242: Blood Covenant

Su Lei extended his hand, and a golden glow appeared in his palm.

The golden light, like water, slowly flowed, successively covering the bodies of the five female warriors.

Under the nourishment of his pure Divine Soul power, the paleness on their faces gradually receded, a hint of color returning, and their rapidly fading life force stabilized once more.

One of the female warriors, who seemed to be the leader, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly, with difficulty, awakened from her deep coma.

When she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a man exuding an aura as powerful as an abyss or a prison.

She instinctively tried to struggle to her feet, to assume a fighting stance.

"Don't move, your body is still very weak."

Su Lei said calmly.

Only then did the female warrior realize that her companions were still lying on the ground, and around them were a dozen corpses of black-robed cultists, all gruesomely dead.

She instantly understood that this man in front of her had saved them.

"Who are you? Where is this..."

"I am Su Lei. You were captured by the Forgotten Ones Sect and used as sacrifices."

Su Lei offered no further explanation. He grabbed the cultist he had left alive from the ground and threw him in front of the female warrior like a dead dog.

"Take me to your stronghold."

The female warrior was still very wary.

An outsider, an impossibly powerful man, his appearance in this isolated city was the greatest anomaly in itself.

"My enemies are also your enemies."

Su Lei added, then transformed the information about the "Genetic Withering" curse and the betrayal of the Gravekeepers into a cold stream of data, mercilessly implanting it into her mind.

The female warrior's body trembled violently, and her beautiful ice-blue eyes were instantly filled with towering rage.

"No, this is impossible! The Gravekeepers, how could they dare!"

"There's nothing they wouldn't dare. Now, take me to someone who can make decisions."

"Or do you wish to continue being used by your own kin as firewood to prolong the Queen's life, burned one by one until nothing remains?"

These words, like the sharpest blade, became the final straw that broke the last line of defense in her heart.

She struggled to her feet and performed the most solemn single-knee kneeling salute of a Valkyrie warrior to Su Lei.

"Great warrior, please follow me."

Led by this Awakening Faction squad leader named Freya, Su Lei, dragging the half-dead captive as evidence, swiftly moved through the intricate ice city.

Freya knew the city like the back of her hand. She led Su Lei through extremely hidden, long-abandoned energy pipelines, or narrow crevices between collapsed buildings.

Along the way, they brushed past patrolling Puppet legions several times, but relying on their familiarity with the terrain and Su Lei's almost perfect Qi concealment technique, enhanced by the power of space and time, they managed to avoid them without incident.

Finally, they stopped before an enormous ice wall.

Freya stepped forward and, with a unique and complex rhythm, gently tapped the ice wall nine times.

A moment later, the indestructible ice wall silently parted like flowing water, revealing a deep passage shimmering with soft runic light.

At the other end of the passage was a completely different world.

It was no longer the desolate, unchanging ice blue, but a warm-toned realm full of life.

Giant glowing crystals floated at the top of the enormous cavern, simulating the alternation of day and night.

On the cavern walls, a unique self-heating material formed exquisite and distinctive houses.

Geothermal energy from deep underground was guided by complex runic Formations, creating babbling streams that flowed with warm Qi.

This was the Awakening Faction's last and most secret stronghold.

Su Lei's arrival instantly shattered the tranquility and peace here.

"Intruder!"

A sharp alarm pierced the silence of the cavern.

The next second, dozens of Awakening Faction warriors, armed with ice crystal longbows and battle axes gleaming with cold light, surged from all directions. Their movements were as swift as wind, and they exuded a solid, battle-hardened Killing Intent, surrounding Su Lei.

"Freya! How dare you bring an outsider, a man, into our Holy Land!"

A female warrior wielding a massive frost scythe stepped forward, harshly questioning Freya.

"Yelena, let me explain, he..."

Freya frantically tried to explain.

Su Lei, however, directly interrupted her.

He threw the cultist captive, who was already beyond recognition, in front of the female warrior named Yelena.

The captive groaned in pain on the ground, his body twitching like a maggot.

"What does this mean?"

Yelena's battle scythe gleamed even more fiercely, almost touching Su Lei's throat.

Su Lei still said nothing.

He simply extended a finger and pointed it at the captive's forehead on the ground from a distance.

The next moment, a series of bloody scenes transformed into a gigantic holographic image, unfolding with perfect clarity before all the Awakening Faction warriors.

They saw the Gravekeepers' Elder and the Forgotten Ones Sect's Bishop reaching a secret agreement.

They saw their own kin being personally sent to that evil altar by the sisters who were supposed to be their guardians.

Finally, there was the most despair-inducing truth about Genetic Withering.

The entire stronghold fell into a deathly silence.

All the female warriors stared blankly at the image.

"So, that's how it is..."

"What we always thought was internal strife was a deception from the very beginning!"

"The Gravekeepers, those damned traitors!!!"

Yelena stared intently at the captive on the ground, who served as living proof, then slowly raised her head to look at the man who had been terrifyingly calm throughout.

"Is all of this true?"

Su Lei did not answer the question, merely walked slowly to the captive.

The captive also seemed to know that his usefulness was over. He raised his head and, with his last ounce of strength, shrieked: "Kill me! You heretics! The great Lord God will eventually purify this defiled world! All of you will die! All of you will die!"

Su Lei raised his foot, then brought it down.

Crunch!

The sound of a skull shattering echoed in the deathly silent cavern, unsettlingly clear!

After completing all this, Su Lei raised his head and looked at Yelena.

"My enemy is the Forgotten Ones Sect. Your enemy is the Gravekeepers. Now, our enemy is the same."

"I will help you cleanse your ranks, and you will lead me into the White Tower."

A bloody declaration, a naked transaction.

Yelena looked at Su Lei.

She remained silent for a long, long time.

Finally, she put away her battle scythe and bowed deeply to Su Lei.

"Yelena, leader of the Valkyrie Awakening Faction, accepts your alliance."

After witnessing the bloody truth, they knew better than anyone that they could not, with their own strength alone, contend against the combined forces of the Gravekeepers and the Forgotten Ones Sect.

This impossibly powerful man before them was their only and last hope.

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