To close the gap with someone as fast as Fergus, he couldn’t afford to race in speed. That was futile. It was like trying to outsmart the smartest kid in class. The only solution was to slow Fergus down, make him "dumber.” and then win through slowness and experience—like a tortoise overcoming a hare.To counter Fergus effectively, Memphis had three strategies.The first was to maintain as much distance as possible. This strategy involved using the Ice Phantom skill, but Ice Phantom was a limited-use ability. Starting the battle, Memphis had only eight uses remaining, once they were depleted, it would be game over.Thus, he needed to consider the second strategy: dismantling his opponent's speed. Since the start of the battle, Memphis had been darting from east to west, ostensibly to evade attacks, but his larger purpose was to spread frost throughout the battlefield.Ice Poison was an incredibly effective speed-diminishing skill. Every time an opponent was affected by the frost poiso

Memphis raised his hand and then let it fall, his gaze serious as he took a deep breath and stepped back. He decided not to attack any longer.On both ends of the bridge, the soldiers on each side held their breath in anticipation, cold sweat running down their backs. The battle between Jackman and Clark had lasted less than a minute. Neither of their fighting styles was flashy or dazzling, yet the intensity and danger were far beyond the previous battle. Though they weren't directly affected by the aftermath, the stronger one could still feel the terrifying pressure emanating from the two figures. Any move made by either one was enough to destroy them all.No, it was enough to destroy everyone.On the eastern shore, Zared stared intently at the area of combat, his hand clenching into a fist. He had thought Fergus could easily defeat anyone from the Renaissance side, but the fact that the battle had become so evenly matched was beyond his expectations."The distance to the rear is too

In the moment of life and death, Wallflower suddenly overcame her usual cowardice and decided to charge forward to block the attack. A 4-meter-wide layer of purple Light Armor was immediately summoned. The terrifying blade energy, which could destroy everything in the blink of an eye, hit the armor, but it could not tear it apart, only forcing the Light Armor to deflate like a deflating balloon. The power of a full-force blow from an Evolved Being was immeasurable. However, the blade energy was too vast, too enormous. The Light Armor summoned by Wallflower could only block half of the energy. The remaining half still sliced through, cutting down dozens of people behind her, hundreds of tiny blade energies being released, pouring down as if to slaughter all the high-ranking members there. Last Updated : 2024-12-16

On the eastern shore, standing amidst the teeming crowd, Verne quietly swallowed hard and muttered a few words of "to the death" in unison, while the expressions of most of the other leaders were exceedingly grim. The effect of the earlier propaganda compared to the current one was vastly different—even their own soldiers were beginning to waver.Memphis, standing at the forefront, waited for the fervent shouting to subside before raising his voice again through the loudspeaker:"We have poured all our efforts and abilities into proving to you that we are entirely innocent. Everyone has seen that we are incapable of carrying out any acts of terrorism, let alone possessing the motive to commit such despicable deeds.""Yet! The harder we try to prove ourselves, the more some among you strive to deny it, the more they seek to reject this truth. The more we wish for peaceful negotiations and cooperation, the more these people grow aggressive and belligerent, determined to block any attemp

Before the apocalypse, the country of T had once resorted to tanks to suppress tens of thousands of student protesters—students who were easily swayed by lofty ideals, fighting without fear until their deaths. The residents of Hope Town now mirrored this, wholly chasing after the "hope" being proclaimed and discarding the rule of law. Step by step, they’d forgotten the order of the past, and anyone challenging it would face violent resistance.With the apocalypse looming, conditions for this manipulation became even easier to meet, and the environment for cultivating rebellion even more favorable. Renaissance Base, with its mere thousand residents, had more than enough resources to use as bait in the early stages, to train a group of people willing to fight to madness. The absence of government intervention allowed this plan to progress smoothly.And now, over a thousand residents on the western bank of Grieving River were fully brainwashed, entirely turned against the government, and