All Chapters of War God Returns: Lein Ashford : Chapter 171
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Chapter 171
Lein looked down at Kazran kneeling on the asphalt for a few seconds.Then his hand moved, grabbing Kazran by the hair from above, and drove his face into the asphalt.SLAM.Kazran groaned. Blood appeared on his left forehead immediately.Lein did it again.SLAM.And again.SLAM.No expression on Lein's face. No anger breaking to the surface, no satisfaction on display. Just a motion repeated with a regularity that felt colder than any rage.Kazran's nose collapsed on the third impact. Blood soaked the asphalt beneath him, spreading wider every time his face was driven back down. His left cheekbone cracked. His brow split open. His front teeth broke and scattered among the red stains on the road surface.Behind Lein, Eiran stood without a word.And rather than flinching at the brutal scene in front of him, he smiled.Not a smile he had planned, not one he had allowed, but one that surfaced on its own from a place that had been holding too much for the past three days. His father and m
Chapter 172
The black Jeep pulled away from the area where the fight had taken place, moving through streets that grew narrower as they headed east.East Dreskhar was different from the city center. No tall buildings, no wide main roads. What it had were winding alleys too narrow for two vehicles to pass each other, open drains along the roadside with water that was never clear, laundry hanging between houses pressed so close together it was as if there had never been enough room for everyone living here. Rusted tin roofs, unplastered brick walls peeling in patches, small warung stalls with plastic tarpaulins faded from long use.Children ran barefoot through the alleys. An old woman sold fried cassava over a kerosene stove in front of her house. The smell of drains and wood smoke mixed into something that only existed in places like this.Eiran gave directions from the passenger seat, occasionally saying left or straight at intersections that had no signs.Until finally he said, "Stop here, sir.
Chapter 173
The Jeep moved along a wider road now, leaving East Dreskhar and entering more open terrain. On both sides, large trees alternated with untended fields, occasionally broken up by old buildings that had been empty for a long time.Eiran sat with the brown envelope in his lap, his fingers wrapped around it the way someone holds something they don't want to let go of, something that had been kept at too high a price. His eyes were on the road ahead, but his thoughts were clearly somewhere else already. The government headquarters. The documents reaching the right hands. His father's dying wish fulfilled.Not much further now.Lein held the steering wheel with one hand, eyes tracking the road ahead in a way that had long become second nature. Nothing different from a few minutes ago. Steady speed. Safe distance from other vehicles.But then something changed.Not a sound. Not a movement in the rearview mirror. Not something that could be explained with simple logic.Just an instinct ringi
Chapter 174
A few moments earlier, inside the cockpit of the first fighter jet.The instruments in front of the pilot showed precise numbers. Altitude, speed, distance to target. All within perfect parameters.The black Jeep below was locked. The red box on his targeting display wasn't moving."Jet Two, target locked on your end?""Confirmed. Ready to fire.""Fire!"Two missiles broke free almost simultaneously, thin trails of smoke splitting the air beneath both jets toward the same point.The pilot counted in his head. Three seconds. Two. One.But his eyes caught something that shouldn't have happened.The passenger door of the Jeep swung open. Two bodies came out of the still-moving vehicle, launching sideways off the road.Half a second later, the explosion swallowed the Jeep completely.The pilot blinked once, twice, making sure what he had just seen wasn't a shadow or an artifact on his visor.His hand pressed the communication button."Base, this is Eagle One. Emergency report. Both target
Chapter 175
A few moments earlier, above the skies of Dreskhar.Lein stood on the left wing of the fighter jet with both feet that didn't shift even though the wind at this altitude was not the kind that could be ignored. Below him, the city of Dreskhar spread out like an untidy map, roads and rooftops and fields shrinking into small details.In front of him, behind the cockpit glass that reflected the afternoon light, the pilot stared at him with an expression that couldn't be called calm.Lein stared back.If this were a different situation, there were questions that could be pulled from this pilot. Who had sent them. Where the orders had come from. How large the operation was behind all of this.But Eiran already had the documents. The evidence was already there, wrapped in a brown envelope kept with the lives of two parents who never got to see their child grow up. There was nothing to interrogate here.His right hand rose. Spiritual energy flowed from his center to his palm, building in a ma
Chapter 176
Arcturus Continental Government Headquarters, Dreskhar City.The building stood on a quiet street corner, five stories tall with a concrete facade that was old enough to look ordinary and well-maintained enough not to look abandoned. No large sign on the outer wall. No military vehicles parked out front. Nothing to suggest this was anything other than an administrative office no one needed to visit.Eiran looked at the building with an expression that made no effort to hide his confusion."Is this really the place, sir?""Yes. This is it."Lein walked toward the iron gate on the right side of the building. On the gate post was an unobtrusive panel, its surface a dark matte that blended into the color of the post and was invisible unless you were standing close to it. No screen, no button. Just a surface that waited.Lein placed his thumb on it.Three seconds. No light came on, no sound was heard.Then the gate swung inward, slow and silent, like something that had been waiting."Let's
Chapter 177
The lobby of the headquarters didn't return to its normal rhythm after the division head left.Nobody moved back to their positions. No small conversations in the corners of the room. The agents who had been standing in line were still at their posts, but differently from before. Stiffer, more alert, as if everyone in the room could feel something heavy hanging in the air even though not one of them knew exactly what it was.What they knew was just one thing.Lein Ashford, the Destroyer Devil, was sitting in the corner of the lobby with an expression none of them had ever seen on him before. Not the usual calm he always carried. This was different. Colder, deeper, the kind of expression that made the people around him instinctively keep their distance and lower their voices without anyone telling them to.Lein sat with his back straight, hands resting on his knees, staring at a point that didn't exist on the floor in front of him.He was waiting for General Thaddeus Voss's response.E
Chapter 178
"There's important news, General." Orlan didn't waste any time. "Rael Caldwell, one of our best researchers, has fallen in the line of duty. Before he went down, his son managed to escape carrying the documents his father had gathered over months. Those documents reveal something we can't handle at the division level." Orlan paused briefly. "And you should know that Eiran Caldwell, Rael's son, arrived in Dreskhar accompanied by Omega-1. I've already sent the documents to you, General. Please read them."Silence on the other side of the screen.Omega-1? Lein Ashford?If this situation involved him, it wasn't simple.Thaddeus Voss, the highest-ranking General of the Arcturus Continent, looked down at another screen outside the camera's view. His eyes moved quickly across the text.Orlan waited.The expression on Thaddeus's face changed slowly. From curious, to stunned, then finally to something far deeper than simple anger.SLAM.A loud sound filled the speaker. The surface of the desk
Chapter 179
Somewhere on the Karvhos Continent.The waterfall had no name on any map. Not because it didn't deserve one, but because nobody had ever been brave enough to get close to it.Its flow dropped from a height that had been grinding the rocks below into gravel for thousands of years. The sound it made wasn't a babble but a continuous roar, the kind that filled both ears and chest at once, making ordinary conversation impossible within a twenty-meter radius.And beneath the most powerful part of that current, a man sat cross-legged.His body was large in a way that went beyond simply being tall or muscular. More like someone made of something denser than an ordinary person, shoulders nearly twice the width of an average man, a neck that merged directly into those shoulders without any clear distinction, hands that when closed into fists were the size of an adult's head. Across his chest and stomach, a large crossing scar ran from upper left to lower right, a mark that had never faded becau
Chapter 180
Two days later, above the Velthar Ocean.From above, the Arcturus Continent's fleet looked like a shadow moving across the surface of the sea, a shadow too large to ignore and too organized to be called anything but deliberate.On the water, twenty warships moved in a perfect V formation, their bows cutting through the waves at a speed that didn't match their size. Between those ships, submarines moved beneath the surface, periscopes rising occasionally then disappearing again. On land, convoys of armored vehicles moved from three different directions toward the Varek border, the newest tanks trailing engine exhaust into the morning air.And in the sky, more than two hundred fighter jets flew in neat rows, their engines roaring in unison and creating a sound that could be felt in the chest even from a considerable distance.More than ten thousand people. Elite among the elite. The most trained, most experienced, most prepared forces the Arcturus Continent had ever sent in a single ope