1201 Capture 1 (1/2)
The flames turned into what looked like countless pieces of confetti, floating about everywhere.
Garen avoided the embers and looked at the huge blaze that just would not die down, frowning deeply.
The Soul Energy Aura was just in there, but he could not go in and deal with it. These flames burned at several thousand degrees, at least, and as he was right now, it was not quite possible for him to walk into the fire head-on to look for something.
”How troublesome.”
He turned around and glanced at the distant sky, the helicopter Kong Xinxue rode on was flying toward him slowly. Clearly, it was here to pick him up.
”Well, the Soul Energy is so miniscule, so I bet nothing much will remain.” Garen turned around and left quickly.
Soon, the helicopter left this little island once more.
Sitting in the helicopter, Garen lowered his head, looking at the island beneath him.
”How many more such islands are there?” he asked the black person.
”I only know how to navigate to one more,” replied the black pilot in a panic. He was terrified of ticking Garen off, after all, he had watched Garen massacre so many members of the White Crab Army with his own eyes. Right now, he both admired and feared Garen to the extreme, and was treating him just like he would the Commander.
”Take me there,” said Garen nonchalantly, narrowing his eyes. ”I might as well get it all done at once. You've refueled the tank?”
”Yes, sir!”
”Then let's go!”
Beside him, Kong Xinxue looked at Garen as though he was a monster.
”You-- Since when have you become so overpowered…” She could not hide the shock in her heart at all, this guy went head-to-head against so many elites and killed them all! In her perspective, Nine-Tailed Fox was the strongest, but even she could not do that…
Garen smiled but did not say anything. He just sat in his seat, closing his eyes and resting his mind. The military saber leaned on the side of his seat, and he placed his hands on his knees, falling into a deep sleep.
Kong Xinxue sat right beside him, but she felt an ice-cold aura, the kind that warned all living creatures to stay away. It was as though she could sense a slight chill coming from Garen. She thought she knew this guy very well, but right now the image of him in her eyes was beginning to seem more unfocused and mysterious.
”What kind of a person was he in the past! How could he have possibly reached such heights in such a short time!?” In spite of herself, she was slowly growing curious about Garen.
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Smack.
The large blaze was slowly dying down, and a piece of charcoal exploded in it, splitting in half. Immediately, a black leather boot trampled down hard on it, shattering it.
The man in the black windbreaker slowly walked up to the place where the woman Garen had killed was.
He bent down and slowly reached around the ground, finally retrieving a transparent crystal-like hexagonal gem from the ashes.
”Soul Crystal… number two.”
He murmured in a deep and low voice. Keeping the Soul Crystal into his coat.
”How lucky, I just need to gather three of these, then I'd be able to condense a Soul Seed, and if I absorb it then… Even the Slayer wouldn't be able to stop me!! Hmph hmph hmph…” He began to chuckle coldly and deeply.
”I just have to be a bit more careful, and no one will know that I was the one who took away the Forged Sacred Sigil… All the blame will be pinned on Garen. Not bad.”
The figure retreated slowly, taking the Soul Crystal with him, and got onto a submarine at the beach. Soon enough, he had vanished into the depths of the ocean.
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Garen strode forth slowly, picking up speed as he went, going faster and faster.
All of a sudden, he did a forward flip. Psst psst psst!!
There were three consecutive hisses, and three robots on the island beneath him, each three meters tall, simply fell sideways, rendered completely useless. A large burst of sparks rose from each of them.
Boom boom boom!!
Three explosions.
Garen landed and continue to walk forward, military saber in hand.
There were corpses and remains all around him, shards and debris from tanks or even fighter jets littering the landscape. Flames, black smoke, and all sorts of vitrified craters had turned this new island into an utter and complete mess.
”White Crab Army. Don't you have any stronger opponents for me to face?!” Dissatisfied, Garen yanked up the last remaining bald man. The latter was the leader here and also the person in charge of the entire island. He was dressed in a white suit, and his bald head was almost shiny, so all in all, he would have usually looked like quite the strongman. Now that Garen was holding him up by the collar, however, he just looked weak and small, like a newborn chick.
”D-Don't kill me!!” the baldy pleaded, his face covered with tears and snot. The terror in his eyes spread uncontrollably to the rest of his face, leaving a strange and distorted impression on any onlookers.
”You're too weak…” Garen tossed him aside. When it came to people like this, he could not even be bothered to kill them.
Barroom!!!
To his surprise, however, the baldy only managed to fly several meters away before he abruptly exploded.
Horrifying green flames, accompanied with some spots of white light, exploded from that spot, instantly covering everything within a dozen meters of the center.
Garen's reaction was instant, and he immediately retreated, but it was still too late. The impact hit him head-on.
Pff!
He could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward.
”Damn, what is this!!” It never occurred to him that these self-destruct explosions were not controlled by the agents themselves, and in fact appeared to have nothing at all to do with their own intentions. They just exploded randomly, completely out of the blue.
He was hit head-on by this blast and was thrown back, flipping head over heels until he finally landed on the ground more than ten meters away. He rubbed the blood from the corner of his mouth angrily. After sustaining several injuries like that, even his powerful Vitality could not save him from vomiting blood.
”Why is it that the weaker guys have the stronger bombs!?”
Getting up from the ground, Garen looked around him. There was not a single thing left alive on the entire island, everything else had either escaped or died.