Chapter 846 - 716: Quint

The BETA cluster of the Light Beam Level was soon efficiently cleared by the tightly coordinated Mechanical War Thunder team. The mountain of corpses slowly melted away, with all sorts of dirty blood seeping into the brick cracks, disappearing without a trace.

"I haven’t even exerted my strength, and they’re already down."

Blood Lion Roar poked his head out from the driver’s seat of the big truck, gave a thumbs-up to his companions, and then waved toward the stands, "See you in the lower hell."

"See you at the bottom."

Blood Lion Roar was straightforward and well-liked. Amid the sporadic whistles and applause from the audience, the ground in the center of the Colosseum tore open, revealing a lower pit full of black rocks.

The path ahead had already been explored by players; Blood Lion Roar showed no fear, driving the big truck with four mechas into the pit.

Crack, crack, crack——

The cracks in the Colosseum self-repaired, and everything returned to its ancient and worn-out appearance.

"Next up is..."

Gray Rain looked around, expecting someone to eagerly jump into the Colosseum, yet everyone seemed like their asses were welded to their seats. Many people even took out calculators, silently calculating.

"Hmm? What are these people calculating?"

"Probably the share of killings."

Li Jineng guessed what these people were thinking. The [Mechanical War Thunder] guild’s main competitiveness lay in mecha manufacturing, leasing, and pilot training,

Most of its members loved mecha sci-fi animation, ranging from teenagers to people in their sixties (the earliest [Demon God Z] was released in the 1970s, and Guillermo del Toro, who directed [Pacific Rim] at 61, is a big robot animation fan).

From the crowd’s demographics, [Mechanical War Thunder] members weren’t that insane, committed relatively fewer killings, which could be seen from the past strategy videos of Blood Lion Roar and Hansel, who basically wouldn’t kill the innocent.

Interestingly, members of the guilds from America and Africa looked pained, but they weren’t exactly good people.

Several players wearing Whale Song badges on their chests also didn’t dare to act rashly, whispering among themselves.

Today, Whale Song is vast and complex, with members of extreme diversity,

The Stack Soldier, Black Trojan Horse, Sunset Melting Gold, and others Li Cheng knew belonged to the IT nerd faction, who liked to play games and tinker with hardware in their spare time.

Apart from the IT nerds, there were traditionalists — their master origin from John von Neumann, and average bald head;

Classicists — their master origin from Turing, and average cross-dressing complexities;

Adventists — who believe that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) will inevitably overpower human civilization;

Accelerationalists — advocating for AI robots to replace human labor, AI machinery to replace military and police, and programmers to govern society and become upper-class people;

Digital Life-pushers — believing that since players are going to die anyway, why not copy consciousness and upload to the digital world to enjoy;

Such and the like, too numerous to mention.

Classic traditionalists and digital life-pushers probably wouldn’t kill the innocent, but Adventists and Accelerationalists are questionable,

Among these people, there are plenty who truly see themselves as a higher evolution of humanity, qualified to rule over all fools, and would erase the opposition’s human status.

All are deliberately evil, ten Close Combat Transcendents combined don’t match the destructive power of a Whale Song player with ill intent.

"There’s no one left, so we prepare..."

Just as Li Cheng was about to call Gray Rain to jump into the field, a tall figure in the front two rows abruptly stood up.

Dressed in a loose white robe with red trimmings and tight-fitting clothes underneath, their neck lacked a visible head, with a fish tank swirling with blue luminous fluid on top.

Evil Science Alliance, Level 33, game ID [Heart Stealing Leader·Ω], pronounced Omega.

"Why him?"

"He dares to enter the field?"

The audience discussed fervently, related information also surfaced in Li Cheng’s mind.

Inside the Evil Science Alliance, Ω is a soul research expert and had published a series of scientific papers, such as "Difference between Soul and Afterlife: A Cultural Perspective from European Countries and Predictive Factors Investigation," "Physical Definition of Self: Spontaneous Soul Aggregation Effect in Clones," and others,

holding numerous technological patents related to souls.

The soul storage device read as "Human Emperor Banner," but written as "Ten Thousand Souls Banner";

The sports drink "666" mixed with 0.1% pieces of evil spirit souls, capable of slowly replenishing Sanity Value has a refreshing, intense taste;

The "Soul Shaping Gun" that extracts souls from advanced mammals (such as pigs, dogs, and horses), crushes and reshapes them, transporting the awakened to the clone’s body.

With these technological patents, Ω amassed enormous wealth early on. However, his low-profile personality leaves no one knowing what lies beneath the fish tank helmet nor whether he’s even human,

Common members of the Evil Science Alliance could only occasionally encounter him at academic conferences, high-end forums, and charity banquets.

Ironically enough, due to his deep research in the soul domain and numerous technological patents, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner is extremely popular on the black market,

Ω is also humorously dubbed as "one of the Evil Science Alliance scientists who killed the most humans,"

much like Thomas Midgley Jr. (the inventor of tetraethyl lead and Freon),

What Fritz Haber (who led the development of chlorine and mustard gas),

What Nobel, what Maxim, what Oppenheimer,

Their inventions at most kill millions, tens of millions, while the Ten Thousand Souls Banner improved by Omega, allows players to harvest souls en masse across all heavens and myriads of worlds,

KDA rivals Queen Victoria, needing to be counted in billions.

Oppenheimer: "I am now Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Omega: "Little brother, don’t make me laugh."

Its infamous reputation can stop children from crying at night. Along the way, players, including those from Whale Song’s acceleration faction, step aside to let Omega drift down to the Beast Fighting Arena.

Whoosh!

Just like the Mechanical War Thunder folks earlier, a black cloud immediately appeared above Omega’s head.

"This is manageable."

Gray Rain squinted into the distance, "The diameter of the black cloud is only slightly larger than Blood Lion Roar’s, could it be that assists don’t count for KDA?"

No sooner had they spoken, the next moment, the black cloud in the sky enlarged suddenly, covering the entire Beast Fighting Arena sky. The dark cloud rotated slowly around the center, unexpectedly forming a typhoon-eye-like hollow structure.

"Damn!"

"Damn damn!"

The audience’s exclamations were all drowned out by the dull thunder, and the black cloud hung low, hesitating to form a monster.

Omega’s killing intent is so high that even Killing Sin Hell hesitates, unsure what opponent to generate for him.

Hundred-armed Titan? No, too weak.

Legendary Ancient Dragon? Not good, still too weak.

The black cloud squirmed and deformed, while Omega calmly retrieved various scientific instruments from space items, showing no fear.

Finally, the black cloud took shape, turning into an... an...

Beyond words to describe, if one must, it is about 50 meters tall, composed of multiple overlapping wheels made up of hundreds of eyes, large and small.

The eye-wheels overlap each other, with a large eye suspended in the center, its eye deep blue and dark green.

The audience stared, some players who feared being caught in the crossfire froze in place as they tried to flee.

Players familiar with religious texts knew this was the embodiment of the sitting angel Ophanim from Ezekiel’s Bible.

Its eeriness rivals that of Cthulhu mythos’ evil god’s kin, no wonder in Bible stories, angels always start with "Don’t be afraid, child."

Buzz—

The sitting angel floated up, looking down at Omega from above, whose red robe fluttered, unable to resist, and kneeling under the invisible pressure.

The mere aftershock reaching the audience made players’ hearts miss several beats.

’Even stronger than Cold God’s aura by half a bit...’

Li Cheng squinted his eyes, instantly understanding why Omega placed so many scientific detection instruments.

His KDA had maxed out, killing intent couldn’t increase any further, yet the image generated by Killing Sin Hell was still only Level 38, Level 39 tier.

It’s proof that it’s not that Killing Sin Hell doesn’t want to, but it’s unable to.

Although even at Level 38, 39, it was still beyond Omega’s capability to withstand. Moreover, there’s Order Side’s attribute counter to Chaos Side.

The sitting angel’s eye-wheels spun faster and faster, as Omega leaned forward, pressured down to the ground, seeming to hear "Guilty! Guilty!" overlapping shouts, as his fish-tank helmet showed ice crack patterns.

At the last minute, Omega’s gloved hand struggled to pull out two stacks of cards, "Want a round of Gwent?"

The next instant, the sitting angel stopped its wheel rotation, paused for a full minute, then gradually descended, using invisible power to take a stack of cards from Omega’s hand, posing ready to play cards.

[Item Name: Friendship Gwent Card]

[Type: Universal]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Don’t pout anymore. When used on a single target, invites the opponent to play cards, greatly reducing their hostility value. If hostility value drops to negative, initiates a card game up to 10 minutes]

[Consumption: 88 points of Spiritual Power Value]

[Cooling Time: 7 hours]

[Use Conditions: Master 20+ types of card games, maintain a win rate above 55%]

[Note: During the card game, any attack, or being attacked, will interrupt the game, significantly increasing hostility value. Once the game begins, the opponent automatically understands Gwent gameplay. Winning the match has no effect, the loser loses 10 game currency]

[Note: "I am the husband and father who destroyed my family’s voice! Let’s go get Anna back now, or I’ll hang myself for you!" "Want to play Gwent?" "Great! No one in Velen can beat me!"]