Chapter 418 - 378: Collapse at First Touch

Chapter 418: Chapter 378: Collapse at First Touch

"I see..."

"Everyone in the manor has gone into hiding," Yelena said, two Ice Swords already coalescing in her hands.

Her eyes turned cold and merciless, devoid of any pity. "I will eliminate these traitors with my own hands."

Shi Jingyi and Shangyuan Zi exchanged a glance.

Shi Jingyi said, "So the ones at the gate are the enemy. Leave them to me. Fifteen minutes will be enough."

"Lecturer Jingyi, I’m going with you. As the Governor of this nation, I cannot retreat now."

Seeing Yelena’s firm resolve, neither Shi Jingyi nor Shangyuan Zi said another word.

The three of them descended from the attic. On their way to the main gate, Shi Jingyi took out the Bystander Transformation Device and used it, changing her appearance to that of a plain-looking woman in her thirties.

Just as Guan Tong had said, it was one thing for her to help of her own accord, but her status as an academy lecturer made it inappropriate for her to be seen participating in Sisiya’s internal political turmoil. It was necessary to use a disguise.

When the three of them reached the spacious driveway before the manor’s main gate, they found it had already been destroyed by the agents.

Valery led over a hundred agents swarming in. Seeing Yelena not far ahead, flanked only by two plain-looking women, he burst out laughing with delight.

"Hahaha! Governor, it seems your famous friend can’t spare the time to help you now!"

"Valery, you should be prepared to pay the price for treason."

Valery’s expression stiffened, and his face slowly darkened. "Konia, I was willing to play along for a few more days. But you just had to go and let Shadow mess with my data. That means we drop the act. As for a death sentence... Heh, I don’t think I’m the one who’s going to die today. It’s you, Governor. Are you ready to be a figurehead?"

Yelena ignored Valery, her gaze sweeping past him to the hundred-plus elite agents at his back.

"Valery cannot escape death for his crimes. If you stand down now, I will not charge you with treason."

The agents met her words with silence. Valery’s second-in-command sneered, "Damned bitch. Facing death and you’re still trying to win us over? You really think that pretty face of yours is—"

Before he could finish, the thirty-something woman beside Yelena vanished, only to reappear right in front of him the next second.

"Such a filthy mouth. You’re in need of discipline."

"You—!"

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The second-in-command had no time to react before Shi Jingyi kicked him square in the chest. Accompanied by a series of bone-shattering cracks, his body flew twenty to thirty meters backward, slamming onto the ground, his condition unknown.

Valery and his agents were stunned. None of them had seen how Shi Jingyi had so suddenly appeared. ’How could she be so terrifyingly fast!’

"Kill her! Kill her!"

At Valery’s command, the hundred agents charged. They were all professionally trained combatants and powerful Ascenders in their own right. Yet, against Shi Jingyi, they were like wooden dummies, easily kicked and thrown aside without ever managing to touch the hem of her clothes.

In the most stunning display, a single punch from Shi Jingyi sent a dozen agents standing in a row flying, all of them spitting blood as they crashed to the ground, unable to rise.

’Vibration Vein Burst... The first field test of the Mind Martial Technique is certainly proving effective.’

As Shi Jingyi had this thought, Shangyuan Zi and Yelena joined the fray.

Shi Jingyi’s blows were heavy, but her targets were left severely injured, not dead. Shangyuan Zi and Yelena were different—they fought to kill.

Yelena was especially deadly with her two sharp Ice Swords. Any agent struck by them was instantly dismembered. Even a near miss was fatal, as the frigid aura radiating from the blades would rapidly freeze a man into an ice sculpture.

Shangyuan Zi was even more terrifying. Her fighting style was bizarre; agents who met her gaze either went mad or had their bodies twist into monstrous Snake People, scaring the other agents half to death.

Valery found it impossible to accept that his contingent of over one hundred agents was being so swiftly and utterly routed by just three women.

He didn’t know where the two women with Yelena came from or why they were so powerful, but he knew he was no match for them.

"Damn it... Just you wait!"

Valery pulled out a Teleportation Item, intending to flee, but before he could activate it, Shi Jingyi, who was some distance away, pushed off the ground. Using the Mind Martial Technique, Repulsive Extreme Step, she was before him in the blink of an eye.

THUMP!

Shi Jingyi’s kick shattered Valery’s right hand, the one holding the device. The item flew from his grasp as he cried out in pain, and in the next instant, Yelena was upon him with her Ice Sword.

"Wait, wait!" Valery raised his left hand to fend her off, pleading, "Don’t kill me! I’ll tell you who the others are—"

SHLICK!!

Yelena paid no heed to Valery’s words. She thrust her twin swords forward—one through his chest, the other through his throat.