The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 452 - Slim Victory

Han Wu ordered his locusts to fly forward and detonate against the Soul Giant. The Heroic locusts exploded first. Compared to the Sage Soul Giant, they were several ranks lower, and their regular attacks would’ve barely scratched it.

Nonetheless, Self Detonation was a peculiar Skill. Each explosion tore open cracks in space that were sharper than scalpels. The cracks eviscerated the Soul Giant and inflicted continuous damage.

Huang Shengjun was on the verge of madness. Han Wu had used the Rewinder to revive his locusts, but his goblins remained dead. The Soul Giant was his last surviving unit, and its strength had greatly diminished.

“Soul Giant, we can’t fight here now. We need to withdraw!” Huang Shengjun urged.

He longed to kill Han Wu but without his goblin army and with fatigue setting in, retreating was the only sensible option. He knew that if he survived this battle, he would have another chance. He could reclaim the upper hand with the Soul Giant next time.

Naturally, Han Wu had no intention of letting them escape. He would never allow his sworn enemy to slip away. He pushed through his fatigue and summoned Dark Locust to his side. As a Sage life form, Dark Locust’s power rivaled that of the Soul Giant.

“Use Dark Domain and trap them!” Han Wu barked.

Dark Locust went all out, radiating pure Dark Energy until the spreading darkness swallowed the Soul Giant. Even though it was as strong as Dark Locust, it was still a newborn driven only by brute force. It lacked the intelligence to break free from the Dark Domain.

Huang Shengjun glared at the surrounding darkness in frustration, but there was nothing he could do. If his true body were here, he could’ve just used his Divine Authority to dismantle the Dark Domain. Unfortunately, this was only a clone that hadn’t unlocked his Divine Authority yet.

Even so, Huang Shengjun’s battle experience gave him some insight into the domain’s structure and a possible escape route. “Damn it. Soul Giant, heed my orders and move where I am pointing at.”

Han Wu wouldn’t give him the chance. He pressed his hand against Dark Locust’s head and channeled his own energy into him. Empowered by Han Wu’s strength, the Dark Domain expanded and gained several special effects.

[Dark Corrosion: Erodes the enemies’ defenses within the Dark Domain.]

[Summon Dark Beings: Summons the dead units the host has killed.]

[Eternal Night: Enemies within the Dark Domain lose their eyesight.]

Each effect was more potent than the last. From the depths of the Dark Domain, a huge horde of zombies drifted out of the shadows. Many were the same mutated zombies Dark Locust had slain before, now reanimated by his power. They bellowed and lurched toward the Soul Giant.

Even though the Soul Giant couldn’t see, it relied on its remaining senses to detect their presence. It thrashed about and crushed the zombies with ease.

Han Wu channeled more energy and used the telekinetic ability that he had obtained recently. Imagining the force as a pair of massive arms, he seized his greatsword and longsword, then struck the Soul Giant with both.

The Soul Giant was too large to dodge precisely. It tried to retaliate, but Han Wu had already withdrawn to a distance of more than a kilometer, well beyond its reach. Meanwhile, his locusts continued to detonate, and the fractured space around them tore deeper wounds into the Soul Giant.

Under the intense onslaught, the Soul Giant’s power plummeted. Once a Sage life form, it fell to King, then High Lord, and finally Lord. Its frame kept shrinking until, upon reaching the Heroic level, it stood no larger than a human.

At that moment, Han Wu swung his greatsword and cleaved off its head. The Soul Giant finally fell. Huang Shengjun knew that it was truly dead this time and that his own end had come. Yet even when facing death, he would never let Han Wu win unscathed. He swung the Mighty Twin Cudgels together, and a huge mushroom cloud erupted from where he stood.

Frost and fire spread out like a raging hurricane, decimating anything in its path. Countless locusts were obliterated. The explosion also blasted Han Wu and Dark Locust backward and severely injured them.

Huang Shengjun’s clone had been at the heart of the explosion and was wiped out. Its death marked Han Wu’s victory, but it was a narrow one. He had started the battle with 20 million locusts and now had only 3 million left. Even then, two thirds of those were crippled.

Han Wu had paid a steep price for little gain. His enemy had fallen, but he himself had been all but drained. The victory felt hollow. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

“Huang Shengjun!” Han Wu’s howl echoed across the wasteland.

From the horizon, a helicopter approached and descended swiftly. Four humans in Parasol Corp.’s battle armor leapt down. Each looked distinct: one held twin blades, another carried a sniper rifle, a third gnawed on an entire grilled lamb leg, and the last one was smoking.

The man with twin blades surveyed the devastation. “Was that a nuclear bomb? It destroyed a third of Tanuki Town. It must be a nuke!”

The girl with the sniper rifle retorted, “Don’t spout nonsense. If it were a nuke, this entire place would be heavily irradiated and we would be dead the moment we stepped in here. How could we still be standing alive?”

The man chuckled. “You are right, Megan. I mistakenly thought that it was a nuclear explosion.”

Megan scoffed, but the faint curl of her lips betrayed her amusement.

The smoker sighed. “Now’s not the time to analyze what happened here. We need to find the target designated by headquarters. That’s the most important mission.”

Pank, the man munching on the lamb leg, pointed ahead. “Isn’t he over there?”

They followed his finger and spotted Han Wu. At present, he looked filthy, and his eyes were unfocused. He still couldn’t accept that his locusts had been annihilated again like that.

The four grinned. Whatever Han Wu was going through didn’t concern them. Their only focus was completing the mission, which they assumed would be simple today.

The smoker, Bob, spoke in a flat tone. “Let me go bring him back to headquarters.”

Megan pointed her sniper at Han Wu and cautioned, “That man is not normal. Be careful.”

“I know, I know,” Bob replied impatiently, brushing off her warning.

He approached Han Wu, unmoved by the other man’s vacant stare. “We are from Parasol Corp.’s security division. You need to cooperate with us. I advise you not to resist and come with me quietly, or else.”

Bob’s tone left no room for misunderstanding. Han Wu heard his voice and looked at him.

“Hey, are you even listening?” Bob mumbled and reached for Han Wu’s shoulder.

Han Wu's eyes turned cold. A sharp crack split the air as Bob’s neck twisted at an impossible angle. Han Wu had snapped it with telekinesis!

“Don’t pester me!” Han Wu hissed, his killing intent spreading like frost.

The three watching from a distance felt as if they had been plunged into an icy cave.