Miss Luo Yan’s Feet Are Buried With Corpses v4c23

The God of Malice is Watching the Land: Chapter 23 Song of the End

Wait for death.

In the face of such a disaster, all humanity could do was wait for death’s arrival.

All battle deployments and defense systems seemed pale and powerless against a Calamity of this level, utterly meaningless.

Norian had anticipated Lannister’s destruction, but he hadn’t expected this day to come so quickly.

Kelly, the director of the Lannister Anomaly Investigation Bureau, stood shoulder to shoulder with him on the nearly collapsed city wall, witnessing the surging tide of “malice” gradually approaching them.

“…Open the city gates.”

Norian issued the final order with a trembling voice, completely abandoning Lannister.

At this moment, he seemed to have aged decades.

The spirit that sustained him completely dissipated, accumulated ailments surged forth, his already heavy body collapsed, and his entire being instantly fell into exhaustion.

His life’s work was about to be destroyed, but he could do nothing, or rather, nothing he did would matter.

This was the greatest sorrow.

The assistant beside him received this final order, took a deep breath, and prepared to announce it to all of Lannister.

But just then, Kelly anxiously interrupted,

“Wait! Magistrate Norian!”

The assistant’s hand trembled, almost sending out the prepared message.

“Hmm?” Norian was stunned and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“…It seems I just jinxed it.” Although Kelly’s face was expressionless, a strange glint appeared in her eyes. “These monsters… they seem to be turning around.”

But how could this be?

Once a Calamity Tide formed from Calamity monsters was complete, even they themselves couldn’t control it, only surging towards their predetermined destination.

Any existence that dared to block their path would be crushed and submerged within the Calamity Tide, becoming a part of it.

A Calamity Tide of this scale was absolutely impossible for any human to resist, unless the Primordial Demons personally intervened… no, not even then for certain.

In the face of “malice,” Primordial Demons were no different from these monsters, just stronger before being contaminated, but essentially the same.

But under Kelly’s unwavering gaze, the surging tide of Calamity monsters was abruptly stopped at a certain point.

The distance was still quite far, and she could only barely sense this information, but couldn’t see the actual situation.

“Activate the ‘Rover’ system, quickly!”

Kelly turned to the assistant and practically roared.

The assistant hesitated, glancing at Norian, unsure whose orders to follow.

“…Just do as she says.” Norian said softly.

At this moment, he, like Kelly, stared intently ahead, although he could see far less than Kelly.

Could it be… a miracle had truly occurred?

But he hadn’t even started praying yet!

“The ‘Rover’ system is activated, what’s the target location?” the assistant asked urgently.

The “Rover” system was a powerful unmanned aerial reconnaissance system, similar to the monitoring devices used in Yan City, but its scale and applications were far more extensive.

This was also something Noah replicated from Old Era technology, currently still in the experimental stage.

It was only because Lannister had provided substantial funding to the Cardinal Council that they were able to obtain this prototype system.

Of course, prototype or not, it was still usable.

“Sixty kilometers in the eight o’clock direction, altitude 1.5 kilometers.”

Kelly had, of course, played… experimented with this system many times, so her commands were quite skillful.

The assistant nodded and immediately relayed Kelly’s orders to the “Rover” system operator.

Soon, a message arrived on Kelly’s terminal. She immediately opened the projection, displaying the images captured by the drone.

With just one glance, the guard supporting Norian fainted, and the assistant vomited violently due to physiological discomfort.

Norian’s face paled slightly, but he managed to hold on.

Kelly continued to watch with an expressionless face. Having been through a lot in the past two years, she had seen such scenes countless times, so she didn’t react much.

“The state of these Calamity monsters… is somewhat strange.” Kelly whispered, “They are clearly still pushing and shoving forward, the Calamity Tide hasn’t stopped, but… they can’t cross an invisible line!”

An invisible line blocked these Calamity monsters.

They struggled, they exerted all their strength, they roared hysterically, pushing and shoving against each other, but they couldn’t break through.

As if a God had drawn a line here, ordering them not to cross.

Beyond the line was a forbidden zone.

“Shift the perspective one and a half kilometers southwest, then zoom in, let me see who it is…”

As she issued this order, Kelly hesitated slightly.

Should she really witness this God-like being with her own eyes?

This hesitation didn’t even last a second before Kelly dismissed her worries.

No matter what… she had to at least see what the other party looked like!

By now, several “Rover” system operators had fainted; not everyone could withstand witnessing the impact of a Calamity Tide.

However, they still managed to carry out Kelly’s orders with difficulty.

Shortly after, the image in the projection began to shift and zoom in, revealing more details of the Calamity Tide.

This time, even Norian couldn’t withstand it. He immediately closed his eyes, no longer forcing himself.

Kelly stared intently at the projection, afraid of missing any useful information.

“Almost there…”

As the perspective shifted towards the location Kelly had deduced, her breathing gradually quickened.

What kind of existence would it be…

But just as they were about to reach the destination, Kelly was horrified to hear a helpless sigh right beside her ear.

“Sigh… this thing again…”

Then, the image flickered, and static appeared on the image transmitted by the “Rover,” as if something was appearing, but blocked by the static, nothing could be seen.

But now wasn’t the time to worry about whether they could see or not.

“Quickly, shut down the system!” Kelly hurriedly said, “Otherwise it will be too late…”

Before she could finish, the signal was completely lost. The “Rover” drone lost contact with the system, and the image in the projection instantly disappeared.

“What’s the situation now?”

Norian quickly asked. He didn’t understand these things; professional matters should be handled by professionals.

“Now… is actually the best-case scenario,” a hint of bitterness appeared in Kelly’s eyes, “The other party could even find me through the drone, but didn’t attack…”

The reason she had the operator shut down the system was because she was worried that this unknown existence, whether friend or foe, would descend upon Lannister through the “Rover” system.

What would happen then… was impossible to predict.

….

Among the layers of dark gray clouds, a small drone was plummeting straight down.

The “Rover” reconnaissance system, just as it was about to reach Luo Yan, was detected by her. Even at an altitude of a thousand meters, its communication equipment was precisely severed by a spatial rift.

As this pitiful drone was about to fall into the surging Calamity Tide, Luo Yan raised her hand, and the drone instantly appeared in her hand.

Having mastered “End,” her understanding of space was now at the highest level in this world, and achieving this was just a matter of raising her hand.

The drone’s exterior was completely undamaged. Luo Yan only targeted its communication and image capturing functions, without causing any other damage.

“It looks much more sophisticated than Yan City’s…”

When Luo Yan was in Ghost Town, she had encountered monitoring equipment sent in by Yan City.

It was through those monitoring devices that Luo Yan’s image first appeared in this world… however, it caused quite a negative impact.

Almost all ability users who saw her fell unconscious, and some with weaker minds even suffered mental damage.

The current Luo Yan was even more different. Looking directly at her true form was no different from looking directly at the true form of a Primordial Demon.

Only those who reached “Destruction” level could calmly look at her.

But… Lannister didn’t have any “Destruction” level ability users. Her appearance suddenly appearing in the sight of Lannister citizens would probably be another disaster.

Moreover…

“Erasing memories is very troublesome,” Luo Yan lightly tossed the drone, and a spatial rift instantly opened, swallowing it. “I… spent a lot of effort to slowly clean up the traces I left behind.”

Everyone who had seen her, everyone who had heard of her deeds, was gradually forgetting her.

As for the few who left a deeper impression on Luo Yan, she had to personally act to erase these traces that shouldn’t exist.

The Calamity monsters beside her began to roar again, the gradually spreading stench nauseating, even Luo Yan couldn’t help but frown slightly.

She stood up and walked to the edge of the Calamity Tide.

The Calamity Tide originally had no edge, but Luo Yan drew one for it.

No matter how they pushed and shoved, not even their splattered flesh and blood could cross this boundary.

This was an order, an absolute, undeniable order.

“Quiet.”

She said softly.

And then, it became quiet.

The Calamity monsters were instantly silenced, all their bulging eyes and ferocious gazes fixed on this lone figure.

Luo Yan stood there, seemingly a pitiful girl surrounded by Calamity monsters, but the reality was the opposite.

After being contaminated by “malice,” the Calamity monsters had completely lost their minds, and all emotions of living beings. They were only left with the desire to devour and assimilate everything, and a greed for the aura of life.

But these mindless monsters, when gazed upon by the silver-haired girl, all felt an emotion that only living beings could experience.

—”Fear.”

Even though they were originally coming for this girl.

No matter what, Lannister couldn’t possibly attract a Calamity Tide of this scale, not even Noah or Dragon City were worthy.

Simply put, because the Calamity Tide hadn’t yet reached the point of engulfing the entire world, its existence was mindless, so the locations it attacked were random.

But the Calamity monsters gathered here accounted for almost eighty percent of the entire Calamity Tide.

And among them were the thirteen “Destruction” level Calamity monsters born during the two years of the Calamity’s brewing.

However, such powerful monsters were no different from other Calamity monsters in front of Luo Yan. Deep within their eyes was a fear that transcended instinct.

“So ugly…”

Luo Yan whispered.

She didn’t have any aesthetic sense for the appearance of living beings. Even the ugliest humans looked no different from others in her eyes.

Because her essence wasn’t that of a living being, but another kind of existence, so her aesthetics didn’t apply.

However, Luo Yan could perceive the ugliness of “malice.”

Just like Red Butterfly, whom she first described as “ugly,” was also a Devil’s Apostle possessed by the Witch of Envy, the most “malice”-contaminated among the Gods.

“So… it’s time for your release.”

Luo Yan sat back down, her long dress draped over the large rock.

The trembling Calamity monsters beside her seemed to realize something and frantically tried to escape from this figure.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The Calamity Tide, summoned by “malice,” surging forward like pilgrims, was about to meet its end.

“One guard went mad, two guards were biting, three guards were all alone, four guards held hands and went to heaven…”

An ethereal melody sounded, this song passed down from the Gods, but sung in human language.

“Five guards all died, six guards were laughing, seven guards were crying, eight guards worked together, nine guards all came out…”

The light, airy singing seemed quite weak, yet strangely reached the ears of every Calamity monster.

No matter how they roared and struggled, they couldn’t avoid being affected by the song.

“Eeya eeya, ten guards lived happily ever after, eeya eeya, everyone created the most beautiful world together…”

The gentle singing gradually came to an end, and the Calamity monsters also gradually calmed down. Their eyes were no longer filled with violence and ferocity, but with endless confusion.

Then, the divine language version of the song sounded again. This was the true song of the Gods.

Human language couldn’t fully express the information contained within this song, even the order was chaotic, because in the language of the Gods, the madness and guardianship of the ten guards were intertwined.

“…”

The drifting singing even faintly reached Lannister, dozens of kilometers away, but ordinary people didn’t react much upon hearing it.

But… it was different for the Calamity monsters.

Purple-black smoke emerged from the deformed monsters and the contaminated flesh and blood, gradually transforming them into the likeness of living beings.

There were giant beasts, humans, and even quite a few ability users among them.

The strongest, a “Destruction” level Calamity monster, whose original form was a stern middle-aged man, Luo Yan recognized his identity at a glance.

—Ronner, the current First Leader of Dawn.

Few people knew that the First Leader of Dawn had already perished in the Calamity Tide.

Otherwise, Dawn, without a mega-city as its base, couldn’t have broken through the suddenly erupting Calamity Tide and successfully returned to the embrace of human civilization.