Chapter 88 The Demon Lord is Born, Heaven and Earth Collapse

Night, as black as a lump of indelible ink.

The wild winds of the Northern Territory howled, carrying bone-chilling cold and a thick scent of blood, washing over the mottled walls of the Third Fortress again and again.

Inside the fortress, the atmosphere was suppressed to the extreme.

Although the Demonic Beast Lord had temporarily retreated, the shadow of death hanging over their heads left everyone unable to catch their breath.

In the command room, Lei Heng paced back and forth anxiously, his single eye bloodshot.

"Where are the reinforcements? Have the reinforcements from the Imperial Capital not arrived yet?"

"Report, Regiment Commander!" The communications soldier was drenched in sweat. "Communications are down! The magnetic field of the entire Northern Territory is in chaos. We can't send out any messages, nor can we receive any orders!"

"Damn it!"

Lei Heng slammed his fist onto the table, causing the alloy surface to instantly dent. "That old monster, he wants to trap us here and kill us!"

"Regiment Commander Lei, now is not the time to lose your temper."

Mu Qingxue stood to the side, her expression equally grim. "The Demonic Beast Lord is just gathering strength. Once he recovers, this fortress of ours... simply won't be able to hold him off."

"Even if we can't hold him off, we must!"

Lei Heng gritted his teeth. "My soldiers are all here! Even if we die, we must bite off a piece of his flesh!"

Just then.

Rumble—!

The ground suddenly shook violently, more intensely than any time before. The water cup on the table bounced, and the chandelier on the ceiling swayed dangerously.

"What's going on? An earthquake?"

"No! It's from underground!"

Someone shouted, pointing outside the window.

Through the reinforced glass, everyone saw a scene that filled them with despair.

Directly in front of the fortress, the once flat wasteland was now being lifted up like a giant carpet.

Countless pitch-black cracks spread across the ground, like greedy mouths devouring everything.

And in the center of those cracks, a massive altar built from black crystals slowly rose.

Atop the altar, the Black Fiend Demonic Beast Lord sat cross-legged, surrounded by thick black mist.

"Hehehe..."

His laughter spread across the entire battlefield through Mental Energy. "Ants, are you ready to welcome your doom?"

"Sacrifice!"

The Demonic Beast Lord gave the order.

"Roar—!!!"

From those countless underground cracks, tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts poured out.

Unlike the cannon fodder from before, each one exuded a powerful aura of at least Fifth Grade or higher. Among them were even a dozen or so Sixth and Seventh Grade Beast Kings!

They didn't attack directly, but instead charged frantically toward the altar, and then... self-destructed!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, staining the altar red.

With the sacrifice of countless Demonic Beasts, the aura on the Demonic Beast Lord began to skyrocket at a terrifying speed.

S-rank Early Stage... Middle Stage... Late Stage...

In just a few minutes, he had recovered to the Half-step War God Realm!

"Is this... true power?"

Lei Heng looked at that figure resembling a demonic god, a deep sense of powerlessness rising in his heart.

This was simply not a battle of the same magnitude.

"Break!"

The Demonic Beast Lord slowly raised his hand and pointed gently toward the fortress.

Hum!

A black beam of light shot from his fingertip, instantly crossing a distance of several kilometers and slamming into the fortress's defensive shield.

"Crack!"

That energy shield, which claimed to be able to withstand a nuclear explosion, was as fragile as glass before this beam of light, instantly covered in cracks, and then shattered with a boom.

"Ah!!!"

Several operators in the control room screamed, their seven orifices bleeding from the backlash of energy as they died on the spot.

"The shield... is broken?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

That was their final barrier for survival!

"Kill! Leave no one alive!"

The Demonic Beast Lord ordered coldly.

"Roar!"

This time, the beast tide was no longer a suicide attack, but launched a true charge.

Countless Demonic Beasts, like a black tsunami, instantly submerged the first line of defense of the fortress.

"Hold! Hold the line for me!"

Lei Heng drew his war saber and was the first to charge up.

"Thunder Slash!"

The blade light was like lightning, instantly shattering a Sixth Grade Demonic Wolf that charged up.

But the next second, more Demonic Beasts pounced up.

"Puchi!"

A sharp claw pierced through Lei Heng's shoulder.

"Regiment Commander!"

The adjutant wanted to rescue him, but was knocked flying by a savage bull.

Lei Heng fought while covered in blood, but he was only a Third-level Grandmaster after all. Facing the endless beast tide, he also felt incapable.

"Could it be... that it's really over?"

He glanced behind him, where there were thousands of young recruits; they were the future of the Human Race.

"No! I cannot retreat!"

Lei Heng's eyes flashed with determination. "Even if I die, I must buy time for them!"

"Burn! My life!"

He prepared to self-destruct!

Just at this critical moment.

"So noisy..."

An extremely impatient voice suddenly rang out over the battlefield.

The voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to possess a magic, piercing through all the sounds of slaughter and clearly entering everyone's ears.

Immediately after.

"Boom!"

A purple beam of light shot into the sky from the barracks in Area A deep within the fortress.

Within that beam of light contained a heart-palpitating Mental Energy storm.

Any Demonic Beast swept by the beam of light, whether Fifth Grade or Seventh Grade, all became stiff, and then fell from the city wall like rocks.

"This is..."

Lei Heng was stunned, and the movements in his hands stopped.

He turned his head and looked toward the source of the beam of light.

He saw a young man wearing spongebob pajamas, wearing slippers, and holding a pillow in his arms, standing on the ruins of the barracks whose roof had been blown off.

Jiang Chen.

He had woken up.

But he looked to be in a very bad mood. Very bad.

In those eyes, two black flames were burning.

"I just... had a dream."

Jiang Chen spoke slowly, his voice ice-cold and bone-piercing. "In the dream, I was just about to sleep on the Empress's lap... no, on a soft, fluffy cloud."

"But..."

He pointed at the Demonic Beast Lord in the distance, then pointed at the Demonic Beasts that were still roaring.

"You bunch of flies, you've been buzzing non-stop."

"Not only did you wake me up, but you also ruined... my dream."

【Ding! Detected that the host's Waking Up Anger has exceeded the critical value!】

【Current Rage: ∞ (Infinite).】

【Activated Ultimate State: Nightmare Arrival · Divine Punishment!】

【System Prompt: Please pay attention to controlling the intensity, host; don't break the Earth.】

"Ruined my dream..."

Jiang Chen slowly raised his hand, and that starry blue pillow lit up again with a dazzling purple light.

"Then use your lives... to compensate."

"Kneel!!!"

Boom—!!!

As these two words were spoken.

A pressure even more terrifying, more domineering, and more unreasonable than the Demonic Beast Lord's instantly erupted from Jiang Chen.

In the sky, the wind and clouds changed color.

A giant purple vortex, formed entirely from Mental Energy, appeared above the battlefield.

The vortex rotated slowly, as if it were the Eye of God looking down at the human world.

"This... what is this power?!"

The Demonic Beast Lord in the distance had a drastic change in expression; from that pressure, he felt a trembling from the depths of his Soul.

That was... the aura of a superior being!

It was an existence that even he, a former S-rank powerhouse, had to bow down and worship!

"No... impossible! How could such power exist in this world?!"

The Demonic Beast Lord screamed, wanting to flee.

But it was already too late.

Jiang Chen's hand clenched gently toward him.

"Caught you, fly."