Chapter 492: Falling Sakura Like Blood (Part 12)

Inside Fuji City.

The once-hoarse shouts and curses had long since vanished.

On the streets and in the squares, countless citizens knelt numbly on the ground, their heads lowered, having lost even the strength to groan.

Their bodies shriveled at a visible rate, their skin losing its luster like deadwood drained of all moisture.

Their vitality was being frantically stripped from within them by an irresistible force.

In the air.

The light of the giant Pendulum of Life grew increasingly dazzling.

Where the golden light converged, a human heart was slowly materialized.

"Thump!"

"Thump! Thump!"

The powerful heartbeat resonated across heaven and earth like a battle drum.

Every beat made the city below tremble, as if forcibly awakening some long-dormant, terrifying Soul from another world.

Meanwhile, outside Fuji City.

Three streaks of light whistled across the horizon and steadily stopped in mid-air before the city gate.

They were Caesar, Polina, and Kalen.

They looked at the city before them, which was shrouded by a giant golden light barrier, their expressions varying.

"What a powerful energy barrier."

Polina felt the vast coercion emanating from the light barrier, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.

"The ceremony has already begun, we must hurry and get in."

Kalen took the lead without hesitation.

With an angry roar, the Wings of Quicksand behind him slammed open, and his entire body crashed fiercely toward the golden city-protecting Formation like a cannonball.

"Boom!"

A loud crash.

Kalen's body collided with the golden light barrier, erupting with blinding light.

Ripples spread across the surface of the light barrier, yet it remained as stable as Mount Tai, completely motionless.

Instead, Kalen was bounced away by a huge rebound force, tumbling wretchedly several times in the air before stabilizing his figure.

"Dammit!"

Kalen cursed, his charred face full of annoyance.

Zhou Huai controlled Caesar as he floated quietly above the throne, watching this scene, suddenly feeling a bit ironic in his heart.

This city-protecting Formation was supposed to be a barrier used to protect the residents in the city from alien beast invasions.

Now, it had become a cage preventing them from escaping, a death talisman accelerating their demise.

He no longer planned to waste time.

With a thought, he was just about to control the Soldier Beetle to directly blow a gap in this barrier.

But right at this moment, Kalen's actions made him stop his movement.

Seeing Kalen stabilize his figure, he cursed and groped around in his space ring.

Soon, he pulled out something from it.

That was a huge chain, pitch-black throughout and as thick as an adult's arm.

The chain was made of unknown materials, its surface covered with ancient and mysterious runes, emitting a palpitating and chilling aura.

"Open… for me!"

Kalen grabbed one end of the chain with both hands, dancing the huge chain with such force that it generated a series of dull sounds of piercing through the air.

Then, using all his strength, he smashed the chain in his hand fiercely toward the Formation barrier ahead.

Zhou Huai's brows twitched subconsciously.

He recognized this chain.

Back inside the giant beast's corpse, what sealed the Pendulum of Life was precisely one of these six chains.

He didn't expect Kalen to have picked up one of them.

What he expected even less was that Kalen would use this thing to destroy the Formation barrier.

The next second.

A scene that even surprised Zhou Huai happened.

"Rumble!"

The pitch-black chain and the golden barrier collided heavily together once again.

This time, there was no violent explosion, nor any violent energy counteraction.

The indestructible golden barrier, the moment it contacted the chain, melted silently into a huge gap like ice and snow under the scorching sun.

The edges of the gap were extremely smooth, without a trace of energy overflowing.

It was as if the barrier at that location had been wiped out of thin air.

"It worked!"

Seeing this, Kalen was overjoyed, his face full of complacency.

"Hahaha! I knew this thing would definitely be useful!"

Polina showed no surprise at all, as if she had expected it long ago.

Zhou Huai's gaze fell on the pitch-black chain, a trace of realization flashing in his eyes.

He perceived it even more clearly.

This chain did not destroy the Formation barrier purely through brute force.

Instead, the functions of the barrier itself would temporarily fail at the locations it touched.

It was as if this chain was born to restrain Formations.

Thinking about it carefully now, it was quite reasonable.

Even a Divine Artifact of the level of the Pendulum of Life could be sealed by it.

How could this chain be anything simple?

This also explained why the two of them dared to storm the Ise Grand Shrine, which had layers of Formation Restrictions.

"Don't just stand there!"

Kalen couldn't wait to retract the chain and rushed into the gap first.

"Hurry up and follow! It will be too late if we delay!"

The three of them said no more and quickly drilled into the gap in the barrier torn open by the chain.

Just entering Fuji City, an aura of dead silence hit them face-to-face.

The air was filled with a decaying smell, forming a huge contrast with the golden light soaring into the sky in the distance.

"Enemy attack!"

A harsh alarm sounded from the city wall, breaking the dead silence.

The city-guarding soldiers reacted immediately, everyone's gaze locked onto the three people below.

"External enemies have invaded!"

"Everyone, enter combat status!"

A heavy-armored commander roared and gave the order.

The next second.

"Hum—"

On the city wall, various energy lights lit up.

Fireballs, ice spikes, thunder spears, wind blade arrows…

A large number of ranged skills converged into a barrage and smashed toward the position of the three.

"Hmph, a bunch of small fry."

Kalen snorted coldly.

Without dodging or evading, he roared and charged straight into the attacks.

Golden light emerged on his body, forming a layer of shield.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Countless skills bombarded his body, exploding continuously.

Flames and thunder swallowed him, while frost and wind blades cut across his body.

But Kalen's footsteps did not pause in the slightest.

Enduring the dense attacks, he stepped out deep pits on the ground and quickly approached.

"Bang!"

With a sudden burst of strength in his legs, his entire body soared into the sky, jumping directly onto the city wall tens of meters high.

"What?!"

The guards on the city wall exclaimed in unison, their faces full of disbelief.

This man actually used his Physical Body to hard-resist a round of their concentrated fire?

Before they could recover from their shock.

"It's my turn!"

On Kalen's charred face, a ferocious smile appeared.

With a punch, a guard in front of him, along with his armor, was beaten directly into a pool of flesh and mud.

"Kill!"

The commander on the city wall had red eyes, drew his Katana, and took the lead in charging toward Kalen.

The other guards also reacted, abandoning ranged attacks, drawing close combat weapons and surrounding them.

At that moment, the man who had been sitting on the black throne slowly raised his hand.

"Hum hum hum—"

Dense wing-flapping sounds resounded from all directions, making one's scalp tingle.

Countless black beetles poured out from the Void Realm, converging into a giant insect cloud that shrouded the entire West City Wall.

"What… what the hell is that?!"

The guards on the city wall turned pale, filled with fear.

The commander also stopped his steps, looking in terror at the writhing insect cloud above his head, his voice trembling.

"An… Insect Master?!"

Caesar didn't give them time to think.

He raised his hand and waved it gently downward.

"Bombardment."

The two cold words fell.

The next second, the black insect cloud moved.

Countless Soldier Beetles dove down toward the city wall!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Rumble—"

Continuous explosions rang out, and the West City Wall instantly turned into a sea of fire.

The screams were soon drowned out by even more violent explosions.

The sturdy city wall continuously collapsed amidst the explosions, and countless guards were blown into pieces.

In just an instant, the guards of the West City were completely routed by this suicidal Insect Tide.

On the high wall in the distance.

Chong Wenguma was overlooking the dead civilians in the city, his hands clasped together, murmuring incantations as if sending off the departed Souls.

Just at this moment.

A burst of explosions faintly came from the west.

Chong Wenguma's brows twitched imperceptibly.

He slowly turned his head, looking in the direction where the sound came from, a trace of displeasure flashing in those "merciful" eyes.

"What was that sound just now?"

Cold sweat had already seeped from the forehead of Sato Kenji beside him.

He had just received news via the magic communication device that the West City Wall was under attack.

"Lord… Chong Wenguma…"

Sato Kenji's voice trembled slightly as he hurriedly bowed to answer.

"J-Just received news."

"It seems… someone has forcefully broken in."