Chapter Ninety-Two: Ten Energy Levels

Even this alone was already more than enough to strain Adonssa to the limit.

Within the Tree of the Dead, it continuously generated colossal neural matrices, built immense computational models, and prevented the Poison Serpent from discovering the patterns behind the interdimensional killing array, steering it toward false directions. This had already consumed all of its strength. Only a sliver of its calculating power remained, just enough to convey the crisis to the outside world and draw more support from its splinter bodies.

Zhang Liaoyuan had no choice but to take the risk and join the battlefield, dragging his just-recovered body into a savage struggle with the Poison Serpent.

Even with Adonssa’s coordination, and even with the ever-shifting interdimensional killing array on his side, Zhang Liaoyuan was still at a crushing disadvantage. The indestructible body he had once been so proud of was almost worthless before the Poison Serpent.

Part of this was because he had not yet adapted to his new body. More importantly, he had willingly handed over his absolute rigid body to the Poison Serpent.

Now Zhang Liaoyuan, who had once relied on his indestructible body to dominate the world, had to rack his brains over how to break the enemy’s absolute rigid body.

Adonssa spoke again, slowly. “Three days. I need three days to prepare for the final battle. We must hold out.”

Zhang Liaoyuan replied coldly, “My martial will is far too poorly matched to this body. It may collapse in as little as three hours.”

Adonssa pondered for a moment, then shared the data from Lin Jicang’s body with him.

“He is a rare case of symbiosis between the Black Death Emperor and a human. You can use him as a reference.”

After a brief silence, Zhang Liaoyuan said, “Three days. We can only trap it for three days.”

He did not ask Adonssa what method it would use, because the moment he summoned the Poison Serpent, he had already prepared to pay any price to destroy it.

Even if the land were scorched for a thousand miles, even if living beings were slaughtered by the millions, as a Pulse Adept he would absolutely use his pride to annihilate this monster that had fed on Pulse Adepts for millennia.

And the warning-roused Nanhai City, Adonssa’s true nest, also began an unprecedented mobilization.

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“What exactly happened?” Helena asked.

She had noticed the sudden movements of the splinter bodies at once, and thus the question.

Adonssa said, “Something very troublesome has awakened. I have to gather all my strength to destroy it. Ordinary attacks will not work at all.”

Helena’s power might have played a decisive role, but first, her knowledge and strength were both precious; second, Adonssa was deeply worried that if Helena were to devour the Poison Serpent, she might grow in an instant to a level it could no longer control.

So this was its war, and no one else could interfere.

A sky-darkening swarm of alien birds spread like black clouds over the city, then suddenly scattered in all directions, flying off toward unknown destinations.

The military, which had been closely monitoring the upheaval in Nanhai City, immediately issued the highest-level alarm.

They kept broadcasting final warning signals, ordering Adonssa to cease all unnecessary activity and submit obediently to investigation.

Adonssa responded with utter indifference and continued its own operations.

Within only half a day, Adonssa’s army had raided more than a dozen advanced production facilities, seized a large quantity of strategic materials that could not be bought even with money, and flown them to the banks of the Witch River.

The supreme commander of the military base desperately sought permission from his superiors to launch an attack, but the request sank without a trace.

Because Adonssa, bearing Zhang Liaoyuan’s orders, had already commanded Zhang Liaoyuan’s followers to seize the central government officials with overwhelming force, crippling Tianjing Nation’s command system and leaving it half-paralyzed, thereby providing Adonssa with the greatest possible convenience.

After devouring the Black Death Emperor, Adonssa was transforming from moment to moment. The genetic treasury accumulated by the Black Death Emperor over one hundred thousand years was being continuously excavated and brought into optimal use.

The Black Death Emperor’s solid foundation, combined with Adonssa’s modern, industrialized way of thinking, unleashed power several times greater than before. The splinter bodies made enormous gains in toughness, strength, speed, and endurance.

Without this transformation, Adonssa’s splinter bodies would never have been able to carry out such long-distance plundering and transport in so short a time.

Adonssa began expanding without restraint, mobilizing a wide array of commercial, parasitic, and violent methods to call in large numbers of transport aircraft to assist with the hauling.

It even resorted to any means necessary to parasitize the principal shareholders of several conglomerates, forcibly acquire a number of major research institutes, and half-bribe, half-coerce elite physicists into working.

All the trees around the Witch River were cut down, the ground leveled, the foundations compacted, and one massive building after another rose from the earth, so fast it was like watching a construction simulation game in a browser. Every witness stared in stunned disbelief.

Their abysmal labor efficiency greatly displeased Adonssa, which then carried out forceful devouring and modification, drastically improving their productivity while also planting numerous hidden dangers.

But by now, after devouring the Black Death Emperor, Adonssa’s bloodline codex had expanded to more than two million gene sets, and it had already acquired a rudimentary ability to contend with modern society.

Whether infiltration, assassination, parasitic control, or the use of infrasound and biological weapons to destroy modern armies, all of it was extraordinarily efficient. The only beings qualified to be its enemies were the transcendent ones.

As long as it could survive this crisis, the whole of Tianjing Nation would be in its grasp, and even the entire world would be within reach.

When the final measure mentioned by Weng Dongqi was activated, the nuclear missile silos slowly rose, and several small nuclear warheads with a hundred-ton yield entered the ignition sequence.

Then, at that very moment, all three hundred operators within a one-kilometer radius centered on the silos suddenly went black before their eyes and lost their sight.

Two words appeared before each of them.

Stop.

In the eyes of those who had been deprived of sight, the same halo shimmered, like the pattern on fine porcelain.

His name was Aniel, and his ability was shared vision. After being reborn by Adonssa in the previous battle, the range of his power had greatly expanded. He could even deprive others of their sight or read through their vision. He had been sent to stop the nuclear launch.

Upon learning of all this, the general slammed his hand on the table. “Who is sabotaging this? This is the highest military order. No delay is permitted!”

A communications officer shouted, “There are words appearing before me!”

The general froze, then immediately said, “Read them.”

The communications officer stammered, “Nuclear weapons are useless against the enemy. Instead, you will only disrupt my plans. Quietly waiting for the result is your only function. Otherwise, I do not mind dealing with you first.”

Hearing Adonssa’s words, the general instead calmed down.

“I am a soldier of Tianjing Nation. I will not obey a monster like you!”

A document suddenly uploaded onto the computer in front of the general.

“This is an authorization file from the central government of Tianjing Nation.”

There was no doubt that the file’s origin was improper, but at least in procedural terms, it was unquestionably a genuine order.

The general’s expression turned complicated. Clenching his teeth, he said, “Abort... the launch!”

Time passed minute by minute. In the blink of an eye, three days had come and gone. Unbeknownst to most, the fate of humanity reached a turning point.