56: The miners knelt in worship! Su Jue's divine might shattered the royal army!
"xiao pu, activate 'Ghost' mode."
"Find the most concealed flight path and land on the surface."
"As you command, my King."
The optical camouflage on the surface of human emperor no. 1 activated once again.
The massive frame slowly rose from the berth, then, like a transparent phantom, it blended into the stream of transport ships leaving the port.
It didn't alarm anyone, just... brazenly flying towards the atmosphere of K-7 Planet... passing through the thick, dusky yellow clouds filled with radioactive dust.
human emperor no. 1 soon landed on a desolate red Gobi desert.
As far as the eye could see.
The entire world seemed to be shrouded in a gray and defeated tone.
The earth was torn to pieces by a series of bottomless, giant rift valleys.
Those rifts were not formed naturally.
Instead, they were incredibly massive open-pit mines!
At the bottom and on the cliffs of the pits, densely packed figures, like ants, were crawling with difficulty.
They were dressed in rags, gaunt and emaciated, with numb expressions.
Wielding the crudest of tools, day after day, year after year, they excavated those source crystals from the hard rock.
Above their heads, squads of fully armed Wang Family soldiers, piloting small mechas, patrolled back and forth.
The high-energy weapons in their hands flickered with a cold, chilling light.
The way they looked at those mining slaves was as if they were looking at a herd of livestock.
Occasionally, a mining slave would collapse from exhaustion.
The patrolling soldiers would pull the trigger without hesitation.
A beam of energy flashed.
The fallen figure would instantly turn into a lump of charcoal.
Then, a machine nearby would come forward to clear away the 'trash,' the entire process smooth and efficient, like an assembly line.
It was as if they were not dealing with a Life.
But rather... a scrapped part.
Inside the cockpit.
Su Jue watched all of this quietly.
He didn't speak.
But those electronic eyes, burning with golden flames, became increasingly hot!
He saw it.
He saw the serial numbers representing 'property' branded onto those mining slaves.
He saw the... electronic collars around their necks that would instantly detonate if they attempted to escape.
He saw a frail youth of the human race, who, just for taking an extra look at a patrolling mecha, was kicked to the ground by a soldier and had his head smashed in with a rifle butt!
He saw an alien mother holding an Infant, kneeling on the ground, pleading bitterly just to get a sip of clean water for her child, only to be pierced through by a soldier's shot along with the Infant in her arms!
...Scene after scene.
Deed after deed.
Like the sharpest of knives, they stabbed fiercely into Su Jue's soul!
The suppressed anger in his chest could no longer be contained at this moment!
Boom—!!!
A golden aura soared into the sky from the frame of human emperor no. 1!
That supreme imperial majesty, originating from the Primeval Human Emperor, crashed and swept across a hundred-mile radius!
"Buzz—"
The communication equipment of the entire mining area instantly failed under this pressure!
All the patrolling mechas were like they were drunk, staggering and then falling from mid-air like dumplings into a pot!
In the mine pits, all the mining slaves who were working stopped their movements.
They looked up in terror.
They saw it.
At the end of that distant red Gobi desert.
A colossal figure, standing tall between heaven and earth like a god or demon, was slowly standing up!
It was bathed in golden flames!
It radiated... a supreme majesty... that made their very souls tremble!
"That... what is that?!"
"A god... has a god descended?!"
"Save us... O God! Save us!"
After a brief dead silence, the entire mining area completely boiled over!
Countless mining slaves threw away their tools, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed frantically in that direction, weeping bitter tears!
They had been oppressed for too long!
They had been in despair for too long!
At this moment, this suddenly appearing giant statue, with divine might like a prison, became their only hope!
"Wang... Family..."
Su Jue controlled human emperor no. 1 and took a step forward.
With every step it took, the earth trembled violently!
Its extremely cold announcement, as if coming from the nine levels of hell, resounded through the entire world via the loudspeakers!
"I, Su Jue."
"Have returned!"
"From this day forth!"
"This planet, I, take over!"
"All people of the Wang Family..."
"Will be exterminated, not one left!"
Su Jue's announcement was like a creation thunderbolt, striking hard upon this silent mining area!
Those Wang Family soldiers who were originally flaunting their power were now scared out of their wits, one by one!
Their mechas failed, their communications were cut off, and facing that three-hundred-meter-tall war demon god walking towards them step by step, they felt... like a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered!
"En... Enemy attack!!"
"Quick! Quick, request reinforcements from the base!!"
A fellow who seemed to be a squad leader was the first to react; he scrambled out of his crashed mecha and roared frantically into his communicator.
However, there was only a... sizzling... static noise in the communicator.
Under the shroud of human emperor no. 1's imperial majesty, this area had already formed a... Law Forbidden Zone!
Any energy or information with a lower will level than his could not be transmitted out!
"It's useless."
Su Jue's cold voice descended from the sky.
"This is now my domain."
As the words fell.
human emperor no. 1 raised its massive metal arm.
Then, it gave a light wave towards the densest concentration of soldiers below.
"Whoosh—"
There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any world-destroying energy beams.
Only an insignificant breeze.
That breeze brushed across the earth.
Then... those hundreds of fully armed Wang Family soldiers, along with the mecha wreckage beneath them, silently... turned into flying ash under the horrified gaze of all the mining slaves, like sand sculptures being weathered away!
Not even a trace of blood was left behind!
Divine Ability — Decay Aura!
Amplified by human emperor no. 1, this divine ability that could originally only affect a ten-meter range had now become a... Death domain covering several kilometers!
One strike!
Just one strike!
Hundreds of soldiers were annihilated!
The entire mining area fell into a deathly silence!
All the mining slaves widened their eyes and opened their mouths.
Their brains were a complete blank!
A miracle!
This... this was a miracle!
The overseers they considered invincible and brutal were, in front of this golden demon god, actually... actually so vulnerable!
After the brief shock came a volcanic eruption of wild joy!