With the sound of the crystal ball shattering.
The sky cracked open.
Not as a figure of speech.
But literally cracked open.
The originally pitch-black night sky was torn open as if slashed by a red-hot blade.
Purple light.
That was high-concentration plasma.
Churning wildly behind the clouds.
The sea surface, which had just frozen over due to Fenrir's arrival, now emitted a teeth-grating "creaking" sound due to the sudden drop in air pressure.
A destructive aura locked onto this stretch of sea.
Qin Yu patted the dust off his hands.
Looking at the massive black warship in the distance.
The corners of his mouth curled up.
"Hey."
"You over there, white-hair."
"Did you bring a lightning rod?"
...
Fenrir stood on the bridge of the warship named [Ragnarok].
Silver hair flying.
He ignored Qin Yu's taunt.
Those gray pupils were fixed intently on a person on the deck of the [President].
That golden-haired woman holding a wrench, covered in grease, yet unable to conceal her heroic aura.
Elena.
Fenrir's fingers tightened on the railing.
Knuckles turning white.
The railing was made of special steel, yet it was directly imprinted with his fingerprints.
"Elena."
Fenrir spoke.
His voice wasn't loud.
But through the loudspeaker, it carried a chilling coldness.
"Long time no see."
"My... Valkyrie Captain."
Elena, who was adjusting the autocannon, stiffened abruptly upon hearing this voice.
The wrench in her hand clattered onto the deck.
She slowly raised her head.
Looking at the silver-haired man in the distance.
There was no joy of reunion in her eyes.
Only disgust.
And even a trace of... fear.
But soon.
She glanced at Qin Yu standing in front of her.
That trace of fear vanished.
Replaced by.
Bone-chilling hatred.
She picked up the wrench.
Pointing it at Fenrir.
Cursing in standard Chinese:
"Fenrir."
"You mad dog."
"Still not dead yet?"
Qin Yu was somewhat surprised.
He looked back at Elena.
"You know him?"
"Old flame?"
"Boss, don't disgust me."
Elena spat on the deck.
Looking thoroughly disgusted.
"He's one of Odin's most loyal dogs."
"A butcher responsible for cleaning up 'trash'."
"Back in the Nordic Zone."
"If anyone dared to speak half a word against Odin."
"The next day."
"Fenrir would hang that person's skin on the mast."
Li Ruobing frowned as she listened nearby.
"That perverted?"
"Not just perverted."
Elena sneered.
"He also likes to eat people."
"Literally eat."
Qin Yu raised an eyebrow.
His gaze toward Fenrir changed.
If before it was just the look for an enemy.
Now.
It was the look for trash.
"So he's a ghoul."
"No wonder his mouth stinks so much."
Fenrir didn't get angry from being cursed.
He was still staring at Elena.
A twisted smile appeared on his face.
"Mad dog is fine."
"Ghoul is fine too."
"Elena."
"You are Lord Odin's property."
"An asset of the Nordic Zone."
"Now."
"Lord Odin is dead."
"As his Successor."
"I have the right to reclaim all assets."
She reached out her hand.
Pointed at Elena.
"Will you swim over yourself?"
"Or shall I cut you into pieces and drag you over?"
"You think you're worthy?"
Before Elena could speak,
Qin Yu spoke first.
He dug at his ear.
Looking thoroughly impatient.
"I'm saying."
"You people who play the villain."
"Are you all missing a screw in your heads?"
"Each and every one of you loves to talk to yourselves."
"That's my person."
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Daring to poach right in front of me?"
Fenrir's gaze finally shifted to Qin Yu.
It was the look one gives a dead man.
"Qin Yu."
"I know you."
"A lucky yellow-skinned monkey."
"But luck."
"Is not strength."
Fenrir drew a long sword from his waist.
The blade was completely transparent.
As if forged from ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.
It emitted a white, chilling aura.
[Item: Frostmourne (Pseudo S-Class)]
[Trait: Extreme Cold Domain.]
"Hand over the 'Core' on you."
"And that sniper rifle."
"I might consider."
"Leaving your corpse intact."
"As for Elena..."
He licked his lips.
"Traitors."
"Must be purified."
"Just like the three thousand disobedient trash I purified."
"Before I came here."
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Three thousand?"
"To speed up the journey."
"You killed all those who were holding you back?"
"That is glory."
Fenrir's face was fanatical.
"To avenge Lord Odin."
"Their flesh and blood."
"Are the best fuel for this ship."
At that moment.
Solomon, who had been lying on the deck playing dead,
Suddenly cried out:
"Fenrir!!"
"I am Solomon!!"
"We had an agreement before!!"
"Save me!!"
"If you save me, I'll give you half the resources of the Middle East Zone!!"
Fenrir looked down.
Glanced at the bald man missing a leg.
And sneered.
"Trash."
"Can't even beat a newcomer."
"Keeping you alive is just a waste of air."
He raised the ice sword in his hand.
And swung it through the air.
"Crack!"
A visible white sword energy shot out.
Crossing hundreds of meters of sea.
And directly struck Solomon's other leg.
"Ahhhhh!!"
Solomon screamed again.
Now.
Both legs were severed.
"Shut up."
Fenrir said coldly.
"After I kill Qin Yu."
"I'll come for your Plunder Value."
This was the Wasteland.
No allies.
Only interests.
Qin Yu watched this scene.
And shook his head.
"Truly a fine show of dogs biting dogs."
"However."
"Since you're all gathered here."
"It saves me the trouble of hunting you down one by one."
Qin Yu raised his hand.
And pointed at the sky above, which had already turned purplish-black.
"What I said earlier."
"You didn't seem to take it in."
"Let me ask you."
"Did you bring a lightning rod?"
Fenrir frowned.
Instinctively looked up.
In that instant.
"BOOM!!"
A deafening roar, loud enough to shatter eardrums,
Exploded between heaven and earth.
This was no ordinary thunder.
This was the roar of the SSS-grade Item [Weather Control Device].
"Zzzzap—"
A bolt of purple lightning as thick as a bucket.
Struck down without warning.
Its target.
Was not the sea.
But Fenrir's massive, all-metal [Ragnarok]!
Metal conducts electricity.
This is the law of physics.
Even in the apocalypse.
Even if you have a system.
As long as you haven't reached the Rule-Class.
Physics.
Is your daddy.
"Defend!!"
Fenrir's expression changed drastically.
He sensed the terrifying energy contained within that lightning bolt.
The ice sword in his hand danced frantically.
Trying to Craft a layer of ice shield.
But ice.
Is also conductive!
Especially ice frozen from seawater!
"Boom!!"
The lightning struck precisely on the highest mast of the Ragnarok.
At that moment.
The entire black warship.
Turned into a massive glowing body.
"Zzzzzz—"
Electric current flowed along the mast.
Along the deck.
Instantly spreading to every corner of the ship's hull.
"Ahhhhh!!"
Inside the cabins.
On the deck.
Those Nordic pirates who came with Fenrir.
Didn't even have time to react.
Directly turned into charred corpses by the high-voltage electricity.
Not everyone possessed Fenrir's level of physical constitution.
"Damn it!!"
Fenrir's silver armor became his greatest burden at this moment.
Electric current surged through the armor into his body.
Electrocuting him until smoke rose from his entire being.
His hair stood on end.
"Activate the shields!!"
"Turn on all the Energy Cores!!"
He roared madly.
But this was only the beginning.
Qin Yu stood on the President.
This was the "eye" of the thunderstorm.
The absolute safe zone.
He watched the distant black ship "dancing" in the storm.
The smile on his face grew even brighter.
"Can't handle it already?"
"The main event is still to come."
"System."
"Increase the intensity for me."
"No need to hold back."
"Strike it."
"Strike it to death."
As Qin Yu's words fell.
The clouds in the sky completely boiled over.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Not just one bolt.
But countless.
Dense clusters of purple lightning.
Like a rain of light.
Cascaded down.
This stretch of sea.
Instantly became an ocean of electric plasma.
Those speedboat wreckages floating on the sea surface.
Those corpses that hadn't yet sunk.
All were blasted to pieces.
And as the largest metal conductor on the scene.
The Ragnarok bore eighty percent of the firepower.
Even though it was an S-Class Vehicle.
Even though it was thick-skinned and sturdy.
Under this calamity-level assault.
It began to buckle.
"Bang! Bang!"
Electronic equipment on the ship exploded one after another.
The Radar blew out.
The Fire control system was paralyzed.
Even the flag bearing the wolf's head design.
Was ignited by a bolt of lightning.
Burned to ashes.
"Qin Yu!!"
Amid the flames and electric light.
Came Fenrir's hysterical roar.
He was in an utterly wretched state.
His originally smooth silver hair was half scorched.
His face covered in black soot.
That armor he took such pride in.
Was also glowing red from the high heat.
As if being branded.
"I'll kill you!!"
"I will definitely kill you!!"
Fenrir was also a ruthless man.
In such a situation.
He actually made a crazy decision.
"Abandon ship!!"
He roared at his few remaining elite subordinates.
"Follow me and charge over!!"
"As long as we kill him!"
"This thunder will stop!!"
He kicked and shattered the railing beside him.
His entire body like a red-hot mad wolf.
Braving the sky full of thunderbolts.
Treading on the floating ice fragments on the sea surface.
He charged toward the President.
Extremely fast.
With each step he landed.
The ice beneath his feet would shatter.
And behind him.
Followed seven or eight equally agile figures.
That was the legacy left by Odin.
[Gods' Guard].
All A-Class Enhancers.
"Trying a decapitation strike?"
Qin Yu looked at the high-energy reaction points rapidly approaching on the radar.
He crushed the empty soda can in his hand.
And casually tossed it into the sea.
"Elena."
"Here!"
Elena had already picked up her weapon again.
It was a modified heavy-duty chainsaw.
The saw teeth were still stained with the flesh and blood of some unlucky soul.
In her eyes,
the fear from earlier was completely gone.
Only the flames of vengeance remained.
"That mad dog is coming."
Qin Yu pointed at Fenrir, who was charging across the ice.
"Do you want,"
"to personally send him to meet Odin?"
Elena pulled the chainsaw's engine.
"Vroom—!!"
The piercing motor sound roared to life.
"Nothing would please me more."
"Then go."
Qin Yu waved his hand.
As if shooing away a fly.
"That Fenrir is yours."
"As for the remaining trash."
"Ruo Bing."
"And Yao Qian."
"Take the Valkyries."
"Let them know."
"What the hospitality of the Huaxia Zone is like."
"Yes!!"
Li Ruobing had been itching for action.
She loaded a red drum magazine into her shotgun.
It was the one Qin Yu had given her earlier.
[High-Explosive Incendiary Shell].
"Sisters!!"
Li Ruobing stood at the bow of the ship.
Her long legs braced against the railing.
Her hot vest flapping loudly in the sea breeze.
"Someone wants to steal our man."
"Steal our ship."
"Do we agree?!"
"No!!"
Dozens of Valkyries behind her roared in unison.
Their momentum was overwhelming.
"Then let's fight!!"
"Turn these frozen hairtail from the north,"
"into grilled fish slices!!"
"Bang!!"
Li Ruobing fired first.
An incendiary shell exploded on the ice.
Directly blocking Fenrir and his group's advance route.
Immediately after,
dense gunfire erupted.
The [President] once again transformed into a steel porcupine on the sea.
Tongues of flame spat.
Bullets fell like rain.
And amidst the hail of bullets,
a golden figure,
wielding a massive chainsaw,
leapt down from the deck.
It was Elena.
She did not dodge.
Instead, she charged straight toward Fenrir.
"Fenrir!!"
"Your life is mine!!"
On the ice,
the two collided instantly.
"Clang!!"
Ice sword met chainsaw.
Sparks flew everywhere.
Though half-dead from the lightning strike,
Fenrir's S-Class foundation remained.
He glared viciously at Elena, who was now within arm's reach.
"Traitor!!"
"You're asking for death!!"
The icy sword in his hand radiated intense cold.
Attempting to freeze Elena's chainsaw.
But Elena didn't bother with technique at all.
She fought with a completely life-for-life style.
"I'll drag you down with me even if I die!!"
The chainsaw spun wildly.
Cutting through the ice layer.
Forcing Fenrir to retreat.
Qin Yu stood at a high point.
In no hurry to intervene.
This was a trial.
A trial for Elena.
To truly stand firm in this team.
To shake off the shadows of the past.
She had to cross this hurdle with her own hands.
"Go for it, former captain."
Qin Yu lit another cigarette.
Took a deep drag.
"If you can't even beat a stray dog,"
"then my rice,"
"was fed to you for nothing."
At that moment,
Solomon, who had been screaming on the deck,
seemed to feel he had been forgotten.
He stared at Qin Yu's back.
A flash of malice flickered in his eyes.
This toothless tiger,
even with a broken leg.
He still wanted to bite back.
He quietly pulled a black sphere from his chest.
That was his final trump card.
[Micro Poison Gas Grenade].
Once thrown.
Within a fifty-meter radius.
Nothing would survive.
"Go to hell!!"
Solomon mustered his last ounce of strength.
To hurl the poison gas grenade at Qin Yu.
However.
Just as his hand rose.
"Bang!"
A gunshot.
Not loud.
But crisp.
Solomon's wrist was instantly shattered.
The black sphere.
Tumbled and rolled right into his own lap.
"Wha..."
Solomon's eyes widened.
Staring at Yao Qian, who had appeared beside him unnoticed.
This girl who had been hiding in the back all along.
Seeming harmless and innocent.
Wearing White Silk Stockings.
Holding a tablet, looking like an otaku.
Now held a small pink pistol in her hand.
The barrel still smoking.
"Um..."
Yao Qian adjusted her glasses.
With a serious expression.
"Brother-in-law said."
"Littering."
"Is bad behavior."
"Especially."
"This kind of garbage that spews green smoke."
"Pfft—"
The safety on the poison gas grenade broke open.
Green poisonous gas.
Instantly billowed between Solomon's legs.
"No!!"
Solomon let out the most agonizing scream of his life.
But soon.
The screams turned into "gurgling" bubbles.
His face rapidly turned green.
Rotted.
Melted away.
A once-great overlord.
Ranked second in the Middle East Zone.
Just like that.
In front of a pair of White Silk Stockings.
Dissolved by his own poison gas grenade.
Qin Yu glanced back.
Exhaled a puff of smoke.
"Well done."
"Little sister-in-law."
"Your finishing move."
"Reminds me of my old self."
On the battlefield.
Thunder still roared.
The slaughter continued.
But the scales of victory.
Had already tipped completely.
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