implanted in the minds of the mortal delegates a sense of what life is like as subjects of the Empire, bypassing any need for verbal explanation.

"Seeing" that under Human Empire rule they would enjoy longevity, disease immunity, interstellar colonization, and so on, the rebellious sentiment of the majority of delegates sharply diminished.

Among them, the island nation delegate showed a particularly yearning expression, after all it promised a life that would bring "him" and "his compatriots" ever closer to immortality!

In this way, "they" could carry out more…

"More damn it, you Japanese!"

But the ill‑timed insult interrupted the island delegate's reverie, snapping all the delegates back to attention, and they turned their gaze toward the Imperial representatives seated at the center of the hall.

The "mastermind" who hurled the insult in standard Mandarin was none other than An Na Jin, who had been staring intently at the island delegate since the meeting began.

Then An Na Jin sprang to his feet, and in the blink of an eye raced up the steps between the conference tables, straight to the front of the island delegate's seat.

Standing nearly three meters tall, clad in black attire, with unabashed anger and contempt…

!!!

With a single effort, An Na Jin instantly turned the previously relaxed hall back into tension.

However, no delegate on the scene was willing to rebel against an imperial heir on behalf of a mere island nation.

As for Wokan and Yi Fei Lei Ni, who also possessed Spiritual Energy far beyond that of mortals, they waited quietly for the forthcoming "judgment".

In contrast, the island delegate, confronting inexplicable fury, wanted to ask what crime "he" had committed to anger an OriginalBody—was there perhaps a misunderstanding?

"Misunderstanding? Ha."

Yet An Na Jin, who could read mortal thoughts, sneered, and in an instant extended his left hand, pinching the island delegate's neck delicately between thumb and middle finger, then lifted him up.

"Ugh…! Ugh!!"

The island delegate seemed ready to argue or perhaps to bow in advance and apologize, since in their tradition, one bows first when uncertain.

But with his neck being pinched and his feet kicking uselessly in the air, "he" could only turn a deep red, unable to utter a word.

"My father once told me that human nature is complex and cannot be judged by simple right and wrong," An Na Jin said, quoting his father's teaching while scanning the delegates.

"My father also told me that the wickedness of human nature knows no limit…" He then fixed his gaze on the island delegate, whose face had turned a bluish hue, and continued, "However, through this human‑shaped thing of yours, I have read the history of the island nations in your universe…"

"It truly reset the lower bound of what I know; even the grotesque mutants are inferior."

If Chaos had infiltrated Universe‑109 before the Empire, the island nation would have instantly become an absolutely 'loyal' human traitor, but An Na Jin withheld the term 'Chaos' to avoid attracting the attention of the dark gods.

Immediately after, An Na Jin turned to the five major nation delegates and said, "Gentlemen, this fellow and the island nation's senior officials have long been in contact via spies and are aware of your 'Jade and Stone Incineration' operation."

In fact, the moment An Na Jin and his team touched down on the surface of the Northern Province, they locked onto all the Human Union's senior officials and extracted the full details of the operation.

The first meeting was merely a procedural step.

The so‑called 'Jade and Stone Incineration' was proposed and led by Xia Guo, with Britain, France, and Russia participating, while the North American superpower offered selective support—a 'suicidal' mission.

It refers to the human government using its remaining resources to construct seven massive starships capable of shuttling between Earth and Mars, then selecting 4,792 elite survivors with exceptionally high ideological awareness to descend onto Mars, breach the ruins where the alien species were released, and search for a portal leading to the motherworld of the silicon‑based civilization behind them.

To maximize the operation's success rate, the Xia Guo government began developing corresponding bioweapons and a 'virus' as soon as it obtained the first alien corpse sample.

Tests and limited combat data showed that the bioweapon developed by Xia Guo could eradicate the alien species within a designated area in a short time, but the side effect was that newly spawned aliens would gain corresponding immunity.

Consequently, Xia Guo and the Human Union forces refrained from readily employing the bioweapon against the aliens, in order to allow the 'suicide squad'—when breaching the Martian ruins—to have sufficient time to locate the portal.

Meanwhile, the 'virus', which should have been classified as a bioweapon, was extracted separately.

Because the 'virus' was developed specifically against silicon‑based life.

Xia Guo researchers had never obtained a physical silicon‑based organism; even the theory of such life remained 'hypothetical' and 'theoretical', yet they still engineered a Trojan‑horse‑like 'virus'.

Even so, the success rate of the 'Jade and Stone Incineration' operation remained extremely low—practically zero—since no one could confirm whether the portal even existed.

Even if a portal were found, it was still uncertain whether the destination was the silicon‑based civilization's homeworld or merely an outpost.

Therefore, the North American superpower, aware of the 'Jade and Stone Incineration' operation's massive resource demands and minuscule success chance, chose to provide only limited assistance while continuing to prepare the 'Elite Escape' plan, aiming to preserve a spark of humanity in the cosmos.

What Yi Fei Lei Ni and the others did not anticipate was that this ostensibly perfunctory meeting exposed them to the human low‑water mark in Universe‑109—

the island nation.

"While you keep pondering whether humanity has any sliver of hope, these scoundrels are scheming how to drag you into the water," An Na Jin said calmly, his left index finger emitting a slight ripple as it spun the island delegate's head twice.

"Crack! Crack!"

The grating sound of broken bones made all the representatives involuntarily widen their eyes and lean back.

This was also witnessed firsthand by the senior officials, as an OriginalBody crushed a mortal as easily as squashing an ant.

"Hmph." An Na Jin casually flung the corpse to the center of the conference hall, "This bunch of scum planned to poison you before you carried out the mutual destruction and elite escape plans, then launch an armed coup to forcibly seize your Human Coalition's only starfleet."

"What?!" The representative of the North American great power couldn't believe it: "What could they possibly do with that little military force? Moreover, what are they trying to achieve?"

"What are they after?" Eve Freyne stood up at this point, picking up the thread: "They believe that in whichever plan, they have no place for their island nation."

Therefore, they never even considered seizing all the starfleet; instead, they only wanted to take two ships so their elites could escape the Solar System.

As for the other starfleet docked in the shipyards or under construction, they would be completely destroyed by them in a mutually destructive manner.

Of course, the success rate of this plan is likewise infinitesimally close to zero, but they would rather drag all of humanity down with them.

"No way! This bunch of scum!"

"Damn it! We must completely dismantle their entire arsenal!"

After learning of the island nation's despicableness to the extreme, the Russian and French representatives still thought of using "violent official means" to deal with it.

"No." But An Na Jin strode straight out of the conference hall and warned sternly: "My alone judging them is enough."

Seeing this, Wokan, who had remained silent from beginning to end, silently rose and left the conference hall together, apparently to prevent his brethren from taking "extreme" action.

"Everyone." Eve Freyne once again unfurled her Spiritual Energy, smiling as she said: "Due to some accidents, the Empire has prematurely taken over everything of the Human Coalition."

However, please rest assured that while the Empire deals with the alien species and the silicon-based civilization behind them, the Human Coalition will still enjoy a certain degree of autonomy; it's just a special period now, so please do not act rashly and wait for the Empire to resolve all hidden dangers.

—

…

In the eastern suburbs of Bei Fu, scattered military camps of the Human Coalition from various countries are dotted about, each maintaining a distance of five to seven kilometers.

These are the small-nation militaries that, after the human-alien war, lost their own territories and had to hide within the effective territory.

But when some small-nation militaries retreated into Xia Guo's borders, their numbers might not even reach ten thousand, or even just a few hundred; thus the Human Coalition's five major powers picked out elites from them and conducted mixed integration.

The island nation's military, or rather its guard unit, is exactly one of those mixed units.

In the afternoon, the weather in Bei Fu was clear.

The North American great power's military camp, with a total strength of nearly forty thousand, had just finished lunch; the soldiers were either resting in the barracks, lifting weights in the gym, or training individually.

Inside one of the mecha training grounds, many soldiers of Asian appearance were still training.

From the strange shouts they uttered during simulated combat—"Sai nei!" "Yamashita-san!" and the like—it can be judged that these soldiers should be of island nation origin, merely mixed into the North American great power's Sixth Armored Division.

It appears they are more diligent than the other personnel of the Sixth Armored Division.

"Beep!" The piercing gate signal rang out, indicating these island nation soldiers were about to take an intermission.

However, before they could exit the mecha's cockpit, the training ground's north gate suddenly produced a faint, elusive field, immediately followed by severe distortion and deformation.

Then came a tremendous explosion with a deafening "Boom!!", filling the entire training ground with smoke.

"What?!"

The sudden anomaly instantly made all the island-nation-descended soldiers tense up, and they hurriedly retreated into the cockpit, controlling their mechs to face the north gate.

"Thud thud." Heavy footsteps sounded from the smoke and dust.

A black giant's silhouette gradually appeared in the view of the island-nation-descended soldiers.

And this giant was none other than An Na Jin, with long hair fluttering in the breeze, his eyes bloodshot, and his black robe stained with filthy blood.

It appears that this OriginalBody, capable of perceiving mortals' hearts and souls, while slaughtering the island-nation-descended soldiers, also read the sins committed by those scum's ancestors.

Before the island-nation-descended soldiers could react, they saw An Na Jin flick his right hand, which was gripping the sword hilt, releasing a shimmering red energy blade, while his left hand made a pinching gesture toward the nearest mech, and then—

With a "Bang!" it directly pinched and exploded.

Or rather, the mech, standing nearly thirteen meters tall, was stubbornly pinched into a lump of scrap iron.

"Sizzle"

Not only machine oil, but also bodily fluids, continuously seeped out from the gaps.

!!!!

Faced with this horrifying scene, the island-nation-descended soldiers finally realized that An Na Jin was an "evil ghost" coming to claim their lives!

"Ka deu yo kurusu (Kill him)!"

"Sai nei (Die)!!"

Needless to say, these elite forces, who had endured humiliation and were preparing to assist the island nation's high command in executing the human-trafficking plan, after a brief moment of shock, promptly began piloting their mechs to charge at An Na Jin.

But the result would not be as easy as they imagined.

"Boom! Boom!"

An Na Jin merely raised his right hand and swung it, releasing a sea of Spiritual Energy fire through his exclusive energy blade, instantly engulfing all the mechs and the island-nation-descended soldiers inside their cockpits in flames.

Moreover, although the Spiritual Energy fire sea is not like the Cassius gun, which can torment the souls of the dead according to the user's will, the fire sea released by An Na Jin is enough to make this non-human livestock species experience the "sensation" of being turned into sushi while still alive.

Finally, An Na Jin couldn't resist adding: "You creatures unworthy of being human, having compatriots like you on the 109th universe of humanity is simply more tragic than a purgatory in another dimension, heh."

(End of chapter)