Lesoto’s heart turned ice-cold as he realized that the rumbling thunder he heard was the sound of the fracturing mountain peak falling first, while its terminal velocity at the end reached a terrifying extreme!
No matter if they were prepared or not, it was too late!
In his superhuman dynamic vision, the scene before him unfolded like bullet time, frame by frame in slow motion…
The hard, rugged rock body crushed inch by inch over the ornate reliefs adorning the ancient building’s exterior walls. Whether marble bricks or plaster panels, they all shattered like cookies and erupted into the air…
Colored glass exploded and collided with each other, breaking into smaller particles that scattered through the sky, as if sprinkling a handful of multicolored gems in the sunlight…
The simultaneous snapping of all the load-bearing columns produced an explosive crack, like the brittle ring transmitted into his skull when one’s own spine was snapped. This was followed by a majestic collapse, like the demolition of a crumbling tower, reducing everything to rubble and dust, sending Lesoto’s heart plummeting into the abyss…
“Ah——!”
Lesoto let out a desperate shout forward. In the next moment, the shockwave propelled shattered stones and dust toward him like a massive wave!
Boom——!
Lesoto was sent tumbling repeatedly, the dust rising to twenty or thirty meters in the air before pattering back down.
The smog obscured everything; nothing was visible.
In the dead silence where even wails could not be heard, only the faint sound of dust trickling down the ruins remained.
“No! No! No!”
As soon as the storm subsided, Lesoto leaped up from the thick layer of dust, shouting urgently as he dashed forward along the kilometer-wide radial crater blasted into the ground by the fallen peak!
He rushed to the edge of the broken peak, digging his fingers into the soil, desperately excavating.
Though his immense strength could lift several tons of rock, in the face of nature’s might, it was like an ant shaking a tree—laughable and futile.
Even without this mountain, digging open the church ruins by hand would have been impossible.
After digging for a while, Lesoto bulged his eyes, took several deep breaths, and forced himself to calm down. Forget it; there was no saving them.
As long as the family secret chamber and the Ancestor Cassock remained, heirs were irrelevant. Twenty years to produce a batch, and another twenty for exponential growth.
Moreover, the ‘Tombstone’ and ‘Forktail’ transcendent squads were dispersed elsewhere, and neither Yedu nor White Pearl was here. The losses weren’t as severe as imagined.
Sweat dissolved the dust, trickling down his contorted face like melted wax. Lesoto rasped to himself:
“A single loli… how could she launch… an attack of this magnitude…”
Suddenly, he remembered that Ashley had a family name—she was a member of the Jenkins Family!
He never would have thought that a surname without heritage, obscure in history and as common as dirt, from a petty family acting like a band of stupid thieves, would be the mastermind behind this assault!
Lesoto had once heard tales of the Jenkins Family’s madness and eccentricity but dismissed them. Now, it seemed even the least afflicted among these lunatics posed enormous danger!
He racked his brain trying to recall the origin of this conflict, how they had provoked this madwoman.
But no matter how he strained, he couldn’t comprehend a lunatic’s thought process. The hazard management team had investigated clearly: Ashley had initially sought medical aid under the pretense of being Yinsu Helin’s friend. By their second meeting, they had become true friends, even willing to go to war against two Blood Noble families!
Had she acted her way into real feelings?
The mad ones were truly insane.
Lesoto looked around blankly, utterly lost on what to do next. Suddenly, a graceful silhouette emerged ethereally from the mist.
The newcomer was a girl of unearthly beauty, with a pristine face, refined features, her hair and shoulders dusted by fine sand, like a mysterious traveler arriving at a remote frontier town after a long journey.
“Who goes there?!” Lesoto roared.
“Xixi Sacharia.”
Though unnecessary, Xixi still gave her name.
She didn’t spare a glance at the ruins of the fallen peak, for the tactical objective from start to finish was only one: the patriarch of the Scripps Family—Lesoto!
To deal a heavy blow to the enemy, eliminate the chief villain!
“Was this your doing?! Answer me! Speak! Or I’ll make you wish for death!”
Lesoto raged like a madman, roaring hoarsely as circles of violently oscillating black light emanated from his body! All the ancestral skulls surged with terrifying auras, as if coming alive. Evil wills spread through the world, waves of psychic pulses blooming in the air like a storm ravaging, with ghosts and gods howling!
“Playing with corpses in front of me?”
The girl elegantly extended her arm, her pale fingers blooming like petals in a beautiful pose, yet performing a savage act of seizure!
“God’s Palette”!
The eleven exquisite crystal skulls first melted into liquid clusters, then their smooth, transparent boundaries burst apart, turning into droplets of paint that flew toward her!
What was happening?!
A massive sense of unease surged in Lesoto’s heart. His gaze quickly scanned and locked onto the paint bottles in the girl’s hand—those had to be the seized ancestral skulls!
Before donning the Ancestor Cassock, Lesoto had endured countless life-and-death battles to secure his position as first-in-line heir, so he wouldn’t lose his composure from mere shock.
He thought quickly—was it a corpse-seizing ability? As long as it was a corpse, it qualified? Too ridiculous!
Suddenly, he thought of something, and an ominous premonition flooded him.
Corpses…
Explosives…
Suicide attackers resembling Crow Clan members…
Her… her ability was to make zombie monsters from corpses!
Lesoto’s combat experience was vast; in the blink of an eye, he correctly inferred Xixi’s ability from scant clues. Unfortunately, it was a top-tier counter to him, leaving almost no chance for a comeback.
As the girl flipped her palm, paint droplets fell, and eleven towering figures with crow heads and human bodies rose from the ground!
The ancestors had revived!
“Ah——!”
Lesoto emitted a hysterical groundhog screech. When he saw his father and grandfather staring at him with emotionless black pupils, his mind utterly collapsed!
“‘Death Bird’!”
He activated his ability to prepare for a launching takeoff, but unbeknownst when, a ghostly figure had appeared beside him!
The Blue-Haired Loli held her hand in a gun shape, aiming her fingertip at his neck, smiling as she asked:
“You want to take off?”
Bang!
In the instant his neck tore open to expose the fragile cervical vertebrae, a precise and ruthless kinetic bullet shot forth!
His severed head flew into the air before splatting back to the ground like bird droppings.
“Too bad, the chance to survive has already been used by someone else.”
Ashley stepped on Lesoto’s head and said coldly.
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Meanwhile, at the Jingxi Lake Villa District.
White Pearl sprawled on the sickbed, gripping the two corners of the pillow with both hands, her spread wings propping up the ceiling as she squinted down at Chloe’s mother, Lady Charlotte Dunlop.
“Stop pretending; your daughter is your weakness! Why won’t you yield even now? Because you can’t forget your ex-husband?” she asked, panting.
“B-but… I like men…”
“Even now, you claim to like men? Today, I’ll bend you straight!”
“Wahhh…”
The two were locked in stalemate when a servant suddenly rushed in panic and reported:
“Lady Pearl! Tribunal people are at the door!”
“Impossible! The Tribunal doesn’t meddle in matters outside the city. Managing their jurisdiction is already their limit…”
Before she finished speaking, footsteps thudded from downstairs: thump thump thump!
White Pearl’s heart tightened as she turned to glare at the black-haired loli charging over!
Though petite, Amber wore the Tribunal uniform, exuding an aura not to be underestimated.
“Bursting in without a search warrant—you want to clash with me?!” White Pearl seized the initiative.
“I’m here to investigate the Charlotte Dunlop kidnapping case. As for the search warrant, you should know the Tribunal doesn’t issue them for structures outside their jurisdiction,” Amber stood ramrod straight, answering methodically.
White Pearl’s eyes flickered as she pondered whether to eliminate this Tribunal squad entirely—if Charlotte was taken away, her crimes would be confirmed, leading to a city-wide wanted status in Union City, turning her into a pariah.
