I Can Get 1,000,000x Returns from Selling Anything!-Chapter 146 --The Main City of an Empire Doomed to Perish in the Heavenly Disaster
"Take the gamble... and maybe we can still carve out a path of survival for the Kalet Empire..."
He looked at them with pleading eyes, desperation written all over his face.
The powerhouses of the Temple of the Gods felt deeply unsettled when they heard him.
Among them were warriors who had rushed back from the front lines of the Undead Battlefield, where they had been fighting without regard for their lives; others had been dragged out of seclusion by force; and together with those who had already been stationed in the Temple of the Gods, there were now more than two hundred legendary-grade powerhouses gathered here!
Seeing their hesitation, the emperor clenched his teeth and said harshly,
"If the glory in your hearts and the Kalet Empire have already collapsed, then what am I, this emperor, but a joke? This empire would be nothing more than an empty shell without flesh or blood!"
"In that case, we might as well hand everything over to Faustus and let him rule the empire in our place!"
"Your Majesty, you must not!"
"Please calm down, Your Majesty!"
"That’s right—things haven’t reached that point yet..."
The expressions of the Temple of the Gods’ powerhouses turned ugly.
Let the adventurer Faustus rule the Kalet Empire?
What kind of absurd joke was that?!
The Kalet Empire belonged to the living beings of World Zone No. 1213, not to some foreign adventurer!
How could they allow an outsider to ride roughshod over them?
They feared Faustus, yes—but they feared even more the thought of the Kalet Empire being devoured by an outsider.
An old man with snow-white hair stepped forward in grief and fury.
"I am willing to fight Faustus to the death!"
"I will share the empire’s honor and disgrace!"
Someone immediately followed.
"He’s just a powerful enemy... I’ll go too!"
One after another, voices rose in answer.
"Then let’s stake everything on this!"
In the end, all the powerhouses of the Temple of the Gods roared in unison.
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Divine Wrath City.
The moment Faustus appeared, panic once again exploded across the city.
"It’s over! That devil Faustus has come to Divine Wrath City!"
"Wasn’t he the one who just destroyed Orb Star City? Why is he here again?!"
"What kind of joke is this? Is he planning to wipe out our entire empire?!"
"Run, you idiots! I can see it now—Faustus isn’t going to spare a single person from World Zone No. 1213!"
Faustus looked coldly down at the city below.
He summoned his clones and raised Stellar Wrath.
[Permafrost Prison]!
The sunlight, which had still been warm just moments ago, now carried a bone-piercing chill.
Inch by inch, the land began to freeze. The buildings of every height and shape were covered in a thin layer of frost in the blink of an eye.
And that once-noisy main city fell silent in an instant...
The faces of the NPCs and players turned deathly pale, filled with panic, collapse, and despair.
Every kind of expression froze on their faces, as if they had been hit by a petrifying spell.
Then it was as though some invisible giant hand had seized them. Ice began spreading through their bodies.
The freezing current climbed upward from their feet, layer by layer, each sheet of ice growing thicker than the last, until every last one of them had become an ice sculpture.
In the space of a heartbeat, system notifications exploded in Faustus’s ears.
[Ding! You have destroyed "Divine Wrath City (World Zone No. 1213)"! Gained World War Points +500,000,000! Contribution Points +2,000,000! Gold Coins +5,000,000!]
[Ding! You have destroyed "Divine Wrath City (World Zone No. 1213)"! Current Imperial Morale -10%!]
After hearing them, Faustus’s expression did not change in the slightest.
With a beat of his wings, he flew toward the next target city.
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Skyhold.
Faustus was on his way there, but before he even arrived, he saw more than two hundred legendary-grade powerhouses already standing in formation, waiting for him.
"Oh? Looks like you’re trying to stop me?" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
Faustus narrowed his eyes, a sneer curling across his lips. "Fine by me. Saves me the trouble—I’ll wipe you all out in one go."
The instant he finished speaking, his wings trembled, and in the blink of an eye he shot in front of one of World Zone No. 1213’s powerhouses.
Shhk—shhk—shhk—!
Ninety-nine clones appeared all at once.
The moment the powerhouses of World Zone No. 1213 saw that formation, their hearts wavered.
It was no longer a secret that Faustus possessed a spatial ring capable of storing living people. These ninety-nine clones alone were already terrifying enough—who knew when he might suddenly release even more fighters from it?
What they did not know, however, was that this time Faustus had truly come alone.
At that moment, facing over two hundred legendary-grade powerhouses of World Zone No. 1213, Faustus grinned.
He raised Stellar Wrath and hurled skill after skill as though they cost him nothing at all.
[Skyfall Strike]!
[Permafrost Prison]!
[Thunder Abyss]!
In an instant, the very heavens changed color.
The moment those World Zone No. 1213 powerhouses felt the death domain of the forbidden spells spreading out, their faces turned stark white.
"This is... a forbidden spell?!"
"Gods above! How could an adventurer become this terrifying?!"
"What kind of joke is this? An adventurer actually wielding the power of forbidden spells?!"
Every single one of them turned ashen with despair. In their hearts, they understood perfectly well:
There were only two choices now—either endure the forbidden spells head-on, or kill Faustus before they were fully formed.
But the forbidden spells came far faster than they had imagined.
First, the entire world was frozen solid.
Even legendary-grade powerhouses had no hope of breaking free from that suppression unless they used their Immortal Singularities.
Then, countless magical beasts formed from thunder elements came surging in like a collapsing mountain and a crashing sea, swallowing all of them whole.
At the same time, a sky full of flaming meteors dragged long blazing tails behind them as they crashed down, bombarding the powerhouses of World Zone No. 1213 without mercy.
Against forbidden spells of this level, even high legendary-grade powerhouses would be instantly killed.
Even transcendent experts could only hold on for a few seconds longer—nothing more than a few extra breaths before death.
In the blink of an eye, ninety-nine percent of the more than two hundred powerhouses of World Zone No. 1213 died on the spot.
A few seconds later, even the last few transcendent experts were gone as well!
There was no helping it. The destructive force and range of three overlapping forbidden spells were simply too terrifying!
System notifications exploded in his ears like a tidal wave.
[Ding! You have killed World Zone No. 1213 legendary-grade powerhouse "Lomio (Transcendent)"! Gained EXP +2,500,000,000! Gold Coins +980,000!
World War Points +2,800,000!
Obtained "Blood Energy Bracers (Legendary-grade)"!
Obtained "Fragment of the Immortal Singularity" ×1!]
[Ding! You have killed World Zone No. 1213 legendary-grade powerhouse "Jastansen (Low Rank)"!
Gained EXP +800,000,000! Gold Coins +190,000!
World War Points +1,000,000!
Obtained "Tide Armor (Legendary-grade)"!
Obtained "Fragment of the Immortal Singularity" ×1!]
But the forbidden spells were still spreading!
Under the might of those three great forbidden spells, Skyhold visibly began collapsing before the naked eye.
The people of World Zone No. 1213 inside the city could only watch this apocalyptic scene unfold and let out cries of utter despair.
Half an hour later—
Boom!
With an earth-shaking explosion—
Skyhold was gone.
[Ding! You have destroyed "Skyhold (World Zone No. 1213)"! Gained World War Points +500,000,000! Contribution Points +2,000,000! Gold Coins +5,000,000!]
[Ding! You have destroyed "Skyhold (World Zone No. 1213)"! Current Imperial Morale -10%!]
[World Zone No. 1213 Announcement: Kalet Empire’s current Imperial Morale has fallen to only 40%! All players of World Zone No. 1213, please note: when morale drops to 10%, NPCs are highly likely to rebel; when it falls to 5%, the empire will be completely annihilated!]
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