Chapter 605

Hoo------!

The biting cold wind lifts countless rust‑colored sand and gravel, making the already reddish‑brown ground even more fitting for the planet's name, Mars.

If you look down from ten thousand meters altitude, besides seeing the frequent tornadoes on the Martian surface, you can also spot thousands of soils and organisms.

Even a "sculpture" formed by mixed lenses.

These "sculptures" are actually defensive alien forms unintentionally released by the Human Union Expedition Team twenty‑six years ago, and this site at coordinates 40.75°N, 9.46°W is the ruin location, the starting point of the 109 Universe Human‑Alien War.

Because the mission was completed and there are no longer any human artifacts on the Martian landmarks or low‑Earth orbit, these randomly arranged, seemingly hastily cobbled defensive alien units remain on standby.

However, at this moment the ruin entrance.

Swish—swish!!

A series of blue glows flickered.

"！！" just punctuation.

When dozens of light spheres form, all defensive alien units revive, switching instantly from statue mode to attack mode, and the "lens" positions also flash, appearing ready to unleash a wave of simultaneous beams.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Puff! Pfft!!

However, before the defensive aliens could finish gathering energy, the ruin entrance erupted with a barrage of explosive arrow gunfire, and the alien bodies were blown apart by the shots.

The giants who completed a short‑range teleport took the initiative to pull the trigger, launching an overwhelming attack on the unsuspecting aliens.

After all, the giants who teleported here are all champions from the Extreme Legion across the ages, the perennial victors responsible for the safety of the OriginalBody. Even a simple aim‑and‑shoot is naturally a crushing stance against the defensive alien units.

Whoosh—!

Buzz—!

Even if some aliens finish gathering energy and fire a barrage at the Ever‑Victorious troops on the perimeter, these Astate champions don't even bother to move; they rely on the protection provided by the Terminator to stubbornly resist everything.

In just a few seconds, the ruin entrance in the valley was cleared.

But like a mercury dam break, the "metal" flood that originally killed the first expedition team—provided as video material by Eveleen for the High Sky—surged out through the ruin tunnel.

Facing the suspected strongest defense mechanism of the ruin, the Ever‑Victorious troops actually lowered their heavy‑armed arms and simply waited.

Wearing the OriginalBody‑powered armor, standing nearly four meters tall, Wokan emerged from the crowd with his powered‑armor helmet, walked slowly to the ruin entrance, and fixed his gaze on the "metal" flood.

At the moment the flood was about to surge out of the ruin tunnel, Wokan raised the massive hammer named "Dawn Messenger" and struck the ground with force.

Boom!!!!!!!

Accompanied by a mountain‑shaking roar, the hammer's blade released a dragon seemingly forged from scorching magma, claws outstretched, confronting the "metal" flood.

First came a sizzle; the liquid metal that first touched the fire dragon instantly vaporized, and the fire dragon, without hesitation, rushed straight down the ruin tunnel.

In the blink of an eye, the fire dragon vanished from everyone's sight, leaving only scattered sparks deep within the tunnel.

It seems that the plan by the Summer State and the four great nations to burn everything and carve a green corridor with suicide squads and one‑time biological weapons was easily solved by a single OriginalBody and half a company of the Honor Guard.

Eveleen clapped her hands among the giants, raised an eyebrow as she looked into the tunnel depths, and walked over to Wokan's side teasingly:

"Truly worthy of an imperial heir, honestly, in terms of firepower you seem more reliable than your older brother Robert. He would have taken far more effort than you."

"Sao, you're joking." Wokan replied calmly as always.

"Enough, enough, you're even less fun than An's kid."

Eveleen waved her hand, became the first to enter the ruin interior, followed by Wokan and dozens of Ever‑Victorious troops.

As for the "Red‑Eyed" An Na Jin, he is now cooperating with Taitus to stabilize the Human Union regime, using Spiritual Energy to soothe the emotions of all residents while subtly spreading Human Empire values.

When it comes to exporting values, Wokan can't replace An Na Jin, because it requires an extremely strong Spiritual Energy talent and mastery.

Even though An Na Jin's temper is volatile, his Spiritual Energy depth and intensity are far below that of an adult OriginalBody, yet his control of Spiritual Energy is already masterful; otherwise, having Wokan perform the Spiritual Energy pacification could cause most mortals to collapse, become insane, or turn into vegetative states.

Island nation?

The island nation has become history.

After An Na Jin single‑handedly slaughtered those with evil thoughts and prepared the "Human Treason" plan, the island nation's leadership and soldiers—along with ancestors who committed sins and perverse scum—were reduced to fewer than forty thousand people.

Once a nation with over a hundred million people, it had already endured the first alien meteor impact and the Human‑Alien War; now, with An Na Jin, the "God‑slayer", it is on the brink of extinction.

Thus, a hundred years later in the 109 Universe, the island nation will be nothing but a burned, erased speck of trash in the river of history.

And when Robert learned all the details of that universe, he intentionally selected candidates for extreme warriors from the Summer State, especially descendants of Summer State soldiers.

Although the Extreme Legion boasts millions of Astate, with skills ranging from raids to defense to logistics, making it a hexagonal pillar of the Empire, it still falls short compared to specialized brother legions, and the extreme warriors are always a bit lacking.

Therefore, whenever the Extreme Legion conquers a universe, Robert deliberately chooses the human "warrior nation" of that universe to compensate for the legion's lack of specialization.

When Robert learned that the Summer State of the 109 Universe had a "simple and honest" populace, he immediately took interest.

It should be noted that among the newly formed legions, the "Trap‑setter" led by Sui Meng is exceptionally fierce, even more so than the veteran Spartans and Space Wild Wolves, and seems poised to claim the top spot in combat power, which truly made Robert envious.

After all, the Extreme Legion is versatile, a jack‑of‑all‑trades, but it always lags behind in pure firepower; now it can still bully the new legions with experience, yet in a few centuries it might be surpassed by a bunch of kids.

Moreover, because of the Emperor, the Summer State in the 109 Universe will receive more attention from the Empire, while other nations are treated equally; such is the way the primary universe's Human Empire operates.

Because of the Emperor's circumstances, the Xia state in the 109th universe will receive more attention from the Empire, while other nations are treated equally—there's nothing to be done; the Human Empire of the main universe is just like that.

Directly annihilated.

When the Extreme Legion methodically takes over the 109 Earth, Eveleen, Wokan and half of the second company of Ever‑Victorious troops will use short‑range teleportation to reach the Martian ruins directly, preparing to eliminate all threats in that universe once and for all.

Indeed, extreme warriors may lack some firepower, but to deal with a silicon‑based civilization that hides behind biological weapons, the legion's envoy (Eveleen) and half a company of the Honor Guard, plus a guest OriginalBody, are more than sufficient.

Yes, the Limit Warriors' combat power is indeed somewhat lacking, but to deal with a silicon-based civilization that can only hide behind bioweapons, relying on the Legion Envoy (Ivfrelyne) and half a company's Honor Guard, plus a guest OriginalBody, is more than enough.

Soon after.

Deep within the tunnel.

Eveleen's party moved unimpeded toward the interior, and the Spiritual Energy fire dragon, under Wokan's deliberate control, lowered its temperature to avoid damaging the tunnel details.

At the front of the group, Eveleen paused intermittently, carefully observing the "text" and images etched on the wall.

And Yifuleni at the front of the team walked and stopped intermittently, carefully observing the "characters" and images engraved on the wall.

When the group reached the end, facing the giant stone door blocking further progress, she slowly explained to Wokan and the entire Ever-Victorious Army: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the burial place of the Martian natives."

"Graveyard?" Wokan raised an eyebrow. "And the silicon‑based civilization behind it?"

Eveleen shook her head lightly: "There are no records; they only say they were struck by divine punishment, their souls bound, never to reincarnate. Once the flesh dies, it turns into a mass of dark gloom."

"Dark gloom." Wokan turned to look at the tunnel entrance that had long lost its light. "Perhaps the silicon‑based civilization stored massive amounts of Martian alien flesh, creating those grotesque hybrid species outside."

"Just maybe." Eveleen shrugged. "Anyway, the Martian civilization of this universe is already extinct."

Having said that, Eveleen stared at the towering stone gate hundreds of meters tall, then, unhurriedly, raised her right hand and snapped her fingers.

With a crisp "snap~" sound, a pale blue light sphere about the size of a ping‑pong ball appeared at the center of the gate, then expanded silently at extreme speed, instantly covering the entire stone gate.

The light faded.

The stone gate that blocked the group also vanished.

？

Seeing this, Wokan's eyes filled with a hint of doubt.

"It can be smashed outright, why bother with a puzzle game? Kid, sometimes don't get stuck in dead‑end thinking, let's go."

Eveleen finished speaking and, together with the Ever‑Victorious troops, passed through the now empty stone gate.

The group then arrived at the core of the ruin, which indeed, as Wokan had guessed, was a manufacturing site for biological weapons.

Scattered skeletons everywhere.

Endless skeletons.

Behind the stone gate lay a protruding stone platform about the size of a football field; beneath it was an abyss piled with dense white skeletons.

From a distance, the shape suggests the skeletons resembled humans in life, with limbs, torso, and heads.

Aside from the abyss and skeletons, the place resembled a naturally formed massive cavern.

But the unknown stone gate floating in the cavern's center could not be a natural creation.

Hmm, it seems the scientists of Xia Kingdom are still quite impressive; I didn't expect they would actually calculate that there is a portal here. Evefrine walked to the edge of the stone platform, raised her head, gazing at the stone gate shaped like the Chinese character for 'return' (a square with a vertical line), about ten meters in diameter, and continued speaking:

"But even I didn't anticipate a silicon‑based civilization that avoids physical‑space technology to dabble in biology and extra‑dimensional tricks!"

"Come over." Eveleen said, gesturing toward the stone gate.

Then the stone gate trembled, as if resisting some force.

It only hesitated for a few seconds before, under Eveleen's "control", gradually descending and finally settling steadily at the edge of the stone platform.

Within the few seconds Eveleen seized control of the stone gate, Wokan also sensed the so‑called "dark gloom" through Spiritual Energy.

The abyss below constantly wailed, moaned, and screamed, clearly the endless agony of flesh being stripped alive and then forged into biological weapons.

The reason the Human Union couldn't crack the alien production method, aside from differing tech trees, was that it employed some extra‑dimensional technique, but it was so diluted that even Spiritual‑Energy‑sensitive An Na Jin and Eveleen didn't notice it immediately.

Thus, relying solely on the Human Union's pure physical technology, if they truly executed the "burn‑everything" plan, humanity would indeed be burned to ashes.

But that would be a death with dignity.

Back to the present, when the stone gate touches the edge of the stone platform, the center of the gate's 'return' symbol (a square with a vertical line) begins to form a faint, elusive air vortex.

Hoo. Hoo—!!

The airflow grew stronger.

Boom!!!

In an instant a dazzling light and deafening explosion erupted.

The louder it got, the faster it vanished.

After everything calms down, the center of the gate's 'return' symbol (a square with a vertical line) reveals another scene; calling it purgatory would not be an overstatement.

A hazy orange sky, cracked ground, oppressively extreme.

No professional detector needed; just standing at the gate's edge and observing, one can tell the other side is high‑pressure, high‑temperature, filled with acidic liquids and gases—most similar to Venus in the Solar System, also a "Purgatory" scene.

Seeing that side, Eveleen closed her eyes briefly, then suddenly floated, her clothing rippling as if in wind; when she opened her eyes again, they were filled with white light.

「yiliwuda，namei，zuijigo！」

Then Eveleen spoke an unknown language with an echoing tone, sounding like a negotiation, a warning, or a proclamation?

She then swept her hand forward, and the "Purgatory" planet on the other side of the stone gate suddenly erupted in lightning and thunder; moments later the entire planet collapsed inward, compressed, and vanished to a point, leaving only endless starry sky, after which Wokan realized her words were announcing

the Declaration of Extinction.

She landed, eyes returning to normal, glanced at Wokan and laughed lightly: "What? You just discovered the Empire frequently uses extinction orders?"

"Not really." Wokan shook his head. "I just didn't expect you could easily eliminate an entire planet."

"." Eveleen was speechless.

She is merely weaker compared to an OriginalBody, yet she is still planetary‑scale, nearly stellar‑scale as a Spiritual Energy wielder.

"Enough, let's go back. The other side of the gate is just a forward outpost." Eveleen, without giving Wokan a sarcastic remark, turned and walked out of the ruin, "Let Robert apply for the use of the big device, preparing a cleanse for the 109 Universe."

"Ha, a silicon‑based civilization with a soul is no concern."

"Alright." Wokan had no objection; with that, he could immediately head with An Na Jin to the 003 Universe to continue touring the Empire's scenery.

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Meanwhile.

Main Universe, Earth, Meditation Hall.

As the Emperor, Sui Bian originally released Spiritual Energy to protect all humanity while reclining on the golden throne for a "short rest", but he suddenly opened his eyes, his expression turning solemn.

Because in his brief "rest", he "dreamed" of endless green…

(End of Chapter)