57: The roll call game starts over!
The moment the message was sent, the private chat channel on the other end fell into a long silence.
It was as if the connection had been severed.
The Phoenix Empress seemed utterly unable to comprehend that a mere S-rank talent dared to speak to her in such a tone.
A cold, scrutinizing aura permeated through the frigid interface.
【Phoenix Empress】: “What do you mean?”
Lin Feng’s lips curved into a cold arc.
He could even imagine her perpetually arrogant face, now with tightly furrowed brows, suppressing her anger and surprise.
Heaven's Choice: “I saved you all.”
Heaven's Choice: “If I hadn’t intervened, once Little Devil’s truce period ended, with his vengeful nature, the first ones he’d settle accounts with would be your Demon-Slaying Expeditionary Force.”
Heaven's Choice: “I imagine none of you would live to see the sun rise the next day.”
These words contained no explicit accusations.
Yet, they were like an invisible, deafening slap, harshly striking the Phoenix Empress’s arrogant pride.
On the other end of the private chat, there was silence for over ten seconds.
Lin Feng could even imagine how gloomy the face of this imperious Empress was at that moment, like dark clouds pressing down.
After a long while, new messages finally came through again.
The sharpness in her tone was noticeably reined in, but the arrogance ingrained in her bones was still undeniable.
【Phoenix Empress】: “What you said has merit.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “But you also cannot deny that without my probing, you wouldn’t have been able to discern the Hell Tower’s pattern, nor would you have forced him to use his hero’s assassination skill prematurely.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “How about this? In consideration of your greatMerit, I’ll compromise.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “You take eighty percent of the spoils. The remaining twenty percent will be given to me, for me to appease the allied forces. This condition, for you, is a tremendous favor.”
A nearly pitying smile appeared in Lin Feng’s eyes.
From a fifty-fifty split to an eighty-twenty split.
What a condescending, charitable expression.
She still didn’t seem to realize a most basic fact.
She no longer had the right to speak to him as an equal.
Lin Feng’s gaze completely turned cold.
He put away that last trace of playfulness, replaced by an absolute rationality and ruthlessness like ten thousand years of cold ice.
Heaven's Choice: “From the very beginning, my target was only ‘Little Devil’.”
Heaven's Choice: “As for you all…”
Lin Feng’s finger paused on the virtual keyboard.
Heaven's Choice: “I never gave you a second thought.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “What do you mean?!”
Heaven's Choice: “My meaning is simple.”
Heaven's Choice: “Joining this ridiculous expeditionary force was merely a convenient way to see how capable the so-called top powerhouses of this war zone truly were.”
Heaven's Choice: “Your attack provided me with good intelligence.”
Heaven's Choice: “That’s all.”
Heaven's Choice: “Now, Little Devil is dead.”
Heaven's Choice: “His spoils will help me conquer everything.”
Lin Feng typed out the last sentence.
But this time, he didn’t send it in the private chat channel.
Instead, he publicly posted it directly in the regional channel of the Demon-Slaying Expeditionary Force, which was still in a state of revelry!
Heaven's Choice: “The calling-out game, it restarts now. Next up, starting with you, Phoenix Empress.”
One sentence.
It was like a piece of abyssal ice, frozen in time, violently smashed into a boiling oil pot.
The celebratory messages that had been frantically flooding the screen just a second ago abruptly stopped.
The entire world seemed to have been muted.
All the “allied” members, who had been eagerly waiting to divide the spoils, had their minds go blank and were completely dumbfounded the moment they saw this message.
After a brief, suffocating silence, came a volcanic eruption!
【Swift Wind Swordsman】: “??? You’re insane! Heaven's Choice, you’re a complete and utter madman!”
【Iron Wall】: “Burning bridges! Kicking the ladder! I knew you and Little Devil were two of a kind!!”
【Holy Light Priest】: “Heaven's Choice, great one! No! Don’t be impulsive! We’re not enemies! We just fought side by side! Please!”
【Zhinang】: “Heaven's Choice! Don’t be too arrogant! You only won against Little Devil by luck! Do you really think you’re invincible?!”
Pleading, cursing, threatening, dissuading…
All kinds of emotions mixed together, turning into a chaotic torrent of data that instantly flooded the entire channel.
The Demon-Slaying Expeditionary Force, this alliance temporarily formed to counter “Little Devil,” quickly shifted its target ofcrusade from that terrifying demon to this… new Demon King who had single-handedly created the demon-slaying legend, less than ten minutes after “Little Devil” died.
In the alliance channel, the Phoenix Empress’s avatar, that golden phoenix burning with flames, flickered to its extreme, as if it wanted to burn through the screen and incinerate everything.
【Phoenix Empress】: “Very well.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “You have successfully enraged me.”
【Phoenix Empress】: “All members of the Demon-Slaying Expeditionary Force, heed my command!”
【Phoenix Empress】: “As soon as the truce ends, target—Heaven's Choice!”
【Phoenix Empress】: “No quarter given!!!”
“No quarter given?”
Lin Feng looked at the Phoenix Empress’s declaration, filled with impotent rage, his expression as calm as if he were watching an unreasonable child.
A group of rabble, who had just been immersed in the joy of surviving a disaster, could, in the blink of an eye, turn their guns and become righteous crusaders for profit.
How ridiculous.
How… pathetic.
He expressionlessly closed the noisy and annoying chat channel, completely isolating all meaningless noise.
To him, the Phoenix Empress’s threat was no different from the barking of a stray dog.
In the face of absolute power, the so-called alliance, the so-called numbers, were nothing more than a joke that could be shattered with a single poke.
He never believed in vague promises and rules.
He only believed in the absolute power held in his own hands.
His will, like a volcano dormant for ten thousand years, erupted with a roar at this moment, instantly sweeping across the entire fortress!
“Upgrade the main base to Level 9!”