229: Chapter 229: One hundred thousand Asan souls, training Amaterasu!

Ten minutes.

Just ten minutes!

The desert battlefield, once filled with thunderous clamor and murderous intent!

Was completely… silent!

The one hundred thousand ‘disaster relief’ army of the Ah San!

Along with their tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery… at this moment!

All had turned into… nutrients… for this deathly desert!

Broken steel fragments lay half-buried in the yellow sand, emitting black smoke.

Charred remains mixed with dark red sand, giving off a nauseating smell of burning and blood.

The wind blew.

Kicking up sand mixed with blood foam.

Like the sigh of hell.

Only the majestic Pyramid still stood, golden light flowing, spotless, as if the insane shelling and charge just now were merely an insignificant farce.

Buzz buzz buzz—

High in the sky!

A few belated Ah San Air Force fighter jets, like agitated flies, were still circling!

They had clearly received a death order!

The pilots watched in terror the suddenly appearing deathly desert below, which had swallowed one hundred thousand of their comrades, and that eerie Pyramid!

“Bomb! All ordnance! Drop it all down!!” A hoarse roar, filled with fear, came from the command center in the communication channel!

The fighter jets dove!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

High-explosive bombs! Like black eggs of the God of Death! Detached from their pylons! Screaming as they plummeted towards the Pyramid!

A futile attack!

Dilireba didn’t even bother to raise her hand.

The sandstorm canopy around the Pyramid rippled slightly.

Like a giant beast yawning.

Those bombs were swallowed, annihilated, and silently detonated by the endless yellow sand.

They couldn’t even make the sand curtain tremble.

On top of the Pyramid.

Lin Mo ignored the flies above his head.

All his attention was immersed in the surging, ocean-like energy deep within his consciousness!

[Current Brain Quantum: 10.23 million / 8 million]

Enough!

Far exceeding what was needed to unlock Amaterasu Hime!

Even… more than enough!

An indescribable burning sensation, as if a sun was about to be born deep within his soul!

“Now is the time!”

Lin Mo suddenly opened his eyes!

Golden flames seemed to burn in his pupils!

He looked up!

Towards the sky!

Let out an earth-shattering roar!

“Amaterasu Hime—!!!”

His voice was like thunder! Piercing through the sandstorm! Soaring to the heavens!

Buzz—!!!

Centered on Lin Mo!

The entire space at the top of the Pyramid!

Suddenly twisted! Collapsed!

Endless light and heat emerged from thin air!

The air crackled, scorched by the high temperature! His vision distorted!

A blinding, scorching white beam of light! Crashed down from the sky! Fiercely piercing into the top of the Pyramid!

Within the light beam!

Countless profound crimson runes flowed and intertwined like living creatures!

A petite figure, exuding extreme sharpness and scorching heat!

Slowly… condensed… within the endless light and heat!

Taking shape!

The light gradually faded.

A figure stepped out of the light.

Less than 1.5 meters tall, petite and exquisite.

Yet, she wore a set of ghost armor, black as night, with a ferocious design, covered in sharp spikes and dark red energy circuits!

The ghost armor wrapped her tightly, yet it highlighted a strange sense of both fragility and danger.

At her waist hung a nodachi slightly longer than her height; its scabbard was ancient, yet it exuded a chilling, heart-palpitating sense of cutting cold.

She raised her small hand and gently brushed her forehead.

A delicate, doll-like loli face was revealed.

Her skin was snow-white, her pupils a rare scorching gold, like molten gold, but her eyes were cold, indifferent, without a trace of emotion.

Her cherry lips were small, pressed into a cold, straight line.

It was—Amaterasu Hime!

She tilted her head slightly, her scorching golden pupils looking at Lin Mo, her voice clear and calm, yet carrying a bond that reached deep into the soul:

“My Lord…”

“Finally, I see you again.”

There was no passionate embrace, no excited tears.

As if she had only been away for a short while.

But deep within those cold golden eyes, an imperceptible ripple flashed and disappeared.

She didn’t immediately cling to him like Dilireba or Dong Xiaowan.

Instead, she slowly turned her head.

Her scorching golden pupils instantly locked onto the fighter jets still futilely dropping bombs high in the sky!

“Noisy… iron flies.”

She extended her slender hand, covered by the ghost armor, and… gently clenched it in the void!

“Turn into instruments of hell… and submit.”

Buzz—!!!

An invisible yet incomparably overbearing and terrifying force field! Instantly enveloped those fighter jets!

“Alarm! Alarm! Aircraft structure under attack by unknown force field!!”

“Metal fatigue!!”

“Ah!! What’s squeezing it!!”

The pilots inside the fighter jets let out desperate, piercing screams!

The next second!

A grating creak—crunch—!! Sound! Rang through the sky!

Those fighter jets!

Like toys squeezed by an invisible giant hand!

The fuselage! The wings! The engines! All metal structures!

Amidst the hair-raising twisting sounds!

Madly… deformed! Compressed! Folded!

The pilots inside!

Didn’t even have time to scream!

They were… splat! splat! splat! by the madly compressing and deforming cockpits!

Crushed! Flattened! Ground!

Turning into clumps of… minced meat! Mixed with bone fragments and metal slag! Spraying out from the cracks!

In just two or three seconds!

Several advanced fighter jets!

In the sky!

Were forcefully kneaded and reshaped!

Turning into four thick, massive, terrifyingly textured, and coldly gleaming… giant black iron chains!

One end of each chain quickly solidified into a huge, sharp, barbed iron hook!

Amaterasu Hime waved her small hand casually!

“Go.”

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Four giant iron chains! Like four roaring black metal pythons! Ripping through the sky! At a terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound!

Instantly caught up with the helicopter that had already escaped far away and was desperately gaining altitude!

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

Four heart-stopping sounds of tearing metal!

Four huge iron hooks!

With incomparable precision!

Fiercely pierced through the helicopter’s tail, both side doors, and the base of the top propeller!

The chains instantly tautened!

“Clang!!”

The entire helicopter, like a whale struck by a harpoon! Trembled violently! Instantly lost all power! And was firmly dragged in mid-air by the four iron chains! Unable to move!

The propeller spun weakly a few times, then completely stopped.

Inside the cabin.

The One-Eyed Dragon King and several trusted military officers were scared out of their wits by this sudden drastic change!

The fuselage shook wildly! Alarms shrieked!

“What’s going on?!!” The One-Eyed Dragon King gripped his seat tightly, his emaciated face distorted by extreme fear, “Pilot! How are you flying this plane?!!”

“Sir! It’s not us!!” The pilot, his face ashen, looked at the completely unresponsive control panel, “It’s… it’s something from behind… it hooked us!!”

An officer tremblingly pulled open a crack in the cabin door and looked down—

He saw four massive, coldly gleaming giant iron chains extending from the desert below, firmly hooking the aircraft!

The other end of the chains disappeared in the direction of that eerie Pyramid!

“Chains… chains! It’s chains!!” The officer’s voice changed pitch, “Chains… extending from the desert! They hooked us!!”

“Nonsense!!” The One-Eyed Dragon King slapped him, “Where would chains come from in the desert that could hook a plane?!”

But when he himself peered out the porthole and saw the four terrifying iron chains, he was completely dumbfounded!

His worldview suffered an unprecedented impact!

“Jump… parachute!!” A young adjutant broke down, looking at the ground getting closer and closer below (the helicopter was being forcefully dragged down by the chains), screaming, “If we don’t jump now, it’ll be too late!!”

He violently pulled open the cabin door!

A fierce gust of wind instantly rushed in!