68: Chapter 67 The Zhang Family and the Alliance Break Off Completely!
The destruction lasted for only three seconds.
After three seconds, a layer of the ground within a thirty-meter radius had been scraped away.
The bluestone slabs were ground into fine powder.
The lampposts were twisted into pretzels.
The flower beds vanished, roots and all.
Nothing intact remained of the seven Rank 3 thugs.
No corpses, no severed limbs—there wasn't even a single drop of blood.
A Whirlwind Slash with 370,000 damage and a 226.9x attack power coefficient was no different from using a nuclear bomb to blast ants when compared to the health pools of Rank 3s.
After the storm dissipated, only a few deep, rotating cut marks remained on the square, looking as if a giant had used a knife to draw a perfect circle on the ground.
Lin Mo sheathed his sword.
Perched atop his head, Lin Yao was just dazed, unable to say a word.
"Let's go."
Lin Mo turned and walked toward the depths of the campus.
He remembered that many monsters had appeared in the school just now.
The White Calamity had already been cleared out by him, but those things that had crawled out from underground were still there.
The ground beneath his feet was still trembling slightly.
The further in he went, the more severe the destruction became.
Several massive holes had been smashed into the outer walls of the teaching buildings.
The running track on the sports field had been flipped upside down.
Half of the library's dome had collapsed.
From the direction of the administration building in the distance, the sounds of dense magical explosions could be heard.
Along with the sounds of people arguing.
Lin Mo quickened his pace.
On the square in front of the administration building, two groups of people were facing off.
Standing on the left were Vice President Wang Jingzhe, Jiang Changwu, and Song Wanqing, the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, along with various other deans and teachers.
Wang Jingzhe, Jiang Changwu, and the others were shrouded in the mana fluctuations of the Fifth Class Advancement, but all of them were more or less injured.
Song Wanqing and the other teachers and deans stood behind them leaning on canes, with visible burn marks on the backs of their hands.
Another group stood on the right.
Leading them was an old man dressed in a dark gold robe; he had graying hair, a thin face, and very high cheekbones.
He exuded the powerful aura of the peak Fifth Class Advancement.
A clan emblem engraved with the character 'Zhang' hung from his waist.
Behind him stood several middle-aged men, also possessing the presence of the Fifth Class Advancement level.
Six Fifth Class Advancements.
People from the Zhang family.
"Wang Jingzhe, I will say this one last time."
The gray-haired old man's voice wasn't loud, but every word hit the ground like a heavy stone.
"Hand over Lin Mo."
"Let this matter end here. The Zhang family will let bygones be bygones, and Tianfu University can continue to enjoy all the resource supplies provided by the Zhang family."
"You know very well that over seventy percent of the high-level potions and over forty percent of the refined mineral materials in the entire Alliance must pass through the hands of the Zhang family."
"Without the Zhang family's supply, Tianfu University wouldn't even last a single semester."
Wang Jingzhe wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said coldly,
"Absolutely impossible! Lin Mo's existence is of the utmost importance!"
"He is not someone your Zhang family is qualified to touch!"
"Be careful, for if you are too greedy, your entire Zhang family might end up being destroyed along with you!"
The old man called Zhang Wei narrowed his eyes.
"I naturally understand Lin Mo's value."
"How about we each take a step back? You hand Lin Mo over to me, and I guarantee that his life will not be threatened."
"In your dreams!"
Wang Jingzhe let out a cold laugh.
"Regarding Lin Mo's matter, there is no room for compromise!"
"Now, I would like to ask!"
"How did the seal beneath the school grounds loosen? How did the White Calamity escape? And where did those giant monsters crawl out from?"
"Do you want me to answer for you?"
"Your Zhang family has already committed a grave taboo! The Alliance will not let you off!"
Zhang Wei's expression did not change.
A middle-aged man behind him spoke up:
"The loosening of the seal was an accident and has nothing to do with the Zhang family."
"Bullshit."
Song Wanqing took a step forward leaning on her cane, her voice raspy but resonant.
"The formation core used to reinforce the seal was made with Zhang family materials. If anyone was to tamper with it, only you could have done it."
Zhang Wei glanced at Song Wanqing and raised an eyebrow.
There was no anger, no denial.
It was that kind of 'you're right, but so what' expression.
"The matter of the seal can be investigated later."
"Right now, I only want one answer."
"Lin Mo—will you hand him over or not?"
Hand over Lin Mo?
Impossible.
Lin Mo's value no longer needed to be stated.
More importantly, handing over Lin Mo would be equivalent to turning against Su Xiaoli.
She was a natural-born 'King.'
The darling of the Alliance, a strategic weapon for the future of humanity.
If the person she depended on for survival was sold out by the school?
The consequences were unthinkable.
"No."
Wang Jingzhe spat out the word without the slightest hesitation.
Zhang Wei's eyes finally narrowed into slits.
"Then that means you intend to completely break ties with the Zhang family?"
"I see you haven't quite thought this through yet."
"Let me help you think it through."
Zhang Wei raised his right hand.
A pitch-black circular formation core slid out from his sleeve, its surface covered in dense ancient runes.
The moment the formation core was activated!
Deep within the campus, the ground shook violently once again!
This time, it was ten times more intense than before!
All the windows of the administration building shattered.
Dozens of massive fissures cracked open in the vibrating ground, and thick black mist gushed out from every single one.
"ROAR—!"
A deafening roar erupted from deep underground.
Hundreds of monsters, their sizes like small mountains, burst through the earth from the fissures.
Level 205 Six-Armed Stone-Armored Giant Apes.
Level 227 Abyssal Spiny-Scale Centipedes.
And the over twenty-meter long, crimson-bodied—Level 250 Lava Tyrant Dragon.
Fragments of sealing chains still hung from their bodies; their eyes were bloodshot, and they were in a state of extreme frenzy.
Students within the campus let out screams of despair.
"Zhang Wei! You're insane!"
Wang Jingzhe was furious, his Fifth Class Advancement mana flaring to its limit.
But just as he took a step, the five Fifth Class Advancements behind Zhang Wei acted simultaneously.
Six intersecting magical barriers locked Wang Jingzhe, Jiang Changwu, Song Wanqing, and the others firmly in place.
It wasn't to kill them.
It was to pin them down.
The other Fourth Class Advancement experts in the school also wanted to act, but they were intercepted one after another by the Zhang family's Fourth Class Advancements!
Zhang Wei's voice was very calm.
"Since you won't give him to us, we'll take him ourselves!"
"The Crown is already on its way, Wang Jingzhe."
"You don't have much time to hesitate."
"If you keep hesitating, not only will your students be killed by the monsters, but this place will also become your burial ground!"
The Crown... was a special item that allowed a professional to briefly possess a portion of a King's power.
If Zhang Wei used the Crown here, no one would be his match!
Just as Wang Jingzhe was trying to break through the blockade,
A voice came from the entrance of the administration building's square.
"What a coincidence. Are you all having some kind of party?"
Everyone looked toward the source of the voice.
Lin Mo, dressed in silver-white armor and carrying a pure white platinum longsword, walked over step by step along the rubble-strewn walkway.
His incredibly elegant movements, paired with his handsome face, made him look as if he were truly an angel sent by heaven to save the world.
But for the first time, a crack appeared in the composed expression on Zhang Wei's face.
Lin Mo's appearance here meant that Zhang Hengyuan had failed.
And Zhang Hengyuan's fate could well be imagined.
"Lin Mo, where is Hengyuan?"
Zhang Wei still held a sliver of hope in his heart.
The corners of Lin Mo's mouth curled up slightly.
Suddenly, his smile became unrestrained and wild!
He made an explosion gesture with his hand,
"Him? Boom!"
"He's been completely turned to ash!"