[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence":3,"chapter-lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-268":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Lord of Winter: Beginning with Daily Intelligence",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},152766,274,"Chapter 268 - 204: Heavy Magic Explosion Bullet (Part 2)","lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-268",268,"\u003Cp>At that time, he thought he would never use it, even if corpses lay everywhere and rivers of blood flowed, he was unwilling to take that step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now... he watched insect corpses wailing in the fire, watching everything he painstakingly built collapse in the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps this was what she meant by \"the last resort.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have no choice... but to use it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly bowed his head, forehead resting on the Divine Chain, as if praying, but in fact, it was a descent into depravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no longer a plea to the gods, but an opening of a portal to the Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Forbidden Curse was then recited in a low voice: \"The passing of a heartbeat, the nesting of blood. Oh Goddess, forgive my desecration of your womb.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the air seemed hollowed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding sounds, heat waves, even the roaring flames froze in that moment, leaving only the depths beneath the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thump! Thump! Thump!\" The heartbeat grew closer, louder, as if some giant being was stirring, struggling, awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Retreat!!\" A Knight shouted at Louis’s command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Flamethrower Squad swiftly retreated without hesitation, the flames extinguished, iron boots kicking up scorched earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with their battle-hardened experience, they felt the pressure and fear emanating from deep within the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something beyond their capacity to handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that moment, the ground suddenly cracked with a \"crack! snap!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What followed was a nauseating birth ceremony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the earth’s veins, an entire expanse of gray-white resin nest body wriggled and emerged, its moist, peeled texture unnerving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surface of the nest body was covered with living structures, semi-transparent cavities slowly contracting, like breathing lungs, or like a giant... hive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the four nest pillars on the ground squirmed and crawled like twisted limbs, leaving destruction and mud in their wake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nest, as if a living Divine Being, had descended in person!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the nest’s opening, insect eggs rapidly swelled and deformed, then burst open like rotten flesh tumors, splattering murky fluids with a ’splut.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What crawled out was no longer ordinary insect corpses but evolved pinnacle beings!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clad in Bone Armor, limbs like blades, mandibles split to ear level, remnants of human armor and clothing scraps still clinging to their bodies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They emitted twisted, piercing screeches, charging into the fireline, frenziedly hunting the Knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, the Knights had already withdrawn some distance; otherwise, even the Flamethrowers might not have been a match for these elite insect corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Priest laughed maniacally to the heavens, his laughter tearing through the air like a spike amidst the flames and shrieks, unsettling the mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahahaha! You foolish mortals!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He trod upon the still-wriggling resin nest, the hem of his robe wildly dancing in the scorching hot wind, like a banner, his whole being seemingly edged with flames, standing atop Hell singing hymns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know? This is the true power of the Snow Swearer! This is the ’Divine Grace of the Goddess.’ Did you think mere flames could shake her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shouted as he raised his hands high, eyes bloodshot, throat nearly hoarse, yet the more he shouted, the more frenzied and deranged he became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will all die here!! In this sacred and joyous blood sacrifice, die gloriously!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a feast belonging to him! It was the Goddess’s grace to him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as he laughed wildly at will—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the distant highlands, Louis merely raised his hand slightly, palm pointing diagonally forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, the Knight pulled the trigger of the launcher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden roar erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sound like the angry roar of the thunder god cleaved the sky, shattering eardrums.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy tripod suddenly tilted back, and what the Magic Bomb Launcher released was not a bullet, but a descending fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It trailed a long tail of light and flames, burning so intensely it seemed to tear open the night sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Ah Long’s pupils, the orange-red fireball, a thousand times brighter than any flame, seemed to traverse space, descending from the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last bit of remaining ecstasy in his heart suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had only enough time to hear a sharp \"whee—\" wail, like a blade piercing his eardrums.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky shattered with a boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An orange-red heavy Magic Explosion Bullet trailed a flaming tail several meters long, roaring as it fell from the night sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not an ordinary fireball, but a doomsday-loaded meteoric strike, crashing straight into the core of the insect swarm, landing at the junction of the altar and the Nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom—!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the explosion’s heart detonated, the ground seemed to flip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire mountain base violently sank, within a fifty-meter radius it was directly consumed by the scorching fire core, surface rocks instantaneously melted under the high temperature, turning into a churning crimson lava like blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nest’s zone bore the brunt, several tentacles as thick as turrets snapped directly in the shock wave, joints exploded, surfaces unraveled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of insect corpses were carbonized before they could even wail, then vaporized, leaving no trace of residue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blast pressure within eighty meters then surged out, the shock wave carrying twisted hot air currents, like a giant wall of flames crashing forward, hurling the second circle of insect swarm on the hill, along with dirt, broken rocks, and corpse fragments, into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those fortified insect corpses could have taken on a Knight alone but now rolled and burned like leaves, unable to even scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The central area of the Nest was like Purgatory come again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its huge heart sac swelled to the limit in the heat wave, its insect fluids boiling, shell cracking, only to burst in a roar seconds later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hatching sacs and parasitic structures inside were completely shattered, turbulent insect ichor oozed out with black smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames had not yet dissipated, but the entire area around the altar had become a charred death zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground collapsed into a charred pit over three meters deep and several dozen meters in diameter, with molten rocks rolling up from the pit bottom, mixed with the residue of carbonized insect corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air warped, the stench of charred flesh mingled with gunpowder assaulted throats, the searing pain unbearable even a hundred meters away.\u003C\u002Fp>",1048,"2026-05-29T04:24:47.504Z","2026-06-01T04:29:09.187Z",1,"novelbin.me","9874534ee3bdba3a5adef8cef01e6b93e2552407a9b7af30e9714e28baa0d801","lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-269","lord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-267",766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-winter-beginning-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]