90: Conquer the 'Heart Nexus'

“Kill!”

Four thousand Azure Lightning Cavalry Guards and four hundred Azure Thunder Dragon Riders.

Like a black torrent unleashed, they erupted with earth-shattering shouts, following close behind Huo Jun, and charged.

Their iron hooves trampled over the breach Su Jin had blasted open with "Heaven's Punishment," kicking up a sky-full of dust, and surged into Mind Nexus City like a raging tide.

The Azure Lightning Cavalry Guards formed a sharp wedge formation; wherever their Thunder Long Spears pointed, constructs exploded.

The warhorses beneath them were covered in fine electric snakes, each collision carrying immense force, scattering the constructs in their path.

Static fields unfolded in swathes, slowing the enemy's movements and creating an excellent damage environment for the follow-up troops.

The Azure Thunder Dragon Riders were even more like mobile artillery platforms on the battlefield; the Thunder-Piercing Javelins they threw possessed immense power.

Each strike was like a miniature 'Thunder Rainbow Piercing Mountain Spear,' the explosive shockwave tearing constructs to shreds, lightning raging, and dust rising sky-high.

The Storm Dragon Horses, with their double horns entwined with lightning patterns, roared; wherever their iron hooves trampled, metal twisted, the ground cracked, an unstoppable force.

Over a hundred Spirit Pivot Sword Envoys, on the other hand, were like white specters on the battlefield; they did not directly confront the constructs.

Instead, they skillfully weaved through the construct formations using "Shadow Flash" and "Residual Soul Substitute."

Each time their longswords unleashed a "Soul Cry Slash," they precisely cut through the constructs' energy cores or vulnerable joints.

Their swordsmanship was agile and lethal, often completing the kill before the enemy could react, leaving only a trail of retreating figures.

The city immediately plunged into chaos, completely transforming into a slaughterhouse.

Although Marco's constructs and psionic archers were not few in number.

They had already suffered heavy losses under Su Jin's divine strike, and their morale had plummeted to rock bottom.

Now, facing the Infinite City's elites, who were like wolves and tigers, brimming with fighting spirit, they could not organize any effective resistance, like lambs to the slaughter.

Bai Xiao had also entered the city at some point.

He did not engage in wide, sweeping attacks like Huo Jun, but merely walked slowly with his hands behind his back, his posture composed.

However, any construct or psionic archer attempting to approach within a hundred-meter radius of him.

Regardless of their rank, the moment they stepped in, they were shredded and incinerated by an invisible sword intent and swirling pale soul fire.

They couldn't even let out a whimper, leaving behind only scorched remnants and gradually dissipating wisps of smoke.

Wherever he passed, there was absolute silence and death.

Inside the Central Control Tower.

Marco watched the one-sided slaughter on the light screen with a ashen face.

Watching his proud legion being easily destroyed like scrap metal, the last light in his three eyes completely extinguished.

He knew it was over.

Everything was over.

Resistance? With what could he resist?

That mysterious and powerful lord of the opposing side.

He hadn't even truly made a move, merely opening a boundless "Domain."

Which rendered his city defense system useless and vulnerable.

"Why... why did I encounter such a monster..."

Marco was distraught, repeating this sentence incessantly, his voice hoarse.

It wasn't that he hadn't considered fighting to the death.

But when he looked through the light screen and saw Su Jin, still bathed in golden light, his six light wings slowly flapping.

Overlooking the entire battlefield with the indifference of a god, he couldn't even muster the courage for a desperate struggle.

It was an absolute suppression from a higher life-level, making him tremble and despair from the depths of his soul.

"I cannot die... I absolutely cannot!"

Marco's facial muscles suddenly twisted, his three eyes bloodshot, a hint of mad determination flashing within them.

He knew that once his Lord's Mark was destroyed, he would truly be beyond redemption.

Where there's life, there's hope; even if the cost was great, it was better than complete annihilation!

He suddenly looked up, his hands performing a dazzling, frantic series of operations on the control panel.

The previously dim runes in the tower lit up again.

But this time, it was not for defense, but a sign of intense and unstable spatial fluctuations.

"Main core transfer!"

"Emergency disengagement procedure... activate!"

He snatched a peculiar crystal from beside his throne, emitting a faint blue light.

It pulsed slightly, like a heart—that was precisely the Mind Nexus's territory core.

"Take anyone who can still move and follow me!" Marco shrieked at the remaining Three-Eyed Race subordinates in the tower.

A dazzling light suddenly erupted from the top of the Central Control Tower, twisting the air.

Forming an extremely unstable spatial vortex, radiating a dangerous aura.

Clearly, this forcibly opened cross-world teleportation was highly unstable and could collapse at any moment.

But Marco no longer cared about such details.

Clutching the territory core tightly, he, along with those few subordinates, plunged into the vortex without looking back.

The light flashed and vanished, and the spatial vortex abruptly disappeared.

Inside the Central Control Tower, only deathly silence and a mess of control equipment remained.

Outside the city, Su Jin had been calmly observing everything happening on the battlefield.

When that unique spatial fluctuation emanated from the Central Control Tower, his brow slightly raised.

"Oh?"

His golden light wings gently flapped, and he clearly perceived Marco escaping into a spatial rift with the territory core, vanishing without a trace.

"Quite decisive," Su Jin chuckled.

He actually thought highly of Marco's courage to "cut off his tail to survive."

In the face of absolute disadvantage, to be able to make the most advantageous choice for self-preservation so quickly, rather than fighting futilely to the end.

This kind of temperament was rare.

He looked again in the direction where Marco had disappeared.

"This method of directly leaving the world with the territory core comes at an extremely high price."

"Not only does all previous effort go to waste, essentially starting from scratch."

"Moreover, they can no longer return to their initial world for development, only to plunge into the perilous World Sea, unable to even return to their race's World Sea sanctuary."

Su Jin chuckled, a strange meaning in his voice.

"This difficulty is a hundred times more cruel than starting from zero."

"However, for him, it's better than being completely erased, with his professional mark annihilated along with him."

"At least, the special nature of the Lord profession still gives him a chance to struggle for survival in the World Sea."

"Compared to ordinary professionals who can only travel between worlds by relying on a Lord, he is already much luckier."

"I just don't know if this guy has a life-saving beacon like me."

He couldn't help but recall Wan Yun's serious face before entering Woma World.

At that time, Wan Yun handed him an inconspicuous small metal piece, her tone solemn.

"A special emergency distress beacon from the military."

"In case—and I mean in case—you really mess things up, activate it in the World Sea."

"Once activated, it will form a protective shield that lasts for seventy-two hours."

"Besides basic defensive capabilities, it can isolate external detection of you, and at the same time, it will send a distress signal to the nearest military Lord."

"Remember, this is a last resort; I hope you never have to use it..."

Su Jin had mumbled to himself at the time, wasn't this just a "World Sea Three-Day Tour Experience Card (with rescue version)"?

Su Jin reined in his wandering thoughts, his gaze returning to Mind Nexus City, which had lost its master and whose defense system had completely collapsed.

At this moment, Huo Jun had largely brought the situation in the city under control and came to Su Jin's side, reporting with some reluctance.

"Lord, that fellow ran off with the core! Your subordinate was incompetent and failed to intercept him!"

Su Jin waved his hand, his tone still calm: "If he ran, he ran. For a Level 5 Lord to have such decisiveness, he's not entirely useless."

He paused, then instructed, "Clean up the battlefield. This city is ours now."

Although the main target escaped, a largely intact Level 5 tech-side city was of inestimable value.

The various facilities and resources within the city.

Especially the manufacturing technology for those constructs and Marco's leftover research data, would be a huge supplement for Infinite City.