Lickers Will End Up with Nothing

The shelling only resulted in three minor injuries and one death.

Kendo Shuichiro, with a total stat of 135, C-class Apostle and a special type of mental cultivator...

Constantine, with a total score of 130, C-class Apostle, a balanced character with strong recovery abilities...

There are also 9 B-class Fool, 7 A-class Fool, and 3 S-class Fool. They are poorly equipped but pose a high threat!

The data analysis reflected in his pupils made the commander frown slightly. This Holy Trinity Cult members were the most elite troops stationed at the headquarters.

Therefore, after undergoing seven baptisms, even ordinary clerical staff members possess at least the strength of B-class Fool, making them quite difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, due to the previous Ōshima Defense Battle and the collective pursuit of Kevin and his group, the Holy Trinity Cult's superior weaponry and equipment were basically exhausted.

The five Tactical Mech, each equivalent to S-class Fool, were basically able to suppress this group of evolved cultists.

"Constantine, is it? Just hand it over to me according to the plan. As a daughter, it's my duty to seek justice for my father!"

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Lara chuckled coldly and moved with lightning speed, leaving clear footprints with every step.

Lara Croft, overall stats 120, C-class Apostle, balanced, strong against mysterious creatures, relic assassin, savior...

Even without the support of the virus's origin, Lara finally broke through the boundaries of "Apostle" during her great escape on the fourth day.

In fact, she is the third person in the team, after Alice and Kevin, to transcend the mortal body.

"Ada, you stay outside and find a high vantage point to provide long-range fire support!"

"Leon, Chris, cover for me! Alice, come with me!"

Kevin made a quick decision, issuing a series of orders before jumping into a silver-white Tactical Mech and taking off together.

Alice nodded slightly, leaped onto the back of another Tactical Mech, and followed closely behind.

Meanwhile, Chris and Leon, who remained inside the Apache attack helicopter, immediately started the engine and pulled up the control stick.

As the helicopter swept across the sky, Hellfire anti-tank missiles blasted open the gates of the Purple Crystal Royal Court ahead.

The M-203E-1 30mm single-barreled chain gun mounted on the Holy Trinity Cult kept the soldiers from raising their heads.

The three Tactical Mech left behind began to follow Lara's advance, protecting her flanks and clearing out their hiding places.

"A tiny place like this, no air superiority and you want to bombard me with Stinger missiles! You're asking for death!"

Chris fired two Hellfire in quick succession, instantly blasting the three-man team who were hiding behind a rock and setting up a surface-to-air missile into pieces.

These monsters, directly hit by missiles, not only maintained the basic integrity of their bodies, but even their severed blood vessels were reconnected to their bodies, and their exposed hearts continued to beat strongly.

In addition, the three Tactical Mech also encountered trouble.

More than ten members of the Holy Trinity Cult possess near-abnormal regenerative abilities; as long as they are not directly hit in the head, they can reassemble even if a third of their bodies are shattered.

Even more strangely, as their injuries healed, zombie-like features such as sharp bone spurs, blood-red wing membranes, and hideous bone armor began to appear on their bodies.

During this process, their values also began to fluctuate wildly.

The zombification caused by the Apocalypse Virus is probably the result of reason being replaced by bestiality. Ada frowned slightly as she blasted a Holy Trinity cultist who was undergoing mutation into the head.

Sure enough, things on the big island weren't that simple...

At this moment, Lara and her old nemesis Constantine are locked in a fierce battle, their fighting evenly matched; the three Tactical Mech and the agile Holy Trinity cultists also begin a tug-of-war.

Because of the mix of friend and foe, Leon and Chris couldn't clearly distinguish between them, so they had no choice but to switch their support to Kevin was rushing towards the top of the Crystal Court.

"Ya, what are you waiting for!"

Even with his powerful mental specialization abilities, the life-loving Kendo Shuichiro merely retreated to protect himself first.

When he appeared at the Crystal Royal Court behind him, there was no movement for a long time, which made him furious.

According to the original plan, they were responsible for paralyzing the enemy and leaving the opponent on the open shallows, while Tsutsugami Gai, who was on high ground, would use the special ability of his Void Weapon to carry out a wide-ranging attack.

As a result, not only did the bastard in front of him bombard him relentlessly, giving him no chance to stall for time, but it also seemed that his Tsutsugami Gai, was in trouble as well.

"Snort!"

Amidst the cold, nasal tone, Tsutsugami Gai, standing on the top floor, with a purplish-red ring around his hand, suddenly slammed his strangely shaped gun into the ground, and a dazzling silver-purple ball of light immediately exploded outwards.

"Damn it! Dodge! Dodge!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Amid Chris's roar, the Apache attack helicopter in mid-air was the first to be hit, and under the spread of the purplish-red virus crystals, it quickly disintegrated before it could even fully fall.

While the three Tactical Mech on the ground managed to erect Energy Shield, these shields only lasted for 10 seconds before dimming and shattering.

"I heard the captain keeps saying behind our backs that we're bad luck for our teammates, bad luck for our teammates..."

"It seems the guy upstairs is the real ruthless one; when he gets going, he doesn't even spare his own people..."

Leaning against a pillar in the middle of the courtyard, Leon gasped for breath and pointed at the dozen or so Holy Trinity cultists on the ground, who were covered in quills, and couldn't help but complain.

Earlier, as the helicopter disintegrated and crashed into the Crystal Palace, he and Chris made a quick decision and narrowly jumped into the strange building.

"No! He's forcing these cultists... to evolve!"

Chris frowned slightly and noticed that the bodies of the dozens of cult members who had been affected were beginning to swell, bone spurs were growing out one by one, and amethyst-like scales were covering their bodies.

But the spiritual light in their eyes began to fade and disappear...

"What are you standing there for? Keep up!"

Just as the two were slightly shocked, the commander's shout came from upstairs. Leon and Chris, the duo who had successfully destroyed another helicopter, supported each other and headed towards the top floor.

With a loud crash, the giant gate, carved with exquisite patterns and resembling a large piece of crystal, collapsed, and Kevin and Alice jumped off the Tactical Mech one after the other.

At this moment, Leon and Chris, panting heavily, also arrived. The two faced each other, one holding a dagger and the other a submachine gun, remaining vigilant at all times.

Tsutsugami Gai, Overall Stats 179, A-Rank Apostle, Void Ability User, Adam (Pseudo), Balanced Type, Dangerous!

When Kevin carefully observed the silver-haired man on the crystal throne, he was surprised to find that Tsutsugami Gai was growing at an astonishing rate, and that he had acquired the title "Adam" in addition to his previous one.

Surprised, the commander glanced back at his "savior" beside him and felt reassured.

Alice, with an overall stat of 140, is a B-rank Apostle, a balanced type, a savior, a zombie terminator, Infinite Evolution, and deals an additional 30% damage when facing Virus Strain!

(On the fourth day, Alice's overall stats were 125. Under the influence of the unique environment of Toko City, coupled with her status as T-Virus Compatible Person, her stats increased by about 8 points per day.)

With such a powerful weapon, plus their own cooperation, they can definitely crush Tsutsugami Gai!

If only that were true...

Kevin fixed the heavy wooden pipe on the center of the open-air rooftop, on the cross formed by the solidified purplish-red.

To be precise, it was the pink-haired girl in the purplish-black haori judicial attire who slowly opened her eyes...

Ouma Mana, with an overall stat of 274, is an A-rank knight, the true Child of Eden, Eve, an Apocalypse Virus Carrier, Mind Controller, and has failed to break through to the Lord Tier. Her power is weakening, and she is in extreme danger!

P. S.: So many people like 2B and A2! Okay, then I'll add them without worry. I've roughly figured out the plot; it should be mostly seamless.

Just a little heads-up, in Volume 3, "Machine Poison," there are two young ladies featured, and SCP is also short-staffed, isn't it?

Additionally, there's a mystery guest in Volume 3; hint: green onion.

Chapter 136, Section 143: The Simp Will Eventually Lose Everything

"Bang!"

A heavy thud echoed as the crimson crystal shattered, and Kevin and the others were blasted off the royal court, looking disheveled.

The commander spread his black and white wings, lifted Alice into his arms, and gently landed after releasing the remaining force. The two remaining Tactical Mech on the ground also opened their jetpacks and flew to catch Leon and Chris.

"The end of civilization is ignorance, and the old will inevitably be replaced by the new!"

"How lowly you are! How insignificant you are! How filthy you are!"

"I do not consider them to be of the same kind!"

"The End of Times, and the True Apocalypse is given to you!"

As Ouma Mana with disdain, she walked through the air from the broken gap in the Crystal Royal Court, which was dozens of meters high.

As "Eve" stepped down, the purplish-red virus crystals miraculously expanded under their own weight, solidifying into beautifully shaped staircases.

Even on the bas-reliefs of the railings on both sides, seven angels blowing the horns of doom dance gracefully.

In an instant, hail and flames, earthquakes and tsunamis, meteorites and poisons descended one after another, and the sun, moon and stars lost their brilliance. The giant eagle of calamity brought news of destruction.

Then, stars fell from the sky and plunged into the abyss, opening the Hell's Gate, and monsters ravaged the world.

The final battle will inevitably begin, and the human world, as the battlefield between heaven and hell, will be reshaped. The seven-headed, ten-horned Red Dragon will fall into eternal darkness under the judgment of the angels.

This relief sculpture, a faithful recreation of the prophecies in the Book of Revelation, is so lifelike and realistic that it is breathtaking and makes one want to kneel down and repent on the spot.

However, the people in front of them were all resolute individuals who were not swayed by external things, so they only wavered slightly before returning to normal in an instant.

But after Kevin reunited with his teammates, his brow furrowed and his expression became serious.

Because the observant commander noticed many details, Eve's every move seemed to be able to manipulate the crystals of the Apocalypse Virus and use them for his own purposes.

That has become an instinct, akin to breathing! Using one's actions to change the surrounding environment; using one's will to command nearby free-floating energy...

This is the symbol of an era—the knight!

Fortunately, Yuzuriha Inori's song interrupted Eve's evolution and caused a cognitive error in the unique ecological environment of Toko City, the breeding ground for the virus.

Meanwhile, some of the original power of the Apocalypse Virus began to flow back or surge into another carrier Yuzuriha Inori.

If it weren't for that child's interference, Kevin estimated that once Eve had completed her evolution and arrived in her Lord Tier form, dealing with them would only require a glance or a single action.

Knight Tier are not invincible...

"Laugh!"

As Ouma Mana stepped down, her right hand outstretched, her fingers casually curling to grasp a heavy scythe formed from purplish-black crystals, which materialized inch by inch in her palm.

In the instant the blade was lightly swung, the two silver-white Tactical Mech, which automatically erected Energy Shield, neatly split into four, each with only two mechanical legs crackling with electricity remaining, standing stiffly upright.

"As a courtesy for your visit, you... may choose how you die..."

Ouma Mana stepped lightly onto the ground, raised the corners of her lips, and smiled alluringly. Wherever she passed, a post-apocalyptic spectacle of dense, crimson thorny thickets appeared.

"I want to do a pen-to-pen... Sakurami Atsushi!"

Kevin raised his hands, smiled, and stepped forward. As soon as he spoke, a purplish-red heavy scythe swept across the ground with what appeared to be a slow but actually rapid motion.

The illusion of being torn apart by space made his brow twitch and alarm bells ring in his mind. Without hesitation, he shouted out his trump card!

"Your smile... as if you've seen through everything... it's really annoying..."

Just as Kevin was about to be beheaded, the heavy scythe, which had just made a thin line of blood on his throat, stopped abruptly Ouma Mana leaned over, giggling, and whispered softly in his ear.

"However... there's still plenty of time..."

"Where is my Adam, my Lord?"

Beads of cold sweat trickled down Kevin's forehead. He stopped Lara and Alice from rushing forward with guns, took a deep breath to calm himself, and then spoke respectfully.

"Tennozu High School... However, it seems he has already chosen a queen..."

"But if you wish, he will always be the king of only one person..."

"Of course, you'll need to give me some time, and a little kindness..."

Constantine and Kendo Shuichiro, looking somewhat embarrassed, had unpleasant expressions. If they still didn't realize they'd been tricked, they'd be complete fools.

Ouma Mana smiled dismissively, retracting her waist as she looked at the submissive, bowing man with disdain.

"I'm missing an obedient hunting dog, but first you need to prove your worth and determination..."

"Get out of here. Bring Ji back with you and that imposter, and I might consider letting you live a few more days..."

However, before Kevin could respond humbly, Tsutsugami Gai grabbed Ouma Mana's wrist, his voice low and menacing.

"Real name, I can do better than Ji!"

This boy, raised as an experimental subject, has always felt envious, even jealous, of Sakurami Atsushi, who lives a life basking in the sunlight.

That man, favored by the world, had everything, yet he pushed it all away!

Cowardly! Humble! Shameful! What right do you have to enjoy true love! This is unfair!