Chapter 296

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    Chapter 296

    Whoosh—!

    A massive dragon of flame swept across the battlefield, instantly incinerating or knocking aside every incoming attack launched by the summoned beasts.

    The charging Horned Ox was cleaved cleanly in two before its momentum carried both halves crashing into a huge boulder.

    Boom!

    Without slowing in the slightest, Su Hao darted through the horde of summoned beasts.

    Wherever he passed, blood sprayed into the air and severed limbs scattered across the ground.

    Despite being surrounded by hundreds of summoned beasts...

    Not a single one could threaten him.

    Yet Su Hao showed no intention of remaining entangled with them.

    After tearing through the encirclement, he suddenly changed direction and sprinted away, as though he intended to escape.

    Within two breaths, he had completely broken through the Resistance Association's blockade.

    The hidden summoners were stunned.

    They had never imagined that a human could possess such terrifying combat power.

    Or perhaps...

    The black crystal-armored figure before them wasn't human at all.

    Although they hesitated to recklessly pursue such a terrifying opponent, seeing him apparently fleeing instinctively drove them to command all of their summoned beasts to chase after him.

    Exactly as Su Hao had planned.

    His goal from the very beginning had been to lure the battlefield away from both the experimental base and the scenic area.

    It would have been a shame to destroy such beautiful mountains and rivers with his Black Crystal transformation.

    Unfortunately...

    The Resistance members had no idea what kind of monster they were pursuing.

    Nor did they realize that even if they could escape to the Secondary Star...

    It wouldn't save them.


    ---

    Before long, Su Hao arrived at a wide stretch of open grassland.

    The terrain was flat, making it the perfect battlefield.

    He stopped.

    Turned around.

    Raised his longsword toward the approaching tide of summoned beasts.

    Boom!

    The earth exploded beneath his feet.

    His figure vanished.

    The next instant—

    He was already inside the enemy formation.


    ---

    Sword in hand, Su Hao danced through the battlefield like a phantom.

    Each step harvested another life.

    Each flash of his blade claimed another summoned beast.

    He moved like the wind itself.

    Impossible to predict.

    Impossible to catch.

    The summoned beasts could no longer keep up with his movements.

    Very quickly, their formation descended into complete chaos.

    Attacks intended for Su Hao instead struck their own allies.


    ---

    The black crystal armor displayed astonishing durability.

    Bites.

    Poison.

    Claws.

    Arrows.

    Ambushes.

    None of them could leave so much as a scratch.

    Su Hao moved freely through the battlefield as though walking through an empty field.

    The armor remained as flawless as when the battle had begun.

    His blade flashed once.

    A gigantic summoned beast froze in place.

    Then...

    Its body slowly slid apart before crashing to the ground.

    By then, Su Hao had already disappeared.


    ---

    What did it mean for a tiger to enter a flock of sheep?

    This was exactly what it looked like.

    Even if those sheep were being directed by shepherds...

    They remained sheep.

    Before Su Hao's sword, they had no power to resist.


    ---

    But...

    The summoned beasts had never been his true target.

    The summoners were.

    Using his radar perception, Su Hao had already locked onto every hidden summoner.

    Yet he made no attempt to rush toward them.

    Because every one of them possessed the ability to instantly return to the Secondary Star.

    The moment they sensed danger...

    They would flee.

    Su Hao still hadn't mastered Spatial Lockdown.

    Once they escaped, there was no way to stop them.

    The ability to teleport truly made these people fearless.

    They had committed countless atrocities while remaining beyond the reach of justice.

    Such was the terror of spatial teleportation.

    Fortunately...

    Su Hao already had a solution.


    ---

    Teleportation wasn't instantaneous.

    He had carefully measured the entire process.

    From activation to departure...

    It required approximately one and a half seconds.

    That assumed perfect concentration.

    Any interruption during the process would greatly prolong the teleportation—or even cause it to fail altogether.

    One and a half seconds.

    For ordinary people, that was barely enough time to blink.

    For Su Hao...

    It was enough to capture every summoner present.


    ---

    The reason he had spent so long weaving through the battlefield wasn't because he enjoyed fighting.

    Nor was he reminiscing about his days as a warrior.

    He had been buying time.

    Quietly...

    Silently...

    He had transformed the ground beneath every hidden summoner into Black Crystal.

    Because numerous subterranean summoned beasts lurked underground, directly converting the entire battlefield would immediately alert them.

    So he had patiently bypassed every underground beast, slowly extending the Black Crystal network beneath the summoners' feet without anyone noticing.

    Now...

    Everything was ready.


    ---

    Just as Su Hao split apart another charging summoned beast—

    BOOM!!

    The corpse exploded.

    Flesh and blood erupted in every direction.

    The violent shockwave blasted Su Hao high into the air.

    The Resistance had hidden explosives inside the bodies of their summoned beasts.

    Living bombs.

    As long as they were willing to sacrifice the beasts...

    Their destructive power was astonishing.


    ---

    While the hidden summoners waited to see whether Su Hao had survived...

    His body crashed to the ground—

    Then instantly merged into the earth.

    At the same moment...

    The Blood Qi within his body was converted into a massive electric current through his core runes.

    The electricity surged through the underground Black Crystal network...

    Straight toward every summoner.

    Crackle—!

    In an instant—

    Every hidden summoner convulsed violently.

    They collapsed to the ground before they even realized what had happened.

    Immediately afterward...

    Countless Black Crystal spikes erupted from beneath them.

    Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!

    Like nails piercing soft tofu...

    Every summoner was impaled.

    The tips of the spikes then unfolded into vicious barbs before retracting sharply, dragging every victim to the ground.

    Their bodies twitched uncontrollably under the relentless electrical current.

    They couldn't even scream.


    ---

    They weren't dead yet.

    But death was only moments away.

    Although summoners possessed physiques stronger than ordinary humans...

    They were still merely human.

    They couldn't compare to the extraordinary cultivators Su Hao had encountered in his previous life.


    ---

    As the spikes restrained them, Su Hao injected Blood Qi into every summoner.

    Their complete biological information was instantly recorded inside Marble Space.

    Only then did he increase the electrical output.

    The Black Crystal network became a giant execution platform.

    Powerful currents continuously coursed through every victim's body.

    One by one...

    Their life signatures faded.

    The first.

    The second.

    The third...

    Until none remained.


    ---

    Su Hao had never intended to interrogate them.

    There was no point.

    They had remained alert throughout the battle.

    The instant they regained even a fraction of their mobility, they could have escaped to the Secondary Star.

    The simplest solution...

    Was to kill them all.

    His objective was clear.

    He wanted the Resistance Association to fear him so deeply that they would never dare seek him out again.

    This was Su Hao's message.

    "We're free to trouble you."

    "But if you dare trouble us..."

    "Then we'll simply kill every last one of you."


    ---

    As experimental subjects...

    They were no longer necessary.

    Their biological data had already been completely recorded inside Marble Space.

    That alone was sufficient.

    Even the strongest among them failed to survive more than a minute beneath Su Hao's relentless electrical assault.

    Eventually...

    Every life signature disappeared.


    ---

    Su Hao searched each corpse.

    To his surprise, several Resistance members carried syringes containing roughly three milliliters of a transparent liquid.

    "What is this?"

    "The Resistance's Balancer Agent?"

    He examined one carefully but couldn't determine its purpose.

    However...

    He had seen this injection before through Hua Yao's memories.

    She injected herself with one every week.

    It was very likely the key that allowed Resistance members to freely travel between the Main Star and the Secondary Star.

    After recording every detail inside Marble Space, Su Hao stored the syringes away for future research.


    ---

    Once the search was complete, Su Hao slowly stood.

    With a casual wave of his hand...

    The Black Crystal spikes withdrew into the earth.

    Dragging every corpse with them.

    The ground soon returned to its original appearance.

    Not even a trace of the battle remained.

    Kill.

    Bury.

    No burial fee required.

    Where else could anyone find such considerate service?

    (End of Chapter 296)

    He got it. RIP turtle gang..
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