191: Chapter 191 Shattering the Island of Gods! The Immortal Witch's Submission, the Arrogant Female Warrior's Heart Fluttering

The Black Knights underground base.

Lelouch stood before the main console, his hands pressed against the edge.

Densely packed red dots on the screen were converging on the outer strongholds from all directions.

Cornelia's search net was tightening, and scouts from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau had already reached the edge of the third district.

He scratched his hair, closed and reopened the tactical simulation map, repeatedly calculating the probability of a breakout.

On a leather sofa a few meters away, Yu Feng was leaning back, holding a newly unpacked handheld game console, the buttons clicking loudly.

Su Nian was lying on the back of the sofa, peeling an orange and feeding it to him one slice at a time.

The atmosphere in the base was tense to the extreme.

Only this corner was relaxed, completely out of place.

C.C. was wearing a white straitjacket, holding half a slice of pizza, and slowly walked over to the sofa.

She stopped, took a bite of the pizza, and her gaze fell on the screen of the game console in Yu Feng's hand.

"It's unbeatable."

She swallowed the food and spoke, "That boss has two rage phases."

Yu Feng didn't look up, his fingers moving rapidly: "That's just you being bad."

A burst of light exploded on the screen, and the victory sound effect chimed happily.

C.C.'s chewing paused for a moment.

She tossed the remaining pizza into a nearby cardboard box and pulled a tissue to wipe her hands.

"Let's make a deal."

She stood up straight and looked at Yu Feng, "I will take you to the Island of the Gods. It is an ancient ruin that contains the underlying operational rules of Geass, as well as the top-secret information of the 'World of C'."

Yu Feng tossed the game console to Su Nian and wiped the orange juice off his hands: "And then?"

"You must promise me one thing."

C.C.'s tone was flat, "In exchange, you can take all the power there as you please."

Lelouch turned his head sharply to look over.

The Island of the Gods and the "World of C" were core secrets he had always been trying to explore; C.C. was actually offering them up as a bargaining chip so easily.

Yu Feng stood up from the sofa and stretched.

"Sure."

He replied casually, "Consider it a post-meal stroll."

He walked up to C.C.

"Go prepare a boat."

C.C. turned around, "That location is deep in the ocean, and the Imperial military has a blockade line..."

Before she could finish her sentence, her waist suddenly tightened.

Yu Feng reached out with his left hand and wrapped it around her slender waist.

Immediately after, he reached out his right hand and grabbed the back of Lelouch's collar.

"Taking a boat is too slow."

Yu Feng's left hand produced a primitive-looking staff out of thin air.

An extraordinary item: the teleportation staff.

He waved it casually.

The surrounding space twisted and folded violently.

The lights of the command room instantly stretched into countless blurred lines, and the sensation of weightlessness lasted less than half a second.

His feet touched solid ground again.

The sea breeze blew on their faces, carrying a heavy salty and fishy smell.

Surrounded by jagged reefs and the deep night, a massive hemispherical artificial structure stood directly in front of them.

The outer walls were covered in moss, exuding an ancient aura.

This was the entrance to the Island of the Gods ruins.

Hundreds of kilometers away from the Tokyo Settlement.

Lelouch's legs went weak, and he nearly collapsed onto the reef.

He clutched his chest and dry-heaved twice, then looked up at the surrounding environment, his brain completely shutting down.

C.C.'s usually unchanging face completely cracked.

She stared blankly at Yu Feng.

"Teleportation?"

"Spatial transfer across hundreds of kilometers?"

This was completely outside the rule system of Geass, and even exceeded the physical limits that the "World of C" could interfere with.

"Let's go."

Yu Feng let go and stuffed the staff back into his Portable Space, "What are you dazed for?"

C.C. took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in her heart, and walked to the entrance of the ruins.

In front of her was a special alloy door over ten meters high.

The surface was carved with intricate patterns.

"There is a mental defense field left behind by the ancients here, as well as a self-destruct mechanism."

C.C. raised her right hand to her mouth, "It must be sacrificed with blood bearing the Code mark, in order to..."

Just as she was about to bite her finger, her shoulder was pulled aside by someone.

Yu Feng pushed her aside, looking very impatient.

"It's just opening a door, what's with the blood sacrifice ritual."

He walked to the front of the door.

The S-rank exclusive ability [Divine Power] inside his body erupted instantly.

A dark golden halo exploded along his right leg, and the surrounding air let out an unbearable sonic boom.

Yu Feng lifted his leg and kicked the center of the alloy door.

"BOOM!!!"

The deafening loud noise tore through the night sky of the island.

The alloy door of the ruins, capable of withstanding a direct hit from a tactical nuclear missile, along with the invisible mental defense field behind it, shattered instantly under this kick.

Hundreds of tons of metal fragments, mixed with violent air currents, were ejected into the interior of the ruins, forcibly smashing out a wide passage.

The alarm didn't even have a chance to sound, as the control hub of the self-destruct mechanism was crushed into powder by the aftermath of this kick.

Violent breakthrough, simple and direct.

Yu Feng retracted his leg, brushed the dust off his pant leg, and strode inside.

C.C.'s finger was still held to her mouth.

She looked at that empty, massive doorway, unable to recover for a long time.

The core area of the ruins.

With the three of them breaking in, the holographic projection equipment buried deep underground was automatically activated.

A ghostly blue light lit up the surroundings.

Countless chaotic images began to flicker in mid-air.

That was the origin of Geass, and also the flashback of C.C.'s memories from living for hundreds of years.

In the images, she was tied to a stake, flames consuming her body; she was locked in an iron cage and submerged into the ocean floor, struggling repeatedly in suffocation; she was pinned to an execution platform, with various torture devices taking turns.

For her, death was not the end, but an endless cycle of torture.

C.C. collapsed onto the cold floor.

Those memories she had forcibly suppressed in the depths of her heart surged up instantly.

She raised her head, and for the first time, a bone-deep exhaustion appeared in those eyes that had always been calm.

"This is my wish."

She looked at Yu Feng, her voice dry.

"I have lived too long."

"Kill me."

C.C. looked up, "As long as you can kill me, the power here, the authority of the World of C, all belong to you."

Lelouch stood in the back, his hands clenched.

He knew that C.C. had a desire to die, but his current power was simply unable to strip away the Code.

Yu Feng walked up to her and crouched down.

He looked at this witch who had lived for hundreds of years and twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Dying is so boring."

Yu Feng raised his right hand.

[magic energy furnace] activated.

Dark golden flames rose in his palm; these flames had no temperature but carried an extremely terrifying high-dimensional devouring attribute.

He pressed his hand, burning with dark golden flames, directly onto C.C.'s chest.

His palm met no physical resistance, passing directly through her skin and reaching into the depths of her soul.

C.C. shuddered violently.

She felt a power that transcended the rules of this plane, forcibly tearing at something in the depths of her soul.

That was the "Code" mark bestowed upon her by the underlying structure of the plane, the root of her curse of immortality.

Under the burning and purification of the dark golden flames, the indestructible mark began to tremble violently.

"Come out."

Yu Feng curled his fingers and pulled outward violently.

"Rip—"

An extremely faint, yet soul-piercing tearing sound.

A dark red mark was forcibly extracted from her body by Yu Feng and thrown into the magic energy furnace in his palm, instantly being purified into pure energy.

The curse of immortality that had tormented C.C. for hundreds of years was completely severed.

Yu Feng retracted his hand.

C.C. collapsed on the floor, gasping for air.

She subconsciously touched her chest.

It was warm.

Her heart was beating.

It was a rhythmic, vibrant beat.

She could feel the coolness of the surrounding air, the hardness of the floor; for the first time, her senses had become so vivid.

That was the body temperature of a normal human.

This witch, who had seen through the coldness of the world, sat on the ground, and tears fell without warning.

Hundreds of years of despair were completely shattered at this moment.

She supported herself on the ground with both hands, slowly turned around, faced Yu Feng, and then solemnly knelt on one knee.

Her head bowed, her posture was humble to the extreme.

"From today on."

C.C.'s voice had a heavy nasal tone, yet was exceptionally clear, "Everything I am belongs to you."

Lelouch, standing in the back, felt his scalp tingle.

He looked at C.C. on the ground, then looked at Yu Feng.

His own contractor, the witch who could bestow the power of Geass, had just been turned into someone else's exclusive servant by a few seconds of bare-handed manipulation.

This was simply not a power system of the same dimension.

Yu Feng ignored C.C. kneeling on the ground.

He stood up and swept his gaze toward the back of the ruin's core area.

The alloy wall there had collapsed by more than half, revealing an extremely spacious underground workshop.

In the center of the workshop stood a massive black mecha in silence.

It was over six meters tall, equipped with broad floating flight wings on its back, and massive hadron cannon barrels mounted on its shoulders.

Although many cables on its surface were not yet connected, the sense of oppression was already rushing toward him.

The seventh-generation large-scale mecha the Empire was secretly developing, the Gawain prototype.

"Good stuff."

Yu Feng stepped forward.

He directly activated the automatic collection function of the [Infinite Portable Space].

A void rift opened in mid-air, generating a massive suction force.

Within a few seconds, this Gawain prototype weighing dozens of tons, all the high-dimensional materials scattered around, and all the experimental data in the main control computer were swept clean and swallowed into the space.

"Chu Yu, parse the data."

Yu Feng issued the command in his mind.

"Received. Data parsing complete. The Gawain prototype is currently 70% complete, and there is a flaw in the power system."

Chu Yu's report came through the communication channel.

"Throw it into the magic energy furnace."

Yu Feng didn't hesitate.

He consumed 50,000 units of top-tier interstellar energy cubes, combined with the high-dimensional materials he had just scavenged, to initiate a 10:1 extreme magic modification fusion in the magic energy furnace.

Dark golden flames burned fiercely inside the space.

The system prompt sounded.

[Fusion complete! Gawain prototype magic modification successful!]

[Obtained unit: Magic-infused Gawain (Tier 8 Tactical Mecha)]

[Unit characteristics: Equipped with an infinite interstellar power source, immune to conventional physical penetration. Shoulder hadron cannons replaced with plasma annihilation cannons, with a range of 50 kilometers. Rear flight wings integrated with anti-gravity devices, capable of supersonic cruising.]

Yu Feng nodded with satisfaction.

He had gotten the Empire's top technology for free and even upgraded it while he was at it.

He turned around and waved at C.C., who was still kneeling on the ground, and the dazed Lelouch.

"Time to go back."

Tokyo Settlement, Ashford Academy.

The afternoon sun was just right, and the campus was filled with students wearing uniforms.

Yu Feng, wearing the Ashford Academy uniform with an empty school bag slung over one shoulder, strolled along the tree-lined path.

He had left C.C. at the base for Euphemia to arrange, while he ran back to school to keep up his daily routine as a transfer student.

Just as he passed the fountain square, a red figure walked out from around the corner.

Kallen.

She was looking down, her steps somewhat unsteady.

Last night, she had followed The Black Knights to take out two of the Empire's hidden sentries on the periphery, hadn't closed her eyes all night, and then rushed back to school for class in the morning; her entire being was stretched to the limit.

She looked up and happened to bump into Yu Feng, who was walking toward her.

Kallen's steps stopped instantly.

She had seen with her own eyes this man standing on the roof of a warehouse, forcing back the Knights of the Round with a single sentence, and turning scrap metal into a mecha with a snap of his fingers.

Within The Black Knights, Yu Feng was the absolute ceiling of combat power, an existence that even Lelouch had to bow his head to.

"You..." Kallen swallowed, her voice lowering unconsciously, "What are you doing here?"

"Taking a walk."

Yu Feng walked up to her and looked her up and down, "Your dark circles are almost falling to the ground. Were you on a mission?"

Kallen nodded.

"Alright, stop holding yourself so tight."

Yu Feng suddenly reached out and grabbed Kallen's wrist.

Kallen stiffened all over, subconsciously wanting to break free: "What are you doing? I have class in the afternoon..."

"Screw the class."

Yu Feng dragged her toward the direction of the school wall.

Kallen couldn't pull him at all; the strength in that hand was as steady as if it were welded in place.

The two arrived at the wall, and Yu Feng put his arm around her waist and tapped his feet lightly.

Kallen only felt a blur before her eyes, and she had already floated lightly over the three-meter-high wall, landing steadily on the street outside the school.

"Let's go, I'll take you to relax."

Ten minutes later, at the largest arcade in the 7th District.

Extremely noisy electronic music and game sound effects filled the entire hall.

Kallen was holding a plastic basket filled with game tokens, following behind Yu Feng somewhat awkwardly.

Her usual life, besides going to school, was piloting mechas to kill; she had never been to a place like this.

"Which one do you like?"

Yu Feng stopped in front of a whole row of claw machines.

Kallen was stunned for a moment.

The display case was piled with various plush toys.

She pointed to a huge red rabbit doll in the very back.

"That one."

Yu Feng inserted a coin and gripped the joystick.

The terrifying perception brought by his S-rank divine power allowed him to control spatial coordinates with millimeter precision.

The mechanical claw descended.

Without any suspense, the red rabbit was steadily grabbed and dropped into the exit.

Before Kallen could even be surprised, Yu Feng had already started inserting coins for the next round.

The next half hour became a nightmare for the arcade owner.

Yu Feng started from the first machine and swept through them all.

Whether they were in the corner, pressed at the very bottom, or unstable, as long as he moved the joystick, he would grab one accurately every time.

The dolls in Kallen's arms grew more and more numerous.

From the initial red rabbit to white bears and black cats, finally, she couldn't hold any more and had to ask the staff for a large woven bag.

Looking at the loot stuffed full in the woven bag, Kallen couldn't help but laugh out loud.

It wasn't the laughter of a sickly young lady pretending, nor the laughter of a cold female warrior in The Black Knights, but the purest, happiest smile belonging to an ordinary teenage girl.

When the two left the arcade, it was already getting dark.

The setting sun dyed the street orange-red.

Kallen carried the huge woven bag, walking beside Yu Feng.

The mental tension had disappeared completely.

"Thank you."

She turned her head, looking at Yu Feng's profile, her voice very soft.

"Small thing."

Yu Feng had his hands in his pockets.

When they were about to reach the back street of the academy, the intersection was suddenly blocked by a few people.

Three boys wearing Imperial Noble Academy uniforms were leaning against the wall, looking like hooligans.

The leader had dyed yellow hair and was playing with a lighter in his hand.

"Yo, isn't this Ashford's young lady Kallen?"

The yellow-haired boy stepped forward, his gaze sweeping over Kallen unscrupulously, "You usually act so high and mighty at banquets, how come you're hanging out with a commoner today?"

Kallen's expression turned cold instantly.

She recognized these people; they were well-known playboys in the settlement, and their families all had some background in the military.

They often pestered her on various occasions.

She was just about to open her mouth to curse them away.

Yu Feng didn't stop his pace at all.

He didn't even turn his head to look at those nobles; he just released a trace of [Divine Might] very casually as he passed by them.

It was a targeted burst of mental suppression.

An extremely dull hum suddenly came from the air.

The lewd smile on the yellow-haired boy's face froze instantly.

He only felt a ten-thousand-ton steel mountain suddenly press down on his shoulders, and his kneecaps made a crisp sound.

Thump!

The three nobles didn't even have time to let out a scream before they simultaneously slammed their knees onto the concrete floor, creating a pool of blood.

They lay on the ground, twitching violently, their eyes rolling back.

A large patch of their crotches instantly became wet, and a foul, pungent odor spread.

Even until Yu Feng and Kallen had walked more than ten meters away, the three people were still lying on the ground trembling.

Kallen turned her head, looking at the man beside her.

He didn't even need to lift a finger to solve trouble.

Domineering, protective, and unreasonably strong.

Her heartbeat began to accelerate wildly, and her cheeks turned red all the way to her ears.

She suddenly felt that being just a female warrior who only knew how to pilot mechas was quite boring.

If she could stay by this man's side forever, it seemed... not bad either.